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 877.E.X.

1508, certificate number 53464.

O'Shaughnessy Dam.

Yosemite National Park lies west of the west line

of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Middle Eastern California.

You love the city of San Francisco, I know.

I left my heart there.

We talk about it all the time.

And I think my kid left a hoodie on the trolley.

And my heard.

have you ever, have you ever had a glass of San Francisco's clean pure tap water.

It's famous, right?

Or is that New York?

There's some city that's always talking on how good their tap water is.

Is it the bay area, or Frisco, as they like to call it? it's always time on how good their tap water is.

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