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Love Canal (Entry 737.PR2526)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In which an ill-advised utopian scheme to bypass Niagara Falls becomes America's first toxic waste catastrophe, and Ken knows the main thing that water does. Certificate #42025.

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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

Piento 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.

0:51.6

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

0:55.5

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.8

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.

1:13.4

This is our time capsule.

1:15.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 737. PR 2526, certificate number 42025. Love Canal.

1:54.3

President Carter declared a state of emergency today in the Love Canal area of New York's Niagara Falls

2:00.1

where toxic chemicals were discovered oozing from the ground.

2:03.2

Don't you love a canal?

2:05.2

I love canal.

2:07.2

I think because I'm a little too young to have remembered it firsthand.

2:11.0

It always seems dirty to me like

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