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
Ep106 - Kira Soltanovich
Bryan sits down with comedian, Kira Soltanovich. For the past 8 years, she could be seen as a television corespondent in her own reoccurring segment for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, called Photo B…
01:04:44 |
Thu 06 Mar 2014
Ep105 - Dan O'Brien
As the head writer and creative director of video at Cracked.com, Dan O’Brien writes important potentially Pulitzer-prize winning pieces on topics such as Why Spiderman is a Dick and 3 Insane Spider-…
01:04:19 |
Mon 03 Mar 2014
Ep104 - Bad Pharma Discussion
Dr. Ben Goldacre is the author of two excellent books, Bad Pharma and Bad Science, but he didn’t show up for this episode so there’s not much point telling you more about him. So, Bryan and Hunter ju…
00:44:17 |
Mon 24 Feb 2014
Ep103 - Dan Coyle, David Epstein
For 150 years, we’ve been taught that we had to choose sides when understanding where top-level performance comes from. Is it nature? Or, is it nurture? In this episode, two of our favorite guests of…
00:55:43 |
Mon 17 Feb 2014
Ep102 - John Gurche
When Steven Spielberg was looking for a dinosaur expert for Jurassic park, he chose John Gurche. Steven Spielberg kind of gets to pick whoever he wants, so that’s a pretty good sign that John Gurche …
00:49:56 |
Fri 14 Feb 2014
Ep101 - Andrew Lih
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the power of the internet and thereby the power of a democratic approach to problem solving like Wikipedia. In The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created T…
00:57:09 |
Mon 10 Feb 2014
Ep100 - Dave Asprey & Jimmy Burke
Bryan sits down with the founder of The Bullet Proof Executive, Dave Asprey. Long time friend, Jimmy Burke. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
01:05:11 |
Thu 06 Feb 2014
Ep99 - Seal Team 6
Bryan has a very exclusive conversation with one of America's finest military veterans and a former member of Seal Team 6. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
00:55:43 |
Mon 03 Feb 2014
Ep98 - Chad Kultgen
Bryan sits down with author, producer and actor, Chad Kultgen. He is a controversial author notable for publishing several novels on the sexual relationships of Americans. He has published opinion pi…
00:59:12 |
Thu 30 Jan 2014
Ep97 - Steven Strogatz
Steven Strogatz has a really impressive resumé. Besides being a professor at Cornell, he also has the sixth most highly cited paper in all of physics and his 1998 paper “Collective dynamics of small-…
01:03:27 |
Mon 27 Jan 2014
Ep96 - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Collapse (2005) …
01:10:47 |
Thu 23 Jan 2014
Ep95 – Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major American physics societies. In addition to his work as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist where he has authored…
00:47:52 |
Mon 20 Jan 2014
Ep94 - Sarah Tiana
Bryan and Hunter sit down with comedian, Sarah Tiana. They talk about their lives in comedy as well as comedians in relationships and much more. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
00:42:26 |
Thu 16 Jan 2014
Ep93 - Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg is a writer for the business section of The New York Times. He's clearly pretty good at it, because he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for a series of ten articles on Apple called iEconom…
00:43:51 |
Mon 13 Jan 2014
Ep92 - Skylar Stone
Bryan sits down with comedian, Skylar Stone. Stone has been seen on telelvision and in comedy clubs throughout the country. He has a monthly show at the Improv in Hollywood. Be sure to Rate and Comme…
00:51:04 |
Thu 09 Jan 2014
Ep91 - Russell Foster
Along with his colleagues Professor Russell Foster broke the conventional wisdom and discovered a light-sensitive cell inside the eye that had nothing to do with vision. Although much of the scientif…
01:07:13 |
Mon 06 Jan 2014
Ep90 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand, Bryan sits down with his dad, Michael Callen. They talk about a variety of different things, from professional schooling and the changes they are encountering, as well as the …
00:59:24 |
Thu 02 Jan 2014
Ep89 - Chris Bell
"Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We l…
00:42:56 |
Mon 30 Dec 2013
Ep88 - Dov Davidoff
It's the Bryan Callen Christmas Special. Bryan sits down with actor, comedian and good friend, Dov Davidoff. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
00:49:52 |
Thu 26 Dec 2013
Ep87 - Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle kept hearing about places all over world where talent flourished. They weren’t necessarily well-funded. They weren’t necessarily in big cities. In fact, quite often, these talent hot spo…
01:01:44 |
Mon 23 Dec 2013
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