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
Ep205 - Adam Grant
Adam Grant is the youngest tenured and most highly rated Professor at the Wharton School of Business BUT he passed up the opportunity to invest in the massively successful eyewear company Warby Parke…
01:02:51 |
Sat 23 Apr 2016
Ep204 - John Ratey
Best selling author, John J. Ratey, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 6…
00:47:41 |
Sat 09 Apr 2016
Ep202 - Bryan Callen is On His Own Show
Twice in a row, ladies and gentlemen. Hunter debriefs Bryan on what he missed and they catch up on the books they've been reading.
00:36:10 |
Sat 12 Mar 2016
Ep201 - Dear Listener: Favorite Guest and Elusive Host Return to Show
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. It's Michael Malice and a mystery guest host. Could it be Bryan Callen is back on The Bryan Callen Show? Guest Info Guest Name: Michael Malice Guest Promo Dear Rea…
01:00:25 |
Sat 27 Feb 2016
Ep200 - Why do people without power make conspiracy theories? with Joe Uscinski
In the age of the internet, the world seems to be full of conspiracy theories. 9/11 was an inside job. Obama is a secret Muslim. And Donald Trump is actually running for President as a favor to the C…
01:04:23 |
Sat 13 Feb 2016
Ep199 - The Podcast Where Political Correctness is Euthanized
A lot of people have tried to kill political correctness. Mostly, they do this by just saying racist, sexist, offensive generalizations. That's not really killing it. That's just ignoring it. To actu…
01:07:30 |
Sat 30 Jan 2016
Ep198 - Beyond Political Correctness: A Scientific Perspective on Gun Control, the success of Asian students and why Texans and terrorists have more in common than they realize
Richard Nisbett grew up in Texas. So when he was looking for a culture he could say potentially uncharitable things about as a white man, he turned his attention squarely to Southern culture. In his …
00:58:09 |
Sat 16 Jan 2016
Ep197 - You Have Less Privacy Than You Thought (aka Creepy Shit Your Smartphone Does That You Didn't Even Know About)
Alvaro Bedoya is the founding Executive Director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown. In this episode, Alvaro lays out for us the current state of privacy (or lack thereof) and the st…
00:56:30 |
Sat 02 Jan 2016
Ep196 - Why Culture Matters: Joe Henrich on his book The Secret of Our Success
Humans have always been pretty sure that they were special but we've never quite been sure why. Was it because we were made in God's image? Was it our opposable thumbs? Was it that we had bigger brai…
00:43:09 |
Sat 19 Dec 2015
Ep195 - Kim MacQuarrie
When Hunter went to Peru this summer, he naturally went looking for books to read in preparation. Universally, the consensus was that THE book on the Inca Empire was Kim MacQuarrie's Last Days of the…
00:59:27 |
Tue 01 Dec 2015
Ep194 - Peter Turchin: Transforming History Into Science
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, Hari Seldon figures out how to create a mathematical model that can predict the future. Well, Wired magazine has described today's guest as a 'real-life Hari Seldon.…
01:00:10 |
Sat 21 Nov 2015
Ep193 - A Capitalism for the People with Luigi Zingales
Growing up in Italy, Luigi Zingales got to experience firsthand something that looked a lot like capitalism but definitely wasn't. Government subsidies, regulations tailored to serve the interests of…
00:30:27 |
Sat 14 Nov 2015
Ep192 - Geoff Miller
Geoffrey Miller studies the evolutionary psychology of sex and since sex is the cornerstone of evolution his work ends up having implications that affect pretty much everything. If you've wondered wh…
00:46:58 |
Sat 17 Oct 2015
Ep191 - Dr. Paul Ekman
In 1872, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Charles Darwin hypothesized that emotions were hard-wired into our biology. However, it wasn't until near a century later that Dr. Paul E…
00:40:32 |
Sat 03 Oct 2015
Ep190 - SUPER TUESDAY: Lawrence Lessig
If you listen to a random episode of The Bryan Callen Show, you can bet that Bryan and I will be talking about how amazing Republic, Lost and its author Lawrence Lessig are. Well, we got him!!! Ladie…
00:58:31 |
Mon 21 Sep 2015
Ep189 - The Biological Case for Democracy and Capitalism
Both Daron Acemoglu (MIT economist and co-author of Why Nations Fail) and Dacher Keltner (Berkeley psychologist and author of many books including Born to Be Good) have appeared on The Bryan Callen S…
01:02:36 |
Sat 19 Sep 2015
Ep188 - Katie Locke O'Brien and Claire Gerety-Mott ("The Hub")
Recently, Michael Eisner, former head of Disney and ABC, lamented that he couldn't find women who were funny and hot. Eisner predicted he'd get flack for saying this and, of course, he did. While man…
01:02:58 |
Sat 05 Sep 2015
Ep187 - Bryan Callen and Hunter Maats: Naked
Sometimes Bryan and Hunter like to get naked together...emotionally. It's time to bare all their thoughts and feelings!!! In this episode, they review everything they've learned and what the big take…
00:40:04 |
Sat 22 Aug 2015
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