Bonus-wag: On Life, Death, And Pizza

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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☥🪦🍕 Bonus time with comedian, writer, director and author Mike Birbiglia. The guys discuss their thoughts on leaving a legacy, art as a path to immortality, and the enduring comedy of Charlie Chaplin and W.C. Fields. Also, what’s the career advice one should never pass on to others? Lastly, Mike’s love of pizza (and the word “plaza”) leads to the end of the debate on the country’s best pizza. Is it New Haven, NYC, or Chicago? And what’s the correct amount of pizza for one person? Hint: it’s not the whole pie. 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. ☥🪦🍕 ========= 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://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPC82XURv4qSrqu7vS9NEnRqOFzSELyY1 Animated shorts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPC82XURv4qQQbe6Q6rQJV8tiy2IHZ_vk 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.
0:08.0	Stephen Asmes, I live and breathe. How are you, sir? I'm doing well.
0:11.2	Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast Steve? Yeah it's an excellent
0:16.2	podcast and I've been listening to it for a while. Yeah you're a listener. Yeah I love
0:20.2	this show every week they go back in time to understand the present because you can't fully understand the moment we're living and 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.
0:34.8	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.3	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.4	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.4	There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process
0:46.4	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:50.3	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, you'll love the through-line podcast from NPR.
1:07.5	On NPR's throughline, 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.
1:15.4	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?
1:18.0	It is.
1:19.0	To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed
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