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 one to one dot D.A.

0 403.

Certificate number 50861.

Billboard's.

What's all on what you can and cannot say on a billboard?

I assume you can't say nothing defamatory and you can't say fuck

be or k-kunt that right or?

Or...

I think I'll be all right then.

You can tell a lot about a place by its billboards.

That's true. There is no wall drug around here and I never see a billboard for it.

And so you never think, the town of Wall South Dakota pretty much exists because of those

billboards.

That was an early success of the American Billboard enterprise in the 1920s.

They basically created a town by putting up a bunch of signs and said

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