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ENCORE: Patton Oswalt and The Mandela Effect

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Fucking Road

I have a whole theory that mankind, when completely bunkers with the invention of photography, that when you could actually see the most accurate representation of yourself, that drove people crazy. I think up until the early 1900s, acting was looked upon as a very low profession. It was not. And it was literally, no plumbers were like a very, like, that guy has a trade. This guy puts on dead people's hair and he makes up and runs around on stage and says he's truly a seasoned fucking nut. Like they were not truly. But what the fuck is that? Oh, yes. That's the whole way. We've never been on a driving road.

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