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The Twenty-Seventh Amendment (Entry 1352.GE3028)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In which a constitutional change finally happens after a two-hundred-year delay just to spite one Texas poli sci professor, and Ken likes it when scriveners get away scot-free. Certificate #43079.

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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

0:26.1

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

0:46.4

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 1352 dot GE 3028, certificate number 43079. The 27th amendment USA. Do you know about the government? Can you tell me about the Constitution?

1:37.0

Hey, learn about the USA?

1:40.0

Can you and I periodically get emails and various other correspondence suggesting that we are some kind of liberals?

1:52.0

Some sort of Democrats. Just because I got six emails today from

1:55.9

Kamala Harris saying she needs me. Oh yeah. Does that mean? Oh I've got I hope those

2:01.7

are from the campaign and not really from her.

2:03.4

That would be weird.

2:04.1

You'd be embarrassed not replying.

2:06.0

I would.

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I would, please, please stop watching Jeopardy.

2:08.2

Ms Vice President, I'm so sorry.

2:10.9

I've been getting increasingly aggressive texts. The last one said we've

2:16.6

asked you six times if you're going to vote for Kamala Harris and you have not

2:21.8

replied what you know basically what's your deal what's the deal we can't move on

2:27.4

until you

2:28.7

six times they've asked me why are you ghosting these campaign bots?

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