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 615.

P.S. 14717 certificate number 23725. The Ice Trade.

This is an example of one of those instances where I had a really good idea for a

for an omnibus and then in researching the omnibus episode, I discovered a subset of that show that I liked even better.

You got off on a sidetrack.

I did.

I sidetracked.

We see this happen with one another a lot.

This is the whole premise of the show

was that we would sit around tacos and say you'll never guess what I

learned the other day and then the other one would say oh that is like of something I learned

and it was always like oh you found it because of some other thing and what and why are we still doing this but just without the tacos we took away the only good part of it.

We did I guess because nobody wants to hear taco chewing in an audio medium.

We did. We lost, we lost like the actual fun part.

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