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 1352 dot 1 THO207 certificate number 16065. 7. I texted you yesterday saying yes we are going to record omnibus because we believe in this

endeavor.

We do.

It's it is it's one of the shaping functions of our life.

We must memorialize the culture before, before we go.

We're not going any younger.

C's aren't getting any lower.

We could still get COVID, both of us. I was just telling you my son who I always knew would get COVID in the dorms and immediately bring it home, told us in the car on the way to the airport on Friday,

hey, I have a sniffle and a sore throat.

Five minutes after we could have given him, uh, the Biden tests that litter our closet.

Yeah, but you're in the car, you're halfway to the airport.

And it's not until in a different time zone the next morning that we go to a drugstore

and get him a test.

And he's... After flying and he's coughing all over an entire airplane.

He's like asymptomatic but still except for the sort throat and stuff he knows.

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