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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.

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Nautia's theme. Well, this is going to be a show full of personal anecdote, I predict.

No one has ever heard you talking about the mid-70s on this show.

I think you're going to have some anecdotes here too.

When you told me you're doing Nautious Theme, I was so excited.

Yeah, you were.

I immediately had three different angles of storytelling.

I don't even know if I should include any facts or really anything. We should just start telling stories about

let's just play nautious theme once and then there will be a

you'll have 20 minutes to talk about I'll have 20 minute rebuttal I feel like

uh like our our beloved editor and Third Beal, Mark Miles, could just be playing Nautious theme

throughout this entire episode.

Wouldn't it make us seem more graceful?

Yeah, like 50 minutes of it just, it would, well, graceful, but also sad and moving and.

Tepestuous.

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