We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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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 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 837.EX 0-204.

Certificate number 42582, Elizabeth Nietzsche. Gizh I'm going to say it's on time

needs we're gonna hear from Germans who are mad that we're not saying

niz she like the ones they get mad at the Americanized Gerta.

Nits, Nitsia.

But you can't say no American is going to take the time.

We're a busy people.

We've got a frontier to populate.

We're just going to say Nietzsche. Nietzsche.

Although, you remember for years we said Nietzsche.

Yeah, and it led to the, do you know the Nietzsche

the Nietzsche Sartre formulation of philosophy?

Well, Nietzsche is Pichy, but Sartre formulation of philosophy?

Well, Nietzsche is Pichy, but Sartre is Sparta?

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