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Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversation about post-modern art, pop culture, and the lessons these stories teach us. Also, each episode, one of them is an asshole who will probably sabotage the whole thing.

This week we discuss 2004’s Primer.

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Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP

Adam Ganser: https://twitter.com/therealganz

Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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Joshua Graves

Well, shit. If we're doing Primer then there's definitely room for The History of Time Travel

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There are no paradoxes. We don’t have an explanation for the ear bleeding or handwriting because the characters don’t and we know what they know. As to the collapsible box: Before Abe used a box for the first time, he set up a separate box and started it running. That was Abe’s Secret Failsafe Box. If things went off the rails, he could use Abe’s Secret Failsafe Box to break the initial time travel box he initially used before he used it. But because Abe is a dope, he rented the locker for the Abe’s Secret Failsafe Box from the same company, at the same location, with the same account, so while doing paperwork, Aaron found out about Abe’s Not-So-Secret Failsafe Box. He broke down a box and used the Abe’s Not so Secret Failsafe Box to take it back to the before Abe’s first time travel, and make his own failsafe (with blackjack! And hookers!), and set Abe’s Not-So-Secret Failsafe Box back a little bit. Things went off the rails, Aaron used Aaron’s More Secreter Failsafe (with blackjack and hookers), and drugged Pre-Time Travel Aaron and threw him in the attic. The Aaron that Abe initially takes to see Abe’s first trip was already a time traveler. Things went further off the rails, and Most Futurest Aaron tried to re-failsafe his failsafe self after the run-in with Disheveled Granger. But Futurest Aaron was too tired to fight Failsafe Aaron and dipped out. Failsafe Aaron is the Aaron we follow through the movie. No idea what happens to Most Futurest Aaron who dipped out, but Pre-Time Travel Aaron woke up and got out of the attic. I’m pretty sure that every time they come out of a box they’re leaving a timeline without them behind.