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The Art of Manliness

The Art of Manliness Podcast aims to deepen and improve every area of a man's life, from fitness and philosophy, to relationships and productivity. Engaging and edifying interviews with some of the world's most interesting doers and thinkers drop the fluff and filler to glean guests' very best, potentially life-changing, insights.

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Go Ahead and Feel Envious (It Can Be a Positive Force)
Nov 2026 · 2 books
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Envy: Why Wanting What They Have Is the Key to Getting What You Want
Stacey Kim
“Her name is Dr. Stacey Kim, and she's a social scientist, a coach who works with high achievers, and the author of Envy, Why Wanting What They Have is the Key to Getting What You Want”
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Atlas of the Heart
Brené Brown
“I heard an ad For Brenn Brown's book The Atlas of the Heart. And she in her like promo she was talking about the difference between envy and jealousy”
Treat Your To-Do List Like a River, and Other Mindset Shifts for Making Better Use of Your Time
Nov 2026 · 5 books
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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman
“He provised those mindset shifts in his new book, Meditations for Mortals, four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts”
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkman
“So we had you on back in twenty twenty one to talk about your book, Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals”
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Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
Hartmut Rosa
“and he is trying to sort of do what in many ways all sorts of philosophers have been doing since forever, which is to put language on Whatever it is that really makes life feel vivid and alive and worth living. And his argument is basically that what we as individuals and also as whole civilizations, you know, attempt to do by default is to get more and more control over Time and space. And this is obvious pretty obvious in the context of kind of, you know. mainstream productivity cult”
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Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Faith Beyond After Christendom
Andrew Root
“And he wrote a book called Congregation in a Secular Age, Applying Rose's framework”
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Why It's Okay to Mind Your Own Business
Brandon Warmke
“We had a a podcast guest, a professor of philosophy, Brandon Warfke, who wrote a book Why it's okay to mind your own business”
The New Dark Ages — The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
Oct 2026 · 7 books
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The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
James Marriott
“His name is James Marriott, and he's a columnist at the Times of London and the author of The New Dark Ages, The Death of Reading, The Dawn of the Post Literary Society”
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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Jonathan Rose
“The book that I mentioned is a great book by Jonathan Rose. the intellectual life of the British working classes”
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Orality and Literacy
Walter Ong
“one of the arguments of his book, Orality and Literacy, is that there are whole spheres of human knowledge And whole ways of thinking. That only exist because of reading and writing”
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Beowulf
Unknown
“oral epics like the Iliad, but there are examples in other cultures, Beowulf”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
“one of the writers you mentioned in the book that talked about The effect That watching screens was having on us. was a guy named Neil Postman. wrote a book, Amusing Ourselves to Death”
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Bowling Alone
Robert Putnam
“I think the statistic that uh Robert Putnam has in his his book Bowling Alone is that I think it's between the nineteen seventies and nineteen nineties”
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
“and In Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, he has this moment where he goes to Steve Jobs' house”
The Lost Art of Mingling: How to Talk to Anyone, Anywhere
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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The Art of Mingling
Jeanne Martinet
“Here to help us get more confident and comfortable in this area is Gene Martinette. author of The Art of Mealing. Which is out in a newly updated edition”
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The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Nick Gray
“we had a guy on the podcast who wrote a book that called the two hour cocktail party. And he has this whole idea of hosting cocktail parties”
Brandon Flowers, Frontman of the Killers, on Family, Faith, and Becoming a Thrasher
Oct 2026 · 7 books
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The Pastures of Heaven
John Steinbeck
“And then Steinbeck has one called Pastors of Heaven. Yeah. That's a great book”
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The Pearl
John Steinbeck
“I remember, you know, I g I got the we got the pe we read the pearl. Okay, yeah. Fifth grade. So that was my intro, you know, my gateway into that”
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
“And then you know, you get like you read like On the Road and you think you're supposed to read the beats, you know, that kind of beat poetry stuff”
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Streets of Laredo
Larry McMurtry
“I started on Streets of Laredo”
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
“And then I was like, Oh, Lonesome Dove and then Comanche Moon”
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Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry
“And then I was like, Oh, Lonesome Dove and then Comanche Moon”
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Dead Man's Walk
Larry McMurtry
“And so far I think it's called Dead Man's Walk is It's I'm waiting for it to kick in”
Silence, Solitude, Stillness: The Spiritual Disciplines We Need in a Noisy World
Oct 2026 · 4 books
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Into the Quiet
John Mark Comer
“His name is John Mark Comer, and he's a pastor and the author of Into the Quiet”
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Practicing the Way
John Mark Comer
“you explored this in your book, Practicing the Way”
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport
“Cal Newport has a beautiful book on digital minimalism and he has a chapter in there on solitude”
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A Time to Keep Silence
Patrick Leigh Fermor
“He wrote a book called A Time to Keep Silence. And it's about him staying in monasteries”
Why Modern Convenience Feels So Inconvenient
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Against Convenience
Gabe Bullard
“His name is Gabe Bollard and he's the author of Against Convenience”
The One-Skill-a-Year Plan for a More Interesting Life
Sep 2026 · 4 books
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The Invisible List: One Passion a Year, Every Year
Ravi Gupta
“Ravi Gupta, welcome to the show. Excited to be here. So you got a new book out called The Invisible List. We're gonna talk about what the invisible list is today”
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The Invisible List: One Passion a Year, Every Year
Ravi Gupta
“So you got a new book out called The Invisible List. We're gonna talk about what the invisible list is today”
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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Gabriel Wyner
“So, for instance, in languages, there's this great book called Fluent Forever, all about learning languages”
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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Gabriel Wyner
“in languages, there's this great book called Fluent Forever, all about learning languages”
The 3-Step System for Simplifying Your Work and Life
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Simplify
Jim Vandehey
“His name is Jim Vandehey and he's the co-founder and CEO of Axios and the co-author of Simplify”
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Smart Brevity
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz
“The first book we had did was Smart Brevity about how to write smarter and quicker and in a more efficient way”
If I Don’t Return: A General's Wartime Journal for His Sons
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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If I Don't Return
Mark Hertling
“So you got a book out called If I Don't Return”
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On War
Carl von Clausewitz
“he wrote a book called On War”
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The Battle of Duffer's Drift
Ernest Dunlop Swinton
“there are a couple of books on various battles, one called the Battle of Duffers Drift”
To Change Yourself, Change Your Situation
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Situated, Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best
Angela Duckworth
“Angela, whose latest book is situated, Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best, shares how our environments play a much bigger role in shaping us than we realize”
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
“To discuss your book, Grit”
The Lost Virtue of Thumos (And Why Men Need It)
Aug 2026 · 4 books
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What If Anger Is the Answer?
Mike LeBlanc
“His name is Mike LeBlanc, he's a decorated Marine, a Harvard business school grad. Tech founder and the author of the What if anger is the answer”
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Republic
Plato
“The most popular one and the most well known one is the one from I think it's the Republic, The Chariot”
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Gorgias
Plato
“But you referenced this one. That's in the Gorgias”
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Odyssey
Homer
“There's a part I think in the Odyssey. Where Odysseus says that he sort of reasons with his Or he ponders evils in his thumos”
The Secrets of Supercommunicators
Aug 2026 · 3 books
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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg
“Charles Doohid calls these folks super communicators, and he's the author of a new book by the same name”
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Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg
“So last time we had you on was back in 2016, uh to talk about your book, Smarter, Faster, Better”
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The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
“We've also had you on to talk about the power of habit and the habit loop”
The Joy of Touching Grass (and Knobs, Buttons, and Boarding Passes)
Aug 2026 · 2 books
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The Small Stuff
Ian Bogost
“His name is Ian Bogost, and his new book is The Small Stuff”
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Play Anything
Ian Bogost
“We discussed your book, Play Anything”
Big P vs. Little P Purpose — Why You Don't Need to Find Your One True Calling
Aug 2026 · 5 books
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The Purpose Code
Jordan Grummet
“My guest, Jordan Grummet, author of The Purpose Code. says that the search for what he calls big P purpose can be fruitless and even harmful”
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The White Coat Investor
Jim Dahle
“His name was Jim Dally, the White Coat investor. He had just written a book about personal finances for physicians, and he wanted me to review it for my blog”
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Taking Stock: What the Dying Can Teach Us About Money and Life
Jordan Grummet
“And so that really led me to write a book called Taking Stock, What the Dying Can Teach Us About Money and Life”
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The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware
“If you've ever read Bronny Ware's Five Regrets of the Dying, she makes the point, she gives five regrets in her experience as a palliative care nurse, but one of them is regretting not being a truer version of yourself”
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The Healthcare Heist
Jordan Grummet
“Taking stock is the first, the purpose code is the second, and just recently I wrote about our healthcare system called the Healthcare Heist”
Restless, Rooted — What the Odyssey Reveals About Americans' Divided Souls
Jul 2026 · 2 books
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
“For those who aren't familiar with Tocqueville's democracy in America, what were some of his observations about the American personality”
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
“You might think of m books like, you know, Jack Kerak's on the road, Bold Explorers”
The Secret Skills of Master Negotiators
Jul 2026 · 4 books
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Never Settle
John Richardson
“and is the co-author of Never Settle”
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Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher and William Ury
“Fisher, Roger Fisher, the guy who wrote Getting the S. Was the main instructor”
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
“Bob Cieldini, he was at University of Arizona, had a wonderful book that I recommend to all your listeners called Influence”
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Start with No
Jim Camp
“there's a guy, Jim Camp, who wrote a very interesting book. It's called Start with No”
The Art of Easy Discipline
Jul 2026 · 3 books
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Easy Discipline
Jia Jiang
“His name is Zha Zhang, and in his new book, Easy Discipline”
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
“Jim call us. He he wrote his um like an amazing book, uh Good to Great”
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Built to Last
Jim Collins
“and Uh Build to Last”
Beyond Midlife Myths — Why Middle Age Can Be Your Prime Time
Jul 2026 · 3 books
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Primetime: New vision for midlife
Margie Lachman
“Her name is Margie Lockman, and she's a professor of psychology, the director of the Lifespan Lab at Brandeis University, and the author of Primetime. New vision for midlife”
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Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Gail Sheehy
“One of the most well known Ways that we see it popularized was with Gail Shee's book Passages, where she called the transition at different ages, especially age forty. as a predictable crisis”
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The Seasons of a Man's Life
Daniel Levinson
“Didn't um there's again another book came out around that time, uh Daniel Levinson's book. The seasons of a man's life”
George Washington — The Man Behind the Monument
Jun 2026 · 1 book
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American Patriarch
HW Brands
“Here to unpack that life for us is HW Brands. Historian and the author of a new biography of Washington, American Patriarch”
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