Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny spoiler warning! Don’t want spoilers? Skip from 1:46 to 2:18.
Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 605 of the podcast that worries about the past!
This week: trouble with dating; Christmas warning; catastrophic; serving minors; fatal attraction; the power of humiliation; off-putting hippies; sin tax; essential food services; mashed chips; judgement or purity; cooking with basics; overthinking; turkey trots; secretive baker; stunt cooking; salt delivery systems; shopping big; Betty Crocker through the ages; buttering up; substitute foods; life lessons; costs over time; two wheels good; bouncing babies; virtual signalling; dumb moves; thighs matters; mapped out; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; ants in your pans; rats and your cats; destined to talk about it; chased out; end on a high; death by pride; past tension; killing your interest; young face on an old body; failed set ups; Ian gets a rise out of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts; and, finally, postcards from the past.
Thanks for listening.
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I was listening to the podcast while I was trying to figure out what I wanted for lunch. As soon as Ian started talking about his cream cheese filled omelet, I sat up straighter, and after he described it, I was off to the kitchen to make one. Thanks for helping me power through a long, boring policy creation, Ian, with the power of a delicious lunch.
That’s all I ever wanted out of this podcast.
I know more about chocolate and cereal than I ever thought I would thanks to Ian and David. Staying on brand for over 600 episodes and counting…..
The time travel thing is tricksy. I agree with Dave that it doesn’t preclude free will to have a present that is already determined by one’s traveling to the past. It doesn’t require a force that adjudicates time. The paradox is more a semantic one, because we’re looking at the situation from outside. From the time traveller’s POV, the future they were in became that way *because of the free choice they made while in the past*.
From the perspective of our present, we’re thinking of it as inevitable, but that’s backwards. It’s not the future that sets the predetermination of the past, it’s the choice made in the past that determines the future path. The only way the choice is predetermined is if the traveller has full knowledge of the choice they made. This isn’t possible, because they can only know their existential present, which travels with them. At least, that’s an argument made with this particular story’s rules—time travel is confusing by nature. Others have managed the inevitability paradox by branching timelines or splitting universes.
Further, though, just as narrators can be unreliable, why believe the person claiming that things would have happened the same way regardless? Maybe they’re wrong, eh? Maybe we’re all wrong. I’m not out of order, YOU’re out of order! This whole spacetime continuum is out of order!