We are speaking to you from our present, which we can only assume is you're just in

past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

We fear that some great cataclysm is on the way that will surely be followed civilization.

It does feel imminent.

It feels pretty dire some days, and as a result we began the omnibus, a monumental reference

of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve the wonders and esoteric

that we fear would otherwise be lost.

Sure, all it's going to take is one electromagnetic pulse and it's the internet's gone.

Lizer is Alexandria all over again.

That's right.

We're not exactly 100% sure how we're going to preserve this podcast, whether it's

deep in the salt mines of Utah.

Fire it into orbit.

Right on a gold record, but somehow we will ensure that this record makes it to you our

listeners in the future.

We don't even know who our listeners are, John, these hypothetical future residents of

Earth.

Sure, we usually assume that they're going to be giant sentient cockroaches, right?

But they could be fish.

They could be alien invaders or descendants.

They could be computers that have become sentient.

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