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 022.J3132, certificate number 368

3809. An African in Greenland.

Hello, Hanu I'm Pete.

I know, I know.

It's serious.

That doesn't even scan. It's become like a tick for me to

Morrissey everything. I do that with anything that has the rhythm of

where wolves of London.

Oh.

Like if there's a sign that says like

veggie samoses, I'll be like veggie

semosis and there's a few others including some that are just so short that I

don't even know what like I think there's a two-syllable one I do and I don't even know what that would mean.

Yeah, it's a trigger. I don't have any of those with you though.

What do you mean? Well, I don't, when I think, when I think Ken Jennings, it doesn't.

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