Episode 46 – Time Travel in Fiction

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Show Notes 

• Josh rebuilds his already-excellent computer, Ben gets in some last-minute consternation before Coronavirus peters out, and the hosts examine some of their favorite examples time travel in fiction.  
• Intro & Follow-up (0:00-30:38) 
  • Josh’s computer rebuild video 
  • Video card shortage explained 
  • Bitcoin explained 
  • Crypto miners could soon flood eBay with cheap CPUs, motherboards and SSDs acquired via GPU bundle purchases 
• News (30:38-49:39) 
  • New CDC guidelines for “When You’ve been Fully Vaccinated” 
  • Halcyon Starcruiser: coming in 2022! 
  • Secret Cinema 
• Bad at Logic (49:39-52:58) 
  • the fallacy fallacy 
    • You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong 
• Bad at English (52:58-55:26) 
  • “All-singing, all-dancing” 
    • Full-featured; i.e. “all the bells and whistles” 
  • The Broadway Melody, won the 1929 academy award for Best Picture (tap ballet?!?) 
• Feature (55:26-end) 
  • Time Travel in Fiction Rundown (minutephysics on YouTube) 
  • Josh’s top 3: 
    • Back to the Future 
    • Rick and Morty 
      • Rattlestar Riclactica 
      • A Rickle in Time 
        • See also: Bad at Magic Episode 28: The Darkest Timeline (starts @ 42:49) 
    • Star Trek: Voyager 
  • Ben’s top 3: 
    • Terminator 2: Judgement Day 
    • Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 
    • Groundhog Day 
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