All right and welcome to I don't speak German episode 21. This is the podcast where I Daniel Harper talked to mostly my buddy Jack Graham about Nazi shit in their podcast and YouTube videos, but again he was too lazy to show up so I have another

guest and going along with the pattern I always like to bring on guests who are much

more erudite and knowledgeable and dare I say charming that I am.

And so today I am

I am joined by someone I've been talking to online for a while

but I've only recently gotten to actually meet

and recently I mean in the last 10 minutes

Stevie Vatollah Hadad.

Stevie, welcome to the show.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

No, I've been wanting to do this for a while,

and I hope, I mean, you've got so much knowledge on these topics

that I think this will hopefully if you

if you have a good experience here this will not be the last time so yeah CV

just for people who may not know who you are and what you do I'd like and since I'm a terrible host

would you mind that kind of introducing yourself and kind of telling us a little bit about your

background and kind of what you do? Sure so I'm a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

I'm in the Journalism and Mass Communication Department there.

I study political communication broadly, particularly as it relates to science and sort of how science gets

mobilized for politics, you know, either, and you know, there are a lot of different ways that can

happen, but I am mostly fascinated right now with kind of science being

used in public argument about people and rights sort of looking at quantitative

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