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 1376.1k0710.

Certificate number 3.54-4-10.

Uranium cubes.

You know how much I like talking about

nuclear power,

nuclear things.

I mean, it's been only a couple months

since we put the nuclear merchant vessel

into the omnibus.

Yeah.

I think, well, and you know how much I like talking about the Nazis of World War II,

fame.

So your perfect show would have Nazis and nuclear power. Yeah, susceptible to that's the thing.

It's like a podcasting.

There's a version of typecasting and I'm particularly susceptible to it because I'm such a like you it would be hard to type cast you as a cipher, you're just sort of an, you're an invisible man.

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