669 - Book Tours and Alien Abductions with Author Ralph Blumenthal

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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What happens when a hard-boiled New York Times crime reporter on a book tour checks into his posh San Francisco hotel and can't find...the bed? Author Ralph Blumenthal ("The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,") shares a mortifying story from his travels, before discussing his new biography of an esteemed Harvard psychiatrist who risked his career to research alien abduction.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Christine from Storyworthy.
0:07.1	Today on the show, author and writer Ralph Blumenthal talks about his new book, The Believer, and a book tour gone wrong.
0:14.8	You know, it used to be commercial posts on, do not mention UFOs.
0:18.4	You'll lose your license.
0:19.4	We don't want to hear about it.
0:20.5	UFOs. Now we've really come a long way with the government saying, we want these reports. That was my last stop on the book tour. And so for me, it was like 2 a.m. I unpacked my bags, I laid out my toiletries, and got ready to go to bed. I was exhausted. I'm an investigative reporter
0:40.0	and I can't find the bed. Today on the show, author and writer Ralph Blumenthal talks about a
0:47.6	book tour gone wrong and his new book, The Believer, Alien Encounters, Hard Science and the Passion
0:54.1	of John Mack. Stay close.
0:57.6	Hey, my name is Ralph Blumenthal, and you're listening to Storyworthy.
1:18.9	Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.
1:25.9	We're a longtime fan of the show of over 10 years for your new listener. Welcome to the show.
1:30.1	Now, I hope you guys enjoyed the show last week with film critic Corey Coleman. Corey Coleman was such an interesting guy, a true artist, and a really interesting
1:38.0	person. We laughed our whole way through. His story was about him waking up drunk with a mariachi guy, which is like, yeah,
1:49.0	what a bizarre topic, right, Ralph? But these people meet in a room and then there's like,
1:55.6	whatever, 24 of them. And then they, with whatever's in there, there's different props and stuff,
2:00.3	they get to pick up what they want. And they drink they drink drink and then make a film and bring it back in like four
2:05.5	hours i mean just something really silly sounds like a tautology drunk film festival what are the ones
2:11.2	that aren't drunk okay exactly so you guys go back and listen to corey but not today because today
2:17.4	i have another really interesting guy who's also not a comedian, but he was a reporter for the New York Times for, I mean, like 40 years from 1964 to 2009.
2:30.4	So it's really a shockingly huge amount of work you've done, Ralph.
2:35.5	And you've also been writing a lot of great books, crime reporting, and cultural history.
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