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Mister Rogers's Operas (Entry 795.RO1502)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In which America's most beloved television host and moral exemplar composes a series of now-mostly-forgotten children's operas, and John thinks Star Wars is what ends childhood. Certificate #29242.

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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

0:25.5

monumental 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.

0:43.0

This is our time capsule.

0:45.0

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry.

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entry. You have accessed entry 795 dot R.O. 1502.

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Certificate number 29242.

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Mr. Rogers Operas.

1:24.8

Look at the picture I just took of the handball football game.

1:31.3

Football, how did they play there?

1:34.0

Just look carefully, I will show you how.

1:39.0

I guess a thing we're going to have to explain to the far future is that in our time in these the waning days of human civilization,

1:51.0

the closest thing we have to a universal spiritual leader or moral exemplar is a post Malone is post Malone.

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Malone.

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No is, well I'm trying to think which influencer, which influencer I would choose for this.

2:10.0

Which of my favorite youtubers or Tik-Tars?

2:13.0

No, is a children's television host

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from the 70s and 80s who's been dead for 20 years?

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