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 0.88.

M.K1472.

Certificate number 368.

Certificate number 368 36846, the Botter-Minehoff phenomenon.

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on.

They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things.

They don't realize that there's this like lattice a coincidence that lays on top

everything. Well if you're listening to these coincidence that was on top. Wow.

If you're listening to these entries in the order recorded, we just learned about, you just heard

about the batter minehof gang for the first time, what, five days ago.

Yeah, that was our show last week and now...

Suddenly they've come up again.

People are going to get confused because if they're speed readers, they're going to say,

wait, I've already listened to this episode good yeah let let them miss out only you the special people are listening the ones that read the entire show description unless you're using some podcast app that cuts off after 14 characters or something.

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