Let's Get Weird, California

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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🗑️🗑️🗑️ Recorded live from the (possibly haunted) Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco at Sketchfest 2024 with special guest, comedian, writer, and host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, Chris Gethard. Is it possible someone doesn’t find Paul charming? Hear the real story behind how Paul ended up in a dumpster on Chris’s public access series, The Chris Gethard Show. Explore more folklore from Virginia (Bunny Man!) and Ohio (yes there are Melonheads in Ohio too!) and the many legends of Northern California’s Mount Shasta and the Lemurians rumored to live within its hollow core. Then, talk of the I Am Temple church, Alcatraz’s haunted past, and thoughts on why people need to believe in the unknown and unexplained. Also Valiant Thor, Bigfoot, religious impulses and ascended masters. And what’s this all have to do with the Avengers movies? Finally, it’s what you’ve all been waiting for - Paul on the theremin and Stephen on guitar! 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. Chris Gethard is a comedian, author, actor and host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast which was recently adapted into a 4-part series streaming on Topic. He also wrote the book “Weird New York” and hosts the podcast New Jersey is the World, a celebration of his home state. If you want to see Chris live, check out his tour dates on chrisgeth.com. 🗑️🗑️🗑️ ========= 📋 Please help us by completing our Chinwagger Survey 👉🏼 https://gum.fm/chinwag 📋 ========= New eps of CHINWAG drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm YOUTUBE x CHINWAG Playlists ▶️ YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod Full episodes playlist: https://bit.ly/chinwagYT Animated shorts: https://bit.ly/chinwaganimations 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	Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking Stephen Asmas I live and breathe. How are you sir?
0:10.3	I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:14.6	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:18.0	Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show. Every week they go back in time to understand the present because you can't
0:24.8	fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been right very true
0:28.4	and on every episode of NPR's throughline the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.4	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.0	It's interesting stuff. They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.0	There was a recent one about the
0:43.2	scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed old age to be a
0:48.5	disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.1	Wow.
0:53.4	Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.4	that traces his feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.0	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.5	So, very cool stuff.
1:01.0	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.2	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.4	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shaped the world we live in now.
1:15.2	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
1:17.6	It is. To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed.
1:22.1	By revisiting well-known historical events from new angles
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