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 795.2 CH2811.

Certificate number 4932.382. Missing in action.

Weeks and metaphorically deny that there are any living MIA.

Just now. There are any living MIA. Wrong answer.

It's dramatic.

Dun-dd-dddddun-dun-dun.

Oh no, you know what missing in action?

It should be like,

tukututututututututut be like this is the end finally

friendly and we got such an 80s Vietnam vibe going on right now. I guess Apocalypse now is 79.

This is all about the Vietnam War as experienced in the 1980s, when really the war was at its peak.

Yeah, we were refighting it with like more finally.

More time magazine covers about Vietnam in the mid 80s than in the early to mid 70s for sure.

This was a reoccurring theme on my late. mid-70s-s movies where the whole conflict was completely re-litigated by like, I don't know, you'll get to it I'm sure.

I will. Like Rambo literally says in First Blood 2, do we get to win this time?

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