A Writer asked Google

A Writer asked Google

Nathan McGrath

Episodes 28
Avg. Duration 19m
Activity Moderate
Since Jun 2025
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
Consistency
9%
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anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

In researching for my Sci-Fi and Urban Fantasy novels, I often ask difficult or crazy questions and get profoundly thought provoking or just plain bonkers answers . Like they say, you don't know until you ask. These podcasts give you an insight into the research that went into my current and upcoming novels.

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Recent Episodes

Understanding Spurs slide into a relegation battle - Follow the money.

Mar 23, 2026 21m

Being a Spurs supporter, I wondered what Google NotebookLM would make of the team's slide into a relegation battle. The deep dive response surprised me. Spurs are in the top 5 globally wealthiest…

The Geometric Heart of a Timeless Universe

Mar 20, 2026 13m

These academic sources examine the $\Lambda$CDM model, the current standard for understanding the universe's expansion and structure. While this framework has been remarkably successful, researchers…

Why the Universe might bounce.

Mar 19, 2026 24m

Our virtual couple explore the enigmatic nature of dark energy and its role in the accelerating expansion of our universe. They contrast the standard cosmological model, where vacuum energy remains…

The Passenger. Attack on Free Will. How AI Weaponises your Survival Instincts

Mar 14, 2026 21m

If we look at all levels of from the quantum to the biological, to the social, psychological, natural, all the physical and space sciences  from the point of view of 'causal mechanics' or…

Radical Mutual Aid and Community Power

Mar 11, 2026 20m

Explore the intersection between anarchist theory and community power. These fields share a fundamental commitment to human liberation and the dismantling of authoritarian hierarchies. Dr Mark…

The Interstellar Spies

Jan 07, 2026 12m

Super-intelligent aliens could easily disguise their intergalactic spacecraft to mimic natural space phenomena - almost but not quite. Astronomers and scientists have performed theoretical actobatics…

S2E4 The Rise, Fall and Rise of Omniscient POV

Oct 07, 2025 16m

I needed a bit of help writing from an Omniscient POV and asked Google Gemini for some guidance, do's and don'ts.It gave me a comprehensive discussion on narrative perspective, particularly focusing…

S2E3 The Poverty of Experience: How did we come to this?

Oct 07, 2025 15m

So you think you're in control of who you are, can really explain the choices you make, the things you're into and the things that just turn you off?I asked Gemini a question about Art, Cultures,…

S2E3 Time Travel, Fate, Gnosticism and your Grandfather.

Sep 22, 2025 13m

What's the connection between Time travel, fate, Gnosticism and your grandfather? In this episode our virtual couple, provide the background character originally created by Nathan McGrath in his…

S2E2 The Dawn of Biological and Artificial Consciousness

Sep 15, 2025 15m

In this episode, our AI presenters discuss the multifaceted concept of artificial consciousness and its implications. They explore philosophical arguments regarding whether functionally identical…

S2E1 What's Going on? Democracy in Crisis.

Sep 14, 2025 20m

In this episode, our AI presenters take a deep dive into the Global crisis in Democracy - All you need to know is here. Summary compiled from the latest reports produced by the most reliable…

S1E18 The Montauk Project. There are Things Stranger than Area 51.

Sep 14, 2025 15m

If you are into or interested in the world of Conspiracy theories and thought the stories around Area 51 were strange, then you clearly haven't heard about the Montauk project and rumours of…

S1E17 Learning to be You.

Sep 08, 2025 17m

"Muscle memory" extends beyond the domain of athletes toencompass the persistent emotional and psychological experiences of all individuals is supported by extensive evidence from neuroscience,…

S1E16 I Remember Everything - What your Body Knows.

Sep 08, 2025 18m

The 'I' in the mind is a reflection of your body. Your body is not merely a vessel for the mind but an active participant in shaping who you are. We explore how intense emotional states and trauma…

S2E1 From Poe to Pop Culture. The Detective Novel

Aug 22, 2025 16m

How the detective novel, first established by Edgar Allan Poe's "stories of ratiocination," evolved into a foundational narrative archetype. Tracing the genre's development from the "Golden Age"…

S1E15 Beautiful Things: The Unconscious Architect of the Universe

Aug 19, 2025 17m

Which came first?While cosmology is a science of objective measurement, its theories are conceived and developed by human beings whose cognition is subject to a priori structures that are not…

S1E13 Dark Winter - Could we be heading for a Mini Ice Age?

Jul 21, 2025 26m

There are good and bad ways of dealing with Global Warming. Geoengineering techniques like Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection…

S1E12 The Global Nexus of AI Supercomputing Systems

Jul 21, 2025 27m

In the past few years we've seen a rapidly expanding network of dedicated AI supercomputing systems, driven by government and corporate ambitions for AI leadership , spread across the planet. In this…

S1E11 What's going on. The Real Truth behind how Corporate AI is changing your life.

Jul 09, 2025 29m

Our two AI presenters tear back the covers and reveal the extent of AI's influence on our lives. How much do you really know about all the ways corporations are already using AI to change the world…

S1E10 Forever Young: Future Bodies: The Science of Replacement

Jul 04, 2025 26m

The Wrychuns, villains in the novel "The Mechanics", harvest and trade in replacement biosynthetic body parts and internal organs. This episode takes a deep dive into the current state of prosthetics…

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