Ep 051 - Replay, by Ken Grimwood

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 11 March 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What if you got to/had to live the same 25 years of your life over and over again? Would you try to recreate the life you had lost? Would you game the system and make a whole bunch of money? Would you try to change the course of human history, with sometimes-disastrous results?

Those are the questions raised by Ken Grimwood's sci-fi classic Replay, which Andrew read for the show this week. Tangentially related is a conversation about Andrew and Craig's own time traveling, done thanks to the magic of Daylight Saving Time.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	So yeah, yesterday was just sitting around feeling terrible.
0:37.9	No, today I have to do all the stuff I wanted to do yesterday and all the stuff I wanted to do today.
0:44.6	Yeah, that's interesting.
0:45.8	And I have one hour or less to do it in.
0:47.8	I'm just going to blame every deadline I miss between now and April on that hour that I lost.
0:53.7	It sounds about right. That was the hour where you were going to get your stuff together.
0:57.6	See how we were going to sort things out.
0:59.6	That was it.
1:00.0	How dare the government, how dare the government rob you of that hour.
1:03.6	I think that Obama is using daylight savings to steal time from us like that movie with Justin
1:09.8	Timberlake and he's going to live forever.
1:13.3	What movie with Justin Timberlake?
1:14.8	The one where he was injecting time into his arm.
1:17.6	Do you remember that?
1:19.2	There were previews for that.
1:20.3	Butterfly?
1:22.0	No, no, I don't.
1:23.5	I think it was called like in time or it wasn't called just in time because that would have been
1:31.6	that would have been awesome.
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