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 525 dot PR2606, certificate number 51969. German telegrams.

I have a telegram for Head Detweiler.

I am Heetweiler.

Yes, sir. All right, you've delivered your telegram now get out

You're absolutely right that every German phrase ends with an upturned lilt as though phrased as a question.

I'm some kind of shocked Prussian military officer.

Telegram?

I'm just shocked.

Yeah.

This is... Are we covering every German telegram? Every single

telegram that's ever come out of Germany. Fortunately, there were only four.

No, today's show is a rare example of one or hopefully less rare all the time of a

Patreon donor choosing our show topic for us. I feel like we've done we're

getting up to somewhere near a dozen of these. Yeah, right. So, so an exciting time, but for me, especially this episode is a sort of an example of a new a new thing for us which is that the

that our our patron supporter Jeff Nye

...