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Here We Are

The Politics of a Pandemic

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Mark A Smith is a professor of political science and an adjunct professor of comparative religion and communication at the University of Washington. Shane speaks with Mark about the political division surrounding this pandemic. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show everybody this was recorded April 21st finally getting some of the editing bottleneck

0:06.0

taken care of getting these episodes cranked out faster the world changes so quickly that You know I want to make sure that you guys have context for all these episodes to know when they were recorded where we were coming from.

0:20.0

So this was April 21st, return guest Mark A Smith. He's been on the

0:25.4

podcast before so you can search back through for the first episode that he was

0:30.1

on as well and enjoy today's episode.

0:33.0

Are we? Yes. Where are we here?

0:36.0

Why are we here not entirely clear?

0:39.0

We are misfits, thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all. It's immensely bizarre. Here we are. we are.

0:54.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are podcast.

0:57.0

My name is Shane Moss.

0:58.0

Today I have return guest Mark Smith joining me today.

1:02.0

Mark, why don't you introduce yourself to the good people? turn guest Mark Smith joining me today.

1:02.5

Mark, why don't you introduce yourself to the good people?

1:06.0

Sure, I'm a professor of political science

1:08.3

at the University of Washington, and also

1:10.6

adjunct professor in comparative religion and communication.

1:15.0

And I have studying teach on American domestic politics,

1:19.1

and then under that umbrella, a lot of things,

1:21.9

how people think about politics, how government acts,

1:25.0

religion most recently is what I've been focusing on. So glad to be with you

1:31.6

today Shane.

1:33.0

So I myself and my personal life, I don't shy away

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