The Lore You Know

What if soccer but with magic? How can we jazz up baseball? Can you run through the pool to win at swimming? Is blood sport a sport? What about chess? These are all questions one could imagine, and so we decided to do an episode about the many different sports of fantasy worlds. We know there is no rule that a dog can't play basketball, but how does a dog dribble?

Remember the Gingerbread Man story? What if there was a game like it? What if there were more cookies? What if they created society? What if they had racism and classism? In this episode, the wonderful Galestormkitsune of end credits fame graces us with their knowledge of this tasty little tale of cookie magic. There's a lot of lore baked into this one, but I guess that's just the way the cookie c...

Hold it! We submit that you do not yet know enough about the vibrant and colorful world of Ace Attorney. Objection! You can learn all about the wacky antics of this completely fictional system of law where rules are made up on the fly and precedence means nothing. Take that! Listen to our silly ramblings as we decide if this system of brutal efficiency would be a good fit for a society that needs...

We're assembling the team to take on a looming threat, and by that I mean we've got two buds together to explain the lore of a viewer-requested topic: Overwatch. Blizzard may have abandoned this story, but we will break it down and let you decide where the story would go. After all, everyone is an Overwatch (I think that's the tagline probably).

He-Man (He/Him) is a man that fights Skeletor (He/Him). They are men and them are not friend. They fight over orbs and swords, castles and vassals. They do whatever we want them to do, cause they are whatever we want them to be. He is man. He is Skeleman. We talk about it. Us is podcast.

Hiya there. This week the gang is taking to the stars (again) but this time with more animal characters. Check your G Diffusers and get ready to explore the universe. And also a dinosaur planet for some reason. Not an anthropomorphic dinosaur planet, just a regular one. But they talk. And there's a blue fox there, but you probably already knew that.  This is a game about shooting space lasers on r...

Bands: What even are they? Groups that play music. And what is music? Nobody knows, but sometimes these bards have lore and that's where we come in. Join us a we take a journey through genres and face coverings to discover the stories behind the music, and take a lot of detours along the way. This one is a real "Lore de force."

It's the distant future. The South has risen again, in space. The Space Bugs and the Space Nerds are fighting, but they don't know they are actually space cousins. There is one woman who is kinda both of them and also a human. Is this empowerment? That's for us to debate and you to decide on this Lore You Craft episode...I meant The Lore You Know.

Memory hacking, AI satellites, body swapping. If only there were pieces of media to help us predict the potential pitfalls of such technologies, especially as corrupt leaders and hackers attempt to use it against the population. Anyway, we are talking about Ghost in the Shell. Add this to the Torment Nexus Criterion Collection and listen as special guest Zach updates our memories with a cache of a...

This time we Tri, Tri again (wait I think we used that one already). Imagine a world that has been ravaged by mankind's wasteful disregard for scarcity and preservation. Now imagine we hitched it out of that world and went to Space Wild West. Grab a fist full of double dollars and wrangle up your riding chickens cause this week we are talking about Trigun and all the many Tri-s it tries to teach u...

It's lady's night again as the gals of The Lore You Know give the sitch on a true feminine icon, Kim Possible. Get your allyship points in by supporting women talking about women and women supporting their incompetent, more stoppable, male sidekicks. Wherever She go, We go, and He go and Me go too.

Do bugs have will? Do any of us, or are we just playthings of Gods? Who knows, but in this episode we talk about a little bug child and their deity father and all sorts of lil critters. If you feel the Radiance, don't fight it, just let it pull you like a moth to the flame.

Remember the days when they made TV shows really complicated, and also you could only reliably see them in order if you watched them at certain times, on certain days, and on a certain channel. Seems impossible right? Well...it's more likely than you think. Listen in to see what all the excitement was about circa 2004, and relive a time that was before *gestures broadly* all this.

It's that time of year again, one week after Christmas. So of course we have the perfect thing to get you back out of the Jingle Bell spirit by talking about reckless driving, real estate mergers, and of course, capitalism. Our New Year's Resolution is to always respect contract law and to become billionaires the honest, savory way. Happy Holidays everyone!

Break out your mini paints and clear every table you own, it's time to talk BattleTech. This isn't our first jump into a TTRPG, but this time we trade out a grim dark setting for a much more grounded, and therefore scarier, one. If there's one thing we know it's that giant robots are cool, so surely the gameplay must be interesting as well...right? You don't need to know how the big space ships wo...

The Power Rangers: Grim dark, angsty teens or colorful, campy crew? What if I told you, it's both. But also it's better when it's the second one. In this episode we explore not just a single show or movie, but a whole genre hailing from Japan called tokusatsu. From Super Sentai to the all American Rangers, it is a cultural exchange as diverse as the Rangers themselves. Go Go Power Rangers!

What time is it? It's Lore Time. Come along with us and learn about the Land of Ooo, a place that is at the same time silly and sad, cartoonish and emotional. There's a stretchy dog. We've got all the Lore you need to get up to speed on the latest Fionna and Cake show, as well as plenty of deep lore to impress your friends, be they candy, fire, or slime based. Mathematical!

If at first you don't succeed, tri, tri again. The gang brushed off their digivices, put on their goggles, and fell back into the world of Digimon Adventure tri. It's just like the old Digimon, except this time everyone is older and now you have a mortgage and a retirement account. 

I was researching the Lore, late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight It was Sammi and Erik who came to remind There's a music album with a story behind. It was The Monster Mash. What's scarier for the Halloween season than listening to the canon lore of a spooky dance monsters do? Maybe listening to two grown men attempt to do said dance.

The Lore is back and what better way to get up to speed than to talk about the fastest thing alive. Sonic has done a lot of things, some of them canonically. We try to make some sense of what makes this chili dog fueled vermin keep pace with the other mascots.    OCs are mentioned only a few (dozen) times, pls do not steal.

Break out the grease and Nos because it's time for the gang to go faster and with more fury than they have ever gone before. What is family? Who is family? Why is family? These questions and more will not be answered by us, but we will explain why Vin Diesel is so powerful but only while behind the wheel of a car. In the passenger seat this time around is Ethan with Lizzy at the wheel ( https://li...

Erik came in wide-eyed and crazed about a movie that was made from a book that was made about the lyrics of a song. Naturally, we had to explore this holiday themed world where the season is less than festive and the lessons learned are...up to interpretation. At the very least we keep the Christ in Christmas Shoes. On this episode are cohosts Erik and Lizzy ( https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/ )

CJ is sick, Fran is sick, let's play games. Defying gravity? More like defying canon am I right? This week the gang dives into the deep lore The Wizard of Oz, but the original stuff so you won't even be able to impress your friends with cool Wicked lore. Unless your friends would be more impressed with lore from a hundred year old book in which case your friends will probably like the podcast too....

The finale is finally here, the final say on the finish of feltish tale. All the strings are finally coming together, the weave completed (except that the Netflix series was cancelled). Complete your knowledge of the Dark Crystal as we bid our special guest goodbye, for now.   Thanks again for Sammi and Erik's research and of course Lizzy for cohosting ( https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/ ).

A new age dawns, and by that we mean we have another episode of dark fantasy puppets for you. The stakes are being raised, these little guys are facing horrors beyond their fuzzy minds. Perhaps if they can navigate this Labyrinth of alliances and enemies they can come out on top, or at least stay above ground. Who knows how it's going to turn out (we do). Friends Sammi and Erik return for the jour...