The Ma Bell Breakup (Entry 744.LK1214)

Omnibus

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In which the U.S. government finally succeeds, after decades, in breaking up a massive telephone monopoly, and John is unfamiliar with a funny poem about an elephant. Certificate #22481.

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0:00.0	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.
0:21.0	Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental
0:26.2	reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.
0:28.8	These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.
0:35.0	So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,
0:41.0	this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 744 dot LK1214 certificate number 22481
1:22.2	the Ma Bell Break Up. Now Futurelings listening to the program are going to be thinking of
1:47.0	Omnibus as a giant multi-headed Hydra Corporationate spanning the globe. Because as we get as we get
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2:06.3	crushing them or assimilating them into the larger omnibus rubric.
2:11.6	It's going to be hard for them to imagine a time when it was just
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2:30.0	It's compulsory. Everybody salute. Everybody salute the giant holograms of Ken and John.
2:37.0	But, I mean, and because of who we are and our governing life philosophies, of course, one of the things that's going to promote the gradual consolidation of all podcasts into the omnibus project is, it compatible with Marxism is that compatible with
2:54.2	Marxism and it is actually yeah there should be a centralized planned economy
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3:08.4	economy cannot support another true crime podcast this year.
3:13.2	Nope.
3:14.3	We'll send you to the gulag.
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