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Be Here Now (Entry 111.JM0414)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In which an LSD-loving psychologist is fired from Harvard and reborn in India, and Ken would like to be in a control group. Certificate #30296.

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

0:16.0

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

0:21.3

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

0:26.2

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

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

0:35.0

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

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you.

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This is our time capsule.

0:45.0

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 111.

1:15.0

J.M.0414, certificate number 30296.

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Three zero two nine six. Be here now. Have you ever done yoga?

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You know I haven't actually.

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Never.

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I'm getting to the age of what would probably be good for me.

1:42.0

Like it's, I can't, you know, every other exercise at this point would probably kill me.

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So it's time to become a white, a hail white-haired man stepping into his local yoga studio, of which every block in Seattle has three or four.

2:00.0

Mindy does. She has some friends who do yoga. She's been to a few retreat. She doesn't do like, I don't think she does like a weekly class or anything.

2:07.0

But she's been to yoga retreats? Yes, but I think it was just some excuse to go hang out on Bashon with her girlfriends.

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Yeah, that happens a lot. She doesn't drink wine, so I mean...

2:17.7

What else is there? She's missing out on most of the fun of hanging out with middle-aged women.

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But she does do yoga now.

2:24.0

I don't drink wine and I am missing out on the fun of hanging out with middle-aged women too.

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