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)
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.

Episodes

OCT
1
2018
#445： How to Close the Character Gap
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 11 1 hour and 2 minutes
Brett McKay virtue and vice vicious people mixed character
SEP
26
2018
#444： How to Use the Procrastination Equation to Start Getting Things Done
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 41 minutes
Brett McKay Pierce Steele procrastination equation procrastination equation Indochino made-to-measure suits
SEP
24
2018
#443： What Building Your Own Coffin Teaches You About Life, Death, and Meaning
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 2 48 minutes
Brett McKay building coffin therapy double shot building a coffin
SEP
19
2018
#442： Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 5 1 hour and 1 minute
Brett McKay Rocky Marciano's fame in 1950s America
SEP
18
2018
#441： Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 3 38 minutes
Brett McKay do less redesign work for value value metrics
SEP
12
2018
#440： The 3 Great Untruths That Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 8 54 minutes
Brett McKay college protests and Free Speech school shootings and generational mindset shift
SEP
10
2018
#439： Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 1 49 minutes
Brett McKay meditation resistance
SEP
5
2018
#438： Developing Real-World Situational Awareness
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 4 1 hour and 2 minutes
Brett McKay mindset shift situational awareness pre-silience and self-defense training
SEP
3
2018
#437： Don't Make Me Pull Over! A History of the Road Trip
Misogyny: 8 Hate: 2 53 minutes
Brett McKay rest areas public relations road trip entertainment history road trips
AUG
29
2018
#436： The Worth of War
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 24 42 minutes
Brett McKay technology war and rationality warfare lessons
AUG
27
2018
#435： How to Achieve Hyperfocus
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 1 56 minutes
Brett McKay Chris Bailey hyperfocus productivity attention control taming distractions
AUG
22
2018
#434： Legendary Coach John Wooden’s Secrets of Leadership
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 3 41 minutes
Brett McKay John Wooden leadership philosophy effort and success Starbucks Double Shot
AUG
20
2018
#433： The Adventure of Silence
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 2 44 minutes
Brett McKay adventures & challenges exploration and philosophy boredom
AUG
15
2018
#432： How to Achieve Creative Success
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 1 33 minutes
Brett McKay creativity myths creativity concepts familiarity and novelty
AUG
13
2018
#431： How Everything Is Funny Now, and Why That's Terrible
Misogyny: 4 Hate: 4 36 minutes
Brett McKay humor in churches
AUG
9
2018
#430： Why You Need to Join the Great Conversation About the Great Books
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 4 1 hour and 1 minute
Brett McKay Online Great Books trivium model
AUG
7
2018
#429： Taking Control of the Brain Chemical That Drives Excitement, Motivation, and More
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 9 58 minutes
Brett McKay dopamine levels change reward prediction error dopamine reactions in culture
AUG
3
2018
#428： The Life of a Dragon — The Untold Story of Bruce Lee
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 15 1 hour and 7 minutes
Brett McKay Starbucks Double Shot mixed martial arts Bruce Lee's impact on American cinema
JUL
31
2018
#427： The Excellence Dividend
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 42 minutes
Brett McKay execution in business excellence in sports and business soft skills at Google
JUL
26
2018
#426： The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8
Misogyny: 4 Hate: 21 59 minutes
Brett McKay Apollo 8 astronauts Apollo 8 mission