His Game-Winner Made ESPN's Top 10. Then He Left Basketball for the Priesthood 10.07.2026 1:34:17

His game-winner made ESPN's Top 10. A year into a college basketball scholarship, he was on his knees in a chapel, calling his coach to say he wasn't coming back — he was going to become a priest. Fr. Joseph Rolwing (Diocese of Columbus, co-host of the Logos Podcast) joins Brad, Sam, and Noah for the whole arc: the agnostic girlfriend whose arguments left him lying in the grass staring int...

Masculine Maturity (Ep. 26) 03.07.2026 52:14

Puberty happens to every man. Maturity doesn't. This week Brad, Noah, and Sam wrestle with what masculine maturity actually is — and why it has nothing to do with certainty, competence, or age, and everything to do with two trainable traits. What you'll get: • The two-trait test one of America's largest missionary organizations uses to screen candidates — coachability and resilience —...

You Can Provide for Your Family and Still Be Failing as a Father 26.06.2026 54:43

What does it actually mean to provide for your family? In this After Action Report, Sam, Brad, and Noah reopen a month of episodes — and a debate none of them can let go of. Sam reconsiders his own take on the man on food stamps. Noah argues that calling someone a ‘failed provider’ smuggles in a charge of wrongdoing. Brad reframes provision as a Venn diagram of presence, provision, and purpose. Al...

If Everyone’s a Leader, No One Is — What Actually Makes Men Worth Following 19.06.2026 1:07:01

Brad, Sam, and Noah sit with the question every men’s conference dodges: if everyone’s called to be a leader, what does the word even mean — and why do the men we follow keep being the ones who do what they said? What you’ll get: • If everyone’s a leader, no one is — the Incredibles problem • Jelly Roll in the rain — leadership starts the day you stop lying to yourself • “Something came up” is a l...

Why 90% of Men Quit at Episode Three – A Top-1% Podcaster on Process, Pride, and Provision (Ep. 23) 12.06.2026 1:17:02

Dominic Schlueter joins Brad, Sam, and Noah for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with podcasting and ends with one of the most honest disagreements we've recorded. What you'll get: • Why 90% of podcasts (and most things men start) quit at episode three • The difference between process goals and outcome goals — and why one breaks you • Magnanimity vs. pride — the Catholic virtue most...

Why Good Men Fall at the Top -- and How to Build a Foundation That Holds (ep. 22) 05.06.2026 59:26

Brad, Sam, and Noah sit with a reminder Brad reads every night — remember the fallen giants — and thequestion it keeps asking: why do the men we look up to keep falling, and is any man ever really safe? What you’ll get:• Why “the devil attacked him” is often a way to dodge responsibility• When you’re squeezed, what’s inside comes out — pressure reveals, it doesn’t build• Reality is pain — and why...

May AAR — The "Bad Guys" Take, We Want to Take Back 29.05.2026 56:36

Modern Man's first After Action Report — a monthly episode where Brad, Sam, and Noah react to their own podcast. What did they say last month that they want to defend? What did they say that they want to take back? What did they say that they're still chewing on weeks later? This first AAR landed almost entirely on one thread: the "bad guys" debate from Ep 19. A month later, Sam...

"Real, Really Real" — Two Brothers on the Burning Forehead and Why Most Men Live a Half-Life (Ep. 20) 22.05.2026 1:42:51

Henry and Harrison Schertzinger return for the second long-form Modern Man interview — and this one goes places Part 1 didn't. They tell the full story of their conversion to Catholicism (including a moment at Damascus that Harrison says he'd never shared publicly), then sit through a long, honest wrestle with the question Sam puts to them directly: is the emotional ministry style they came out of...

World at War: Ukraine, Gaza, Iran – How a Catholic Man Should Actually Think About All of It (Ep. 19) 15.05.2026 1:00:55

Three Catholic men sit down to talk about the three biggest active conflicts in the world — Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Hamas in Gaza, and the U.S. and Israel's confrontation with Iran — and the harder question underneath all of it: how is a serious Catholic man supposed to think about war, the news cycle, and the gap between what the Pope is saying and what the President is doing? Brad Bursa, Sam...

The Twins Who Refuse to Sleep In: Two Brothers on Why Most Men Stay Soft (Ep. 18) 08.05.2026 1:57:03

Two brothers, twin lacrosse players from Cincinnati who walked on at UNC, built and broke a dozen businesses by age 28 — and converted to Catholicism on the way. This is the first long-form interview on the new Modern Man, and Henry and Harrison Schertzinger don't pull punches on what it actually takes to become a man worth respecting. They cover the seasons of brutal self-doubt, the rock-bottom m...

The 4 Stages Every Man Has to Live Through (and Why Most Get Stuck on Stage 2) (Ep. 17) 04.05.2026 56:54

Modern Man is back. After a major life move and a long pause, Brad, Sam, and Noah reunite to talk aboutthe four-stage progression every man is called to live — son, brother, father, patriarch — and why mostmen never make it past stage two. This episode covers:• The reframe that changes everything: discover, sharpen, give, multiply• Why fatherhood reveals sonship in a way nothing else can• Bishop B...

The Power of Masculine Stability (Ep. 16) 24.06.2025 46:25