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Grass (Entry 546.MK0639)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In which lawns are revealed to be covering three times as much of America as any other crop, and Ken explains why the tallgrass prairies of the 19th century produced no great tennis players. Certificate #31632.

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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.

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 546 dot Mike Kilo 0639

1:23.2

Niner

1:24.3

Niner

1:25.7

so ticket number

1:27.2

31632

1:30.0

grass

1:31.9

it would chop you to the Grass. Well, we had Icelandic incest. Oh, okay. Gas, grass, or ass.

1:54.3

So we've covered both gas and ass on the show.

1:56.5

Although, you know, the more polite way of, or the later bumper sticker was

2:01.7

grass, gas, gas. or the later bumper sticker was grass gas or cash

2:06.7

Although cash doesn't run I feel like you just need to find three words that convey those three things that actually rhyme without getting

2:14.6

but I'm glad that they got the the prostitution angle out of the out of the bumper

2:22.2

sticker but that was part of the I mean if you had a if you had a

2:25.9

Dodge van with with a little like spade shaped windows in the, what are you going to take?

2:34.1

I guess everybody, I mean cash talks, right?

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