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 775 dot PR-1320 certificate number 43519 mensa.

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Go pick me, teacher, I'm ever so smart.

I want to preface this show, um, by acknowledging the fact that probably

that we are on Native land.

I want to preface this show by saying we are on stolen Native land.

We should do a land acknowledgement at the start of every podcast.

We apologize for having invaded and stolen this land.

This basement was once Salish basement.

That's right, it was a Salish basement.

They used to have those costumes, I guess, in the closet over there?

Although it's possible that futurelings, in their excavations of past civilizations, need to go down so many layers to find the old longhouses that they

really think that whatever you and me, our civilization were like the original native inhabitants of this land so we should make it clear.

My assumption actually be the other way that the northwest coastful peoples are going to retake this land from us very soon,

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