The Writer’s Room, July 2025 Edition

This month's collection of updates and insights.

The Writer’s Room, July 2025 Edition

By Phil Rot

Enjoy the following monthly update on my research, workflow, and ideas. Also, if you haven’t yet, please purchase an additional copy of my highly regarded microNovel, The Raft.

I Want YOU To Believe

I’ve discovered a fun new rabbit hole, something I’m calling the Cambian-verse. It involves UFO truthers and salty, yet hilarious, podcasters who pick them apart weekly. The streamer for whom this microcosm is named goes by the YouTube handle Truth Seekers, but his real name is Steven Cambian. Mr. Cambian has been online shaming UFO “whistleblowers” for at least five years, as that’s how long his channel has been active. He resembles an extra from The X-Files or The Matrix, which is to say, he appears to be cool. I wonder if he listens to Skinny Puppy or Chrome. I once had the opportunity to see “Chrome” perform live (although it was only surviving member, Helios Creed, fucking around on a guitar with a lot of phaser and flange over a drum machine).

From what I can gather, Cambian is a UFO experiencer who became disillusioned with the UFO community and has made it his life’s mission to expose high-profile researchers and experiencers. Linda Moulten Howe, Dr. Steven Greer MD, Bob Lazar, Travis Walton, nearly every major Coast to Coast guest has been systematically deconstructed by Mr. Cambian on one stream or another. In one particularly funny episode, he accused Linda Moulton Howe of cattle mutilation. To me, this is peak entertainment.

What sets Mr. Cambian’s critiques apart from the rest of the skeptic community (a bunch of fucking humorless giga-redditors if you ask me) is his bombastic personality and willingness to call people gay. These days, you don’t call people gay as an insult, not in polite society. To do so would imply that being gay is something negative, rather than a valid genre of sexuality. Whether you agree with this take or think it's gay, to Cambian, it’s open season.

FREE WILCOCK

Ah, David Wilcock. Among all the UFO personalities covered, no one seems to garner more attention these days than Wilcock. In my eyes, Wilcock is a treasure. A former host of Ancient Aliens, Mr. Wilcock comes across like something out of a Tim and Eric sketch. But unlike the irony sweatshop of Tim and Eric (and those who followed), Mr. Wilcock is genuine; he’s the real deal.

Bonafides: Wilcock believes he is in psychic contact with aliens, that he is the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce, and has accurately predicted the end of the world on multiple occasions. He likes to wear what he calls “sizzle shirts” and complains about having to survive on a mere $10,000 a month. Recently, he’s been delving into improvisational comedy, creating such memorable characters as “Angry Daddy” and “Tranma”. He likely does weed on occasion, but that’s pure speculation on my part. You can find his amazing channel here.

All you really need to know is: Cambian HATES David Wilcock. There is a pure, unbridled vitriol in Cambian’s croaky voice every time he utters the name, “Wilcock.” This makes for some energetic, highly entertaining, and highly inflammatory diatribes. On his channel, you can find multiple 12-hour-long episode mashups dedicated to aylawging Wilcock and his former fingerless glove-wearing partner, Corey Goode. I regularly fall asleep to these compilations. Then I wake up at 5 am to Cambian’s ear-splitting cackle after he delivers his seven hundred and ninety seventh David Wilcock is gay joke (I don’t even dream anymore; the sound of internet fighting has given my hypothalamus irreparable brain rot).

Another notable channel covering the same UFO personalities is Hidden In Plain Sight. Despite being a comedy podcast, the two hosts are actually quite funny. Their coverage of Wilcock seems more in the spirit of fun than Cambian's, which is a refreshing change. Coincidentally, they also like to call David a gay.

They seem to hold a distant, mutual respect for Cambian, but perhaps due to subject overlap, they rarely mention each other. It would be funny if Hidden in Plain Sight and Truth Seekers started publicly feuding, for the content. For a vibe closer to a Howard Stern offshoot than to a talking crow (the literal animal), you may prefer Hidden in Plain Sight. Me? I’ll take one of each, please!

An-E-Way

I wrote this to avoid editing my bad-cop-cyber-furry novella, which will be regarded as the high watermark of the genre. My renewed interest in Nick Land seems to have hit at just the right moment, as many of his concepts can be found in the novella I’m working on. Who knows, he may just make an appearance.

I’d like to end this article with some advice to creative writers: start violating copyright law immediately AND OFTEN. If you wind up being sued, just use it as extra promotion. Inexplicably throw Jimmy Neutron in your next novel as himself. Write a revisionist history of McDonald's without a “this is a work of fiction” warning. Reality is becoming more and more hyperstitional; it’s time to unburden ourselves from the chains of propriety, at least when it comes to self-expression;

it’s time to make lawyers lots of money;

it’s time to invent new laws and make them real without the government’s “consent”;

it’s time to write Jimmy Neutron into your new novel without reason or explanation;

it’s time to deny the reality of reality in favor of a more interesting reality;

That is to say:

It’s time to get back 2 work!