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S20 Ep143: Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life w/ John Gertz & Scotty Rorek

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Darkness Radio Presents: Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life w/ John Gertz & Scotty Rorek!

In today's Thanksgiving Episode, you get a double helping of guests! Scientist/Author John Gertz and Psychic/Medium Scotty Rorek! 

For millennia, humanity has looked up at the sprawling tapestry of stars and wondered what lay beyond. With time, we learned that each star is not a pinprick point in a domed sky, but a massive plasma sphere so far away that the distance becomes incomprehensible to the human mind, measured in light years of millions and billions. This distance invokes crucial questions. Do we share the universe with other intelligent lifeforms? If so, how do we approach the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)? Lastly, do we need to examine our assumptions about extraterrestrial intelligence?

John Gertz's book, Reinventing SETI clears out the cobwebs of outdated or wrongheaded SETI paradigms such as Fermi's Paradox, the Drake Equation, and METI (i.e., proactively sending signals from Earth to putative aliens). It argues that scientists should approach the pursuit of extraterrestrials (ETs) in a more effective manner. Author John Gertz states that ETs, as biological lifeforms themselves, cannot accomplish interstellar travel, but have instead placed robotic probes throughout the universe, perhaps even in our own Solar System. Gertz also warns that humankind is woefully unprepared for the day of First Contact with an alien probe right here in our own backyard. He suggests contingency planning, involving international cooperation as well as broad cross-disciplinary expertise.

On Today's show, we welcome in John Gertz to talk about his theories about whether ET exists, whether they have made contact with us, and what we should do if they appear on our world!! Tghen, Psychic/Medium Scotty Rorek joins us for a special segment in which he helps Tim explain why sometimes you need a little help from your friends! And, why you don't need to have a holiday to be grateful for that help! 

Order your copy of John Gertz's book, "Reinventing SETI: Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" here:  https://bit.ly/4ooJmIG

Find out more about John here:  https://johngertz.com/
Check out John's work with te Zorro properties here:  https://www.zorro.com/

Find out how you can book Scotty Rorek here:  http://www.spookyscotty.com/

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The United States Welcome into the best in paranormal podcasting.

0:30.5

This is Darkness Radio.

0:31.4

I'm your host, Tim Dennis.

0:33.2

We have a tantalizing show for you today, folks.

0:35.8

I'm going to use the word tantalizing in a couple different ways because this is Thanksgiving.

0:39.7

I want to say happy Thanksgiving to my entire family out there, not just my biological family, but you, my Darkness Radio family, and hope that you're having a very good Thanksgiving.

0:49.8

Whether you be by yourself, whether you be with a family that you've chosen,

0:58.2

or whether you be with your family here on Darkness Radio.

1:01.6

Maybe you're choosing to spend your Thanksgiving here listening to us today.

1:07.3

Not only do we have a tantalizing menu today that we're sitting around the table and eating,

1:12.1

but we have a tantalizing show for you today with a tantalizing subject.

1:15.6

We're going to talk today about aliens.

1:20.9

We're going to talk about the possibility of aliens, not just the possibility, but maybe probability.

1:22.3

Well, we're going to talk today with our guest, John Gertz, who has a really, really good book out there called Reinventing

1:30.3

SETI, New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. I want to get into also as well

1:36.9

three eye Atlas. We'll talk that a little bit today. And it's such a hot topic.

1:44.7

And the pros and cons, is it a comet?

1:47.9

Is it an actual craft?

1:50.2

We'll get into that as well in the program.

1:51.8

But we want to break down study a little bit today, too, in this, the subject of this book,

1:57.3

because it is entirely fascinating.

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