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 815.2 S.0523, certificate number 2 6 780.

Mulberry, mania. the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning.

We've done shows on this program about berries.

Yeah, the the boysenberry. It's its origins in southern

California and horticulture. And we've done shows about the popularization of flora and fauna as a that that are derived from Shakespeare's plays.

Oh yeah, uh, uh, uh, uh, European Starling. The Starlings became endemic in America after they were

introduced by a amateur ornithologist who thought America should have every bird mentioned in

Shakespeare. And we've done shows about a kind of collective mania or hysteria around plant life.

Oh, fern fever. Fern fever. Wow, I'm really good at omnibus. You are. This is your

amazing. This is my category. We should do it. We should do it. We should do it.

Let's see we've done a show about no we should do a

podcast about omnibus oh interesting where we just talk about

where we just talk about where gamify our favorite episodes.

We've never done Tulip

mania, Dutch Tulip Media, have we?

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