Slab City (Entry 1170.IS3501)
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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In which itinerant snowbirds turn an abandoned desert naval base into a trash-mountain utopia, and Ken hopes a nuke lands on his head. Certificate #33204.
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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 |
| 0:16.0 | only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century. |
| 0:21.3 | 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. |
| 0:43.4 | This is our time capsule. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 1170 |
| 1:17.0 | I S 3501 certificate number 33204. |
| 1:23.0 | Slab City. |
| 1:27.0 | It has been one year that you and I have been living in the yurt and doing this Canadian adventure. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, it's crazy to think, just one year. |
| 1:37.0 | How many people when they first started watching us |
| 1:39.0 | when they first heard we were going to do this, |
| 1:41.0 | living off the grid? |
| 1:42.0 | They troll us big time and doubted us and said we wouldn't last a week. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah, a lot of people did. A lot of people said that our Europe wasn't going to stay standing, but boom. |
| 1:50.8 | It's up. You said that with a lot of panache. Did I? |
| 1:55.0 | Slab City. What's the correct way to say slab Sidia? I think just exactly like that. |
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