We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

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omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 1422 dot RV 613 certificate number 40197.97, the Western Washington Windshield Epidemic.

We talk a lot about Western Washington in the Seattle area.

Too much probably.

Yeah, I mean we have a lot of listeners in other countries and all around the United States and Canada.

Some guy in Bavaria or Queensland is thinking,

Ah, Voss is Doss.

Yeah.

I mean, the people in Queensland are really saying,

Voss is Doss, because it's their local dialect.

That's just, that's just an, that's my Australian I see a cruel souvenir I'm like vase is das might. You know I I was reading

something the other day some some fan comment that said that they had stopped listening

to a podcast I was on, not because of me, not because of me, I'm amazing, but because of me. No, you either people love you no it was one of my

co-hosts apparently bagged on Australia enough that this Australian listener was like I I'm out, I can't take it anymore.

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