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 931. J.N.0905, certificate number 24473, the Phoebus Cartel.

Do you compulsively turn off light bulbs in your house or do you let them burn?

Oh, I do nothing but turn off lights. Is that right? You're a light turner offer. You follow your your kids around if a room is empty and the

lights are on which is more often than not at our house I will walk in and kind of

shake my head sadly like dads have for centuries before me and I will turn

off the light.

You'll blow out the candle.

It's just how the ecosystem work.

Kids turn on lights, dads turn them off.

And during the period in the last half a dozen years

when LED light bulbs became the technology became

affordable and the quality of the light became you know more it wasn't a weird blue sad office lighting right it the light became

the color and temperature of them became pleasant

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