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 862. G.A.0519, certificate number 12960.

Oh, you kid!

Oh, you kid!

Oh you kid!

Oh you kid! kid!

Is that how we're going to say it?

Oh, you kid!

See you don't know what it means, you don't know how to say it.

Oh, you kid!

It has a comma and an exclamation point. This will be only the second omnibus entry that ends with an exclamation point and you will think for a million years and never guess the other one.

It was like our fourth show or something. Was it? We could just add an exclamation

point to any of them. Beaver Castorium. That's true. What was it? What was our... It was a

uh... ill-conceived Nazi sitcom called Hile Honey I'm Home. Oh, Hile Honey I'm Home, I

remember. So it's been like six years since we've trotted out the old exclamation point.

So I think my instinct in reading that sentence without context would be to say,

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