Episode 12: Timeless (with Malcolm Barrett)

Corrections:

  • [0:42] No correction necessary. He really does sound great.
  • [1:12] He goes by Verbal the Rapper.
  • [1:23] Under the name Icarus V. That’s the letter, not the numeral.
  • [4:27] “Content Creator”
  • [5:50] [citation needed]
  • [6:00] The Marty McFly hand fade version, not the dark corners of the web version.
  • [6:47] Spoiler alert.
  • [7:38] Check out S1E7 “Stranded”–it uses time travel particularly well.
  • [8:23] Fun fact: Doctor Who premiered the day after the Kennedy assassination.
  • [9:42] Why, I NEVER!
  • [9:56] [citation needed]
  • [10:46] The “journal with instructions for everything I need to do” requires a fixed timeline, so that the future that results from following (or deviating from) the journal can be accurate while still maintaining an ontological paradox where the information contained in the journal has no one true “origin”. The archetypal example here is Robert Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps”, and as such, it’s sometimes called a bootstrap paradox. The Song of Storms in Ocarina of Time is a good example.
  • [11:40] If you are listening to this less than two weeks after this posts, you can place a bid on the actual journal prop, signed by Malcolm, and also the rest of the cast too I guess.
  • [11:50] It’s actually for William Shatner’s Hollywood Charity Horse Show.
  • [17:02] Alexandre Dumas’s father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas had an illustrious military career and was the General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps.
  • [17:11] Though Alexandre Dumas was best known for writing The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo etc, his son (also Alexandre Dumas) was an accomplished playwright in his own regard. What a family.
  • [17:27] S1E12 “The Murder of Jesse James”
  • [17:38] I’ve got bad news and good news. Bad news is that Timeless was canceled. Good news is that three days later it got renewed for a second season in 2018! Get pumped!!
  • [18:12] What would be worse is if you lived in a timeline where it wasn’t renewed and you and your best friend had to jump backwards in time, threaten television executives to make the show happen, and then dispose of your past selves and take their lives. That would be worse.
  • [19:12] (☞゚∀゚)☞