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 accessed entry 549. RV 0.320. Certificate number 12881, the Green River Ordinance.

Do you ever sold anything door to door?

Yeah, well, uh, band, candy.

Not sold, but I was a canvasasser for the for the clean air act and working for the Nixon administration.

I was no I'm sorry clean water act. I was canvassing for the Clean Water Act for the National Environmental Law Center in the Greater Washington DC area when I lived there so I was out in Virginia and Maryland outside the beltway and

did that pay it did so this environmental group was buying all your drugs

basically well they were buying my drugs So this environmental group was buying all your drugs basically?

Well, they were buying my drugs.

You know, it was one of the things, it was part of the,

it was part of the purg system,

the public interest research group, which was a sort of Ralph Nader universe of

advocacy groups that would then lobby people in Congress and I guess that's why those people all move to

clipboards on corners right that that whole yeah canvassing went away right

stand outside the the drugstore yeah I kind of moved up the the ranks of the organization fairly quickly

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