Sea Silk (Entry 1120.EX3816)
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
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In which surprisingly large mussels provide the world's finest cloth to a shrinking number of old Mediterranean women, and Ken wonders what a Tibetan antelope smells like. Certificate #29379.
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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 accessed entry 1120.E.X.3816, |
| 1:20.3 | certificate number 29379, sea silk. |
| 1:25.0 | I know that you're not a clothes horse but increasingly interested in clothes I think you're |
| 1:39.5 | Am I am I wrong that your wife still dresses you for the most part? |
| 1:43.0 | You are... Well, that's not true. |
| 1:47.0 | The last time you saw me that Banana Republic Henley I was wearing? |
| 1:51.0 | Yep. |
| 1:52.0 | That was Midi Special. Yeah. I think she was a |
| 1:54.3 | I mean adjacent to Banana Republic. That's what I gather from that. Do you have a |
| 2:00.8 | special garment either one that you think of as worn only at special times |
| 2:06.8 | or one that you think of as your most expensive item of clothing? I feel like most of my nice items of clothing are kind of like |
| 2:18.2 | office wear that I don't have much call to wear. Oh because you're because I work from home. But you have it from back in |
| 2:23.7 | back when you worked in an office? Or no just when I had to be on TV or something and I |
| 2:27.9 | needed a nice suit or a nice jacket. Do you have a ceremonial garment that is a |
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