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 705. J. B. 0712. certificate number 46594

994 the law of the tongue? This is what I say to somebody when I walk up to them on the street.

I hold on my hand in a secret gesture and I say, do you follow the law of the tongue?

Yeah, it's my code, the law of the tongue.

What would you say the law of the tongue is?

Hmm, the law of the tongue.

You know, I have a pretty good relationship with my tongue. Like it's it's a it's a I have a condition on my tongue.

You have a weird tongue. And so I growing up I thought about it a lot.

I thought about my tongue maybe more than other people did. Tongue mindfulness.

I did have tongue awareness because it was sensitive but I but I but I like having a

tongue and I you know I use it a lot every day. I can't really imagine not having one like if you're one of those people there are people that don't have them

people that are members of the Ellen James society don't have them.

Well people who are you know maybe captured by some kind of

tongue-stealing pirates yeah some kind of pirate some kind of

course air or or a shadowy secret society a that was a threat that seemed to appear in movies a lot more when we were kids than it does recently.

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