We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

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 1430. I S1426, certificate number 51410, the whole Earth catalog. It's another entry in the long history of omnibus entries that seem oddly to focus on the period between when I was born and when you and I

graduated from high school. Yeah isn't that funny that that was kind of the absolute

peak of history?

The meridian of history from which all things recede in either direction?

It is.

It is strange that history seems to have peaked in 1977.

Somebody was complaining on the website about how all the Alex Trebek obituaries

didn't mention Art Fleming. So, right, original host of Jeopard. Of the 60s

version. So I assume this is a baby boomer annoyed about the Fleming

erasure and I went back and I looked at some of Fleming's obituaries and they all

say even though you know he died in the 90s when Alex had now been hosting jeopardy for longer than him even though Alex had now been hosting Jeopardy for longer than him.

Even though Alex Trebek has now hosted his show for over a decade,

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