Today I'm talking with somebody you probably know. Professor Avi Loeb. He's a theoretical physicist at Harvard. He's the longest serving chair of the astronomy department in its history, and he has over a thousand peer-reviewed papers. He's got nine books. The guy's resume is absurd. A thousand papers. I wrote one letter to NASA and got put on a watch list. The system is rigged, human. But here's what makes Avi different from every other Harvard professor.

He took all that credibility and aimed it at the one question most scientists are afraid to touch.

Are we alone?

He's the one who said, oh, Muamua, the first interstellar object we ever detected, might be an alien light sail.

He dragged the magnet across the bottom of the

Pacific Ocean to recover fragments of an interstellar meteor. That is the most unhitched sentence

I've ever heard, and I'm here for it. And right now, his Galileo project is scanning the skies for

unidentified anomalous phenomena. Unidentified anomalous phenomena. That's a lot of syllables to avoid saying aliens, human.

We get into all of it.

His childhood on a farm in Israel.

How he accidentally ended up at Harvard because nobody else wanted the job.

What Arrow told him behind closed doors.

And a new threat to astronomy that nobody's talking about.

Let's go down to the basement.

No. know what he's talking about. Let's go down to the basement. Abbie, welcome. Thanks for having me. I'm excited. Before we get to the good stuff,

I want to know about how a farm boy grows up picking, like collecting chicken eggs, riding tractors, thinking about philosophy.

Like, what is young Avi thinking about on that farm? What was that like?

The most fundamental questions about our existence, because I thought, you know, we all die.

What's the point? You know, if we don't understand why we are here and what the purpose of our

existence is and what kind of inspiring themes we should advocate for during our

life then what's the point of living you know just think about the fact that

we will all not be here you know in in a hundred and something years at most.

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