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Here We Are

Shane Mauss

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Globetrotting and mind exploring comedian Shane Mauss interviews scientists each week on journey to answer the biggest questions about the meanings of life (as well as a bunch of other random stuff you never imagined you would care about). Favorite topics include: psychology, biology, evolution, cognitive biases, behavioral economics, mating, animal behavior, neuroscience, and the subconscious
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Mind Under Matter

Shane Mauss and Ramin Nazer

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Two comedians explore their favorite big ideas with absurdity and openness to unravel the meanings of life. Shane Mauss is an adventurer and award-winning stand-up who interviews scientists about the workings of life for The Here We Are Podcast. Ramin Nazer is a multi-talented artist and viral illustrator who interviews creatives about the transcendental for The Rainbow Brainskull Hour. After a decade of friendship and philosophical discussions, these two autodidacts have turned their conver ...
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Riff Board

Shane Mauss and Dave Waite

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Dave Waite's Friend (Shane Mauss) and Dave Waite host a podcast that a celebration of immaturity. It's like "Serial" but for silly people. So listen from the beginning to enjoy the cast of characters and the story arch of the first season the Riff Board.
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Double Date Podcast

Shane Mauss & April Macie

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Shane Mauss, a self-described “gangle-puss” (adj. a gangly snuggle-puss) with a penchant for animal mating behavior and science facts and April Macie, a self-denied “angry feminist” (Betty Freidan in a bikini) met on a bus… SHANE: “You can’t just say we met on a bus!” APRIL: “It was a bus!!” SHANE: “People are going to think we met on a Greyhound.” APRIL: “Okay! We met on a DAMN tour bus!” Anyway, after dating for a little over a year, these two professional touring comedians and lovers are ...
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Conversations that warm the heart and ignite our intuitions towards our service. I talk to artists, researchers, scientists, mystics, engineers and all the torcher bearer of humanity. How can we become wiser as a species and sync with the symphonies of nature. What pathways will allow us to grow up into our BODIES, so they come an instrument of Universe's mind playing its symphonies out of infinite entropy.
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Eating It: Stories of Bombing, Bad Sets, and Shows Gone Wrong A podcast featuring interviews with amazing entertainers sharing their horror stories from the comedy biz. Hosted by your sweet pickle pal, J Tyler Menz.
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I'm Not Joking

Dr. Peter McGraw

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Glimpse into the lives of comedians, improvisers, comedy writers, and other funny people from business, science, and the arts. Host Dr, Peter McGraw—a behavioral scientist, business school professor, and Director of the Humor Research Lab (aka HuRL)—sits down with funny people for a wide-ranging discussion of their habits, motivations, and secrets to success.
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Artsy AF

Artsy AF Podcast

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Full time artist Andrew Norris explores the nuances of art, creativity and business, interviewing painters, musicians, creative entrepreneurs and more. Topics range from process and techniques, flow states and organization, to career advice, and personal stories. Whether art is your hobby or you’re a dedicated creator, this is the podcast for you.
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A comedy talk radio podcast hosted by 20 year old Chicago comedian, AJ Lubecker. Each week AJ will be joined by another comedian and they will get into chatting about all sorts of strange things. The self-proclaimed, "Wackiest Podcast in the World"
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Sounds of the Night is a weekly podcast where host Oscar De Leon and guests talks about life and choose two songs each according to a theme. Be sure to follow our Spotify playlist or buy the music you hear on the show!
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Is something taking over your brain? Zombified is a podcast about how we are vulnerable to being hijacked by things that are not us. From microbes hijacking behavior, to humans influencing each other, to our brains being taken over by social media, we talk about why zombification happens, why we are susceptible to it, and what we can do about it. Hosted by Dr. Athena Aktipis, a Psychology Professor at Arizona State University and the founder of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Alliance, and co ...
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The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour (formerly known as both Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident and The Goddamn Dave Hill Show on WFMU) features comedian/musician/writer/actor/artist/man-about-town/thinking man Dave Hill and sidekicks Dez and Chris Gersbeck sitting down to have a delightful conversation with various notable people, including but not limited to fellow comedians, musicians, actors, authors, supermodels, convicts and whoever else he can talk into it. Watch live every Monday at 8pm ET on Tw ...
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Simon is a dear friend and a radiating human being who brings joy and grounded beauty to the people he touches. We talked about, plat diets, the energy of humans and plants, the 3 realms of existence, the popular spread of psychedelics and what that would means, Shipibo traditions, delicate balance of set and setting, how we are made of things we t…
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Shane Mauss shares the origin story of his interest in life’s origin story. A hobby of watching nature documentaries turned into a full-blown science obsession that sent Shane’s comedy career careening off the traditional stand-up path and onto a unique journey of getting to use humor to explore the hidden underpinnings seeding the tree of life. Ha…
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BE WARY of unbounded chaos, step into it only if you accept to be completely obliterated or have the power to transcend chaos into a symphony. Human interaction with language model is an open experiment on human species and their sense of subjectivity without any sustainable longterm vision in sight. This conversation is to reveal the nature of the…
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Kemal Aslam is a Tattoo artist, animator, and cyber security professional. He is also one of the most curious individuals I have ever met whose perspectives I really value. He speaks his mind and heart with openness with honesty even if it takes non-conventional directions. @kemshizzle Topics discussed: Ritual and Stories the glue of our tribes. Sy…
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Michael Roy, aka Birdcap makes whimsical and cartoon-like characters influenced by both historical paintings and street art His work is a product of the south, (he grew up in Mississippi) both a love letter to the region he calls home and a challenge to its problems. He creates densely colored scenes that slide between references to Jim Henson and …
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Abstract Artist Nick Bultman and I hopped on a Zoom call to discuss his story, process, and social media strategies amongst a buffet of other topics both art related and not.To support Artsy AF, join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artsyAFpodcastWhere to find NickIG: https://www.instagram.com/nbultman_art/YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UC1Qq0vz3…
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He's a comedian, psychedelic proselytizer and scientific communicator. It's Shane Mauss! Shane is currently taking his unique psychedelic infused comedy tour on the road: https://www.shanemauss.comHe also has some very nice mind supplements ( https://www.mypurplelady.com ) that we discuss in this episode. Thanks for being here! SHOUTS!…
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Where to find Soulacybin Bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/soulacybin Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FVJbKYvs5oxBreELfI0vK?si=YmQ3difiThGjEr3-CHCBUw Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/soulacybin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulacybin/?hl=enIt's been a long 21 months, folks. We're back, baybeeeee!Artsy AF returns with a low-producti…
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This episode comes from a conversation with the Director of Life Sciences here at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses on hibernation! Why do animals do it? What's the difference between say... torpor and taking a nap? Could humans ever hibernate? Plus, we get to dive into some other fascinating research about fish species, spe…
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Today, I sit down with Andrew Kerr, head of the Dale Etheridge Planetarium in Las Vegas! Andrew is an astronomer and physicist who received his PhD for his work on the Gravito-Electromagnetic Effect and the Cosmological Constant. In this episode, we talk about the state of planetariums, seek to understand the utility of constellations and star clas…
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Behold the twisted paths of the mind, where laughter and shrooms dance a cosmic Macarena. Delve with us into the mind-bending musings of comic and psychonaut Shane Mauss, to awaken our inner selves from the slumber of the undead, and to discuss how psychedelic tourism may create it's own zombie society. Prepare for a mind-expanding mix of science a…
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Are you looking for a way to expand your mind and learn ancient secrets for the low price of only $70,000 a year? Then join the Cult of Academia - where after only eleven or so years, you can compete for the job of cult leader! We talk with recovering academic Nicole Barbaro about her daring escape from academia and attempt to deprogram others - th…
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Today we have 2 of the co-founders of Meow Wolf on the show! Meow Wolf is a unique art collective that started as a small group of artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dumpster diving for materials and creating immersive art installations in temporary spaces. Over the years, the group grew and evolved into a permanent business, creating an immersive ar…
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Today I'm at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville speaking with Kimberly Sheldon all about dung beetles! Kim studies the patterns and processes that determine the distribution of species and use this information to predict impacts of anthropogenic change on species and ecological communities. Learn more about Kim's work: http://www.biogeographyre…
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Creator of Comedy Central's 'Tales From The Trip' Grant Lindahl is back on the show. In this second installement, Shane and Grant try to write a new Tales From The Trip together. Hear about Grant's first psychedelic experience and how psychedelics made him less trippy. Then enjoy Shane hashes out some new stories with Grant and they talk about what…
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Today I'm learning about virtual education and how technology is helping teach students about otherwise complex topics. Shalaunda Reeves holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction and her research interests focus on how people learn in virtual environments. Learn more: https://tpte.utk.edu/people/shalaunda-reeves-phd/ https://www.shanemauss.com/ Tha…
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Pete Holmes is the host of the fantastic podcast 'You Made It Weird'. Shane owes many of his fans to his appearances on his show. Pete has combined spirituality and comedy like no one else. If you have not seen Pete's show 'Crashing' on HBO, it is absolutely amazing! Always fun to talk about comedy, philosophy, wild stories, and pee-holes with ole …
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Henry Gee is the author of ‘A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth’ - winner Royal Society Science Book Award 2022 and more notably, one of Shane's favorite books :) Henry is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and editor at Nature. He is also a hilarious, charming, wonderful guy who articulates the story of our existence in a poetic and acc…
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Happy International MUM Day!! Today I'm hanging out with the incredibly talented and funny animator behind Tales from the Trip! Grant shares his story of how he got started with art, growing up in an isolated environment, and how Tales from the Trip was born. Check out the latest Tales from the Trip featuring Shane and Ramin! https://youtu.be/6VBMX…
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Myq Kaplan joins Minds Under Matter as the first guest Ramin to talk all about love! Myq is Shane’s oldest friend in comedy joins the show to talk about love of career, friends, and significant others. Myq is one of the most clever, thoughtful, prolific comedians in the business. You check out all of his stand up on https://m…
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Birds, animal communication, evolution, environmental pressures, and human impacts. This conversation was very much in the Here We Are wheelhouse which made for a loose, funny, and fascinating episode! It was such a treat to talk with Associate Professor Elizabeth Derryberry in person at The University of Tennessee Knoxville https://eeb.utk.edu/peo…
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I've got some major life updates including a residency in Vegas at https://area15.com/ Sundays starting April 23. Tickets and details should be available by the end of the month. Stay tuned for more soon! This week Rebecca Tiffany Trout Fryxell talks about the La Crosse Virus. What is it? What does it do? How is it treated or prevented? Humans, ani…
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Is Twitter heralding the end of society as we know it? We have an apocalyptically great time talking to award-winning author (and passionate tweeter) Steven Beschloss about the good, the bad and zombifying aspects of social media, including his personal successes and struggles trying to use Twitter to build a virtual space for true dialogue. In the…
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