We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

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So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

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This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 317.

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For6512. The day the clown cried. The And the So, boy, boy, starting the show off with a prolonged silence is really the only way I can do this topic justice.

It built suspense.

It does, that's right.

It is hard to know how to react to the day the

the crown cried. Even the idea of the day the clown cried, it's hard to, it's

hard even to know how to react to the reaction to the data clown crowd.

We grew up in an environment where a couple of things are,

a couple of things kind of exist now that didn't exist before and one of them is the...

Almost everything exists now that didn't exist before.

Interesting.

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