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The Back of a Napkin (Entry 090.LK1920)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In which we study the long history of inspirations getting jotted down on scrap paper, and Ken learns he's too lively to be a rock musician. Certificate #44181.

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0:00.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:07.0

We are receiving this message.

0:11.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

0:26.2

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

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

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you.

0:43.4

This is our time capsule.

0:45.4

This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 090 dot LK-1920 certificate number 44181. The back of a napkin.

1:25.0

It's quarter to three.

1:28.0

There's no one in the place, except you and me.

1:36.7

Now if you haven't already listened to the omnibus entry

1:39.0

on the front of a napkin you might want to you're gonna be lost here. the back of a napkin is kind of a euphemism

1:44.6

using rock and roll What is the what would you say the back of a napkin might mean to a rock and roll it's just for rock and roll people? You're not even Yeah, no, can't let you behind the curtain.

1:54.4

What's the, can't let you behind the napkin? What's the lowest qualification of rock and rollness I could do to attain?

2:00.0

Boy. If I had a sound cloud, could you tell me?

2:03.0

How much more rock and roll would you have to be in order to qualify as rock and roll?

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I'm trying to think.

2:10.0

It's a continuum.

2:11.0

Like I look like a guy in a math rock band. Do you? Yeah. Yeah I think so. I mean you

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