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. Okay. You have accessed entry 1394. GE4130 certificate number 24180. The video game crash of 1983. Can you believe we haven't done a video game show?

Uh, yeah, we have done almost 500 entries in the omnibus. video games

out of the entries in the omnibus and none are about what is probably the

what the most largest and most profitable entertainment sector in the world

today right I think if video games out earn like movie TV's and music combined.

And drugs? Drugs probably out earns all of four of those combined including video games.

I'm counting video games in the drugs. Yes, right, video games are a drug.

Opiate for the masses, baby. I am the video game generation as hard as it may be for people to believe because I'm such a rough

and tumble old school curmudgin raised in a log cabin wrestling bears.

In fact, you occasionally, you'd have to put down your joystick to wrestle the bears.

That's true.

It's true.

I was the target audience, right?

In 1978, I was 10 years old and they were trying to I mean the whole video game industry was directed

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