NOSTRADAMUS, PROPHETS, & CLAIRVOYANTS (OH MY!)

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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🔮🔮🔮 Recorded live from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Paul and Stephen discuss the power and historical impact of Nostradamus, prophets and clairvoyants. Who was Nostradamus and how did his vague predictions make him a legend in his time? Paul and Stephen reveal his cure for the plague and explain Nostradamus’s popularity in times of crisis. Was he just a shitty astrologer and what’s he got to do with Hitler? What’s the difference between clairvoyance and prophecy, and does a good con artist actually believe his own bullshit? Plus, Paul explains different methods of divination, the age-old tradition of tripping on nutmeg, and the real meaning of “mellow yellow.” Bonus: Jackie Stallone’s theory of rumpology (it’s exactly what you think) 🔮🔮🔮 ========= Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: SCRYING ========= 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.
0:10.0	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:15.0	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
0:25.2	fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?
0:28.4	Very true.
0:29.4	And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.9	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.4	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.6	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.6	There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process
0:46.6	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:50.6	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:53.0	Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:56.0	it traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.0	It's remarkable discussion.
1:00.0	So, very cool stuff.
1:01.0	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.7	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR.
1:07.7	On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.9	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that
1:13.7	shaped the world we live in now. Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?
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