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Luke and Laura (Entry 739.MT2210)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In which the first daytime "supercouple" briefly makes soap operas a part of 1980s mass culture, and John wonders if a bride is "zaftig." Certificate #32511.

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0:00.0

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

0:16.0

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

0:21.3

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

0:26.2

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

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

0:35.0

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

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 739.m.T. 2210. certificate number 32511.

1:24.0

Luke and Laura. For the five hundredth entry in the omnivists last week you pannedered to

1:49.0

millennials to Gen Z maybe I don't know Met Bitcoin's more of a millennial technology.

1:53.5

I think so.

1:54.1

I mean, there's probably Gen Z Bitcoin billionaires,

1:57.8

but they inherited it from their millennial parents?

2:00.7

No, impossible. I never get to do an anniversary show, but the 501st omnibus will be pivoting back to

2:10.8

forgotten memory holes of Gen X childhood at the request of our

2:15.0

at the request of our listener Pat who submitted a vast list of similar ideas was like

2:19.6

wacky packs evil can evil I don't know, Night Court.

2:24.0

We could just put them all together into one big generation X.

2:27.1

Some of these would be good.

2:27.9

I mean, Doug Henning is actually a pretty good.

2:30.5

The idea that stage magic was briefly mass culture, big Broadway debut.

2:36.0

Did he make the space or the Statue of Liberty disappear?

2:39.2

Who is that?

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