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(LIVE) Tuvan Throat Singers (Entry 1351.PS13704)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In which Ken attempts to teach a new superpower--Central Asian overtone singing--to John and a live audience. Certificate #40632.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. 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

0:46.0

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

0:51.3

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.

1:05.4

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

1:09.5

to decrypt our transmissions, this is our legacy to you.

1:13.4

This is our time capsule.

1:15.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 1351 dot PS 1374.

2:05.0

P.S. 13704. Certificate number 40632. The what? Oh, right, sorry. Tuvan throat singers.

2:12.0

The Nhahahahahaha. The hah a whole thing is a chagah.

2:15.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we should explain, first of all, to our future listeners that for the first time we have brought in some outside observers to monitor our ambitious project.

2:47.0

That's right.

2:48.0

Typically we've been recording this show in a bunker

2:50.7

for future inhabitants of Earth, wh they may be or whatever or whatever they may not prefer that pronoun we decided that one of the ways that we wanted to ensure that this survived the coming global cataclysm was that we start

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