We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

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. Okay. You have accessed entry 173.

I S. 2502.

Certificate number 34924 The Cahokia Mounds.

Ceremonial Mounds in the backyards and towns that's the way it turned out.

John, would you say you've been to the American bottom?

Hmm. What are your thoughts about the American bottom?

Yes.

The American bottom.

Well, there are kind of two things, two, two, uh, two buttocks. Two possibilities, right are you could mean the southern most parts of America or you could mean the southern most

part of America or you could mean the lowest parts of America. Like in elevation or in moral depravity.

Okay, so that's three different ways.

When I think of a bottom, I think of a swamp.

So have I been to the swampy parts of America? Yes. What do you picture here like the

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