You missed the part of our conversation where our universe may not be the only one. It may not be the first, there may be as many or more than there are galaxies. We may have been seeded from a preexisting one. Which would make time proceed the big bang, and the one that proceeded us, and the one hat proceeded that one. And this cycle has always been and will be perpetual with no beginning and no end.
There is no evidence for multiverses. And the concept of a recycling universe is just an infinite regression which attempts to revive the discredited theory of an eternal steady state universe.