I can't stop watching her videos. Her intellect and beauty is off the charts and so entertaining!

I love Karl! I also love your takes on his actual, occasional genius

You should do the full episodes and also "Meet Karl Pilkington"

I don't think I would change anything because I love my children. If I were to go back to observe something though, I would probably go and revisit my time that I lived with my grandmother just for the ability to see her again. Nothing to gain nothing or lose just the ability to see a moving picture of someone who was very important to me

I like you, self conscious, smart , philosophical, mature and an open mind. Whatever happens after you do these videos I hope you are a success in life and do something that you enjoy and gets the best out of you ))

ok. i'll pose one. when i was 15 we came home from Georgia on our way to Vicenza, Italy. this was the last time i got to see my grandfather alive. i'd pop in and watch that once more.

Even "Back to the Future", a popcorn blockbuster, deals with the grandfather paradox.

I'm pretty sure that MOST people would change something in their past. Thanks 😀

Grandfather Paradox is like what almost happened in Back to the Future.

She has a beautiful smile, laugh and is intelligent. Defo simping over here.

Absolutely love your reactions

Nice analysis! The Grandfather reference is very good! It's along the lines of Schrodinger's Cat Box. I've never checked out Rant. I'll have to order one in a hard copy, just to have it on hand, should things go sideways on electricity. Back to to the subject: Karl's way of thinking is so simple that it makes so much sense. I still own (2) of his books, and they still keep me entertained. I think the best live video of him, was when he was riding upon a camel.

I’d go back and see my grandmother. She died when I was one so I know she held me, I just don’t remember. I’d go see her so I’d have one memory. From what everyone says she was wonderful.

I love that he mentions mistakes and what can be learned from them. If you like who you are as a person today, then you should at least appreciate all of your experiences that got you to this point, the good and the bad tapestry that is your life.

Love your channel. Love your smile. 😎👍💙

I love the Ricky Gervais show! Ricky and Karl are a perfect match

Just found your channel. LOVE IT!

Man, I really enjoy your channel. I share a lot of the same thoughts and similar views. I've often thought about going back in time, would I give myself advice, observe a moment or even relive a moment. I don't think I would. My life changed when I was graduating high school and I got a dog as a graduation present. He got parvo at 4 months old and needed some care afterward, it also gave him horrible separation anxiety due to the week he spent getting intravenous fluids at the veterinary hospital. I had been on the fence about joining the army(like everyone in my family for generations) or getting a job and paying for school at home. He tipped the scale back to staying home for the time being. I found out about a year later I have CIDP(chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy). I would not be able to join the infantry or do Ranger school and eventually I couldn't even join at all due to random tremors and numbness. I always tell myself "things turn out how they're supposed to." It's something my dad often says but looking back he's kinda right. Would I have gone down the same career path? I like to think so but who really knows?

5:20 this reminds me of pretty much every sci-fi YA romance novel I've ever had the displeasure of reading, only slightly more thought out and certainly better presented.

I actually have this conversation with my friends at different times in their lives and and it blows their mind because I then fast forward to today and say now we didn’t have this conversation because you didn’t do what you did the first time to get here.

OMG -- this is the first time I've watched any of these -- and that segment of the "Supernatural" video with the disapproving cat, that nearly killed me :-)

the alt ending is awesome

Rant is my favorite Palahniuk book. Great rec!

4:04 I could definitely think of a few times when I've lost something or something weird happened I wasn't completely sure of what it was, getting to observe it could clear up some questions

If I could turn back time, If I could find a way I'd take back those words that have hurt you, And you'd stay. - Cher

I like the way Michael Crichton handled it in his books "Timeline" and "Sphere". Love me some Michael Crichton!!! "Eaters of the Dead" is one of my all-time favorites. Along with "Le Morte d'Arthur" and "The Safehold Series". You, Young Lady, are a pleasure to watch. You remind me of a statement by Lisa Kudrow, "life got so much harder when I decided to quit playing dumb". You have the looks but you use your brain anyway. Kudos. (blowing no smoke, much too old for you)

I like how you used to say “I’ll link it in the bio“ but now it’s called “show notes.“

Cool content, makes you think.

My favorite intro.❤

Time travel paradoxes is usually arise from the idea that time is like a single railroad track. However, even hypothetically, if you could travel back in time, your very presence implies that you have branched off into an alternate timeline than the one from your own past. My favorite use of time travel in fiction was a short science fiction murder mystery. The killer had a time machine and was able to escape the building where he committed the murder by going back in time and traveling down in an elevator that was going up. A very clever detective figured this out and caught him.

‘Karl’s diary’🙏

Please consider watching the whole show , i would love seeing your reactions

"Karl Pilkington gets annoyed" is a short video of Karl, Ricky, and Steve with Karl putting things into perfect perspective.

The grandfather question sounds like the old Zen question "... show me your original face, before your mother and father were born."

I’d go back in time and teach myself about free market capitalism, economics, and financial responsibility. I was not exposed to those concepts until well too late in life.

😆 I think the butterfly effect is more important to butterflies 🦋 Best animation ever.

the Ricky Gervais show was amazing!! do you ever do music? I think you should check out falling in reverse - zombified

Honestly, I would love to go back in time and start my whole life again from high school.

4:56 - 5:55 I'd be 100% down for that if it meant I get a scene where I'm doing Eddie Van Halen-like tapping on an electric guitar at a school dance to everyone's shock. And then I say something like "I guess you guys aren't ready for that, but your kids are gonna love it" :D

We can go back in time: photographs, dreams, diaries, scrapbooks, etc. And just memories. Really all good enough.

I have grandchildren, I would never wish to change what I've done. Any change in my life would possibly negate theirs, and that is just not acceptable.

the observe part seems interesting. i've always wanted to see myself in third person

I've lived through a lot of weird, bad, embarassing and painful things, but even if I wish I had not have to live through the things or wish that I could go back and change it, I don't think I would Thinking of those things it is easy to see that I would have missed out on a lot of experiences, wisdom and understanding.. when I inevitably will find myself in the same kinds of situations, without the experience I would probably make the same mistakes that I did in my past and also be struck much harder from the painful things, which I've learned to handle and accept through those experiences Time travel is way more paradoxical than just the grandfather paradox, it is more like anything u do in the past to the power of the butterfly effect.. every single second in the past will change the lives of everyone around u, they might just give u a glance while passing u by on the street and it will inherently lead to every single action that they make in the rest of their lives being out of sync of the timeline that they would otherwise live in, and it would lead to them similarily changing the lives of everyone that they come in contact for the rest of their lives, putting their lives out of sync with their timeline What it would mean is that every single person that were affectd in any way by any action starting with the time traveler would then have the wrong sperm winning the race when a couple decides to have children, so it would be entirely different people in the world.. thus it would be entirely impossible to time travel without creating another reality entirely The only possibility for a "safe" time travel would be the multiverse theory where another dimension entirely is created if the timeline is changed, that means the timeline u meant to change will not be changed and everything will remain as it is there, but u create another timeline where u will continue to live in from that point.. if that would be the case, u won't be able to return to the future since the future is never created until one timeline has gotten there by the "normal" flow of time and it would only be possible to go back in time

You seem very intelligent, and such a natural beauty too. Im gonna watch this space for sure :)

I would go back and change a few things. The act of actually going back in time, I think would be included in my time continuum because otherwise the opportunity to do so wouldn't be an option I guess. In my opinion, I think it depends on who you ask. I live with bipolar disorder so I would do whatever I could to understand my condition better.

All the things you went through, all your experiences, make you the person you are today. I would love to time travel to different periods, not interfere, but actually see what they were like and not what history or archeologist say they think they were like.

I pretty much answer this though process the same way as Carl did. I don't want to change anything that happened to me or whatever I did, good or bad. For whatever decisions I made at any point in time I had enough amount of data and information or felling to make me do whatever I did. So let's just leave it there. Loved this one

You're magnificent, that you're aware of Karl and actually get that he's profound in his simple mind. I side with Karl pretty much all the time but then he told a story that his girlfriend caught him using a knife in a toaster or something about cooking beans in a toaster, it was something incredibly stupid and dangerous and I was like, damn he really is dumb, but profound in the common sense reasoning when he explains things.

I get where he's coming from, but I definitely have a couple of things I'd change! Now if you asked if i wanted to have perfect recall of everything that had happened in my life, I might not be as keen!

Professor Brian Cox on the possibility of time travel: mind = blown.

Back to the future

This makes the most sense to me that I saw: If we could travel back in time and change the past, what would happen to the future?

I wouldn’t change anything either. When you were talking about the grandfather it made me think of the episode of futurama “Roswell that ends well”. Actually a lot of similarities

I wouldn't go back and change anything because I like who I am and I like my life. Any change even a tiny one could make things drastically different. I would however go back and watch my life as a ghost. It would be very interesting to see how correct my memory really is.

This is the theory I love behind "The Umbrella Academy"

Karl wasn't being asked to go back in time to change anything. He was offered the chance to go back and just be able to watch or observe something, but he didn't want to do that either. There are things I would like to see again, for sure. Listen to the actual question at 0:12 cheers all

I would want to observe, just so I can remember from two different points of view and to recall what I've forgotten. I suspect I would come out of it a humbler and wiser person. I dislike forgetting anything.

I would say going back in time could only be possible if we were living in a 'many worlds' reality. Paradoxes such as the grandfather one would be avoided because a new parallel universe would be created the moment you travelled back and altered the past.

If I mess up the sequence of events leading to my birth, then I can't go back in time to mess things up because I never existed. That's the paradox I guess? I think I'd be more interested in how this hypothetical universe where time travel is possible, it stops me from breaking the "time line". Makes me also think about the impossibilities of knowing the time/place of your death ahead of time, as that paradoxically makes you immortal until that point

My Grandfather never had a pair of Docs, he was a Brogues man.

The movie(s) "Back to the Future" is all about that "grandfather" paradox. It´s a great (and funny) movie about time travel. Recommend to watch.

I could imagine wanting to go back to times where I had an argument with someone and it didn't get resolved or emotions were involved. I'd want to listen what they said and maybe, as an "outsider" in that moment, understand their point of view better. I don't know, just something that popped in my head. You could learn from yourself and the other person. So purely in function of clarity. About changing stuff, that would depend entirely on the fact whether my own timeline gets changed or not. For example, I could go back to a moment where an old lady wanted to cross the road, but I ignored her and kept walking. Now I go back and help her. Only to get run over and end in a wheelchair myself. That would kinda kill the mood.

No Protocol Girl: “Hey! No intro. Let’s start” Me: “This girl gets me” No Protocol Girl: *talks philosophy* Me: *falls in love*

How can anyone say Karl is stupid. How can someone stupid make you rethink everything you ever thought you knew in every single sentence he says.

Their time travel question doesn't challenge people's true feelings/motivations though... A slightly more probing hypothetical would be, "if you had a machine that could make you experience all alternate realities/versions of yourself & know the decisions they made to become better than your current self... after experiencing better (smarter, wiser etc) versions of yourself would you use the machine to change the decisions you made that robbed you of a better future/version of yourself? (A bit long winded of a question, l know, but forgive & indulge me 😂) The problem with the initial time machine question is most people who say, "l wouldn't change anything..." think they are better presently for having gone through their mistakes/trauma because they learnt lessons (they assume they are better because of their mistakes). I'm arguing that if these people could experience better versions of themselves who got the exact same lessons but without going through the same trauma, they wouldn't be so quick to say "l wouldn't change a thing." Because at that point to say you wouldn't use the machine to avoid needless pain is essentially being a glaton for pain/a masochist of a sort. It's easier to say you wouldn't change anything when you can't see the better versions of yourself you are potentially giving up.🤷🏾‍♂️

Futurama answered the grandfather paradox in the episode “Roswell that Ends Well.”

Please do Meet Karl Pilkington I and II

If the scenario is you can only observe, I wouldn't want to go back and see my past self. If I could affect changes to see what would have happened if I had made different choices, that I would love to see. I would need to have access to some kind of reset button as well so I could continue existing. I wouldn't want to accidentally blink myself out of existence only to be replaced by another me that didn't know what I knew before I created him. Hope this makes sense.

This is why I loved the Twilight Zone. The stories were actually head scratcherss

My favorite Karl was him not wanting to travel to where he might eat frog legs then maybe end up liking the taste of frog legs and then not being able to find frog legs back in the UK making him so sad so the best decision is to not travel at all. Karl is a simple genius❤. Peace/JT

Absolutely would change things if I went back, but if it is a time machine I'd choose to go in the future so I know what is coming.

I am assuming the butterfly reference was to A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury? not sure what the earthquake part was about.

The actual animated podcasts are only 25 minutes, approx.

Do you watch Netflix? There's a German series called Dark that deals with time travel and infinite time loops. Very interesting series that you might like. Love your reactions!!!

Wouldn’t it become a causality loop. Grandpa doesn’t meet grandma, you’re not born, so you don’t stop them from meeting . They meet, you’re born, you stop them from meeting. Over and over. Until something breaks the cycle.

History is always written by the winner and glorified. We can not even agree on what really is happening to day, but most of us is pretty sure that what the history books say happen 1000 years ago did happen. So i would use time travel to visit a lot of great civilizations that lost to see what it really was. But the very first thing i would do is to travel back and make sure disco and jazz never developed.. lol

DEFINITELY! Definitely I'd go back and change things! Holy shit I could have a much much better life and be massively happier if I hadn't made some stupid stupid mistakes. Those saying they wouldn't, in my opinion, must be absolutely mad or stupid, OR perfectly happy. If so, good for you may your happiness continue.

For the grandfather paradox, I think that any visit that will occur from the future to the past has already happened. So nothing changes.

I like to see what writers would have characters respond to things we as humans in the "real" world ponder from time to time. 🤣🤣. most of the situations I've seen like that are hilarious.🤣👍👍. as far as literature I've only read three books all the way through. catcher in the rye, 20000 leagues under the sea and a book by Rory feek "This Life I live"

I can look back at my life (like I think most people can) and see a few major decisions I've made that I wish I had made differently. However, changing one tiny thing 30 or so years ago would change everything since (butterfly effect of course). I wouldn't be married to my wife ... I wouldn't have my kids. Those things are unacceptable to me. So I wish I had made those decisions differently, but if I somehow had the chance, I would never change a thing.

If you like time travel books that explore similar ideas I recommend The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.

While we romanticize the idea of going back, in person or ghosted, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea. Even the tiniest change could have enormous effects on the future (Chinese butterfly/Chicago hailstorm tenet). Also, going back to observe what we cherish as a happy event could prove to be just a banal occurrence causing us to question our whole internal memory map. Then there’s that multiverse thing where everything that could happen has….

I feel like the divergent timeline theory would make most sense. You inadvertently create a new time line every time you time travel. So you can never return to the time line in which you left.

its like the ashton cutcher movie the butterfly effect

Pretty sure if we ever invent time travel in future, we'd have already known about it since forever, and the people that come from the future would retrospectively bring the technology or knowledge back to grab whatever power it inevitably would unleash, this would basically cause everything in terms of future technological breakthroughs to effectively exist all at once, and we'd start talking about future events in the past tense "Hey, see this? They call it a bohikimoturadomator and it was invented a long time in the future in 3247". Then when we get to 3247, we need to make sure somebody remembers how to 'invent' all the things that have new been obsolete and redundant for over a thousand years, and send them back in time, just to ensure the existence of all the new technology that's since been invented, creating a paradoxically perpetual loop. Unless it involves building some kind of 'receiver' and therefore you cannot go back beyond the time the first 'receiver' is constructed, but once it's constructed, similar chaos explodes.

You should try reacting to James Acaster‘s comedy routine about the British empire.

Multiverse. Going back in time and changing anything would result in you traveling down a different path that would in face be a parallel universe where you did make those changes....and if you killed your grandfather, it would in fact be a parallel universe grandfather and you would continue to exist.

Exactly - Kidda, cant change the past, can't foresee the future - live in the here and now. Buddha said this and I'm sure many others before or since.

Karl is a utilitarian pragmatist stuck in a show with two creative dreamers.

The youtube algorithm sucks! I missed like 6 of your videos

A great time travel book is The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.

It's like going to Disneyland it's great the first time, so it's been there, done that kind of thing, I don't need to go back. I do like the original movie "The Time Machine" and the 2002 remake though.

I wouldn't change a thing, I don't think much about the past, or the future.

Anyone that says that they wouldn't change the past has never done anything that's truly worth regretting. Imagine killing your kids in a DUI or starting a wildfire that destroys a city killing 1000s. Would you ever change that?

Oh yeah I would change a lot of shit, cuz trust me I'm not happy where I am right now at all, I don't need to experience horrible experiences to learn from "mistakes".

Please please please react to An Idiot Abroad……. Karl is put in very uncomfortable situations. Epic. New subscriber and loving how smart and well spoken young lady you are. Love your sciences and history reactions

I would have no interest in re-living, by experience or observation, an event from my past as that person built the person I am today. It is wasted energy to dwell on past or future events, because the past is in your memories and the future is in your imagination. I choose to focus on the here and now as we may not be granted a tomorrow and the past no longer exist.

Have to say I love Karl's approach - brilliant. Just feck it, move on, live today. Speaking of past though, looking at the picture behind you I've been trying to figure out all of them - I see Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Tom Petty?? or John Lennon can't tell, Mr Mojo Risin, Janice Joplin and Bob Marley...I'd go back and see all of them! Book recommendation - not changing time or the past but certainly looking at it differently - Time's arrow by Martin Amis.

Inadvertently philosophical would make a great face tattoo 😂😂 need a wide face tho I guess

I think I would like to observe all the possible versions of my life that could have been. What if I'd married that girl in my youth that I always regretted not going with. Or what if I'd taken that job. Maybe then I could feel better about my "real" life and not regret so much about what I did or did not do.