
My Patriot Brain
By Robert D. Mather, Ph.D.

My Patriot BrainMar 13, 2023

41. Powerfully Unethical
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, WCWS softball, PGA golf, Larry O'Connor, Oklahoma State Senate candidate Matt Watson, Joe Biden's fall, and research on dominance and ethics. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

40. Dodgers' Unforced Error
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, University of Oklahoma softball at the WCWS, the potential for DeSantis to pardon Trump, and the Los Angeles Dodgers' recent missteps with Christians. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

39. Noem's Higher Ed Play
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, University of Oklahoma softball, artificial intelligence, DHS targeting conservatives, and Governor Noem's letter to the South Dakota Board of Regents. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

38. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, University of Oklahoma softball, Bud Light, Target, pandemic-era habits of working parents, D.C. bar exam mask mandates, Fetterman's Senate attire, an upcoming ROPE Report appearance, and research on receptiveness to feedback. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

37. Rodent Utopia's Hell
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, the PGA Championship, Marjorie Taylor Greene's articles of impeachment, Loy Brunson's Supreme Court case, a Republican university president, Chinese seed attack, cigarette vending machines, Tommy Boy, and John Calhoun's NIMH research on rats and mice. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

36. Politics and Mental Health of Kids
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, college baseball cheating, Oklahoma's mental health lifeline, Bud Light and Miller Lite, the Durham report, research on the effect of Trump's rhetoric on minority crowdsourcing, and research on liberal teenage depression. He also answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain Line.

35. Religion? Yes, Please
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, Mother's Day, Budweiser, NCAA D3 Women's Golf, the CIA and the Hunter Biden Laptop story, pandemic behavior, and research on religion. He also answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain Line.

34. Fear of Alpha Males
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, Dr. No, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's polling numbers, federal government shut downs and National Parks, and a study on left-wing authoritarianism and masculinity. He also answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain Line.

33. Useful Stress
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, Oklahoma schools, Anheuser-Busch, and stress research. He also answers questions from listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

32. Facial Segregation
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, AI, a Florida college, a man playing women's poker, beer sales, Oklahoma college workforce, and studies of facial similarities of group members. He also answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain Line.

31. Psychopaths' Good Life
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, Willie Nelson, Bewitched, campus wokeness, Jordan Peterson, political leaks, gender portrayal in culture, the Dixie Chicks, COVID masks, and psychopath research. He also answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain Line.

30. Media Carousel
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, the media shake up of Dan Bongino, Tucker Carlson, and Don Lemon. He also discusses Susan Rice, Joe Biden's Social Security lies, Phil Jackson, and Riley Gaines. He answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain line, including one about informational warfare tactics of persuasion.

29. Social Media Subscriptions
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, DEI at Oklahoma colleges and universities, woke commercials during PGA Tour Champions TV broadcasts, Edmond Public Schools losing a discrimination case in court, Alvin Bragg dropping his appeal, and new research on the coming social media subscription services. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

28. Multi-Level Marketing
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, Tiger Woods, the first laundromat, car manufacturers dropping AM radio from cars, and multi-level marketing. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

27. Parler TKO
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, Oklahoma golf, James Bond, the Manhattan DA's office, Abu Ghraib, and the demise of the social media platform Parler. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

26. Stand Tall
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, a 44-year-old man who married his 28-year-old hairstylist that looked like his own 21-year-old daughter, and research on power poses. He also answers listener questions from the Patriot Brain Line.

25. Bad Empathy
Dr, Mather discusses Major League Baseball, the Masters golf tournament, and a concept called parochial empathy. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

24. Busy, Busy
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, men's college basketball, the Trump case in Manhattan, the IRS, more AI blues, and busyness or "time poverty" research. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

23. Small Talk Self-Sabotage
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball, College Basketball, the Masters, the potential Trump arrest, woke pronouns, and a psychology study on the attributions made during informal conversations.

22. Celebrity Loathing
Dr. Mather discusses Major League Baseball Opening Day, professional golf in Oklahoma, Senator Tuberville's abortion stand, and a new study on the psychological factors that predict hatred of celebrity culture. He also answers listener questions on the Patriot Brain Line.

21. Singing the AI Blues
Dr. Mather discusses the World Baseball Classic, Major League Baseball Spring Training and Opening Day, school police, and artificial intelligence. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line, including a Chinese Company's kissing machine and beer powder.

20. School Resource Officers
Dr. Mather discusses the World Baseball Classic, the Brunson Brothers Supreme Court case, and School Resource Officers. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

19. A Trump Arrest?
Dr. Mather discusses the potential arrest of President Donald Trump on Tuesday of this week as well as the World Baseball Classic. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

18. Psychological Targeting
Dr. Mather gives updates on the World Baseball Classic, James O'Keefe, washing machine restrictions, and DEI in higher education. He discusses psychological targeting, which is creating personality profiles from online data and connecting the data to consumer behaviors through machine learning and AI. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

17. Subminimum Wage Discrimination
Dr. Mather discusses Sara Hart Weir's take on Kansas H.B. 2275 to expand tax credit to entities that pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line and discusses aliens.

16. Aliens and the Bible
Dr. Mather discusses the World Baseball Classic, actors Fred Dryer and Carl Weathers, and a potential alien visit in the Bible. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

15. Faculty Politics
Dr. Mather discusses the CPAC poll, the Chinese national security threat in Oklahoma, Merrick Garland and the Senate Judiciary Committee, Google's censorship of Townhall's stories, blogger registration in Florida, and the new FIRE report on faculty politics and free speech attitudes. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

14. Breitbart's Wisdom
Dr. Mather discusses the TikTok bans, a future trend in social psychology, CPAC, and Andrew Breitbart's legacy. He also responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

13. Neuro-Surveillance
Dr. Mather discusses spring training Major League Baseball, the World Baseball Classic, local college baseball, National Public Radio layoffs, a university banning DEI statements, and the ethical considerations for employers monitoring the brain activity of their employees. He also responds to the Patriot Brain Line.

12. Bullying
Dr. Mather discusses cultures of honor, NPR's workforce reduction, bullying and peer victimization research. He also responds to listeners from the Patriot Brain Line.

11. Introvert Brains
Dr. Mather discusses Tim McCarver, the new Major League Baseball rules, the Brunson SCOTUS case, Jimmy Carter, Bruce Willis and frontotemporal dementia, the case study of Phineas Gage, Tulsa King Season 2, a clinic whistleblower, and the neuroscience of introverts. He also responds to the Patriot Brain Line.

10. Teen Suicides and Sleep
Dr. Mather discusses the concept of the flipped classroom, the Brunson Brothers SCOTUS case, Dwight Gooden, the Super Bowl, and college football coaches who ran for office as Republicans. He also discusses a new study linking teen suicide rates to sleep. He responds to listeners on the Patriot Brain Line.

9. Airbnb and Nord Stream
Dr. Mather discusses sports, the Super Bowl, Airbnb's ban of Lauren Southern's parents, the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, and some of his favorite psychological scientists. He also discusses recently meeting Heisman Trophy Winner Billy Sims.

8. State of the Union
Dr. Mather discusses the State of the Union address, the Grammys, and his recent Rucksack Radio appearance. He also responds to listener questions from the Patriot Brain Line

7. Is the IRS Racist?
Dr. Mather discusses Red Raider basketball, the Super Bowl, the woes of being a Dallas Cowboy fan, the Chinese spy balloon, more of the Newsmax issue, and his upcoming live appearance on Rucksack Radio. He gives his thoughts on the recent study that found the IRS artificial intelligence algorithms disproportionately audit Black taxpayers.

6. Conservative Media 2023
Dr. Mather discusses important conservative media shows of 2023. He also weighs in on Ilhan Omar, the Chinese spy balloon, the new The Sims game, and Patriot Brain Line discussion of Scott Wiener and the Brunson Brothers.

5. Put the Kids to Bed!
Dr. Mather discusses the importance of independent publishing, an update on AT&T's Newsmax decision, the Associated Press style recommendations, and a neuroscience study on socioeconomic disparities in sleep and brain structure in children.

4. AT&T Slaps Newsmax
Dr. Mather discusses AT&T's recent decision to drop Newsmax from their channel portfolio and how it is part of a broader problem of conservative censorship.

3. Woke Gender
Dr. Mather discusses recent gender issues from the news and responds to listener questions from the Patriot Brain Line.

2. DNC Propaganda
Host Dr. Robert Mather covers progressive messaging tactics, whataboutism, and conservative social workers. He answers listener questions from the Patriot Brain Line.

1. A Conservative in the Ivory Tower
Host Dr. Robert Mather outlines the show format, discusses his professional background, the Penn Biden Center, Parallel Economy, Oklahoma City conservative talk radio, the Patriot Brain Line, and gives his take on the lack of ideological diversity in higher education.

My Patriot Brain Trailer
Introduction to My Patriot Brain and the Christian conservative behavioral scientist host. Podcast covers psychological science, politics, and sports.