Literally hundreds if not a thousand needles came down like the heavens were falling.

I'm Natalia Petrozella.

From BBC Radio 4, this is Extreme. Muscle Men.

When you're muscular, when you're big, you get respect.

This is the story of the biggest illegal steroid operation the United States had ever seen and

the lengths to which will go in pursuit of perfection. Extreme muscle men.

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Oh, make that stop.

Ah, the morning routine.

Stumble to the bathroom, brush your teeth and wash your face.

In the kitchen you make coffee.

And then, because it's the 21st century, you glance at your phone, and half the morning immediately evaporates.

The average American cell phone user checks their phone 144 times a day.

Texting to friends, scrolling social media,

looking at photos, editing photos,

Instagraming photos,

reading the news, the weather, the traffic, the sports scores.

But how has this communication tool turned human limb affected us politically?

How has it helped political opinions become ingrained in our personal lives?

And how does it all impact the society in which we live? Hello all it's American History Hit and I'm Don Wildman. Back in southern New Jersey in the

suburban town where I was raised I worked as a paper boy for the Philadelphia Bulletin.

The evening edition marked final was delivered by an army of us kids after school,

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