Hanky Codes (Entry 566.EZ1321)
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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In which we look back at the complex and clandestine history of sexual signaling in gay culture, and Ken thinks a lot of decades have the wrong adjectives. Certificate #34366.
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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 monumental |
| 0:26.2 | 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. |
| 0:43.0 | This is our time capsule. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 566. E.Z.1321, certificate number 3 4366.3466. |
| 1:17.0 | H4366., Hanky codes. |
| 1:25.0 | My baby does the hanky pain. |
| 1:29.0 | You know me, |
| 1:31.0 | that's the hanky pain. My baby does I hate baby. |
| 1:33.0 | My baby does hey baby. |
| 1:36.0 | My baby has like baby. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, my baby has like baby. |
| 1:41.0 | Hey my baby is going to make it. Now, Hankey Code is a topic that's a hanker. |
| 1:45.0 | Now, Hankey Code is a topic that seems tailor-made for omnibus and it's been suggested to us more than a handful of times by people who think we're gay. |
| 2:01.6 | Who have good ideas for us and for our shows. |
| 2:06.6 | We get, by the way, we get an astounding waterfall of good ideas. |
| 2:12.8 | So many great ideas. |
| 2:14.0 | People do understand the aesthetic. |
| 2:15.8 | Because we get dozens of great show topics a week and often it's stuff you and I already have |
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