We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

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 604.1J 0210, certificate number 376

the Hudson Brothers.

Why don't you, why don't you, why don't you, why don't you take you

the run with me

oh, run with you, I know you are a student of rock in the blue

I know you are a student of pop music. I am an amateur.

Yeah, but amateur scholar. you've impressed me many times with your with your deep

knowledge of music like rock music and and all of its offshoots.

Listen, let it never be said that I didn't enjoy rock music.

It's one of the it's one of the great one of the great 20th century genres.

Do you think there is any rock music left?

Or will there be rock music going forward?

Yes.

What does it do now?

I mean, why would you make it?

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