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The Fenian Raids (Entry 461.DE2849)

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In which a secret society of plucky Civil War veterans hatches a plan to return Ireland to the Irish by—wait for it—invading Canada, and John doesn't think the people who sold him wine coolers actually exist. Certificate #12129.

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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

0:26.1

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. This is our time capsule. This is the

0:46.4

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 461. D.E. 2849, certificate number 122129 two nine the Fenian raids

1:27.0

welcome to Canada hold it right there, Kinnock.

1:35.0

As you and I have discussed many times, the main reason why we founded this project and are delivering these gold records to the future is so that

1:45.9

millennia of of future little thinking trilobites will know about our deep love of and the greatness of the

1:56.4

Dominion of Canada. Absolutely. I celebrate their entire catalog. What did you do on

2:02.3

Canada Day this year,

2:03.9

as you say, to celebrate them?

2:05.8

Well, we typically in my family cover ourselves

2:08.8

with maple syrup.

2:09.8

Put Anne Murray on the turn table.

2:12.4

And Neil Young. And we dance the. put Anne Murray on the turntable.

2:12.8

And we dance the Canadian dance.

2:16.7

Yeah, and what would you say that national dance of Canada is?

2:20.3

It's kind of, if you kind of shuffle side to side and snap your fingers on the one and three

2:27.4

Wait, is there another way to snap your fingers? Yeah on the two and four what? Yeah, I know

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