The Mating Grounds Podcast
The Mating Grounds Podcast is a collaboration between #1 bestselling author, Tucker Max, and renowned evolutionary psychologist, Professor Geoffrey Miller, to teach men how to be successful with women, dating and relationships.
Through discussions and interviews with the worlds leading experts in human sexuality, psychology, animal behavior, genetics and behavioral studies, they explain in clear and actionable terms precisely what men need to know about sex, dating, relationships, and women, and how to improve yourself in all of those areas.
Plainly put: this is the advice that men wish they had heard when they were 16, that teaches them all the important lessons about sex and dating they are desperate to learn.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2016
Charlie Hoehn Interview
How Do You Not Act Nervous Around A Hot Girl?
Being nervous is not attractive. A lot of guys get nervous around attractive women, and there are actually evolutionary reasons for this.But if you want to get over it, then there are a couple of thi…
How Do You Build Confidence?
How do you build confidence? The key is simple: demonstrated performance. In this short Q&A episode Tucker, Nils and Dr. Miller tell you exactly what that means, and how you can put it into practice …
Why Do Women Like Assholes?
You asked for it, so here it is. By popular request, Tucker, Nils and Dr. Miller break down exactly why assholes do well with women in certain situations, and why some women, at specific points in th…
What Men Need To Know About Young Adult Life (Ages 18-29)
When you leave school, your mate value drops through the floor. You're suddenly competing with guys older, more experienced and more attractive than you are, and at the same time, all the girls your …
Carl White Interview
If you've ever wondered what women think and say about you when you aren’t around, this is your podcast. Today Tucker interviews Carl White, a Tony award-winning Broadway producer. Carl is the "gay b…
What Men Need To Know About College (Ages 18-22)
College is when the world starts to open up for most men, and there's a lot you can do there to make yourself more attractive and increase your ability to have relationships with women. The main thin…
Dr. Christopher Ryan Interview
Tucker interviews Dr. Christopher Ryan, the bestselling author of Sex at Dawn, the seminal text on the evolution of monogamy in human mating. Over the course of the hour, Tucker and Dr. Ryan touch on…
What Men Need To Know About High School (ages 14 -18)
High school sucks for everyone. That's just the way it is. It wasn't great for Tucker and Geoff either. But there are things you can do to make high school better. Tucker and Geoff tell you what you …
Pickup Artists
In response to continual listener curiosity, Tucker and Dr. Miller discuss their opinions of the PUA/seduction community. Not just what it gets right and wrong, but how its systematic assumptions abo…
Isabel Behncke Interview
If you want actionable insights from a brilliant, accomplished, beautiful woman, this will be your favorite Mating Grounds interview so far. Isabel Behncke is a Primatologist at Oxford University. Sh…
How To Stop Being Awkward And Creepy With Women
Most guys come off as awkward and creepy to girls, and they don't even realize they are doing it, or how to stop. This episode describes what initial social interactions are like from a woman's persp…
John Durant Interview
In this episode Tucker interviews John Durant, author of The Paleo Manifesto. John openly and honestly talks about his failings with women, and goes through the steps he took to become more confident…
How Do Women Evaluate Men?
In this episode Tucker and Dr. Miller go through the different ways that women evaluate men: size, body shape, clothing, jewelry, smell and initial contact, and help guys understand what they are doi…
What Is Dating Like For Women (and why does it matter to you)?
Tucker and Dr. Miller examine what dating is really like for women, by discussing a thought-provoking hypothetical for guys, Tucker's experience in a gay bar, the varying consequences to sex for men …
Why Do Women Want These Things In Men?
Tucker and Dr. Miller talk about the evolutionary psychology behind what women find attractive, i.e., why women pick the traits they pick. Dr. Miller explains what sexual selection is and how it impa…
What Do Women Want In Men?
In their first full-length episode, Tucker and Dr. Miller discuss the traits that women find attractive in men, the preferences that vary between women (and why), and the reasons that both men and wo…
The Mating Grounds Introductory Podcast
In the introductory podcast with both Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller, they talk about their goals with the Mating Grounds Podcast, and the upcoming book, Mate. Tucker and Dr. Miller also discuss …
Dr. Carin Bondar Interview
Dr. Carin Bondar is a biologist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia. She's also the presenter of Brave New World With Stephen Hawking on Discovery World, Outrageous Acts of Science on …
Dr. Catherine Salmon Interview
Dr. Catherine Salmon is a Professor of Psychology at University of Redlands. In this episode Tucker and Dr. Salmon discuss the differences between male and female pornography, how romance novels repr…