Talking Sense with Stephen Colbert

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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🐟🐟🐟 Paul and Stephen get their daily dose of happiness during PART 1 of this illuminating and hilarious chat with writer, comedian, late night host, Mr. Stephen Colbert. Have you ever wondered why some spell Stephen with a V, while others with a PH? No? It’s great party fodder, trust us! Mr. Colbert captivates with his love of fishing, the evolution of the flounder, the consequences of unaddressed grief, and the religious sermon that changed him forever. Stay tuned for talk of Jungian archetypes and two transformative stories from Colbert’s Northwestern University days. Also on the docket: some causes of atheism, Paul’s affinity for contact guilt and contact sin, G.K. Chesterton and the difference between belief and faith. All this and Talking Heads make an appearance. It’s too much, yet it’s all in this week’s Chinwag! Bonus: you might’ve been saying Colbert wrong all this time. Vocab word of the week: Orthographically 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. 🐟🐟🐟 ========= And, 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 Asmes I live and breathe.
0:10.0	How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:15.0	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:18.4	Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show. Every week they go back in time to understand the present because you can't fully understand
0:26.1	the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right? Very true. And on every episode of
0:30.1	NPR's through line, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:35.0	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.4	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.6	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing. There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process 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.
0:53.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death, it traces he feelings back
0:57.1	thousands of years.
0:58.6	It's remarkable discussion.
1:00.1	So very cool stuff.
1:01.5	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.7	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.8	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in
1:15.0	now.
1:16.0	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
1:18.2	It is.
1:19.2	To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed by revisiting well-known historical events
1:24.8	from new angles and introducing you to historical figures that have long been ignored through
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