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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to the God's I View Podcast. I'm your host, Trevor.
It's been a while, everybody, Sorry, I uh, you know
all the typical excuses. What happened is, honestly, I wrote
the book God's Eye View very intensely. It was like
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all consuming all day, every day reading, writing, reading, writing,
Not all day. I mean, I still did what was
required of me at work, but I definitely did not
go the extra mile like I normally do. I normally
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get obsessive. It's a it's a mental disorder that I
have to be frank anyway, So I stopped being obsessive
for a while, but unfortunately to keep up in academia
kind of despite what probably people think, it's pretty competitive
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and you are more than other jobs I've worked, and
you are held to pretty there are very clear metrics
of success. It's not like a corporate job where you
can kind of like, as long as you know how
to talk right, as long as you know how to
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play the game politic, get the right people to like you, you
can kind of coast. It's not like that that it's
weird people say, academ Sorry, I know this is a
weird tangent to just jump into but it's relevant to
my to my absence, I think some people might be
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interested in it. I don't know. Anyway, when you think academia,
you kind of think, like cushy job. It is. Listen,
it beats. It beats digging a ditch and laying fiber
optic cable in the desert or working on an oil rig.
It is. It is a cushy job. But it isn't
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this like, it's not what people think unless you're an administrator.
If you are an administrator, it's political. It's kind of
like working a corporate job. I guess, like an administrative
role in a corporate job, where you show up to
the meetings. As long as you don't do something that
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gets you in trouble with the HR department, you're fine.
You get a big old check for doing nothing. It's
weird how it's weird how that works. But know that
if you're actually doing research or teaching, even but particularly
in research, there are metrics. You have to have a
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certain number of first author publications or be running a
lab in your lab has to have a certain number
of publications that the grad students, right, But you know
you're mentoring them and coaching them up, and it is
a lot of work. Still to run a lab I'm
not fortunate enough to be in that position yet. Takes
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a lot of time. And I kind of got a
late start in academia. I had other jobs before this.
But anyway, I'm telling you all this to explain where
I've been. I got behind. You know, you really need
to have three good, high impact meaning good journals, popular journals.
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You need to have three first author papers a year.
Where I'm at in my current stage of my career,
and you might be thinking, man, all you gotta do
is write three papers a year, and that sounds that
sounds like the easiest job in the world, and you
would be right. It's just that the paper is like
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a summary of the work you did, right. You got
to you have to go recruit research participants. You have
to do the research study, which you know could take months.
You have to collect the data, organize it, run the
statistical analysis, and then write the paper. And writing the
paper is not exactly the easiest thing in the world.
I mean, again, it beats jiggy ditches. But it's gotta
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be good. That's the thing. That's the thing. It's got
to actually be interesting. Although some people seem to get
away with papers that aren't very interesting. But I'm not
exactly sure how that works anyway, So I got a
little behind. I needed to crank some stuff out. So
that's where I've been. I've been cranking stuff out, and
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I'm actually working on some cool stuff right now. I
you know, my my research focus is just sort of
regular biomedical stuff. You know, it's not it's not anything
to like, you know, to me, it's exciting, but it's
not conquering the mysteries of the universe, which is what
we do here, of course. But I think it's pretty cool.
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So I'm working on this idea right now about how
fluid gets pumped through your brain, not blood but CSF
and it's a cerebro spinal food. And it's surprising. I'm
always amazed by how little we know, Like there's this
perception even in the scientific field, the specific field that
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I'm in, there is no exception that we know so much.
And then like all it takes is you asking a
really simple question and you realize nobody knows. Everyone just
kind of pretends like somebody must know, you know, go
look at the evidence, but nobody knows. You know, and
so this is not to say we don't know anything
about crebra's spinal fluid. It's just it's a lot of
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contradictory things and a lot of question marks, and whatever
the engine is of moving fluid through your brain, it's
not exactly clear. So anyway, I found this cool way
to sort of quantify the frequency of blood volume change
in your brain, and it kind of seems like it
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might drive CSF and it kind of seems like it
might be really important to Alzheimer's disease. But anyway, I digress.
That's not what this show is about. Excuse me. So anyway, Yeah,
so I'm back. I've got few papers in press. We
call it when it's past peer review, when you've responded
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to all the angry comments, when you've swallowed your pride
and admitted that other people might be smarter than you
and you've accepted their feedback or pushed back here and there. Anyway,
once you got through all that, the paper's impress. It's
getting formated, blah blah blah. Anyway, so that's what's going
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on with me. I am feeling accomplished, but unfortunately, or fortunately,
I've been sidetracked by a new endeavor. An endeavor that
would be frowned upon is maybe the wrong word, but
it's certainly not the way to get ahead and scientific research.
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And that is I have written another book, or it's
almost done. It's available for pre order. Anyway, I've wrote
another book about it. Almost pains me to say it
because I know I know what you're gonna think. The
moment you hear it, your opinion will be strong one
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way or the other. That's all I know. The book
is about the Shroud of Turin, which is super popular
right now I listen, I don't know, I don't know
what it is, but I can promise you it's not
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as straightforward, probably as either side would have you believe.
It's maybe more fantastical in some way, like like the
ways the believers describe it. As you know, the evidence
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they care about is like the forensic evidence, the blood evidence,
the way the EXODU looks, whether it's serum or where
there are traces of red blood cells or creatinine or
Billy ruben or whatever. And that is interesting for sure.
But you know, I've never I'm very skeptical of some
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forensic evidence. It's sort of achieved, like a cultural mystique.
I think you could say the same about carbon dating.
It's not it's not that it's unreliable. It's just that
it doesn't always mean what you think it means. You know. Anyway,
I don't necessarily want to go down that road. But
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that's that's all interesting. I address all of that. Listen.
I'm not anti science at all. I'm a scientist. I
think carbon dating is an excellent and reliable way to
date something. My point is just that you can't abandon
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all reason, Like you can't just surrender critical thinking in
the presence of a particular type of scientific evidence. Like
everything needs to exist within a context. You need to
fit the puzzle pieces together. You can't just abandon critical
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thought just because, oh look, blood splatter evidence, you know.
And it's wrong to compare those two things. Because carbon
dating is very reliable. A lot of the forensic stuff
is not. But going back to carbon dating for a second,
like let's talk about the Pyramids for a minute. Say
you find a piece of wood in the Pyramids and
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you date that piece of wood and it's five hundred
years old. It doesn't mean the Pyramids were built five
hundred years ago. It means the wood is five hundred
years old. But you know it's this type of like
people just throw reason out the window and they go,
we have carbon dating, think, well, yeah, you got it.
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What's the context, dude? Like anyway, sorry tangent, but my
point is there's a lot of that about the shroud,
and then some of the stuff that's really cool and
really profound and like difficult to reconcile is stuff you
like never hear about, and so obviously I can't can't
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give away that excitement, not yet. At least I need
to finish writing the book. I need to make sure.
I need to dot my eyes, cross my t's and
make sure everything I'm saying is correct. It's been fun
to write, but you know it is you can get
You can get absorbed in things, at least I can.
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Where you know you're you just put your head down,
you look up, six hours have gone by. You know
you've got to ulcer on your left butt cheek because
you've just been clacking away at the keyboard. And then
you go back and read it and it's like, oh,
that's horrible, and then you edit and you edit and
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you had it anyway. So that's what I've been up
to the past few weeks. I don't want to completely
move away from the physics stuff. But you know, I'm
not a physicist. I what I did in the last
book is I put I like to put ideas together
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in a new way. I don't like to claim to
know anything myself. I take the stated interpretations, the stated findings,
and I rearrange them as an outsider looking in too.
And you know, my hope is to expose the logical
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fallacies that people have made because they're just in it.
They're too in it. You know, they've spent their lives
in it, whatever it is. And the case of the
last book is physics. You know, you're from high school
to seventy years old. Some of these guys have just
been in it head down in the books, and you
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know there's stuff you miss when you're in it. To
start to keep using that phrase, but it's like, I
don't know, I think people hopefully get what I'm saying.
I don't know if you've ever worked on like a
home renovation project or something, but you're just like you
made twelve trips to home depot and you're like you're measuring,
you're remeasuring, and then your wife or a neighbor or
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somebody walks up and they're like, oh God, here we go.
They're going to be asking questions, giving advice, and they go, well,
why don't you just do it like this? And you
expect it's going to be a stupid comment, but then
you kind of step back and you're like, oh shit,
why don't I do you know? I like, why don't
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I just do it that way? And then you have
to pretend like that won't work. Oh no, I can't
do that because of the beam is right there, you know,
but deep down you know you know you're wrong, and
I think that happens to everybody. You know. You're just
like you can't see the forest through the trees. I'm
not sure if that's really the right use of that metaphor,
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but I hope, I hope you get it. I mean, anyway,
that's all I really got for you guys tonight. I
do want to say I'm gonna try to keep doing
this show. I actually was gonna stop, but I went
and looked in this at the numbers the other day
and apparently people are listening. I had no idea, So
so I'm gonna keep trying to do it. But I
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also want to make you guys aware of two other podcasts.
Happy Fools. This is a show I do with my
friend Alfredo. It's pretty inappropriate and explicit and kind of unprofessional.
So if you're not into that, you know, don't listen.
You've been warned. And then I do another the show
called bad Press excuse me, bad Press. That is the
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podcast for our publishing company. So myself, two friends, you know,
one of them is my editor. We own a publishing company,
small publishing company, and we and we do a podcast
and that's a lot of deep dives. It's kind of conspiratorial,
you know, we're we do like really not me, my
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my friend does really like deep journalistic style research into
old projects CIA blah blah blah. And so that's just
getting started. I think we're only like five episodes in.
But if you want to check it out, please do.
And if you want to write a book and listen,
you don't. We're not Pearson, you know, we're not Penguin Publishers.
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We're just a few guys who like to read and write.
And so if you you like to read or write,
or even if you're kind of lukewarm on writing. But
if you have a story you'd like to tell, please
email editor at Hemispheric press dot com. Or if you
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know somebody who's a writer, listen, I'll tell you real quick.
Then I'm done, promise. When I was looking around trying
to find a publisher, before I'd even put one word
to paper, listen, I've published multiple scientific peer review papers.
I've got credentials, you know, maybe I could find somebody.
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And it turned out that the publishing industry is just
like a horrible predatory scheme to extract as much money
as possible out of authors, unless you really all that
matters is like, do you have one hundred thousand Instagram followers? No? Okay,
well you know, if you pay us ten thousand dollars
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up front, we'll publish your book and take eighty percent
of the royalties. You know, So that's it's predatory out there.
So we're not really looking to get rich, but we're
just looking to help people write cool stuff, you know,
cool ideas. The truth that that's more and more. That's
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what I'm into, the truth, the ever elusive truth. Even
if I don't necessarily agree with your argument, if it
helps get us towards the truth. I think it's interesting,
at least I try to that's I try to make
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that a principle I live by. But I also think
it's okay to judge bad ideas ideas that you clearly
you know, think are wrong. Anyway, I'm rambling. Please email
editor at hemispheric press dot com. Please buy the book
God's Eye View and God him such a bad marketer.
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Please pre order the book Shroud Pilled. It's just the
ebook available for pre order right now, but the paperback
will be coming out in a couple months, so I
will update you guys on that. In the meantime, Take
it easy,