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 access entry 363.

H.E.1017.

Certificate number 2 89.

Dissociative fugues.

If we talk for too long, I'll forget how we started.

Next time I see you, I'm not going to remember this conversation. I don't even know if I've met you before.

I'm in one right now. You're in a scandinavian apparently.

Desistive figs. We recently put daytime soap operas into the omnibus for the first time.

We did. And I think we might even have mentioned that amnesia is a popular trope on these kind of melodramatic cereals.

Right, of course.

Second only to identical cousins.

Well, or identical cousins that have amnesia.

Even better.

Yeah, lots of people coming back from the dead often,

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