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 213. RV 0103.

Certificate number 17854, the Chicago Seekers.

739.

Unidentified object 200 miles due west of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Course, 170 degrees.

Height, 60,000 feet.

Estimated speed. estimated speed down to 3,600 miles per hour. Yellow warning. It sure sounds like a what women's soccer team or

basketball team.

50s folk septets.

The Chicago Seekers.

I wish I could have called the show The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays.

What kept you from doing that?

It turns out it's not true.

It's often given as an alternative name for the same movement that I'm calling the Chicago

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