Mixed Mental Arts
As kids, we're like little sponges blindly copying culture from the people around us. The cultures into which we were all born evolved to fit very old agricultural environments. Each contains timeless wisdom about human affairs but none of them is ideally suited to navigating the ever-changing environment in which we find ourselves.
The goal of Mixed Mental Arts is to steal the best cultural software from everywhere and apply the core principle of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." Welcome to the dojo! We're excited to learn from you.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 366
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2020
Ep186 - Adam Benforado: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
There's no doubt in any modern person's mind that the justice of the Medieval era was unjust. The court considered spiritual evidence, pigs were considered legally competent and tried as adult humans…
00:43:06 |
Sat 08 Aug 2015
Ep185 - Jennifer Jacquet: Is Shame Necessary?
It's probably no surprise that Californians have no shame. In fact, as Jennifer Jacquet writes in her latest book, shame has been found to be a central part of the emotional lives of Indonesians but …
00:59:38 |
Sat 25 Jul 2015
Ep184 - David Sloan Wilson: Does Altruism Exist?
In 1759, while working as a tutor, Adam Smith wrote a book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments that begins as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles i…
01:05:28 |
Sat 11 Jul 2015
Ep183 - Jean-Pierre Hocke
Today, on The Bryan Callen Show, Bryan and Hunter Maats speak with Jean-Pierre Hocke. Jean-Pierre joined in 1968 the Interntional Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC. After several field assignments he…
01:17:10 |
Tue 23 Jun 2015
Ep182 - Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is kind of a triple threat. When he's not working at JP Morgan, he often spends his weekends with the US Navy Reserves but when we spoke to him he was using his weekend to go to the Gram…
00:44:55 |
Tue 10 Feb 2015
Ep181 - Katie O'Brien & Hunter Maats
Bryan sits down with good friends and authors, Kathrine O'Brien and Hunter Maats, who share what they've learned along the way and a moment they wanted to be nowhere else. Plus a lot of inanity.
00:43:11 |
Tue 06 Jan 2015
Ep180 - Allen Barton & Leo Flowers
Today, Bryan and Leo Flowers sits down with Bryan's long time friend, Actor, Writer, Producer and former Scientologist, Allen Barton. They discuss the topic of religion, specifically with regards to …
01:06:47 |
Tue 30 Dec 2014
Ep179 - Dom Irrera
This week, Bryan sits down alone with Hall of Fame stand-up comedian, Dom Irrera. Dom reminisced about Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison and performing in the great comedy 80's.
00:47:47 |
Tue 23 Dec 2014
Ep178 - Ganesh Sitaraman
As part of our continuing look at counter-insurgency and nation building, we speak with Ganesh Sitaraman, Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, and author of The Counterinsurgent‘s Con…
00:49:09 |
Tue 16 Dec 2014
Ep177 - James Tooley
In the early 1980s, James Tooley went to Zimbabwe to help support and build socialism by teaching under the then hopeful leadership of Robert Mugabe. Returning to England in the midst of the Thatcher…
01:07:11 |
Tue 09 Dec 2014
Ep176 - Howard G. Buffett and Howard W. Buffett
In 2006, Warren Buffett told his son that he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to making a difference in the world. That’s when he gave his son Howard G. Buffett a billion dollars and told him to g…
01:04:50 |
Thu 04 Dec 2014
Ep175 - Jonah Berger
If there’s one thing we’d like to figure out at The Bryan Callen Show, it’s how to get good ideas to spread. Fortunately, Jonah Berger has those answers. While it often seems like things catch on ran…
00:57:30 |
Tue 02 Dec 2014
Ep174 - Stephen Kotkin
When Professor Stephen Kotkin set out to write a biography of Stalin, he faced a series of challenges. Perhaps first and foremost, people already thought they knew who Stalin was. The world’s view of…
00:58:29 |
Thu 27 Nov 2014
Ep173 - Pasi Sahlberg
Throughout the 2000s, Finland emerged as the country with the best performing educational system in the world. It did so by defying much of the educational conventional wisdom. While the Global Educa…
00:52:38 |
Tue 25 Nov 2014
Ep172 - Paul Kindstedt
During a cheese tasting class at Murray’s, Hunter heard the teacher say that “Cheese and Culture” was the best book on cheese in the world. Instantly, we knew we had to get its author for The Bryan C…
00:47:22 |
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Ep171 - Werner Sollors
In the wake of World War II, as the world discovered the full extent of the atrocities committed by the NAZIs, the German people struggled to make sense of their place in the world. Ruined, occupied …
00:49:00 |
Tue 18 Nov 2014
Ep170 - Vanessa Tyson, Part 5
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this fifth episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan is missing again. So, Hu…
01:05:54 |
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Ep169 - The Mother of All Podcasts
In this interview, Bryan and Hunter draw together the lessons they’ve learned over their most recent podcasts. For more on Robert McNamara, you might enjoy this article: http://www.technologyreview.c…
00:41:40 |
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Ep168 - Michael Malice, Part 2
Michael Malice is has co-written books with MMA legend Matt Hughes, comedian DL Hughley and legendary rocker Brett Michaels and Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. In this sec…
01:05:37 |
Thu 06 Nov 2014
Ep167 - Tom Woods
Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. began his life as a neoconservative but came to realize that the two political parties were broadly the same. Dissatisfied with the narrow range of options offered by the Rep…
00:47:43 |
Tue 04 Nov 2014
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