We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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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

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These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

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omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 1182. J.B. 2419, certificate number 17398 Snow Valley, Oklahoma.

Being a farm boy, you don't cut the fence, you cut the cloth that you get the people out of the fence if you have to.

That's right, yeah, their jackets replaceable.

That fence is important to keep the cattle in.

Now as a musician, John Roderick,

No, no, no, no.

Woke up this morning.

I was a musician.

You've heard the word payola, I assume.

Sure, sure, payola is a big part of the music industry then and now. Is it still that's what I was going to ask?

Oh well I mean it depends on how how you calculate what payment is.

Well, just to explain to viewers,

there was an early, a scandal early in the Rock era

of record labels and unscrupulous manager types paying off radio stations and

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