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Hostile Architecture (Entry 601.PR2907)

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Omnibus

Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In which today's cities face tough choices on how to guide urban behavior with incredibly uncomfortable-looking design features, and Ken would pee on a fly but not a bee. Certificate #19421.

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0:00.0

Breaking up is never easy, but saying goodbye to your old clunky work tools, well, that's easy.

0:06.0

Just repeat after me. It's not me, it's definitely you, you rigid, unfriendly software.

0:13.1

It's time to freshen things up with Monday.com. The first work platform you'll love to use,

0:19.0

with stunning dashboards, customizable templates, and built-in

0:22.6

AI that actually works, switching to a new work platform has never felt this good. So move on to

0:29.0

Monday.com.

0:32.0

And we're receiving this message... ...receiving this message.

0:41.1

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:43.9

We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past,

0:48.0

the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:51.4

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

0:56.1

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that

1:03.3

would otherwise be lost.

1:04.9

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology

1:09.4

to decrypt our transmissions, this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the Omnibus. Yeah! Yeah! I'm You have accessed entry 601.

1:46.0

PR 2907 certificate number 19421.

1:51.7

Hostel Architecture

1:52.9

Ken, you're a fancy lad.

2:00.1

Oh, I really am. I mean, look at these. Look at my lace cuffs. Yeah. You showed up this morning in a Ichero jersey, a Mariners V-neck t-shirt. Oh, no, it's just a t-shirt with your glasses in the neck. It made it a V. The glasses are showing a little Cleveland. A Mariners hat, too.

2:18.0

And I was like, wow.

2:35.7

Going to the game after this. Are you five years old? Are you doing cosplay? Cute, though. It's cute. I'm doing the cosplay you do when you go to a baseball game, John. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm sorry. Every, every, you know, there's's a there's this mariner's like sweater made by uh abbott's field that's so sexy i didn't know there was a mariner's sweater yeah and i

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