Lore Boys

The Lore Boys are digging into the canonical Transformers character Carl Sagan this episode! Grab your four pairs of aviators, get those snakes off your boat, and remember that if you're a tarantula you legally have to tell me. The Lore Boys are looking into why Megatron stole our archive of dirty movies and decided to travel with them back in time, to a time when there were no people, only animal...

Lore Boys back, this time with television lore! We're talking Mainframe entertainment's hit 90s show Reboot! We've got viruses named Hexadecimal and Megabyte, and heroes named Bob, Enzo, and Dot. Talking about Reboot also gets us talking a bit about Veggie Tales and James Bond, cause why the heck not, huh? Peter takes a sick day, Ethan feuds with fonts, and James surfs the web! If you liked the ep...

The Lore Boys return once again for what feels like at least the 39,000th time with Morty-K 40K Lore for your listening pleasure! Today we tackle what must be the most iconic of all the Space Marine legions, the Ultramarines. The blue, the gold, the denim and the symbolism. We explore the crash landing, explosive growth and eventual ascension of their Primarch Robute Gulliman. What happens when in...

Battle Angel Alita lore from the Lore Boys that brought you such hits as: Dorohedoro, Kirby, Kid Icarus, and many more. It's the internet's #1 fake history podcast with more tales from Japan! From humble beginnings in a trash heap in Kentucky, not unlike our show, Battle Angel Alita really does paint a picture of solar intersystem conflict. From weird box Jovians to corpulent french Venusians with...

Hey all, Lore Boys with more lore for ya! We're talking the beautiful land of Azeroth once more, and ye old gods who were found on it before any life on earth. That means Alliance should be so high and mighty that the Horde orcs aren't native, considering they had to oust so old Lovecraftian horrors before moving in. We're hopping into the universe to make sure World of Warcraft's one true timelin...

Lore Boys are back with the Internet's #1 Fake History Podcast. This week we're taking up the Astarte's mantle with more Warhammer 40K lore on the Space Marine Legions of the 30th Millenium. It's the Salamander episode, and these only come around once every 15 years on Nocturne! We're talking about great beasts, Saurians, and Dark Eldar , so saddle up those giant, fire-breathing hellspawn you call...

Lore Boys here but not for long, we are leaving the physical realm of the living and moving beyond to the Empyrean! This week we're capping off Dante's Divine Comedy with Paradiso! Leaving Vergil's Pagan butt behind Peter learns about the planets, Ethan learns about birds, and Jamie records backwards! Is that Dante's big ol' nose or a parrot? There's a dragon, your girlfriend charges her powers to...

Conjoined Lore Boys here! Bringing you another classic game that really didn't need to be so complicated! Jamie brings us Kid Icarus! Today we learn what one man in the 80s can do with an NES, which games and American Tails to ignore and that Sakurai is probably a mad man. We see ourselves in mirrors, get trapped in rings, fight himbos, then aliens, then more aliens, maybe we attack our moms or so...

Lore Boys have more 40K lore for you, and this time we're talking Astartes Imperium -- more often called Space Marines. Specifically, the first of the Emperor's legions, the Dark Angels! Now, it's not mandatory reading, but checking out our episode on the Great Crusade might give you a little more insight into this awesome worldbuilding! Peter joins an Order, Ethan puts a bounty on some Great Beas...

Lore Boys have arrived on our National Holiday because we don't take days off! Today we're making our way out of Hell and into Purgatory while covering the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy! Today we'll find out about gravity, time zones, penance as well as the nature of sin! Is Purgatory just God's waiting room? Or is it something far worse? Ethan collects Virgin Mary cards, Jamie sleeps under...

Lore Boys are back, with more high-fallutin', tech-shootin', snappy-bantered buddy-cop duos... but no, it's not another Jak and Daxter episode. We're talking about Ratchet and Clank, a series so dear to Sony's heart it was a cornerstone of the big timey-PS5 demo. It's got cat-people, robot-people, rock-people, and even a janitor! Ethan finds out what happens when you teach a genocidal warlord how...

Lore Boys are back from our long journey and we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Today we're taking a look at the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, Inferno. We're here to teach you where most of us will inevitably end up, so you can at least know what to expect. We'll learn how fanfiction was invented, how the Mary Sue was invented, as well as how we started to move from Old Ita...

Lore Boys are back to absorb all life on your podcast app of choice down to the smallest bacteria! Today we look into the heart of the swarm and try and reason with the Tyranid. It's more Warhammer 40K lore from one of the most comprehensive wells of worldbuilding we'll likely never plumb dry. Are they all id or ego? How does their long range communication work and where is their boss? Does instal...

Lore Boys are here, and we're talking about Borderlands! For our 3rd anniversary we figured we'd dive back and revisit our 3rd ever episode, with the added twist that we can now include the Borderlands 3, of course. We're talking the Children of the Vault, a group of die-hard fanatics willing to do whatever it takes for the vine, including murdering witches in the name of their saviours, Jake and...

Ever wonder what would happen if the gubberment uploaded NANO BOTS to pull all the gluten out of the atmosphere? Well we sure have, cause we're a dumb hand kind of podcast here on the Lore Boys. We're talking about the lore behind The Surge game series from Deck13 Interactive, and we bring our usual brand of idiotic Lore Boys canon to it, but this time that canon is endorsed! We've got garlic brea...

Censored Lore Boys back at it with the sex cults! Today Ethan takes us to the valley of the Satyrs for a little love, and a lot of debauchery. Today we get deep into Xenagos! We learn how he went from party legend, to party god! We learn how not even orgies can keep you entertained forever, raising your own kids is a mistake and how ever wandering the infinite planes won't keep you happy forever....

Hey all, Lore Boys here with some real-life Lore from everyone's favourite real-life boy, James. We're doing a brief history of twitch dot tv and covering all the manufactured drama and history therein. From humble beginnings as a chat service, to the multimedia powerhouse known the world over today, Twitch's past sure is confusing and scary at times. If you ever wanted to find US on twitch, the b...

Listening is the only way to guarantee citizenship! Hello or welcome back Lore Folk, we're going low tech again and talking a little real and a little fake but mostly book on this week's episode of the Lore Boys! A kindly old fan (we assume) in the Netherlands suggested we cover Starship Troopers and here it is! Today we cover the fascinating politics of the author, how it became a film, and using...

Hello and welcome Lore Folk, Today we've got a magic trick for you. A Magic the Gathering trick that is! Today we will tie together some of the episodes we've set up already being following up with Urza and especially, Karn! We learn that not all was well for the step son (robot) after being created from the heart of a Phyrexian horror and sent through time. He has to raise his own step family, tr...

Lore Boys are bringing back the old school, with another listener request: Diablo! We're talking about Big Boy Bulkathos and his little wimp friend Vasily, leading the Barbarian class of Diablo 1, 2, and 3 to a zealotry for protecting the Worldstone! This episode, Ethan straps some knives to a roomba, Peter joins a home-owners' association, and James tries to summon his long-dead friends. If you w...

We are the Lore Boys and we are here with something whacky for you this week: DC Comics X-Men before the X-Men, the Doom Patrol. Created in the 60s when sex was cool, drugs were cool, and communism and Nazis were bad! Muckey Mouse and Gonald Guck show up to talk about how Disney is bad, and how the X-Men did 9/11?? This episode, Ethan talks Nominative Determinism, Peter gets the courage to lazily...

Lore Boys back, with some more of that zany Command and Conquer backstory. If you haven't yet heard our first Command & Conquer episode , you don't need to worry as this timeline stands on its own pretty well. We're avoiding the Red Scare this week and talking that troublesome Tiberium instead. Trees shooting crystal all over the place like pollen, and could it be that the whole world suddenly...

Hello and welcome back, It's us! Your friendly neighborhood Lore Boys! Assuming you live in our hood anyway. Jamie brings us some silly history in a time where we really all just need to relax. Nothing relaxes us like entrapment, crippling debt, pointless labour and Albert Camus! Ethan loses a Chinchilla, Pete figures the villager must be happy, and Jamie fantasizes about zero interest loans on Ta...

If you thought we'd stop in these trying times you'd be wrong, with a wanton disregard for the safety of ourselves and others we bring to you the lore of the DOTA-verse. Do you know anything about DOTA? We sure as Hell didn't so we brought on YouTube's DOTA expert Anger for some assistance! She'll tell us how to create the universe, gravity, where to find fairies and even has her own wild head can...

Hello Lore Folk! Stay home, stay smart and stay safe everyone. Today Ethan and Jamie are taking on a little Commanding and an unreasonable amount of Conquering, that's right with a quick RIP for our homies over at Westwood studios it's Command and Conquer time. The Lore Boys come at you as live actors along with the famously stupid Jenny McArthy to take your land, Tiberium and turn you in a Commun...