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. Oh, You have accessed entry 1432.

M.T. 0823, certificate number 28232, the Wild Goose.

Signal law shifts coming out to form up with us.

I asked it.

So you and I just recently were marooned together on a cruise ship.

Does it count as marooning if you're on the boat with 3,000 people?

We were never marooned. Although for a while we were forbidden entry to a port.

We did not get to go to Turks and Kekos. No. Because the Turks and the Kekos finally, after years of fighting over the island.

They finally met in the green zone. goes finally, after years of fighting over the island.

They finally met in the green zone and decided

they would not let American tourists onto their island,

which fair enough.

I mean, they're not wrong.

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