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Kevlar (Entry 684.EX2822)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In which a pioneering chemist never sees a cent of the billions of dollars that her tough new polymer earns for her employer, and Ken wonders how many Alaskans fake their own deaths. Certificate #34836.

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0:00.0

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That's better help h eelp dot com We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:37.0

We are receiving this message.

0:41.0

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

0:46.1

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

0:51.5

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

0:55.6

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.9

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

1:05.0

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

1:11.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 684.

1:47.0

E.X.

1:48.0

2822 certificate number 34836.

1:53.0

Kevlar! After our success on the recent show about the Bo-Pall disaster, I realized that...

2:11.4

What a success me? We did that... We've recorded the show about a chemical leak like a few weeks before it was timely.

2:17.3

Is it timely now? Did something happen? East Palestine, Ohio. Oh, there was a giant chemical leak and now people are going to think we did that show in response

2:25.7

to it.

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