{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"219. Ralph Blumenthal \u2013 Award-Winning Journalist \/ Author - In Search for the Bottom Line","description":"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 \u201cThe Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.\u201d   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\u2019s 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) \u2013 ep 179 Leslie Kean \u2013 ep 112 Guy Consolmagno \u2013 ep 133 Danny Sheehan \u2013 ep 169 Ralph, Books: https:\/\/ralphblumenthal.com\/books\/ Website: https:\/\/ralphblumenthal.com\/bio\/ X: @ralphblu To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https:\/\/behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors ","author_name":"Behind Greatness by Inspire North","author_url":"http:\/\/behindgreatness.libsyn.com\/website","html":"