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5/11/20262 min
Time travel exists... but it's too dangerous and unreliable to try with anyone valuable. TAKING TIME is a comedy/drama/sci-fi podcast that's IDIOCRACY meets BACK TO THE FUTURE. An everyman who has never amounted to anything unexpectedly gets the chance to travel back in time and save the love of his life from dying, while navigating corporate intrigue, murder, and the lustful advances of his time-traveling companions. Based on the novel Taking Time: A Tale of Lust, Physics and Greed, by Mike Murphey: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Time-Tale-Physics-Greed/dp/1947392913 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMarshall0:00
[gentle music] Hi, I'm Marshall. I'm an aggressively ordinary guy who had a pretty extraordinary adventure. I got to travel in time and try to save the life of the woman I loved. It was kind of a mess. Some people might say it was sort of like Idiocracy. Personally, I find that offensive. I would say it was more like Back to the Future, except maybe I'm not as cool as Marty McFly. I would also say it's a little bit like The Notebook, with me as the Ryan Gosling part, minus the abs. Anyway, it kind of happened like this.
Speaker 10:36
Our first preference for test subjects was dogs, but dog lovers among the science and engineering staffs objected.
Marshall0:44
N- n- n- naked?
Speaker 10:47
We can only project living beings, beings who are completely nude.
Felix0:51
I took a spacecraft to Mars. Now you have me pushing little buttons to- Just shut it and push it, Felix.
Speaker 41:00
[machine powering up] Uh, so the thing is, we don't actually have an emergency return protocol.
Samantha Kennedy1:09
What? Who's Samantha Kennedy?
Marshall1:12
She was a high school friend. She was killed in a car wreck at the end of senior year. Please, Sammy, you can't go to Donnie's Wednesday night. If you do, something terrible will happen.
Samantha Kennedy1:26
Oh, you're psychic now? You know the future?
Marshall1:28
They'll kill you, Sammy.