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Fort Knox (Entry 493.2CH0913)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In which a World War I army camp in northern Kentucky is chosen to house over $200 billion in gold bullion, and Ken proposes nationalizing America's safety deposit boxes. Certificate #2504.

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0:00.0

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.

0:21.0

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:25.5

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you.

0:43.4

This is our time capsule.

0:45.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 493.2 CH 0913, certificate number 250 2504.

1:23.0

Fort Knox.

1:25.0

But of course,

1:28.0

his government's given you a bomb.

1:30.0

I prefer to call it anatopic device. It's small but particularly dirty.

1:35.4

Cobalt and iodine? Precisely.

1:38.0

Well if you explode it in Fort Knox the entire gold supply of United States will be radioactive for

1:47.0

57 years. 58 to be exact. I apologize Goldfinger.

1:54.0

It's an inspired deal.

1:56.0

Yeah, just the way you said it.

1:58.0

It makes me excited.

1:59.0

Yeah, are you a, are you a, uh, numismatist or a numismatist? A coin collector is that right?

2:07.6

I am not I dis I'm what's the opposite of that I'm a numismophobe. I don't like having coins.

2:14.0

Really? As soon as I get a coin in my pocket, I'm unhappy. They jingle.

2:18.4

Yeah. That your pants kind of hang weird. They do jingle. Your pants do hang weird,

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