The Berkeley Pit (Entry 115.PS8806)
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🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In which John welcomes the microbes from a Montana copper sludge pit who will surely inherit the earth, and Ken announces how many syllables a dog's name should have. Certificate #50365.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. 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. |
| 0:51.0 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this |
| 0:55.6 | monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. |
| 0:58.9 | These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost. |
| 1:05.4 | So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology |
| 1:09.5 | to decrypt our transmissions, this is our legacy to you. |
| 1:13.4 | This is our time capsule. |
| 1:15.4 | This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 115. |
| 1:47.0 | P.S. 8866, Certificate Number 50365, the Berkeley Pitt. As you know, mining has played a very large role in the development of the West, |
| 2:12.0 | the expansion of the West, mining precious metals, silver, gold. |
| 2:16.0 | Silver strikes in Nevada, gold rush in California. |
| 2:21.0 | Right, gold rush in Alaska, but also in the black mine and hills of Dakota, where there lived a young boy |
| 2:26.5 | named Rocky Rakuin. |
| 2:27.6 | Is Rocky Rakuna, Rocky, Rocky Washing Bear? |
| 2:31.2 | Was he a gold miner? He was a gold miner until he got shot. I guess I didn't know there was |
| 2:37.7 | Dakota gold. There was in fact you know the as we America expanded to the west. the sacred ground for Native Americans. Until. |
| 2:53.2 | And there were all these treaties in place, |
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