We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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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 1357 dot I S 4031, certificate number 20800,

Ultra running.

In the very early days of the omnivist project, I think our very third entry, the first one we did here in Seattle,

we talked about marathon running. So I assume you and I have had this conversation before, but what's the longest you've ever run?

Well, I was in cross country in high school.

Oh, I didn't know you were cross country.

I was not very good at cross country.

I thought you were all skiing all the time.

And I was in cross country skiing in high school, but I was in cross country running for one fateful year.

Do you enjoy physical culture?

Physical culture. What I what I enjoyed was socially I was I was social with the cross country runners.

There was something about as you know

cross country runners are the real wits

of the sports world. They tend to be just so fun. They're not really. They're mostly

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