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.

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

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

this is our legacy to you.

This is our time capsule.

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 655 dot LK2040

certificate number 22311 in Terra Bang.

Oopsh!

Darling!

Pth!

Is this the first time you have loved. She had answered,

Yes.

But it is so wonderful that I hope it will not be the last.

We're doing that Victor Borga thing of...

Shui, bop.

Uh, did you know that type setters use the term bang to refer to exclamation points?

I did not know it until I learned it in a computer context. It's often the way that exclamation

points are read when they come up in computer languages. Maybe just to sound programming, just to make programming sound more exciting I guess?

Well, I, in doing research for this show,

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