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 0.52.1k0732, certificate number 2.3.3838408, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser.

And there's a certain kind of intellectual, upper middle class national geographic

subscriber that at some point in their life finds a way to go to

Antarctica on a science cruise of some kind.

Have you ever done that?

Can you believe those weirdos?

I know, right?

I'm looking at you, Ken Jennings.

I think you know I did.

Tell us about your experience in Antarctica.

I had never, I don't think I knew there was this tourism industry now,

but I had a friend who was very into it.

I guess I knew Alex Trebek had been.

He loved his trip to Antarctica. There's probably, there was probably

clue crew footage of Alex and the clue crew with the penguins.

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