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C-Day (Entry 198.MT2527)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In which the U.S. military battles black marketing and currency destabilization by paying Korea- and Vietnam-era servicemembers in play money, and John learns about a 1990s fad for the first time. Certificate #46965.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:07.0

We are receiving this message.

0:11.0

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 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.

0:43.4

This is our time capsule.

0:45.4

This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 198.

1:15.0

M.T. 2527.

1:19.1

Certificate number 46965.5.

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See day.

1:25.0

Attention all personnel.

1:27.0

Scripp Exchange will begin in one minute.

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Proceed in a common orderly fashion to the exchange table.

1:33.6

C-Day, the day before D-Day.

1:38.6

Right, that's what it sounds. It's not C-Day like C-org. And it's not C day like Corg, and it's not it's not C day to C, but it's capital C.

1:48.0

The letter C. So that's when you write a letter to your mom or sweetheart put a Bible in your

1:54.2

jacket so over your heart so if a bullet hits you on D day you know it's it's it's

1:58.4

D day Eve well you know it is not D day stands for day day I Day Day. I learned that recently. There's H-hour and D-Day.

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