Bonus-wag: Does A 10 Gallon Hat Hold Water?

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

🤠🤠🤠 During Paul and Stephen’s first Chinwag with delightful author and historian Sarah Vowell (go back and listen to that episode from 10/4/23 now!), the term “10 gallon hat” came up. Both hosts, as well as Sarah, were stymied on the origin of the term. What does it really mean? Does it refer to the size of a cowboy hat? A measurement of water? Does it have to do with how much water a cowboy hat can hold, and why would you pour all that water into a hat anyway? Well, Paul and Stephen know when they’re licked, so they went straight to the source - to you, our loyal fans. And you responded in droves! And again, Paul and Stephen are schooled at the knee of you all-knowing Chinwaggers. Listen in and learn this special nugget of knowledge, and then feel free to drop it into conversation at your next dinner party! You’ll look wicked smart and be sure to be asked back! 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. Sarah Vowell is an author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture including Assassination Vacation, The Wordy Shipmates, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She was also the voice of Violet in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. 🤠🤠🤠 ========= 📋 Please help us get to know you better by completing our Chinwagger Survey 👉🏼 https://gum.fm/chinwag 📋 ========= 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. How are you sir?
0:10.3	I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:14.6	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
0:24.0	because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where
0:27.2	we've been right very true and on every episode of NPR's through line the
0:31.0	hosts take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.5	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.0	It's interesting stuff. They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.1	There was a recent one about the
0:43.2	scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed old age to be a
0:48.5	disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.1	Wow. Eternal youth. our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.3	that traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:57.9	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.4	So very cool stuff.
1:00.9	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present, you'll love the through-line podcast from NPR.
1:07.0	On NPR's through-line, the past is brought back to life and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:15.2	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
1:17.6	It is.
1:18.2	To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed
1:22.1	by revisiting well-known historical
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