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The Princeton Incident (Entry 987.RU0310)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In which the worst naval accident in U.S. government history almost kills a president but inspires romance instead, and John doesn't love the coquetteish head-tilting in old photos. Certificate #52488.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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We are receiving this message.

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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. Oh, You have accessed entry 987. R. U. 0310.

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Certificate number 52488. The Princeton incident incident incident. My family was in New York a couple weeks ago for spring break.

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Famous spring break location.

1:48.0

You went to the beaches in New York.

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We were in midtown.

1:52.0

It's pretty typical Jennings trip to Manhattan. We saw a few shows, we

1:56.6

eat some pastrami. Do you go to like big Broadway productions of the Phantom of the

2:01.7

Opera and stuff or do you go to like black box shows

2:05.1

where somebody screams about their childhood? Yeah I just like to see maybe people

2:11.8

splashing paint on nude bodies.

2:13.8

Yeah, so we go to a lot of that.

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But it, but, but it's a musical.

2:17.3

And it's wicked, weirdly.

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A version of wicked.

2:22.4

We generally, we're generally a little musical a verse, I mean, of least me and Mindy, you know, our

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