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 1006. J.E. 3122.

Certificate number 2927 the public universal friend

to allies and strangers are those you endure the rights of all living things fight to our whole.

So may you grow old.

I guess if you're finding this show in an underground archive in the year 4,000 maybe we will

Maybe we'll categorize the show maybe we'll have a little Dewey Decimal system here

Because all of our maybe you found all the shows about

Unusual colonial American religion together. Oh, I see.

Because we are doing, gradually this is becoming a show about unusual colonial American religion.

And cars.

Cars and airplanes.

If you're in the far future you don't know that every Tuesday

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