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Paul Giamattiโ€™s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Tripping with William Shatner

Paul Giamattiโ€™s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 โ€ข 2K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 3 May 2023

โฑ๏ธ 61 minutes

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Summary

๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ Stephen Asma and Paul Giamatti are giddy to speak with lifelong hero and Star Trek alum William Shatner on tequila tastings, space travel, bum drug trips, holding on to your inner child and that time he beat up an Australian Olympic swimmer on stage. 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. William Shatner is an Emmy award-winning actor, writer, recording artist and director whose new documentary You Can Call Me Bill premiered at SXSW 2023. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ New episodes drop Wednesdays for free... n(๐ŸงŠ) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ 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 ๐Ÿ„โ€โ™‚๏ธ 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

The ultimate moment came when my wife and I went to

0:13.0

went to Holland to Amsterdam and now we're in Amsterdam

0:18.0

in the middle of the winter and and

0:20.4

we're down till we're down in the, whatever they call it, the downtown area, the red light area.

0:28.0

And we're walking around, people are hawking, you know, here's mushrooms in here and red lights and then girls in the

0:36.2

in the window and all that and somebody came up and said I've got some mushrooms and by that time I had gotten

0:47.2

real paranoid because there was there were no other tourists in downtown except Elizabeth and I.

0:56.1

And I kept saying, we're at the bottom of the food jade.

1:00.6

Everybody wants it, and we ran back to our room, ingested the mushrooms, she saw

1:09.2

world peace and I saw demons coming out of the wall.

1:15.0

Oh, really?

1:15.8

Oh, it was terrible.

1:17.2

Wow.

1:18.2

We got out of Amsterdam as quickly as possible.

1:20.5

And I know now. a play, a screenplay, and which a hero has a military background, big hero, has a heart attack, is dying, and is on his way to dying, and the

1:38.0

white cloud, mom, he's there, come on, on sun, it's okay, and suddenly reverses and becomes demonic, and he's being

1:46.4

pulled by the devil and he's screaming and yelling and finally they get him back.

1:51.5

He's alive, but now he's afraid to die.

1:54.0

Ah, and that's the story.

1:56.0

He becomes the worst coward.

1:59.0

He sacrifices his family and everything,

2:01.0

so he won't die because he's seen how awful it is to

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