Man of the Year
Hosted by Karo and Matt · Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo
4.9from 319 ratings
- 212
- Episodes
- 129
- Transcribed
- 319
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 17M
- YouTube views
About Man of the Year
As seen in The New York Times, on NPR, and the TODAY Show, Man of the Year is the #1 friendship podcast in the country! Comedians and friendship experts Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo will help you make new friends, reconnect with old ones, and build lifelong social fitness. Each November they award a gigantic Man of the Year trophy to one of their childhood friends – a tradition that has kept their crew going strong since the '80s. But the country is facing a friendship recession – 15% of men report having zero close friends – and they’re on a mission to change that with tips, hacks, and decades of hilarious stories. Join the revolution at manoftheyearpodcast.com and instagram.com/manoftheyearpodcast
- Publisher
- Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo
- Category
- comedy · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
129 of 212 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#205 - Parents Modeling Friendship
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#204 - The Art of Being a Regular
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#203 - My Husband Has No Friends...and How to Fix it?
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#205 - Parents Modeling Friendship
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So aren't you, you know, whatever the word is. I'm saying that I, I think we had an awakening. Okay. Okay. I think Jesse and I had an awakening that like, you know, I don't know, it feels different when your kids are infants, you know, now Brenner's three. Right. And he's like a real person and you can kind of like explain things to him and you can have conversations and he can connect things. Yeah. It feels different. It feels like, oh no, we can actually teach him lessons. about social dynamics and relationships that matter to us. And he can understand why we want to stay. Right. Right. Do you think he understood? […]
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- YouTube views
- 17,412,225
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 258 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 61 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 76
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Karo and Matt host the show. Published by Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo.
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