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. So, You have accessed entry 1012.

D.E.0611,

certificate number 42007. The push button.

I have no idea.

I have no idea. This is either going to be this is either going to prove to be the

most universal experience in the world to the point of mundaneity or it's going to

make me sound like a huge weirdo and I don't know what it is.

Let's figure it out.

Let's figure out.

Mundanity or like or weird.

Crazy eccentricity.

Did you as a child love to press buttons? Absolutely. I would press a

button. Oh my gosh. All you have to do is give me a button and I want to press it.

Like compare them to say dials, knobs, I also like dials and knobs but are buttons better they are pretty good I feel like

I found buttons to be so much more satisfying than well now wait a minute you

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