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.

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Update frequency: every 3 days
Average duration: 61 minutes
Episodes: 366
Years Active: 2012 - 2020

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Ep 246 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: Dave Colan

Dave Colan is an improv comedy teacher at the legendary Second City which gave us alums from Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Dave is working with us on the #CultureMatters se…

00:52:55 | Sat 22 Apr 2017

Ep 245 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: Reid Nicewonder

Street Epistemology is a dialectical approach intent on helping people reflect on the reliability of the methods used to arrive at deeply-held beliefs. Reid Nicewonder is an independent filmmaker see…

00:43:15 | Fri 21 Apr 2017

Ep 244 - #KnowledgeBomb: The Dunbar Number In Three Minutes

Download For Eternity Cate Fogarty is the Callenphate's Chief Artillery Officer and has been making pretty amazing knowledge bombs for MixedMentalArts.co. If you want to help Cate in her work as Th…

00:03:02 | Thu 20 Apr 2017

Ep 243 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: The First Ever Mixed Mental Arts Meet Up in Columbus, Ohio

A week ago, a group of fellows who had never met before showed up at Beer World in Columbus, Ohio. What happened at Beer World remains known only to Adam Hansen, David Foust, James Miller, Nate Fourm…

01:09:02 | Tue 18 Apr 2017

Ep 241 - Culture Matters: Just Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?

Martin Totland is a journalist and photographer from Bergen, Norway, who's lived in the US for more than seven years. He got involved with Mixed Mental Arts to improve his cultural understanding, and…

00:11:35 | Sun 16 Apr 2017

Ep242 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: Cate Fogarty

Cate Fogarty and I met a few months ago when I gave a talk at Second City about how to communicate across America's red/blue cultural divide. Why did Cate and I connect after that talk? Because

Cate …

00:59:30 | Fri 14 Apr 2017

Ep240 - Humanity's Long Journey Home: We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

About a month ago, Hunter was on Chris Ryan's Tangentially Speaking podcast. (It's episode 234 if you're interested.) I can't speak for Chris but I had a really great time. Some people on Twitter enj…

02:13:47 | Tue 11 Apr 2017

Ep239 - Culture Matters: The Netherlands: The Country Of Polders, Directness And Pragmatism

Mitch Evers is a Dutch university student who grew up in the south of the Netherlands. When Hunter first claimed that Donald Trump was culturally Dutch, it triggered Mitch's patriotic duty to attempt…

00:16:59 | Thu 06 Apr 2017

Ep238 - The orchestra is playing together. Come join in the fun!

If anyone doubts the power of Motivation 3.0, they should listen to this episode. In the last couple of months, people from all over the world who have jobs, kids and lives have volunteered to help e…

01:09:07 | Tue 04 Apr 2017

Ep237 - SPECIAL: PART 2 - The Theories of Everything

Apparently, this whole merging of quantum field theory and general relativity business was a little more complicated than we initially thought and so we extended the podcast into a second hour. All o…

01:11:19 | Tue 28 Mar 2017

Ep236 - SPECIAL: PART 1 - The Theories of Everything

In an utterly pleasant surprise, Spiros Michalakis reached out to me and said he wanted to get lunch. Actually, he wanted to buy me lunch. The result was a three hour lunch conversation and a two-hou…

00:57:25 | Tue 28 Mar 2017

Ep235 - The Art of Charm: Really Mean It

Recently, I appeared on Chris Ryan's Tangentially Speaking podcast and afterwards had a conversation with Euan Grant in the Mixed Mental Arts Facebook Group. Euan said something really interesting: "…

01:34:54 | Tue 21 Mar 2017

Ep234 - A Prepper's Guide to the #Jobocalypse

With the sounds of Bryan's offspring gently playing in the background, Bryan's thoughts turn to how to prepare the progeny he has sired from his loins for a world of constant technological disruption…

00:56:09 | Tue 14 Mar 2017

Ep233 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You? Part 2

In Part 1 of "What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You?", Bryan and Hunter explored the controversy that the Frying Dutchman, Hunter Maats, had created in calling out Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. In Pa…

00:58:26 | Tue 28 Feb 2017

Ep232 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You? Part 1

You know that feeling that something is off. It's the feeling that things don't quite add up. Something bugs you and you can't quite put your finger on it. That is what detectives call your hinky met…

00:59:23 | Tue 14 Feb 2017

Ep231 - Mixed Mental Arts: "A guest who needs no introduction...Big Mike is back!!!"

A guest who needs no introduction...Big Mike is back!!!

00:53:50 | Tue 07 Feb 2017

Ep230 - Mixed Mental Arts: The Two Paths to Power: Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.

Mixed Mental Arts: The Two Paths to Power: Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.

01:05:21 | Tue 17 Jan 2017

Ep229 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Makes Someone a Fundamentalist?

Living in America, Bryan and Hunter constantly hear demands for Muslims to call out the fundamentalists in their own midst. We think this is a great idea. However, before you can do that, you have to…

00:53:59 | Mon 09 Jan 2017

Ep228 - Mixed Mental Arts: John Durant

Bryan and Hunter were feeling pretty manly. Bryan was punching imaginary enemies of freedom. Hunter was being tall and Dutch. And then…in walked John Durant, author of The Paleo Manifesto. His hair w…

01:25:28 | Tue 03 Jan 2017

Ep227 - Mixed Mental Arts: How Stable Are Democracies? Warning Signs Are Flashing Red

I'd strongly recommend viewing this episode and episode 226 with Peter Schiff as an exercise in contrast. I didn't design it this way but it worked out that way. Here you have two individuals who bot…

00:52:03 | Tue 20 Dec 2016

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