CHINWAG LIVE: Monsters, Myths, & Murder

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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👿👿👿 Recorded live from Portland’s Revolution Hall, Paul and Stephen are back with part two of their deep dive into myth and mayhem! This time, they unravel the wild legend of the Minotaur. Starting on the ancient Island of Crete, they trace the rise of King Minos, Queen Pasiphae’s bizarre infatuation with a divine bull, and the birth of the fearsome Minotaur, Asterius. You’ll get the full story of how Daedalus crafted the labyrinth to imprison the beast. Later, our hosts chase after other mythical beasts like the Aspidochelone, chat a bit about dragons, and even take a detour into the chilling world of H.H. Holmes and his notorious murder castle. We’ve got dark myths, strange creatures, and endless intrigue—you won’t want to miss it! Chin-word of the week: ASPIDOCHELONE Paul Giamatti is a Golden Globe award winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. 👿👿👿 ========= Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod 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	You're going to be. Welcome back. I'm Stephen Asma and this is part two of our live episode recorded from
0:25.0	Revolution Hall in Portland. Here we go. See you on the other side waggers. I was a kid and I thought I'm going to look at
0:39.0	I was super interested in the minitor when I was a kid. And I thought, I'm going to look into this,
0:46.0	find out about the Minator for this.
0:47.7	And I was absolutely blown away
0:50.1	by the whole story of the Minnetor,
0:51.5	because I didn't really know it.
0:53.0	I knew all the Theseus stuff with the labyrinth and all that stuff,
0:56.4	but I didn't really know the deal with what the minitor was,
0:59.2	the whole thing of it.
1:00.5	And it's also really fascinating because with Greek myths
1:03.2	there's so many different versions. Yeah there's tons of different versions.
1:06.1	That whole thing is weird. And then Roman versions. Right. And so I just
1:09.7	thought I got the basic one down.
1:12.6	And I just thought, I don't know, I don't
1:14.2	I don't know, I don't know, I'm gonna bore everybody,
1:14.9	but this is so fucking crazy this story
1:17.4	that I just wanted to like let you know
1:19.6	that the whole sort of myth of the Minitor starts on the island of Crete and King Minos, but he wasn't
1:26.2	king yet. He was contending to be king with other guys and then he sort of won power.
1:31.9	And as you do, as guys do do and they win power they want they
1:34.8	want the gods to affirm that they belong there naturally so he he turns to
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