The Lore You Know

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://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/).

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.   Lizard is a host on this one, check her out or get turned into a cactus: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

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 journey along with the always lovely Lizzy (https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/).

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 "attackers?" Does an ancient spiritual mother-being make babies the old fashioned way? We will find out all of this and more on our new multi part series that begins this All Hallows Eve Eve.   Thanks again to good friends and special guests Sammi and Erik who are bringing our lore to us on this journey and to good wife and co-host Liz (https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/).

*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 rotate as we take on another staple of the horror game series to discover, what is Silent Hill (it's a town in Maine).

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 Metroid named that? All of these easily answered questions are explored like an abandoned alien ship filled with dead guys and scary eggs. Watch and be amazed as CJ descends into madness like a movie franchise descends into being not so good anymore.

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 love with babies. I'm sure it all makes sense in the end though. Of course check out our guest host LizardxLizard and her amazing artwork and comics: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

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 inadvertently changes the landscape of literature for all time. Hang in there as the girls TwiHard not to cringe constantly(Lizzy wrote that). As always, check out Lizard at https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

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 unto us that forbidden fruit of knowledge. Be warned, for the price of knowledge (lore about giant robots) is great and terrible (you must listen to your mom jokes).

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 invested and such. Easy right? Now you buy these little men from us and as a bonus you can sell the little men to other people after they listen to the podcast. I'm telling you it prints money and you are gonna wanna be at the top of this marketing triangle. Special guest Justin tells you everything you need to know to get started.

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 world of the cult rock musical Rock & Rule. Does it have an actual script? No, but neither do we so we give it a lot of credit. Check out Finding Fiends on Webtoon written by our own LizardxLizard: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

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 outrun the sun cause we have a need for heehees.

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 way through the long line of successors to the most iconic Kaiju there ever was — the Good, the Bad, and the 1998 American one.

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 deep into fighting game lore.   LizardxLizard once again guest hosts, check out her stuff here: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

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 guest Colin stays long enough to be our shining knight against the horde of silly fantasy names.

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 goofy silly time. Choose wisely, for if you answer incorrectly we will release all the spiders that we hid in your headphones and there will be icky spiders in your ear (which is both ironic and appropriate for the season and you can't convince us otherwise).  

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 from early days with the Doomguy to being played in a movie by...*checks notes* Judge Dredd from the 2012 remake movie Dredd? Enjoy all the delicious set up to the newest entries and stay on the edge of your seat for 2 more weeks for that sweet payoff.

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. Enjoy some outtakes, bonus lore, and silly non sequiturs. Starring some lovely clips by none other than the witty and talented LizardxLizard: lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

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 can Quicken your knowledge of everyone's favorite Scotsman(?) and Spaniard(?).   Sean Connery resurrects in the second movie. We don't even cover that, it was so inconsequential it never came up but it's kinda crazy it just happened for no reason.

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 is.

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 Fortnite expert LizardxLizard: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

Not every episode has to be about big flashy heroes and villains. Sometimes you just need a silly little guy. Like, most of the time all the listeners want is just a fun, silly, tiny creature that runs around and does things. Wouldn't it be nice if those silly little guys were running around for real? I'd like that.

The explosive and quite honestly confusing conclusion to the manga that launched a million references. The end is like a choose your own adventure except instead of adventure it's existential dread.

At the very heart of anime lies one root, the genesis of myriad inspirations and references, the origin of a new tone of story telling. We pick apart this pillar of media and analyze its deep messaging, it's dark tones, and we make a bunch of jokes about drugs and bombs and stuff.

In this meta episode we talk about the lore of a show that talks over other shows. Remember if something doesn't make sense, it's just a show. You should really just relax.   Joined again by real life cryptid Lizardxlizard, check her out: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

Today we are talking about a lazy slacker who can't seem to get his life together. We are also talking about the critically acclaimed graphic novel Scott Pilgrim. Maybe it's just our millennial talking but we think this one rocks.

First mini episode, we talk about the plot of Spiderverse, Tears of the Kingdom, and Diablo 4. Just a couple boys being boys.

We talk about real American history in this one, so needless to say it gets a bit rough. In finite terms, we were Bioshocked to find out about the development of this game, but hopefully you can enjoy us getting mad at it.

Sit a while and listen to the story as old as time itself. A story of good and evil, of exceedingly bad ideas, and a good chunk of it is just angels and demons wanting to smash. Get caught up on Diablo lore before Blizzard comes knocking for it's tithe so you can be emotionally invested while your wallet gets drained.   Want some in depth games analysis? Check out Ethan's new channel: https://www.youtube.com/@propagameda

You cannot have a fight with only one fighter, and so too must you learn of another warrior to complete your Street Fighter knowledge. This time we are talking about M'Bison and while he might not be a "nice guy" he always has a smile on his face. It's time to learn the meaning of the phrase: Nothing beats psychic powers.

Ready? Fight! Ethan has been training all month preparing to deliver the killing blow to lore of everyone's favorite fighting game that comes in normal and turbo flavors. Premeditated murder? That's for the lawyers to decide. We are just here to start you on the way of murderous intent. Or the opposite of that, which also involves murder, but more a more mindful version.

Our greatest digifears have come to digifruition and we have been digidestined to revisit the most digital series there is. We have a lot of info to cram into this one, so sit back with a nice digibeverage and enjoy this cinematic length descent into madness (all in a shorter runtime than a James Cameron movie).

Nintendo can try to pretend like the latest Mario movie is the first one to come out, but we know better here. Lets-a-go then, you and I, to a place where mushrooms grow rampant and two simple Italian plumbers who are from Brooklyn defeat a king and who is also a wizard sometimes.

I was going to come up with a witty description for John Wick, but then some kid on Fortnite playing as him killed me and started orange justicing and now I don't want to think about it.   Get all caught up before John Wick: Chapter 4 changes all the rules of the world again rendering this lore obsolete.

80 percent of this episode is just us reusing interchangeable sequence from previous videos, but it keeps the cost down and personally they are our favorite parts. Join the crew in a new Digiventure talking about Digimon and their Diginspirations that were more than a little bit of a Digistraight ripoff of other (more successful) things. Yet another entry to the series of "Why most 90s kids are a least a little bit a furry"

Betrayal, forbidden love, the hidden ties that bind, and spirits from the great beyond with universal wisdom. We untangle this literary ball of yarn while coming to grips that it's all happening to cats. The gang's all here to finally answer the age old question: What did the cat drag in? It was tribalism. Guest expert LizardXLizard makes a farewell appearance, show her some love: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

Kitty paws and booted claws, a wayward fencing outlaw. This episode filled with a load of Spanish speaking flaw. We have a game for our guest LizardxLizard to play. The moral of this story is eating the rich is OK.   Check out more of our benevolent guest host at her socials: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

Come engage in some high fantasy with us while we describe several blue and red haired anime boys who save the world from dragons. Whether you are looking for love or just looking to make the most powerful team for killing without remorse, we have all the info you need right here. Special guest LizardxLizard returns to give her top husbando/waifu picks.   See more LizardxLizard here: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

Kirby not afraid, we are talking about everyone's favorite little puffball. So poyoself up a chair and get ready for a chill easy time that will suck all your problems away. At least until the end when you will have to confront the reality of all things that are and are not. But if you make if through you get some cake and a nap so pretty worth it.

A chill wind blows, a faint sound of jingle bells. You hear him whispering upon the wind, hohoho. Is he a benevolent spirit of old come to reward the children of the world, or a magnanimous force bound to the laws of ancient ones. Who can say, but today the gang is talking about the tool man. I hope everyone is in a festive spirit, we want to all be on our best behavior if the big man arrives. That's Santa, not Timothy Allen. Best behaviors either way.

The Blue Blur, The Fastest Thing Alive, King Arthur. He goes by many names but we have unburrowed ourselves from the underground to reveal all the secret rings from the original Sonic Archie Comics. Does it make sense? No not really. But when you are faster than the speed of thought, your plot is going to have some holes in it, and you can't have rings without holes (or something like that don't put that in the actual description). Again joined generously by LizardxLizard: https://lizardxlizard.carrd.co/

War. War never changes. But God of War does, a lot. So to catch you up for Ragnarok we have thrown together a little treasure trove of titanic tidbits to fill you in on what you might have missed in the era since Kratos was a young slayer with a heart of coal and plenty of quicktime events under his belt. Not family friendly unless you think Greek gods represented good family values in which case seek help, but after the episode.

Style, substance, sexiness. No we aren't talking about our podcast (well we are those things too), but instead talking about the Queen of Rope Mommies, Bayonetta. Strap on your high heels and squeeze in to your zentais because this one is a rough ride. Whether you are looking for an angle or deman, there's nothing on heaven or earth that can stop us from tickling your fancy...for witch lore.

Zombies...In...Spaaaaaace. That's the game. Sure there's ancient madness-causing space obelisks and space lasers and neat space metals, but why complicate things. In space, no one care hear you heehee.

Horror comes in groups of three just like in comedy, lists, and other things. To close the book on all known Resident Evil lore the gang puts on a brave face and takes some penicillin to delve into the scariest and grossest games of the series. There is fungus amungus and there's no turning back now so tune in for as long as you can before fear grips your heart and you call for mummy. Ethan was definitely tortured for this one.

The zombies were having fun, the party had just begun, the guests included CJ, Fran, and Ethan. The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds, with Chris and Wesker romantic tension abounds. Leon was spying some cutie-pie honies, while British men ground up and ate all the mummies. And while Claire and Ashley were left in the dust, Ada and Jill toward the dance floor did thrust. It was a mash (An RE lore dump smash)

The spooky season has descended like a vampire bat upon an unsuspecting goat and we have been infected with a horrible affliction that has morphed our minds, body, and even our branding! For the Halloween season we are The Lore of Horror and we are shuffling out our latest episode on the Resident Evil series. We do our best to Frankenstein the bits of this lore together into something that's alive, but it's clear that like always the real monster was Big Pharma.

Punk isn't dead, but now it's all sci-fi and full of roving gangs of clown people and unfettered corporate control. This time channel favorite LizardxLizard comes back to learn about the cool and totally no downside world of Cyberpunk. Whether you just want some more backstory to the cool new anime or are getting ready to jack in and play a real TTRPG for real Netrunning gamers, we've got you covered. From silver hands to nuclear dingalings and everything in between, wake up samurai and get ready to go The Edge.   Thanks again to LizardxLizard, check out her stuff at lizardxlizard.carrd.co

Would you kindly tune in as we discuss the (many) shortcomings of a truly free market. There's nothing airtight about the logic of this subaquatic capitalist wet dream, but we are willing to drill below the surface to find a moral lesson about unfettered economic growth. If you would liberate some time to come give us an invisible hand you just might learn something about the real world too, but it'll cost you. There are no free podcasts.