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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma Treefort Media
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chin-wag: to have a chat, a friendly conversation.
Actor Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma, author and philosopher, join forces for a freewheeling series of conversations that dive deep (like, really, really deep) into the wilderness of the mind.
Featuring prominent guests from diverse fields, Chinwag is esoteric in the best way possible, as Paul and Stephen delve into anything and everything: Are we living in a simulation? What’s the most perfect sentence in literature? Is Bigfoot interdimensional? Science, the occult, philosophy, magic mushrooms… it’s all fair game!
Unexpected, hilarious, and maybe even profound — Chinwag is all about having a really, really good chat.
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Bonus-wag: Shaking Hands with the Dead (and Leslie Kean)
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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 spirit medium Stewart Alexander conjuring spirit hands seemingly from nothing – conjuring a black amorphous goo into undead hands. But…these experiences are not just anecdotal. As Leslie explains, the proof lies in the pudding, which, in this case, are hot wax molds that reside in the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris. Did somebody say European vacation?
As the conversation unfolds, Paul, Stephen, and Leslie discuss the resurgence of psychedelic culture and…sensory deprivation tanks.
Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer, and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Neptune. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. He also is the acting Minister of Triton for the Chinwag.
Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist who co-authored a series of groundbreaking stories on UFOs for The New York Times from 2017 to 2022. She is the author of two books: UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife which was turned into a Netflix docuseries.
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Introducing The Kevin Rose Show
🔊🎙️🎧 Paul and Stephen recommend a great podcast called The Kevin Rose Show. We here at Chinwag are fans and we hope you check it out to see why!
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Séances, Skeptics, and ... Spirit Trumpets!
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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 world to the Pentagon’s UFO videos.
The trio delve into the esoteric world of ectoplasm and explore its weightlessness, spider-webby texture, and the peculiar sound it emits through spirit trumpets. But the questions don’t stop there. Can spirits possess a man’s vocal cords and speak through him? Leslie shares her firsthand account of witnessing such phenomena, including the levitation of a man and objects in a room.
Join Paul, Stephen, and Leslie on this metaphysical journey where reality crosses into the ethereal!
Chin-word of the week: AMORPHOUS
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.
Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist who co-authored a series of groundbreaking stories on UFOs for The New York Times from 2017 to 2022. She is the author of two books: UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife which was turned into a Netflix docuseries.
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Bonus-wag: Chuck Bryant Has Seen A Ghost
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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 is an award-winning actor and producer, and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Neptune. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. He also is the acting Minister of Triton for the Chinwag.
Chuck Bryant is the co-host of the award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know.
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Stuff You Should Chinwag About with the Silurian Hypothesis
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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 Silurian Hypothesis.
How do we know advanced civilizations didn’t exist before us and what does that mean for life on other planets? How can we be sure that proof of past civilizations hasn’t decayed without a trace? And why does it even matter if intelligent life was here billions of years ago? What counts as a sign of intelligence and can you build technology without thumbs?
Paul and Stephen are all too happy to not be considered experts, or even factually accurate, but if there’s one podcast future generations discover, THIS is the Wag that could help define our civilization’s legacy. Or not. Get on board Wagoneers!
Chin-word of the week: THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer, and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Neptune. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. He also is the acting Minister of Triton for the Chinwag.
Chuck Bryant is the co-host of the award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know.
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Mailwag: War of the Worlds & Penis Clairvoyance
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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 that fateful broadcast, as well as that of the Hindenburg!
Then, Barbara C. writes us with a fascinating tutorial of different types of intuitives. There are so many ways folks deign to read the future, including tarot cards, palms, crystal balls, and yes, penis shapes. And can you guess the most asked question by women to psychics? It might not be what you think!
Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer, and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Neptune. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. He also is the acting Minister of Triton for the Chinwag.
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Customer Reviews
Top podcast but please
Favorite podcast. But. My thoughts: keep it pertinent and real with some hint at supernatural. Too many obvious fraudsters on the past two episodes. Time and existing for a long time are not data. Word of mouth is not data. Having a tv show is not evidence. You both are doubting these people so don’t even bring them on. Talk about them. Analyze their theories and statements. It’s fun. But don’t give them airtime. Bring some real scientists (with some open minds) back on! No quacks!
Proud Weirdo
This podcast reminds me of late night conversations I used to have with my dad on camping trips when I was a kid. Topics like UFOs, big foot, ghosts, the Bermuda Triangle, the existence of god, who really built the pyramids, etc. My father was a aerospace scientist, who was highly intellectual and had a curious mind on all topics. As a little girl my father fostered my curiosity about the world and all things seen and unseen. This podcast is a continuation these types of conversations, which I rarely have anymore since my dad passed. Paul and Stephen would have fit right in sitting around the campfire and having a good chinwag with us. Love you both.
Wag on weirdos!!!
All hail King Paul of Neptune!!!!