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 1,000. E.S. 905, certificate number 42869, the protocols of the elders of Zion.

Who controls the British crowd?

Who keeps a metric system down we do we do

who leads Atlantis off the bats who keeps the Martians under wraps

we do we do.

Do you have a favorite conspiracy theory?

Do you feel, do you feel, uh, are you like seduced by by ideas you know generally that things are

controlled from behind the scene? My conspiracy theories that I genuinely believe are pretty banal.

Like you explained the popularity of the band The National by virtue of some kind of behind

the scenes conspiracy.

Machinations? Probably even more banal than that. behind the purports to go up and down green into red as the crowd gets louder is fake.

It's just a pre-taped graphic and it's not reflecting crowd noise at all.

When the ball game happens at a Mariners game where where the hats you know it's three card

Monte with a three card mine with hats or the or the three speedboats that are

racing hydrofoil race yeah and is it red greener yellow do you think those are

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