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You Seem Exceptional features a guest each week so that we can get to know them and their story.
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Booking probability
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Guest openness
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Signup to Generate a PitchYou Seem Exceptional is hosted by WSUM. The show has published 51 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Art Teacher Elliot Novak" (17 July 2026, 50 minutes), "District 8 Alder Ellen Zhang" (24 May 2026, 41 minutes), and "Musician Sean Michael Dargan" (20 May 2026, 47 minutes).
You Seem Exceptional publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 51 episodes.
Booking probability for You Seem Exceptional is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. You Seem Exceptional requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. You Seem Exceptional's contact route on record: public web form.
WSUM hosts You Seem Exceptional, a society podcast with 51 episodes published.
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Episode #52
In 2025 my friend Elliot Novak graduated from UW-Madison and got a job as an Art Teacher. Join us and co-host Ian Hoffman as we talk about how Elliot approaches teaching, why kids are like that these days, and what it's...
Episode #51
Ellen Zhang, a Sophomore at UW-Madison, was recently elected the next Alder of District 8, a seat on the City Council representing the UW-Madison campus area. In this episode of You Seem Exceptional she joins host...
Episode #50
Sean Michael Dargan is a musician and the advisor to the Wisconsin Union Directorate's Music Committee. In this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver Gerharz and freshly graduated guest co-host Easton Parks talk to...
Episode #48
Michael Pipkorn is the director and writer of "Fragile," one of two student films to come out of Com Arts 659 this semester. “Fragile” is about two college students who meet and fall in love, start dating, but when the...
Episode #47
Natalie Tocco is a veterinary pathologist with years of experience in autopsy of wild, pet, and zoo animals. Join host Oliver Gerharz and guest co-host Ian Hoffman in an interview discussing the grief of losing an...
Episode #46
On this week's episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and guest co-host Kayla Dembiec speak with Dominique Brossard, a science communicator at UW-Madison currently working with the Morgridge Research Institute. They...
Episode #45
Dane County's Shamrock Club named Steve Goldberg the "Irish Person of the Year" in 2026, despite Steve not being Irish by blood. For St. Patrick's Day, Steve joins Oliver and guest co-host Paige-Elizabeth Kearney in an...
Episode #44
Jean Oliveras worked at USAID for 15 years, but after Trump put a pause on foreign assistance, she got an email from DOGE (The Department of Government Efficiency) asking her to report any office, position, program...
Episode #43
On this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and guest co-host Allie Hoffert interview three fisherman on the ice of Lake Monona Bay. Tune in to hear about why these men are interested in ice fishing, what equipment...
On this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and guest co-host Lydia Picotte interview Franciska Coleman, an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at UW-Madison's Law School. They talk about what free speech is...
Episode #41
On this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and Jeb have a dynamic conversation with Eric Wilcots, the Dean of UW-Madison's College of Letters & Sciences and its 25,000+ students. On one hand, they discuss where...
Part of series of brief interviews with competitors in the 2025 Moth GrandSLAM, in this episode Oliver and Jeb talk to Alice Pauser, a prolific storyteller who was once the first guest on the show in early 2024. They...
Episode #39
Part of series of brief interviews with competitors in the 2025 Moth GrandSLAM, in this episode Oliver talks to Eli Schmidt, a student who sits next to him in Professor Adam Schrager's Social Impact Storytelling class...
Part of series of brief interviews with competitors in the 2025 Moth GrandSLAM, in this episode Oliver and Jeb talk to Danielle Hairston-Green, a storyteller and host at the Moth. They discuss how Danielle learned about...
Episode #37
On this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and Jeb talk to Men's Rowing Coach Beau Hoopman, who tells the story of how he walked on to the men's Rowing Team in 1999 having never rowed before, won two Olympic medals...
Episode #36
On this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and Jeb talk to Oliver's Roommate Ranvir. They discuss in-depth where Ranvir is from, going through what it means to say you are from India, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and San...
Episode #35
On this episode of You Seem Exceptional, Oliver and Jeb talk to Brent Plisch, the Chief of UW-Madison's Police Department. Chief Plisch talks about UWPD policy on underage drinking and smoking on campus, the change in...
Episode #34
This week our guest is Mariel Barnes, an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. We dive into her research into the highly online group of hypermasculine sexists called the Manosphere and look at her work...
Episode #33
This week our guest is Shawn Steen, a family friend of Oliver's who has had a long career in the nonprofit sector. We discuss the culture shock of growing up in rural Wisconsin before coming to UW-Madison in the 90s...
Episode #32
In this week's episode Oliver and Jeb talk to Dr. Dipesh Navsaria of the nonprofit organization Reach out and Read about his medical work, the benefits of early childhood literacy, the program he is a part of, his...
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Irish Person of the Year, Queen City Football Chronicle
Mother, Author, Podcast Host & Disability Advocate
icon in queer theory, author of Queer Forms, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination, University of Wisconsin, Madison
former sports director, WSUM
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