Talking Buffalo with Ken Burns

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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🦬🦬🦬 Paul and Stephen’s interest in history is deep and windy, so who better to get a riveting lesson from than award-winning documentarian, Ken Burns. Hear why the master auteur has wanted to tell the tragic story of the American Buffalo for 30 years, and trace the path of its near extinction in the late 19th century. Was the buffalo saved by the captive gates of zoos? What is man’s moral responsibility to nature in its quest towards advancement and a global economy? And as savior and destroyer, is man truly the most dangerous species on earth? And it wouldn’t be a Chinwag without a detour into obscure presidential facts, conspiracy theories, philosophical musings on certainty and doubt, and why skepticism is as necessary to storytelling as faith. And of course, what is history anyway? Bonus: What quote has Ken Burns used in 3 films? Extra Bonus: Stay tuned ‘til the end to hear Paul’s eerie encounter with a herd of buffalo as he changed a flat tire in Custer State National Park. 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. Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. He’s been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations. American Buffalo, and all of Ken's films, are available to stream on the PBS app. 🦬🦬🦬 ========= Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: TRAVOIS ========= 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 Asmes I live and breathe. How are you sir?
0:10.2	I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:14.5	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:18.0	Yeah, you're a listener.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	I love this show.
0:21.0	Every week they go back in time to understand the present because you can't
0:24.7	fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?
0:28.0	Very true. And on every episode of NPR's through line, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.4	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.0	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.1	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.1	There was a recent one about the
0:43.1	scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed old age to be a
0:48.4	disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.1	Wow. Eternal youth our our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.2	that traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:57.8	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,
1:04.2	you'll love the Thru Line Podcast from NPR.
1:07.2	On NPR's Thru Line, the Past is brought back to life and listeners get to go inside the stories
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