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Harambe (Entry 567.JM0506)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In which the tragic death of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo launches a tidal wave of viral content on social media, and Ken explains bad table manners as an accident of birth. Certificate #23616.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:07.0

We are receiving this message.

0:11.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

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

0:26.1

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. This is our time capsule. This is the

0:46.4

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 567.

1:15.0

J.M.0506, certificate number 23616.

1:20.0

Harambbe.

1:24.0

Ken are you ready for

1:27.0

can are you ready for a trip down

1:32.0

me-mar Elaine. Are you ready for a trip down Meamery Lane?

1:34.0

This might be the most, have we ever done a 2010's event?

1:40.0

Have we ever put anything this recent in the omnibus?

1:43.0

I don't think so. I mean we are very current kind of Johnny's on the spot.

1:48.0

So we talk about our modern era all the time but not.

1:52.0

We've never entered something into the omnibus also I

1:55.2

you kind of shocked me when you told me this was like pushing 10 years old and I guess

2:00.6

it's eight years ago now eight years ago.

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