🎙️Award-winning comedian Shane Mauss (Conan, Netflix, Prime Video, Comedy Central) combines 20 years of stand-up experience with his favorite insights from interviewing over 400 scientists for The Here We Are Podcast for a one-of-a-kind show.

🎤Shane kicks off the show with science-infused stand up comedy show about the history of halloween, witchcraft, and the evolution of superstition.

🧟The second half of the show he moderates a science panel about topics ranging from zombifying parasites in wildlife to the psychology of fear:

😱 Hillary Anger Elfenbein is a Distinguished Professor at WashU and an expert in Leadership Development, Negotiation, Organizational Behavior. Hillary will share some science of emotion to examine fear and other ways that we respond to being scared.

🧠ASU Cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis is the author of  ‘The Cheating Cell’, ‘A Field Guide to the Apocalypse’’, and ‘Hijacked: The New Science of Neural Manipulation and What It Means for Our Health, Happiness and Sense of Self’

🤔🤣Equal parts aha and haha, this show uses halloween as a springboard for entertaining science insights to better understand ourselves and the world around us.

Shane’s career launched 20 years ago when he won “Best Stand Up” at HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival, kicking off a run of TV spots and sold-out shows. 

Finding the depth of stand-up to be limiting, he took his curiosity on the road, interviewing over 400 scientists for his acclaimed Here We Are Podcast and building a reputation for making complex ideas accessible and funny.

Stand-Up Science is the culmination of that journey: a one-of-a-kind blend of comedy and real science designed to get you thinking.