(But I'll save you some time... I was genuinely interested in the thesis but found there's not a lot of depth here and it feels like an ad for his book)

“this argument is laid out in my book” blah blah blah

This guy is so obsessed with being right about his sole theory that he has staked his entire identity on it.

When you only have a hammer, everything is a nail - Ray has been shopping the same theory without updating anything whatsoever about it for over 10 years.