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Blue Fugates (Entry 137.DA1006)

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In which a rare oxidized form of hemoglobin changes the skin color of a whole holler full of Kentuckians, and Ken wonders when elves got plastic surgery. Certificate #26015.

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0:00.0

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

0:25.5

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. These recordings represent

0:29.8

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.

0:43.4

This is our time capsule.

0:45.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 137 dot DA 106 certificate number 26015.

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26015 Blue fugates.

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A.

1:27.0

Are you crazy?

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Are you crazy?

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Are you blue?

1:33.0

Only in color, Michael.

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Only in color.

1:37.0

Do you have a sense that people elsewhere in the world do the thing that we do here in America where we say, oh I have people in Georgia or I have people in Massachusetts.

1:48.0

Is that a coinage?

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I have people.

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I have people in North Korea. I have people in... I don't actually say I have people. Oh, you don't. I would think of that as pretty regional and I would think of, I don't know where I think of it is being, is it a southern? It sounds southern. It does sound southern. I have people in blankity blank.

2:05.2

Because when I say it, I use that to mean my employees.

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I have people out in the garden.

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