Patagonian Giants (Entry 907.MT0627)
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🗓️ 17 March 2020
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In which the world's tallest tribe, if they even exist, are enslaved by Ferdinand Magellan and downsized by subsequent visitors, and John reminds us of the importance of good posture. Certificate #33392.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:21.0 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this |
| 0:25.5 | monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. |
| 0:28.8 | These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost. |
| 0:35.0 | So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions, |
| 0:41.0 | this is our legacy to you. |
| 0:43.0 | This is our time capsule. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 907. |
| 1:17.0 | M.T.0627. |
| 1:19.9 | Certificate number 3392. |
| 1:24.5 | Patagonian Giants. |
| 1:27.9 | You're just stalling now. |
| 1:29.2 | You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? |
| 1:31.8 | You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong so you |
| 1:35.0 | could have put the poison in your own goblet trusting on your strength to save you so I can |
| 1:38.8 | clearly not choose the wine in front of you but you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible so I can clearly not use the wine in front of me. |
| 1:54.3 | How tall are you for the record? |
| 1:56.1 | Well I was at my tallest six foot three. |
| 2:00.0 | The last couple of times I went to the doctor, they're telling me that I'm six foot two and a half. |
| 2:05.6 | They don't have English units in the future, John. |
| 2:07.2 | How many centimeters tall are you? |
| 2:08.4 | Oh, 1,000. |
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