Luke Takes Out his Anger on Dave VanVickle (Sorta)

Episode 480 · August 18th, 2026 · 1 hr 11 mins

About this Episode

Luke opens with a confession—he got fuming mad at a Catholic content creator online, posted about it on Instagram, and deleted it in the middle of the night—which turns the show into a long conversation about what men are supposed to do with rage.

Dave VanVickle walks through lifting, prayer, and the confessional as outlets. He gets into Taekwondo's golden age, cage matches in Buffalo, and the night he took a knife in the back and still loaded the two men he knocked out into his truck bed and drove them to the emergency room.

In This Episode:

  • Luke's temper flare at a Catholic content creator who used a photo of the Pope to score a point about liturgy, the Instagram post he tagged him in, and the middle-of-the-night regret that made him delete it
  • Dave's outlets for rage plus his read that watching the news right now should make a normal man angry
  • Gomer on anger as a blanket over your life, why a lot of anger at the world is really anger at yourself, and giving up the news in 2019
  • The rad trad and Vatican II debate, Peter Kreeft's question about whether any of those posts are well processed, and Dave building a middle school philosophy course
  • The study claiming the average American man thinks he's 400% more effective in a fight than he actually is

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Chapters:

  • 00:00: Welcome and Dave's New Middle Name
  • 01:58: Luke's Anger Problem and the Influencer Who Set It Off
  • 08:39: Lifting, Running, and Prayer as Outlets
  • 10:57: The Manosphere and Men Who Stopped Reading
  • 14:42: Gomer on Turning the Anger Dial Down
  • 21:08: Rad Trads, Vatican II, and Peter Kreeft's Question
  • 25:45: Infinite Jest and the Parasocial Prophecy
  • 27:56: Teaching Plato to Seventh Graders
  • 33:25: Dave's Complete Fighting Résumé
  • 42:16: The Knife in the Back at Shenanigans
  • 50:20: It's Not Like the Movies and the 400% Study
  • 1:08:00: Closing Question—Combat Sports and the NFL

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