Welcome, time travelers, to the year 2525 (assuming man is still alive). No, I’m just messing with you, it’s still 2020 and this is still Max, Mike; Movies with our series “When We Wuz Kids.” At these current spatio-temporal coordinates, we bring you one of Mike’s childhood cinematic influences: the 1960 film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine.” This movie has it all: time travel! Explosions! Eloi! Morlocks! . . . and that’s about it, really. So let’s . . . huh. That’s odd. Some guy who looks just like me just appeared in my office; he claims to be me from the future and he’s warning me about posting this episode! If I do, some great cataclysm will . . . hang on, there’s another version of me now who is arguing with the first version, claiming that by interfering with the timeline, he/I’m just making things worse. Aaaand now there are forty-five versions of me in the office (hard to move now), all arguing about causality and what should happen now. Wow, they just won’t shut up. Geez, I’m really of long-winded! I never realized . . . Whoops, one of the distant future-me’s just said something about the release of “Cats 17: This Time It’s Purrsonal” so to hell with all of me and let’s get this episode up. Give a listen and see if this episode has doomed us all.
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You make me want to read the book.
Hey, thanks for listening, Tony! And thanks for commenting. The book is old-fashioned but it’s not long. Should be easy to find.
Very kind of you, sir! The book is pretty interesting (and nice and short).