It's All A Show with Derek DelGaudio

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

🪄🪄🪄 Paul and Stephen are fascinated by magic and the art of deception and they’re thrilled to take this extraordinary ride into the wondrous mind of master illusionist Derek DelGaudio. Listen in as they explore themes of reality, deception, imagination, morality, manipulation, and belief with the sleight of hand maestro. Is authenticity even possible anymore? Is Tik Tok just a series of mini-Shakespearian tragedies? And what’s the fix for the absence of human connection in an online world Bonus: Learn about Plato’s allegory of the cave and why children are more difficult to deceive than adults. 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. Derek DelGaudio is a writer, performer and sleight-of-hand artist. He created the award-winning theater show and film, In & Of Itself and wrote the acclaimed book, AMORALMAN. DelGaudio also served as the artist-in-residence for Walt Disney Imagineering, and co-founded the performance art collective A.Bandit. He is currently an Affiliate Scholar at Georgetown University and co-conspirator at Deceptive Practices, a creative firm that provides “Arcane Knowledge on a Need-to-Know Basis.” 🪄🪄🪄 ========= 🎥 CATCH A LIVE RECORDING OF CHINWAG 🎥 October 14th at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA October 17th at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn, NY 🎟️ Buy Tickets before they sell out! 🎟️ ========= New episodes of CHINWAG 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 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 Asmes I live and breathe.
0:08.9	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:14.0	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:17.0	Yeah, you're a listener.
0:19.0	I love this show.
0:20.0	Every week, they go back in time to understand the present,
0:23.4	because you can't fully understand the moment we're living
0:25.8	and without knowing where we've been, right?
0:27.4	Very true.
0:28.4	And on every episode of NPR's throughline,
0:30.3	the hosts take a story from the news
0:32.4	and go back to where it started.
0:33.7	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:37.3	It's interesting stuff.
0:38.3	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:41.4	There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process. our
0:43.0	audience will find intriguing. There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process
0:45.0	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:49.0	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:51.0	Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:54.7	that traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:57.2	It's remarkable discussion.
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