Hey everybody, it's a thinking sideways the podcast I'm Devon joined as always by Joe and Steve and we're gonna

do a group show again this week. We do these every once in a while not not too

frequently we don't want to bore you with our format but we all bore them. We tend

to do our group shows on the theme and this week our theme is time travel. Don't

worry it won't be the only episode we ever do on time travel calm down but we've

been getting a lot of time travel requests and I can hear you hyperventilating but

we all have stories that we really liked that we thought maybe didn't make up an

entire episode so we're just gonna each talk about our stories. You guys ready to do this?

Let's do it. Oh and before we get too far into this we always like to say big shout out to

this listener for suggesting this but literally all of these have literally been

suggested like five or six times. So if you suggested it congratulations you're a

successor for the team sideways time travel group show special a Stravaganza.

That's what we're calling this one right? The time travel Stravaganza? No I know it was a longer

name than that. Time travel, time travel pollution. Time travel pollution. That's what it is.

Okay. Alright. Let's start the time travel pollution. So I think Joe was gonna start first.

Yeah. We're gonna just do chronological right? Yeah exactly people are then popping into

the 20th century at various times and so we'll start with the earliest one. This one starts in 1950.

One night in mid-June at about 11.15 p.m. in New York City. Witnesses including a police officer

saw a man standing in the middle of a busy intersection near Times Square. Some accounts of this

put it right in Times Square but I don't know if it's somewhere close by there. Nobody had

noticed him walking out into the street but they saw him standing there and he was staring around

him quote, gawking at the signs as if he had never seen an electric sign before. Unquote. That's one

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