The President

The President

The Day 5 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent calendar, Cerebral P says, what's an idea or concept

for a Twilight Zone story that you yourself would come up with?

How would your dreams and imagination become a reality?

Man, I'm terrible at stuff like this.

I'm hoping you're better, so you go fair, Zach.

You're not a fan fiction guy, Tom?

No, and then I'll ruin it at the end.

So, go on.

So I would do something with time travel.

I'm thinking like a very, very tight story where everything fits together at the end,

like a predestination paradox.

I love those kind of stories because obviously that's the twist that the audience

wouldn't see coming.

But looking back, it would have been the only possible solution, right?

Like it's like, oh, it's all leading to something and it had to be that way and whatnot.

Now, plot-wise, I have to think about it more, but that's the kind of story.

I like, and those are the ones that always hit me the most, especially like predestination paradox ones. Like, like the Terminator, the first Terminator, you know, it's clearly a time loop. You know, a lot of my favorite Star Trek episodes are time travel as well, so that's probably why my mind, because I'm a big Star Trek guy. People have heard me on the podcast, they know. Cool. But that's where my mind goes. Let's do time travel some way.

So I would go for something kind of meta to us.

I would make an episode about a podcaster who spends far too much time in a spare room

behind his computer,

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