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. Oh, You have accessed entry 605.co 0203, certificate number 41705.

Alexander Von Humboldt. I was in Berlin this summer as I think we established if you're listening to these in alphabetical order

you've already heard that on the gold hats entry. Were you riding on the metro?

It's called the Ubon. Right.

What is that song?

Uh, it's by the band Berlin.

Oh, Berlin.

Oh, right.

But it's actually...

I only know the Top Gun song by Berlin but the train in the song is actually in Paris.

Oh well that explains why it's called the metro I did she was on a Paris train she

emerged in London rain and you were waiting there. I was not in fact. I was in Berlin.

But I saw Zoo Station the oh yeah the famous U-Bahn stop that became a U-2, yeah the first song on Achtung Baby.

The museum that has the gold hats

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