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Podcast #1,101: How Football Took Over America — and Could Collapse

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 20, 2026
 American football is so big — so braided into our weekends, our language, and our culture — that it can be hard to see it clearly as a whole.In his new book, Football, Chuck Klosterman helps us see the game from unexpected angles, and…
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Odds & Ends: January 16, 2026

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 16, 2026
Round House Duck Canvas Bib Overalls. For heavy chores around the house or helping my friend slaughter chickens at his farm, I put on my Round House overalls. This Oklahoma company has been making jeans and overalls right here in the…
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Podcast #1,100: Money and Meaning — What Faith Traditions Teach Us About Personal Finance

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 13, 2026
 We usually think of money as something very practical, concrete, and secular; we earn it, save it, spend it, and crunch the numbers behind it. But money is never just about money: it reflects our values, our priorities — and even our…
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Escape Gym Groundhog Day: Why Your Training Needs Seasons

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 12, 2026
Do you feel like your physical training has gotten stagnant and boring?Like you’ve woken up in a Planet Fitness Groundhog Day?Same gym. Same exercises. Same rep ranges. Year after year after year.I’m a big fan of consistency and…
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Are You a Strategist or an Operator?

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 11, 2026
In the years after World War I, longtime Army colleagues and friends George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower contemplated what would happen if another global conflict broke out. As Patton envisioned it: “In the next war, I’ll be the…
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Odds & Ends: January 9, 2026

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 9, 2026
United 93. I don’t know how this one slipped past me when it came out in 2006, but we only just recently watched it. I initially wondered how you could make a whole movie out of what happened to United 93 — the only one of the four…
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How to Get Enough Sunlight in the Winter

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 8, 2026
There’s something about sunlight that really recharges you. If you don’t get enough of it, you feel very much like a potted plant that’s been kept too far from a window — you start to feel as though you’re physically and mentally…
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Podcast #1,099: Strong, Conditioned, and Ready for Anything — How to Become a Hybrid Athlete

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 6, 2026
For decades, fitness culture has tended to break people into two categories: you’re either a strength guy or an endurance guy. You lift heavy or run far — but not both.But my guest today says you don’t have to choose; you can excel at…
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27 Things You Should Give Up This Year

Brett & Kate McKay Jan 5, 2026
It’s a new year, which means people everywhere are making resolutions about what they’re going to add to their lives. More exercise. New routines. A fresh system that will finally get everything they’ve got going on dialed in.There’s…
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The 2026 Winter Enrollment of The Strenuous Life Is Now Open!

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 31, 2025
On the Art of Manliness, we talk about many things, from personal development, to physical fitness, to concrete skills and know-how. If you’ve ever wanted to do more than just listen to/read the content we publish, and desire to start…
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Podcast #1,098: How to Use Probability Hacking to Achieve Your Goals

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 30, 2025
in: Advice, Character, Podcast Brett & Kate McKay • December 30, 2025 Most of us chase goals — starting a business, running a marathon, getting a promotion — without ever asking: What are the actual odds this will…
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Podcast #868: Escape the Happiness Trap

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 23, 2025
Happiness is the subject of thousands of articles, podcasts, and scientific studies. Yet all this focus on happiness doesn’t seem to be making people any happier. In fact, the more they try to be happy, especially by fighting to get rid…
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The Most Popular AoM Articles and Podcast Episodes of 2025

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 22, 2025
Another year — our 17th in operation — has wound down here at the Art of Manliness. Here are a few highlights from the various projects that spring from the AoM epicenter. Dying BreedOne of the highlights of 2025 was launching Dying…
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Christmas Celebration: Embracing the Teddy Roosevelt Spirit

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 21, 2025
Teddy Roosevelt, the patron saint of the Art of Manliness, had an exuberant love of life. A friend of T.R.’s described his joie de vivre as the “unpacking of endless Christmas stockings.” If Teddy Roosevelt approached all of life as if…
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Odds & Ends: December 19, 2025

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 19, 2025
The Holly and the Ivy. If you’re feeling tired of the standard set of classic holiday films, give The Holly and the Ivy a watch. In the movie, a family gathers at the home of their father — a recently widowed parson. This is not a happy…
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How to Do a Fire Meditation

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 18, 2025
To make winter a more enjoyable time of year, you ought to consider adopting certain practices you only do during this season — rituals that help to create a kind of liturgy for life.One of those practices could be fire meditation.Fire…
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Podcast #1,097: The Idea Machine — How Books Changed the World (and Still Matter)

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 16, 2025
Books are everywhere. They’re so common, they’re easy to take for granted. But my guest argues that they’re worth fully appreciating — because the book isn’t just a container for content; it’s a revolutionary technology for shaping…
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Casablanca and the Cure for Cynicism

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 15, 2025
I finally got around to watching Casablanca this year. I’m a little embarrassed it took this long. I think the delay was due to the fact that I already thought I’d seen it, on account of seeing clips of it so often. It’s part of the…
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The 11 Cognitive Distortions That Are Making You a Miserable SOB

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 14, 2025
Does it feel like the world is out to get you?Does it seem like everyone you know is an a-hole?Does it feel like your life is going nowhere and that you’ll always be a loser?If you answered “yes” to one or more of the above questions,…
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Odds & Ends: December 12, 2025

Brett & Kate McKay Dec 12, 2025
in: Odds & Ends Brett & Kate McKay • December 12, 2025“Last Christmas” by Jimmy Eat World. I can’t say I’m a fan of the original “Last Christmas” by Wham!, but I am a big fan of this cover by Jimmy Eat World.…
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