We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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 315.EZ3328, certificate number 11458, the Darien Gap.

Have you ever considered the possibility of driving from the very north of Alaska to the very

south of South America? I have considered that before. I have considered it too many times. It seems like one of the high adventures of human life in our in our era.

It seems like a Che Guevara thing to do. It really does. And in fact, he did some large part of it at least in the southern half but our future listeners probably aren't going to be

conscious of this fact because in their time because of the rising seas

North American continent and the South American

continent will probably be separated by a wide channel of water, probably the Panamanian

channel.

Plate tectonics has probably moved Panama up so it collides with Cuba.

Sure, sure.

The world won't resemble anything like it does today, but as it is now, there's a long

itthmus that we call Central America, which connects the larger

continents of north and south. And there is a road that starts all the way in the

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