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 276 dot PS 8015, certificate number 22560.

Coppassing.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree

and climb black branches up a snow white trunk toward heaven till the tree could bear no more,

but dipped it stop and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back.

One could do worse than be a swinger of virtues.

Copassing. I think this might be the first time you have told me what an omnibus entry was going to be and I didn't know the word.

Yeah, that's right. It's a new word for you. I said is this about mountain climbing?

Uh-huh. That was my guess. Now I don't want to spoil anything. It is not about mountain climbing.

Now people are going to be disappointed. I suggested a new more interesting topic.

Ah, well we can always do mountain climbing, although we've done a mountain climbing episode, except if you were fixated on a bunch of dead people.

The guy fell off the mountain. What was I supposed to do? A lot of them did, right? Or some of them didn't fall off the mountains. I was thinking of our Arian Superman who disappeared into Afghanistan.

So a lot of mountain climbing actually has made it into the omnibus.

Just no successful mountain climbing. A lot of the kind of early stages of climbing the mountain.

But no, Kopposing is not about mountain climbing. It is about, well, I guess you could call it a form of permaculture, although that is a new term, and

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