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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Madam Blavatsky and the Esophical Society

He's this Victorian era character who, who, like Conan Doyle, he's in a club with Conan Doyle, I think. Was he? Yeah, they were in a book club together. They were sitting around reading the latest Ben Sellers. He was that kind of like gentleman that he was from that kind of background.Yeah. To like, upper class, upper class guy, at least upper middle class kind of guy. And, and he got into all of this paganism. Like so they looked at these traditions from ancient Greece and Egypt where you mix together like Hermes and Toth or something and that creates this magic tradition. But they kind of made up their own system.

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