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. Oh, You have accessed entry 309.

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4302, certificate number 12338,

the Coyahoga River Fire.

Man's Mark is everywhere.

Is this mark an epitaph for the Cuyahoga, the crooked river?

You know there was a whole period where futurelings thought it was hilarious to count how long or to time how long it would take for us to

actually mention the topic of the show in omnibus.

What was the longest one, if recall future links sort of gossiping?

I think Bill W is the record holder and it's over an hour.

Over an hour we talked before I actually mentioned Bill W. It's like an hour and

ten minutes and really I that to me that's not a strike against the show no

just means we were we were really building up to it. It's like jazz there are no wrong notes in

the omnibus. There's two minutes of intro mission about Bill W but there was

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