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#29 - Time Travel Stories and Rip Van Winkles (Part 2)


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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 Project
  • Frequency
  • Interstellar (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 fun
  • Whether time travelers should be banned from playing the stock market
  • The suspicious lack of dental problems in any century before 1950

We 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” rule
  • Why most time travelers would immediately get smallpox
  • Which superhero movie does paradoxes best

And 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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