Shane talks about marketing, boredom, and reducing satiation with Joe Redden Ph. D, an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Carlson School of Management.

Shane talks about emotion regulation and scanning babies with OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience Grad. Student Elina Thomas.

Shane, Cole Marta and Shannon Carlin from MAPS talk about making, storing, and using MDMA in clinical settings.

A special bonus episode of Here We Are featuring Brad Adams, founder of the Los Angeles Medicinal Plant Society and The Los Angeles Psychedelic Science Symposium (LAPSS). Brad talks with Shane about psychedelic research.

This week, Shane talks with Dr. Zlatan Križan, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University and an affiliate of the Center for Study of Violence. He directs the Sleep, Self, and Personality Laboratory (SSPeL) that examines how sleep and personality intersect with social behavior.

Shane dives into the weeds talking with OHSU Grad. Student Rebecca Hood about behavioral neuroscience, Parkinson’s disease, and the resilience of mice.

Shane sits down with the facilitators of the recent Here We Are-MycoMeditations psylocybin retreat in Jamaica. They discussed the highlights, talked about how it went, and shared their afterthoughts.

Shane talks with Professor of religion, and author of “Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” talk about religion and racism.

Shane talks about guns, gorillas, and security with Assistant Professor of Psychology and author of “Don’t Overlook The Human.” Joel Suss, Ph.D.

Shane chats with Assistant Professor at The University of Oklahoma, Katharine Marske about phylogeography, biogeography, biodiversity and how these things relate to speciation.

Shane talks with Entomologist Rachel Stone from Witchita State University about Dung Beetles, the tiny recyclers that live in the tiny world below our feet.

Shane gets a tour of the futuristic BIoME lab at Wichita State University. The group explains the new medical sensor they are developing that has caught the attention of NASA. Hear how the lab is changing the future of medical imagining and more.

Shane has a far out conversation about space with Ph.D. James Schwartz: philosophy teacher at Wichita State University. They discuss the philosophy and ethics of space exploration.

PHD John Harkness, researcher and founder of Rewire Neuroscience, talks with Shane about Neuroplasticity, drug addiction, meth, mice and rats.

Shane gets deep with PHD Student Brittany Alperin and talks about ADHD and the wandering mind through the lens of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Shane talks with James A. Lindsay author of Everybody’s Wrong About God and outspoken atheist voice who holds degrees in physics and mathematics and writer & researcher Helen Pluckrose, known for her focus on the history of religion, ideology and narratives as well as postmodernism and intersectional feminism.

Shane talks psychedelics and medicine hunting with Chris Kilham, author, educator, and world-traveler researching and promoting plant-based medicines. He’s also the founder of Medicine Hunter, Inc.

Cassie Mogilner Holmes, Associate Professor of marketing at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, talks with Shane about happiness.

This week, Shane talks in depth with Assistant Professor UCLA Anderson Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making, Jana Gallus. They get into awards, incentives, and all the things that motivate us.

Shane welcomes back Professor at The University of California, author of "Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones" and the very first Here We Are podcast guest: Ph.D. Martie Haselton. Listen to them gab about hamsters, doggy mating, human estrus, and the intricacies of male and female hormones.