ENCORE: Patton Oswalt and The Mandela Effect

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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🎭🎭🎭 An encore presentation of Paul Giamatti’s and Stephen Asma’s chat with Patton Oswalt recorded at SXSW 2023 in Austin, TX. Paul and Stephen learn about Oswalt’s current obsession with the Mandela Effect and take an unexpected wild detour through Shakespeare, demons, horror movies and goo pods. Bonus: Paul and Stephen read fan mail and debate a suggested explanation for the Mandela Effect. 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. Patton Oswalt is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer. The Vol. 1 collection of his comic MINOR THREATS is available in bookstores and comic stores nationwide (and major retailers like Amazon). 🎭🎭🎭 New episodes drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 YT: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm For Treefort details 🏄‍♂️ on over here Site: https://treefort.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/TreefortMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treefort.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?
0:11.0	I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:15.1	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:18.4	Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show every week they go back in time to understand the present
0:24.5	because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been,
0:28.4	right? Very true. And on every episode of NPR's throughline,
0:31.5	the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:35.1	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.6	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.8	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.8	There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process
0:46.8	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:50.8	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:53.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:56.0	it traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.6	It's remarkable discussion.
1:00.1	So very cool stuff.
1:01.6	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.8	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.9	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shaped the world we live in now.
1:15.8	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
1:18.2	It is.
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