Mixed Mental Arts
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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 envir...
Recent Episodes
368 episodes
Ep 365 - Caroline Criado Perez
Bryan Callen and today's guest, Caroline Criado-Perez, have very different feeeeeeelings about the word feminism. For Bryan, feminism is a bit of a di...
Ep 364 - Mark Manson
When Mark Manson wrote "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck," he couldn't have anticipated what a tremendous success it would be or that with that suc...
Ep 363 - Cailin O'Connor
In an age of fake news and alternative facts, Cailin O'Connor's "The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread" could not be better timed. With fan...
Ep 362 - Jonathan Haidt
Although Bryan and Hunter talk about Jon Haidt all the time, this is actually only Jon's second appearance on the podcast. It was well worth the wait....
Hiatus is Over!
While Bryan has been busy filming his new spinoff Schooled, Hunter has been working hard to figure out how to take Mixed Mental Arts to the next level...
Ep 361- Dan Siegel
Ep 360 - Tiger, Father of the Victorious: Nemr Abou Nassar
Ep 359 - El Profesor: Sebastian Edwards
Ep 358 - Reporting on Palestine: Wajahat Ali
Stay tuned until the end for some information on the re-renaming of the show to the Bryan Callen Show.
Ep 357 - Ancient Chinese Secrets: Edward Slingerland
Ep 356 - A Better Way To Help: Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is from Zambia. She's studied the effect of foreign aid on the economies of developing nations. She finds it lacking in many respects. He...
Ep 355 - Learning Through Adversity: Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom developed chronic fatigue syndrome in 1988. That didn't stop him from writing a bunch of books. His most recent book is How I Accidentall...
Ep 354 - Talking Creativity and Corgis with Allen Gannett
Allen Gannett is the author of The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time and he helps debunk genius myths. That's why Hunte...
Ep 353 - A New Song and Dance: Ken Gordon and Adam Hansen
Adam Hansen and Ken Gordon are innovation guys. They also like to sing songs and enjoy the finer things in life. Their beards make the world a better...
Ep 352 - Real Science, Bro: Dr. Layne Norton
Layne Norton is an expert in nutrition. He's also an elite powerlifter and a professional body builder. In the continuing journey of sorting the wheat...
Ep 351 - Found in Translation: Magdalena Edwards
Magdalena Edwards is Bryan Callen's neighbor. She's also a translator.
Ep 350 - Modern Maori: Te Miri Rangi
Te Miri Rangi is a Maori from New Zealand who instituted a program known as Whakapapa Fridays as an outreach to young people to instill a connection w...
Ep 349 - The Knowledge Frontier: Cesar Hidalgo
Cesar Hidalgo is the directer of the Collective Learning Group at the MIT media lab,. His book Why Information Grows combines physics and economics to...
Ep 348 - Con Body: Coss Marte
Coss Marte did 4 years in state prison for drug trafficking. While in prison, he became interested in physical training. Now he runs a fitness studio...
Idea Quickie 8: Way Back with Big Mike (Repost)
From June, 2014
Bryan and Big Mike talked about everything from the History of Western Philosophy, to capital punishment in Saudi Arabia. Be sur...
Ep 346 - Getting to the Root of the Problem: Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Harvard, and a friend of the podcast. He ran for the Democratic party nomination in the 2016 presidential electi...
Ep 345 - Eat the World: Bryan Edward Hill
Bryan Edward Hill is an entertainment industry consultant, author, screenwriter, musician, graphic novelist, and graphic designer. Bryan and Hunter te...
Ep 344 - Ride Hard: Kyle Thiermann
Kyle Thiermann, born 1990, is a professional surfer, podcaster, and filmmaker from Santa Cruz, CA. His podcast is The Kyle Thiermann Show. In this pod...
Ep 343 - Own It: Aubrey Marcus
Aubrey Marcus is the purveyor of Onnit. He wrote a new book, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Tr...
Ep 342 - Balancing Wealth: Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth is a friend of the podcast and an economist at Brown University. Of note in this episode: a college professor pays a marginal tax rate high...
Ep 341 - Negotiate: Former FBI Hostage Negotiator Gary Noesner
Gary Noesner was a hostage negotiator. He was at Waco. His stories are great. In this episode of Mixed Mental Arts, Gary breaks down the psychology of...
Idea Quickie 7: Know Yourself, Train Yourself (Repost)
In this episode, Bryan and Hunter talk about Descartes Error and The Happiness Hypothesis. Humans are bound by their cognitive biases, their emotions,...
Ep 339 - Write With Your Body: Ed Solomon and Alex Kurtzman
Ed Solomon is a friend of the show and the writer behind Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Men in Black, and Mosaic. He brought along Alex Kurtzman,...
Ep 338 - Innovative Metaphor: Ken Gordon
Ken Gordon's company helped invent the Swiffer, portable insulin pumps, and much much more. In this episode of Mixed Mental Arts, he shares how his in...
Idea Quickie 6: Reflections (Repost)
From Oct 28, 2013
Bryan and Hunter take this episode to reflect on and synthesize everything they've learned over the course of the last dozen o...
Ep 336 - Figuring Out Your Own Mind: Kelly Brogan
Kelly Brogan is a psychiatrist from New York and author of A Mind of Your Own. She began questioning the veracity of Western Medicine after being diag...
Ep 335 - Evolution of Defense: Tony Blauer
Tony Blauer pioneered a self-defense system called SPEAR. It's a realistic method through which one can defend themselves in real-world scenarios. It'...
Culture Matters 2: Where Bryan Callen Doesn't Come From
Bryan Callen is a Mediterranean man from America. On this episode, he is joined by Dave Colan, Cate Fogarty, Akhmed Dakhil, Cara Haltiwanger, and Jame...
Special Release! Unstructured with Eric Hunley
Unstructured is a new podcast by a member of the Mixed Mental Arts community, Eric Hunley. This episode is an introduction to that podcast, hosted by...
Ep 333 - Do You Even Science, Bro? Andy Galpin
Andy Galpin is a professor of human bioenergetics at Cal State Fullerton. That means he studies muscle. He's literally a meathead. Bryan and Hunter le...
Ep 332 - The Middle Path: The Constitution and Class with Ganesh Sitaraman
Ganesh Sitaraman is a professor of law at Vanderbilt University. He published The Crisis of the Middle-class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Thr...
Idea Quickie 5: First Date (Repost)
Every mythology has a genesis myth, and this was the genesis of Mixed Mental Arts, long before the name was on the show. This was episode 25 of the Br...
Ep 330 - Strange Orders: Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio is a truly fascinating man. He teaches at neuroscience at USC and is considered the Marlon Brando of neuroscience. Bryan and Hunter in...
Ep 329 - Wrestling with Homo Economicus: Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir is a behavioral economist/behavioral scientist at Princeton University. He co-wrote the book Scarcity with Sendhil Mullainathan. Hunter a...
Ep 328 - Culture Matters, From the Frozen North: Martin Totland
Martin Totland is a half-Swedish journalist and photographer from Norway. Cate Fogarty lived in Norway for three years. Under the careful moderation o...