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 033 dot LV-1-142 certificate number 36161.

Alligators and the sewers.

Are you there? Mikey, where to shell are you?

What's happening?

I'm in the 39th Street runoff. It got a little hairy back there with my reptile

but I think I lost him.

This has long been basically a crypto zoology podcast.

It's becoming increasingly so.

Increasingly crypto zoological.

Yeah. Like as many people do as time goes on.

I, you know, when I finally graduated from college, it turned out that I had a minor in Russian

lit and I had not pursued that with any intention at all.

It was like, and I said, how is it possible?

At the time they had a lottery and one student every year

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