Natasha Lyonne: Armchair Physicist

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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⚛️⚛️⚛️ Paul and Stephen read a letter from Keith, an airline pilot in Idaho who shares his incredible UFO sighting and belief in Interdimensional Sasquatch Travel. Then.... Natasha Lyonne joins, and that’s when things get weird and quantum-physical. Listen in as Paul and Stephen follow Natasha around her house, feed Rootbeer the dog, and learn why she’s comforted by the dulcet sound of quantum physics audio books at bedtime. Hear why discipline and restraint and the structure of mathematics is grounding and leads to talk of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and Peter Sellers. Paul quotes French writer Gustave Flaubert and kills the vibe, and this is before he reveals his desire to try cat food. Natasha’s man of choice is a doomsday prepper and there’s a crisis in American masculinity (ask yourself men, can you fix a toilet?). Next they go deep into body horror films, and Natasha goes down a Google search rabbit hole about the movie Slither (not a Cronenberg picture). Existentialism is definitively defined (thanks Stephen!), Russian Doll is unpacked, along with Kierkegaard, Ted Chiang, and Albert Camus. That’s a LOT - thanks Natasha! And you’re welcome Chinwaggers! 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. Natasha Lyonne is an actor, director, writer and producer whose recent projects include Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll, which she also co-created, wrote, produced & directed. Next she’ll appear in the film His Three Daughters and the 2nd season of Peacock’s Poker Face. She also directed the new Netflix comedy special Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees! ⚛️⚛️⚛️ ========= 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
0:24.0	because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where
0:27.2	we've been right very true and on every episode of NPR's through line the
0:31.0	hosts take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.5	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.
0:42.1	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. Eternal youth. our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.3	that traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:57.9	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.4	So very cool stuff.
1:00.9	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present, you'll love the through-line podcast from NPR.
1:07.0	On NPR's through-line, the past is brought back to life and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:15.2	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
1:17.6	It is.
1:18.2	To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed
1:22.1	by revisiting well-known historical
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