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. So, You have accessed entry 835.SS0711,

certificate number 3 499 new urbanism.

We call it Eptot.

Spell E.P.C.

Experimental prototype community of tomorrow.

So you live in a kind of a dense in, not inner city, but in city neighborhood.

Yeah, I don't know when this was about a decade ago.

Seattle zoned like, what did they call them?

These kind of urban centers, neighborhood.

Seattle's not, for a while was not really

on the cutting edge of new zoning theory,

but the idea was there'd be

there'd be centers in a lot of neighborhoods where you could have

more, you know, higher residential, more commercial stuff. I can't what they called them urban something

zones you something zeez urban development zones is that right I can't remember you know

I should I should know this because when I was running for

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