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Greg accidentally sings us into the episode with some questionable ’80s hits, before we reveal today’s topic: time travel movies!

We don’t just dabble—we barrel through The Time Machine, Rip Van Winkle, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Bill & Ted, Back to the Future, Terminator, Planet of the Apes, Timecop, Donnie Darko, Looper, Edge of Tomorrow, Hot Tub Time Machine, Primer (aka “Math the Movie”), Avengers: Endgame, The Butterfly Effect, Doctor Strange, The Flash, and that one Jean-Claude Van Damme flick where he does the splits on a kitchen counter like it’s a temporal necessity!

We argue over:

• fixed points in history
• paradox loops
• alternate timelines
• grandfather paradoxes
• predestination traps
• and whether “the butterfly effect” means you shouldn’t stomp on bugs or shouldn’t buy butterfly décor from HomeGoods

We wander into comics where the timelines are already broken, wrestling where chair shots are apparently a reset button, and sci-fi tropes where time travelers never pack snacks, cell chargers, or a clean change of socks!

Also featuring:

• the magic mailbox from The Lake House
• Christopher Reeve on Mackinac Island (Somewhere in Time)
• Dan Castellaneta’s “Ouch-a-ma-goucha”
• the morality of time heists
• the physics of time loops in Groundhog Day scenarios

And the eternal question—if you can go back in time, why not stop the invention of Crocs, clear cola, and the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie while you’re at it?