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 214.R. 0116, certificate number 3.1.3.3.3.1016.

Certificate number 3.1387.

Chick Tracks. in the soul cleansing blood of the land.

I've said for some time that I wanted to add chick tracks to the omnibus.

Yeah, it's one of your favorite things, chick tracks.

I learned that about you.

You read them all the time.

It's the only thing I've read.

It's the basis of your whole life philosophy.

I don't read books, magazines and newspapers are all gone.

I just I have nothing but chick tracks.

Although chick tracks are books and magazines.

They're an odd rectangular shape that is neither book nor magazine shapes.

It seems like they're the same shape as an instruction booklet if you bought a remote control car.

That's the appeal of them. You're like, hey, I really want to build this crystal radio. Oh, no, Satan. Our

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