Hello, world.

Ralph Blumenthal was a reporter for the New York Times for 45 years, where he worked as an investigative journalist and crime reporter.

He's also written seven books based on investigative crime and reporting on cultural history.

His latest book, The Believer, Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the passion of John Mack is the first biography of

the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mac, who risked his esteemed career in

psychology to investigate the stupefying accounts of human abductions by aliens. Nothing in Mac's

four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the otherworldly accounts of a cross-section of humanity,

including young children who reported being taken against their wills by alien beings.

Based on Ralph's exclusive access to John Max's archives, journals, psychiatric notes and interviews with his families and closest associates,

he reveals the life and work

of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums and further leads us to the hidden

dimensions and alternative realities that captivated Mac until the end of his life. This is a good

one, folks. I hope you enjoyed as much as I did. Please welcome Ralph Blumenthal.

Thank you for doing this, Ralph. I really appreciate it. I just finished watching the UFO documentary on Showtime, and you made a few appearances in there.

I did.

Really, really great documentary.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I wasn't responsible for it, but I like the part where they used me and I don't subscribe

to all of it.

I think there was some sketchy things in there, but really, which is true of the whole UFO field. I mean, it's...

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