JOURNEY INTO THE HOLLOW EARTH!

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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🪐🪐🪐 Welcome to Paul’s happy place, discussing the ins and outs of the Hollow Earth Theory! Listen in as Paul and Stephen go deep to the chewy center of this fringe theory that the earth is not a solid sphere but a hollow shell with its own universe living within it. This is not your mama’s flat earth theory, or any of that fake moon landing stuff – welcome to the Hollow Earth. And what’s all this got to do with Nazis, UFOs, AI and the Imp of Perversity? Learn about Cyrus Teed (the hero of the hollow earth theory), and the rectilineator - a contraption he built with his cult! It’s ok - he’s in good company - Charles Manson also believed the earth was hollow. Bonus: Hear about the controversial theory that Shakespeare might not have written Shakespeare - WHAT?!? Also - sit at Paul’s knee and learn a bunch of new SAT words, like claustrophilic and chthonic (not a typo!) 🪐🪐🪐 ========= Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: CHTHONIC ========= 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 Asmas I live and breathe.
0:08.0	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline
0:12.4	podcast Steve? Yeah it's throughline podcast, Steve?
0:13.6	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:16.6	Yeah, you're a listener.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	I love this show.
0:19.5	Every week, they go back in time to understand the present, because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?
0:26.7	Very true.
0:27.7	And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the hosts take a story from the news and go back to where it started. They seek to answer one important
0:34.7	question, how did we get here? It's interesting stuff. They have some amazing topics I think
0:39.4	our audience will find intriguing. There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the
0:43.7	aging process because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure so it gets
0:49.1	into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:51.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of
0:52.8	aging, our fear of death, it traces he feelings back
0:55.4	thousands of years. It's remarkable discussion. So very cool stuff.
0:59.6	If you're interested in learning about how the past
1:01.7	informs the present, you'll love the
1:03.7	throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:08.8	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:13.8	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
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