Listen "#29 - Time Travel Stories and Rip Van Winkles (Part 2)"
Episode Synopsis
We fire up part two of our time travel movie talk, and things immediately get weirder—half because of the topic, half because of us!This time we’re diving into 12 Monkeys (Brad Pitt as the patron saint of chaos)Time After Time (H.G. Wells vs. Jack the Ripper, because sure)About Time (time travel but make it romantic and British)Safety Not Guaranteed (classified ad, possible lunatic, actual heartwarming ending)The Adam ProjectFrequencyInterstellar (the movie that made half of us cry and the other half Google “what is a tesseract?”)We also hit the deep cuts: Millennium, Flight of the Navigator, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (time travel for whales!), and that Twilight Zone episode where William Shatner loses it over a jukebox!We debate:The ethics of fixing the past vs. breaking it for funWhether time travelers should be banned from playing the stock marketThe suspicious lack of dental problems in any century before 1950We roast movies for forgetting language changes over centuries, note that apparently every time machine has a leather interior, and discover that the only people who don’t break the space-time continuum are… people in Hallmark movies, somehow!Also featuring: The “don’t step on that” ruleWhy most time travelers would immediately get smallpoxWhich superhero movie does paradoxes bestAnd the age-old question—if you can warn your past self about a bad haircut, is it morally wrong not to?
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