Modern Man

Men aren't what they should be – and everyone agrees. But what should they be? Welcome to the home of that conversation. Modern Man seeks to rediscover and redeem the heart of man in the modern world. To rediscover the aspects of masculinity that have been lost. To redeem the aspects of masculinity that have lasted. And to respond accordingly.Each episode, Brad, Noah, and Sam grapple with real-life experiences and real-time events to see how we can better develop the heart of man in the modern world.

Modern Man is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Modern Man, a education show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #32

  Real Life or the Feed...Nobody Backed Down.

  Aug 14, 20261h 48mS1

  Two guests, five men, and an argument nobody wins. Conall Hughes and Gabe Gessler join Noah, Brad and Sam for aconversation that splits the table inside thirty minutes: is ministry that happens on a screen actually ministry, or ispresence the only thing that counts? Gabe makes the case from Hallow — reach the parish every day of the week, notjust Sunday. Sam draws the hard line at the dinner table. Conall, who has no social media at all, argues the church willnever beat TikTok at its own game. Then the same question turns on AI: whether a man owes his work to a machinethat does it better, what happens to a generation that stops using its hands, and whether the sin coming for us isunemployment or sloth. Along the way: why 69% of the people in church on Sunday are women, the average age a boyis first exposed to porn, the surgery question nobody at the table wanted to answer, and what three things every youngman is quietly living for. We exist to rediscover and redeem the heart of man in the modern world.

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  Episode #30

  We Drafted Our Heroes and Argued

  Aug 7, 202654 minS1

  Hero Draft, Part 1 — Football. Three men each draft one football hero and defend the pick. Noah takes Tom Brady and argues for the man who said no to everything else for one thing. Sam takes Pat Tillman, who walked away from a $3.6 million contract and never came back. Brad takes Peyton Manning and makes the case for the integrated life — the man who was excellent without letting the rest of it fall away. Along the way: signal versus noise, whether the cost of greatness is a feature or a bug, why rags to riches is the easier story, the man who's always second, and the question none of them fully answer — what your heroes say about what you actually value. We exist to rediscover and redeem the heart of man in the modern world.

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  Episode #30

  God Is Real. Most Men Have Decided That Changes Nothing.

  Jul 31, 20261h 7mS1

  Part 1 of 3 — Ministry in the Modern World. Brad, Sam and Noah have thirty years of Catholic missionary workbetween them, and they still don't agree on who should do it. This one starts with how each of them got called —a retreat at sixteen, a chapel in St. Paul, a college house with an interview before the lease — and endssomewhere sharper: whether ‘professional missionary’ should be a thing at all, why women say yes to the calland men say later, and Noah's admission that he's met harder workers outside the church than in it. Along theway: missionary by heart or by legs, the man guided by himself, what the Mormons get right about two years ofrejection, and the line the three of them split on — die so others don't have to, or die so they know how. We existto rediscover and redeem the heart of man.

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  Episode #29

  An Agenda-Driven Catholic Will Miss Heaven

  Jul 24, 202639 minS1

  Every month Sam, Brad, and Noah tie a bow on the last three episodes with an After Action Report: what was the plan, what actually happened, and what we’ll do differently. July covered masculine maturity, a long-form with Fr. Joseph Rowling, and the SSPX schism — but the AAR goes somewhere the episodes didn’t. Peter Kreeft seeing his dying wife as a bride again. Tyler Lang’s ‘don’t waste a day.’ Why celibacy exposes weak men instead of drawing them. The discernment reframe every man considering the priesthood should hear. And the through-line that reframed the whole month: the most tempting thing in the spiritual life is to become an agenda-driven Catholic instead of an intimacy-driven one — and the agenda-driven man risks hearing ‘I never knew you.’ We exist to rediscover and redeem the heart of man.

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  Episode #28

  The Church Is in Schism — An Honest Take on the SSPX

  Jul 17, 20261h 3mS1

  The SSPX has formally entered schism — four bishops ordained illicitly, excommunications declared, and Catholics everywhere wrestling with what it means. Brad, Sam, and Noah steel-man the strongest arguments for the SSPX (China, the state of emergency, Trent vs. Vatican II), then answer them: reform vs. revolt, what authority actually costs, why ‘I don't understand’ usually means ‘I don't agree,’ and the 1978 Fulton Sheen letter most people have never heard. Tell us what we missed in the comments — enough substantive pushback and we'll record the rebuttal episode.

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