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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

(Tom) Hanks Again!

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

⏳⏳⏳ Part 2 of Paul and Stephen’s chat with Academy Award winning actor, writer, and author Tom Hanks. Why are time travel fantasies perfect escapes and where does Tom dream of going? What’s the logic of time travel and what would be better: going back to the past or going forward into the future? Tom shares cautionary food for thought from Thornton Wilder and Charleton Heston, and lessons gleaned from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. Also, what are the rules of infidelity in time-travel and has there ever been a real “golden age”? Tom explains what it is to be a “presentist”, why he’s a bit of a skeptic, and the guys chew on whether or not human nature has changed over time. 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. Tom Hanks is a 2-time Academy Award winning actor, writer and author. His novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is a New York Times Best Seller. His charitable coffee line, Hanx: For Our Troops, can be found at givehanx.com or on instagram @givehanx. All profits go to those who serve, and their families. ⏳⏳⏳ ========= Vocab Chin-Word of the Week: PRESENTIST ========= 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

You're going to be. Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking. Stephen Asmas, I live and breathe. How are you, sir?

0:27.0

I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast, Steve? Yeah, it's an excellent podcast,

0:33.4

and I've been listening to it for a while.

0:34.8

Yeah, you're a listener.

0:36.0

Yeah.

0:37.0

I love this show.

0:38.0

Every week, they go back in time to understand the present,

0:40.8

because you can't fully understand the moment we're living and without knowing where we've been, right? the back to where it started. They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?

0:54.8

It's interesting stuff. They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.

0:58.8

There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed old age to be a

1:05.3

disease that he could cure so it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.

1:09.0

Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death, it traces he feelings back thousands of years.

1:14.9

It's remarkable discussion.

1:16.4

So very cool stuff.

1:17.9

If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present, you'll love the

1:21.8

throughline podcast from NPR.

1:24.0

On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life and

1:27.4

listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.

1:32.0

Past is shrouded in mystery, correct, Steve?

1:34.4

It is.

1:35.0

To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal

1:37.4

what may have gone unnoticed by revisiting well-known

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