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Stay Tuned with Preet

Imagining Alien Contact (with Garrett Graff)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Garrett Graff is a journalist and the author of UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There. He joins Preet to discuss what alien contact might look like, the viral nature of conspiracy theories, and the recent national resurgence in UFO interest.  Plus, what will come of an investigation into DA Fani Willis’s alleged relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade? What happens if a convicted defendant wins the presidential election? And will E. Jean Carroll see any of the money she was awarded in her defamation suit against Trump? For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: cafe.com/stay-tuned/imagining-alien-contact-with-garrett-graff/ Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

0:05.0

I'm Preet Barara.

0:08.0

We could have missed billion year civilizations.

0:13.4

I mean, things that have come and gone

0:16.5

and would be far longer and more technologically advanced

0:21.5

than anything that we could possibly imagine.

0:24.0

That's Garrett Graf.

0:30.0

He's a journalist and historian who has written about Robert Mueller's FBI, America's Nuclear War

0:34.7

Contingency Plans, Cyber Warfare, Watergate, and September 11th.

0:39.8

His latest book dives into another intense element of American history,

0:43.0

Our National Obsession with the Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life.

0:48.0

The book is called UFO, the inside story of the U.S. government's search for alien life here and out there.

0:54.0

We talk about what alien contact might look like, the viral nature of conspiracy theories,

0:59.0

and the recent national resurgence in UFO interest.

1:02.0

That's coming up. Stay tuned. Support for this show comes from Krakan.

1:16.0

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1:20.0

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1:27.0

Crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere all the time.

1:32.0

Cracken, see what crypto can be.

1:35.0

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

1:38.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

1:43.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

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