John Titor: Time Traveler or Internet Troll? | 95
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
If time travel is possible and future humans are coming back to our era...what would they want? To kill a future despot? To make a change to the environment that saves future generations? To take back a computer from 1975 to make their time machine work properly? If you're anything like the subject of this week's show, John Titor, you went with door #3. According to his posts on the internet, John Titor traveled back to the 70s to get a special computer to save time travel. He also made a pit stop along the way in the early 00's to live with his family (and 2 year old self) and presumably post snotty messages on inane internet forums (not stand-up forums like Hysteria Nation). Sound crazy? That's the most normal part of this story. This week we do our best Sam Beckett and try to fix what went wrong with the OG Chrononaut - John Titor. Plus, John and Brent ponder the existential perils of time travel (not really - just looking for ways to make money on it). Conspiracy bot ponders the existential perils of time travel (not really - just looking for other ways to kill John and Brent). And David Flora of Blurry Photos is back in the lower 4th (he just wants to time travel to a time before he met Conspiracy Bot). All of that and more on the podcast that doesn’t have time travel capabilities, but if we did, we’d do things to improve humanity…and make an insane amount of money – Hysteria 51.Time Travel / John Titor songs referenced in the show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6ppzwikfchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_uGrpgPBQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxaTHTisUvghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvBi2NOO3Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHl4GnwFv20
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| 0:00.0 | The following is the fourth hand production. |
| 0:03.0 | In the year 2000, someone using the name John Teeter claimed to be a time-traveling soldier on the radio program, |
| 0:08.3 | Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell and on several internet message boards. He claimed he was on a mission to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer |
| 0:16.0 | to save his future and ours. Was this the first case of real documented time travel or just |
| 0:21.6 | some internet troll having fun at the expense of others. |
| 0:24.0 | Find out next on Hysteria 51. |
| 0:26.0 | They say, I'm disturbed. |
| 0:28.0 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:31.0 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:34.0 | You tell me, spous are not crazy. |
| 0:37.0 | With hysteria. |
| 0:39.0 | You can't handle the truth. |
| 0:41.0 | The brain is gone. |
| 0:43.0 | This is Hysteria 51. |
| 0:46.0 | Here here. |
| 0:48.0 | The truth is out there. |
| 0:50.0 | But you won't find it here. |
| 0:52.0 | They're coming for you. |
| 0:53.4 | Look, there comes one of them now. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome in Hysterionation to the podcast |
| 1:03.2 | who doesn't have time travel capabilities yet, |
| 1:07.2 | but if we could time travel, we do things to improve humanity. |
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