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The Daily Stoic

Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Brett McKay Talk Parenting, Living Through History, and Modern Manliness

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Society & Culture, 694393, Stoicism, Ryan Holiday, Business, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Stoic, Stoic Philosophy, Education, Daily Stoic

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Ryan and Brett McKay, founder of The Art of Manliness (https://www.artofmanliness.com/), talk about being a parent in the age of COVID-19, the changing definition of manliness, and more.

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Brett McKay is founder and editor-in-chief of The Art of Manliness, the massive men’s lifestyle website with over 10 million monthly page views. For over six years, Brett has published articles about how to be a strong, conscious, thoughtful man in the modern age. Brett lives in Oklahoma with his wife and children.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

0:22.0

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

0:51.0

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

1:01.0

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Syrte and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly true crime podcast. Every week on Redhanded we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

1:10.0

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

1:15.0

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

1:23.0

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

1:33.0

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist?

1:45.0

Listen to Redhanded wherever you get your podcast. So, and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

2:03.0

I'm a reporter, and I've heard a lot of your comments and comments about the story of a girl who's been a part of the story.

2:05.0

I've heard so many of my fans lovingly nicknamed me Kiki Kiki Pabag Palmer. And trust me, I keep a bad love.

2:13.0

But if you ask me, I'm just getting started, and there's so much I still want to do. So I decided I want to be a podcast host.

2:19.0

I'm proud to introduce you to the Baby This is Kiki Palmer Podcast. I'm putting my friends, family, and some of the dopest experts in the hot seat to ask them the questions that have been burning in my mind.

2:29.0

What will former child stars be if they weren't actors? What happened to sitcoms? It's only fans, only bad. I want to know. So I asked my mom about it.

2:37.0

These are the questions that keep me up at night. But I'm taking these questions out of my head, and I'm bringing them to you. Because on Baby This is Kiki Palmer, no topic is off limits.

2:45.0

Follow Baby This is Kiki Palmer, whatever you get your podcast. You can listen early and at free on the Amazon Music or Wondry app.

2:55.0

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Today, my guest is Brett McKay, one of my favorite people. Brett is actually the one of the first people that I reached out to when I was writing the obstacles the way I'd been a big fan of his site art of manliness for many years.

3:13.0

And so I was just asking him as I was doing my research as I often do, and I'm kicking a book idea around this. What people should I look at? Did he have any recommendations?

3:21.0

And the first person he suggested was that I read about Laura Ingalls Wilder, which you might not have expected from the creator of a site called the Art of Manliness. But I actually really don't feel like his site is about manliness to me. It's about this sort of stoic idea of being wise, being strong, those four virtues of courage, temperance, wisdom,

3:41.0

and justice. And so Brett is just an awesome writer. I can't tell you the amount of times that I've read stuff on his site. I've been googling something I wanted to know about a historical figure. I was looking for a quote.

3:53.0

And you know, his stuff is great. He's got great piece on John Boyd's to be or to do. He's got great stuff on Eisenhower's decision matrix. He's got great stuff on the Odyssey. He's got it. I was just reading the man in the sea a couple weeks ago. And I was reading his his piece on the lessons from the man in the sea.

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