Stephen Colbert Pt 2: More Magical Thoughts

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️ Catch PART 2 of Paul and Stephen’s dip into the profoundly thoughtful mind of Mr. Stephen Colbert. Explore the power of prayer and magical thinking, the importance of unlearning what you know, and Paul and Colbert’s shared love of sci-fi, or as Stephen Asma calls it, “Gandalf and sh*t.” What’s the difference between sci-fi and fantasy, and can Lord of the Rings help process one’s grief? Tune in for musings on improvisation, zen master Amy Sedaris, and the fantastic conclusion to Colbert’s inspirational chance meeting with astronaut, Orly. Stephen Colbert is an Emmy award winning writer, performer and late night host who also loves to fish. 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. 🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️ ========= A special shout out to Mary Ellen Matthews, who provided such a beautiful headshot of Mr. Colbert for the episodic artwork. More on MEM's portfolio here: https://www.instagram.com/maryellenmatthewsnyc/ ========= 🎥 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 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	Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking Stephen Asmas I live and breathe.
0:08.0	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline
0:12.4	podcast Steve? Yeah it's throughline podcast, Steve?
0:13.6	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:16.6	Yeah, you're a listener.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	I love this show.
0:19.5	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?
0:26.7	Very true.
0:27.7	And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the hosts take a story from the news and go back to where it started. They seek to answer one important
0:34.7	question, how did we get here? It's interesting stuff. They have some amazing topics I think
0:39.4	our audience will find intriguing. There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the
0:43.7	aging process because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure so it gets
0:49.1	into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:51.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of
0:52.8	aging, our fear of death, it traces he feelings back
0:55.4	thousands of years. It's remarkable discussion. So very cool stuff.
0:59.6	If you're interested in learning about how the past
1:01.7	informs the present, you'll love the
1:03.7	throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:08.8	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:13.8	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
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