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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Birbigs on Tay Tay & TikTok

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

🤳🏽🤳🏽🤳🏽 Tune in as comedian Mike Birbiglia, also our resident Swiftie expert and anti-hero, explains the Taylor Swift phenomenon to Paul and Stephen. Also, why is TikTok so addictive, and which host shares this obsession with Birbigs and 420 million Gen Zers? Then, how to talk to your kids about death and scary stuff (hint - don’t ask Paul!). Hear about Birbigs’ new Netflix special Old Man & The Pool, his sleepwalking disorder, and his fascination and fear of bears. And don’t sleep on his beliefs surrounding all things paranormal. Hint: Ghosts, UFOs, aliens, Sasquatch, and Nessie. It’s all in the realm of possibility! 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. Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, actor, storyteller, director, producer, and writer. His podcast Working it Out is available wherever you get your podcasts, and his hit Broadway show Old Man & The Pool is now his latest Netflix comedy special of the same name. 🤳🏽🤳🏽🤳🏽 ========= Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: TETRAPODS ========= 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 everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking Stephen Asmas I live and breathe.

0:09.8

How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?

0:14.8

Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.

0:18.0

Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show. 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? Very true.

0:28.8

And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.

0:34.7

They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?

0:38.2

It's interesting stuff.

0:39.3

They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.

0:42.3

There was a recent one about the

0:43.4

scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed old age to be a

0:48.7

disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.

0:52.3

Wow. Eternal youth our fear of aging. So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.

0:52.6

Wow.

0:53.0

Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,

0:55.6

that traces he feelings back thousands of years.

0:58.2

It's remarkable discussion.

0:59.8

So very cool stuff.

1:01.2

If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,

1:04.4

you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life

1:10.5

and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shaped the world we live in now.

1:15.0

Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?

1:18.0

It is.

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