PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD!

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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📯📯📯 Your fan mail gets answered this week! Arthur from Japan writes in and asks Paul and Stephen to discuss Thomas Edison’s spirit phone, a little known device to contact the dead. What happened with Edison’s quest to prove life after death, and what’s TikTok got to do with it? Also learn about a ghostly human voice recording from the 1840s (predating known technology)! Add to that a bonus visit with William Shatner musing about ghosts and paranormal activity. Your takeaway? As usual, none of us really know sh*t. 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. Note: This episode was recorded prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. 📯📯📯 ========= 🎥 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 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 Tix to events: http://chinwagpod.fm For Treefort details 🏄‍♂️ on over here Site: https://treefort.fm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treefort.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 Asmes I live and breathe
0:09.1	how are you sir I'm doing well are you are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:14.3	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:17.6	Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show. Every week they go back in time
0:22.0	to understand the present because you can't
0:24.6	fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been right
0:27.8	very true and on every episode of NPR's throughline the host take a story from
0:32.1	the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.3	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:37.8	It's interesting stuff.
0:38.9	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.0	There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process
0:46.0	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:50.0	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.2	it traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:57.8	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.3	So very cool stuff.
1:00.8	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.1	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.2	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:15.0	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
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