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What Could Have Been

Peter Fatouros

Welcome to what could have been, a podcast where I interview alternate versions of myself that are calling in from across the multiverse. We look at where our universes diverged from one another & how their histories played out compared to ours. 


I'm Simon Peterson, your host doing the interviewing with alternate versions of myself from different timelines. We'll start with the point where we diverged from one another, & we'll explore each other's histories so that we can really understand What Could Have Been if we'd made different choices along the way.


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  • 24 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 1 hr 14 min
  • English

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  • S2 · E5
    September 1 · 2 hr 32 min

    Episode 2x05 - Y2K

    What If We Hadn't Been Ready for Y2K?

  • August 30 · 43 sec

    Y2K Trailer

    In the last seconds of 1999, the world counted down to a new year, a new century & a new millennium. When the clocks & calendars flipped over to 2000, the world celebrated, cheered & partied like it wasn't 1999 anymore. Couples kissed, strangers kissed, music played, fireworks went off, & all around the world, a legion of computer programmers breathed a sigh of relief went nothing went wrong. Of course, the reason that nothing went wrong was because they had spent the last few years making sure that every computer on Earth that kept track of the date was Y2K compliant. Years earlier, it had been discovered that a tiny little detail that was used to make the earliest computers run faster was now set to make computers go crazy when the calendar rolled over to 2000. Thankfully, their hard work & long hours paid off as the century changed with hardly a bug or glitch. But what if they hadn't been able to work fast enough? What if they didn't have the manpower or the resources to fix everything. What if when the ball dropped to usher in the new century, countless computers got confused & could no longer keep track of what they were doing? What if the computers that governed banks, power grids, traffic lights & the stock market all had a digital coronary & no longer knew what they were doing? What would happen to a timeline where Y2K wasn't patched in time for the Year 2000? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 15 · 34 min

    Interlude 6 - Primer

    In our second mid-season interlude, a Simon who calls no particular timeline home has just helped a wealthy client start a new life in a new timeline where accusations of certain financial improprieties won't be able to follow him. What did he ALLEDEGELY do? Why does this timeline have so many milk alternative options? Why is sea level climbing so fast? Why is the Moon being settled so fast, & will Simon manage to get out before his quasi-legal gateway closes? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • July 15 · 21 min

    Interlude 5 - Exploration Report

    In this Interlude, we follow a Simon Peterson who's leading an Interdimensional Council exploration team to a timeline that was devastated decades ago. What will he find? What's left? What does the Interdimensional Council want with this timeline? Is the bridge safe to cross? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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