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 104 dot EZ 2047 certificate number 31303, the Battle of Palmdale. You're a fan of war movies, I'm assuming.

I don't have a week.

You're a fan of war movies, I'm assuming? I don't have a weekly podcast where I watch

Flying Leathernecks with a bunch of middle-aged guys.

So in this room, I'm the least into war movies.

Right.

But I do enjoy a good war movie.

I should say that my war movie podcast friendly fire does not feature a bunch of

middle-aged guys I am the middle-aged guy and then there's a there's a younger they are youthful compared to us yeah there's like a

generation Y guy and then there's a millennium is the youngest guy a 30 year old we

need somebody in there to to comment on every war movie that it's problematic.

You don't have a baby boomer?

No, there's no baby boomer, and in fact one of the guys wives, one of the other guys

was like...

His wife's is a baby boomer. No she said she said at one point

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