The Cult of Kathryn Hahn

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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🏐🏐🏐 Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma are fascinated by Kathryn Hahn’s deep knowledge of cults, con men, hypnosis, brainwashing dogs, and the power of late night volleyball sessions. Bonus: Travis the chimpanzee, radical nuns, lice couches, do Popes Netflix and chill, and that time Paul fought off kidnapping Krishnas in Northern Ireland! Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Kathryn Hahn is an accomplished actress currently starring in Hulu’s limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things.” 🏐🏐🏐 New episodes 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 For Treefort details 🏄‍♂️ on over here Site: https://treefort.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/TreefortMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treefort.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 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
1:08.6	life and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shaped the world we live in now.
1:13.8	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?
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