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 1351.

M.T. 1828, certificate number 48968. TV detection vans.

Yes, there's a TV set on number five.

It's in the front room and they're watching Colombo. If you don't have a

TV license it won't take as long to find you. You watch a lot of media, TV, movies, stuff. You know what I love? I love

content. You were saying to me today that one of the things about being quarantined that you've noticed about yourself is that

getting together with friends when you list the things that you're looking forward to at the

end of quarantine.

Getting together with friends, seeing other people,

is like fifth down the list of the things

that you miss the most.

I definitely said that I miss restaurants and movie theaters and maybe travel

more than I miss friends in the sense that I would miss like a big dinner party or just friends clapping

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