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
Ep 289 - Way Back Wednesday: Jonathan Haidt Enters The Dojo
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. On the show, Bryan, Jon…
Ep 288 - Way Back Wednesday: Joseph Henrich Enters The Dojo
Wonder why Hunter name drops Joseph Henrich all the time? Who is Joseph Henrich anyway? Today, we talk to the man himself about his book: The Secret Of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evol…
Ep 287 - Refilwe Ledwaba: What Does it Take to Help Kids Soar?
Like many kids throughout history, and across the world, Refilwe Ledwaba grew up not knowing what she was capable of. Growing up on the border of Zimbabwe during the apartheid era, it had literally …
Ep 286 - Find Your Ikigai: Stepping Stones To The Trades With Jon and Jenni Aguilar
Nope. It's not a typo. Everyone has Ikigai - especially you. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. But, first, you should probably Google it. Or: “Hey Siri, search the web f…
Ep 285 - Mixed Mental Arts Is On Fire: Daniele Bolelli Enters The Dojo
If you're into podcasts, you've probably heard the name Daniele Bolelli. Hunter and Bryan heard it a thousand times. Then, one momentous day, Scott Weigand of Los Angeles Valley College told Hunter h…
Ep 284 - MMA Meetup: The Second Columbian Exchange
The first ever Mixed Mental Arts Meetup was in Columbus, Ohio. Drew Sample was amazing enough to come pick Hunter up from the “historic” Detroit neighborhood he was staying in and whisk him away to C…
Ep 283 - Don't Tell Big Mike: Bryan Is Fraternizing With The Enemy
Michael Brooks co-hosts The Majority Report AND hosts his own show because Michael Brooks is a boss.
Michael Brooks is also a self-professed socialist and yet Bryan a self-professed libertarian actua…
Ep 282 - Life Post Success: Lessons From Recovering Libertarian and Singularitarian KMO
As an early employee at Amazon.com, KMO made a fortune on stock options then spent it all. This change in personal circumstances has led to a massive evolution in KMO’s thinking from "a recovering li…
Ep 281 - Who Gets a Voice? The Contextual Podcast With Chris
Ep 280 - Outsmart Your Instincts: How Cognitive Biases Can Get In The Way Of Innovation With Adam Hansen
Adam Hansen is an #ideasex professional. At Ideas To Go, an innovation consultancy to the biggest companies in the world, Adam helps teams innovate. His great passion is to let everyone know that inn…
Ep 279 - MMA For Your Mind: Enter The Dojo
Andrew Hunt, Reid Nicewonder, Christopher Leon Price and Hunter Maats sit down to talk through the belt system and how humans form beliefs.
Ep 278 - Rapping With YOU: Hunter Meets Mixed Mental Artists In The Motor City
While in town to speak at the Detroit Economic Club, Derek Shinska organized a Mixed Mental Arts meetup. After getting together for a quick drink, the team got straight down to podcasting. You, too,…
Ep 277 - Bump Reading With YOU, The Listeners: The Botswana Philosophy of Botho
Today, Mixed Mental Artist Anthony Sebido Phaladi shares his Cultural Confession with the good people of Planet Earth.
Botho is defined as a deep recognition of another’s humanity and the interconnec…
Ep 276 - Dream Big, Einstein: Sam Sokolow Takes Us Behind The Scenes Of Nat Geo Show Genius
Sam Sokolow knew Bryan Callen when he was young. Of course, the Kid still looks so young that the concept that he could have been younger is probably confusing to you.
Well, those secrets aren’t reve…
Ep 275 - Love Thy Nature: Nuclear Tests, Whales, and Environmentalism with Dr. Patrick Moore
Dr. Patrick Moore was one of the founders of Greenpeace. He’s now left the organization. This is his story.
Ep 274 - Bryan Callen and Hunter Maats Save The World With Books: WTF Is Mixed Mental Arts?
We know. We're, like, the only Podcast on planet Earth with two Podcast feeds. But, somehow, you've found us. It's probably not destiny but it has been a weird nine months for Mixed Mental Arts. We h…
Ep 273 - Thaddeus Russell Pt. 3: Intelligence. What's Melanin Got To Do, Got To Do With It?
Thaddeus Russell is the author of A Renegade History of the United States, Host of the Unregistered podcast, and founder of Renegade University. Here, he joins us to conclude a three-part series on "…
Ep 272 - Thaddeus Russell Pt. 2: No Longer Does The Ivory Tower Hold The Microphone
Thaddeus Russell is the author of A Renegade History of the United States. He also hosts the Unregistered podcast and founded Renegade University. In this second part of a three-part series, Thad con…
Ep 271 - Be Strong! Cultivate Your Body, Mind, and Movement with Aaron Alexander
Aaron Alexander is the host of the Align Podcast. You can also hear Hunter on Aaron’s podcast. Besides having gold skin, Aaron goes by many names...all of them given to him by Bryan Callen.
Aaron b…
Ep 270 - Mystery Tea with Chris Ryan: Are You Paleomodern?
Chris Ryan's van is back in town and that means it's time for Hunter to climb back into it again. After dosing Hunter with some sort of mystery tea, the idea sex gets going and Uncle Chris and Hunter…