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 447. J.B.1616, certificate number 41907, Faces of Death Is this your spooky Halloween show?

Is this your spooky Halloween show?

Halloween?

Halloween.

All good-hearted people say Halloween with the Halloween. Halloween. Halloween with the...

Halloween.

With the... a short day.

We hear say Halloween in the northwest.

I don't know where you're from, Korea or something.

You think it's a regionalism?

I think so. Halloween. Do you do you hollow

things instead of hallow them? I mean I ask you hollow out the pumpkin. I do hollow.

This is how why it's called hallowing. There's very there are very few things in the

world like hallow.

What's the problem with you that you don't hallow enough things?

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