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
Ep166 - Jim Seymour
Although the concept of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol is an ancient one (think scouts), they only began to be used by the US Army in Vietnam in the latter part of the war. Dropped far behind e…
01:00:33 |
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Ep165 - Matthew E May
Matthew E. May spent over eight years as a close advisor to Toyota. During that time he developed an appreciation for the power of elegance. As he explains in this interview, all too often in order t…
01:01:17 |
Tue 28 Oct 2014
Ep164 - Scott Bullock
The Institute for Justice has been described (by Hunter and probably others) as the libertarian ACLU. In this interview, Scott Bullock (who joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 an…
00:49:25 |
Thu 23 Oct 2014
Ep163 - Adam Grant
In the wake of countless scandals at the highest corporate levels, it’s easy to think that the key to getting ahead in business is to be a taker, but actually it turns out that the success of Enron e…
01:00:55 |
Tue 21 Oct 2014
Ep162 - John Nagl
After fighting in the first gulf war, John Nagl returned to the United States and took part in a simulated military exercise. As a tank commander, he had all the overwhelming firepower any soldier co…
01:03:19 |
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Ep161 - Michael Malice
Michael Malice is has co-written books with MMA legend Matt Hughes, comedian DL Hughley and legendary rocker Brett Michaels but we brought him on to talk about the celebrity biography of one Kim Jong…
01:05:09 |
Tue 14 Oct 2014
Ep160 - Hannah Lane
Hannah Lane describes herself as a human-centered designer and social entrepreneur. Basically that means she designs systems that help make the world a better place. While she began in the health spa…
00:45:07 |
Thu 09 Oct 2014
Ep159 - Vanessa Tyson, Round 4
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this fourth episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan is hunting in the woods…
00:49:59 |
Mon 06 Oct 2014
Ep158 - Barb Oakley
Barb Oakley may be a Professor of Engineering now but all through high school she was a self-professed math hater. She got a D in geometry…twice. She far preferred to follow her passions for literatu…
01:01:22 |
Thu 02 Oct 2014
Ep157 - Justin Gest
Since ISIS captured the attention of the West by beheading foreign journalists, the news media has been obsessed with covering them. Since 9/11, some of the most eye-catching terror-related stories h…
00:57:30 |
Mon 29 Sep 2014
Ep156 - Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty thinks an awful lot about death. In fact, she’s been doing it for years and that’s what lead her to become a mortician. In Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Cremator…
00:46:18 |
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Ep155 - Vanessa Tyson
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this third episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan booked a TV job! So, Hun…
01:04:56 |
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Ep154 - William Deresiewicz
As a Professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz became concerned by what had happened to America’s education. More than anything, he found that rather than turning out leaders was turning out a bunch of …
00:44:12 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Ep153 - Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is the author of fifteen books on foreign policy and international affairs. He is Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor, a private intelligence firm. He is a non-resident senior fe…
00:42:44 |
Mon 15 Sep 2014
Ep152 - Vanessa Tyson Part 2
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this second episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, we discuss the role that educ…
01:05:55 |
Thu 11 Sep 2014
Ep151 - Euny Hong
When Euny Hong moved to South Korea in 1985, it was by her own description not a wealthy country and yet now it’s one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. We know how Euny gre…
00:44:27 |
Mon 08 Sep 2014
Ep150 - Lewis Dartnell
The world seems fascinated with the possibility of an apocalypse. Zombies, mutant viruses, a giant meteorite impact, alien invasions…the point is the same. If everything fell apart, how would we cope…
00:36:58 |
Thu 04 Sep 2014
Ep149 - Jim Rickards
A year ago, we interviewed Jim Rickards about his book Currency Wars which examined how money could be used as a weapon between nations. In his most recent book, The Death of Money, Rickards examines…
00:48:53 |
Mon 01 Sep 2014
Ep148 - David Sloan Wilson
Darwin had a problem with bees. Understanding how evolution might work at the level of individuals was easy. Have an individual whose genes give them an advantage in resisting disease or avoiding pre…
00:54:10 |
Thu 28 Aug 2014
Ep147 - Vanessa Tyson
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this episode, Vanessa, Bryan and Hunter discuss various aspects of government, what is wrong w…
01:04:34 |
Mon 25 Aug 2014
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