Paul Rudd's Too Sexy for this Pod

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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🛋️🛋️🛋️ Recorded live at the Murmrr Theater in Brooklyn, NY on Oct 17th. Paul and Stephen welcome Paul Rudd to discuss the genesis of his childhood fears, the difference between fears and phobias, and list all the things that give them the willies (puppets, clowns, and cockroaches OH MY!). Join our rapt studio audience as Rudd regales with his creepy childhood bedroom decor (velvet Charlie Brown portrait anyone?), explains why his recurring nightmares always took place in grocery stores, and how he got swallowed up by a sofa bed at 9 years old (thanks, Traymon Stampley)! Also, the 2 Pauls and Stephen recall growing up without seatbelts, debate if the world is actually more dangerous today, the many, many primates Paul has worked with, and consider the benefits of cloning and stuffing your pets. Bonus: Paul’s love of tight spaces, facial casts, and that time a dog relieved itself on his leg. 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. Paul Rudd is a beloved actor and comedian whose held a variety of odd jobs, including glazing hams at the Holiday Ham Company in Overland Park, KS and working as a DJ at Bar Mitzvahs. 🛋️🛋️🛋️ ========= Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: HIPPOPOTOMONSTREOSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA ========= 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	You're going to be. Hello this is wonderful.
0:12.0	This is wonderful.
0:23.0	Brooklyn, this is a beautiful place. Thank you, Brooklyn. This is a beautiful place.
0:24.0	Look at this place.
0:26.0	The Murmur Theater in Brooklyn,
0:30.0	how beautiful.
0:32.0	This is the Chinwack, by the way, hello, for everybody who listens to the Chinwag.
0:36.8	This is my colleague Professor Stephen Asma of Columbia College in Chicago, a Doctor of Philosophy. We have a special guest
0:46.6	obviously here today who needs a very little introduction. My friend Paul Red
0:51.5	thank you sir for coming. Thank friend Paul Red, thank you, sir, for coming.
0:53.0	Thank you, Paul.
0:55.0	Hello,
0:58.0	everybody, it's Paul Giamotti speaking Stephen Asmes I live and breathe how are you sir I'm doing well are you are you
1:07.4	Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast? Steve? Yeah, it's an excellent podcast. I've been listening to it for a while. 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?
1:24.0	Very true. And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the hosts take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
1:30.4	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here.
1:34.0	Interesting stuff.
1:35.0	They have some amazing topics, I think our audience will find intriguing.
1:38.0	There was a recent one about the scientist
1:40.0	who tried to stop the aging process
1:42.0	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
1:46.0	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
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