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 1172 dot mK 0 652 certificate number 50925.

Sliced Bread. Are you an

an inventor, Ken?

You seem to the outside world like you might be a tinkerer? Is that right? Do I give off a tinker vibe?

What's he building in there? What's he got in his work bench?

Yeah, do you ever have a brainstorm where you think, you know, I just made the perfect spouse trap?

I, spouse trap. Like am I building a trap for my spouse or a trap for a new spouse?

Well, no, you don't need a new spouse, your spouse is great, so yeah.

I guess I would need both, one to kill off the current spouse, like a tiger trap,

and then some kind of honey trap for the new spouse.

Your spouse seems hard to trap.

She's very wily.

Yeah, she is.

I tried to paint like a fake tunnel on the wall of a cliff that can she would run into it.

And she did but she has

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