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The Cavendish Banana (Entry 197.JU0112)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In which we learn that the massive global banana export market is a precarious monoculture doomed to disaster because of a tiny fungus, and John thinks Sean Young might be a time traveler. Certificate #26039.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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

0:21.0

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. This is our time capsule. This is the

0:46.4

omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 197.JU.

1:18.2

0112, certificate number 26039

1:23.6

the Cervynish Banana

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Come Mr. Talimandale me Banana.

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We like come and we want for home.

1:34.0

Come, Mr. Talimman, tally me banana.

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Would you like a banana?

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Would you like a banana? I always want a banana. You know they're a little green.

1:45.3

My I like greenish bananas with my daughter will only borderline brown. I like I like them green. We have a good ecosystem. My dad

1:56.0

My dad believed that bananas had power. Yeah, they do, potassium. And so...

1:58.0

Or did he mean some kind of mystical power?

2:00.0

No, he meant potassium, but he also meant, I think... What if every time someone said power they meant potassium but he also meant I think what if every done someone said

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power they meant potassium like what if what if white power meant white

2:07.4

potassium power white potassium potassium to the people he would He would eat a banana under almost any circumstances and if you were

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