Billy Bob Thornton TAKE 2: Visions, Phobias, and Obscure Beatles Tracks

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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🍴🍴🍴 More lively excerpts from Paul Giamatti’s and Stephen Asma’s chat with Academy Award winner and musician, Billy Bob Thornton. This time Billy Bob talks about his psychic mom, his intense dislike of old silverware, Fettuccine Alfredo, and the genesis of Paul’s childhood bug phobia. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Billy Bob Thornton is an Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter, and musician who will be touring the US and Europe summer 2023 with his band, The Boxmasters. 🍴🍴🍴 New episodes drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 YT: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm For Treefort details 🏄‍♂️ on over here Site: https://treefort.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/TreefortMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treefort.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking Stephen Asmas I live and breathe.
0:08.0	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline
0:12.4	podcast Steve? Yeah it's throughline podcast, Steve?
0:13.6	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:16.6	Yeah, you're a listener.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	I love this show.
0:19.5	Every week, they go back in time to understand the present, because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?
0:26.7	Very true.
0:27.7	And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the hosts take a story from the news and go back to where it started. They seek to answer one important
0:34.7	question, how did we get here? It's interesting stuff. They have some amazing topics I think
0:39.4	our audience will find intriguing. There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the
0:43.7	aging process because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure so it gets
0:49.1	into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:51.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of
0:52.8	aging, our fear of death, it traces he feelings back
0:55.4	thousands of years. It's remarkable discussion. So very cool stuff.
0:59.6	If you're interested in learning about how the past
1:01.7	informs the present, you'll love the
1:03.7	throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:08.8	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:13.8	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
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