Spirituality, Rigor & Improv

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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🦈🦈🦈 Paul and Stephen welcome brilliant writer and comedian Alex Edelman for a deep chinwag on spirituality, religion, improvisation, and paranormal leanings. Listen as they dive right in with why the CIA should use Baby Shark in its interrogation program, the importance and virtue of repetition in the process of joke writing, the Socratic method in comedy, and how AI and Chat GPT will affect the future of humor. The conversation then turns to Romanian religious historian Mircea Eliade and the importance and need for rigor in religion. Then, the disappointing physical location of Armageddon, Jewish belief in an afterlife, why murder is mentioned in the commandments, and Alex’s biggest Judaism pet peeve. 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. Alex Edelman is a writer and comedian whose acclaimed Broadway one-man show Just For Us is now streaming on HBO Max. 🦈🦈🦈 ========= 🚨🚨🚨 LIVE CHINWAG TAPINGS ANNOUNCED 🚨🚨🚨 CHINWAG is coming to a city near you! Los Angeles on Tuesday May 14th ➡ https://chinwagpod.fm/losangeles Portland on Thursday May 16th ➡ https://chinwagpod.fm/portland Seattle on Friday April 17th ➡ https://chinwagpod.fm/seattle 🎟️ 🎟️ 🎟️ 🎟️ ========= Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod 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	Paul, let me ask you something. Do you like your family?
0:08.0	Um, it's a really complicated question, Steve. I didn't realize this is where we're going to be going right now. No, I mean do you like seeing pictures of your family?
0:16.5	Yeah, sure pictures of my family are nice. Yes, sir. Okay. I've got a great recommendation for you. It is the aura frame. You've probably seen some of these before. You go to your
0:25.4	friend's house and they have a frame on the cabinet or in the living room or whatever and it has
0:30.0	digital photos. Sure, yes. Well I got this thing and I set it up super easy to set up. I basically
0:36.7	dumped a bunch of photos from my phone right onto it very easy to do. Took me just minutes. scary to me no it's incredibly easy it's not hard okay and basically you can put like seems like an almost an infinite amount of photos on this thing and then you can set the parameters and it can rotate
0:54.5	your family through like every 30 seconds and it's great because I've got pictures of my
0:59.6	son my family cool my dad passed way a few years ago I get to see him popping up every now and then the good ghosts of your personal history coming through on this thing. Nice, that's nice. They have a great deal for Mother's Day, so listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting
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2:05.0	baby.
2:07.0	Are we on?
2:08.0	Oh, is this thing?
2:10.0	Yeah, are we live?
2:11.0	Are we, are we broadcasting live?
2:13.8	Hey, I just noticed that you're getting a little shaggy around the,
2:17.9	you got kind of like a Viking beard mustache thing going on.
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