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Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox (2024)

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Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox (2024)

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- Ow, ow, ow! f*ck!

Oh, f*ck!

God damn it!

Why is that so hot?

- It's okay. Just, uh...

Thanks, I'm just looking for,

uh, looking for an affidavit.

You may

have noticed in the news,

I am part of a pretty

rough divorce, and it is, uh...

It's a real

m*therf*cker, so uh, I am not-

- Going live in 10.

- f*ck.

We gotta get going, so...

By the way,

she's, uh, she's a witch.

I don't know if

you believe in witches,

but I think she's got

a cauldron and everything.

Welcome,

questioners, truth seekers,

and good ol'

fashioned angry Americans.

Welcome to "The Rant"!

I'm James Bunratty,

and this is "Bunratty's Rants".

Now, I don't

need to tell you folks

what's wrong with the

broken scientific establishment.

Of course, the

people that bought it,

I'm sure they

think it's working great,

but it is not for us.

It is not for real Americans.

That's why I think

you're gonna love today's guest.

He is an

alternative science guy.

He knows how to

think outside the paradigm.

He has witnessed

the corruption firsthand,

and I think that you

are going to be shocked today,

truth seekers, that's right.

Well, anyway, what I'm saying is

what you're going to

probably say is pretty shocking

to a lot of people

that don't listen to the show.

And to those

newbies, I just wanna say,

welcome to "The Rant".

Let's get right into it.

Dr. Tim Travers,

I am fascinated by your work.

Tell us exactly what

the Time Travelers Paradox is.

Dr.

Travers?

- Oh, right.

- Welcome to the show.

- A few corrections there. Uh,

one, I'm not a doctor.

And two,

while I'm not mainstream,

I am definitely not an

"alternative" scientist.

- The difference being?

- One is for bored

housewives with crystals

and closet racists.

- Oh, we got a show today!

Do we not, out there?

That's right. Yeah,

we can have some fun here.

That was a good one.

But my audience knows

who the man of truth is.

And who is that?

- Bunratty, Bunratty!

- James Bunratty.

Now, besides, fast talker,

how would you

know the difference?

You just said yourself

that you weren't a real doctor.

- I was kicked out of

school for behavioral reasons,

but my grades were excellent.

- Yeah. Establishment

elites, am I right?

I mean, who decided that they

were the purveyors of truth?

- Education?

Peer review? Uh...

Hygiene?

- Okay.

You're arguing that

time travel is possible,

which is, even for

this show, quite out there.

So, why don't you

just, uh, hold your roll, pal?

- Well, I am sitting in a

radio station in the year 2026,

so I think that

it might be possible.

Is that, is that a reel-to-reel?

- Yes!

That's a reel-to-reel given

to me by Carl Sagan's assistant!

I married her too, all right?

Yeah, so I didn't

invite you on this show

to insult my

audience, or me, or my team.

- No, you invited me

because Mothman was busy

and I was bored.

- The Time Travelers Paradox.

Tell us about it.

- Hm.

It's a thought experiment.

How much do you

need me to dumb this down?

- Just a little bit.

- Agree to disagree.

First, a scientist

makes a time machine.

That loops back exactly

one minute into the past.

- Oh, is that all?

- Then the scientist

kills his younger self.

- As he does.

- Oh!

Yeah!

Now you have a man who

should not and cannot exist.

Yet, somehow does.

That is the paradox.

Paradoxes are impossible.

- Man, you are very smart,

but I would hate to

go to dinner with you.

If you're just joining us,

we have not-doctor Tim Travers.

And while you're at it,

pick up some of

Bunratty's Blast Vitamins.

And while we're there,

we have our own version of HGH.

It's not the dangerous kind

that Sylvester Stallone uses.

No, it is Bunratty's HGA.

That's right, HGA.

We'll be right back.

Great job, man.

- Well, sh*t.

Um...

Observation one. Uh...

Light, or at least

the perception of light,

can only move one

way through the machine.

I can see into the past,

but can't see into the future.

That makes sense, intuitively.

Um...

Observation two.

The f*ck!

I have, um,

m*rder*d my younger self,

and, and causality

appears to be unaffected,

like, like completely

unaffected,

which makes no sense.

I refer you to my

aforementioned, "The f*ck!"

Theory one. Um...

Time travel has,

has not taken place at all.

Instead, I have been

transported to a

identical universe.

Problematic theory. Um...

Since that the machine might

work as a fancy teleporter,

sending me to

a, by wild coincidence,

place that just so

happens to be indistinguishable

from my own

past, seems unlikely.

Hmm.

Theory two.

I have time traveled

in the conventional sense.

Please excuse my abuse

of the word "conventional".

Um...

Time is a

dimension in its own right.

Therefore, causality must be

limited by the speed of light,

which prevents the

paradox from ever catching up.

How the hell am I

even supposed to test that?

Theory three. Um...

Uh, my presence has spawned a

new universe via my

interaction with it.

Now, that's...

That's an interesting one.

If my interaction is the

seed, then, then from my frame,

no other traveler

could impact my timeline.

But, but, but the

traveler could continually

impact other timelines.

Now, that, that's testable!

I just, I just need to have a...

I just, I just need

to repeat the experiment!

- Now we're getting somewhere!

As theorized, my own

timeline remains unaffected!

Oh.

Oh, crap.

Forgot about that.

Now there's a thought.

- Now we're getting somewhere!

As theorized, my own

timeline remains unaffected!

- Sorry.

- What the hell, man?

- It was an impulse.

I was trying to

catch myself by surprise.

- That's moronic!

- Don't be a d*ck.

Right.

- Right.

Twice!

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!

- Right.

Eww.

No, no.

Date, date!

- Hey!

Excuse you, f*ck!

Yeah, 20 minutes late.

Bet ya five bucks

he doesn't even show up.

Nah, ah, ah, ah.

That's mine.

That's yours.

- Wow.

Are you, uh...

Are you like this all the time?

- Yep.

- Kinda like it.

- That's real.

- Dr. Travers?

- Still not a doctor.

- Yeah, whatever.

Listen. You are

belittling James a lot.

He doesn't like it.

Hell, he hates it.

So, please, on behalf of

the entire production staff-

- Well, he's

been dead for like 44 years.

- Keep doing it.

- You ever been

in a room with Paul McCartney?

- It is delicious.

- Exactly!

"Defamation"?

What about free speech?

Well, of course I made it up!

What does that

have to do with anything?

- You go, James!

We believe in you.

Hm.

I eat this sh*t up.

- So, you're not into the whole-

- Mm, bored housewives with

crystals and closet racists?

Nah, no.

I thought this would

be a great post-college gig

while I figured out what

to do with my life, but, um,

that was 15 years ago,

because time is a cruel b*tch.

- Yeah,

it's on the Moon!

By the moon, I mean my a*s.

- I'm Delilah.

I stopped talking.

- What?

- Yeah, a while ago.

I'm sorry, is...

Is my life story boring to you,

or are you just incredibly rude?

- Not mutually exclusive.

- Wow!

- Sorry, sorry,

sorry, sorry, sorry.

I am distracted, but

it's not because you're boring.

You're not, you're not boring.

Um, today was just a weird day.

- How weird was your day?

- Uh, honest answer?

- Yeah.

- Well, today,

I activated a time machine

that is powered by nuclear

materials

that were stolen from

a t*rror1st organization.

And, uh...

Then I went back in

time and k*lled my younger self

repeatedly, and I have

no idea how that's possible.

- I'm sorry. I

wasn't listening.

- What? What?

- See?

It's rude, and I was listening.

Great bit.

You're not doing a bit.

Okay.

All right.

- Yeah, I've got eyes on him.

Doesn't look like much.

Just a waiting game now.

Oh, yes. Hi.

Uh, I'll have a Shirley Temple,

easy on the grenadine.

- Sure.

- Thank you very much.

- You know, um...

Seeing you

make James suffer was fun,

but this

whole mad scientist shtick

it's like, it's

like performance art.

I'm just waiting for the

cameras to pop out.

- I avoid cameras.

- Are your friends in on this?

- I don't have friends.

- Oh, gross.

Not even as a kid?

- Timothy Oliphant Travers!

Are those real?

- No, Mom!

I'm just using

the electric potato.

- All right.

I do not want a repeat

of the Guinea pig incident!

Only shock the potato.

- Yes, Mother.

- Oh, I'm gonna

have to dig another hole.

- Went through a lot

of friends, but that's fine.

Learning how to be by

yourself is a reward of its own.

- You know, to a point, but,

it's hard to

take that armor off.

- Some people don't

have the choice, so...

It's also fine, because

I don't need other people.

- Hm!

That's a thing that people say,

when they think

they're better and smarter.

- I didn't mean it like that,

but I am better and smarter.

Look. I don't share other

people's values in the abstract.

Take time travel.

A paradox will

literally break reality,

and a reality

broken can be rewritten.

- Ominous, but yeah, I get it.

You hate that people

wanna use it for time tourism.

Oh, kinda like when a lady

discovers she has superpowers,

and it's like, "Oh, no,

but what, what does this mean

for my job and relationship?"

And I'm like, "b*tch,

you've got superpowers!"

Yeah! Like,

laser your boss to death!

Throw your loser

boyfriend into the sun and, and,

and go conquer the

world, like a sane person.

- Exactly. Thank you.

- Crush the peasants.

- It's misplaced priorities.

It's like, you know, working

on a, on a, on a work project

when someone is

actively trying to k*ll you.

- Right,

right, or going on a date,

when you're about

to conquer the world.

- Right.

- What're you doing?

But what?

- You are absolutely right.

- Did, did I say that?

I, I don't think I said that.

I said something

about crushing peasants,

but that was more for me.

- I need to get back to the lab.

- What?

Right, right now?

- Yeah.

- You may not know

this, but a woman driving

halfway across the city

in the middle of murderville

is kind of a,

it's kind of a leap of faith.

That's not lost on you?

- It is not.

- So...

You're, you're,

you're joking, right?

You're trolling me for a goof,

because you're an a*s like that.

- I am, but I am not.

- Well, I don't

have to be polite anymore

because you're the

one who's standing me up.

So, figure out where you

are on the spectrum, d*ck weed,

and then go f*ck yourself!

f*ck off.

Bye!

f*ck you, and

f*ck you, and f*ck you!

f*ck you guys, too!

Hey, you, with the French braid!

You suck!

f*ck off!

This f*ck' bar is sh*t!

f*ck, f*ck,

f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck!

- Is she pointing to us?

- f*ck you!

- Oh, my God.

Ow!

I'm not, um...

I've been checked.

Many times.

Um...

At worst, it's a,

it's a case of mild psychosis.

Which is unrelated.

So, you know what?

I don't need the

judgment right now.

And also, honestly, it's

kinda f*cked up that you would

make fun of somebody

for being on the spectrum.

f*ck!

Just f*ck off!

- But I didn't say anything.

- You also

forgot to charge them.

- Crap!

- Had to know, you know?

Maybe there was something there.

Why am I telling you?

You're just a localized

wormhole, not a person.

I know, I know, I know.

Back to work!

Alone.

Boys.

First rule of science!

Repeat the experiment.

Verify results.

This is gonna suck.

- You did say

this was gonna suck.

- m*therf*cker!

Come on!

- Ow!

Why did you...

- Come on, now!

Oh!

- Okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, all right.

How about this?

Hypothetically,

let's say you make it work.

You break

the world, for no point,

but to prove that you can do it.

What then?

Is a time machine that

goes back one minute useful?

- That, that is a good question.

- Yeah, well,

this is all about questions.

- Not good ones.

Results prove...

Consistent.

30-plus loops and still

no perceivable paradox, so...

f*ck.

Hold, hold on.

Hold on.

- Results prove consistent.

30-plus loops and still

no perceivable paradox, so...

Yes, hi.

Um, here's where I'm at on this.

We can safely

conclude the observer's frame

cannot be impacted.

- You're, you're

impacting me right now.

- Don't interrupt.

What we're

testing is theory two,

in which case, you didn't exist

until about 10 seconds ago,

but now that you do, however,

your frame

cannot be impacted again.

- Right.

- So, how do I test that?

- Got it.

You k*ll me.

Um...

- No, no, no, no!

Not, not this me.

- You, however,

your frame cannot be impacted.

- That me.

- How do test that?

- I got it.

You k*ll me.

Not, not this me.

- Jesus!

- Okay, so

that version of me died,

but I didn't, so, that holds.

- I'm sorry,

what, what, what holds?

- Oh, he affected my

timeline, and I wanted to prove

that he couldn't do it a

second time, which of course-

- Supports theory three.

I get it.

Don't spoon feed me.

- Does everybody

else want a drink?

Cool, it's cool.

- What the f*ck?

- Oh, my head.

Oh!

What's with the, the name tag?

- Trust me, you're all gonna

be wanting these soon enough.

All right?

Anyway, we were arguing

the merits of theory three.

- Ah, but what if

it's theory two, hm?

And it's just the one timeline,

but it's limited

by the speed of light.

- Good question.

- Uh...

I mean, who cares, though?

It's, it's...

You can't control

for it, so it's pointless.

- We, we can!

We just have to go

the other way through!

- What?

- What?

- What?

- Just stick with me here. Um...

It's been six

hours since, since he-

- Mm-mm, mm-mm.

- You started

the first loop, right?

So, the paradox, if it's

moving at the speed of light,

happened one

minute in your past.

If we go the

other way, we could see it!

That's our control!

- You get all that?

- Yeah pretty straightforward.

- Mm.

- Mm-hm.

- Well, doesn't matter,

'cause the machine

doesn't work like that.

- It can! It can!

We just have to

figure out how to slow the...

Slow the, the...

Look, I need,

I need, I need visual A*DS.

So, let's just grab

some of these, and just do it,

do it, ow, the other way, ow!

- All right, the coast is clear.

Come on, pick those up.

- Jesus.

- I need a drink!

- Yeah, yep, yep.

- It's gonna be fine.

- All right.

- What?

You!

- Which me?

Sorry.

Hard to explain.

How are you?

What're you doing back here?

- I forgot my scarf.

What are you doing here?

I thought you had

to go back to the lab?

- Wasn't that yesterday?

- No! It was

two hours ago.

- Two hours?

- Yes!

- Wow. I did

way too many loops.

- "Loops"? What is

that, some kind of drink?

- Yes?

- Really?

Come buy me one.

- Oh, oh, oh, oh.

- You owe me! Come on!

- Hm? Hm?

- Oh, great! There

goes the only sober one.

I'm just too, too,

too drunk to math right now.

- I know some

assholes who aren't.

- The machine only

loops one minute back!

Why did you think that 21

drunks would be an improvement?

- I said I'm ordering coffee!

24-hour coffee delivery.

- Yeah,

it's beautiful out here.

- God

bless capitalism.

- Yeah, it took me about

20 minutes to get out here.

- Bless it, I said!

Look.

I don't know who's following me,

but you picked the

wrong guy to be doing this...

- That was worth the wait.

I never get to use the shotgun,

man. It's like too loud.

But this place?

You're so in the middle of

nowhere here, I...

I couldn't resist.

Oh, f*ck. sh*t.

Hold up, hold up.

Uh, supposed to

read you something.

Ah, here we go.

"Mr. Travers,

The Kingmaker is a teacher,

and today he is teaching you..."

You listening?

sh*t!

"The Kingmaker

is above such things.

The Kingmaker is a teacher,

and today he is teaching

the consequences of

stealing from better men.

Then sh**t him." Then...

Then sh**t him!

Right!

Crap.

Oh, well.

- No, no, stop it. No.

But seriously, seriously.

That did sound

like a g*nsh*t earlier.

- No, no, no, no.

It's just a, a firework.

They're, uh...

Kids, they

get in here, and they,

they set 'em off all the time.

- Uh, you're cool with that?

- Yeah! Yeah,

I mean, kids need to get hurt.

Like, fewer

fingers, stronger moral...

Whatever.

- Okay, you...

You're actually fun.

But only when

you've been drinking.

Announcement!

The do-over date is

officially a success!

- So, so

being drunk is a, a plus to you?

- Oh, yeah, yeah.

It makes it easier to

get what I want, like answers.

Like, why, Mr.

Mad Scientist Man? Why?

- Isn't curiosity enough?

- No.

I am curious about crypto,

but I'm curious,

because the more I know,

the easier it is

to game the suckers.

I am curious about conspiracies

because someone will

always pay to believe it.

I'm curious about sensitivity

because humans

love to control others

while telling themselves

they're the good guys.

Curiosity always has an

agenda, for people like me.

Me and you.

So, really.

What is it that you want?

- I want what everyone wants.

To stand alone with

God at the end of time

and tell the b*stard off.

- Humble.

And I bet ya

five bucks God's a she.

- Our world is sh*t.

It's definitely a he.

- Mm.

- Okay!

Let's go over

this one more time.

- Why?

- Volume!

I thought Eta

was bringing coffee.

- The machine works by

using entangled particles.

Now, one particle is

tied to the entrance door.

That's the door

moving forward through time.

The other particle is

run through the accelerator,

slowing its frame down

to a near standstill in time.

- Who are you

explaining this for?

- That particle is tied

to the exit-

- We all know this!

- I'm not ashamed to

admit this is actually helping.

- But Alpha.

- Mm-mm.

- Alpha?

Alpha, Alpha, Alpha has

been on this side of the door,

for longer than one minute.

So, that means that the paradox

has overtaken

the time difference!

- We know!

Ow!

The f*ck!

f*ck' as*h*le.

- Perfect timing.

The problem is that the door

only opens backwards in time.

Send something

through the exit door,

and it's just a normal door.

But use the

entrance door, and...

- Ow! What the f*ck?

- See? I just

threw that back in time.

Hit Epsilon on the head and

started that particular loop.

- Sorry, but where

did the football come from?

- So, we just

need to bring both doors

into the same time frame,

allowing us to

travel the other way through,

which, in theory, would

let us catch up to the paradox!

- Uh...

Uh, seriously. Where did

the, uh, football come from?

- What

about the multiverse?

- Which franchise?

- God's.

- A multiverse

is, is too convenient, right?

It's not different versions

of our lives. It's really-

- I love the multiverse.

I love all the

different versions of me.

- Oh.

Okay.

- It doesn't matter if I

f*ck up, because they made it.

I like knowing that.

There are some days I...

I need that.

- But if they succeeded,

does that make them you?

I mean, maybe...

Maybe failing is

what makes you you.

Maybe, maybe failure

is your defining trait.

By which, I mean, um...

- Recover.

Recover fast.

- Would you like to see my lab?

- Okay.

But seriously, f*ck you.

- So, this is the, uh...

The lab! Um...

Which we have all to ourselves.

Apparently.

- Why wouldn't we?

Oh, right! Your

time-looped friends.

- Okay, okay.

Uh, uh, uh, that's the wall.

That's the, uh,

the closet over there.

That's a human hamster wheel.

That's the time machine.

Coffeemaker's broken.

And that's basically

it, so we should probably,

probably go, right?

- I'm sorry.

"Human hamster wheel"?

- That's, that's the

piece you were impressed by?

Oh, okay. Um,

yeah, I mean, uh...

I was trying a thing,

but it didn't really work.

Just too many feces.

- Wow. Wow.

I never thought I

would be into a, um, LARPer.

But

your commitment is like...

- Uh, sorry. What?

- This! The,

the toy g*ns, that prop!

- My time machine is not a prop.

- That.

That right there.

The commitment to

the fantasy, I am...

Ooh, I am into it.

If I could afford to

support a LARP like this,

I don't even know

what I would do with it.

I, uh...

Ah.

Paid LARP vacations.

No, somebody must be doing that.

If you could classify it

as porn,

you could have the

staff screw the customers.

- Eww!

- Oh, don't be a prude.

- No, no, no, no, no, no.

Eww to, to LARPing!

I mean, this? This is real!

This is my, my life's work!

- Okay, drop it already!

Talk like a normal person,

and not someone

trying to sound smart!

It's just not healthy!

I bet ya

five bucks you just spend

too much time

talking to yourself.

Oh, my God.

- Uh, Delilah, this-

- Okay!

Get away from me!

- No, not that way!

Probably fine, right?

- If I could afford to

support a LARP like this,

I don't even know

what I would do with it.

I, uh...

Ah.

Paid LARP vacations.

No, somebody must be doing that.

If you could

classify it as porn, you...

No! Oh!

- Oh, my god.

- Oh, my god!

- What the hell was that?

Damn it, did you

drop something again?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

- Why would you do that?

- Holy sh*t!

- Just, just,

just give me the g*n.

- Give him the g*n!

- Stay back! All

of you, stay back!

- Just calm down.

- Be cool, man!

- Shut up, you freak!

- Let's not be

hypocritical here.

- So?

How did the date go?

What?

- Delilah? Delilah, look-

- Don't you dare follow me!

- Don't, don't worry, we won't.

Come on.

Like, a bunch of

guys chasing a lone woman

around their

private compound at night?

It's not exactly a

great, a great look. Um...

probably

shouldn't have said that.

- No sh*t!

Listen, I don't

have a box to put this in

that will

fit in my brain without,

bet ya five

bucks, exploding my head.

So, let's just forget

this ever happened.

- Trust me, it, it happened.

- But reality is

subjective, so no.

- Subjective?

Tell her that!

- Nope!

Oh, f*ck!

Motherfuckin'

sh*t d*ck slug nug!

Whoa!

- Thanks for the jugs!

Evening.

- Travers?

- All right.

Let's get going.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

Yes.

- You're Tim Travers.

- We've established that.

- You're not gonna believe

this, but earlier tonight,

I met a guy who

looked exactly...

I mean, exactly like you.

- Just have one of

those faces, I guess.

- You do!

- Yeah.

Okay, I'm

gonna get going, so, uh,

you have a lovely

little evening or whatever.

Jesus Christ!

- Ah, sh*t!

Uh, "The Kingmaker is a

teacher."

f*ck, I did it again.

Stupid f*ck' note.

- I mean, I didn't even

know that the g*n was loaded.

- So, does anyone else

think it's a little weird

that she shot her other self?

I mean, I get that we did

that as part of the experiment.

She didn't know that.

I mean, maybe that

was just some other woman

that looked a lot like her.

Just a little weird that, uh,

m*rder was her go-to response.

I liked her.

- You saw no red flags there?

- She did mention something

about "crushing peasants"?

- Oh!

I see what's going on here.

You thought that

she would fix you!

- f*ck you!

- Oh, f*ck you.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Guys, just,

let's just chill, okay?

- f*ck you, too.

- f*ck off!

- f*ck you!

- f*ck both of you.

- f*ck all of you!

- f*ck that, too!

- All right.

I'm just gonna gonna say it.

- f*ck you, m*therf*cker!

- You all

thinking what I'm thinking?

- That's exactly

what I'm thinking.

- Tim Travers?

Go f*ck yourself.

- f*ck yeah.

- Oh, yeah!

- What's that for?

- Mood music.

- Okay.

Okay, uh...

Hold on.

You know what?

Let's turn it up.

- Yeah, it's

pick-up from here on, buddy.

- Hey. Hey,

how are you?

Um, the uh, orgy's happening.

- Oh, h*, h*, h*!

Well, it's about time!

Woo!

- Yes.

That'll work.

I...

I figured it out.

I did it!

You guys, we...

Where is everybody?

- Hold that other leg.

- Oh, yeah!

Stop licking me.

- Who are you?

- They asked me

to hold the coffee.

- Say my name.

Say my name, Tim!

Say my name, Tim!

- Tim, Tim, Tim.

Say my name.

Say my name, Tim!

Tim!

- Delta, no names.

- Oh, God. I

feel so close to you right now.

- No,

lick there, lick there.

- Okay, but what about the soul?

How does time travel account

for two spirits

occupying the same space?

- The same way that it accounts

for unicorns and dragons

or other sh*t that isn't real!

We are just meat!

The meaning

of life is to eat, sh*t,

f*ck to create more meat,

and repeat, until we die, alone!

In the end...

All of us are alone.

- We'll be right

back with more Tim Travers

and his super

happy outlook on life.

- I'm so confused.

How does someone

affiliate the time dilation

of an accelerated

particle to a door frame?

- Okay, you're not listening.

I need you to hear me, okay?

This guy is crazy. I think,

I think he might be a t*rror1st.

- Oh, honey.

Weirdo or no, labeling

somebody with that term?

- He's white.

- Uh, oh, sh*t. Yeah,

definitely a t*rror1st then.

What is this guy's name?

- Tim.

Tim Travers.

- Who?

Who?

- Tim Travers!

- Who in the f*ck...

- Oh, my!

- Whoa.

- I hate this town.

I hate everyone

in it, so, so much!

Bet ya five bucks I've

had a weirder day than you.

- You're on.

You guys have no idea.

- It's gonna hold.

- It's too much power.

It's classic Tim.

- You sluts!

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We do not need the judgment.

Where, where'd

you get the coffee?

- Sorry.

Last cup.

Delivery guy

must've stolen the rest.

I bet you forgot to tip.

- f*ck you, m*therf*cker!

- Damn.

- So?

How was, uh...

It?

- Amazing.

- Incredible.

- Best sex ever.

- Obviously great!

Uh...

- Pretty bland, honestly.

Oh. Oh,

I'm sorry.

I thought we were

done jerking each other off.

It was great!

- In all fairness,

a great bonding experience.

And, uh, I learned some

things about myself, and...

- Tau!

How about you go

get us some more coffee?

Go.

Go now.

Now!

- You're just jealous that

no one invited you to the orgy.

- Ooh!

- Get.

Out.

- "Go get the coffee, Tau.

Hold my wrench, Tau.

Lube is for sissies, Tau."

Well, that's why no one invited

you to the orgy, as*h*le!

And you are?

Whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, man.

- I don't know how you're

doing this, but it won't work.

Decoys?

Body doubles?

Magic tricks? I

don't f*ck' care.

I will do this all

g*dd*mn night, if I have to,

because I am a professional!

- Okay, I think there has

been a big misunderstanding!

- Shut up!

I have a message for

you from The Kingmaker.

- Oh, sh*t. That guy, um-

- "Mr.

Travers.

Do not think of this

as punishment or revenge.

The Kingmaker is

above such things.

The Kingmaker is a teacher,

and today, he is

teaching you the consequences

of stealing from better men."

There.

I said it.

I read the whole damn message.

And now, I just

wanna be absolutely sure

that I'm k*lling

the right guy this time.

So, are you Tim Travers?

- No?

- Liar!

- Oh.

You're the, uh, the Tim

that wasn't taking

anyone's crap earlier, right?

- Yeah.

I mean, come off it, right?

Yeah, it's like we're all

putting on this performance,

and for who?

- Our egos.

Anyway, it was, good on you.

- No, you'd have done the same.

- I didn't, though.

Which is weird, right?

I mean, maybe

the, uh, experience drift

between individual

Tims is, is growing.

- Well, a few

hours can change a person.

- Yeah, that's what my doctor...

Oh.

- I'll get that.

Here.

- Oh, thanks.

I'm just...

- Oh, f*ck! That's hot.

Which is why it will

double the energy output,

and also the radiation.

- Well, what about matter?

- Yeah, I think that matters!

- No, no. What about matter?

Every time we create a new Tim,

where is the matter

coming from, you know?

- Huh.

We must be pulling it from

somewhere else in the Universe.

The equivalent to 20...

No, no, 30 30?

- Tims.

- Ah, f*ck.

That's too many Tims.

- Yeah, I'd say.

Thank you, Jason McKee,

for that insightful report on

postpartum depression for men.

On to national news tonight,

at a Mississippi church,

30 parishioners

appear to have been raptured.

Details are vague, but experts

are dismissing this theory,

instead arguing for

wormhole displacement theory.

In spite of the evidence...

- Shut up.

All right, everybody!

Gather round! Gather round!

All right, make a

little semicircle for me.

Close enough. I

have some sad news.

Tau Tim has been m*rder*d.

- Oh, no, not Tau.

- Who?

- Yeah, very sad.

Anyway, somebody's

been picking off the Tims

on the coffee

runs, so from here on out,

I am imposing the buddy system.

- Boo!

- Also, this does

mean there is no coffee.

- Oh, come on!

- You've gotta be

f*cking kidding me!

- I

f*cking hate this place!

- She was into a multiverses?

- Exactly.

And I have this whole

theory about why multiverses

are stupid and

people like them anyway.

I tried not to say anything,

ended up being a d*ck anyway.

- Well...

What's your theory?

- I mean,

obviously you know it already.

- Yeah, but...

It'd be nice to

hear somebody else say it.

I'm just so tired of

hearing my own voice, you know?

- That resonates.

The multiverse isn't

different versions of our lives.

It's actually

different sets of laws.

I mean, why should one

plus one equal two, right?

I mean, why was there slightly

more matter than anti-matter?

It's the same as the entirety

of history. It's just the-

- The newest way to

put ourselves at the center.

To convince

ourselves that we matter.

- Why is not mattering so bad?

I mean, why is it so

terrifying to...

Not be the most

important person?

- It's freeing.

My mistakes are

mine and mine alone.

- As are my victories.

- In life.

- In science.

- In love?

I got it.

- What is it?

- Something

about missing coffee.

I'm honestly still trying

to figure out why our phones

are working like this.

- Someone at Verizon is

having a meltdown right now.

- Oh, sh*t!

Yeah, Boss?

- You know I

do not like to be kept waiting.

- Yeah,

I know, I know, but it's fine.

- Helter?

Helter!

Is the b*stard dead already?

This guy

goes off-grid for a year,

and then the idiot

shows up on a podcast.

- I swear, I, I...

I don't understand.

- Do I

need to bring in Royce?

- Royce?

- Royce.

- Royce is here?

- Near enough.

So, do your job, and if I

don't hear from you in one hour,

I am bringing in Royce.

- f*ck! f*ck' c**t f*ck!

f*cking brother!

f*ck!

- I'd like to

point out to the audience,

this is the first

pause Tim has taken.

Why are you even here?

I mean, you

don't respect any of us.

You've just been

ranting at my audience

and me for two

hours, torturing us.

Did I do something to you?

Did I beat you up on a

playground somewhere when I was-

- No, no, nothing like that.

You just dumbed down

the human race a little bit.

- Why is it so important for you

to be smarter than a

guy you don't even respect?

I mean, who are you

trying to impress here?

What is the point of all this?

- Well, isn't it obvious?

If something should go wrong

when I turn on the machine,

a record would be a

pretty good thing to have.

You were the only one

who took the interview.

- With full love and respect,

I hope you die a

very painful death.

- Aww.

- No, no.

I still have mine.

- I heard

this Somebody probably-

- No, no. I told you!

- Hey!

Uh, I think that things

might be about to get weird,

or weird, weirder.

Um...

I don't know, I thought

maybe it'd be a good idea

to have a way to,

you know, recognize each other.

- Why would we need a way

to, uh, recognize each other?

- Um...

Well, because I, uh, uh...

It's cool, it's cool, it's cool.

That's, uh...

I care about, I care,

I care about that, too.

- I...

It's the, uh,

only sticker I could find.

- I love it.

- Blah.

- Breathe, baby.

We're almost home.

Power core stable?

If not, we're gonna die!

Good enough.

- Is the second particle moving?

- Yeah, yeah. Full

speed in a few seconds.

- Hey, hey,

do you smell something burning?

Eh, it's

probably my imagination.

- Iota, I've got this. You

go see the paradox.

I owe you one.

Jesus f*cking Christ!

What the hell?

Okay. Let's

be cool, man.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, please.

- You said that already!

- When?

- When I k*lled you!

m*therf*cker.

And then I k*lled

you at the coffee stand.

And then I was in the

restaurant with that lady-

- f*cking Delilah.

- And I k*lled you again.

- Oh, so, so you're the guy?

- I'm the guy.

And you...

What are you?

Are you

a god?

- Well, metaphorically,

everyone's a God,

from their own perspective, so-

- Literally!

Are you a god?

- No, no!

No, not a god.

Not a god. Not yet!

- Behind that

door lies our future!

- Or present, technically.

- What?

Whatever!

The paradox is within

our ability to understand.

To control.

Now, at long last-

- Oh, my God! get

on with it already!

- I was, you dingus!

Now, at long last...

Let's go unmake history.

- Oh, sh*t.

- Oh, sh*t!

- f*ck, f*ck!

f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck!

- Oh, sh*t!

It's gonna go insane!

- Oh, my...

- Oh, wow!

- Don't worry! I'll help you!

Come on!

- Wait! Wait,

wait, wait, wait!

- I'm still on fire!

Put me out, put me

out, put me out!

- I, I, uh...

Help?

That did

not go

great.

- Just take it,

take it easy, okay?

That's, um...

That's gonna be b*tch

a to patch up.

But you're gonna be all right.

You're gonna be all right.

I just need...

We just need to think.

I just, I just need to think.

Um...

I, I, I don't, I don't know...

I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

It's okay.

Just hang out

with me for a minute.

Please.

- Okay.

Okay.

Just one minute.

That's all you get.

- I wish there was a multiverse.

So that I could be the,

the version of me

that was brave enough to,

to tell you that...

I'm still on fire!

Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Helter?

- King!

He made a sky beam.

A Marvel f*cking sky beam!

Send in Royce!

- He's

already on his way.

- Power's down. Reactor's down.

Four Tims are dead. The

accelerator's still working.

But, uh, Iota is still missing.

It's a three-ring sh*t-show.

f*ck me.

- Um...

Why can we still see through it?

- 'Cause in the

future, we get it working again

and send the energy

backwards, just like the matter.

This has only

been a minor setback.

- Enough!

- Huh?

- What?

- I said, enough!

I am done.

I am, I am out!

Everything has gotten

too, too confusing and too,

too painful, too...

Too sad.

That's it.

I'm, I'm, I'm out.

- You can't leave.

You are Tim Travers!

- Well, at least I'm not you!

- We are all you!

Separated by a few hours.

- Sometimes, a few

hours can change a person.

- Delta!

Got your coffee, Delta.

Keep up with the good work, bud.

And it's the left clamp.

May I have the wrench from you?

The wrench.

The wrench!

- Ow!

- And up!

- Woo!

- I'm where you said to meet.

He's supposed to be

the frickin' expert, man!

Whoa!

- Kingmaker?

Yo, King!

Yeah, yeah. I know, I know.

Disrespectful, incompetent.

Yada, yada, yada, I know.

- He's talking

about Travers, right?

- Hey, it's no problem.

Yeah, I tell you

what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna cut his d*ck

off, and feed it to him.

I'll send you pics when

I'm done, all right?

- There's more than one of

him, or he might be immortal.

He might be a god, man!

- Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

Hey, hey.

Relax.

A few kills under your belt,

and you think it's

gonna be smooth sailin'.

Then...

The guilt sets in.

Can't sh**t guilt!

So, you start seein'

things that aren't there.

Burnout is real.

Right, fellas?

- I swear to

you, I am not crazy.

- Don't worry about it, okay?

We believe you.

In fact, you know

what I'll let you do?

I'll even let you watch.

Would you like that?

- I would like that

very much, please. Thank you.

- Let's try this again.

- Very impressive!

- Need more power!

Ready transition to the grid!

- Oh, f*ck you, man!

- Faster!

- Idiots.

- For the last time, Carol.

I'm not going to harm myself!

It was a different Delilah!

Who I k*lled.

f*ck Tim Travers.

No, I don't mean sexually!

- As I said.

Behind that

door lies our future!

It's like Mom

always used to say.

"You're not a great person, Tim.

Hell, you're not

even a very good person.

But what you are

is a great scientist!"

No matter

how strange or bizarre,

we, we follow the evidence.

Mortal laws no longer apply

to us, and in a few seconds,

even the laws of

nature won't apply anymore!

And I know

that you know I know that

because you know

I know that you know!

Come along.

Let's go unmake history.

Holy sh*t! Oh, oh!

f*ck!

No, hey!

Holy f*ck. We

blew up the universe.

- We can't have destroyed it!

- Then where is it?

- Gone!

- That is impossible.

- Help me!

- What the f*ck about

this day has led you to believe

that anything

could be impossible?

- If

the universe were gone,

then its laws

should be gone, too.

- Why are you

talking about this right now?

- Gravity is still in play.

Where is that coming from,

if there's no more universe?

- Hey, he's right!

- What ar you?

Okay, he's right!

Pull me up!

What the f*ck?

- Who cares where it's coming

from if there's no more Earth?

- I do!

You b*stard!

- You just k*lled Zeta Tim.

- Well, yeah, but I mean,

he was creeping everybody out.

Right?

- Bad, bad. Bad, bad,

bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

- That's, that's it?

That's the paradox?

Just an unending black room?

- Maybe.

But I think not.

Now, stay with me on this.

Imagine the, uh,

two conflicting timelines

are more like

differently charged particles.

- But why would they do that?

- I said, "Stay with me."

Now, the paradox brings the two

differently

charged timelines together,

destroying both and removing

the conflicting information.

- The only

place that information

can be destroyed

is a singularity.

- Exactly!

Black holes reduce

information to max entropy,

which means that the

natural response in nature

to a paradox is a black hole.

- So, we didn't

destroy the universe!

We just created a black

hole in that timeline that

destroyed the Earth and, and

k*lled everyone that we know.

- Oh, boy.

- Hold on, hold on.

If we created a

black hole in that timeline,

then how come Zeta Tim,

when we dropped him in,

could still breathe?

- f*ck off! I don't

know everything, Sigma!

I mean, this week,

I entangled and stored particles

matched them to the

physical space of a door,

invented f*cking time travel,

and may have just found a

new way to create black holes!

So, cut me some f*cking slack!

- I mean, maybe, if

you were able to cheat your way

past the spaghettification

of an, of an event horizon,

then you would be moving

faster than the speed of light

and frozen in time,

relative to the universe.

But you would continue to

perceive the passage of time

as an illusion and just stay

in that state forever, maybe!

- So, Zeta Tim will be

falling through the void,

without aging or

dying, literally forever?

- Well, sh*t.

Now I feel bad.

- An important safety tip.

Nobody ever go the,

the other way through.

- Makes sense to me!

See, kid?

Not magic.

Just power.

- Sorry, but who the hell are...

- Oh!

- Yeah!

Nice work.

Arthritis sets in,

you gotta start delegating,

you know, as you get older.

- If I may, uh...

Is this all about

the stolen plutonium?

- Yeah. It's

about the plutonium.

How the hell do you

forget about plutonium?

- Oh, that I stole.

- It's been a weird day.

- Weird, confusing.

Really, really stupid.

Although, it's

about to get stupider!

Arrogant mortals!

You're tampering

with the very programming

of reality itself!

- Holo-Universe.

f*ck' called it.

- Shut the f*ck up!

- Who the f*ck are you?

- Good question.

- Who

the f*ck do you think I am?

I'm God, you

miserable little shits!

- Now, that's it. I'm done.

If God actually

exists, then I'm out.

Later, everybody.

- Hey! Did you

just let that guy leave?

- I don't understand

what's happening right now!

- Me neither. Uh...

When you say God, do you mean

like, like a god or God, God?

You know? I just,

I have some follow-up questions.

To the statement, "I am God."

- And I think you're

full of sh*t!

- Just to be clear...

He did not speak for the group.

- You idiot!

Hey! I dunno

what's gonna happen now!

- What are you?

- Thought I told you.

I'm the Alpha and Omega that's

about to own your b*tch a*s.

- Oh, you son of a f*ck...

- Yeah!

- Woo!

- Shut up!

Forgot how annoying I am.

- Sorry. Um...

"I"?

- Do you know what

it's like to fall forever?

Unable to starve, unable to die.

You go mad!

You begin to create

new realities in your mind,

so as to not be

so completely alone.

You refine and

perfect each iteration,

until you can run a

simulation so flawless

that from the

frame of the beings within,

the difference between

their reality

and a physical one is semantics.

And you do it over and over,

until a perfect recreation

of your original

reality can be constructed.

That

is how you

achieve God-hood, b*tches.

- So, the universe is just a

simulated reality in your head?

- Yes.

- Based on the reality

that you originated from?

- Yes!

- A reality in which you

were the Zeta Tim that we...

Sorry. He

dropped into a black hole?

- Yes.

- Dude!

- I created this

universe for the sole purpose

of arriving at this very moment.

- To tell us that

you love and forgive us?

- No.

f*ck' why?

- Come on.

- It starts

with the cause. We will stop-

- Weren't you just-

- Yeah. I just

got one of those faces.

I know.

You would not believe the

weird sh*t I have seen today.

ill*gal Canadians coming down-

- You buy me this

drink, and I'll blow your mind.

- As you

know, they can't buy homes-

- Listen, I...

- Live the American

dream, but no, they are poor.

And, uh, you know, my heart

goes out to 'em and my heart-

- Oh, man, that felt good!

Oh, yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

f*ck yeah, f*ck yeah!

f*ck yeah!

Oh!

Ah.

Of course, now I wonder...

- Hm.

Hm.

Yes, apparently it

is possible to k*ll God.

Hm.

Still feel like I'm

forgetting something.

- They're

always screaming at me.

I can't understand 'em. He's

gotta do something about it.

- Can, can I get another one?

Um...

Okay, look.

Travers. Travers!

- Me?

- How could I forget something?

Omnipotence knows no exceptions!

Unless I didn't

create this universe.

I...

I just hacked it.

Which would mean that...

I'm limited.

Just another meek little...

No, no, no!

Well, maybe.

Not for long.

- Do these look even?

Oh!

Oh, that is really getting old.

So, um, about what we

were talking about earlier.

- Hey, thank you.

- Okay, um...

So, so you and that Helter guy

were coming

here to k*ll me because-

- Stolen reactor.

- Stolen reactor, right.

I knew that radio

show was a mistake.

But, but just so I'm clear,

you're not gonna k*ll me now?

- No.

You wanna know the

secret to a long life?

Know your limitations.

The other you

k*lled my men with his mind!

Look. I'm

outta here.

I'm gonna go

home, call my grandkids,

and tell 'em I love 'em.

- Wow! You...

You, you're married?

With, with kids and grandkids?

That's amazing.

- The f*ck's

that supposed to mean?

- Didn't mean to offend, I...

It's just that you're literally

a professional m*rder*r.

I mean, does your

wife know about that?

- She thinks it's hot.

And it is.

- Well...

Good for you, and her.

- Mm.

- Some people are

just meant for love.

Some aren't.

- Ah, bullshit.

Abusers, rapists, drug

dealers, murderers, politicians,

pricks on YouTubes,

worst people imaginable,

most still

find someone to love 'em

in spite of being

worthless f*ck' garbage!

And that includes you.

Now, your problem

is that you don't know

how to love yourself, and

nobody can help you with that,

but you.

Ah!

- I loved myself, today.

- Look, I don't know

what the f*ck that means,

but I'll tell you, you

wanna learn to love yourself,

you've gotta find the

angriest, ugliest part of you

and show that son of a

b*tch they're beautiful.

- You must have

to do that a lot.

- Screw you.

I'm beautiful.

You don't believe

me, just ask my grandkids.

Where you goin'?

- Following your advice.

It's time to meet my maker.

- Hey, you try to talk to

that guy and you're gonna die!

- Wouldn't be the first time.

Oh!

Come on!

Get over it!

That's why I don't tip!

What the hell is that?

- Looks like a buildup

of stacked singularities,

if you ask me.

- That's...

Yeah.

Holy sh*t!

- And I think we know,

say it out loud together,

who's starting these fires.

ill*gal Canadians.

That's right, ill*gal Canadians

coming down from Canada

building themselves these fires,

because as you know,

they can't buy a home.

Look, go grab your

mom, tell her you love her.

- Oh, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

Come on.

Pick up, pick up!

- Hello?

- Hey, uh, Delilah?

Yeah, it's, it's Tim.

The, uh, the,

the time travel guy?

I, uh, I just

wanted to say I'm sorry.

- Oh, this oughta be rich.

- I just wanted you to know that

we're clearly not

going to be a thing, um...

- You seriously

called to tell me that?

- And! And

to apologize.

I know I saw a lot of

ugly versions of myself today,

and I'm pretty

sure you did, too!

So, I'm sorry things

got so out of control,

and I'm sorry that I failed.

It's just something that I do.

I don't know why I do it.

- Honestly, Tim, it's fine.

I mean, it was f*cked up,

but there's a middle ground

between hate and love and...

That's us.

The middle people.

- Thanks. I'm gonna try

and put all this back together.

- I thought you

said you weren't gonna try

to make us a thing?

- No, no, no. I

meant the universe!

- What about it?

- Well, what do you

mean, "What about it?"

Have you looked out your wi...

- Goodbye, Tim, and maybe

try to be nicer to yourself.

Literally.

- Believe it or not,

that is actually the idea.

- f*ck.

- I love you, baby.

- So, that's

how Bigfoot does it.

- I choose not

to believe in that.

- I remember you.

You're the one that said a

few hours can change a person.

Well, you have no

idea how right you were.

Do you know what

it's like to fall forever?

- Skip.

I know the universe is

a creation in your head,

Russian nesting doll

style, and that you're God.

Royce filled me in.

I figured out on the way over

that you

couldn't actually be God

and must've just

hacked the system.

And judging by the unraveling,

I'm guessing you

figured that out, too,

and you're not

taking it very well.

- I'm unmaking this

universe one paradox at a time,

mounting like

gravity into a singular point

that will break

the whole of creation.

- As one does.

- I even m*rder*d the

younger versions of us,

just to get warmed up.

- How did that go?

- Yeah.

Well, there was a lot

of crying, but you know.

Children.

- Damn. Damn,

dude, that, that is dark.

That...

I mean, I mean that

is, that is f*cked up.

Like, even for us.

- Well, tell that to Potato!

- Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

You know what? You're right!

You're right, and now

that I'm, I'm thinking about it,

maybe the

reason that we are so alone

is because we are

all so f*cking awful!

- That's us.

- No.

no, no, no, no, no, no.

That, that's me.

You are

something else, entirely.

Like, I don't know

what eternity did to you,

but whatever it is, it's ugly.

It's childish!

I may be the worst

person in the world, but you,

you scared, small,

whimpering glitch in the system,

you are the worst

version of the worst guy

of all f*cking time!

- Second to none, baby.

- So that's it. That's it?

You're just

gonna burn it all down

until there's nothing

left but a little whining child

having a temper

tantrum because he's lonely?

- Burn, baby, burn!

- Is that really what you want?

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, um...

Sorry. That was

literally building forever.

They left me in a black hole.

They left me

alone, literally forever.

- Yeah, that wasn't cool.

Not that it matters, but

I wasn't a part of that, so...

- Guess that

makes you the best of us.

- Grading on a curve.

What is that?

- Oh, that's the...

That's the center.

The universe never

used to have a center,

but, but now that it's broken,

that's the

center of what's left.

Please?

Let's find out together?

- Why not?

- And you are?

- I am that I am.

I am that which decided that

one plus one would equal two,

that structured the graviton.

I am the

simulator of your universe.

- And a dude.

Delilah owes us five bucks.

- "Dude" is an

oversimplification.

My full aspect simply

exceeds your comprehension.

- Try me.

- All right.

What can I do for you?

- Is there a meaning of life?

- Yes.

- Seriously?

- Yes!

But it has

nothing to do with humans.

The purpose of life is,

uh, um, how do I phrase this,

to maximize a specific numerical

output via this simulation.

I realize that must

be totally wasted on you.

- Not really.

It's like a high score.

- Perfect analogy.

The meaning of existence is

for me to achieve a high score.

Humanity is a randomly

generated background element.

- So, the creator of all things

didn't even have a hand in us?

- But that had to be obvious.

You're not even near the

good part of your own galaxy!

You'd have to be

insane to observe this

and to think that

you somehow had relevance.

- We broke your simulation.

- Unfortunately.

- Then, ipso facto, Tim Travers

is the most important person

in the entire universe, ever.

Hell yeah!

- I hope that

high five was worth it.

And now, I have to

reset this universe.

- What gives you that authority?

- How are you not following

this? I am literally God.

- But what, what

does that mean, exactly?

Like, do you exist

as a part of this world?

Or are you the,

the sentience of all matter?

Or do you exist in a

world apart from this?

- I exist beyond

your comprehension.

- Right, right. Got it.

Another world

that ours is nested in,

is beyond our comprehension,

except that it's not.

So, in that place, what are you?

- I am the Alpha and Omega.

- That is not what I asked, God!

To others like

you, what are you?

You could call me a storyteller.

- What does that mean?

- I create a story and

share it with others of my kind,

for spiritual growth.

And compensation.

- Like, like a novelist?

- In only the

most reductive terms.

- But you have a publisher.

- It's complicated. Uh...

Self-publishing.

- Oh!

He isn't even published!

- So, so, so you're a,

uh, unpublished novelist

who is simulating a, uh...

Wait. Wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait.

A simulation is a game.

But that's, that's

what you meant by high score?

I mean, that's not an analogy!

That's just you

trying to hit the high score

in a management game!

- You exist because I say so!

- You didn't

even make it, did you?

A, a better,

more talented God did.

Then you bought it and

plugged in a bunch of variables

to see what would happen and...

And we are a retail product

for a bored, failed writer!

- Self-publishing is a

respected step

in the literary process.

It is not my fault that you

don't understand the industry!

And you need to show me some

respect, since I can end time.

- "Oh, and I'm Time God!"

Your threat is meaningless.

There are no stakes here!

Just like everything

else, this isn't about you.

- Why are you so...

Mean?

- Well, when you die,

you can ask your creator

for an explanation.

- So, uh, we're gonna

remake the universe, right?

It'll be different.

No more people.

Just physics, math.

Pure, sweet silence.

- You can't be serious!

- Do you even need me here?

- No!

- No!

What's your novel

even about, anyway?

- Oh, um, it's about a rich boy

who finds himself

on the mean streets.

And by "finds

himself", I mean finds himself.

- Stop, stop. Awful, no.

- And I, I don't mean

just like stop talking.

I mean, stop writing.

Go back to what I assume

was a perfectly good IT job,

and be thankful

that you have it.

- Enough!

This universe is over!

And when I

create my next universe,

it'll be so much

neater than this one.

And mostly because...

No Tim Travers.

No whiny little mother...

- Wait.

What happened?

- Oh, I booted him

out of the game.

Don't worry, though.

Guys like him

can't code for sh*t.

- So, about that

whole new universe.

- A universe of me and only me.

- What about everyone else?

- What about them?

Please, name one

person that you met today

that wasn't

just completely awful.

- But then we won't have a

chance to know if we're wrong!

Rapists, abusers, murderers,

politicians, YouTubers.

They're the worst people ever!

Most of them will still find

love, in spite of themselves.

And I know for a

fact that we can, too.

- How do you know?

- Because I did.

It wasn't long, but it ended...

It ended badly.

But for a second

there, I knew what it felt like.

- What did it feel like?

- Felt like...

Coming up for air.

If you've been

holding your breath forever.

- How?

I mean, while none of

us were paying attention,

you just somehow stumbled

into a romantic subplot?

- A few hours

can change a person.

- I wanna believe that...

No. No,

no, no.

All this proves is that

we are different people now.

You found it. I, I didn't.

I...

I won't.

Some people...

Some people are better alone.

Deserve to be alone.

People like me.

People who...

- I love you, Tim Travers.

And I don't

want you to be alone.

But that's up to you, buddy.

- What the f*ck was that?

I...

Oh.

Right.

This again.

I guess it doesn't have to be.

Hm.

Ah, what the f*ck. Why not?

Just...

Just take one

point of infinite energy.

Ah, yes.

And then add will.

Time.

And that should make...

Should get

one

big

ba...

Really?

- My god, what am I doing?

What am I doing?

Come on!

Ow!

Ah!

Ooh!

Ooh!

Oh, what was I thinking?

Oh, my god.

I can't believe

I almost did that.

I've got a date tonight!

Tim, what were you thinking?

Oh!

Hoo!

But on the other hand...

- Dumb a*s!

- f*ck!