Mailwag: War of the Worlds & Penis Clairvoyance

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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📻✋🏼♆ It’s back to the WagBag we go! This week, Chinwag listener Scott S. writes in with an account of his grandfather’s panic during Orson Welles’s famed 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast. Paul recalls his own grandfather’s memory of that fateful broadcast, as well as that of the Hindenburg! Then, Barbara C. writes us with a fascinating tutorial of different types of intuitives. There are so many ways folks deign to read the future, including tarot cards, palms, crystal balls, and yes, penis shapes. And can you guess the most asked question by women to psychics? It might not be what you think! Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer, and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Neptune. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. He also is the acting Minister of Triton for the Chinwag. 📻✋🏼♆ ========= 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	Do you like walking, Steve?
0:05.0	I do.
0:05.6	I used to walk my son to school,
0:08.1	to and from school every day,
0:09.6	and those were very important times.
0:11.5	Crucial conversations.
0:12.8	Ah, that's nice.
0:15.0	I love walking around any city.
0:16.8	I've been at Rome walking around at night and there's this amazing place I came across,
0:20.2	so it's this sort of excavated part of the ground where there's a pit in the ground that's filled with
0:24.0	cats, it's a famous part of Rome.
0:26.6	It's really cool.
0:27.6	It's filled with these famous cats.
0:28.9	Maybe you're the kind of cool person who looks at buildings and things.
0:31.8	That bank used to be a library or that dollar tree
0:34.5	used to be a grove of actual trees.
0:37.2	Now there's a podcast about that stuff.
0:39.4	Yes indeed Steve.
0:40.8	Join comedian actor Alan McCloud for walking about a new podcast that treks into the simple
0:46.8	joy of walking and its connections to health history creativity community and each
0:52.0	episode Alan invites a friend to share a stroll and see
0:55.1	where the sidewalk takes them.
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