20150814 - Andrew D. Basiago, Time Travel - Live Chat Thread

[Oleus]

It's so nice hearing a host who asks follow up questions and doesn't just read from 3x5 cards.

[Herbn-Legend]

i quick glanced you avatar and thought it was Colonel Klink lol

hahahahahahaha😀

[AppealPlay]

this guy should get his own tv show, right now...

He's a master bullshitter.  Props to his bullshitting prowess.

[nbirnes]

He just said the person selling tickets at the Ford theatre was always a different person (suggesting a different time line) but he also said he saw himself in the Ford theatre (indicating the same timeline).  Did I misunderstand something?

Indubitably.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

If time travel works, why not go back to 11-22-1963 and stop the Kennedy assassination in Dallas.  It would be so simple to do.  The motorcade was led by the Sheriff Bill Decker and Chief of Police Curry.  They were in the lead car.  As the lead car passed the Old Red Courthouse, there was an assembly of Sheriff's Deputies there, including Bill Wiseman and Al Maddox.  Someone could run up to one of the Sheriff's Deputies and tell them there was a man with a rifle pointed out of a building a block away.  With that, they would have stopped the motorcade, taken the President, First Lady, Gov. Connally and Mrs. Connally into the Courthouse and the Sheriff's office and served them coffee.  There would have been no Kennedy assassination.

Yeah, but then eventually there would have been a nuclear war and that would have totally sucked.

[TigerLily]

Wormholed asking more dinosaur info...ie feathered?

[Textor]

It's so nice hearing a host who asks follow up questions and doesn't just read from 3x5 cards.

Are you sure that Jorch reads? I thought he just put pictographs on them and doodled during show prep about fooling around with LMH while his producer watches.

[norland2424]

He's a master bullshitter.  Props to his bullshitting prowess.

he would make hoagie proud 

[slippingaway]

http://www.omaha.com/living/working-toward-a-warp-drive-in-his-garage-lab-omahan/article_b6489acf-5622-5419-ac18-0c44474da9c9.html?mode=jqm

More on the news about a warp drive

[Dr_Blue]

So.... I'm given the opportunity to use a time machine (dream on but what the hey) what would I do?  I don't think I would try to mess with or change things but rather I'd be a tourist. Where would I go?
1. I'd like to see how the pyramids of  Egypt were built.
2.I'd like to see dino's roaming the earth
3.I'd like to see various items listed in the Bible, i.e.  Parting of the red Sea among other items.

[DangerDog]

*gulp*

[QuantumMystics]

[Wednesday]

Great movie made for, what, $50,00 or so?  Awesome.

yeah, $7,000 back in the early 00s

[aldousburbank]

He just said the person selling tickets at the Ford theatre was always a different person (suggesting a different time line) but he also said he saw himself in the Ford theatre (indicating the same timeline).  Did I misunderstand something?

I'm getting a headache.

[Willdaberry Blue]

he would make hoagie proud 

to master the bullshit, one must become the bullshit.

[Pumamama]

This guy would make a hell of a fictional SyFi novelist

Completely agreed. I was wondering if Basiago has published anything. Anyone know?

[starrmtn001]

Getting quite sleepy.  I'll listen to the rest of the show in bed.  Goodnight everyone.

[K_Dubb]

This guy is looney tunes, if Art doesn't give this guy a hard time I'll have to turn off the show. Cuz, this guy is 100% bogus.

I'm afraid as a literalist truth-seeker you'll be disappointed.  Most of Art's guests are in the same category.  This is an excellent, escapist fantasy, like a modern version of the tall tales of the nineteenth century.  I don't care if it's true as long as it's a good story, and this is what used to be called a whopper.  I think a good percentage of Art's audience is in the same camp. 

[zeebo]

I always find this guy's story intriguing, but I'm pretty sure that last part about the big things not being mutable but little things are is directly from a Twilight Zone where someone goes back to stop the Lincoln assassination.

[AL5J]

It's so nice hearing a host who asks follow up questions and doesn't just read from 3x5 cards.

Beats Snoory a bazillion to one!

[Pumamama]

He's a master bullshitter.  Props to his bullshitting prowess.

"Acting!"

[Textor]

I always find this guy's story intriguing, but I'm pretty sure that last part about the big things not being mutable but little things are is directly from a Twilight Zone where someone goes back to stop the Lincoln assassination.

Or Doctor Who, where certain things are fixed points in time that cannot be changed.

[Morgus]

If time travel works, why not go back to 11-22-1963 and stop the Kennedy assassination in Dallas.  It would be so simple to do.  The motorcade was led by the Sheriff Bill Decker and Chief of Police Curry.  They were in the lead car.  As the lead car passed the Old Red Courthouse, there was an assembly of Sheriff's Deputies there, including Bill Wiseman and Al Maddox.  Someone could run up to one of the Sheriff's Deputies and tell them there was a man with a rifle pointed out of a building a block away.  With that, they would have stopped the motorcade, taken the President, First Lady, Gov. Connally and Mrs. Connally into the Courthouse and the Sheriff's office and served them coffee.  There would have been no Kennedy assassination.

But that would shatter the time-space continuum!

[AppealPlay]

I'm afraid as a literalist truth-seeker you'll be disappointed.  Most of Art's guests are in the same category.  This is an excellent, escapist fantasy, like a modern version of the tall tales of the nineteenth century.  I don't care if it's true as long as it's a good story, and this is what used to be called a whopper.  I think a good percentage of Art's audience is in the same camp.

Yes!  100% yes!  Art's best shows are often just elaborate storytellers (bullshitters) with neat stories.  Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride.

[zeebo]

It's so nice hearing a host who asks follow up questions and doesn't just read from 3x5 cards.

"So how'd you get into time traveling?"
"What's your single best time traveling story?"
"Isn't time traveling amazing?"
"Where can people find your book?"

[QuantumMystics]

Jump into the circle!

[TigerLily]

If time travel works, why not go back to 11-22-1963 and stop the Kennedy assassination in Dallas.  It would be so simple to do.  The motorcade was led by the Sheriff Bill Decker and Chief of Police Curry.  They were in the lead car.  As the lead car passed the Old Red Courthouse, there was an assembly of Sheriff's Deputies there, including Bill Wiseman and Al Maddox.  Someone could run up to one of the Sheriff's Deputies and tell them there was a man with a rifle pointed out of a building a block away.  With that, they would have stopped the motorcade, taken the President, First Lady, Gov. Connally and Mrs. Connally into the Courthouse and the Sheriff's office and served them coffee.  There would have been no Kennedy assassination.

How would we know if they didn't go back and caused the assassination.  Especially if Rumsfeld involved

[Morgus]

Click on photo for larger image.

[Pumamama]

Getting quite sleepy.  I'll listen to the rest of the show in bed.  Goodnight everyone.

Nighty-nite, Starr

[aldousburbank]

I'm afraid as a literalist truth-seeker you'll be disappointed.  Most of Art's guests are in the same category.  This is an excellent, escapist fantasy, like a modern version of the tall tales of the nineteenth century.  I don't care if it's true as long as it's a good story, and this is what used to be called a whopper.  I think a good percentage of Art's audience is in the same camp.

The truth is that the truth and isn't out there.