It took 78 episodes before the mistake happened. With no backup sound, we lost an entire episode. Lesser podcasters would have rerecorded, but we…we built a time machine! We traveled back in time and rerecorded this episode. The fact you are listening is proof!!!
Then we were all like, “Why share the secret to the Israel/Palestine conflict — let’s talk about time travel!
And so, that is what we did…
We kick the episode off asking each other if we believe it will one day be possible for humans to travel through time? (Spoiler: we do!) Then we go back in time to our youths, asking when the very concept of time travel was introduced to us.
Humans love time travel stories, and we move on to the best time travel fiction we’ve come across!
For some, though, time travel is not fiction — it’s “real.” We then discuss the best claim of “true” time travel we’ve heard. Then, moving on and forgetting what we meant to talk about, we traveled back into this very podcast to talk about the worst time travel story. (Poor Superman!)
Time travel is fun to think about, but if it were real — and people knew it existed — it would be a pain in the ass. If you don’t think so, listen to us talk about the societal implications of time travel. Then we move on to the most interesting time travel theories we’ve heard.
Most time travel stories take great liberties with the physics of time travel. We dedicate time to the dangers of time travel popular fiction rarely considers.
Want to know where we would visit if we could travel through time with the very time machine we made to record this episode? Find out! And stick around to see which historical figure we’d pull from the past to the present…and what we’d show them in modern times.
Finally, we wrap it up with this question: If you had to travel to another time in the past, but the trip was one-way, where would you choose?
Even if you don’t have a time machine, by replying in the comments below, you can lock down your moment in time. We’d love to hear what you thought of this episode and any answers to the questions posed in this show.
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