Hello, we are transmitting 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.

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.

This is the Omnibus. You have accessed entry 831.

E.C.0904. Certificate number 3.0.063. Neopets.

Huh? Kate, thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. I feel like we've met before.

Is it true?

Have we ever met in the wild?

We've met briefly once after a very secret event in a secret cemetery many, many years ago.

But also I've, yeah.

You were at that secret event in a in a sarcophagus, basically we were.

Yeah.

I'm impressed.

Well, for those who I'm not going to reveal much about that secret event, it should remain secret.

It was secret then, and it should remain secret.

Just how I like it.

It means that the first time you ever heard my voice, I was standing on top of a mausoleum, invisible to you, going,

ooh, or whatever I was doing on the roof of this, this, this, like, this,

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