Rosa Luxemburg's Body (Entry 1082.NU1911)
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
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In which the most famous socialist rabble-rouser of her time returns from her 1919 execution (maybe) as a headless mummy, and Ken wonders if ancient Irish peasants had combination skin. Certificate #27337.
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| 0:00.0 | We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. |
| 0:07.0 | We are receiving this message. |
| 0:11.0 | 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 monumental |
| 0:26.2 | 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. This is our time capsule. This is the |
| 0:46.4 | omnibus. Oh, You have access entry 1082-N-U-9-1, |
| 1:19.0 | certificate number 27-3-37. Rosa Luxembourg's body. This is not a male |
| 1:41.4 | gazey kind of a thing where we leer about it. |
| 1:43.7 | Well, I don't know, you're using the royal we hear. |
| 1:46.2 | I you... |
| 1:47.2 | You don't know what I'm going to get up to halfway through this episode. |
| 1:50.2 | But she did have a lively and erotic personal life if you're interested in the in the |
| 1:56.4 | Emmanuel like adventures of young Rosa Luxembourg traipsing across Europe. |
| 1:59.8 | Absolutely I've seen all the Emmanuel films. |
| 2:03.0 | Her letters recently got translated into English, including like a thousand very devoted love letters to her |
| 2:10.3 | long-time boyfriend Leo. |
| 2:16.1 | She's very sweet, but he seems to be a very bad boyfriend indeed. Every boyfriend is a bad boyfriend I think. |
| 2:18.8 | I mean from a very young age she was, the way she got out of she was you know she was born in Russian then |
| 2:26.2 | Russian controlled Poland and she got out to Zurich by persuading some priests |
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