Time Travel Disaster Tourism! - Ep. 18 of Intentionally Blank

[@aaryanbhardwaj40]

This Brandon guy sure has some good ideas, he should write a book or two

[@milospollonia1121]

I don't think he'd make it tbh

[@jacobjohnson2409]

Gotta support your starving artists

[@Juan_Jose_Miraballes]

You think? I don't know if I would read it

[@janmichaeldavelao9389]

He will probably write very slow

[@SirSmurfalot]

Ha, a writer? You mean unemployed, amirght?

[@Xineohpnavihs]

Mostly I'm just a lurker, but man I can't resist. I was there in Amsterdam! 31st of May 2011 it was. Was pipetting in the lab for my PhD in Rotterdam and read Brandons tweet explaining about the delay and that all who wanted to meet up should come to the square in front of the station at a certain time. So I dropped my research for the day, ran to the station and bought a high speed ticket to Amsteram. Informed a friend who was working near there, he took an instant day off and also came. Remember seeing people hanging around, carrying duffel-bags with books and as Brandon says in the podcast, a lot of people (20ish) turned up from all over the country (The Netherlands is a pretty small place). Brandon was astonished about how many people turned up and that they actually travelled 2h+ for that. That afternoon was my most fanboy-ish thing ever. Didn't have a book with me at work, but he signed pieces of paper for people without. Still have that as an inlay for one of the books. We indeed went to a place and ate pancakes and fries (a combi Brandon wanted to try) and had a very nice informal Q&A. Brandon even gave a compliment about the quality of my English (eat that English teachers!). I hope you just know how much your willingness to engage like that with your fans means to me (and I guess all of us who got a chance). Pity that isn't really possible any more for people who didn't have a chance to meet him. Brandon, thanks again for that! Best trip to Amsterdam ever! Proof: photos.app.goo.gl/4PcoN8U6vEGBET8N9 (There is more, but maybe some people don't want to have their face on the internet).

[@shonenacademia]

Am I a terrible writer for thinking Brandon’s original terrible idea sounded like a great premise for a story? I would be excited for that idea

[@TerrificRallyMaestro]

I think it would be better as a roleplaying game, computer or tabletop

[@danielkirienko1701]

@@TerrificRallyMaestro yeah, this really does sound like a really fun RPG.

[@fasturianicildentirf5588]

There was also a 1999 TV movie called Thrill Seekers where evidence of disaster tourists is found via an itinerary lost by one of them. The modern day characters then try to prevent a disaster from the itinerary.

[@otto_jk]

It sounds like a bad anime made by a new studio with very limited budget

[@leonmayne797]

Yeah I would too and I'm a wannabe writer.

[@bridge4]

just throwing a comment down for the algorithm out of respect and thanks to these two and their podcasts =))

[@Morfeusm]

Algorithm reply

[@bridge4]

@@Morfeusm hahah nice. i like your style =))

[@samanthaa.6055]

Love you bridge 4!

[@LeeA.D.]

@@Morfeusm same

[@Chuckaluckful]

This content is definitely going to make me watch more KZbin and purchase more advertised products or services.

[@janalewis3030]

I am realizing that every episode, Brandon is doing something and Dan is not. Give the man a Lego set or something so he has something to do! (Ha, ha, ha!)

[@TheStargazer795]

And have a "Dan's showcase" at the end with the episode's masterpiece

[@Daggeira]

I fully support this comment.

[@NarfiRef]

Miniature painting might be a good fit for Dan.

[@ChristmasLore]

Actually, it's a conversation, so, speaking is what you're supposed to do. If it wasn't Brandon signing his books with Dan's aknowledgement/ authorization, it's highly impolite to double task in these conditions.

[@harveyweir8061]

@@ChristmasLore how to say youve never been around someone with attention issues without saying youve never been around someone with attention issues

[@danieltolson5341]

At this point I’ve become convinced that Brandon has been cursed to sign his name in books for all eternity. #SaveSanderson

[@bryceallen]

It’s like Sisyphus, except instead of the boulder rolling back down the hill when he reaches the top, he finishes signing all the books just in time for his next book to get published.

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

​@@bryceallen And it might come to a point a NON-signed book might be worth more! 😅

[@mamin8army770]

Brandon said in one of his lectures that there’s no bad ideas, just ideas executed badly, so I think this is a great idea

[@TheJeremyHarrisProj]

This was your best episode by far. (Not that the others haven't been great) - but hearing you guys brainstorm in real time was super valuable to me as an aspiring writer. Can't thank you guys enough! Stay classy :)

[@joshuapossin6910]

Before Brandon mentioned that the time travel takes you to an alternate timeline, my thought was that the protagonist was being sent to the titanic in order to stop someone from preventing the titanic’s sinking, because that would lose the time travel tourist company money.

[@zcbmadgjlqetuoable]

Love that idea. Is the guy trying to save the titanic working for anyone? Does he profit somehow off of saving the titanic?

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

@@zcbmadgjlqetuoable Maybe by using some sort of Psychohistory process he was able to predict that if the titanic survived it would set off a string of interconnecting endless dominos that in the future would culminate with him like becoming the supreme leader of the world. Or it could be something simple like the titanic savior being from a rival company, maybe in the future companies can own historical events (like someone may own the rights to the Russian Revolution so you can only travel back to the Russian Revolution with the owners position), and the titanic sinking is a big money maker so the titanic savior is trying to ruin this rival companies revenue stream.

[@jamcdonald120]

1:35 "There arent enough boats for everyone! Its like there are more passengers than we booked!"

[@godminnette2]

My first thought is that an interesting twist would be that one of the people trying to sink the Titanic realizes they can't go through with it once they're actually there, but are under pressure by teammates or show producers or something to continue to try and sink it. Edit: My second thought is that it's not a game show or intentionally a heist, but normal disaster tourism that's in our timeline still, and they have safeguards in place to keep the tourists from messing up the timeline. Except it IS a heist, because our protagonists have created a plan to circumvent all of the timeline safeguards and save lives.

[@ChrisBurnes]

I watched all of your previous episodes this week, in reverse order. Definitely recommended. Seeing you open the paper airplanes without context first, then episodes later seeing the offhanded comment about sending them via airplanes. This and seeing several other inside jokes evolve in reverse order, very entertaining.

[@athormaximoff4634]

Every week I get excited when I see the name of the podcast hasn't changed

[@chrisashford3379]

A suggestion for the time travel idea: Instead of preventing/causing/observing a historical disaster, the team is hunting down unknown historical serial killers. If they manage to unmask Jack the Ripper or the Zodiac Killer they get fabulous cash prizes while the other team is trying to stop them. Maybe someone on the other team likes Jack the Ripper a little too much... Could be a good Dan Wells story!

[@TechPlasma]

There was a moment in the podcast where Brandon said "What if we just play it straight?" while Dan was going on about his plans for a story, that so perfectly captured the dynamic at certain moments between me and my friends when we're talking about our ideas. It was great to see it reflected in Brandon and Dan.

[@drewforchic9083]

"An expert navigational person" That's how you know he's an expert writing person

[@LMJeffJones]

“They can earn cool things when they do things the audience loves” That’s just hunger games lol

[@michaelgilson7959]

Didn’t they do this in Running Man too?

[@shaunwheeler1984]

we're encroaching on hunger games irl

[@justin-md4xm]

@@michaelgilson7959 I think it's mostly just guessing which hero will make a kill and the audience wins prizes. Kinda like The Kill is Right.

[@JonSteitzer]

This pod is becoming a fixture of my work week. Love it!

[@robertdullnig3625]

Brandon is like a Disney princess; he requires "important water."

[@MagnetMagicGirl]

*Looks at a muddy puddle*

[@knobhati3989]

I 💗 listening to brilliant, creative, upbeat nerds talk at length about the improbable. Thank you for making a high qualiry recording of these conversations.

[@essi6409]

I love these podcasts:D They are great entertainment while I relax and play FFXIV, always inspire me to write/work on my own story, and I'm now interested in reading Unwind as well. I love hearing you both tell your stories about experiences abroad. The Amsterdam story was heartwarming and I'm glad I googled the Bolivian chola buildings! Thank you for taking the time to include us all in your conversations:)

[@PureMagma]

Brandon just pitched a Netflix series.... There's at least 10 Seasons within the "major disasters" waiting to be exploited. Then the God Deep-cut reboot...

[@jacobalbertson3205]

I feel like he kind of wrote the idea in the beginning in Wizard's handbook

[@MagicBricakes]

The time travel idea would work amazingly as a faux reality gameshow limited series. So we're literally introduced to all of the 'contestants' and follow their journey, and then there are also actors for the actual people in the past. As someone else said, you could then do other disasters 🤩

[@Transformers217]

I’m so excited for Book 2!

[@UsernameAlreadyTaco]

Anyone else here in 2023 wondering if he already knew he was writing the Frugal Wizard's guide?

[@natalielynn8143]

You guys are so much fun to listen to. Good clean entertainment, and thought provoking conversation!

[@Ascarion47]

The initial premise absolutely matches "Thrill Seekers", a 1999 movie with Casper Van Dien and Catherine Bell. Once they start throwing out ideas that quickly changes of course. Also, Dan, as a resident of Berlin:

[@lukesteele4510]

I am primarily a gardener. When I discovered that my story was going off in a direction I didn't want and since one of the tropes of the book was that the main character could time travel, I reset him back to the beginning. Both fortunately and unfortunately the google drive where I stored the story for anywhere access was discontinued so I needed to start over again, but the story seems to be more defined now. The sad thing is I am a very slow writer with to many life distractions. I do have one published book which I may rework in the future or at least the sequels will be better since I have improved because of Brandon's online classes.

[@JurassicLemon]

I do really love the idea of thief traveling back into time to steal items of great value, but only doing so in areas before disasters like Pompeii or the Titanic and leaving them in the past where he can dig them up in his own time. I guess the twist would be that someone was able to track where he was and steal his entire stash after all of the work or something along those lines

[@melkerahtagadatsoin-tsoin6016]

Maybe an alternate twist in this case could be that he brought something terrible from the past with his treasures, like a horrible disease, or when he comes back he realises his actions caused his treasures to not have any value anymore... Like his own actions caused his defeat in some way

[@JurassicLemon]

@@melkerahtagadatsoin-tsoin6016 THATS WAAAY BETTER

[@hupenpeter]

A big twist would be :"The new gameshow with the best VR and AI available, now live on your TV!", but the mid season twist is, that it is actually a parallel dimension and all the people are real. People on the outside realize this and try to inform the teams. But even with the info out, the players are so paranoid...

[@slimse3144]

Just letting you both know that there are 2 episodes listed as number 17. Love the podcast, keep up the good work!

[@MarketResearchReading114]

I'm a big video game fan, and its interesting to see that sort of "imagine a video game" conversation, but in the context of a narrative. The mechanics of a story and how to workshop it into a balanced piece of fiction is probably disturbingly similar to the arguments I've gotten into about how to tweak my favorite games. Its definitely fun, and cathartic but I feel that in the same way you drifted off to talking about travel...that unless you're willing to get in the trenches and really make it work, its just a fun activity until your energy is spent and your time spending is up.

[@jamodonnahan610]

Traveling is so much about the atmosphere of a place to me, so like Brandon, in the end I don't wanna go out and explore every day. Sure, these days I rather read than write myself, but the backdrop of the newly won familiarity with a previously unknown place makes it just the more fun to go exploring inward for me. So naturally, going on time travel vacation, I would chose a place with some special atmosphere that is not too unfamiliar yet also not too boring. Maybe some major Western city 120 years ago at the turn of the century? Paris springs to mind immediately, or maybe New York? Just something to soak in and feed on for some time

[@2233monty]

This talk is reminding me of a movie i watched a long time ago called Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, Loosely

[@pickpocket293]

Brandon, you should visit Aruba-- lots of windsurfing and activities like that, Dutch-influenced food, warm water that's calm on the leeward side of the island and more rough on the windward side.

[@Hazelnutmegan]

Like the time travel “game show” aspect. Audience participation could allow each team to either receive pre-chosen awards/tools or punishments. So, you’re team maybe gets only part of the tools they need to complete the job…? Could also use the “doing it for the views” angle of individual streamers on KZbin. A KZbinr devises this “We’re in an alternate universe where I’ve secretly placed cameras all over the Titanic - will I be able to save it?” And a competing channel tries to sabotage it! Should also check out the Netflix series on Dark Tourism - it’s a trip!

[@ThePosthumousrex]

There is a short story called "Vintage Season" that is about time travel disaster tourism. A guy rents his house out to a group of time travelers who have come back in time to watch a metor impact that nearly wipes out humanity. His house happened to be the closest surviving structure to the impact site.

[@joshbascom8618]

Just have to say Adam's description is the best.

[@RainbowFishSaysHello]

“I’m just gonna go see dinosaurs.” That is so valid 😆

[@stevenhorton8604]

I also recommend Puerto Vallarta. I've spent a couple of months there, and it's by far the best place I've visited to relax and be left alone with good food, good weather, and where a most of the people working there speak fluent English. It's just hot as hell. Brandon has a bit of insulation so he might not enjoy it that much. Casa Anita on Airbnb has the best view I've seen in the entire city, it's right off the malecón, which is a strip right off the beach, it has good AC, two bedrooms, and the host is really cool. It's also far enough from the three big clubs in a row that you aren't slammed with music, and you can see the pirate boat's fireworks show almost every night around 9 PM. It's also a house with two levels of gated security. For somebody not used to Mexico, you want to be near the malecón, zona romántica can be a little bit too much. I wouldn't mind meeting up with Dan over there, but probably not with Brandon. I've traveled with a couple of celebrities, private jets, and the way those guys manage their time, and constantly have to meet with people is just too stressful.

[@jawredstoneguy6058]

I wonder; what kind of temporal/reality breaking issues would they have to go through to actually get a time/dimension traveler. Because if you think about it, reality and time are ridiculously complex and as such, various 'bugs' would definitely occur. Plus there would be a reason they are using time travel for a game show instead of other things, unless there is some ulterior motive on the companies' part. All of this would really depend on the tone of the story I guess. Great video by the way.

[@David_Doing_David_Things]

Your titanic/tragedy gameshow idea sounds like a good video game idea more than a book I think. Players can choose which side they want. Start with Titanic Later they can unlock levels like Hindenburg or other disasters... like the concept!

[@Thelnquisitor]

This story pitch is AMAZING!!

[@brandalfthegrand]

Brandon Sanderson would love Toronto for the food options and the culture. 100%

[@Denis461997]

"Since... The THING that happened..." What an awesome way to remember that people can't say certain words in here, just like a dystopian novel haha

[@_feanor_7790]

So Mr. Sanderson, had you already written A Frugal Wizards Guide at this point?

[@ammonnakai453]

Scanned the comments for something like this. I think this is the genesis of some of the ideas for it. Alternate dimension time travel? Cutting to advertisements?! I'm only halfway through the video so far. :D

[@Avid_Reader]

I have a burning desire to time travel tour the Hindenburg disaster.

[@TerrificRallyMaestro]

I feel like you wouldn't appreciate the gravity of the situation

[@LeeA.D.]

I read the title and was thinking omg that would be great... Wait... That would be terrible... Great thought exercise!

[@briand3200]

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Thanks for posting.

[@nroke1684]

I would 100% read this book.

[@Falcon364]

The Goat of podcasts

[@wpgme85]

16 minutes in and I'm thinking 'there's a time traveler from this dimension who has travelled back in time to do something and it's messing up the game, but also he's not exactly a bad guy because it's HIS universe he's trying to change the timeline of'. So you have the two teams of the game, the shadowmen who enforce the game, and this other time traveler who's indigenous to this universe all on the ship.

[@pamelafraley5850]

I was going to suggest Homer Alaska, if you love beach and forest and mountains, watching boats come and go,etc. But, when you started talking about wanting a variety of food (hating salmon) and not loving the too long drives and wanting to sit in a chair on the beach. Maybe just look at pictures. 😆 It is one of the prettiest places you can drive to in the US for sure, but not the most convenient or warm.

[@Eval999]

I had a mega connection with Brandon with that Amsterdam joke, as the same joke came to me from Dan's phrasing. I even thought "Is Amsterdam even the capital?" afterwards.

[@nvwest]

It is 👍 (I’m Dutch)

[@NarfiRef]

I have to admit that I have a really difficult time suspending disbelief for dystopias that are laughably implausible, unless that’s the point.

[@kjfhyg5uy5urugfgxgjd]

The book was under our noses the entire time!!!!

[@joeybelasco]

No kidding

[@vamsiampolu8438]

You are describing a variation of Stuart Turton's debut novel The Seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It's got an element of groundhog day but as a different character every day

[@danielmiranda2126]

thanks for this videos, still in mild quarantine and it gives me that social bust (all thought fake) thats needed every once in a while

[@name_not_found]

This stayed surprisingly on topic

[@KatieGimple]

This story sounds amazing, and I think it would work best as a short comic book run (e.g. six issues released monthly).

[@MagnetonJjungle]

Dans outfit is always wild. What even is this pattern mix? I love it.

[@bridge4]

haha i was just listening until i saw this comment. lol his shirt is definitely wild lol. good call

[@MagnetonJjungle]

Wait. Is it supposed to be a knight‘s armor?

[@mykin3945]

@@MagnetonJjungle Fantasy knight's armor, I would think.

[@TheCankerz]

Guys the time travel disaster tourism movie already exists. It came out in the early 90s starring Jeff Daniels. It’s called Grand Tour: Disaster in Time. It’s actually a really good film.

[@BruceRKF]

For some reason, this talk about time travel and altering events made me think of the game "Remember Me". It's not quite the same, since there is no actual time travel, but you can manipulate people's memories of certain events to your favour or search them for important hints. It's a great game, but unfortunately it also suffers from wasted potential.

[@chiokjarse]

The part about picking what to bring reminded me of Heinlein's Tunnel In The Sky. That suggests another variation where they do not know where or when they are going.

[@CamillaNelson-zz9xd]

I've answered the where would you go question before. If I only had a short time and I couldn't mess with anything without changing the timeline, I think it would be fun to get in the first showing of Star Wars and just watch everybody's brains collectively explode. :D

[@tanyam928]

The Big Island of Hawaii has amazing beaches! I went to school there and got to explore. And most are very accessible and less crowded than beaches on Oahu or Maui. There is a black sand beach that you can pretty much count on seeing huge sea turtles out on it every time you go. And they have the best snorkeling spots too, there is one place we kayaked out to go snorkeling and spinner dolphins were swimming/ jumping up all around us.

[@MrUSFT]

Sounds like Grand Tour: Disaster in Time with Jeff Daniels. Great movie. I'd love to read Brandon's take on it.

[@reneaclark7689]

I would absolutely read Brandon's insomnia tangents.

[@travishancock9120]

I really want to see this show, it is brilliant.

[@ClayLiford]

There’s a great Czech movie called “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Burn Myself With Tea” that features a company that does time travel event/disaster tourism. It’s great and funny. Think might even be on KZbin.

[@crystaldragon141]

Amsterdam is beautiful and one of the cleanest cities in Europe! I really enjoyed visiting there and I got to visit the Keukenhof gardens during Tulip season it was incredible!

[@plusmanikantanr]

never clicked on an episode so fast! Doomslug!

[@ryanb3665]

When I read the title, the first thing I thought of was the Bradbury? story “A Sound of Thunder” which has time travel tourism (specifically hunting, iirc).

[@ArchAnjell]

You could say that time lines splinter off the main time line all the time, but splinters always collapse if they're not different enough from the primary time line. The game show takes place in the splinters because the splinters are going to collapse anyway. So rule 1 is to never stay in the splinter when it starts to collapse. Rule 2 is to never actually make any significant changes, so can make sure the splinter will collapse. One team might actually save the Titanic and win the game show, but the Titanic is rigged to explode in that eventuality to ensure the splinter collapses.

[@EliasMheart]

The pitch of time travel "where to live with technology" for me has the issue of "Immortality via Nanites"^^ So, Roman/Greek times. Trying to uplift our kind earlier and most importantly cleaner than it happened naturally...

[@danielkirienko1701]

I really enjoy when it's not just talking about movies.

[@jamcdonald120]

12:20 Only the team trying to save the Titanic knows the return portal is broken

[@ValieNion]

This reminded me a lot of a short story by Jostein Gaarder where there is a type of VR encyclopedia technology so you can choose any moment of human History to watch. And also the board game T.I.M.E Stories, which is an AMAZING time travel game.

[@EtherealDoomed]

My wife always makes fun of me for liking to go to a new and exciting place (like the beach) and then finding a place to settle down and read or write, so I feel very validated by Brandon's comments!

[@AgencyNighthawk]

I can see the title now: Sink the Titanic Any% Run Tactical Nuke Glitch!

[@cheef825]

I'd flip the game show premise just a bit- this goes against the "normal people" thing, but Brandon mentioning counter strike made me think of a professional league. The teams are still random and the names are hidden from the other players, but players are able to "draft" items to bring similar to a MOBA pick/ban phase. Since specialists in using specific items would become prominent, players would have to guess which player is on what team based on the item they pick, which of course means potential for a fake-out as well.

[@porters.5811]

Not gonna lie, I wasn't a fan of the premise of this podcast originally, but it's one of my favorites now.

[@micahlarimer155]

Unwind is a fantastic book, I basically just read everything B Sanderson . . . . plus unwind . . . I don't read a lot.

[@aneonfoxtribute]

I've never actually heard anybody give a religious answer when asked where they would go if they went back in time, except for one time when my atheist friend jokingly said the crucifixion

[@metumortis6323]

The most common one I hear is the creation of Adam and eve or the resurrection of Jesus.

[@chiokjarse]

My answer was to go back during Biblical times to document it and find out that it is very different from the Bible. Working title is "Sola Time Travel".

[@Denis461997]

@@chiokjarse There's the J. J. Benítez's "Trojan Horse" Saga (Caballo de Troya, since he's Spanish) There's even aliens involved, or something like that. I never finished the books but my father kinda loved the saga due to the writing style.

[@StarShadowPrimal]

The first thing I thought of when the time travel wss stated to be part of a game show is that there would almost have to be a gambling aspect (either actual gamblers betting on what would happen or as a game show element with prizes), and that would explain any amount of corruption or outside interference.

[@AlexnoAnder88]

Occidental resort on the island Cozumel. Gives you the solitude and you can explore the town with a short taxi ride.

[@AngryPieMan]

Maybe you could solve the problem of having a bad and good team on the gameshow is to give the bad team a decent recent for what they do as well. This could tie into some lore about how it all started: Maybe it all started when the human who made time travel first tried to do the same thing: save people from disasters. But they found that no matter what they did, they couldn't stop the disasters. This would lead to them making a very well accepted theory that certain things, like disasters, are immutable points in history for unknown reasons. The general public holds to this theory, so a gameshow started where people could be sent back in time to try to change things for a fabulous prize. This was a great business as altruistic people would gladly volunteer for the chance to try changing things and help people, but they would always fail in fantastic ways, making good TV while ensuring the gameshow company doesn't have to pay out the prize. It's considered a rigged show, but the good people want to try anyway. But we could say that the "bad" team comes into play later as they are people who believe firmly that these disasters are key points that cannot or should not be changed. That, yes, the altruistic people have failed so far, but that this whole game is dangerous business and time should not be meddled with, for fear of unraveling the universe. So they go back to simply ensure things go as "history intended." The public enjoys the conflict and mostly just holds to the altruistic being doomed to fail, but secretly roots for them to succeed while curious to see what would happen if they succeeded. So then the story could delve into why disasters aren't changed. Maybe it could have something to do with death being immutable in general. People's souls rejoining the universe/space-time fabric is something you can't change and you must learn to accept death. That could be a neat message about accepting death. Or maybe there is some other creative reason, and the altruistic people finally figure it out in the end and every problem can now be solved. Or maybe the altruistic people win in the beginning, subverting everyone's expectations, and now the universe has to deal with the consequences of that. What consequences? Maybe going back in time is a Schroedinger cat situation. If you go back, two timeliness are made where the altruistic failed or didn't fail. When they succeed, they get stuck in that timeline and can't come back, so only the ones who fail ever return, hence the reason that everyone things the failures always occur. Just some ideas.

[@althechicken9597]

Dude less than 2 minutes in and Brandon has made a video game that I would play for hours

[@ferchocolocholoco]

You have to try Roatan Honduras, the airport is right there and the beaches are paradise

[@MrSilvUr]

There are two teams of four people. The teams are randomly drawn and randomly compiled. But four people have somehow gamed the system so that they get on at the same time -- though on random teams -- and they have the ulterior motive of simply looting the many safes on-board the _Titanic_ and returning to their time with their pre-salvaged goods.

[@DScottAngle]

Funky, season 4 twist for “Saving the Titanic”… … It turns out that the Titanic was originally, intentionally sunk by a time traveller from that dimension. Sunk specifically so the Titanic 2 would never launch and kill off their family.

[@madiantin]

Ok. I would read the heck out of that Time Travel Disaster Tourism book. In other news, when I can't sleep, I also time travel in my head...normally to Rome or the Middle Ages or something. Unfortunately I do things like magically make all the lice and fleas leave my body, fix my teeth and any health ailments, clean up the house I'm in, cure all the villagers, and that kind of thing. It's excessively mundane, like counting sheep, but by the time the bad guys turn up and I magically make them leave the village alone, I'm normally fast asleep. Time Travel Disaster Tourism sounds SO much more interesting. And that's why Brandon's a writer and I'm not. =D Also, that counter terrorism thing sounds like The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle which also had a bad guy trying to beat you to the punch and you didn't know who it was.

[@bridge4]

32:47 - dad joke incoming. wait for it =))

[@Sleepcycle831]

I believe a game show host would sell the concept. Imagine a very enigmatic character with a permanent smile. He works primarily as comedic relief, so that his voice doesn’t get tiresome or seem like it interrupts anything. Eventually as the story progresses, the jovial aspect of him gets creepier as the reader starts to learn that the audience takes entertainment in darker ways than originally expected. At the very end of the first book, you discover this was all being watched by the true main character. He comes from one of the abused alternate universes. It’s a story about consequences and our curious tendency to allow entertainment to make us calloused. The second book would then be the story of that character taking revenge upon the network by exposing just how real all the blood that was spilt was and still is. The world reacts in multiple ways, many at first unwilling to let go of its antiquity. This could end with an arena fight between a terrifying representative of the company who ran the game show, and the main character in gladiatorial combat in order to cement the theme.

[@Sakiya876]

I saw an orchestra in Paris a couple years ago. That’s the trip that I learned I don’t like big cities

[@makcraft]

This episode is really fun!

NGL I really like the idea of this book as a televised sport similar to esports where people do this game multiple times per year and rise up the ranks for a large tournament

[@whiskeychicken]

Time travel disaster tourism is brilliant. I'd buy tickets. Or a book . . .

[@robinarmstrong685]

Just a thought for beach travel: have you tried the Oregon coast? Close to Utah, beautiful beaches, no dirt roads (for the most part).