Mothman: Legend and Lore

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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👨🏼‍🏫🍏🕰️ The Professor is in for Chinwag Office Hours! Professor Stephen Asma offers his rarefied time and detours into more of the unusual topics you crave. This week on Office Hours, Stephen drops his knowledge on the Mothman and the psychology of creepiness. What is the purpose of creepy feelings and eerie sensations? Are they interdimensional beings of energy that exist to warn and protect us? Hear the first sightings of the Mothman, classic stories of Mothman, and question whether this legend is a cryptid or a demon or something else entirely? Maybe it’s really a creature developed in human imagination, as posited by Fortean author John Keel. And what’s the connection to Jacques Vallee, UFOs and fairies? Are Mothmans just the domain of human thought, products of collective consciousness or ultra terrestrials? Brace yourself for firsthand accounts of Mothman that may make you rethink your skepticism! Or maybe the Mothman is just a Blue Heron…either way, we’re glad you swung by the Chinwag basement for our inaugural Office Hours! Chin-word of the week: TULPA 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	You're going to be. Okay, welcome Chin-Waggers. We are doing something a little different today, Paul.
0:24.8	Indeed we are, Steve. Indeed we are. Tell me what, what's happening, Steve?
0:28.9	I will tell you, my man, thank you for asking, Paul. a bonus a chin wag a chunk as it were a chin wag
0:36.3	chunk and this is by the way by the way I can't believe I'm eating on the air
0:42.3	yeah be sure to eat during the show I guess By the way, I can't believe I'm eating on the air.
0:42.6	Yeah, be sure to eat during the show.
0:44.8	Because, by the way, I just want to point out I'm eating.
0:49.8	I believe we interviewed Catherine Hahn and she ate nuts through the entire
0:53.4	interview so Paul's trying to do a Catherine Han on us. I'm sorry anyway.
0:58.4	proceed. Yeah that Paul basically has me living in the archive cellar of the Chinwag compound and there we have the
1:05.8	we have the files the fringe files that's right to do sort of like office hours
1:10.6	with Professor Steve Asma.
1:13.2	Yes.
1:14.2	I'm gonna do a slightly more sort of deeper dive
1:16.6	on something we're both interested in.
1:18.3	I love it.
1:18.9	I think it's fantastic.
1:20.1	Office hours with the professor, the professor is in. I love it.
1:24.0	Usually it's something we've talked about or that we're both interested in and in this
1:28.0	particular episode I'm going to give our listeners a kind of dispatch on the moth man.
1:35.0	Oh boy, I love it.
1:37.0	I am excited, Steve. I am very excited, the moth.
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