Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Yeah.

There's images of like Maya rulers and gods and things smoking cigars.

Okay, so here's the thing about time travel, and you might find this sort of surprising to coming from an archaeologist.

Like, the past is a terrible place.

Like, I... People sometimes ask me, like, oh, would you want to get in a time machine and go back and such?

I might go back if it was, like, a hermetically sealed bubble.

They can't see me.

No one can hurt me.

Nothing.

I can't get sick.

Maybe.

Maybe, right?

Maybe for, like, five minutes, ten minutes.

But really, I would never want to go back because it's...

the odds of getting killed or getting sick, some sort of horrible disease, something happening, uh, too high.

Uh, I really, yeah, I would not want to, I don't want to see that stuff.

Nope.

I mean, I would, I would, as I said, if I could see it and never be seen, um, never, never interact with anybody, but just like, you know, view it and be completely safe maybe.

But other than that, no way it's, it's, uh,

Okay, well, the thing is, is like, you can't really get, my archaeologists are just academics more generally, right?