We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

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 106.

P.R. 21505.

Certificate number 47159.

Beanie Babies.

So what is it about the beanie babes that's sending Americans into a spending frenzy?

They just became crazy about them in the United States because they were an

inexpensive item you could pick up at the mall for your child and now they're

become collector's items. Yesterday you texted me a picture of a Russian nesting doll that had as its largest and highest level

Mikhail Gorbachev.

Yes.

And you said, do you want this?

And I texted you back a picture of...

You said, I'll put it on my...

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