The World Building Boys of Comedy™ are finalizing the plans for the physical manifestation of Mind Under Matter at their Campout Festival. Shane went to a second and final event at Lake Side Retreats in Raleigh. This one was produced by Life Is Art Productions (who is also doing our campout festival). He was blown away. All previous concerns have been replaced with excitement and dreams. Shane has even decided to move to Raleigh to build a MUM world over the summer. We had to do one final update...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Season 2Ep. 59
This place is insanely awesome! Shane traveled to Raleigh to see where The Campout Festival Boys of Comedy™ will be hosting the Mind Under Matter Campout Festival Sep 8 – 11th. After checking out a different campout festival here… WOW! There is no describing the excitement but we take a whack at it anyway. Lakeside Retreats is amazing and we can’t believe we are going to get to build our own Mind Under Matter World. Any anxieties that we had before seeing the place went away and now it’s time to...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 58
This week's art suggestion comes from future Here We Are guest, Emily Petrucci! Huge thanks to Emily for the amazing comments and letters. We always learn so much from you :) More info about The Mind Under Festival/Campout in Raleigh, NC Sep 9-12 https://mindunderpod.com/pages/campout Shirts, posters, and MUMerch https://mindunderpod.com/pages/store
May 20, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 53
The Mailbag Opening Boys of Comedy™ take another round of listener questions. How did Shand and Ramin meet? Why does life keep getting weirder? Does a higher self choose to experience trauma? We are all stars, but what should you do if you meet someone famous? Listen in to hear The MOBC™ answer a fun mix-bag of questions. Make sure to comment on social media, YouTube, or (best of all) Patreon and be included in the next Q&A show! We have already sold a bunch of early-bird tickets for the Cam...
May 17, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 57
The Excited Boys of Comedy™ are officially launching The Mind Under Matter Campout Festival Raleigh, NC Sep 9-12 (Patreon Day on the 8th) Lakeside Retreats (20 minutes from downtown) Camping is included in the ticket, and if you don't like camping there are plenty of hotels and other accommodations nearby. If you don't have your own gear, we can also help you arrange tents, glamping, RVs, and more. This is the first-ever live Mind Under Matter event! Comedy, Music, Live Podcasts, Art, Science Ta...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Psycho, Con, or Egomaniac? The Dark Boys of Darkness™ take a Dark Triad survey to find out how that rate on psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. You can take the survey along with Shane and Ramin here: https://www.idrlabs.com/dark-triad/test.php Be sure to share your results (in the comments below/ at @mindunderpod) Is lying ever OK? Have you been in trouble with the law? Are you prone to flights of fancy? How is your temper? Are you impulsive? How are your relationships with family? D...
May 03, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Season 2Ep. 55
How do you decide what to do with your life? The Guidance Counseling Boys of Comedy™ answer your questions for their first Advice Column episode. Shane and Ramin offer some thoughts on choosing a life path, overcoming pointlessness, recovering from injury, overthinking, functional anxiety, and building an audience. Saddle up to hear heavy topics lightened with laughs on the road to self-discovery. The GCBC™ love to experiment with new themed episodes and find more ways to involve listeners. They...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Come celebrate the discovery of LSD with The Kaleidoscopic Boys of Comedy™ On April 19th 79 years ago, Albert Hofmann had the first semi-intentional dose of Lysergic acid diethylamide. He then famously hopped on a bicycle, and the rest is dilated history. Since that bizarre day, it has changed the lives of countless people including Shane and Ramin’s. Oh yeah, it works! But experiences vary. Hear how The KBC’s™ experience with acid differs from mushrooms. Despite such positive impacts on our liv...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 53
The Literally Resurrecting Literal Bunnies of Literal Comedy™ literally spring from their literal nests to literally celebrate literal Easter. After some fun updates about our MUF, we send you on an Easter egg hunt! Check out Shane’s documentary ‘Psychonautics’ on Prime and find the hidden shot to win a free T-shirt. The movie is also a good primer for next week’s Bicycle Day Episode! We don’t know if JC literally rose from the dead, but there are entire species that metaphorically have. As natu...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 52
The Kids Of The Boys Of Comedy™ join Shane and Ramin for the first team episode! Matt McCool (real last name) is the amazing editor of both Mind Under Matter and Here We Are. If you follow us on Instagram or watch on YT or Spotify, you’ve gotten to see all the fun things that the best editor in podcasting adds to MUM. What you would never know is all the little stuff that goes into making quality audio and video that no one would ever notice unless he stopped doing it. Rhianna ‘The Hippie Witch’...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 13
The Upgraded Boys of Comedy™ reflect on completing their first year of the show. We bring in the new season with new cameras, lighting, studio upgrades, and new features! The UBC™ generally think it’s unrealistic to try to go from zero to 60 on any project, but something was special about Mind Under Matter. Shane, Ramin, Matt and Rhianna went above and beyond to make a nearly complete vision of our show from the beginning and most importantly, we stuck with it. We’re all so proud of what we acco...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 51
The Starstruck Boys of Comedy™ welcome the legend as their very first guest on the show. It’s the last episode of the first season of Mind Under Matter and we wanted to go out with one of the last of a dying breed. Doug Stanhope built a cult following as one of the most authentic, debaucherous, smartest, edgiest, funniest comics who has ever lived. Well before podcasting and social media gave comedians more of a chance to take their career into their own hands, Doug broke the mold. He basically ...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 50
What would you do if you met your younger self? If you had to eat the same meal every day, what would it be? Do you prefer to have more or less knowledge about frightening topics? This week The Obliging Boys of Comedy™ dive back into the mailbag for a hilarious and thoughtful episode. This is the second public Q&A episode and it’s safe to say that we will be making this a regular part of the show. From philosophical, to the pragmatic, to the absurd… our patrons’ and Instagram followers’ ques...
Mar 21, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Shane and Ramin have TWO tremendous pieces of news. Don’t miss this episode as it involves some plans you are going to want to make! The Charmed Boys of Comedy™ are feeling The Luck of the Irish. This week we chat about the history of St Paddy’s Day. We talk about Shane’s Irish ancestry, potato famines, and early American immigrants. After doing Origins of Halloween (ep 29), Christmas Origins (ep 36), and now exploring St Paddy’s Day as a respite from Lent, we are starting to notice a bit of a t...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 48
The Necromancers of Comedy™ use modern alchemy to determine how conspiratorial they are. This week S hane and Ramin take the 15 question ‘Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale’ The scale breaks the score down into five facets: - Government Malfeasance: Belief in routine criminal conspiracy within governments - Malevolent Global Conspiracies: Belief that small, secret groups exert total control over global events - Control of Information (CI): Belief that unethical control and suppression of informa...
Mar 07, 2022•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 47
The New Tradition Starting Boys of Comedy™ bring in the first inaugural International Mind Under Matter Day on 2/22/22! What is International MUM Day? For the first year, we are going to hash it out together. If you could cobble together a new holiday with your favorite things from other holidays, what would it look like? What is your ideal festival? If Shane and Ramin put together a Mind Under Matter camp out next year would you be interested in joining The NTSBC™? Tune in to find out more. We ...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 46
The Sexually Selected Valentines of Comedy™ release their second episode on mating behavior. Last week we went through a bit of the early history of the scientific debates over the evolution of utility versus beauty. This week we will go through some of the more recent theories about mating behavior to better understand the eruption of various behaviors that have both created and destroyed an uncountable number of species on earth. We start with a dive underwater to see what odd strategies might...
Feb 14, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 45
This week The Sexually Selected Boys of Comedy™ get into some of the basics of the evolution of mating. Charles Darwin’s birthday is just before Valentine’s Day on Feb 12. We thought it would be fitting to spend the next two weeks talking about how change over time has shaped the tantalizing act of spreading genes. 'On The Origin of Species' put Darwin on the map and introduced the world to evolution. But when it came to mating, things like the peacock just weren’t making sense. This spawned his...
Feb 08, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 44
The Amenable Boys of Comedy™ take questions from the listeners and wow did the MUMies come through with some good ones! How many hot dogs have you eaten in your life? Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? Do you believe in ghosts? How would you use a time machine? Who would you like to talk to from History? This was the first Q&A episode that we tried and ended up with so many fantastic questions from both Instagram and Patrons that we decided to do two episodes!
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 43
This week The Interdisciplinary Boys of Comedy™ explore the interconnectedness of the many areas of research needed to understand the puzzling number of factors that lead to any single behavior. How do we go about understanding even a simple behavior like deciding to listen to this podcast? First, we would need to know what is going on in the brain moments before you hit play. Then we would need to consider the hormones floating around your neurological environment that made you inclined to down...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 42
The Multitude Containing Boys of Comedy™ discuss the idea of our subselves. This week we consider the idea that who we are is made up of several evolved subselves that (often subconsciously) drive behavior and ultimately the inclusive fitness of your genes. An idea in the book ‘The Rational Animal’ is that there are seven of these subselves: Self-protection, Affiliation, Status, Disease Avoidance, Mate-Acquisition, Mate-Retention, Kin-Care. From looking at this list you can probably think of a l...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 41
The Music Explorers of Comedy™ share their favorite bands. At the frequent request of fans, we dedicated a whole episode to talking about some of our favorite music from childhood to today. We chat about Pink Floyd, Prince, Nirvana, OK Go, Post Modern Jukebox, Of Montreal, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Flaming Lips, The Police, Sting, Devo, CCR, The Talking Heads, Coletrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Kimya Dawson, The Avett Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, Knower, Zappa, We...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 40
The Working Boys of Comedy™ go job hunting! We thought we would kick the year off with a job placement survey and explore the paths we may have been suited for had we not been destined to make the world’s greatest podcast. We honestly were not at all expecting something from The Department of Labor to be so much fun, but this might be the best survey episode yet. We hope you enjoy Shane’s laugh because it turns out, Ramin is well-suited for a job as a Job Impersonator. The WBC™ had such a blast ...
Jan 04, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 39
The Resolute Boys of Comedy™ bring in the New Year and give birth to a new character. We both appreciate the opportunities for reflection and resets, but why do New Year’s resolutions often fail? What are some SMART goals that give people a better chance of success? We reflect on the first year of Mind Under Matter and how it has changed some of our work habits. We reveal some of our plans for 2022 including an app, a book, and a tour! The RBC™ would like to thank all you MUMmies out there for a...
Dec 28, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Special thanks to Benjamin Bedley for this week's art suggestion! Follow Ben at https://www.instagram.com/benbedley/ We decided to put this episode out for the public to enjoy. Happy MUMmas!
Dec 17, 2021•48 min•Ep. 36
The Infectious of Boys of Comedy™ dig into the history of pandemics. Life on earth started billions of years ago. Life parasitizing other life, evolved shortly after. And the endless arms between viruses and hosts began. This mix of battles and cooperation gave rise to much of the rich complexity and diversity of life in addition to some of its biggest threats. Early sexual reproduction may even have become more successful than cloning in part to escape disease spread. And now sex is one of the ...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 37
The Festive Boys Of Comedy™ get all dressed up in top-of-the-line Christmas outfits to explore the history of the winter solstice. This holiday season many celebrate some of our most cherished traditions, but where did they come from? Some historians believe Yuletide was the prequel to Christmas and Santa was played by Odin. Some of our traditions may even have been influenced by psychedelics. One thing is clear, there is a rich history of partying very hard during the longest nights of the year...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
(Edit: Just made this one public so that anyone can check it out. Happy Holidays! Grateful for all of you) The Appreciative Boys of Comedy™ release a bonus episode on gratitude. In this episode we pick up where we left off on ‘Episode 33: Attitude of Gratitude’ and finish taking ‘The Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Scale’. Could we be more grateful? Always. But we’re grateful for the gratitude we already have. Tune in to find out how we score and where you fall in each category....
Dec 07, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 9
The Constantly Adapting Boys of Comedy™ discuss the endless race of life. In Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’, The Red Queen explains to Alice that in her world “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” This week we look through this lens to see why completion and exploitation create seemingly endless evolutionary arms races common to most life on earth. When a predator gains an advantage over prey, the prey that will be the most successful are the ones that ad...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 35
The Looping Thought Boys of Comedy™ ruminate on why we dwell on the past. Shane had an embarrassing little incident recently and wanted to share how dumb he feels about it while it’s still fresh. What are the things that we continue to ruminate on and why? What are the factors the brain is using when determining what past events are worth holding onto and reminding you of? Are those embarrassing thoughts we kick ourselves for useful? Even if they are useful, do they really need to be so painful ...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 34
