No Woo-Woo for Sarah Vowell

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼 Paul and Stephen love their history, so who better for this Chinwag than brilliant essayist, author and historian, Sarah Vowell? Listen in as they contemplate the tricky business of retelling history that doesn’t live up to the current moral code. Which President is the biggest zero? The least sexy? And what did Benjamin Harrison – our 23rd president – actually do while in office? You know you want to know! All that and a front row seat to Sarah’s midlife crisis spent watching a difficult camel birth. Not enough? Well Sarah’s not into all that “woo woo stuff”, but a chance moment at the town pump in Ennis, Montana challenges her literal mind. BONUS: Sarah’s unvarnished thoughts on cowboys and why they call it a “10 gallon hat” (no one actually knows - write in and tell us your theory!) 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. Sarah Vowell is an author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture including Assassination Vacation, The Wordy Shipmates, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She was also the voice of Violet in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. ✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼 ========= Vocab Word of the Week: UNGULATES ========= 🎥 CATCH A LIVE RECORDING OF CHINWAG 🎥 October 14th at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA October 17th at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn, NY 🎟️ Buy Tickets before they sell out! 🎟️ ========= 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.
0:09.8	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:14.8	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 fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right? Very true.
0:28.8	And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.7	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.2	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.3	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.3	There was a recent one about the
0:43.4	scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed old age to be a
0:48.7	disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.3	Wow. Eternal youth our fear of aging. So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.6	Wow.
0:53.0	Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.6	that traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.2	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.8	So very cool stuff.
1:01.2	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.4	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.5	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shaped the world we live in now.
1:15.0	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?
1:18.0	It is.
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