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 674-N-A-O-1-0-0-8.

Certificate number 33-180. The John's Town flood.

Not long ago, we added the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to the omnibus.

I was so grateful we did.

Really? You have deep, deep feelings about, like it just as a salute to the to those we lost and the survivors

Yes, never forget I will always remember but also yeah I think about it now every morning

The Lisbon earthquake yeah as you're your teeth. I used to only think of it, you know, now and again, but now it's firmly lodged. Raising a class. In my commemorative wall, you know, every morning I pour a little bit out for all my dead homies. raising a why I was interested in the Lisbon earthquake is when I found out for so long for centuries thereafter,

it was kind of the symbol of a terrible thing, you know, like when people think about

disasters.

It was their Pearl Harbor.

It was there, yeah, Pearl Harbor,

San Francisco earthquake, 9-11, Titanic.

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