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
Ep226 - Mixed Mental Arts: Peter Schiff: The Cargo Cult of Libertarianism
One of the major challenges of our age is that there are a lot of words everyone uses as if we're all talking about the same thing but actually mean entirely different things. Case in point: "capital…
00:55:43 |
Tue 13 Dec 2016
Ep225 - Mixed Mental Arts: Bryan Uses a Roundhouse Kick to Shatter The Echo Chambers. Aw yeah!
America's two political parties can't seem to solve their problems or figure out how to talk to each other and that's going to make for a lot of awfully awkward Thanksgivings. Fortunately, there's a …
01:04:17 |
Tue 06 Dec 2016
Ep224 - Mixed Mental Arts: Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction
For regular listeners of the show or readers of the accompanying blog at mixedmentalarts.club, you know that power rests on mystery. That is how you eliminate the possibility of being held accountabl…
01:05:50 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
Ep223 - Mixed Mental Arts: Michael Malice!!!
"Michael Malice!!!" seems like a fitting title for an episode featuring Michael Malice, because, well, how exciting is it that Michael Malice is on the show? Since Trump's election, Michael Malice is…
00:31:58 |
Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ep222 - Mixed Mental Arts: The Power Paradox
Awww, yeah! Dacher Keltner is back, ladies and gents, and we're going to talk all about power, which seems like a really relevant topic after the election of Donald Trump. Here in California (or as m…
01:11:35 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Ep221 - Mixed Mental Arts: Ghost Face Willer Drops Some Knowledge
Robb Willer has the best twitter handle of any academic ever: @GhostFaceWiller. Yes, he's a Professor of Sociology and Psychology and Business at Stanford...but he also has an amazing twitter handle.…
01:03:29 |
Tue 08 Nov 2016
Ep220 - Mixed Mental Arts: Jordan B. Peterson
When Canada began passing laws that limited what Professor Peterson could say in the name of political correctness, he felt compelled to speak out. And so, in three YouTube videos, he laid out his ca…
01:14:09 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Ep219 - Mixed Mental Arts: Interview: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
For the last couple of months, I (Hunter) have been talking about The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. Why? Because Rob Peace's story is what happens when you have a culture that does not take …
01:09:25 |
Tue 18 Oct 2016
Ep218 - Mixed Mental Arts: Interview: The Dorito Effect
In the wake of The Depression and World War II, it's understandable that the focus of North America's agricultural system became producing as many calories as cheaply as possible. And so, competition…
01:09:25 |
Tue 11 Oct 2016
Ep217 - Mixed Mental Arts: You Must Accept Your Elephant Before You Can Train It
Thanks to a suggestion by @ElliotBlair_ on Twitter, Mixed Mental Arts is introducing something new and very exciting. We will now be awarding belts. First up, the white belt which is already live at …
01:03:50 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Ep216 - Mixed Mental Arts: The Callenphate Part 2
In the last few years, ISIS has attracted people who don't feel like they belong in their own society to Syria with the promise that together they're going to rebuild The Caliphate. From the outside,…
01:04:50 |
Sat 01 Oct 2016
Ep215 - Mixed Mental Arts: The Callenphate Part 1
The number one book Hunter is getting recommended right now is Tribe by Sebastian Junger. It's an amazing book. Mostly, it's about why US soldiers often have such a hard time reintegrating back into …
00:54:30 |
Sat 10 Sep 2016
Ep214 - Mixed Mental Arts: Keeping it Simple isn't Necessarily Stupid
Albert Einstein famously said, "Everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler." Sadly, though he's famous for saying this, it's pretty clear that like most internet quotes he never actual…
00:48:02 |
Sat 20 Aug 2016
Ep213 - Mixed Mental Arts: Why is the World Full of Horse Shit Right Now?
A century ago, the world faced a tremendous problem: horse shit. The world was full of it. And then an amazing invention pollution-saving device was invented: the car. As the world fills up with all …
00:56:03 |
Sat 06 Aug 2016
Ep212 - Mixed Mental Arts: Master Kim and Tail Piece Tackle Black Lives Matter
Welcome to the dojo! By special request of Hunter's mom, we're going to take our skills on the road and see what Mixed Mental Arts can do about a current, real world social issue like Black Lives Mat…
00:55:03 |
Sat 30 Jul 2016
Ep211 - Mixed Mental Arts: Don't waste your money going to fuckin' Hahvahd. Study with Master Kim instead.
Global warming, vaccines, evolution…it's pretty clear that scientific ideas aren't doing a very good job winning out. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has proposed building a country called Rationalia that would …
00:48:11 |
Sat 02 Jul 2016
Ep210 - Mixed Mental Arts: A Tale of Two Kims
In this next installment in our journey to mastery of Mixed Mental Arts, Bryan and Hunter take a look at the primary method by which culture is transmitted from generation to generation: blind copyin…
01:12:15 |
Sat 25 Jun 2016
Ep209 - Mixed Mental Arts: Harrison Query
Harrison Query is a screenwriter who at 25 years old has found success in the film industry that eludes most throughout their lifetime. With the guidance and mentoring by some of Hollywood's biggest …
00:51:06 |
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Ep208 - Mixed Mental Arts: Henrich Sensei
Bryan and Hunter enter the dojo of the mind with Joe Henrich, master of our first fundamental of the mind: cultural accumulation. As regular listeners will know, in his book The Secret of Our Success…
00:58:34 |
Sat 04 Jun 2016
Ep207 - MMA for the Mind: The Introduction
After literally hundreds of episodes, you would hope that Bryan and Hunter had learned something. In fact, they think they might have. Now, it's time for a new direction in the show where rather than…
00:43:20 |
Sat 21 May 2016
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