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. So, You have accessed entry 1194. eX 21166. certificate number 37084.

Soviet Spartacus.

I'm Spartacus.

I'm Spartacus. I'm Spartacus.

I'm Sparticus I'm Sparticus I'm Sparticus. This is our first time the

word Soviet has appeared in a omnibus entry title I think. Can that be true?

Yeah I don't see it. But and it's it's Soviet not

Soviet because I'm I'm the one typing it in today. Right. You missed your chance. You can

say Soviet but what are you going to well for the record

you feel like it's the word is spelled Soviet but pronounced Soviet yeah it's like a

a salmon it's a salmon it's a salmon but it's not a letter you don't pronounce. It's a missing letter you do pronounce.

Yeah, what would be the, so it's the opposite of a silent letter. It's a noisy non letter.

Yeah, there surely are those. Aren't there those? A word where you just drop in a new letter that's not

in the orthography yeah it's like Worcester sauce no that's the opposite yeah Yeah, that's silent stuff. Oh, right, right, right. It's like

Wolster sauce. Yeah, it's like that sauce. Well, we in Edinburgh, and we say Edinburgh, but I guess it's those letters are in there, we just say them.

I mean there is a uh, where'd the a come from? There's no you? What about aluminium? isn't there a there's a no they they spell it aluminium they do yeah that's crazy they think we're crazy

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