Ralph Blumenthal joins us today from his office in NYC. Ralph is a Distinguished Lecturer, an Award-Winning Reporter and Journalist for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and a writer on organized crime and cultural history. He also is known for co-authoring the now famous NY Times article in 2017 along with Leslie Kean and Helene Cooper that broke the door open on the secret AATIP program. He and Kean followed that up in 2023 with their breaking story on David Grusch and the details of a secret retrieval program and existence of non-human intelligence. Moreover, he is also the distinguished biographer of the late Harvard psychiatrist and author Dr. John Mack with his book “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.”

 

Ralph has both writing and NYC at his core. Ralph straight-talks us through everything important to him: his curiosities, his artistic background, his Jewish heritage, mysteries that fascinate us, his wife’s sensibilities-  and the life, research and curiosities of John Mack. We talk unmovable beliefs, inquisitions and the big questions.

What is the bottom line?

 

People mentioned in this episode can be found here:

• Rudy Schild (re John Mack) – ep 179
• Leslie Kean – ep 112
• Guy Consolmagno – ep 133
• Danny Sheehan – ep 169

Ralph,

• Books: https://ralphblumenthal.com/books/
• Website: https://ralphblumenthal.com/bio/
• X: @ralphblu

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