WEBVTT 00:01.027 --> 00:02.188 [SPEAKER_00]: project Echo. 00:03.889 --> 00:08.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Your experience of this story may be inhibited by your linear perspective on time. 00:10.294 --> 00:12.556 [SPEAKER_00]: We apologize for the inconvenience. 00:16.199 --> 00:16.779 [SPEAKER_00]: Episode 00:36.538 --> 00:45.934 [SPEAKER_02]: And then, yeah, the entity was able to destroy the briefcase, but also father Christmas, and a lot of other people. 00:46.335 --> 00:46.555 [SPEAKER_02]: And... 00:48.866 --> 01:13.138 [SPEAKER_02]: I still think that it's the right move, that Valentine has to be stopped in the agency and trying to escape this year and bring time travel even further along, it's just a mess, it's, that's not going to do anybody any good, even if the entity is gone, but the entity is just, we don't have to burn it all to the ground, it's too much. 01:15.239 --> 01:19.342 [SPEAKER_02]: There's parts of this plan that I think are right, but I just, I don't know. 01:19.542 --> 01:33.611 [SPEAKER_02]: And well, part of part of me just wanted to, to tell you so that, that you know, you know, of all the agency devices have been destroyed, so I'm sure you've noticed that, like, you know, you're kind of stuck in a spot. 01:34.131 --> 01:36.433 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so that's why my watch hasn't been working. 01:37.113 --> 01:37.513 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 01:37.733 --> 01:38.374 [SPEAKER_02]: Been on the Fritz? 01:39.114 --> 01:40.135 [SPEAKER_02]: That, that would be why. 01:42.924 --> 01:53.412 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, it seems like you've had a hell of a couple of days, weeks, and or years, however we talk about time in this kind of wibbly wobbly world, but you've had a go of it. 01:53.553 --> 02:04.942 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think so, it's been, I just can't leave that so much of what the agency told us is a lie. 02:06.343 --> 02:09.766 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, to be fair to the agency, sometimes lying is easier. 02:10.714 --> 02:14.295 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, time travel is truly madness. 02:15.475 --> 02:18.815 [SPEAKER_01]: You could think you understand it, but you can come untethered so quickly. 02:19.376 --> 02:22.316 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes it's just easier to say something simple that makes sense. 02:23.436 --> 02:24.917 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's the reason we give people coins. 02:25.917 --> 02:26.477 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean? 02:27.357 --> 02:29.177 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you need something to keep you tethered. 02:29.837 --> 02:33.538 [SPEAKER_01]: So we give you a coin and we say, this is the most important thing possible. 02:33.998 --> 02:37.899 [SPEAKER_01]: If you fall into a time storm, if you fall into time hell, this will save you. 02:39.090 --> 02:41.051 [SPEAKER_01]: And the belief in that is enough. 02:41.872 --> 02:46.914 [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, so the coin, it's not actually a time travel device? 02:47.294 --> 02:48.455 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's a coin. 02:49.095 --> 02:50.496 [SPEAKER_01]: I made mine out of chocolate. 02:50.916 --> 02:52.477 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you think this is a serious thing? 02:52.717 --> 02:52.937 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 02:53.258 --> 02:54.498 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I am. 02:55.319 --> 02:55.939 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry. 02:56.079 --> 02:57.900 [SPEAKER_02]: I lost track of your coin. 02:58.500 --> 02:59.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, don't worry. 02:59.141 --> 02:59.601 [SPEAKER_01]: I got it back. 03:00.101 --> 03:00.662 [SPEAKER_01]: You, what? 03:01.497 --> 03:01.777 [SPEAKER_01]: How? 03:02.277 --> 03:04.558 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, you're not the only one in this story. 03:05.038 --> 03:08.280 [SPEAKER_01]: I live a full and very life I have adventures of my own. 03:08.300 --> 03:09.160 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, yes. 03:09.240 --> 03:09.780 [SPEAKER_02]: No, of course. 03:09.840 --> 03:10.160 [SPEAKER_02]: Of course. 03:12.461 --> 03:14.382 [SPEAKER_02]: But it's okay, well then. 03:14.402 --> 03:17.683 [SPEAKER_02]: I guess we don't have to just try the coins. 03:18.143 --> 03:19.404 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no. 03:20.184 --> 03:22.105 [SPEAKER_01]: The coin is just an anchor. 03:22.545 --> 03:23.065 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a tether. 03:23.525 --> 03:24.246 [SPEAKER_01]: A thing that will... 03:25.179 --> 03:32.143 [SPEAKER_01]: allow you to look into the eyes of timestorm of pure chaos itself and feel like you can get out of it. 03:33.163 --> 03:33.884 [SPEAKER_01]: That's all it does. 03:34.724 --> 03:45.509 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's hard to explain to someone who's never seen the timestorm so rather than tell them to, you know, believe in something more than anything else, believe in it more themselves instead. 03:46.530 --> 03:50.112 [SPEAKER_01]: We give them a small object to be say, this is the thing that will save you. 03:50.853 --> 03:51.394 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a lie. 03:51.874 --> 03:53.355 [SPEAKER_01]: It's absolutely a lie. 03:53.916 --> 03:57.439 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a thing that will save them, but anything could save them, but it's easier. 03:58.700 --> 04:02.563 [SPEAKER_01]: To tell them this little lie that they can believe in with their entire heart. 04:04.425 --> 04:11.611 [SPEAKER_01]: But, then ankle can be anything if you have an item, an idea of a person that you can put your entire faith in. 04:13.433 --> 04:19.458 [SPEAKER_01]: That's enough to get you through any trial or tribulation you'll find even something as deadly and terrifying as the time store. 04:20.796 --> 04:26.238 [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, something I can trust kind of no matter what. 04:26.258 --> 04:29.819 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a tall lord, but everyone's got something. 04:33.361 --> 04:33.941 [SPEAKER_02]: I just... 04:38.444 --> 04:48.269 [SPEAKER_02]: Really, it's that I've gone so far down the path with the entity and again, I think destroying these things. 04:49.730 --> 04:55.913 [SPEAKER_02]: We can't let time travel get beyond this year, but I just can't do it the way that they want to do it. 04:58.054 --> 05:03.477 [SPEAKER_02]: Valentine's not right either, but it's kind of a mess. 05:05.137 --> 05:18.432 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, if there's one thing that I've learned from all of my many years of time travel, or they're about, you understand, if there's one thing I've learned from all my time traveling through time, it's that 05:19.447 --> 05:26.232 [SPEAKER_01]: It's that there's not just one or two discrete paths, there is a spectrum of paths, infinite numbers to travel down. 05:26.252 --> 05:32.276 [SPEAKER_01]: I spent probably somewhere around 20 or 30 years just living in the same day, looped over and over. 05:32.376 --> 05:35.679 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you something, I did it differently every single time. 05:37.720 --> 05:43.024 [SPEAKER_01]: Some days they were almost identical, but I made one last change. 05:43.765 --> 05:47.808 [SPEAKER_01]: Just at the very end, just to see what would happen and let me tell you, life continues on. 05:49.268 --> 05:57.015 [SPEAKER_01]: Something new and interesting happens, and if you do quarantine this year often, I don't need more time to explore. 05:57.395 --> 06:00.257 [SPEAKER_01]: No one does, there is plenty, right here in front of us. 06:01.659 --> 06:04.681 [SPEAKER_01]: Plenty to explore, plenty to do so much to do. 06:07.043 --> 06:09.585 [SPEAKER_01]: You can change your path at any time and I promise you. 06:10.706 --> 06:12.608 [SPEAKER_01]: There's always a chance to change. 06:14.049 --> 06:14.990 [SPEAKER_02]: Who right, there's... 06:16.802 --> 06:18.343 [SPEAKER_02]: I can do it differently, I can do it. 06:19.503 --> 06:22.284 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, okay. 06:23.425 --> 06:28.207 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what's gonna happen when we destroy everything, or when we destroy all the devices. 06:28.227 --> 06:31.748 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to quarantine this year exactly. 06:31.768 --> 06:37.310 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't quite know what's gonna happen to you, but I just wanted to say thank you. 06:38.891 --> 06:39.471 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're welcome. 06:40.015 --> 06:45.682 [SPEAKER_01]: And don't worry about me, I've been doing this for plenty long enough, so if something bad happens, listen, I lived a good one. 06:46.022 --> 06:48.245 [SPEAKER_01]: If not, though, I'm pretty wily. 06:48.445 --> 06:50.708 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm gonna get out of this just fine. 06:51.428 --> 06:52.790 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I really think that's true. 06:53.491 --> 06:58.497 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, I'm also a character I have a whole other life and adventures when you're not around. 06:59.215 --> 07:00.716 [SPEAKER_02]: Right, right, yes, no, I know. 07:00.816 --> 07:02.798 [SPEAKER_02]: I sometimes say just get caught up in my own stuff. 07:03.138 --> 07:05.680 [SPEAKER_01]: I kind of get the sense that I'm really important to your story. 07:05.720 --> 07:08.042 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you see me as kind of like a high-of-figure or something. 07:08.062 --> 07:09.964 [SPEAKER_01]: We kind of like a Yona analogy. 07:10.304 --> 07:13.427 [SPEAKER_01]: But for me, you're kind of like a small part of my story. 07:13.727 --> 07:20.973 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay, well, you know what, I'm very important here into the quarantining of the, I have a lot of things that I need to do, it's okay. 07:20.993 --> 07:25.116 [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, I'm just saying, in this entire time that we've known each other, you've never asked me, what's up with me? 07:25.577 --> 07:28.379 [SPEAKER_02]: I, you know what, I did, okay. 07:29.652 --> 07:30.694 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for your help here. 07:31.334 --> 07:31.695 [SPEAKER_02]: I got it. 07:31.775 --> 07:32.797 [SPEAKER_02]: I got to go find Finn again. 07:33.598 --> 07:33.978 [SPEAKER_01]: Good luck. 07:34.980 --> 07:36.001 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you're going to do fine. 07:36.882 --> 07:38.525 [SPEAKER_01]: This plenty of time. 07:40.207 --> 07:40.888 [SPEAKER_01]: There's always time. 07:42.390 --> 07:43.993 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll look for you in the new year, I guess. 07:44.814 --> 07:45.275 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll see you then. 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