▶ 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 dirty word which he associates with well-meaning bu
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▶ 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 success there would be new challenges. Namely, now w
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▶ 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 fantastic historical examples and the latest science,
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▶ 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. Having read Jon's books many times and interviewe
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▶ 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. We've had so much fun sharing the best ideas we'
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▶ Ep 360 - Tiger, Father of the Victorious: Nemr Abou Nassar
▶ 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.
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▶ 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. Her new book isEdge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Faili
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▶ 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 isHow I Accidentally Started the Sixties,which is a memoir.
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▶ Ep 354 - Talking Creativity and Corgis with Allen Gannett
Allen Gannett is the author ofThe Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Timeand he helps debunk genius myths. That's why Hunter likes him. That's why Bryan likes him. We hope you
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▶ 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 place.
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▶ 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 from the chaff, Bryan and Hunter learn about how
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▶ Ep 351 - Found in Translation: Magdalena Edwards
Magdalena Edwards is Bryan Callen's neighbor. She's also a translator.
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▶ 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 with their roots. Be sure to go to mixedmentalarts.
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▶ Ep 349 - The Knowledge Frontier: Cesar Hidalgo
Cesar Hidalgo is the directer of the Collective Learning Group at the MIT media lab,. His bookWhy Information Grows combines physics and economics to give a new take on economic growth in the 21st cen
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▶ 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 in New York where he hires former inmates and trai
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▶ 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 sure to follow us on social media and check out our Patreon
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▶ 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 election, and was boxed out because he wasn't playing th
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▶ Ep 345 - Eat the World: Bryan Edward Hill
Bryan Edward Hillis an entertainment industry consultant, author, screenwriter, musician, graphic novelist, and graphic designer. Bryan and Hunter tease out some of his writing skills and how this all
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▶ 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 podcast, Bryan and Hunter learn about conservation an
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▶ Ep 343 - Own It: Aubrey Marcus
Aubrey Marcus is the purveyor of. He wrote a new book,Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex.In this interview, Bry
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▶ 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 higher than corporations. What matters is paying fair
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▶ 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 hostage negotiation and interrogation. His book i
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▶ 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, which color their reason. Knowing this aspect of
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▶ 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, co-writer of Star Trek, Transformers, and People
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▶ 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 innovation process is based so much on literature an
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▶ 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 or so episodes recording the show together. From the phil
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▶ 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 diagnosed with an auto-immune disease. Bryan and Hunte
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▶ 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's right up Bryan's alley. Don’t forget to go to mi
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▶ 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 James Fritz to talk about honor cultures and dignity c
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▶ 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 Hunter himself. Don’t forget to go to mixedmentala
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▶ 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 learn about how, when it comes to muscular developme
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▶ Ep 332 - The Middle Path: The Constitution and Class with Ganesh Sita
Ganesh Sitaraman is a professor of law at Vanderbilt University. He published The Crisis of the Middle-class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic in 2017. Bryan and Hunter lear
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▶ 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 Bryan Callen Show, before it was renamed Man Thought
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▶ 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 inquire about feeeeelings, art, and philosophy. Supp
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▶ Ep 329 - Wrestling with Homo Economicus: Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir is a behavioral economist/behavioral scientist at Princeton University. He co-wrote the bookScarcitywith Sendhil Mullainathan. Hunter and Bryan draw out the depth of contrast between the
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▶ 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 of Hunter The Flying Dutchman’ Maats, they discuss
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▶ Ep 327 - From the Shores of Barcelona: Raphael Minder
Raphael Minder is the Spain and Portugal correspondent for The New York Times. He schools Bryan and Hunter on the Catalonia situation, and other political tensions in the region. Of course, no discuss
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▶ Idea Quickie 4: Naked (Repost)
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
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▶ Ep 325 - Problem Solving Through Empathy: Roman Krznaric
Roman Krznaric teaches philosophy at Oxford. He studies empathy and how it can be applied to everyday life. Sunzi says “Know the other and know yourself, and you will not see peril in any battle.” Bry
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▶ Ep 324 - Knowing You're an Ape: Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan talks with Bryan and Hunter to talk about his book Sex At Dawn, the academic sexlessness, human capabilities vs. human tendencies, swingers' clubs, and how to collectively build the human v
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▶ Idea Quickie 3: The Big Seven
Bryan and Hunter talk about Life, Death, and Human Nature so that we can detribalize and realize our shared humanity. The Big Seven: Birth Death Societies Sex (Touch) Food (Nutrition) Sleep (Security
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▶ Ep 322 - The Skeptical “Sardinian”: Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He also is in fantastic shape, with the physique of
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▶ Ep 321 - Quantum Artistry: Sharon Stone featuring Spiros Michalakis
Sharon Stone is one of the most brilliant people in Hollywood. She is currently working a project related to quantum physics, so Mixed Mental Arts facilitated a conversation with our resident quantum
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▶ Ep 320 - Not So Austere: Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth is a badass economist and a True Scotsman. He teaches at the Watson Institute at Brown University, and wrote a couple of books on economics. He's also hilarious. Check out Mark’s books, Aus
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▶ Ep 319 - Keep the Internet Open: Alexis Ohanian
From November, 2013. Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and
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▶ Ep 318 Who Will Save the Internet? Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is wary of the growth of Google, and skeptical of the quality of user created content on the internet. He's been called an elitist because of his position. In this episode of Mixed Mental
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▶ Special Release! An Unregistered Mixed Mental Arts Super Spar with Th
This is a dual release with Thaddeus Russell on the Unregistered Podcast. Thad has been on Mixed Mental Arts three times, and we can’t get enough of him. They talk about life, fathers, history, boxing
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▶ Ep 317 Idea Quickie 2: Making Smart Funny
Bryan and Hunter are alone together agian for some nice idea sex. They discuss the recent descent of the Emperor on the Washington DC and how he's incorporating his Mixed Mental Arts into his new stan
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▶ Ep 316 Mosaics of Reality Part 2: Spiros Michalakos and Ed Solomon
At the end of last week's podcast, a man named Spiros walked in. Then he blew everyone's mind. Spiros has been on the podcast before, and if you've listened to those episodes (129, 142, 236, 237, 247)
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▶ Special Release! The Drunken Taoist Practices Mixed Mental Arts
Daniele Bolelli and Rich Evirs again sat down with Hunter, and this time Michael Brooks tagged along. They talk about everything. Mentioned is Bolelli's book, How to Create Your Own Religion. Don't
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▶ Ep 315 Mosaics of Reality Part 1: Ed Solomon
Ed Solomon is a screenwriter. He worked on Lavern and Shirley, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and his latest work is with Steven Soderbergh on a show called Mosaic. Ed discusses the creative proc
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▶ Ep 314 Saving the Republic: Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig ran for President of the United States in 2016. He lost, and we got Donald Trump instead. Lessig is a Harvard Law professor whose book, Republic Lost outlines exactly how the swamp i
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▶ Ep 313 Strange Times! Adam Strange Enters the Dojo
Adam Strange is a YouTuber. He's trailblazing the new media landscape by doing DIY short films and podcasts through open-source distribution. He and Reid Nicewonder have been going out and talking abo
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▶ Episode 312 The Code to Life: Dan Coyle
Dan Coyle is one of our favorite authors. He wroteThe Talent Code and his new bookThe Culture Code just came out on January 1st, 2018. Dan talks about how he became obsessed with figuring out how to i
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▶ Ep 311 Idea Quickie 1: The Road Thus Far
Bryan and Hunter sit down and recap the last 300 episodes of Mixed Mental Arts. Hunter is obsessed with cults, the belt system, and ideas. Bryan is a manly-man. Go to mixedmentalarts.online and sign u
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▶ Ep. 310 Church and Science Come to the Table
Hunter sits down to the table with Sean McCoy, a person who was been inspired in part by Mixed Mental Arts to start his own podcast. They talk Christianity, Science, and how to communicate with someon
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▶ Episode 309: Rosi Sexton: True Badass
Rosi Sexton fought in Mixed Martial Arts for 12 years. She’s a true master of Mixed Martial Arts, Mixed Mathematical Arts, Mixed Medical Arts, and Mixed Mental Arts. She has a PhD from Cambridge, and
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▶ Ep 308 Sex in the Trenches: Asa Akira
Asa Akira is a feminist, an intellectual, a podcast host, and the author of three books, Insatiable, Asarotica, and Dirty Thirty: A Memoir. Oh, and she also has been appearing in porn for 10 years. Th
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▶ Ep 307 - Content And Inspiration On Hyper Island: Jamie Black Enters
Jamie Black works at Hyper Island. Hyper Island is a Swedish model of education that emphasizes innovation and technology. The Hyper Island team has expanded worldwide and has been lucky to bring on J
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▶ Ep 306 - Federalist No. 1: The Mother of All Podcasts
January 20th, 2018 After full experience of the insufficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are invited to deliberate on a New Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp
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▶ Ep 305 - Homo Socialis: Talking Humans with David Sloan Wilson
If you haven’t heard the name David Sloan Wilson, then you’re definitely new to Mixed Mental Arts. David Sloan Wilson has pioneered Multi-Level Selection which is one of the cornerstones of the Mixed
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▶ Ep 304 - Evolution Never Ends: Michael Garfield Enters The Dojo
Michael Garfield is a paleontologist who brings the study of the longest imaginable evolutionary timeline to the study of the future. If you’re looking for a new intellectual rabbit hole to fall down,
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▶ Ep 303 - Doughnut Economics: Kate Raworth Enters The Dojo
Kate Raworth got into economics to change the world. She then found out that the discipline was full of men, in grey suits, who cared only about making GDP go up at all costs. She later left economics
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▶ Ep 302 - Best of East, Best of West: Don Mei Enters The Dojo
Don Mei has spent his entire life mixing the mental arts. As the son of a Swiss mother and a Chinese father who spent their lives bridging East and West, Don has help set the table for Humanity’s Firs
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▶ Ep 301 - Talking Economics With Adam Smith: Russ Roberts Enters The D
For the last eleven years, Russ Roberts has hosted the Econ Talk podcast from Stanford’s Hoover Institute. He is a founding father of Podcasts. In addition, he’s the author of the excellent book How A
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▶ Ep 300 - How To Set The Right Goals, Man : Jordan B. Peterson Enters
In our 300th episode, Bryan Callen talks with Jordan Peterson about his self authoring program, the Wilfred Laurier scandal, political polarization, how to set the right goals, sex, and individualism.
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▶ Ep 299 - Humility Is The New Smart: Katherine Ludwig Enters The Dojo
Katherine Ludwig is a former corporate finance and securities lawyer-turned writer and editor. Now, she has authored Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age. Th
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▶ Ep 298 - Nanooks, Knife Fights, and Terrorists : Lt. Col John Nagl (R
After fighting in the first gulf war, John Nagl returned to the United States and took part in a simulated military exercise. As a tank commander, he had all the overwhelming firepower any soldier cou
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▶ Ep 297 - The Physics Of Life: Prof Adrian Bejan Enters The Dojo
Growing up in Soviet-controlled Romania, Adrian Bejan found himself living in system that tried to prevent of ideas, money, goods and people. It’s only fitting then that his career would not only see
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▶ Ep 296 - What Happened To The Party Of Mandela? South Africa Enters T
In the wake of the US Civil War, the Republican Party had won itself a lot of political goodwill. The Party of Lincoln, as it was called, could, in the eyes of many, do no wrong. Not only had it broug
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▶ Ep 295 - Does Altruism Exist? David Sloan Wilson Enters The Dojo
In 1759, while working as a tutor, Adam Smith wrote a book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments that begins as follows: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in
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▶ Ep 294 - MMA Saturday Sessions: Jared Diamond
We don’t know just where we’re headed. But we know Saturdays can feel weird. Technically, it's one of your chill days. At the same time, you promised Mom you'd cut her grass - and you have that thing
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▶ Ep 293 - The Eternal Tao Has No Name: Chris Ryan PHD and Daniele Bole
Hunter has been doing a lot of thinking lately - Gathering his thoughts. Taoism strikes him not as a discovery, but as a rediscovery of an earlier way of being: the way of the Hunter-Gatherer. The Hun
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▶ Ep 292 - I Am Bryan Callen's Daddy: Big Mike Enters The Dojo
If you have friends that still subscribe to the old podcast feed, wake them up. Steal your girlfriends phone and subscribe to Mixed Mental Arts (Official), like Daddy would. Follow us on whatever SM p
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▶ Ep 291 - A Biological Case For Democracy? Acemoglu and Keltner Enter
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 Mixed Mental Arts b
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▶ Ep 290 - The Inequality of Citizenship Is Russia's Super Power, For N
This is a repost. Think of what could have been. We added the music to avoid the Haters Hatin'. If you don't like it. Well, sorry :( Music Courtesy of Honeystone. A Kick Ass band you should know about
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▶ 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, Jonat
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▶ Ep 288 - Way Back Wednesday: Joseph Henrich Enters The Dojo
Wonder why Hunter name drops Joseph Henrich all the time? Who isJoseph Henrich anyway?Today, we talk to the man himself about his book: The Secret Of Our Success:How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution
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▶ 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 ne
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▶ Ep 286 - Find Your Ikigai: Stepping Stones To The Trades With Jon and
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 for I
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▶ Ep 285 - Mixed Mental Arts Is On Fire: Daniele Bolelli Enters The Doj
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 he
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▶ 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 Co
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▶ 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 actual
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▶ Ep 282 - Life Post Success: Lessons From Recovering Libertarian and S
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 lib
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▶ Ep 281 - Who Gets a Voice? The Contextual Podcast With Chris
The media prophet Marshall McLuhan famously said “The Medium is the Message.” While broadcast television created superstars who spoke to us while we patiently listened, the many technologies that make
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▶ Ep 280 - Outsmart Your Instincts: How Cognitive Biases Can Get In The
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 inno
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▶ 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.
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▶ Ep 278 - Rapping With YOU: Hunter Meets Mixed Mental Artists In The M
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, c
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▶ Ep 277 - Bump Reading With YOU, The Listeners: The Botswana Philosoph
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 interconnect
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▶ Ep 276 - Dream Big, Einstein: Sam Sokolow Takes Us Behind The Scenes
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 revea
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▶ Ep 275 - Love Thy Nature: Nuclear Tests, Whales, and Environmentalism
Dr. Patrick Moore was one of the founders of Greenpeace. He’s now left the organization. This is his story.
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▶ Ep 274 - Bryan Callen and Hunter Maats Save The World With Books: WTF
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 ho
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▶ Ep 273 - Thaddeus Russell Pt. 3: Intelligence. What's Melanin Got To
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 T
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▶ Ep 272 - Thaddeus Russell Pt. 2: No Longer Does The Ivory Tower Hold
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 cont
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▶ Ep 271 - Be Strong! Cultivate Your Body, Mind, and Movement with Aaro
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 beli
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▶ 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
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▶ Ep 269 - Thaddeus Russell: Is Truth the Most Destructive Idea in Huma
For months and months, the members of the Mixed Mental Arts community have been pushing me (Hunter) to have Thaddeus Russell in the dojo. It is a testament to the wisdom of crowds that so many people
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▶ Ep 268 - Paleo Politics: Talking Symbols With The Caveman John Durant
Humans have always been a strongly symbolic species. We painted on the walls of caves. Pharaohs, Kings and Emperors created symbols of their power like crowns and thrones. Religions have fought over r
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▶ Ep 267 – Ricky Varandas Of The Ripple Effect Podcast: The Internet's
Ricky Varandas is the host of The Ripple Effect Podcast. Recently, Hunter and Ricky met up in Dartmouth, MA. As they looked out over Buzzard's Bay, they chatted about what it means to live in an age w
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▶ Ep 243 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: The First Ever Mixed
Aweek 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 Fourman
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▶ 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
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▶ Ep 266 - Christopher Leon Price: Learning Life Lessons From Games
Back in episode 257, you heard Christopher Leon Price's #knowledgebomb on The Art of Losing. In this episode, we interview Christopher to understand how he came toappreciate the power of this lesson t
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▶ Ep 265 - Jenni Aguilar: Evolution is Smarter Than You
Ever since we had Jon Aguilar on the show back in Episode 251, Jon has been telling me I had to have his very brilliant wife on. And so, while driving back from a friend's wedding, I stopped by Casa A
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▶ Ep 264 - Brett Veinotte: Why Does School Suck for So Many Kids?
They must put something in the water in New Hampshire because Brett Veinotte and Katie O'Brien reached very similar conclusions through tutoring: as an experience school sucks for A LOT of kids. And s
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▶ Ep 262 - It's Big Mike's Birthday!!! What should we get him for a gif
When ordinary men have birthdays, they receive gifts. However, Big Mike knows it is better to give than to receive and so, on his birthday, Big Mike has gifted to the people of the Callenphate his wis
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▶ Ep 262 - The Gospel According to Joe Henrich - Why Do Humans Seem So
This morning's lesson is taken from The Gospel According to Joe Henrich. Read by the very wonderful Martin Lewis, this reading captures the heart of why The Secret of Our Success is actually The Secre
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▶ Ep 261 – Environment Shapes Behavior: Talking Jacques Fresco With And
Andrew Hunt and I first got to know each other a decade ago doing stand up in Los Angeles. During the intervening decade, we both learned how to learn and how environment shapes behavior but in entire
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▶ Ep 260 - Chris Ryan: Uncle Chris Took Me in His Van and I Liked It
At this point, Chris Ryan probably doesn't need any introduction but why not give him one anyway. He's the author of Sex at Dawn and one day he'll be able to call himself the author of Civilized to De
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▶ Ep 259 - Walid Darab: They will recite the Quran but it will not go b
WalidDarabis the host of the Greed for Ilm podcast. Bored and in traffic, he looked around for podcasts for Muslim-Americans and found they were either all SUPER religious or in foreign languages. So,
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▶ Ep 258 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: Isaiah Gooley
Isaiah Gooley is an analyst, musician, and writer. He's been all over the place, and is still trying to learn as much as he can along the way. Check out his music at greatghouls.com,greatghouls.bandca
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▶ Ep 257 - Knowledge Bomb: The Art of Losing
Christopher Leon Price (aka Big Papa Werewolf) teaches kids The Art of Losing through chess. He learned it in large part from Megaman 2. In addition, he heads up Team Werewolf (the audio team at Mixed
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▶ Ep 256 - What is Science?
One of the more interesting things to come out of the last few months in my own personal Mixed Mental Arts experience has been hearing more from all of you how these ideas resonate with all of you. In
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▶ Ep 255 - Knowledge Bomb: Negativity Bias
As you navigate the #Jobocalypse, one of the most important skills to learn is how to be innovative. Fortunately, in that regard, we are incredibly lucky to have Adam Hansen as a sensei in the dojo. H
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▶ Ep 254 - Chengyu: Heaven is High and The Emperor is Far Away
Isaiah Gooley is an analyst, musician, and writer. He's been all over the place, and is still trying to learn as much as he can along the way. Check out his music at greatghouls.com,greatghouls.bandca
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▶ Ep 253 - Why Doesn't Western Medicine Turn Us On?
One of the biggest questions I get when I tell people about atomistic and holistic biases is whether this affects Western medicine. Well, yes. It actually does. And secretly behind the scenes for quit
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▶ Ep 252 - The Emperor Tries to Keep His Clothes On as He Talks About S
Bryan Callen cares about his people. Oh, sure. Heaven may be high and the Emperor may be far away. But this Emperor is always listening. And so, when Emperor Callen heard that the people of the #Calle
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▶ Ep 251 - Navigating the #Jobocalypse with Jon Aguilar: What Kind of S
After Bryan and I did our episode on the #Jobocalypse, someone rightly commented on the Mixed Mental Arts subreddit that this was all great but what practically do I do? Well, this episode is a practi
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▶ Ep 250 - Life of Bryan
If you follow #MixedMentalArts on Instagram, then you know that Bryan Callen has been reading about Jesus. Unfortunately for Bryan, his first attempts at Bryan's Book Club have succeeded in doing one
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▶ Ep 249 - #KnowledgeBomb: The Growth Mindset In Three Minutes
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 The Callenphate’s Chief Art
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▶ Ep 248 - #KnowledgeBomb: Descartes' Error Three Minutes
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 The Callenphate's Chief Art
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▶ Ep 247 - SPECIAL: The Theories of Everything Part 3
After hearing the Theories of Everything Part 1 and Part 2, everyone got suuuuuuper jealous that Hunter was getting Spiros all to himself. In the spirit of Mixed Mental Arts, Hunter decided to share
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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 ser
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▶ Ep 245 - Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: Reid Nicewonder
Street Epistemologyis a dialectical approach intent on helping people reflect on the reliability of themethods used to arrive at deeply-held beliefs. Reid Nicewonder is an independent filmmaker seekin
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▶ 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 The C
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▶ Meet Your Fellow Mixed Mental Artists: The First Ever Mixed Mental Ar
Aweek 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 Fourman
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▶ 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 i
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▶ 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 i
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▶ Ep241 - Culture Matters: Just Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?: The
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
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▶ Ep240 - Humanity's Long Journey Home: We shall not cease from explora
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 enjo
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▶ Ep239 - Culture Matters: The Netherlands: The Country Of Polders, Dir
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
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▶ 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 ev
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▶ 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 of
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▶ 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-hour
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▶ 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: Ha
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▶ 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.
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▶ Ep233 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You? Part
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 Part
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▶ Ep232 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You? Part
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 mete
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▶ Ep231 - Mixed Mental Arts: A guest who needs no introduction...Big Mi
A guest who needs no introduction...Big Mike is back!!!
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▶ Ep230 - Mixed Mental Arts: The Two Paths to Power: Darth Vader and Lu
Mixed Mental Arts: The Two Paths to Power: Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.
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▶ 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
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▶ 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 wa
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▶ Ep227 - Mixed Mental Arts: How Stable Are Democracies? Warning Signs
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 both
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▶ Ep226 - Mixed Mental Arts: Peter Schiff: The Cargo Cult of Libertaria
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: capitalis
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▶ Ep225 - Mixed Mental Arts: Bryan Uses a Roundhouse Kick to Shatter Th
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 g
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▶ Ep224 - Mixed Mental Arts: Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destructio
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 accountable
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▶ 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 an
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▶ 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 my
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▶ 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.
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▶ 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 cas
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▶ Ep219 - Mixed Mental Arts: Interview: The Short and Tragic Life of Ro
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 c
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▶ 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, competitions
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▶ Ep217 - Mixed Mental Arts: You Must Accept Your Elephant Before You C
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 m
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▶ 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,
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▶ 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 U
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▶ 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 actually
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▶ Ep213 - Mixed Mental Arts: Why is the World Full of Horse Shit Right
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 k
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▶ Ep212 - Mixed Mental Arts: Master Kim and Tail Piece Tackle Black Liv
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 Matt
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▶ Ep211 - Mixed Mental Arts: Don't waste your money going to fuckin' Ha
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 b
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▶ 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 copying
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▶ 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 w
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▶ 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,
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▶ 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
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▶ 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 Parker
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▶ 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 60
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▶ 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.
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▶ 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 Read
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▶ Ep200 - Why do people without power make conspiracy theories? with Jo
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 Cl
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▶ 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 actua
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▶ Ep198 - Beyond Political Correctness: A Scientific Perspective on Gun
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 b
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▶ Ep197 - You Have Less Privacy Than You Thought (aka Creepy Shit Your
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 sta
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▶ Ep196 - Why Culture Matters: Joe Henrich on his book The Secret of Ou
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 brain
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▶ 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
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▶ 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.
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▶ 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
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▶ 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 why
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▶ 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 Ek
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▶ 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!!! Ladies
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▶ 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 Sh
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▶ 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 many
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▶ 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
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▶ Ep186 - Adam Benforado: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
There's no doubt in any modern person's mind that the justice of the Medieval era was unjust. The court considered spiritual evidence, pigs were considered legally competent and tried as adult humans
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▶ Ep185 - Jennifer Jacquet: Is Shame Necessary?
It's probably no surprise that Californians have no shame. In fact, as Jennifer Jacquet writes in her latest book, shame has been found to be a central part of the emotional lives of Indonesians but t
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▶ Ep184 - David Sloan Wilson: Does Altruism Exist?
In 1759, while working as a tutor, Adam Smith wrote a book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments that begins as follows: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in
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▶ Ep183 - Jean-Pierre Hocke
Today, on The Bryan Callen Show, Bryan and Hunter Maats speak with Jean-Pierre Hocke. Jean-Pierre joined in 1968 the Interntional Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC. After several field assignments he
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▶ Ep182 - Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is kind of a triple threat. When he's not working at JP Morgan, he often spends his weekends with the US Navy Reserves but when we spoke to him he was using his weekend to go to the Gramm
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▶ Ep181 - Katie O'Brien & Hunter Maats
Bryan sits down with good friends and authors, Kathrine O'Brien and Hunter Maats, who share what they've learned along the way and a moment they wanted to be nowhere else. Plus a lot of inanity.
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▶ Ep180 - Allen Barton & Leo Flowers
Today, Bryan and Leo Flowers sits down with Bryan's long time friend, Actor, Writer, Producer and former Scientologist, Allen Barton. They discuss the topic of religion, specifically with regards to S
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▶ Ep179 - Dom Irrera
This week, Bryan sits down alone with Hall of Fame stand-up comedian, Dom Irrera. Dom reminisced about Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison and performing in the great comedy 80's.
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▶ Ep178 - Ganesh Sitaraman
As part of our continuing look at counter-insurgency and nation building, we speak with Ganesh Sitaraman, Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, and author of The Counterinsurgents Const
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▶ Ep177 - James Tooley
In the early 1980s, James Tooley went to Zimbabwe to help support and build socialism by teaching under the then hopeful leadership of Robert Mugabe. Returning to England in the midst of the Thatcher
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▶ Ep176 - Howard G. Buffett and Howard W. Buffett
In 2006, Warren Buffett told his son that he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to making a difference in the world. That’s when he gave his son Howard G. Buffett a billion dollars and told him to go
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▶ Ep175 - Jonah Berger
If there’s one thing we’d like to figure out at The Bryan Callen Show, it’s how to get good ideas to spread. Fortunately, Jonah Berger has those answers. While it often seems like things catch on rand
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▶ Ep174 - Stephen Kotkin
When Professor Stephen Kotkin set out to write a biography of Stalin, he faced a series of challenges. Perhaps first and foremost, people already thought they knew who Stalin was. The world’s view of
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▶ Ep173 - Pasi Sahlberg
Throughout the 2000s, Finland emerged as the country with the best performing educational system in the world. It did so by defying much of the educational conventional wisdom. While the Global Educat
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▶ Ep172 - Paul Kindstedt
During a cheese tasting class at Murray’s, Hunter heard the teacher say that “Cheese and Culture” was the best book on cheese in the world. Instantly, we knew we had to get its author for The Bryan Ca
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▶ Ep171 - Werner Sollors
In the wake of World War II, as the world discovered the full extent of the atrocities committed by the NAZIs, the German people struggled to make sense of their place in the world. Ruined, occupied a
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▶ Ep170 - Vanessa Tyson, Part 5
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this fifth episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan is missing again. So, Hun
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▶ Ep169 - The Mother of All Podcasts
In this interview, Bryan and Hunter draw together the lessons they’ve learned over their most recent podcasts. For more on Robert McNamara, you might enjoy this article: technologyreview.com/news/5145
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▶ Ep168 - Michael Malice, Part 2
Michael Malice is has co-written books with MMA legend Matt Hughes, comedian DL Hughley and legendary rocker Brett Michaels and Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. In this seco
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▶ Ep167 - Tom Woods
Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. began his life as a neoconservative but came to realize that the two political parties were broadly the same. Dissatisfied with the narrow range of options offered by the Repu
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▶ Ep166 - Jim Seymour
Although the concept of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol is an ancient one (think scouts), they only began to be used by the US Army in Vietnam in the latter part of the war. Dropped far behind en
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▶ Ep165 - Matthew E May
Matthew E. May spent over eight years as a close advisor to Toyota. During that time he developed an appreciation for the power of elegance. As he explains in this interview, all too often in order to
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▶ Ep164 - Scott Bullock
The Institute for Justice has been described (by Hunter and probably others) as the libertarian ACLU. In this interview, Scott Bullock (who joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 and
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▶ Ep163 - Adam Grant
In the wake of countless scandals at the highest corporate levels, it’s easy to think that the key to getting ahead in business is to be a taker, but actually it turns out that the success of Enron ex
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▶ Ep162 - John Nagl
After fighting in the first gulf war, John Nagl returned to the United States and took part in a simulated military exercise. As a tank commander, he had all the overwhelming firepower any soldier cou
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▶ Ep161 - Michael Malice
Michael Malice is has co-written books with MMA legend Matt Hughes, comedian DL Hughley and legendary rocker Brett Michaels but we brought him on to talk about the celebrity biography of one Kim Jong
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▶ Ep160 - Hannah Lane
Hannah Lane describes herself as a human-centered designer and social entrepreneur. Basically that means she designs systems that help make the world a better place. While she began in the health spac
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▶ Ep159 - Vanessa Tyson, Round 4
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this fourth episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan is hunting in the woods!
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▶ Ep158 - Barb Oakley
Barb Oakley may be a Professor of Engineering now but all through high school she was a self-professed math hater. She got a D in geometry…twice. She far preferred to follow her passions for literatur
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▶ Ep157 - Justin Gest
Since ISIS captured the attention of the West by beheading foreign journalists, the news media has been obsessed with covering them. Since 9/11, some of the most eye-catching terror-related stories ha
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▶ Ep156 - Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty thinks an awful lot about death. In fact, she’s been doing it for years and that’s what lead her to become a mortician. In Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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▶ Ep155 - Vanessa Tyson
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this third episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan booked a TV job! So, Hunt
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▶ Ep154 - William Deresiewicz
As a Professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz became concerned by what had happened to America’s education. More than anything, he found that rather than turning out leaders was turning out a bunch of m
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▶ Ep153 - Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is the author of fifteen books on foreign policy and international affairs. He is Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor, a private intelligence firm. He is a non-resident senior fel
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▶ Ep152 - Vanessa Tyson Part 2
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this second episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, we discuss the role that educa
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▶ Ep151 - Euny Hong
When Euny Hong moved to South Korea in 1985, it was by her own description not a wealthy country and yet now it’s one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. We know how Euny grew
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▶ Ep150 - Lewis Dartnell
The world seems fascinated with the possibility of an apocalypse. Zombies, mutant viruses, a giant meteorite impact, alien invasions…the point is the same. If everything fell apart, how would we cope
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▶ Ep149 - Jim Rickards
A year ago, we interviewed Jim Rickards about his book Currency Wars which examined how money could be used as a weapon between nations. In his most recent book, The Death of Money, Rickards examines
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▶ Ep148 - David Sloan Wilson
Darwin had a problem with bees. Understanding how evolution might work at the level of individuals was easy. Have an individual whose genes give them an advantage in resisting disease or avoiding pred
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▶ Ep147 - Vanessa Tyson
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this episode, Vanessa, Bryan and Hunter discuss various aspects of government, what is wrong wi
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▶ Ep146 - Professor David Goldberg
Dave Goldberg works on issues in theoretical cosmology. He also writes books that make physics accessible to the general public including the subject of today’s interview: The Universe in the Rearview
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▶ Ep145 - Professor Nye
In a recent survey of internatinal relations scholars, Professor Nye was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Glo
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▶ Ep144 - Dr. Wendy Chen
Dr. Wendy Chen is an assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an oncologist affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Initially, we contac
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▶ Ep143 - Aubrey De Grey
Aubrey De Grey is fighting the deadliest cause of death in the world. It kills two thirds of all people, far more than all other forms of death combined, and yet very little attention is given to curi
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▶ Ep142 - Spiros Michalakis
The last time we had Spiros Michalakis on. We knew we needed to get him back on asap. Partly, because we got such amazing feedback from the community of listeners and partly because we were so busy ha
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▶ Ep141 - Detlev Schlichter
While Ben Dyson has argued that we need to take the power to create money out of the hands of bankers and put it entirely in the hands of government (you can here that episode here) Detlev Schlichter
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▶ Ep140 - Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu is the co-author of one of Hunter’s five favorite books of all time, the incomparably brilliant Why Nations Fail in 2012. In a previous podcast, it was our pleasure to host Jared Diamon
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▶ Ep139 - Freeway Rick Ross
Freeway Rick Ross came from nothing and started a business that grossed nearly a billion dollars and spanned forty-two cities. The problem is that the business was illegal. After his inability to read
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▶ Ep138 - Jason Selk
While serving as the Director of Mental Training for the St Louis Cardinals, Dr. Jason Selk helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the
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▶ Ep137 - Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck had a simple question she wanted answered: why did some people take failure so personally while others seemed to thrive on it? Beginning her work with students, she realized that the key d
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▶ Ep136 - A.J. Jacobs
AJ Jacobs likes to experiment on himself and once he sets himself a challenge will do whatever it takes to meet it. He spent eight hours a day reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He spent a ye
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▶ Ep135 - Michael Callen
Bryan sits down with his dad, Michael Callen for another installment of the Callen Report. Be sure to rate and comment in iTunes. Also, you can find the show on Stitcher.
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▶ Ep134 - Dacher Keltner
As a professor of psychology at UC Berkley and the founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, Dacher Keltner studies how we negotiate our relationships with others. After having Rob
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▶ Ep133 - Ryan Holiday
When he was 19, Ryan Holiday dropped out of college, apprenticed under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery, and asked Dr. Drew for a book recommendation. Dr. Drew’s recommendatio
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▶ Ep132 - Craig Nelson
Craig Nelson is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men, as well as Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), The Firs
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▶ Ep131 - Rebecca Jeschke
Nearly 25 years ago, before the world wide web even existed, two technologists and one lyricist for the Grateful Dead banded together to form an organization that would defend freedom of speech on the
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▶ Ep130 - Coach Bill Courtney
In 2011, Coach Bill Courtney was catapulted to national fame when Undefeated, a documentary about his volunteer coaching of the Manassas High Football team, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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▶ Ep129 - Spiros Michalakis
Spiros Michalakis is a quantum physicist at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. Drop the mic... I mean…really…Spiros is a quantum physicist at the number 1 program for quantum
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▶ Ep128 - Partners in Passion
Patricia Johnson and Mark Michaels know a lot about sex. In fact, they may know more about it than anybody else on the planet. They write about it; they interview people about it; they’ve even done it
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▶ Ep127 - Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is the creator of the 4-Hour Series of books. The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef have all become bestsellers and been translated into dozens of languages. In this his th
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▶ Ep126 - Ben Dyson
On April 24th, Martin Wolf of The Financial Times threw his support behind the proposed reforms of a UK-based group called Positive Money. In so doing, he was joining a growing number of financial exp
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▶ Ep125 - Robert Greene
In 1532, an Italian diplomat and political theorist named Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book on how best to most effectively acquire and keep power. It was called The Prince. Machiavelli argued that for
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▶ Ep124 - Kristin Newman
As a regularly-employed writer on TV shows like That 70’s Show, How I Met Your Mother, Chuck and The Neighbors, Kristin Newman had two big things going for her: disposable income and months of vacatio
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▶ Ep123 - Joe Cross
Bryan sits author and movie maker, Joe Cross. Joe Cross is an Australian entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and wellness advocate. He is most known for his documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead in which h
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▶ Ep122 - John Durant
John Durant is the author of The Paleo Manifesto and that is exactly what it is. Far from being just another book about the Paleo Diet, John lays out for us why paleo makes sense from an evolutionary,
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▶ Ep121 - Adam Mansbach
After trying to read his kid to sleep one night with little success, writer Adam Mansbach posted as a joke on his Facebook look out for my upcoming children’s book Go the Fuck to Sleep. That joke even
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▶ Ep120 - Asa Akira
Bryan sits down with pornstar and author of Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story, Asa Akira. She's been in the porn industry for several years and and has been cleaning house at the Adult Video Awards (AVN
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▶ Ep119 - The Second Machine Age - Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee are both MIT professors. They also wrote a book together called The Second Machine Age and it’s amazing. Over the last few decades, technology has been increasing a
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▶ Ep118 - Dr. Paul Offit
Paul A. Offit, MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, Dr. Offit is the Maurice
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▶ Ep117 - Bert Vaux
While a Professor at Harvard University, Bert Vaux noticed that within a week students were suppressing their accents in order to blend in on campus. What intrigued Bert was that even though students
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▶ Ep116 - John Perkins
Within its first week of publication, Confessions of An Economic Hitman hit #1 on Amazon. Then it hit The New York Times bestseller list. Within five weeks of its release, Confessions of An Economic H
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▶ Ep115 - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis describes herself modestly as “an English Lady Pensioner.” She is certainly an English Lady, but as an author she is far too prolific to fit any definition of the word retired. The autho
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▶ Ep114 - Randall Slavin
Bryan sits down with good friend and famed photographer, Randall Slavin. He has taken photos of some of the finest actors and entertainers in the game today. Check out his website, visit randallslavin
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▶ Ep113 - Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne is a professor of biology at the University of Chicago and the author of the brilliantly articulate Why Evolution is True. Piece by piece, Coyne lays out the overwhelming support for evolu
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▶ Ep112 - Greg Fitzsimmons
Bryan sits down with comedian and Podcaster, Greg Fitzsimmons. Greg was born in New York City, New York, to New York City radio personality Bob Fitzsimmons, and Patricia (née McCarthy) Fitzsimmons. He
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▶ Ep111 - Jim Duane
Wanna know about wine and why it's good for your health? Jim Duane, wine maker for Seavey Vineyards sits me down and talks about how you get a world class Cabernet and what it takes to make something
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▶ Ep110 - Christian Lander
In January 2008, Christian Lander created a blog that gave a voice to people who already have way more than their fair share of a say in how the world is run. Stuff White People Like took a close look
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▶ Ep109 - William Bernstein
Although William Bernstein has an MD and a PhD in Chemistry, he began his career in neuroscience before deciding to become a financial investor and an author of historical books. Safe to say, he’s exa
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▶ Ep108 - Bobby Lee
Bryan sits down with good friend and comedian/actor, Bobby Lee. Bobby Lee is an American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on MADtv from 2001 to 2009 and for his roles in the films Harold
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▶ Ep107 - Tamim Ansary
While working on a history textbook for US students, Tamim Ansary found that he and his team of American advisors had a very different sense of the world. The Americans saw history as a long march tow
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▶ Ep106 - Kira Soltanovich
Bryan sits down with comedian, Kira Soltanovich. For the past 8 years, she could be seen as a television corespondent in her own reoccurring segment for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, called Photo Bo
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▶ Ep105 - Dan O'Brien
As the head writer and creative director of video at Cracked.com, Dan O’Brien writes important potentially Pulitzer-prize winning pieces on topics such as Why Spiderman is a Dick and 3 Insane Spider-M
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▶ Ep104 - Bad Pharma Discussion
Dr. Ben Goldacre is the author of two excellent books, Bad Pharma and Bad Science, but he didn’t show up for this episode so there’s not much point telling you more about him. So, Bryan and Hunter jus
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▶ Ep103 - Dan Coyle, David Epstein
For 150 years, we’ve been taught that we had to choose sides when understanding where top-level performance comes from. Is it nature? Or, is it nurture? In this episode, two of our favorite guests of
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▶ Ep102 - John Gurche
When Steven Spielberg was looking for a dinosaur expert for Jurassic park, he chose John Gurche. Steven Spielberg kind of gets to pick whoever he wants, so that’s a pretty good sign that John Gurche i
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▶ Ep101 - Andrew Lih
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the power of the internet and thereby the power of a democratic approach to problem solving like Wikipedia. In The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created Th
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▶ Ep100 - Dave Asprey & Jimmy Burke
Bryan sits down with the founder of The Bullet Proof Executive, Dave Asprey. Long time friend, Jimmy Burke. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep99 - Seal Team 6
Bryan has a very exclusive conversation with one of America's finest military veterans and a former member of Seal Team 6. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep98 - Chad Kultgen
Bryan sits down with author, producer and actor, Chad Kultgen. He is a controversial author notable for publishing several novels on the sexual relationships of Americans. He has published opinion pie
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▶ Ep97 - Steven Strogatz
Steven Strogatz has a really impressive resumé. Besides being a professor at Cornell, he also has the sixth most highly cited paper in all of physics and his 1998 paper “Collective dynamics of small-w
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▶ Ep96 - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Collapse (2005) a
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▶ Ep95 – Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major American physics societies. In addition to his work as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist where he has authored
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▶ Ep94 - Sarah Tiana
Bryan and Hunter sit down with comedian, Sarah Tiana. They talk about their lives in comedy as well as comedians in relationships and much more. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep93 - Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg is a writer for the business section of The New York Times. He's clearly pretty good at it, because he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for a series of ten articles on Apple called iEconomy
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▶ Ep92 - Skylar Stone
Bryan sits down with comedian, Skylar Stone. Stone has been seen on telelvision and in comedy clubs throughout the country. He has a monthly show at the Improv in Hollywood. Be sure to Rate and Commen
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▶ Ep91 - Russell Foster
Along with his colleagues Professor Russell Foster broke the conventional wisdom and discovered a light-sensitive cell inside the eye that had nothing to do with vision. Although much of the scientifi
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▶ Ep90 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand, Bryan sits down with his dad, Michael Callen. They talk about a variety of different things, from professional schooling and the changes they are encountering, as well as the d
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▶ Ep89 - Chris Bell
Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We loo
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▶ Ep88 - Dov Davidoff
It's the Bryan Callen Christmas Special. Bryan sits down with actor, comedian and good friend, Dov Davidoff. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep87 - Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle kept hearing about places all over world where talent flourished. They weren’t necessarily well-funded. They weren’t necessarily in big cities. In fact, quite often, these talent hot spot
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▶ Ep86 - Jessimae Peluso
Bryan sit down with MTV's Girl Code, Jessimae Peluso. She is “a bottle rocket with a pulse,” headed in only the expected, upward trajectory of a firecracker, and ready to explode. The self-proclaimed
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▶ Ep85 - Steve Ujifusa
Growing up in the age of the great transatlantic liner, William Francis Gibbs had only one dream: to build the world’s greatest ship. In that age, nations competed to build the largest, most luxurious
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▶ Ep84 - Don Barris
Don's has an unique brand of comedy unlike most other comics and that makes him the clubs perfect closing act every night. Don was the co-creater/star of the cult classic film, Windy City Heat, which
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▶ Ep83 - Jack O'Brien (Cracked.com)
For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyra
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▶ Ep82 - Jay Larson
Bryan sits down with comedian, Jay Larson. They discuss a variety of topics. With appearances on TOSH.0, The Late Late show, The Smoking Gun Presents, Conan and his own half hour special on Comedy Cen
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▶ Ep81 - Tim Ferriss
By 2004, Tim Ferriss was running an online brain and body supplements company that was grossing $40,000 a month. He was his own boss. He was making a lot of money. Things seemed good until one day his
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▶ Ep80 - Joe Rogan
Bryan sits down with comedian, UFC Commentator, and Podcaster of the Joe Rogan Experience, good friend, Joe Rogan. They discuss their personal hunting experiences and as a added bonus, Master Hunter S
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▶ Ep79 - David Grann
Grann himself inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive,” writes a Slate journalist describing the work of New Yorker reporter David Grann. We can understand why. Grann’s work is
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▶ Ep78 - Bill Burr
Bryan sits down with comedian, Bill Burr. As with other comics associated with The Opie & Anthony Show, in 2008, Burr's voice was featured in the game Grand Theft Auto IV. In the game, Bill plays Jaso
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▶ Ep77 - David Epstein
As a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Dave Epstein helped break the story that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003. He's written for the Swimsuit Edition--which he describes as th
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▶ Ep76 - Tony Blauer
Bryan sits down with fitness expert, Tony Blauer. Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) is one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of close quarter tactics
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▶ Ep75 - Merchants of Doubt
In Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway reveal that the same handful of individuals who have made a career out of selling doubt. Fred Singer, Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg began their
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▶ Ep74 - John Truby
Over the course of three decades working in Hollywood, John Truby has fixed over a thousand film scripts. In his book Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, John refutes the advi
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▶ Ep73 - Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate IP Protection
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▶ Ep72 - Harland Williams
Bryan Callen sits down with actor and comedian, Harland Williams from such movies as Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, There's Something About Mary, Half Baked, RocketMan, Sorority Boys, Down Peri
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▶ Ep71 - Reflections
Bryan and Hunter take this episode to reflect on and synthesize everything they've learned over the course of the last dozen or so episodes recording the show together. From the philosophy of Professo
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▶ Ep70 - Steve Byrne
Bryan and Hunter sit down with the star of Sullivan and Son, on TBS, stand-up comedian, Steve Byrne. They discuss Steve's sitcom as well as other career moments, including trips overseas doing USO tou
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▶ Ep69 - Charles Mann
Charles C. Mann didn't plan to write about the world before and after Columbus, but, at a certain point, he realized he couldn't wait for anyone else to do it. In his book 1491: New Revelations of the
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▶ Ep68 - Jimmy Shubert
Bryan sits down with comedian, actor and podcaster, Jimmy Shubert. He's been seen on his own Comedy Central Special, King of Queens, Italian Job, Go!, and countless other movies and television shows.
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▶ Ep67 - Michael Callen
Big Mike Callen, aka Bryan's dad, brings his many years of experience in banking and foreign policy to to a discussion of the government shutdown and the state of Washington today.
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▶ Ep66 - Tom Segura
Bryan Callen sits down with comedian and podcaster, Tom Segura. They talk about stand-up comedy and much more. Also, be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep65 - Tim Snyder, Michael Callen
In a very special episode of The Bryan Callen Show, Mike Callen joins Bryan and Hunter in interviewing the authors of one of his very favorite books: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Deta
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▶ Ep64 - Jon Lovitz
Bryan and Hunter sit down with comedian and SNL Alumni, Jon Lovitz. They discuss their experiences doing comedy and sketch shows. Jon spoke about his personal experience coming up as a comedian as wel
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▶ Ep63 - Sarah Rose
Sarah Rose is the author of For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History. At the beginning of the 19th century, China had a global monopoly on tea. One of
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▶ Ep62 - Bret Ernst
Bryan sits down with good friend and comedian, Bret Ernst. They discuss comedy, acting, entertainment, sports and Bret marriage plans. This is our first installment of comedy Thursdays. Be sure to che
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▶ Ep61 - Karen Karbo
The New York Times called Karen Karbo a very funny writer something that becomes abundantly clear in her wit-filled Kick-Ass Women series of books. Examining the lives of women who lived life on their
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▶ Ep60 - Kim Dower
Kim Dower is fast becoming acclaimed in the poetry world for her humor and turns. The Los Angeles Times described her first collection Air Kissing on Mars as, sensual and evocative lyrical snapshots o
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▶ Ep59 - Joshua Foer
In 2006, Josh Foer became the U.S.A. Memory Champion and yet he insists his memory is totally average…and so do other memory champions like Ben Pridmore. In fact, as Foer recounts in his New York Time
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▶ Ep58 - Dan Robinson
Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University. According to Bryan, he's also probably the s
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▶ Ep57 - Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt is America's most controversial and perhaps most effective living defender of the First Amendment. However, by his own admission, Larry Flynt did not set out to defend the Bill of Rights.
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▶ Ep56 - Matt Ridley
Listening to the news or hyperlinking our way through blog posts, it might seem like the end is nigh. Whether the coming crisis is environmental, economic or some intoxicating mix of the two, the mess
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▶ Ep55 - Bob Harris
Imagine a bank that operates in 67 countries around the world, has one employee, has made thousands of loans with an average value of $25 a pop and is committed to never making a profit but believes i
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▶ Ep54 - Richard Miles
For over 120 years and across three separate wars, Rome and Carthage battled for control of the Mediterranean in a no-holds barred conflict that would see Hannibal march his elephants across the Alps,
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▶ Ep53 - Jonathan Haidt
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. Would it be wrong if a ma
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▶ Ep52 - Ken Chase
Dr. Ken Chase is the author of Firearms: A Global History to 1700, which legendary historian William McNeill described as a great achievement. In Firearms, Ken does much more than summarize how firear
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▶ Ep51 - James Rollins
While working as a vet and running a practice with fifteen employees, James began writing again. Beginning with short stories, he built his confidence and his skills until eventually he felt ready to
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▶ Ep50 - Mark Kurlansky
When Mark Kurlansky wrote Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, he was not only publishing a New York Times Bestseller but also creating a whole new type of book. Since then books focus
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▶ Ep49 - Lara Setrakian
As a reporter for ABC and Bloomberg Television, Lara Setrakian crisscrossed the Middle East reporting live as the Arab Spring spread throughout the region. Her first-hand experience of what was happen
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▶ Ep48 - Jim Rickards
In 2009, Jim Rickards was invited by The Pentagon to participate in a new kind of war game where the only weapons to be used would be financial. From the lessons of The Great Depression to the possibi
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▶ Ep47 - David Kwong
Hunter Maats sits in with Bryan Callen on this episode. Bryan interviews magician David Kwong. Called the Illusunist for Intellectuals, by the Wall Street Journal also known as Hollywood's Favorite Tr
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▶ Ep46 - Elliott Hulse
In this episode, Bryan interviews strength training coach, Elliott Hulse. He's been blogging and creating videos about building strength, increasing vitality and about how to become the strongest vers
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▶ Ep45 - David Blaine
David Blaine opens up about what motivates him to succeed and where it all comes from in the first place. I've known the guy for 23 years and it was a privilege to bring you the man behind the magic.
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▶ Ep44 - Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey, asks Why do I do this? Because I’m happier when I get to help people, and because it took nearly 20 years and $250k to learn how to do things that aren’t supposed to be possible and then
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▶ Ep43 - Jimmy Burke
Bryan sits down with best friend and Prince of New York, Jimmy Burke. They discuss a variety of different topics, focusing around the fighter life. Jimmy Burke comes from a fighter family. His father
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▶ Ep42 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand, Michael Callen, father of Bryan Callen, is making his 4th appearance on the show. They discuss how Mike is relearning Algebra, in an effort to exercise the brain, from the stan
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▶ Ep41 - Kurt Schwengel
Kurt Schwengel has been teaching Kindergarten for over 17 years at the Franklin elementary School in Santa Monica. Franklin school. This former D1 baseball player is considered the rock star of Kinder
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▶ Ep40 - John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein
You were born to achieve greatness, to be a man. But somewhere along the way you started to live an ordinary life. Fitness experts John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein developed a system that targets ho
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▶ Ep39 - Stoney Curtis
Stoney Curtis is an American pornographic actor, director and producer. He founded the adult film companies Celestial Productions in 1998, and Lethal Hardcore in 2004. In 2010 he was inducted into the
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▶ Ep38 - Ronda Rousey
Featuring Ronda Rousey, an American mixed martial artist and judoka. She is the first and current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion, as well as the former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. Sh
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▶ Ep37 - Bruce Buffer
Bruce Buffer is the official Octagon announcer for UFC events. On UFC broadcasts, he is introduced as the Veteran Voice of the Octagon. He is the half brother of the well-known boxing and professional
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▶ Ep36 - Brendan Schaub
Featuring Brendan Schaub, they talk about the fighting world, self-doubt, the challenge of being a champ and learning how to over come. Real fighting. Great stuff.
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▶ Ep35 - Vincent LaBarbera
Mr. LaBarbera has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest A.V. rating. As a federal and state criminal defense attorney, Mr. LaBarbera has argued over two hundred trials and appeals. He has litigate
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▶ Ep34 - Steve-O
Featuring Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) has become a household name and it all started when he snatched a video camera from his father's closet when he was fifteen years old. From there he started p
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▶ Ep33 - Kenny Hotz
Featuring Kenny Hotz, a Toronto based producer and comedian. He is a former South Park consultant and writer, creator/star of the Comedy Central television show Kenny vs. Spenny, creator and writer of
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▶ Ep32 - Tom Bigley
This episode features 1st Sgt. Tom Bigley, a former Delta Force Operator. He's been in every U.S. conflict since Panama. He gives an inside look into the responsibility and philosophy one must possess
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▶ Ep31 - Sam Sheridan
Featuring Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter's Heart, A Fighter's Mind, and most recently The Disaster Diaries. They discuss a variety of different ways you can prepare yourself for a disaster as well
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▶ Ep30 - Tim Ferriss
Featuring Tim Ferriss, an American author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and public speaker. In 2007, he published The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, which was a #1
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▶ Ep29 - Jay Mohr
Featuring Comedian/Actor/Producer and podcaster, Jay Mohr. They discuss a variety of different topics, from the books they both are reading and/or listening to, as well as the (3) people they would lo
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▶ Ep28 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand is Bryan's father, Mr. Michael Callen, a retired financial businessman, who at one time ran the largest banks in the world, Citicorp. In this episode, they discuss the fiscal cl
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▶ Ep27 - John Leguizamo
Show producer, Mike Casentini and Bryan, close out the year by reviewing some of the past episodes as well as discussing the future of the show. As an added bonus, we've attached a short interview wit
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▶ Ep26 - Kevin Hart
Featuring actor and comedian, Kevin Hart. On the set of the movie, Ride Along, Bryan interviews Kevin in his trailer. Kevin plays a prank on Bryan for the first 25 minutes, and if it's comedy you want
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▶ Ep25 - Hunter Maats
Featuring Hunter Maats, author of The Straight-A Conspiracy. In this episode, they discussissues pertaining to the country as well as asking the questions: Why do nations fail and what are the challen
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▶ Ep24 - Christy Wampole
Featuring Christy Wampole, Assistant Professor of French and Italian at Princeton and author of How to Live Without Irony, a critically acclaimed article in the New York Times.
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▶ Ep23 - Artie Lange
Featuring Stand-up comedian, actor and MADtv alumni, Artie Lange. They discuss their time at MADtv and Artie opens up about his time in rehab. Funny stories about playing Scrabble in a psych ward and
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▶ Ep22 - Will Sasso
The episode is sponsored by AudiblePodcast.com/Manthoughts, featuring good friend, television and film actor and the creator of the 10 Minute Podcast, British Columbia very own Will Sasso. They discus
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▶ Ep21 - Dov Davidoff
Featuring good friend and standup comedian, actor, writer, Dov Davidoff. The discuss the ways of the world, including entitlements, world populations and technology. The talk about the book, Gun, Germ
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▶ Ep20 - Hernando Chaves
Featuring sex therapist, Dr. Hernando Chaves. They discuss sex as it pertains to men and women in relationships. The focus is on, how to be a better lover in your relationships and oh yes, they do tal
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▶ Ep19 - Mike Catherwood
Featuring Radio and television personality Mike Catherwood of Lovelines with Dr. Drew and Simone Bienne. He's one of the most beloved names in Los Angeles' top rated radio market. Known to listeners a
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▶ Ep18 - Dr. Howard Wasdin
Featuring Dr. Howard Wasdin, author of 3 books, SEAL TEAM SIX: WARRIOR, SEAL TEAM SIX: OUTCASTS, and SEAL TEAM SIX: MEMOIRS OF AN ELITE NAVY SEAL SNIPER. DR. HOWARD E. WASDIN is a former Navy SEAL Tea
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▶ Ep17 - Michael Callen
Featuring Michael Callen, back by popular demand. Once again, he illuminates us with his wise words. In this episode, we discuss The Power to Change, recognizing specific behavior patterns, managing f
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▶ Ep16 – Kieran Gallagher
Featuring Kieran Gallagher, who has been working in Hollywood as a top tier stunt man for many years. He's currently working on HANGOVER 3 and although he worked on HANGOVER 1 & 2, I didn't meet him u
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▶ Ep15 – Alana Evans
Featuring Alana Evans is one of those rare porn stars who's been romping on film for over 15 years and still going strong. I went to her house in the valley to do this interview and what blew me away
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▶ Ep14 – Matt Mystery
Featuring a Special Operations ground-force commander who was responsible for carrying out KILL/CAPTURE missions in Iraq and Afganistan. I interviewed him after he came back from doing 5 tours in Iraq
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▶ Ep13 – Nate Marquardt
Featuring Mixed Martial Arts and Strikeforce Champion, Nate Marquardt. Nate began his training in the martial arts as a teenager, studying the disciplines of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing, and Kenpo
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▶ Ep12 – Jay Mohr
Featuring comedian, actor, radio host and best selling author, Jay Mohr. We discuss a variety of topics including entertainment industry, stand-up comedy, politics, books and music. Music includes Joh
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▶ Ep11 – Michael Fattorosi
Featuring one of pornography's biggest legal defenders talk about fighting crazy laws, freedom of expression, the positive and negative side of porns vast reach, the FUTURE of porn and what it's like
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▶ Ep10 – Michael Callen
Featuring the man that shaped me, my father, Michael Callen. In this podcast, MICHAEL CALLEN, talks about why he is a libertarian and how the biggest threat to our country is the growth of the state.
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▶ Ep9 – Jimmy Burke
Featuring good friend and the Prince of New York, Jimmy Burke. Jimmy is a life-long friend. We’ve done a lot together over the years and we’ve seen much of the world. In this episode, we discuss the p
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▶ Ep8 – Michael Rapaport
Featuring film actor Michael Rapaport. A true New Yorker through and through, Michael Rapaport, the son of a radio program manager, may have moved to Los Angeles to try stand-up comedy following high
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▶ Ep7 – John “Bloodclot” Joseph
Featuring the lead singer for the Cro-Mags, John “Bloodclot” Joseph. Joseph was raised in foster care and grew up on the streets of New York. He was the lead singer for the New York hardcore punk band
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▶ Ep6 – Patty Jenkins
Featuring Director of “Monster,” Patty Jenkins. A director with a remarkable grasp of characterization and emotional depth, Patty Jenkins stunned audiences in 2003 with her powerful debut feature, Mon
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▶ Ep5 – Sam Brown – Part 2
Featuring good friend, stand-up comedian Sam Brown. This is the 2nd installment of a 2 part series. Sam Brown’s career began the moment he came out of his mother’s womb and was ignored by his entire f
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▶ Ep4 – Sam Brown – Part 1
Featuring good friend, stand-up comedian Sam Brown. This is the first installment of a 2 part series. Sam Brown’s career began the moment he came out of his mother’s womb and was ignored by his entire
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▶ Ep3 – Dov Davidoff
Featuring good friend, actor and stand-up comedian Dov Davidoff. Combining hyper A.D.D. with an amusingly and acute take on things, Davidoff puts on one of the most high intensity shows in standup mak
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▶ Ep2 – The Straight-A Conspiracy
Featuring the authors of “THE STRAIGHT-A CONSPIRACY,” Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien. What if the only reason you aren’t doing well in school is that you’ve been lied to about your own brain? For cent
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▶ Ep1 – Anthony Tambakis
Featuring writer and producer of the Lions Gate film “WARRIOR,” Anthony Tambakis. Anthony Tambakis is a former Professor of Creative Writing, an award-winning short story writer, and recipient of a Pa
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▶ 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 of
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▶ 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-hour
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▶ 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:Hav
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▶ 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.
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▶ Ep233 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You? Part
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 Part
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▶ Ep232 - Mixed Mental Arts: What Does Your Hinky Meter Tell You? Part
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 mete
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▶ Ep231 - Mixed Mental Arts: A guest who needs no introduction...Big Mi
A guest who needs no introduction...Big Mike is back!!!
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▶ Ep230 - Mixed Mental Arts: The Two Paths to Power: Darth Vader and Lu
Mixed Mental Arts: The Two Paths to Power: Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.
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▶ Ep229 - 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
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▶ Ep228 - 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 wa
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▶ Ep227 - 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 both
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▶ Ep226 -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: capitalis
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▶ Ep225 - Mixed Mental Arts: Bryan Uses a Roundhouse Kick to Shatter Th
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 g
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▶ Ep224 - 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 accountable
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▶ Ep223 - 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 an
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▶ Ep222 - 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
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▶ Ep221 - Ghost Face Willer Drops Some Knowledge
Rob 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. All
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▶ Ep220 - 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 cas
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▶ Ep219 - 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 c
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▶ Ep218 - 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, competitions
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▶ Ep217 - MMA For the Mind: You Must Accept Your Elephant Before You Ca
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 m
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▶ 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,
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▶ 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 U
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▶ Ep214 - MMA For the Mind: 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 actuall
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▶ Ep183 - Jean-Pierre Hocke
Today, on The Bryan Callen Show, Bryan and Hunter Maats speak with Jean-Pierre Hocke. Jean-Pierre joined in 1968 the Interntional Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC. After several field assignments he
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▶ Ep182 - Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is kind of a triple threat. When he's not working at JP Morgan, he often spends his weekends with the US Navy Reserves but when we spoke to him he was using his weekend to go to the Gramm
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▶ Ep181 - Katie O'Brien & Hunter Maats
Bryan sits down with good friends and authors, Kathrine O'Brien and Hunter Maats, who share what they've learned along the way and a moment they wanted to be nowhere else. Plus a lot of inanity.
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▶ Ep180 - Allen Barton & Leo Flowers
Today, Bryan and Leo Flowers sits down with Bryan's long time friend, Actor, Writer, Producer and former Scientologist, Allen Barton. They discuss the topic of religion, specifically with regards to S
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▶ Ep179 - Dom Irrera
This week, Bryan sits down alone with Hall of Fame stand-up comedian, Dom Irrera. Dom reminisced about Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison and performing in the great comedy 80's.
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▶ Ep178 - Ganesh Sitaraman
As part of our continuing look at counter-insurgency and nation building, we speak with Ganesh Sitaraman, Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, and author of The Counterinsurgent‘s Cons
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▶ Ep177 - James Tooley
In the early 1980s, James Tooley went to Zimbabwe to help support and build socialism by teaching under the then hopeful leadership of Robert Mugabe. Returning to England in the midst of the Thatcher
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▶ Ep176 - Howard G. Buffett and Howard W. Buffett
In 2006, Warren Buffett told his son that he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to making a difference in the world. That’s when he gave his son Howard G. Buffett a billion dollars and told him to go
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▶ Ep175 - Jonah Berger
If there’s one thing we’d like to figure out at The Bryan Callen Show, it’s how to get good ideas to spread. Fortunately, Jonah Berger has those answers. While it often seems like things catch on rand
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▶ Ep174 - Stephen Kotkin
When Professor Stephen Kotkin set out to write a biography of Stalin, he faced a series of challenges. Perhaps first and foremost, people already thought they knew who Stalin was. The world’s view of
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▶ Ep173 - Pasi Sahlberg
Throughout the 2000s, Finland emerged as the country with the best performing educational system in the world. It did so by defying much of the educational conventional wisdom. While the Global Educat
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▶ Ep172 - Paul Kindstedt
During a cheese tasting class at Murray’s, Hunter heard the teacher say that “Cheese and Culture” was the best book on cheese in the world. Instantly, we knew we had to get its author for The Bryan Ca
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▶ Ep171 - Werner Sollors
In the wake of World War II, as the world discovered the full extent of the atrocities committed by the NAZIs, the German people struggled to make sense of their place in the world. Ruined, occupied a
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▶ Ep170 - Vanessa Tyson, Part 5
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this fifth episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan is missing again. So, Hun
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▶ Ep169 - The Mother of All Podcasts
In this interview, Bryan and Hunter draw together the lessons they’ve learned over their most recent podcasts. For more on Robert McNamara, you might enjoy this article: http://www.technologyreview.co
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▶ Ep168 - Michael Malice, Part 2
Michael Malice is has co-written books with MMA legend Matt Hughes, comedian DL Hughley and legendary rocker Brett Michaels and Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il.
In this seco
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▶ Ep167 - Tom Woods
Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. began his life as a neoconservative but came to realize that the two political parties were broadly the same. Dissatisfied with the narrow range of options offered by the Repu
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▶ Ep166 - Jim Seymour
Although the concept of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol is an ancient one (think scouts), they only began to be used by the US Army in Vietnam in the latter part of the war. Dropped far behind en
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▶ Ep165 - Matthew E May
Matthew E. May spent over eight years as a close advisor to Toyota. During that time he developed an appreciation for the power of elegance. As he explains in this interview, all too often in order to
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▶ Ep164 - Scott Bullock
The Institute for Justice has been described (by Hunter and probably others) as the libertarian ACLU. In this interview, Scott Bullock (who joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 and
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▶ Ep163 - Adam Grant
In the wake of countless scandals at the highest corporate levels, it’s easy to think that the key to getting ahead in business is to be a taker, but actually it turns out that the success of Enron ex
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▶ Ep162 - John Nagl
After fighting in the first gulf war, John Nagl returned to the United States and took part in a simulated military exercise. As a tank commander, he had all the overwhelming firepower any soldier cou
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▶ Ep161 - Michael Malice
Michael Malice is has co-written books with MMA legend Matt Hughes, comedian DL Hughley and legendary rocker Brett Michaels but we brought him on to talk about the celebrity biography of one Kim Jong
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▶ Ep160 - Hannah Lane
Hannah Lane describes herself as a human-centered designer and social entrepreneur. Basically that means she designs systems that help make the world a better place. While she began in the health spac
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▶ Ep159 - Vanessa Tyson, Round 4
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this fourth episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan is hunting in the woods!
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▶ Ep158 - Barb Oakley
Barb Oakley may be a Professor of Engineering now but all through high school she was a self-professed math hater. She got a D in geometry…twice. She far preferred to follow her passions for literatur
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▶ Ep157 - Justin Gest
Since ISIS captured the attention of the West by beheading foreign journalists, the news media has been obsessed with covering them. Since 9/11, some of the most eye-catching terror-related stories ha
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▶ Ep156 - Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty thinks an awful lot about death. In fact, she’s been doing it for years and that’s what lead her to become a mortician. In Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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▶ Ep155 - Vanessa Tyson
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this third episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, Bryan booked a TV job! So, Hunt
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▶ Ep154 - William Deresiewicz
As a Professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz became concerned by what had happened to America’s education. More than anything, he found that rather than turning out leaders was turning out a bunch of m
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▶ Ep153 - Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is the author of fifteen books on foreign policy and international affairs. He is Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor, a private intelligence firm. He is a non-resident senior fel
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▶ Ep152 - Vanessa Tyson Part 2
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this second episode of our series of conversations with Vanessa, we discuss the role that educa
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▶ Ep151 - Euny Hong
When Euny Hong moved to South Korea in 1985, it was by her own description not a wealthy country and yet now it’s one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. We know how Euny grew
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▶ Ep150 - Lewis Dartnell
The world seems fascinated with the possibility of an apocalypse. Zombies, mutant viruses, a giant meteorite impact, alien invasions…the point is the same. If everything fell apart, how would we cope
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▶ Ep149 - Jim Rickards
A year ago, we interviewed Jim Rickards about his book Currency Wars which examined how money could be used as a weapon between nations. In his most recent book, The Death of Money, Rickards examines
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▶ Ep148 - David Sloan Wilson
Darwin had a problem with bees. Understanding how evolution might work at the level of individuals was easy. Have an individual whose genes give them an advantage in resisting disease or avoiding pred
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▶ Ep147 - Vanessa Tyson
Vanessa Tyson is a Professor of Government at the Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. In this episode, Vanessa, Bryan and Hunter discuss various aspects of government, what is wrong wi
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▶ Ep146 - Professor David Goldberg
Dave Goldberg works on issues in theoretical cosmology. He also writes books that make physics accessible to the general public including the subject of today’s interview: The Universe in the Rearview
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▶ Ep145 - Professor Nye
In a recent survey of internatinal relations scholars, Professor Nye was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Glo
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▶ Ep144 - Dr. Wendy Chen
Dr. Wendy Chen is an assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an oncologist affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Initially, we contac
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▶ Ep143 - Aubrey De Grey
Aubrey De Grey is fighting the deadliest cause of death in the world. It kills two thirds of all people, far more than all other forms of death combined, and yet very little attention is given to curi
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▶ Ep142 - Spiros Michalakis
The last time we had Spiros Michalakis on. We knew we needed to get him back on asap. Partly, because we got such amazing feedback from the community of listeners and partly because we were so busy ha
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▶ Ep141 - Detlev Schlichter
While Ben Dyson has argued that we need to take the power to create money out of the hands of bankers and put it entirely in the hands of government (you can here that episode here) Detlev Schlichter
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▶ Ep140 - Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu is the co-author of one of Hunter’s five favorite books of all time, the incomparably brilliant Why Nations Fail in 2012. In a previous podcast, it was our pleasure to host Jared Diamon
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▶ Ep139 - Freeway Rick Ross
Freeway Rick Ross came from nothing and started a business that grossed nearly a billion dollars and spanned forty-two cities. The problem is that the business was illegal. After his inability to read
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▶ Ep138 - Jason Selk
While serving as the Director of Mental Training for the St Louis Cardinals, Dr. Jason Selk helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the
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▶ Ep137 - Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck had a simple question she wanted answered: why did some people take failure so personally while others seemed to thrive on it? Beginning her work with students, she realized that the key d
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▶ Ep136 - A.J. Jacobs
AJ Jacobs likes to experiment on himself and once he sets himself a challenge will do whatever it takes to meet it. He spent eight hours a day reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He spent a ye
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▶ Ep135 - Michael Callen
Bryan sits down with his dad, Michael Callen for another installment of the Callen Report. Be sure to rate and comment in iTunes. Also, you can find the show on Stitcher.
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▶ Ep134 - Dacher Keltner
As a professor of psychology at UC Berkley and the founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, Dacher Keltner studies how we negotiate our relationships with others. After having Rob
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▶ Ep213 - MMA For the Mind: Why is the World Full of Horse Shit Right N
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 k
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▶ Ep133 - Ryan Holiday
When he was 19, Ryan Holiday dropped out of college, apprenticed under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery, and asked Dr. Drew for a book recommendation. Dr. Drew’s recommendatio
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▶ Ep132 - Craig Nelson
Craig Nelson is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men, as well as Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), The Firs
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▶ Ep131 - Rebecca Jeschke
Nearly 25 years ago, before the world wide web even existed, two technologists and one lyricist for the Grateful Dead banded together to form an organization that would defend freedom of speech on the
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▶ Ep130 - Coach Bill Courtney
In 2011, Coach Bill Courtney was catapulted to national fame when Undefeated, a documentary about his volunteer coaching of the Manassas High Football team, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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▶ Ep129 - Spiros Michalakis
Spiros Michalakis is a quantum physicist at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. Drop the mic... I mean…really…Spiros is a quantum physicist at the number 1 program for quantum
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▶ Ep128 - Partners in Passion
Patricia Johnson and Mark Michaels know a lot about sex. In fact, they may know more about it than anybody else on the planet. They write about it; they interview people about it; they’ve even done it
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▶ Ep127 - Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is the creator of the 4-Hour Series of books. The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef have all become bestsellers and been translated into dozens of languages. In this his th
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▶ Ep126 - Ben Dyson
On April 24th, Martin Wolf of The Financial Times threw his support behind the proposed reforms of a UK-based group called Positive Money. In so doing, he was joining a growing number of financial exp
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▶ Ep125 - Robert Greene
In 1532, an Italian diplomat and political theorist named Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book on how best to most effectively acquire and keep power. It was called The Prince. Machiavelli argued that for
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▶ Ep124 - Kristin Newman
As a regularly-employed writer on TV shows like That 70’s Show, How I Met Your Mother, Chuck and The Neighbors, Kristin Newman had two big things going for her: disposable income and months of vacatio
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▶ Ep123 - Joe Cross
Bryan sits author and movie maker, Joe Cross. Joe Cross is an Australian entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and wellness advocate. He is most known for his documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead in which h
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▶ Ep122 - John Durant
John Durant is the author of The Paleo Manifesto and that is exactly what it is. Far from being just another book about the Paleo Diet, John lays out for us why paleo makes sense from an evolutionary,
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▶ Ep121 - Adam Mansbach
After trying to read his kid to sleep one night with little success, writer Adam Mansbach posted as a joke on his Facebook look out for my upcoming children’s book Go the Fuck to Sleep. That joke even
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▶ Ep120 - Asa Akira
Bryan sits down with pornstar and author of "Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story," Asa Akira. She's been in the porn industry for several years and and has been cleaning house at the Adult Video Awards (A
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▶ Ep119 - The Second Machine Age - Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee are both MIT professors. They also wrote a book together called The Second Machine Age and it’s amazing. Over the last few decades, technology has been increasing a
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▶ Ep118 - Dr. Paul Offit
Paul A. Offit, MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, Dr. Offit is the Maurice
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▶ Ep117 - Bert Vaux
While a Professor at Harvard University, Bert Vaux noticed that within a week students were suppressing their accents in order to blend in on campus. What intrigued Bert was that even though students
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▶ Ep116 - John Perkins
Within its first week of publication, Confessions of An Economic Hitman hit #1 on Amazon. Then it hit The New York Times bestseller list. Within five weeks of its release, Confessions of An Economic H
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▶ Ep115 - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis describes herself modestly as “an English Lady Pensioner.” She is certainly an English Lady, but as an author she is far too prolific to fit any definition of the word retired. The autho
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▶ Ep114 - Randall Slavin
Bryan sits down with good friend and famed photographer, Randall Slavin. He has taken photos of some of the finest actors and entertainers in the game today. Check out his website, visit randallslavin
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▶ Ep113 - Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne is a professor of biology at the University of Chicago and the author of the brilliantly articulate Why Evolution is True. Piece by piece, Coyne lays out the overwhelming support for evolu
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▶ Ep112 - Greg Fitzsimmons
Bryan sits down with comedian and Podcaster, Greg Fitzsimmons. Greg was born in New York City, New York, to New York City radio personality Bob Fitzsimmons, and Patricia (née McCarthy) Fitzsimmons. H
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▶ Ep111 - Jim Duane
"Wanna know about wine and why it's good for your health? Jim Duane, wine maker for Seavey Vineyards sits me down and talks about how you get a world class Cabernet and what it takes to make something
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▶ Ep110 - Christian Lander
In January 2008, Christian Lander created a blog that gave a voice to people who already have way more than their fair share of a say in how the world is run. Stuff White People Like took a close look
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▶ Ep109 - William Bernstein
Although William Bernstein has an MD and a PhD in Chemistry, he began his career in neuroscience before deciding to become a financial investor and an author of historical books. Safe to say, he’s exa
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▶ Ep108 - Bobby Lee
Bryan sits down with good friend and comedian/actor, Bobby Lee. Bobby Lee is an American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on MADtv from 2001 to 2009 and for his roles in the films Harold
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▶ Ep107 - Tamim Ansary
While working on a history textbook for US students, Tamim Ansary found that he and his team of American advisors had a very different sense of the world. The Americans saw history as a long march tow
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▶ Ep106 - Kira Soltanovich
Bryan sits down with comedian, Kira Soltanovich. For the past 8 years, she could be seen as a television corespondent in her own reoccurring segment for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, called Photo Bo
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▶ Ep105 - Dan O'Brien
As the head writer and creative director of video at Cracked.com, Dan O’Brien writes important potentially Pulitzer-prize winning pieces on topics such as Why Spiderman is a Dick and 3 Insane Spider-M
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▶ Ep104 - Bad Pharma Discussion
Dr. Ben Goldacre is the author of two excellent books, Bad Pharma and Bad Science, but he didn’t show up for this episode so there’s not much point telling you more about him. So, Bryan and Hunter jus
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▶ Ep103 - Dan Coyle, David Epstein
For 150 years, we’ve been taught that we had to choose sides when understanding where top-level performance comes from. Is it nature? Or, is it nurture? In this episode, two of our favorite guests of
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▶ Ep102 - John Gurche
When Steven Spielberg was looking for a dinosaur expert for Jurassic park, he chose John Gurche. Steven Spielberg kind of gets to pick whoever he wants, so that’s a pretty good sign that John Gurche i
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▶ Ep101 - Andrew Lih
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the power of the internet and thereby the power of a democratic approach to problem solving like Wikipedia. In The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created Th
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▶ Ep100 - Dave Asprey & Jimmy Burke
Bryan sits down with the founder of The Bullet Proof Executive, Dave Asprey. Long time friend, Jimmy Burke. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep99 - Seal Team 6
Bryan has a very exclusive conversation with one of America's finest military veterans and a former member of Seal Team 6. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep98 - Chad Kultgen
Bryan sits down with author, producer and actor, Chad Kultgen. He is a controversial author notable for publishing several novels on the sexual relationships of Americans. He has published opinion pie
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▶ Ep97 - Steven Strogatz
Steven Strogatz has a really impressive resumé. Besides being a professor at Cornell, he also has the sixth most highly cited paper in all of physics and his 1998 paper “Collective dynamics of small-w
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▶ Ep96 - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Collapse (2005) a
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▶ Ep95 – Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major American physics societies. In addition to his work as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist where he has authored
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▶ Ep94 - Sarah Tiana
Bryan and Hunter sit down with comedian, Sarah Tiana. They talk about their lives in comedy as well as comedians in relationships and much more. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep93 - Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg is a writer for the business section of The New York Times. He's clearly pretty good at it, because he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for a series of ten articles on Apple called iEconomy
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▶ Ep92 - Skylar Stone
Bryan sits down with comedian, Skylar Stone. Stone has been seen on telelvision and in comedy clubs throughout the country. He has a monthly show at the Improv in Hollywood. Be sure to Rate and Commen
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▶ Ep91 - Russell Foster
Along with his colleagues Professor Russell Foster broke the conventional wisdom and discovered a light-sensitive cell inside the eye that had nothing to do with vision. Although much of the scientifi
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▶ Ep90 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand, Bryan sits down with his dad, Michael Callen. They talk about a variety of different things, from professional schooling and the changes they are encountering, as well as the d
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▶ Ep89 - Chris Bell
"Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We lo
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▶ Ep88 - Dov Davidoff
It's the Bryan Callen Christmas Special. Bryan sits down with actor, comedian and good friend, Dov Davidoff. Be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep87 - Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle kept hearing about places all over world where talent flourished. They weren’t necessarily well-funded. They weren’t necessarily in big cities. In fact, quite often, these talent hot spot
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▶ Ep86 - Jessimae Peluso
Bryan sit down with MTV's Girl Code, Jessimae Peluso. She is “a bottle rocket with a pulse,” headed in only the expected, upward trajectory of a firecracker, and ready to explode. The self-proclaimed
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▶ Ep85 - Steve Ujifusa
Growing up in the age of the great transatlantic liner, William Francis Gibbs had only one dream: to build the world’s greatest ship. In that age, nations competed to build the largest, most luxurious
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▶ Ep84 - Don Barris
Don's has an unique brand of comedy unlike most other comics and that makes him the clubs perfect closing act every night. Don was the co-creater/star of the cult classic film, "Windy City Heat", whic
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▶ Ep83 - Jack O'Brien (Cracked.com)
For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyra
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▶ Ep82 - Jay Larson
Bryan sits down with comedian, Jay Larson. They discuss a variety of topics. With appearances on TOSH.0, The Late Late show, The Smoking Gun Presents, Conan and his own half hour special on Comedy Cen
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▶ Ep81 - Tim Ferriss
By 2004, Tim Ferriss was running an online brain and body supplements company that was grossing $40,000 a month. He was his own boss. He was making a lot of money. Things seemed good until one day his
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▶ Ep80 - Joe Rogan
Bryan sits down with comedian, UFC Commentator, and Podcaster of the "Joe Rogan Experience," good friend, Joe Rogan. They discuss their personal hunting experiences and as a added bonus, Master Hunter
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▶ Ep79 - David Grann
"Grann himself inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive,” writes a Slate journalist describing the work of New Yorker reporter David Grann. We can understand why. Grann’s work i
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▶ Ep78 - Bill Burr
Bryan sits down with comedian, Bill Burr. As with other comics associated with The Opie & Anthony Show, in 2008, Burr's voice was featured in the game Grand Theft Auto IV. In the game, Bill plays Jaso
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▶ Ep77 - David Epstein
As a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Dave Epstein helped break the story that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003. He's written for the Swimsuit Edition--which he describes as th
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▶ Ep76 - Tony Blauer
Bryan sits down with fitness expert, Tony Blauer. Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) is one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of close quarter tactics
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▶ Ep75 - Merchants of Doubt
In Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway reveal that the same handful of individuals who have made a career out of selling doubt. Fred Singer, Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg began their
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▶ Ep74 - John Truby
Over the course of three decades working in Hollywood, John Truby has fixed over a thousand film scripts. In his book Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, John refutes the advi
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▶ Ep73 - Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate IP Protection
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▶ Ep72 - Harland Williams
Bryan Callen sits down with actor and comedian, Harland Williams from such movies as "Dumb and Dumber," "Freddy Got Fingered," "There's Something About Mary," "Half Baked," "RocketMan," "Sorority Boys
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▶ Ep71 - Reflections
Bryan and Hunter take this episode to reflect on and synthesize everything they've learned over the course of the last dozen or so episodes recording the show together. From the philosophy of Professo
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▶ Ep70 - Steve Byrne
Bryan and Hunter sit down with the star of "Sullivan and Son," on TBS, stand-up comedian, Steve Byrne. They discuss Steve's sitcom as well as other career moments, including trips overseas doing USO t
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▶ Ep69 - Charles Mann
Charles C. Mann didn't plan to write about the world before and after Columbus, but, at a certain point, he realized he couldn't wait for anyone else to do it. In his book 1491: New Revelations of the
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▶ Ep68 - Jimmy Shubert
Bryan sits down with comedian, actor and podcaster, Jimmy Shubert. He's been seen on his own Comedy Central Special, King of Queens, Italian Job, Go!, and countless other movies and television shows.
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▶ Ep67 - Michael Callen
"Big Mike" Callen, aka Bryan's dad, brings his many years of experience in banking and foreign policy to to a discussion of the government shutdown and the state of Washington today.
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▶ Ep66 - Tom Segura
Bryan Callen sits down with comedian and podcaster, Tom Segura. They talk about stand-up comedy and much more. Also, be sure to Rate and Comment on iTunes.
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▶ Ep65 - Tim Snyder, Michael Callen
In a very special episode of The Bryan Callen Show, Mike Callen joins Bryan and Hunter in interviewing the authors of one of his very favorite books: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Deta
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▶ Ep64 - Jon Lovitz
Bryan and Hunter sit down with comedian and SNL Alumni, Jon Lovitz. They discuss their experiences doing comedy and sketch shows. Jon spoke about his personal experience coming up as a comedian as wel
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▶ Ep63 - Sarah Rose
Sarah Rose is the author of For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History. At the beginning of the 19th century, China had a global monopoly on tea. One of
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▶ Ep62 - Bret Ernst
Bryan sits down with good friend and comedian, Bret Ernst. They discuss comedy, acting, entertainment, sports and Bret marriage plans. This is our first installment of comedy Thursdays. Be sure to che
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▶ Ep61 - Karen Karbo
The New York Times called Karen Karbo "a very funny writer" something that becomes abundantly clear in her wit-filled Kick-Ass Women series of books. Examining the lives of women who lived life on the
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▶ Ep60 - Kim Dower
Kim Dower is fast becoming acclaimed in the poetry world for her humor and "turns." The Los Angeles Times described her first collection Air Kissing on Mars as, "sensual and evocative lyrical snapshot
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▶ Ep59 - Joshua Foer
In 2006, Josh Foer became the U.S.A. Memory Champion and yet he insists his memory is totally average…and so do other memory champions like Ben Pridmore. In fact, as Foer recounts in his New York Time
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▶ Ep58 - Dan Robinson
Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University. According to Bryan, he's also probably the s
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▶ Ep57 - Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt is America's most controversial and perhaps most effective living defender of the First Amendment. However, by his own admission, Larry Flynt did not set out to defend the Bill of Rights.
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▶ Ep56 - Matt Ridley
Listening to the news or hyperlinking our way through blog posts, it might seem like the end is nigh. Whether the coming crisis is environmental, economic or some intoxicating mix of the two, the mess
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▶ Ep55 - Bob Harris
Imagine a bank that operates in 67 countries around the world, has one employee, has made thousands of loans with an average value of $25 a pop and is committed to never making a profit but believes i
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▶ Ep54 - Richard Miles
For over 120 years and across three separate wars, Rome and Carthage battled for control of the Mediterranean in a no-holds barred conflict that would see Hannibal march his elephants across the Alps,
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▶ Ep53 - Jonathan Haidt
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. Would it be wrong if a ma
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▶ Ep52 - Ken Chase
Dr. Ken Chase is the author of Firearms: A Global History to 1700, which legendary historian William McNeill described as "a great achievement." In Firearms, Ken does much more than summarize how fire
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▶ Ep51 - James Rollins
While working as a vet and running a practice with fifteen employees, James began writing again. Beginning with short stories, he built his confidence and his skills until eventually he felt ready to
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▶ Ep50 - Mark Kurlansky
When Mark Kurlansky wrote Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, he was not only publishing a New York Times Bestseller but also creating a whole new type of book. Since then books focus
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▶ Ep49 - Lara Setrakian
As a reporter for ABC and Bloomberg Television, Lara Setrakian crisscrossed the Middle East reporting live as the Arab Spring spread throughout the region. Her first-hand experience of what was happen
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▶ Ep48 - Jim Rickards
In 2009, Jim Rickards was invited by The Pentagon to participate in a new kind of war game where the only weapons to be used would be financial. From the lessons of The Great Depression to the possibi
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▶ Ep47 - David Kwong
Hunter Maats sits in with Bryan Callen on this episode. Bryan interviews magician David Kwong. Called the "Illusunist for Intellectuals," by the Wall Street Journal also known as Hollywood's Favorite
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▶ Ep46 - Elliott Hulse
In this episode, Bryan interviews strength training coach, Elliott Hulse. He's been blogging and creating videos about building strength, increasing vitality and about how to become the strongest vers
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▶ Ep45 - David Blaine
David Blaine opens up about what motivates him to succeed and where it all comes from in the first place. I've known the guy for 23 years and it was a privilege to bring you the man behind the magic.
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▶ Ep44 - Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey, asks Why do I do this? Because I’m happier when I get to help people, and because it took nearly 20 years and $250k to learn how to do things that aren’t supposed to be possible and then
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▶ Ep43 - Jimmy Burke
Bryan sits down with best friend and Prince of New York, Jimmy Burke. They discuss a variety of different topics, focusing around the fighter life. Jimmy Burke comes from a fighter family. His father
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▶ Ep42 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand, Michael Callen, father of Bryan Callen, is making his 4th appearance on the show. They discuss how Mike is relearning Algebra, in an effort to exercise the brain, from the stan
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▶ Ep41 - Kurt Schwengel
Kurt Schwengel has been teaching Kindergarten for over 17 years at the Franklin elementary School in Santa Monica. Franklin school. This former D1 baseball player is considered the rock star of Kinder
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▶ Ep40 - John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein
You were born to achieve greatness, to be a man. But somewhere along the way you started to live an ordinary life. Fitness experts John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein developed a system that targets ho
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▶ Ep39 - Stoney Curtis
Stoney Curtis is an American pornographic actor, director and producer. He founded the adult film companies Celestial Productions in 1998, and Lethal Hardcore in 2004. In 2010 he was inducted into the
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▶ Ep38 - Ronda Rousey
Featuring Ronda Rousey, an American mixed martial artist and judoka. She is the first and current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion, as well as the former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. Sh
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▶ Ep37 - Bruce Buffer
Bruce Buffer is the official Octagon announcer for UFC events. On UFC broadcasts, he is introduced as the "Veteran Voice of the Octagon". He is the half brother of the well-known boxing and profession
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▶ Ep36 - Brendan Schaub
Featuring Brendan Schaub, they talk about the fighting world, self-doubt, the challenge of being a champ and learning how to over come. Real fighting. Great stuff.
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▶ Ep35 - Vincent LaBarbera
Mr. LaBarbera has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest A.V. rating. As a federal and state criminal defense attorney, Mr. LaBarbera has argued over two hundred trials and appeals. He has litigate
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▶ Ep34 - Steve-O
Featuring Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) has become a household name and it all started when he snatched a video camera from his father's closet when he was fifteen years old. From there he started
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▶ Ep33 - Kenny Hotz
Featuring Kenny Hotz, a Toronto based producer and comedian. He is a former South Park consultant and writer, creator/star of the Comedy Central television show Kenny vs. Spenny, creator and writer of
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▶ Ep32 - Tom Bigley
This episode features 1st Sgt. Tom Bigley, a former Delta Force Operator. He's been in every U.S. conflict since Panama. He gives an inside look into the responsibility and philosophy one must possess
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▶ Ep31 - Sam Sheridan
Featuring Sam Sheridan, author of "A Fighter's Heart," "A Fighter's Mind," and most recently "The Disaster Diaries." They discuss a variety of different ways you can prepare yourself for a disaster as
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▶ Ep30 - Tim Ferriss
Featuring Tim Ferriss, an American author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and public speaker. In 2007, he published The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, which was a #1
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▶ Ep29 - Jay Mohr
Featuring Comedian/Actor/Producer and podcaster, Jay Mohr. They discuss a variety of different topics, from the books they both are reading and/or listening to, as well as the (3) people they would lo
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▶ Ep28 - Michael Callen
Back by popular demand is Bryan's father, Mr. Michael Callen, a retired financial businessman, who at one time ran the largest banks in the world, Citicorp. In this episode, they discuss the fiscal cl
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▶ Ep27 - John Leguizamo
Show producer, Mike Casentini and Bryan, close out the year by reviewing some of the past episodes as well as discussing the future of the show. As an added bonus, we've attached a short interview wit
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▶ Ep26 - Kevin Hart
Featuring actor and comedian, Kevin Hart. On the set of the movie, "Ride Along," Bryan interviews Kevin in his trailer. Kevin plays a prank on Bryan for the first 25 minutes, and if it's comedy you wa
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▶ Ep25 - Hunter Maats
Featuring Hunter Maats, author of "The Straight-A Conspiracy." In this episode, they discussissues pertaining to the country as well as asking the questions: Why do nations fail and what are the chall
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▶ Ep24 - Christy Wampole
Featuring Christy Wampole, Assistant Professor of French and Italian at Princeton and author of "How to Live Without Irony," a critically acclaimed article in the New York Times.
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▶ Ep23 - Artie Lange
Featuring Stand-up comedian, actor and MADtv alumni, Artie Lange. They discuss their time at MADtv and Artie opens up about his time in rehab. Funny stories about playing Scrabble in a psych ward and
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▶ Ep22 - Will Sasso
The episode is sponsored by AudiblePodcast.com/Manthoughts, featuring good friend, television and film actor and the creator of the 10 Minute Podcast, British Columbia very own Will Sasso. They discus
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▶ Ep21 - Dov Davidoff
Featuring good friend and standup comedian, actor, writer, Dov Davidoff. The discuss the ways of the world, including entitlements, world populations and technology. The talk about the book, "Gun, Ger
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▶ Ep20 - Hernando Chaves
Featuring sex therapist, Dr. Hernando Chaves. They discuss sex as it pertains to men and women in relationships. The focus is on, how to be a better lover in your relationships and oh yes, they do tal
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▶ Ep19 - Mike Catherwood
Featuring Radio and television personality Mike Catherwood of Lovelines with Dr. Drew and Simone Bienne. He's one of the most beloved names in Los Angeles' top rated radio market. Known to listeners a
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▶ Ep18 - Dr. Howard Wasdin
Featuring Dr. Howard Wasdin, author of 3 books, SEAL TEAM SIX: WARRIOR, SEAL TEAM SIX: OUTCASTS, and SEAL TEAM SIX: MEMOIRS OF AN ELITE NAVY SEAL SNIPER. DR. HOWARD E. WASDIN is a former Navy SEAL Tea
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▶ Ep17 - Michael Callen
Featuring Michael Callen, back by popular demand. Once again, he illuminates us with his wise words. In this episode, we discuss "The Power to Change," recognizing specific behavior patterns, managing
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▶ Ep16 – Kieran Gallagher
Featuring Kieran Gallagher, who has been working in Hollywood as a top tier stunt man for many years. He's currently working on HANGOVER 3 and although he worked on HANGOVER 1 & 2, I didn't meet him u
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▶ Ep15 – Alana Evans
Featuring Alana Evans is one of those rare porn stars who's been romping on film for over 15 years and still going strong. I went to her house in the valley to do this interview and what blew me away
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▶ Ep14 – Matt Mystery
Featuring a Special Operations ground-force commander who was responsible for carrying out KILL/CAPTURE missions in Iraq and Afganistan. I interviewed him after he came back from doing 5 tours in Iraq
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▶ Ep13 – Nate Marquardt
Featuring Mixed Martial Arts and Strikeforce Champion, Nate Marquardt. Nate began his training in the martial arts as a teenager, studying the disciplines of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing, and Kenpo
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▶ Ep12 – Jay Mohr
Featuring comedian, actor, radio host and best selling author, Jay Mohr. We discuss a variety of topics including entertainment industry, stand-up comedy, politics, books and music. Music includes Joh
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▶ Ep11 – Michael Fattorosi
Featuring one of pornography's biggest legal defenders talk about fighting crazy laws, freedom of expression, the positive and negative side of porns vast reach, the FUTURE of porn and what it's like
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▶ Ep10 – Michael Callen
Featuring the man that shaped me, my father, Michael Callen. In this podcast, MICHAEL CALLEN, talks about why he is a libertarian and how the biggest threat to our country is the "growth of the state"
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▶ Ep9 – Jimmy Burke
Featuring good friend and the Prince of New York, Jimmy Burke. Jimmy is a life-long friend. We’ve done a lot together over the years and we’ve seen much of the world. In this episode, we discuss the p
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▶ Ep8 – Michael Rapaport
Featuring film actor Michael Rapaport. A true New Yorker through and through, Michael Rapaport, the son of a radio program manager, may have moved to Los Angeles to try stand-up comedy following high
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▶ Ep7 – John “Bloodclot” Joseph
Featuring the lead singer for the Cro-Mags, John “Bloodclot” Joseph. Joseph was raised in foster care and grew up on the streets of New York. He was the lead singer for the New York hardcore punk band
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▶ Ep6 – Patty Jenkins
Featuring Director of “Monster,” Patty Jenkins. A director with a remarkable grasp of characterization and emotional depth, Patty Jenkins stunned audiences in 2003 with her powerful debut feature, Mon
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▶ Ep5 – Sam Brown – Part 2
Featuring good friend, stand-up comedian Sam Brown. This is the 2nd installment of a 2 part series. Sam Brown’s career began the moment he came out of his mother’s womb and was ignored by his entire f
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▶ Ep4 – Sam Brown – Part 1
Featuring good friend, stand-up comedian Sam Brown. This is the first installment of a 2 part series. Sam Brown’s career began the moment he came out of his mother’s womb and was ignored by his entire
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▶ Ep3 – Dov Davidoff
Featuring good friend, actor and stand-up comedian Dov Davidoff. Combining hyper A.D.D. with an amusingly and acute take on things, Davidoff puts on one of the most high intensity shows in standup mak
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▶ Ep2 – The Straight-A Conspiracy
Featuring the authors of “THE STRAIGHT-A CONSPIRACY,” Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien. What if the only reason you aren’t doing well in school is that you’ve been lied to about your own brain? For cent
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▶ Ep1 – Anthony Tambakis
Featuring writer and producer of the Lions Gate film “WARRIOR,” Anthony Tambakis. Anthony Tambakis is a former Professor of Creative Writing, an award-winning short story writer, and recipient of a Pa
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▶ Ep212 - MMA for the Mind: Master Kim and Tail Piece Tackle Black Live
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 Matt
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▶ Ep211 - MMA for the Mind: Don't waste your money going to fuckin' Hah
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 b
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▶ Ep210 - MMA For the Mind: 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 copying
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▶ Ep209 - 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 w
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▶ Ep208 - MMA for the Mind: 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,
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▶ Ep207 - MMA for the Mind
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
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▶ 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 Parker
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▶ 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 60
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▶ 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.
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▶ 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
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▶ Ep200 - Why do people without power make conspiracy theories? with Jo
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 Cl
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▶ 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 actua
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▶ Ep197 - You Have Less Privacy Than You Thought (aka Creepy Shit Your
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 sta
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▶ Ep198 - Beyond Political Correctness: A Scientific Perspective on Gun
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 b
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▶ Ep196 - Why Culture Matters: Joe Henrich on his book The Secret of Ou
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 brain
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▶ 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
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▶ 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."
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▶ 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
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▶ 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 why
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▶ 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 Ek
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▶ 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!!!
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▶ 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 Sh
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▶ 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 many
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▶ 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
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▶ Ep186 - Adam Benforado: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
There's no doubt in any modern person's mind that the justice of the Medieval era was unjust. The court considered spiritual evidence, pigs were considered legally competent and tried as adult humans
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▶ Ep185 - Jennifer Jacquet: Is Shame Necessary?
It's probably no surprise that Californians have no shame. In fact, as Jennifer Jacquet writes in her latest book, shame has been found to be a central part of the emotional lives of Indonesians but t
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▶ Ep184 - David Sloan Wilson: Does Altruism Exist?
In 1759, while working as a tutor, Adam Smith wrote a book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments that begins as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in
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