• EMMIE Editor-in-Chief Easton Parks
    Feb 8 2025

    In this episode of You Seem Exceptional, EMMIE Magazine's Fun Director Oliver Gerharz and non-member Jeb Blossom talk to Editor-in-Chief Easton Parks about EMMIE Magazine. They discuss UW-Madison's Supply Chain Management Major, Easton's Passion for Music, Kenosha, Easton's year at UW-Parkside, and EMMIE Magazine's history. Access the EMMIE Podcast at https://feeds.transistor.fm/emmie-podcast.

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    48 mins
  • Gun Culture with Professor Nick Buttrick
    Feb 4 2025

    In this episode of You Seem Exceptional, hosts Oliver Gerharz and Jeb Blossom talk to Professor Nick Buttrick, a Professor in UW-Madison's Department of Psychology. They extensively discuss the research that Professor Buttrick has been doing into the culture surrounding gun ownership in America, including safety, politics and responsibility.

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    48 mins
  • Jackson Antonow and the "Enemy in Your Pocket"
    Dec 15 2024

    In this episode of You Seem Exceptional, hosts Oliver Gerharz and Jeb Blossom talk to Jackson Antonow, a Junior at UW-Madison who recently wrote a book about phone addiction called "Enemy in Your Pocket." We talk to Jackson about the negative effects of heavy phone use, the benefits of having more time off of your phone, social media culture and his personal journey with both phone addiction and writing a book about breaking those same habits.
    You can listen to You Seem Exceptional live on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison every Tuesday at 4 PM.

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    51 mins
  • Cornell Professor Neil Lewis Jr. on Higher Education
    Dec 15 2024

    In this episode of You Seem Exceptional, hosts Oliver Gerharz and Jeb Blossom talk to Neil Lewis Jr., a behavioral scientist working in the department of communications at Cornell University.

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    11 mins
  • Eagle Scout Kenny MacAskill
    Nov 19 2024

    This week, Oliver's friend Kenny was in town, so we had a discussion of some of the pressing issues over at Marquette University, UW-Madison's campus rumors and our ancestry. We talk about RFK Jr. a lot more than usual in this one because Kenny is a Political Science Major.

    You can listen to You Seem Exceptional live on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison every Tuesday at 4PM.

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    47 mins
  • Election Day Special with Professor Howard Schweber
    Nov 5 2024

    The two most significant things that regularly happen on Tuesdays are Election Day and new interviews on You Seem Exceptional. To commemorate a very special overlap, we spoke to retired UW-Madison Political Theory Professor Howard Schweber.

    We discussed some of the possibilities of both a Trump and Harris presidency in 2025, how Trump is more comparable to the crooked criminal Nixon than he is to the fascist dictator Mussolini, the value of youth turnout, comparisons between politics here in Wisconsin and politics in California (where Professor Schweber has lived since retirement) and the current political power balance between the left and the right.

    You can listen to You Seem Exceptional live on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison every Tuesday at 4 PM.

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    46 mins
  • Moth GrandSLAM Winner Cheri Miller
    Nov 4 2024

    On October 26th, the Moth Madison held the yearly GrandSLAM event, where the best storytellers in city get together to tell stories. Cheri Miller was the winner among winners that night, so we invited her on the show. We discussed her schooling, her teaching, her work in the toilet seat factory and the joy of storytelling.

    You can listen to You Seem Exceptional live on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison every Tuesday at 4 PM.

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    49 mins
  • Professor Cody Wenthur
    Oct 21 2024

    In this week's episode, we spoke to Professor Cody Wenthur, an Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin0Madison who heads the University's Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation programs. We discuss how addiction works at the general and the chemical level, what a hypothetical addiction vaccine might look like, psychedelics and how Cody became interested in this line of work.

    You can listen to You Seem Exceptional live on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison every Tuesday at 4PM.

    You can find out more about the research happening at the Wenthur lab here: https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/faculty/wenthur-lab/

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    42 mins