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Sea Peoples (Entry 1120.1K2248)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In which the great Mediterranean civilizations of the late Bronze Age collapse virtually overnight due to some mysterious visitors, and Ken knows a lot about white broccoli. Certificate #9795.

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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 monumental

0:26.1

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. So, You have accessed entry 120.1K2248 certificate number 9795. sea peoples.

1:28.5

Like sea monkeys?

1:29.7

Yeah, kind of.

1:30.6

I mean as far as we know.

1:33.0

Little comic book ad, I'm going to grow some sea people.

1:35.8

This is one of those topics that I've been wanting to do for,

1:40.4

really for a decade, the entire decade that we've been doing this show.

1:44.0

We've only been in this show five years, I think, right? Six?

1:47.0

No, I think it's 2017.

1:48.0

2017, late 2017.

1:50.0

Like December 2007.

1:52.0

Well, but still, it's 2017.

1:54.0

We're not Koreans.

1:55.0

It's not like the whole, the, oh wait, maybe I'm, maybe I said that wrong.

1:59.0

Maybe if we were Koreans.

2:01.0

I'm more Korean than you.

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