The Dempster Dumpster (Entry 332.LA0345)
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
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Summary
In which cities, over the centuries, gradually discover the most efficient way to collect garbage for disposal, and Ken hasn't looked in his pocket since Christmas. Certificate #28712.
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| 0:00.0 | We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can |
| 0:16.0 | only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century. |
| 0:21.3 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental |
| 0:26.2 | reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. |
| 0:28.8 | These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost. |
| 0:35.0 | So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions, |
| 0:41.0 | this is our legacy to you. |
| 0:43.4 | This is our time capsule. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 332. |
| 1:15.0 | L.A.0345, certificate number 28712. |
| 1:21.0 | The Dempster, The Dempster, |
| 1:24.0 | or the Dempster, |
| 1:25.0 | or the Dempster, as in all things, it's the Demster dumpster, but some people |
| 1:39.7 | started calling it the Dempsey dumpster just like some people put an |
| 1:43.2 | Ellen Soviet which ones which ones historically accurate. Demster dumpster. |
| 1:47.2 | Is there a guy named Dempsey involved? No there's a guy named Dempster. It seems like a weird thing to make it less rhymey and felicitis. |
| 1:55.8 | The thing is, we're talking about garbage men. |
| 1:59.9 | And, you know. |
| 2:01.3 | They have no poetry in their souls |
| 2:02.9 | Dempsey I feel like Dempsey dumpster kind of is like |
| 2:05.4 | Dempsey dumpster. |
| 2:06.2 | Dempsey dumpster. |
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