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.

entry. You have accessed entry 1030.

P.S. 5010.

Certificate number.19.

Rons Devash. As a musician, how does music function in your...

As a musician?

Yes. How does music function in your memory? You know how music is such a huge

generational marker and nostalgia generator for people.

I mean, do you have that as well from your early life

and your musical career? Yes, a lot, although I find that the nostalgia of it

has weirdly kind of diluted with time.

There was absolutely a time when I was in my 20s

that I could listen to Hallin' Oates and be like magically transported back to 1982.

Yeah. When it was 1992 or 94.

But since then I've heard Hallin'o'o' notes so many times and I think part of it was that from

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