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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 talked about all of the amazing artists in the MUM community and decided to add their art to a piece for this week’s episode.  Find the artists we picked on Instagram.  @megindeth @shannonsimonartist and fan art from @karmavoid @inxy.ink @ajimerson

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 arise when there AREN’T plenty of fish in the sea.  Things only get more beautifully bizarre from there.  Nature has a seemingly endless diversity of mating behaviors but are there some underlying patterns?

For example, giving gifts to mates has evolved over and over in multiple species, but you’d probably find some of those gifts to be very different than what you might imagine.

Be our Valentine? Watch on YT or listen on your favorite app.

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 controversial book ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’

The SSBC™ want to you to be our Valentine on YouTube or your favorite app.

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!

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 download in response to the stimulus of a new podcast drop.  What was your day, week, month, year like that primed you for listening?

And this is just the very recent past!

What happened in childhood and even the prenatal environment that shaped your excellent taste in podcasts?  How has history shaped your culture and how does that influence your actions?  Finally, we look back through deep time at what selection pressures our ancestors faced to explore genetic predispositions toward entertainment like The IBC™.

14 billion years ago a big bang happened that would eventually lead you to The Mind Under Matter Podcast so don’t wait another moment!  On the chance that free will is a thing, we would be delighted if you would use yours to watch the latest episode on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast app today.