The Futuro House (Entry 510.1K0609)
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In which a Finnish architect upgrades the prefab, modular homes of the 1960s by turning them into flying saucers, and Ken wants to know his table's name. Certificate #49729.
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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. Oh, You have accessed entry 510.1k 0 609 certificate number 49729 |
| 1:23.4 | the futuro house Music comes out of the garbage disposal. I never know what's going to come out. |
| 1:35.0 | Did I say that right? |
| 1:36.0 | Futuro. I said it like Arturo. |
| 1:39.0 | The problem is if you say Futuro. It's sounds like you're saying I want to eat a few churros. |
| 1:44.3 | And I don't want to eat a few. |
| 1:45.3 | I want to eat many churros. |
| 1:46.7 | I don't want to eat any churros. |
| 1:48.0 | Few would not be enough for my churo appetite. |
| 1:50.7 | Well how would you pronounce futuro if you were Finnish? That's an interesting question. |
| 1:58.0 | How do the Finns pronounce futuro? You'd think there wouldn't be that chuh. That's just a futureo. That's just a weird |
| 2:06.0 | futuro. That's a weird English only artifact I would think. |
| 2:10.0 | The lack of any, ch in futu. |
| 2:14.0 | And we're just putting it in like furniture. |
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