Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma cover image

Patton Oswalt and The Mandela Effect

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Monopoly Guy's Miracle

We seem to be moving into an era of... It's like a cafeteria style reality where you can just pick the elements of the reality you'd like to live in. But I don't understand how it becomes a mass thing. That whole idea of a kind of ... Isn't that what a meme originally was? Wasn't that the original definition of a meme? Yeah, Richard Dawkins had this idea. The meme originally was like a cultural gene. And then it became like a virus and it spreads through the whole population.

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