Ep 149: Dan, Susan, Micah Hanks, and Missing Time
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
– Albert Einstein
Background:
As we often say on the show, if you haven't had a strange, paranormal experience, it's likely someone you know has. This happens to be the case with two college friends of Forrest, Dan Povenmire and Susan Lambert. In the mid-1980s, Susan was working as a reporter for the student newspaper of The University of Southern California, The Daily Trojan. She had asked Dan if he wanted to accompany her to an interview with a movie director. They set out on a drive that should only have taken no more than 40 minutes to complete. But upon arriving at the hotel where the director was giving interviews, learned that they were somehow around 3.5 hours late. This seeming impossibility has baffled Dan ever since and fueled a search for answers. But to add to the mystery, this wouldn't be the only unexplainable experience of missing time, as the pair would encounter another episode during a subsequent car ride together. And like with the first trip, each would remember a few odd sights during it that the other didn't recall. While unexplainable disruptions in time are rare, many people have reported experiencing a disturbing wrinkle in the fabric of time which we trust should always be smooth. Just what is going on when something so seemingly fixed and unalterable as the passage of time fluctuates? In the latter portion of the show, writer, field researcher, and podcaster Micah Hanks joins us for a discussion on some possible theories as to what might be happening scientifically with the phenomenon of Missing Time.
Location:
The University of Southern California, where Dan and Susan left to conduct an interview for the school newspaper, The Daily Trojan and ended up missing nearly 3.5 hours of time during their car ride.
Reference Links:
Susan Lambert’s media and stage production company, 134 West
Dan Povenmire’s hit animated series for the Disney Channel, which he co-created, Phineas and Ferb
Dan also voices one of the characters for his show, the mad scientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
Another show created by Dan and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, Milo Murphy’s Law
Find Micah Hanks’ podcast, The Gralien Report here: https://www.gralienreport.com/podcasts/
“The Liverpool Time Slips and Mysterious Occurences in Bold Street” from Medium.com
Stephen Hawking and “Before the Big Bang 5: The No Boundary Proposal”
The Daily Trojan, the University of Southern California’s student newspaper
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CREDITS:
Episode 149: Dan, Susan, Micah Hanks, and Missing Time. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel; Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2019 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.