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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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🏐🏐🏐Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma were delighted to speak with the wonderful Kathryn Hahn in this early Chinwag gem.They were fascinated by Hahn's deep knowledge of cults, con men, hypnosis, brainwashing dogs, and the power of late night
🔊🎙️🎧 Paul and Stephen recommend the Jordan Harbinger Show. We think you're going to love it.
📚🧐🏛Paul’s been studying up on Western philosophy and has even more burning questions for our exceedingly patient resident expert, Professor Stephen Asma.Lean in to these bite-sized lessons about rationalists, empiricists and idealists, a
😊🎙️👽It’s the audience’s turn to ask Paul, Stephen and the hilarious Bill Hader anything at this Chinwag recorded live from Dynasty Typewriter in L.A., and things go off the rails pretty quick!If aliens land on Earth, what movie would thi
🎬🍿🎞Recorded live at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, Paul and Stephen are joined by comedy legend Bill Hader for a night of hilarious and obscure impressions, a rundown of insane B- movies, their shared fear of the school bus, and so muc
📓✍🏽🛢️In this captivating Bonus-Wag, hosts Paul and Stephen sit down with investigative historian David Grann for a cerebral exploration.Grann’s journey began as a journalist with an insatiable passion for storytelling. How did he transit
📓✍🏽🛢️In this captivating Bonus-Wag, hosts Paul and Stephen sit down with investigative historian David Grann for a cerebral exploration.Grann’s journey began as a journalist with an insatiable passion for storytelling. How did he transit
🌊🏴‍☠️⚓Paul and Stephen embark on a deep-sea exploration of maritime history with David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, and most recently, The Wager. The trio unravel tales of mutinies, scurvy, and the enigma
 ☠️🤝☠️Join Paul and Stephen for a special bonus episode as they sit down with investigative journalist Leslie Kean. The topic? Spirit hands—ethereal entities that connect the living and the dead. Leslie describes witnessing famed British s
🎺🎺🎺Open your mind as Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma talk about accessing the spirit world with investigative journalist Leslie Kean — the very journalist who broke the groundbreaking 2017 UFO story to The New York Times and introduced the
🪐🕰️💫Paul, Stephen and Chuck Bryant on being a strict materialist, natural evolution, Olaf Stapledon, and more Stuff You Should Know. Plus, Chuck shares a creepy ghost story that challenges his skeptical nature to this day. Paul Giamatti
☢️☢️☢️Paul and Stephen are joined by Stuff You Should Know’s Chuck Bryant for a deep wag on lizard people, the importance and impermanence of what we leave behind, the rarity of finding dinosaur bones, nuclear semiotics, and of course, the Si
📻✋🏼♆It’s back to the WagBag we go!This week, Chinwag listener Scott S. writes in with an account of his grandfather’s panic during Orson Welles’s famed 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast. Paul recalls his own grandfather’s memory of tha
📿📿📿Paul and Stephen are honored to welcome the esteemed Dr. Khy Sovanratana, dear friend of Dr. Stephen Asma, and former monk in the Theravada tradition in Cambodia. After 34 years as a monk, Dr. Sovanratana removed his robe and left the m
🤖🌭🏦Recorded at Spotify Studios...Elizabeth Banks reflects on her collegiate aspirations to become the next Diane Sawyer, and whether AI could make its own Everything Everywhere All At Once. But…could it replicate the hot dog fingers figh
❄️🐻👻Recorded at Spotify Studios... Join Paul and Stephen as they sit down to discuss death and their paranormal encounters with Paul’s Fred Claus co-star Elizabeth Banks.They discuss what drove Elizabeth to make her 2023 hit film Cocaine
🧀🌝🛰️Paul and Stephen explore more moon theories…is the moon made of cheese? Might the moon be a spacecraft? Are we all descendants of moon-people? And can someone claim the moon?All this and H.P. Lovecraft, burgeoning schools of space la
🌒🌒🌒Ever since they tackled the hollow earth, Paul and Stephen have wanted to talk about weird moon conspiracy theories.Was the Apollo moon landing faked or was it really a movie set? Why does the American flag appear to be flapping on a
⭐️📬🌎Deep into the Chinwag Mailbag we go!Caroline writes about an incredible near-death experience that’s left her feeling like a ghost in her own life. Then, how almost dying can alter religious convictions and spiritual reality, DMT, the
🔊🎙️🎧 Paul and Stephen recommend the Jordan Harbinger Show. We think you're going to love it.
⚾️⚾️⚾️Part 2 of Paul and Stephen’s Chinwag turns to the religion of baseball with writer, comedian and passionate fan, Alex Edelman.If Paul is gonna talk sports, it’s bound to be about its spiritual pull and ability to expand space and time
💬🛸🩻We’re diving back into the Chinwag Mailbag!Billy C. wants to know how Paul would like to see UFOs portrayed in films. Should paranormal encounters be big and fantastical, or what about - no special effects at all? Then, Paul’s got som
🦈🦈🦈Paul and Stephen welcome brilliant writer and comedian Alex Edelman for a deep chinwag on spirituality, religion, improvisation, and paranormal leanings.Listen as they dive right in with why the CIA should use Baby Shark in its interr
📖🫱🏽‍🫲🏾👽We’re diving into the Chinwag Mailbag!Paul in Australia writes to Paul and Stephen with a topic of biblical proportion! He brings to Chinwag the theory known as Paleocontact, which states that our ancient ancestors experienced
🐒🐒🐒Paul and Stephen are thrilled to talk Bigfoot with acclaimed actor Jesse Eisenberg who stars in the fantastic new movie Sasquatch Sunset. Sasquatch Sunset is an unprecedented look at a year in the life of a family of Sasquatches, as t
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