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 access entry 1306.

NU 774, certificate number 3 4556.

The Tibetan Memory Trick.

Okay, we'll do the announcers test

only because we want to see if you can remember it okay? John will you repeat after me?

Yes. One hen. One hen. One hen. One hen. One hen. One hen, one hen, two ducks.

One hen two ducks.

One hen two ducks three squawking geese.

One hen two ducks three squawking geese.

One hand two ducks, three squawking geese, four limerick oysters. One hand two ducks three squawking geese four limerick oysters one hand two

You just have the numbers of the easy part three squawns. Four Limerick oysters.

Not bad.

C-plus.

One hen, two ducks, three-squarking-gies,

four-limic oysters, five corpulent porpoises.

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