The Art of Manliness


Show info


Episodes

1,163

Total time

910 hours and 7 minutes

Oldest episode

April 03, 2014

Most recent

October 06, 2026

Avg. length

46 minutes

Avg. words/min

187

Avg. word count

8,804

Avg. sentences

570.2

Avg. harmful content per episode

Misogyny

3.8

sentences flagged

Toxicity

4.9

sentences flagged

Hate speech

5.7

sentences flagged


Topics & people

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Topics
situational awareness friendship online great books OODA loop books boundaries communication complaining decision-making fitness gratitude practice journaling making friends manliness networking sleep storytelling virtue ethics 2000-meter row for time Caldera Lab skincare products
Hosts
Brett McKay (1,163)
Guests
Mark Torino (2) Admiral Stavridis (1) Adrian Camilleri (1) Amantha Ember (1) Andrew Branca (1) Anna Schaffner (1) Barry Strauss (1) Brandon Wormke (1) Brian Burrow (1) Bryce Hoffman (1) Cal Newport (1) Carl Truman (1) Charles Duhigg (1) Charles Ryan (1) Chris Bailey (1) Creek Stewart (1) David Branchflower (1) Dimitris Zigalatis (1) Emily Manugian (1) Eric Weiner (1)
Mentioned
Brad (106) Aristotle (73) Greeks (53) Plato (47) Teddy Roosevelt (43) Kate (42) Winston Churchill (41) George Washington (39) Steve Jobs (36) Abraham Lincoln (35) Theodore Roosevelt (30) Warren Buffett (30) Kierkegaard (29) Shakespeare (27) Huckberry (26) William James (26) Benjamin Franklin (25) Henry David Thoreau (24) Eisenhower (22) Jack London (22) Michael Jordan (22) Stephen Covey (21) Dwight Eisenhower (20) Ernest Hemingway (20) John Wayne (20)
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Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.

Episodes

NOV
18
2020
#662： The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 2 43 minutes
Brett McKay project funeral/solar division
NOV
16
2020
#661： Get Better Sleep by Stressing About It Less
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 52 minutes
Brett McKay stressing about sleep hurt sleepiness and sleep drive sleep problems
NOV
11
2020
#660： How Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Heal the Soul
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 6 54 minutes
Brett McKay
NOV
9
2020
#659： Do You Want to Be Rich or Wealthy？ (And Why the Difference Matters)
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 4 51 minutes
Brett McKay poor people buying lottery tickets luck and success using money to control time
NOV
4
2020
#658： In Praise of Maintenance in a World Obsessed With Innovation
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 38 minutes
Brett McKay maintenance mindset
NOV
2
2020
#657： Why You Don't Change (But How You Still Can)
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 1 46 minutes
Brett McKay hope hope and faith hope and fear of
OCT
28
2020
#656： The Hidden Pleasures of Learning for Its Own Sake
Hate: 1 42 minutes
Brett McKay learning for its own sake learning for the sake of learning and reading communities
OCT
26
2020
#655： Simple, Excuse-Busting Advice for Getting in Shape
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 2 56 minutes
Brett McKay
OCT
21
2020
#654： How to Astronaut
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 6 46 minutes
Brett McKay
OCT
19
2020
#653： The Dirtbag's Guide to Life
Misogyny: 10 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 15 53 minutes
Brett McKay dirtbag lifestyles & relationships dirtbag lifestyle & meaning in life
OCT
14
2020
#652： Chefs' Secrets for Organizing Your Life
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 1 49 minutes
Brett McKay mise en place philosophy mise en place mise en place
OCT
12
2020
#651： How to Turn Fear Into Fuel
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 4 45 minutes
Brett McKay fear and leukemia flying on an airplane fear and courage neuroscience
OCT
7
2020
#650： Why People Are Building Bunkers for the Apocalypse
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 6 53 minutes
Brett McKay urban exploration backyard bunkers fire bunkers in Australia
OCT
5
2020
#649： Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Outsourced Expertise
Toxicity: 2 43 minutes
Brett McKay complexity FOMO invading all walks of life choice paralysis
SEP
30
2020
#648： Lessons in Building Rapport from Experts in Terrorist Interrogation
Toxicity: 8 Hate: 2 57 minutes
Brett McKay empathy as act of imagination reflection techniques Leary's interpersonal wheel
SEP
28
2020
#647： What Happened When Two Friends Left Their Jobs to Build a Cabin Together
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 3 46 minutes
Brett McKay building a cabin
SEP
23
2020
#646： How to Win at Losing
Misogyny: 11 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 3 49 minutes
Brett McKay
SEP
21
2020
#645： The Forgotten Story of the Lumberjack Commandos of WWII
Hate: 22 46 minutes
Brett McKay
SEP
16
2020
#644： How to Develop Greater Self-Awareness
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 50 minutes
Brett McKay
SEP
14
2020
#643： Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 7 48 minutes
Brett McKay Eric Weiner trains and philosophy getting out of bed stoic duty and philosophical questioning