Mallory Rubin

Really fascinating, you know, not obviously a complete accounting of every single religious person's standing on this matter, but the idea that actually a lot of people of faith, a lot of religious scholars in particular, theologians, have said not only, I think there's probably...

life out there, but that fits with my view of God.

So I think there's an entire movie that could be centered around this that would be riveting.

Disclosure night.

Disclosure night.

About the fallout.

Disclosure night.

Oh, my God.

That's kind of, you know, that's kind of interesting.

That would be good.

What about empathy as a superpower?

Because in addition to religion, like, that's another kind of core theme and big idea.

That is certainly one of the areas where the idea of World War III poised to erupt is

Yeah.

These are connected.

Also, obviously, the filmmaker trying to reach you through the power of story to say, no, except not only your fellow man, but your fellow being, wherever they might come from.

The aliens have that interest, as you noted, about, like, Rocky and Grace.

The aliens have the interest in certain stories and getting to know us and understand and speak to us and through us.

What if we showed the same openness?

Hugo says that empathy is an evolutionary advantage.