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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 the men who fall are the ones who got too good at escaping it• You fall the moment you take instead of give — Brad on laying your life down• The Wikipedia test, the ghost test, and the camera rolling on your whole dayIf you’ve ever feared your own undoing, start here — then send it to the brother who needs it

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 is doubling down. Noah

is pushing harder against it. Brad is pressing both men on what they actually lose if their take wins.

Sam holds the line: yes, the category of bad guys exists, and naming it is what lets a father teach his

sons what to fight. Noah pushes back: no one is born bad, and the category forecloses the redemption

the gospel is built on. Brad lives in the tension — paraphrasing Solzhenitsyn on the line between good

and evil running through every heart.

Featuring callbacks to the four-stages framework from Ep 17, the Schertzinger twins from Ep 18 and

20, and the Just War conversation from Ep 19. The conversation turns when the question goes from

abstract to practical — what do you teach your son when a stranger calls your wife a name? When a

bully shows up on the playground? Each man ends with the one improvement he's committing to

before the next AAR.

If you've felt the gap between what you believe about people in theory and how you actually have to

lead in practice — this is the conversation.

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 actually

serving men, or just hyping them up?

What you'll get:

• The Damascus conversion — the prayer line, the procession, the burning forehead

• The pushback on emotionalism — and why the brothers don't apologize for it

• Why action is the only moat left in business (610 pushes to GitHub)

• Heraclitus on warriors and soldiers — and why systems can't make warriors

• The Bible verse most Christians pretend to believe

• "Death by a thousand conclusions" — the real diagnosis behind cynical men

• Brad's closing frame for exhausted married dads: maximize, then harmonize

One hour forty-four minutes. No filler. Send it to the brother who's been quietly cynical for too long.

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 Halligan, and Noah Bauer walk through Just War theory in plain English, Noah's

signal-vs-noise framework for filtering the news, Brad's daily integration practice (silence, sweat,

study, serve), and Sam's gut-honest wrestle between pacifism, protecting his family, and trusting

the Holy Father.

If you've felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or quietly suspicious that you're being played — by either

side — this is the episode that gives you a frame, not a verdict.

Modern Man — a Catholic men's podcast for 20-60 year-old men who want to rediscover and

redeem the heart of man in the modern world.

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 moment in college that nearly broke them,

why most discipline plans backfire, what they learned from selling 2,000 donuts a Sunday during COVID,

and how Damascus Catholic Missionaries changed both their lives.

If you've ever felt like you're "maximizing a bunch of nothing," this is the conversation.

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 Barron's ego drama vs. theodrama and which one most men live in• Sam's launch with Forge in Iowa and what he's hearing from men every day• The four practical things every Catholic man should be doing this weekIf you've felt drifting, stuck, or unsure of what manhood actually looks like in 2026 — start here. And thensend it to one man in your life. That's how this movement spreads.

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 Barron's ego drama vs. theodrama and which one most men live in• Sam's launch with Forge in Iowa and what he's hearing from men every day• The four practical things every Catholic man should be doing this weekIf you've felt drifting, stuck, or unsure of what manhood actually looks like in 2026 — start here. And thensend it to one man in your life. That's how this movement spreads.

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 Barron's ego drama vs. theodrama and which one most men live in• Sam's launch with Forge in Iowa and what he's hearing from men every day• The four practical things every Catholic man should be doing this weekIf you've felt drifting, stuck, or unsure of what manhood actually looks like in 2026 — start here. And thensend it to one man in your life. That's how this movement spreads.

Welcome to Modern Man, a podcast that seeks to rediscover and redeem the heart of man in the modern world. In this episode, the guys answer one simple question – why Modern Man? And they lay out a vision for the future of the podcast. Enjoy!

Welcome to Modern Man, a podcast that seeks to rediscover and redeem the heart of man in the modern world. In this episode, the guys answer one simple question – why Modern Man? And they lay out a vision for the future of the podcast. Enjoy!