The Last Podcast

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New podcast launches May 1st! We'll be releasing on this same feed, so all you have to do is stay subscribed to this channel and you'll get all the new episodes as they come out.

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After more than 70 episodes and 30 million downloads, I’ve decided to shut down The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast. Yeah, I know—sounds a little crazy. But the truth is, I wasn’t having fun anymore. The guest treadmill, the pressure to play nice, the temptation to chase clicks instead of meaning—it all started to feel fake. So, I’m pulling the plug.

BUT—I’m not going away. I’m launching something new. It’s called Solved—a no-ads, no-guests, deep-dive podcast where each episode tackles one major life topic and breaks it down thoroughly. Think: values, emotions, procrastination—done right, from every angle, with real research and clear implementation. It’s the podcast I wish already existed. So I’m making it. First episode drops May 1 st!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the show, everybody.
0:02.0	Mark Manson here.
0:03.2	And this is the last podcast of the subtle art of not giving a fuck podcast.
0:08.9	Yes, the rumors are true.
0:11.1	The hints have been true.
0:12.8	All of the little breadcrumbs that I've been dropping over the past few episodes are, in fact, true.
0:18.2	We are shutting down this podcast.
0:20.4	But we're shutting it down because we're going to launch something very new and exciting in its place.
0:24.9	And I just want to take a little bit of time to explain both the reasoning why we're shutting this down and then also what's coming next.
0:33.7	So bear with me for a little bit. I'm going to take you behind the scenes, kind of my personal thinking or my personal experience with the podcast the past year, what my reasoning has been and why we are making the changes that we're going to make.
0:47.2	And also why I'm extremely excited.
0:49.8	And I think you guys are going to be absolutely thrilled with what we produce instead of the
0:54.4	subtle art and not giving a fuck podcast. So let's get right into it. The first thing I want to say
0:59.6	is that it feels kind of insane, the shutdown something this successful. I was actually
1:06.7	looking at the numbers in preparation for recording this this uh so we had 75 episodes over 30
1:13.6	million downloads over 700,000 followers across platforms. That technically puts us in the top 0.01%
1:22.5	of podcasts like the top 400-ish podcasts in the world is a massively successful podcast by any objective
1:28.6	measurement, which is still a little bit wild for me to think about.
1:34.4	And I also, I think it's worth saying, too, that shutting this down is not a good business
1:39.8	decision, at least in the short term.
1:42.9	There were multiple seven-figure offers on the table
1:47.3	from major podcast networks, major ad networks, that we turned down. And a big reason for turning
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