You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and I'm I'm your host Tom Welcome to Serious Inquiries Only.

This is episode 4 and I'm your host Thomas Smith.

Okay, today I've got a great little discussion for you.

Two gentlemen contacted me after the conversation with Eli and with Mike and Dustin because they were

both happened to be doing research related to trolling and online behaviors and stuff like that and I thought we'd all jump on and

talk about their research, talk about what they found their experiences and see if it could

shed some light on what's been going on and maybe

the conversation with Mike and Dustin and maybe just online interactions

as a whole. It was really fun, really insightful, and here you go.

Joining me right now are Scott Dawson and David Spitzer. Scott and David

Scott and David. How you doing? Awesome. Great. You guys had actually reached out on

the topic of kind of trolling and online interaction and that's kind of stuff and hence we're here having a conversation. I'm excited to get to it.

First though, let's just do brief introduction if you don't mind starting with Scott who are you

what are you doing here what? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Sure well that's

an existential question right I'm still trying to figure all that out but no just you

know how do you define yourself in a minute or two it's probably appropriate to

mention that I am a former Christian. I was actually a minister in the

Lutheran church, what's called a lay minister, music minister, very active in

church and missions and proselytizing, even traveled the world doing it, kind of late in life,

deconverted to use Seth's, you know, Seth's term, which I love. But anyway, now I work as a market researcher doing a lot of data analysis and I'm also finishing up a master's degree in sociology.

And that's partly and probably mostly why the topic

interested me so much.

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