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
Ep66 - Tom Segura
Bryan Callen sits down with comedian and podcaster, Tom Segura. They talk about stand-up comedy and much more. Also, be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
00:42:45 |
Thu 10 Oct 2013
Ep65 - Tim Snyder, Michael Callen
In a very special episode of The Bryan Callen Show, Mike Callen joins Bryan and Hunter in interviewing the authors of one of his very favorite books: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Det…
01:00:53 |
Mon 07 Oct 2013
Ep64 - Jon Lovitz
Bryan and Hunter sit down with comedian and SNL Alumni, Jon Lovitz. They discuss their experiences doing comedy and sketch shows. Jon spoke about his personal experience coming up as a comedian as we…
01:12:40 |
Thu 03 Oct 2013
Ep63 - Sarah Rose
Sarah Rose is the author of For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History. At the beginning of the 19th century, China had a global monopoly on tea. One o…
00:46:01 |
Mon 30 Sep 2013
Ep62 - Bret Ernst
Bryan sits down with good friend and comedian, Bret Ernst. They discuss comedy, acting, entertainment, sports and Bret marriage plans. This is our first installment of comedy Thursdays. Be sure to ch…
00:38:01 |
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Ep61 - Karen Karbo
The New York Times called Karen Karbo "a very funny writer" something that becomes abundantly clear in her wit-filled Kick-Ass Women series of books. Examining the lives of women who lived life on th…
00:51:56 |
Mon 23 Sep 2013
Ep60 - Kim Dower
Kim Dower is fast becoming acclaimed in the poetry world for her humor and "turns." The Los Angeles Times described her first collection Air Kissing on Mars as, "sensual and evocative lyrical snapsho…
00:59:01 |
Thu 19 Sep 2013
Ep59 - Joshua Foer
In 2006, Josh Foer became the U.S.A. Memory Champion and yet he insists his memory is totally average…and so do other memory champions like Ben Pridmore. In fact, as Foer recounts in his New York Tim…
00:56:11 |
Thu 12 Sep 2013
Ep58 - Dan Robinson
Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University. According to Bryan, he's also probably the …
01:16:29 |
Thu 05 Sep 2013
Ep57 - Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt is America's most controversial and perhaps most effective living defender of the First Amendment. However, by his own admission, Larry Flynt did not set out to defend the Bill of Rights.…
00:54:33 |
Thu 29 Aug 2013
Ep56 - Matt Ridley
Listening to the news or hyperlinking our way through blog posts, it might seem like the end is nigh. Whether the coming crisis is environmental, economic or some intoxicating mix of the two, the mes…
01:00:17 |
Thu 22 Aug 2013
Ep55 - Bob Harris
Imagine a bank that operates in 67 countries around the world, has one employee, has made thousands of loans with an average value of $25 a pop and is committed to never making a profit but believes …
00:58:41 |
Thu 15 Aug 2013
Ep54 - Richard Miles
For over 120 years and across three separate wars, Rome and Carthage battled for control of the Mediterranean in a no-holds barred conflict that would see Hannibal march his elephants across the Alps…
00:55:39 |
Thu 08 Aug 2013
Ep53 - Jonathan Haidt
As a professor at the University of Virginia, Jonathan Haidt uses the scientific method to study human morality…which leads to asking people some pretty screwed up questions. Would it be wrong if a m…
00:59:09 |
Thu 01 Aug 2013
Ep52 - Ken Chase
Dr. Ken Chase is the author of Firearms: A Global History to 1700, which legendary historian William McNeill described as "a great achievement." In Firearms, Ken does much more than summarize how fir…
00:51:31 |
Thu 25 Jul 2013
Ep51 - James Rollins
While working as a vet and running a practice with fifteen employees, James began writing again. Beginning with short stories, he built his confidence and his skills until eventually he felt ready to…
00:59:01 |
Thu 18 Jul 2013
Ep50 - Mark Kurlansky
When Mark Kurlansky wrote Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, he was not only publishing a New York Times Bestseller but also creating a whole new type of book. Since then books focu…
00:55:34 |
Thu 11 Jul 2013
Ep49 - Lara Setrakian
As a reporter for ABC and Bloomberg Television, Lara Setrakian crisscrossed the Middle East reporting live as the Arab Spring spread throughout the region. Her first-hand experience of what was happe…
00:59:55 |
Thu 04 Jul 2013
Ep48 - Jim Rickards
In 2009, Jim Rickards was invited by The Pentagon to participate in a new kind of war game where the only weapons to be used would be financial. From the lessons of The Great Depression to the possib…
00:52:54 |
Thu 27 Jun 2013
Ep47 - David Kwong
Hunter Maats sits in with Bryan Callen on this episode. Bryan interviews magician David Kwong. Called the "Illusunist for Intellectuals," by the Wall Street Journal also known as Hollywood's Favorite…
00:49:09 |
Thu 20 Jun 2013
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