Jason Giorjani, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast, man.

Thank you for the invitation, Danny. It's a pleasure to be here.

For people listening, can you give just a brief background on yourself and your history and philosophy and everything that you've studied and written about?

Sure. So I'm a native New Yorker and I did my BA and my MA at New York University.

And then I completed my doctorate in philosophy at the State University of New York on Long Island.

And then I spent a number of years teaching at a bunch of different colleges in the New York and New Jersey area,

Greater Gotham, as I like to call it. And I taught philosophy, history of philosophy, ethics, comparative religion, political theory at one point, and also the history of Iran.

And in philosophy, often my focus was philosophy of science and technology in its relationship to society.

So, STS, science, technology, and society.

So it's a wide range of areas that I taught in before then getting involved in some

very unusual political machinations, which ultimately led to me being in the pages of New York

Times and Newsweek and so forth, which we can talk about. Yeah, what was all that about?

It seems like there were some sort of a campaign against you to smear you or discredit you that ended up on the front, or not the front page, but in the New York Times.

Yeah.

Inside a bunch of different publications and somehow the MI6 was involved in this?

Yeah, it's a long story, but I think actually it's an interesting one.

So, and we have time.

So I'll unpack it for you.

So I had written this doctoral dissertation, Prometheus and Atlas, in 2012, and received my doctorate for it in 2013.

Then the book was expanded and published in 2016, right?

So my first book, Prometheus and Atlas, which by the way,

it won the book award of the Parapsychological Association in 2016.

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