We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

this is our legacy to you.

This is our time capsule.

This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 606.

606.

L. 724. certificate number 29573.

101 uses for a dead cat. Finally, this show is going to have some useful information on it.

I had thought, I had thought the other day that we need to do some of these weird fad humor

paperbacks of the era but I forgot we had already done one the official

preppy handbook has already been in the omnibus but from the same period

came a bunch of other quickly, you know, hugely

faddish and successful and then overnight clogging up used bookstores.

Exactly. Kind of trend humor books. Yeah how to feed

your pet rock or whatever I'm sure there are one billion of them in landfills. I

almost did real men don't eat Kish.

Oh, we ought to do.

And I started reading it for, you know, for the first time.

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