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 1431.

J.G.14.

Certificate number 35725.

Why is a mouse when it spins?

Do you remember your kid going through a riddle phase? Is this fixing your mind your kid discovering joke books?

Yes. Or bazooka Joe wrappers or wherever kids get these riddles recess? Yes, she she had joke books but and and and did riddles for a little while, but she really loves the humor sensibility of Garfield

comic strips from the early 80s.

Because you can't beat the classics. So she will walk into the room 80s. Because you can't beat the classics.

So she will walk into the room even now and I'll be reading or something and she'll go, hey dad,

want to hear a Garfield joke?

And I put my book down and go absolutely and she'll recount a Garfield strip in the same

way that you know people try to read or try to explain far side comics. She's like Garfield's sitting on a table.

Luckily there's not a lot of scene setting in a Garfield strip.

We're generally in the background is one horizontal line.

John walks in and I'm like I'm with you so far Garfield says and she still she she

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