We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

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. Okay. You have accessed entry 467. J.E. 2402 certificate number 40170. Figuit.

It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came.

One of you must do this.

We've talked about this before, but when did you first get on the internet? 1990, late 92, I guess,

Oh, wow.

Freshman year of college, everybody got an email address in the early 90s at at forward thinking institutions.

So early 92? There's no web, but suddenly you had an email address that maybe your computer science professors would use.

And I was shocked to see you could use it to, I could email my family in Singapore and it would...

Oh, did I say the computer word?

He said the C word and the Alexa went off. I'm going to unplug that thing. Oh no, because they use it. They use it in this house.

Yeah, to do diabetes medications. People will literally die if you unplug that. No, no, there's like a drop-in function where basically this house, which was made in the 50s, has intercoms. It does have intercoms in every room. It has intercoms but instead they use the Alexa.

Yeah that's the only thing we use the Alexa for is to be like kids it's time for dinner.

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