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 129.

P.S. 1828.

Certificate number0165.

Blackout 77.

Good evening I'm Larry Kane.

Our big story on eyewitness news is the live picture you see directly behind me.

Suddenly light and brightness out of a 24

hour darkness, the bright patchwork of the second night of the great New York

Energy crisis of 1977. When I think about it now I realize that I should have named my band

Blackout 77 like back in 1991. It sounds like some disaster movie that has

you know some 70s it's got Steve McQueen and it's got Betty Davis yeah

blackout 77 but what a cool like punk rock band name that would have been

there's probably already a band called blackout 77 there's not, don't start one because I've got Dibs on the name.

You just said Dibs and legally nobody can do it now.

That's right. Dibs, it's legal. It's a it's that's universal maritime law.

Babius, Dibis.

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