The Best of 2025—featuring Bear Grylls, Dante Bowe, Joby Martin, and More

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

2025 was a banner year for The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome—from moving to video content, to surpassing 300 episodes, to welcoming bucket list guests like Bear Grylls. In this best-of episode, Dirt takes listeners back to six of the biggest episodes of the year, including talking the great outdoors with Bear Grylls, pushing through difficulty with Maverick City Music’s Dante Bowe, and what Biblical masculinity actually looks like with pastor Joby Martin. If you missed these conversations the first time around, there’s no better time to catch up.

Links to original full length episodes:

God, Grit and the Great Outdoors with Bear Grylls:
Apple | Spotify

Developing Joy Beyond the Ups and Downs of Life with Dante Bowe:
Apple | Spotify

How to Put Your Phone Down and Live More with Darren Whitehead:
Apple | Spotify

The Adventure I Don’t Want To Be On—A Cancer Conversation with BT:
Apple | Spotify

Biblical Masculinity Isn’t Toxic or Tame with Joby Martin:
Apple | Spotify

MAN CAMP Builds Dangerous Men with Rory Lawrence & Matt Fortin:
Apple | Spotify

Watch the full episode on YouTube here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive live. Hey, this is dirt. I'm your podcast podcast producer and I'm sitting down with you on the last week of 2025, looking back at our favorite moments from the podcast this year. And honestly, it was a huge year for the podcast. We passed our 300th episode this year. We passed two and a half million downloads this year. And the biggest
0:41.3	change for us this year came back in February where we moved to a video format. For about four
0:46.0	years we had been audio. Only the switch to video was a big deal. It changed how we thought about
0:51.7	the show, how we captured the show, how I edit the show and produce it.
0:56.0	It was a big, big shift, and you guys responded.
1:00.1	YouTube views climbing, Spotify views, climbing.
1:03.7	And for you audio-only people, that's fine.
1:05.9	Keep doing what you do.
1:07.6	But video is available.
1:09.0	If you ever want to watch the podcast, you can find links to the video in every episode.
1:14.9	I'm so grateful that you hung with us through this year, through the switch to video,
1:19.9	and you just want to celebrate the moments that defined 2025 on this podcast.
1:26.1	So I'm going to share six of our most popular, our most downloaded, our most
1:29.5	talked about episodes of the year. This is just only a snippet from each conversation. So if you
1:35.5	miss the original one, you can find links to every single one of them in the podcast description.
1:40.3	Go back, check out the full episode. Let it push you forward as we move toward 2026.
1:46.5	Now, by far, the most excited I have been about a podcast in a long time happened in the lead-up to man camp when we got to connect with world-class adventurer, explorer, manly man, Bear Grills.
2:00.2	Now listen, Bear Grills has been a bucket list guest for me for years.
2:05.0	I've tried and tried and tried. Was never successful to land him on the podcast, but it happened
2:09.7	this year, and I don't think I've ever been more nervous for a podcast than this one. Just
2:15.0	wanted to make sure the audio was crisp, the video was good, everything came together, and it did.
2:21.3	Let's check out a snippet of Brian Tome and Bear Grills on The Aggressive Life.
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