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 a

access entry 328.

D. E.0203, certificate number

35435.

The de Haviland Beaver.

Have you in your, in your, all all your travels flown via small aircraft? I think this may have come up on the show once before I have taken off in a small plane and never landed in one.

Oh, you've jumped out of an airplane?

Yes, you solved it.

You solved the mystery.

When did you do that?

And what were, I mean, what were the circumstances?

College freshman.

I had a roommate that wanted to do it and then he

chickened out but I was like I'm still gonna do it. I'm no chicken. So we drove up to like

some little airfield and snow homeish somewhere. Sure I think I've jumped out. I jumped out of an airplane from a little airport in Snowmish.

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