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.

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E.C.0804, certificate number 2449. 4, This month will hang over the new by the way to the king for a day.

What would you describe, how would you describe the protests of a couple of months ago?

What, what, how is history going to remember them?

What are the, you know, are they going to be called the revolution of 2020?

It's too soon to say.

Yeah. I mean, we're still kind of enmeshed.

I've been calling them police riots just to get people mad at me on Twitter.

Let's call it that. The police riots of 2020, I don't know if you saw but during during the police

riots at one point in Louisville Kentucky a protester jumped up on the statue of Louis 16, Louis Swazin.

The namesake of the city?

Yeah.

Wait, Louisville is named for Louis the 16th beheaded in the French Revolution.

That's interesting.

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