You Seem Exceptional

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.

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.

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.

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/

Every year, UW-Madison distributes a book to thousands of students as a part of the Go Big Read. This year, the university handed out copies of Rebekah Taussig's "Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body". We got the chance to sit down with her this week to discuss the book, our takeaways from reading it, the Go Big Read and her experiences as a disabled woman, mother, teacher, and author.

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

You can learn more about Dr. Taussig and her work here: https://www.rebekahtaussig.com/

You can learn more about the Go Big Read here: https://gobigread.wisc.edu/

This week, we talk to English Professor Ramzi Fawaz. We discuss his research into the transformative powers of a psychedelic humanities education, the relationship between American popular culture (superheroes) and social justice movements and the career in education that led to and has followed his PhD in American Studies. 

Catch You Seem Exceptional Live at 4PM every Tuesday on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison.

This week, Oliver talks to Mary Huelsbeck, the Assistant Director at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. We talk about the collections at the center, how Mary got interested in the field and how who uses the center. 

If you want to use the center's services or add your own collection to theirs, you can learn more here: https://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/

Catch You Seem Exceptional Live at 4PM every Tuesday on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison.

This week, we had the privilege of talking to Vince Hesprich, the Sports Director at WSUM. Our topics of discussion vary more wildly than usual this episode as we discuss driving, broadcasting Badger sports events, being a chess prodigy, the sports club at WSUM, childhood video games, our lowest points and failing our AP Physics exams. Catch You Seem Exceptional Live at 4PM every Tuesday on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison.

We have returned from the summer. Our first guest of the semester is Neil Crowson, a student in an Occupational Therapy Doctorate program here at UW-Madison. We discuss Neil's life in Madison, growing up in Salt Lake City and an experimental high school class, and we also go fairly in-depth on rock climbing. Catch You Seem Exceptional Live at 4PM every Tuesday on WSUM 91.7 FM Madison.

For the last You Seem Exceptional of the semester, we decided to switch things around and have our host Jeb interview fellow host Oliver. We discuss Chicago and deep dish pizza, Scouts and camping, storytelling and college journalism and Oliver's dog Wilbur.