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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

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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 215. 1c14.1c14.13 certificate number 5725.

Chinnuk Janauk Jars. certificate number 5725.

Chinook Jargan.

All the nike, Econum, Kavam Kavik.

Clueschmusikovara.

Cluesh meikowawa.

All of us yakam et cetera.

You're northwesterner and you, uh...

Born and bread.

Yeah, you, uh, you're familiar with the fact that like a lot of regions in the United States we have a lot of Native American place names here.

Yes, maybe more so than other places or maybe they just stick out to me because of their they're fun to say.

Yeah in New England there are a lot of places that are named for you know the sort of

of original Native American names and those are fun to say too. They are. Connecticut.

Never against it. Right. And I think that's probably true in the southwest. I mean all

across the United States really one of the one of the things we did as we pushed the inhabitants off the

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