We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

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 1081.

M. I 0303, certificate number 32041.

Ronco. Certificate number 32041.

Ronco.

After seven years of advertising my Ronco Electric Food

Dehydrator and beef jerky machine, I've decided to drop the price.

The new price is so ridiculously low you have to watch. Ronco.

Does that name mean anything to you culturally?

Yeah, sure.

It reminds me of the scattered infomercial watching I did late at night in college.

But when you were growing up in Korea and Shoreline Washington and various spots in between like Midway Island.

Yeah. You didn't have you didn't you didn't watch infomercials?

No infomercials on Korean television just just the normal weird length

at normal length ads for crackers that tasted like squid and stuff like that.

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