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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Hairy Humanoid

There's a strange attraction repulsion dynamic. I mean, but it's a peculiar kind of escapism because wouldn't you want to like escape through pleasant experiences and fear is like an uncomfortable thing? That's the weird thing about all that stuff. It's different from fantasy, which is just kind of fun imaginative stuff. Lots of cultures have their version of a hairy humanoid. Why do you think that is? Yeah. And all these cultures have all I mean, like we were just saying too, they all have a vampire thing or whatever,. All these things.

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