ENCORE: Natasha Lyonne’s Infinite New Year

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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🎆🎆🎆 To ring in the New Year, we’re celebrating with a special encore featuring Natasha Lyonne, where the conversation takes a wonderfully strange and quantum-tinged turn. Paul and Stephen read a letter from a very interesting Wagger before they follow Natasha around her home, feed Rootbeer the dog, and uncover her unusual bedtime habit: falling asleep to quantum physics audiobooks. Hear why discipline and restraint and the structure of mathematics is grounding and leads to talk of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and Peter Sellers. Paul quotes French writer Gustave Flaubert and kills the vibe, and this is before he reveals his desire to try cat food. Natasha’s man of choice is a doomsday prepper and there’s a crisis in American masculinity (ask yourself men, can you fix a toilet?) Next they go deep into body horror films, and Natasha goes down a Google search rabbit hole about the movie Slither (not a Cronenberg picture). Existentialism is definitively defined (thanks Stephen!), Russian Doll is unpacked, along with Kierkegard, Ted Chiang, and Albert Camus. That’s a LOT - thanks Natasha! And have a happy New Year! Natasha Lyonne, an actress, writer, and producer, is best known for her roles in Poker Face, Orange Is the New Black and the acclaimed Russian Doll, which she co-created and stars in. 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	Hey, Chinwaggers. As we ring in the new year, we'd like to take a moment to look back at one of our favorite episodes of 2024, featuring the incomparable Natasha Leon.
0:29.9	Natasha, as you will find out, it ranges over many fascinating topics. And it was basically Paul and I were sort of chasing her around in her living
0:40.1	room, actually, via Zoom. And she basically was getting into everything from quirks of quantum physics to
0:47.3	Kubrick's cinematic genius. I believe she even starts eating pancakes at some point. So enjoy. Let's get into it.
1:00.8	Ah, Steve, welcome back to the legendary Chinwag. It's legendary. It's great to see you. You sound like
1:09.2	you just finished a huge meal, you know, you're just like pushing back from the table. I thought you were going to say something else You sound like you just finished a huge meal.
1:11.2	You know, you're just like pushing back from the table.
1:14.0	I thought you were going to say something else.
1:16.4	It sounds like I just finished something else.
1:16.8	But that's the us.
1:18.5	You know, in fact, I did just have a very tasty meal not long before recording our current episode.
1:25.2	I had a really good vermicelli salad with some roasted pork in it,
1:29.3	a Vietnamese vermicelli salad with roasted pork.
1:31.6	Oh, delicious. Right? Man, I love Vietnamese food. Me too. All and stuff. Oh, fantastic.
1:36.7	I like it too. It's good stuff. I like... Oh, good to see you. Kimisabi. Good to see you.
1:40.8	Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Good to be here. Listen, occasionally here at World Headquarters for Chinwag, we get some letters.
1:49.9	And actually, we thought maybe we would read this interesting letter.
1:53.1	Yeah.
1:53.8	It's fun. It's great to get these things from people. We got a lot of them.
1:56.8	It's cool.
1:57.1	But I thought maybe we would take a moment to read you this from one of our loyal listeners, Keith, in Boise, Idaho.
2:05.4	I'm told it's Boise, not Boise.
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