Laura Krantz

And this was one of the the things that was pointed out in the general search for extraterrestrial life.

We don't 100 percent know what we're looking for.

We only know what we know about life from the life that we are exposed to here on Earth.

Carbon-based, needs water, like all of those kinds of things.

So, you know, the way it was described to me, it's like, let's say you drop your keys outside somewhere and it's a dark night.

when you go out looking for them, you're probably going to start looking under the lamppost because that is where there is light, even if you are pretty sure you didn't drop them there.

And I think that the search for extraterrestrial life is similar to that in that

Because we don't know what we're looking for, we kind of have to start in that circle of light from the lamppost and then probe the edges and make sure we understand the science more as we go further out rather than just making leaps of logic that don't necessarily stand up to rigorous science.

I like proof and evidence.

I'm not one to make sort of leaps.

I'm one of those boring people.

I don't know that I'm right, but that's kind of how I perceive the world.

So...

It probably is.

Yeah, so this was kind of fun.

What happened was...

After the first book, or I'm sorry, after the first season came out, the Bigfoot season, I started to get letters from parents who were listening to the podcast with their kids, which I hadn't really thought about kids when I was doing the podcast.

It just hadn't entered my mind.

If I had, I probably would have cut the swearing out.

Apologies for that.