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

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This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 676 dot EZ2410 certificate number

38738 the Joy of Cooking.

Princess you got to have developed what the French call

Jumon Futism, where I don't care what happens, I can fall and omelets can go over all over the

stove. I'm going to learn. I shall overcome that sort of woman's liberation and I mean everything like that if you're not going to be ready to fail you're not going to learn how to cook.

That's what that little lecture is all about.

Do you, you, do you cook?

cook?

I, this is awful.

I cooked when I was single

and I wasn't that great a cook.

Like what did you what did you cook?

I would cook spaghetti.

Right.

Or I would cook. Fried rice. Right. Or I would cook grilled chicken.

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