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The Lore You Know
by Cooking With Spices
Here at The Lore You Know we drill down deep into the fantastical and often convoluted lore of your favorite TV shows, video games, anime, and movies to bring you the facts about completely made up things. Hosts CJ, Ethan, and Fran are occasionally joined by some helpful ”experts” to recant your beloved imaginary worlds all while revealing the truths the average viewer may never see.
Episodes
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ThunderCats
It's got swords, sorcery, spaceships, furries, and mummies. What more could you possibly need? Apparently, for less girls to watch it. Let us journey through Third Earth and give you Sight Beyond Sight into the world of the The ThunderCats. We cover the old stuff and the new, tragically cut short...
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Monday Night War of Wrestling
Let's get ready to WRASTLE. Everyone says that wrestling is fake, but the drama is real. But maybe the drama is fake, and the wrestling is real? Or maybe it's all real? We might be deep in the kayfabe, but we are taking you down with us, brothers. So oil up your biceps and dump a bucket of tacks…
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Elden Ring
You can't have a lore show that doesn't get sucked into a FromSoft game. This destiny is written by the Old Gods in the very stars. So you've chipped away at us like a little guy with a sword and this week we are exploring The Lands Between. Will we gaze upon ultimate truth, or find only madness?...
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Disney's Gargoyles
They are the silent protectors. They are one with the night. They are big and buff and kind owo. They have been laying in wait, as unmoving stone, for a thousand years (since 1994). They have been storing power, waiting to be unleashed into the world once more, and we will unleash them. Join as…
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Dragon Ball Z
We all know the big strong guy from the side of all the taco trucks, but did you know he comes from an anime with lots of other guys? We were surprised too, but you Kaoi-Can power up your pop culture knowledge by listening to us sorting through the story of some of our favorite buff guys. We're…
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Oh boy this is a big one, but keep in mind if it doesn't make sense that's not because we are explaining it wrong, but because it is silly and complicated. Need to get caught up before the next phase of the MCU begins? Well this is like, a good first start probably. Colin was gracious enough to...
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Neopets
Pets. They are nice and all but what is the new thing, the next leap of a generation? Dressing them in outfits? Zapping them with rays? Giving them their owns pets? Giving those pets pets? We explore the possibilities of these "New Pets" as we dive into Neopia and the lore of Neopets. One…
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Fantasy Sports
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…
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Cookie Run
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…
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Ace Attorney
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...
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Overwatch
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…
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He-Man
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.
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Star Fox
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…
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Bands with Lore
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.…
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StarCraft
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...
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Ghost in the Shell
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...
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Trigun
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...
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Kim Possible
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.
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Hollow Knight
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.
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Lost (TV Series)
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…
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
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...
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BattleTech
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...
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Power Rangers
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…
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Adventure Time
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...
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Digimon Adventure tri
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.
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The Monster Mash
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...
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Sonic The Hedgehog: In 3D
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)...
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Fast & Furious
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…
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The Christmas Shoes
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...
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The Wizard of Oz
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…
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The Dark Crystal (Part 3)
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…
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The Dark Crystal (Part 2)
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...
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The Dark Crystal (Part 1)
Halloween and is here and we are bringing the fall vibes with this classic dark fantasy starring puppets and only puppets. Learn everything there is to know about the world of the Dark Crystal. Who put the big bird men in charge? Why do they keep talking about needing to "defend" from…
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Silent Hill
*Content Warning* Themes of self harm and sexual abuse. We bring you tales from the Quiet Mounds. Are we being haunted by ghosts, or is it all just politics? Either way the natives tried to warn us and we didn't listen so now we bring you the very timely horror classic. Press left and right to...
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Alien
*Content Warning* Themes of sexual assault and abuse. We're back just in time for the spooky season and we have a big one. Ever wonder what that little dancing chest-burster in Space Balls is a reference to? Isn't it curious how everyone says "Game Over Man, Game Over?" Why is the bad guy in...
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Twilight (Part 2)
The girls are back in town and that town is Forks and how can they still possibly be talking about sparkling vampires? Well it has something to do with hunky werewolves and unholy cabals. It's hard to tell for sure, I got really distracted at the parts where they were talking about falling in…
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Twilight (Part 1)
It's Galentine's day, and what better way to celebrate than to bring in the ladies to talk about everyone's favorite brooding vampire couple. No, not Angel and Buffy the other one. The coven of Lizzy, Sammi, Sayali, and Fran chronicle what happens when a Mormon invents vampire lore that...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
This is a big one folks, so remember your training because we are going to sync some levels with you. What happens when you mix the Bible with anime? No, not the manga version of the Bible, though we are not too far off. Loremaster Mischka has descended from his high place of existence to deliver...
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Warhammer 40,000
Listen you're gonna want to get in on the ground floor on this one. It's a sure shot, we bought a bunch of little plastic men and then we glued them together and painted them. We bought a lot of them. Then we do a podcast about the lore of the little world these little men live in, get all…
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Rock & Rule
We found this weird DVD stashed in the back of our dad's old El Camino, and unlike everything else we find back there this is something we can show you. Join us now as we travel to a world that only a bunch of 80's Canadians could dream up as we guide you through the weird and totally cohesive...
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The Chronicles of Riddick
If we all could afford to make a movie about our favorite OC then the world would be a better place. In the real world only Vin Diesel gets to take a stab at it. We are covering the Riddickulous series that spans one of the worst movies to one of the best video games. Goggle up and get ready to...
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Godzilla
Long live the King, a literal titan of media that has been stomping around for a lifetime is bound to have some missteps. The problem is when you are as big as a building, a misstep destroys an office building. Generally, if your monster movie is boring then something has gone wrong. We smash our...
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Mortal Kombat
We are just trying to Kombat our own Mortality, but now we had to dig in to this mess of a series. Usually reboots are supposed to make the lore simple, but they forgot to get rid of the old stuff and now we need to go 3 full rounds of punishing story. The Moral of this Kontent is never dive too...
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DOOM (Part 2)
It's time to finish the fight...I mean rip and tear until it is done. There's a lot of unanswered questions, and we were OK with that, but they decided to answer those questions anyway. Our final dive into the lore of the latest DOOM installments is a road to madness, but fortunately special…
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SAW (Halloween Special)
Hello listener, you've never appreciated having a silent 2 hours during a spooky Halloween night. In this Halloween Special episode you will find guest hosts Sammi and Erik who have devised a way to convey the Saw lore into one handy episode. You must decide if this lore makes sense or if it is...
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DOOM (Part 1)
One of the most iconic video game series to have ever existed began with just some random guy in a green suit killing waves of enemies with laser guns. And before Halo there was DOOM. In this one, the gang recruits the help of Colin, Loremaster of angels and demons, to cover the full DOOM story...
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The Treehouse of Lore-or
We are getting some spooky season appropriate episodes ready, so in the mean time enjoy the scariest thing we could think of, UNRELEASED CONTENT. But in all honesty we have some funny goofs and gaffs that we didn't really have any use for, but now we have finally have a full episode's worth.…
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Highlander
There can be only 5 movies, two animated series, a live action TV series, several graphic novels, and an upcoming reboot. Learn the essentials of the saga everyone knows a little bit about but no one knows all of, as that knowledge is The Prize. There's only so much we can do in 2 hours but we…
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Metroid
Did you know that the Varia suit is probably just a mistranslation of the English word Barrier, so Samus' suit was supposed to be called the Barrier Suit? Anyway that's one of the fun bits of trivia we could have done if we had more time but we didn't because we had to talk about how dumb Other M...
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Battle Royale
Today it's about the genre book that spawned 1000 games all with the same niche. If it seems like a crazy fever dream, that's because originally it was one. Brace yourselves for the drop cause this one gets a little darker than Fortnite may make it seem. Again we are joined by special guest and...
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Here at The Lore You Know we drill down deep into the fantastical and often convoluted lore of your favorite TV shows, video games, anime, and movies to bring you the facts about completely made up things. Hosts CJ, Ethan, and Fran are occasionally joined by some helpful ”experts” to recant your beloved imaginary worlds all while revealing the truths the average viewer may never see.
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Here at The Lore You Know we drill down deep into the fantastical and often convoluted lore of your favorite TV shows, video games, anime, and movies to bring you the facts about completely made up things. Hosts CJ, Ethan, and Fran are occasionally joined by some helpful ”experts” to recant your...
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