Sarah Vowell Pt 2: The Joy of Coincidence

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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🌺🌺🌺 Author and historian Sarah Vowell may have spoken a little too soon in her first Chinwag with Paul and Stephen. Behold the incredible tales of coincidence that challenge her literal mind and make Sarah question her woo-woo-ness. From Sacagawea’s chance meeting with her long-lost brother, to John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s shared date of death, and odd details about the Lincoln assassination and the Booth brothers – do serendipitous moments in history actually mean anything? On to Ancient Rome and how renowned classicist Mary Beard’s approach to the Roman everyman is why she’ll win any debate. Also, what writing about Hawaii taught Sarah about herself, and convinced her she may not want to tackle Rome in a future book. And what’s the use of all this history anyway? Let us know what YOU think -- Chinwaggers, we want to hear from you! Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: KUMOLIPO 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. 🌺🌺🌺 ========= 📋 Please help us get to know you better by completing our Chinwagger Survey 👉🏼 https://gum.fm/chinwag 📋 ========= 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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