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 915.

E.C. 1212 certificate number 41769.

Penguin Classics.

Paper Back Writers.

You're a reader.

John, what's your relationship? You're a reader.

John, what's your relationship to the classics?

Is it like a different vibe for you if you feel like you're reading something

accepted in the canon? Do you feel like you're doing something wholesome? something new cannon and new cannon.

And then there's new cannon Connecticut.

I think I've read across all three cannons and no there was I didn't feel virtuous about it for a long time because I felt like that was what

constituted an education.

I didn't read books that weren't, at least in one of those three?

Yeah.

The modernist one being the one that felt the freshest and the

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