Avi Loeb

I write a paper almost every week.

I'm in the trenches doing science.

It's very different.

It's just like you have soccer players and you have commentators on the bench.

And you can be a commentator, popularize science, but the difference is that as a commentator, you will never score a goal.

You know, a few months ago... Deferred experts.

A few months ago, I was at a gathering, and there was a cocktail hour, and it was with celebrities.

And I saw Margot Robbie standing.

And, of course, I have nothing to offer, you know, like...

what kind of opening line would I start a conversation with?

I didn't know how to start a conversation.

So I was just standing on the side, and then someone came with my book, Interstellar, and said, would you mind signing it for me?

And so I signed the book, and she noticed it, and she came over and said, are you Avi Loeb?

I really wanted to hear more about what you're doing.

And we started the conversation for 20 minutes.

Then I gave my talk and Jerry Bruckheimer was in the audience.

He is one of the most accomplished.

You know him.

He came afterwards and said, I just finished F1, you know, the movie.

And my next one is about a scientist like you searching for UAPs and trying to figure them out.