Bonus-wag: More with Neil Gaiman

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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🏴\U000e0067\U000e0062\U000e0065\U000e006e\U000e0067\U000e007f✍🏼🇺🇸 Welcome to the Bonus-wag with Neil Gaiman! Neil's got a needy actor story that Paul relates to and understands. How being a Brit helps Neil write about America with the perfect amount of detachment to see it clearly. And is America the land of the trickster and huckster? How are George Santos and Donald Trump perfectly American creations and why are they celebrated? All this and John Wayne Bobbitt comes up (Google him, ywsm!). 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. Neil Gaiman is an award-winning, New York Times Best Selling author and prolific creator of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens, Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Neil is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN refugee agency UNHCR and his latest book What You Need To Be Warm is available now and every copy purchased helps refugees stay warm this winter. 📸 credit: Beowulf Sheehan 🏴\U000e0067\U000e0062\U000e0065\U000e006e\U000e0067\U000e007f✍🏼🇺🇸 ========= BONUS Chin-Word of the Week: APOTHEOSIS ========= 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?
0:10.4	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 because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?
0:28.0	Very true. And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.6	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.1	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.2	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.2	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
0:48.6	disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.5	Wow.
0:53.0	Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.5	it traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.0	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.5	So, very cool stuff.
1:01.0	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.3	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.4	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. To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed.
1:22.2	By revisiting well-known historical events from new angles and introducing you to historical figures that have long been ignored throughline tells a different story.
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