Brian Keating

Have you thought maybe, you know, there's something to these aliens and maybe it could be incompatible with my religion, my faith in Jesus Christ or whatever?

No.

That's right.

Exactly.

So, you know, in the ancient Roman times you had on, Jeremy Ryan Slate is a friend of mine not too long ago.

You know, he talked about ancient Rome and what they used to do and how they keep the masses entertained when there's no Netflix.

They had bread and circus.

I call this bread and saucers.

This is what they're doing.

There's a lot of distraction.

Why is it distracting, though?

That's what interests me.

It's a metacognitive thing.

To me, it's interesting because it taps into something primal in the human spirit, which is beautiful, by the way, that people care about the possibility of extra-dimensional, extraterrestrial, not only life, like...

If I told you tomorrow we discovered some slime mold on, you know, the moon of Saturn, Titan, you'd be like, holy crap, that's cool.

But if I told you there's dolphins swimming around on the ocean, you'd say that's even cooler, right?

And then if I said there's freaking dolphins with opposable thumbs and they're using iPhones, you'd be like, holy freaking crap.

You know, right?

So it's this hierarchy of insane, interesting, most fascinating stuff.

And it is child abuse or, you know, humanity's curiosity abuse.