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 866.

D.E.3233.

Certificate number 13766.

1.3. 13766. One glass of red wine.

Alcohol has come up in the omnibus archive before, although perhaps mostly by its absence.

When do you and I ever talk about alcohol?

Yeah, I think the negative space around alcohol.

Like two faces looking at each other, but instead of a vase in the middle it looks like a cocktail glass.

Although we did, I did mistakenly do that simple malt.

You did that show about Scotch.

Yeah, episode where I got so many bearded actually's, they basically actually means death.

Well this is one, this is the show in the wine nerds turn on me.

With notes of resentment and scorn, leather and cedar,

Sumak and Fury.

Because we don't, we don't drink, but,

neither of us, you mean.

You and I, neither of us drink us but we did you think I meant

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