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Paul Giamatti Would Rather Talk About Bigfoot and UFOs Than Pretty Much Anything Else

Since being nominated for an Oscar, ‘The Holdovers’ star has tripled the audience of ‘Chinwag, ’his podcast about the paranormal, esoteric and downright weird. Now Giamatti is planning an extended ‘Chinwag’ universe.

To craft their pitch, they sent one of their chats to visual artist Alex Sokol, who added animation and striking images to represent things they bantered about, like aliens, UFOs and bigfoot. Giamatti and Asma have covered time travel with Tom Hanks, swapped ghost stories with Billy Bob Thornton, talked cults with Kathryn Hahn, investigated the Mandela effect with Patton Oswalt, listened to Amy Sedaris gush about Japanese subways, heard Don Cheadle share how religion helps tame the ego, covered Jungian archetypes with Stephen Colbert, and listened to Natasha Lyonne double down on her belief in extraterrestrials, ghosts and bigfoot. The November release of The Holdovers — and the ensuing raves Giamatti received for his role as curmudgeonly boarding school professor — changed Chinwag ’s trajectory.

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