EPISODE #1,000! Rules for the Modern Man

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Fifteen years and more than 200 million downloads later, this episode marks the 1,000th installment of the Art of Manliness podcast! It begins with a bit of a retrospective on the podcast and then segues into an interview with one of the show's earliest guests: Walker Lamond, author of Rules for My Unborn Son. Walker and I revisit the origins of the book and the early days of the internet and have a fun discussion of which of his rules have become obsolete and which remain evergreen. Tune in and enjoy! A big thanks to our listeners for helping us reach this cool milestone. The support is deeply appreciated! A big thanks to our listeners for helping us reach this cool milestone. The support is deeply appreciated! A big thanks to our listeners for helping us reach this cool milestone. The support is deeply appreciated!

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to the 1000th episode of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:06.0	Yes, a thousand episodes.
0:08.0	That's a really cool milestone.
0:09.6	If you listen to the podcast you know I primarily interview authors of books and in preparation for the
0:15.2	interview I read the entire book to get ready for my conversation with that author so a thousand
0:20.9	episodes represents my reading nearly a thousand books, which is pretty cool to think about it.
0:26.2	It's been a long and great journey. If you would have told me 16 years ago,
0:30.3	when I was in law school, that I would have been hosting a podcast for my career in
0:34.8	2024 I would have said you're crazy I'm gonna be an oil and gas attorney in
0:38.7	Tulsa what are you talking about so I thought it'd be fun before we get today's
0:42.2	interview to do a brief retrospective of the
0:45.0	Art of Manliness Podcast. I started the Art of Manliness blog in 2008 when I was in law school
0:51.0	at University of Tulsa. I started it because I wanted to create the men's magazine that I'd want to read.
0:55.9	I didn't like the men's magazines out there so I said hey you know what I'm going to make the
0:58.6	men's magazine that I would want to read so we put out started putting out
1:01.5	text articles a lot of men resonated with what we were doing. They enjoyed what we were putting out there. Then in 2009, I decided to start a podcast. I was listening to podcast. I enjoyed the format. I thought it'd be a great way to interview authors of books that I enjoyed.
1:15.2	So I started the podcast.
1:16.4	At the time, podcasting was a relatively new format.
1:19.1	I don't think people knew what podcasts were supposed to be.
1:21.6	I had no clue what I was doing.
1:24.1	There wasn't the technology or the infrastructure
1:27.5	that exists today in the podcasting world.
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