A Heartwarming Tale with Errol Morris

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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📽️📽️📽️ Paul and Stephen are excited to meet Academy Award-winning Director and avid book collector Errol Morris. Stephen’s funky blue lighting and Paul’s floatation tank-talk mark the start of this Chinwag and in just a few short turns, the conversation goes from the idea of the bodhisattva in Buddhism to the weirdness of Florida, in particular Vernon, FL (aka “Nub City”). In typical Waggy fashion, they’re on to a shared reverence for American novelist Harry Crews and a fascination with notorious serial killer Ed Gein (whom Errol actually met and misses!?). Anyway, Errol Morris talked to Gein about Sigmund Freud and somehow Gein is responsible for Errol’s long and successful marriage. Lots of talk about sociopathy, psychopathy and multiple personalities follows and Paul and Stephen wonder if everything is a sort of a function of imagination and fantasy. Then, why this celebrated documentarian is fed up with the medium, and the flack he caught for doing a film on Steve Bannon. And now of course the big questions - does Errol believe in UFOs, and how does that relate to his first colonoscopy? You know you want to know – it’s all in this close-up Chinwag with Errol Morris! Bonus: What reality TV series does this legendary filmmaker watch? Paul Giamatti is a Golden Globe Award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Errol Morris is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose films include Gates of Heaven, The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, American Dharma, and many more. He’s also authored two New York Times bestsellers, Believing is Seeing and A Wilderness of Error and his latest documentary, The Pigeon Tunnel about the storied life and career of spy novelist John le Carré is streaming on Apple TV+. 📽️📽️📽️ ========= 🎟️🎟️🎟️ New live taping alert!! CHINWAG is coming to Boston on Friday April 19th Tix on sale ➡ https://chinwagpod.fm/boston 🎟️🎟️🎟️ ========= New eps of CHINWAG drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm YOUTUBE x CHINWAG Playlists ▶️ YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod Full episodes playlist: https://bit.ly/chinwagYT Animated shorts: https://bit.ly/chinwaganimations Send your stories, Qs, or thoughts to 📧 questions [at] chinwagpod [dot] fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Paul Giamotti.
0:07.0	And this is Stephen Asma.
0:08.0	And this show is sponsored by Better Help.
0:11.0	Steve, I'm about to get slightly personal with you.
0:14.4	Is this okay?
0:15.2	That's always okay with me, man.
0:16.7	Yes.
0:17.7	Are you comfortable with this?
0:18.4	I feel that I'm frequently getting very personal and exposing lots of deep dark corners of my psyche to you but I gotta be
0:24.9	honest with you and sometimes I feel like I can't get everything done you know what I mean I got a
0:28.4	lot of stuff I gotta to keep my priorities straight I hear you I have a lot of
0:32.0	interests you know a lot of. I'm a very responsible man. I have a really important acting career, Steve. I feel like I wish I had more time in the day. And I don't think I'm alone in this. I love my family, my friends. I love my cats, some of them, not all of them, but some of them. I love to read. I love to do my job. I love to do all the things I do. I'll have to go to the gym and swim and all these things.
0:52.6	I love doing the chin wag with you, but actually fitting it all in, finding the time, that's
0:56.7	crazy, that's the tricky part.
0:58.6	And I think that therapy has actually helped me.
1:01.1	Talking to somebody is a great motivator for me. It helps me kind of
1:04.3	organize things in my head, you know, get things straight, prioritizing things. It's really good and if you're
1:10.1	thinking of starting therapy, give better help a try.
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1:18.1	You just fill out a questionnaire, you get matched with a licensed therapist, so learn to make time for what makes you happy with better help.
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