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🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In which we learn about palming doorknobs, spotting bunco artists and fornicators, and other old tricks of the "hotel dick" trade, and John steals some room service pizza. Certificate #51720.
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0:00.0 | Omnibuses a production at iHeart Radio. |
0:02.0 | We are going to the board emergency for the first time in a |
0:07.0 | position yet and uh... |
0:10.0 | We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can |
0:17.9 | only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century. |
0:23.3 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, |
0:26.9 | we began this monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. |
0:30.7 | These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and |
0:34.1 | esoterica that would otherwise be lost. So whether you're listening from an |
0:38.3 | advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our |
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0:45.5 | This is our time capsule. |
0:47.4 | This is the omnibus. Yeah, Oh, oh, oh, oh, You have accessed entry 601. |
1:15.0 | G.N. 4321, certificate number 51720. |
1:27.0 | Hotel Detective Now as a Trivador yourself, traveling the highways and byways of this great land. |
1:50.0 | You're referring of course to the They Might Be Giant song, |
1:52.6 | she was a Hotel Detective. |
1:55.0 | Hotel Detective. |
1:57.6 | You've probably stayed yourself at plenty of hotels. |
2:01.9 | How many nights of your life would you say you spent it? |
2:04.0 | Oh, man. |
2:05.7 | So many. |
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