Podcast host Paul Giamatti at a recent red carpet event.
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There's a moment near the end of Marc Maron With Marc Maron In an interview with Paul Giamatti, the two discuss their plans for the rest of the day. “I'm having a very light day,” Giamatti says. “I'm doing a podcast.”
“No, it's not,” Maron jumped in.
“Yes, I think so,” Giamatti said as they looked back and forth (“Are you sure?” “Are you sure?”) do not have Can you believe it? '') before Maron and her viewers came to terms with the strange fact that Academy Award-nominated Giamatti has been doing a podcast since April 2023. “Everyone has something,” Giamatti points out with characteristic sarcasm.
Giamatti host Chinwag — the old saying of conversationA co-authored book with philosopher and Columbia University Chicago professor Stephen Asma can tell us a lot about how the pod is doing. The two developed an email friendship during the pandemic, and most episodes feature conversations about the paranormal, mystical, and general topics. They read ads about microdosing. Episodes are published weekly, with occasional short bonus episodes consisting of more content with guests, as well as notable occasions when Giamatti reads out stories from Edgar, Alan, and Poe. there was. Asuma is skeptical. Giamatti is sometimes a believer. Guests typically include celebrities such as Natasha Lyonne, Billy Bob Thornton, and even Tom Hanks, or experts in related fields such as dream expert Deirdre Barrett.
The episodes are casual and the stakes are low.Giamatti and Thornton talk about the time they spent in a haunted Dallas hotel while filming “that JFK movie” (meaning the 2013 movie) parkland, In the film, Zac Efron played one of the Parkland Hospital doctors who spoke with special agents after JFK was shot. Jeremy Strong plays Lee Harvey Oswald) and what Thornton might say if he interacted with a ghost (“Don't knife me, I just want to talk”). Giamatti and Hanks talk about what European diets may extend lifespan. Asma is a welcome civilian, neither too pretentious nor too snobbish.
It's easy to like this show simply because it feels like a genuine object of passion and curiosity. There are guest promotions for their projects, but most of the celebrities who come in want to talk about what they know, not themselves or their work. Giamatti plays herself as an attentive, active listener, saying “yeah, yeah” to her decency. He knows everyone, but he seems a little surprised by his ability to book Tom Hanks. Perhaps this is why he's become such a lovable figure in this year's Oscar race. Despite his long career in the industry, he always seems to be having fun (in his own grumpy way) wherever he is, and he likes to talk about the people he's a part of. . and what they brought to the project. He is also humble about his work. When Maron asked if he ever looked back on the project, he said: What? , Giamatti said, “Yes, I said, “ big fat liar that's just weird.”
In recent episodes, stratio lab Co-host Sam Taggart, along with comedian Blair Socci, said of Giamatti's recent popularity as a good-looking guy: “I feel like the currents of the internet are surprising him and eroticizing him in new ways.” Ta.
Co-host George Sibelis agreed, saying, “Giamatti Stanley Tucci's gift to girls who don't wash [dishes]” Socci added. “Paul Giamatti feels like Vince Vaughn went to art school.”
What Giamatti is doing Chinwag This situation, with no one really measuring it for nearly a year, shows how difficult it is to be a podcaster without social media, and as he told Maron, in this day and age, everyone has something to offer. It shows that there is. Perhaps, by having a podcast, Giamatti has become more and more popular with ordinary people in New York (or Brooklyn), or perhaps with many internet boyfriends (now defined as “online boyfriends” rather than something like Oscar Isaac). It has become something like “terminology''. So by chance, he ended up doing a supplementary podcast with a friend who reads too many of his books.
The most notable thing about Giamatti's one-year tenure? Chinwag It's the fact that he's the first Best Actor nominee to have a podcast at the time of his nomination. (Will Smith started last fall. Well, you know.) He's been around for as long as anyone can remember, spending seven years producing a completely successful and somehow acclaimed TV show. The actor rose to prominence overnight. In the public eye. It is due to his relatively normal personality that Giamatti has emerged as an object of fascination, both in meme-making and sex symbolism. He has proven himself to be very obedient, good-natured, smart, and yes. attractive He joined Oscar's campaign efforts because he's spent the past year of his life talking to people on Zoom microphones, and as your boyfriend can attest, that's not always easy. Not.
