Crusades, relics and Greek myth, with the opinions left in.
Lore and Legends sets formal historical narration beside a host, Wade, who calls himself a blunt religion-and-politics guy. Episodes range from Pope Urban II and the People's Crusade to the Spear of Longinus, Deucalion's flood and his case for why the moon can't be reached today.
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Lore and Legends is a one-voice podcast about history, myth and legend, and about what its host thinks they mean. The range is wide. Episode titles include 'Deucalion and the Flood', 'Father of the Crusades: Pope Urban II', 'The Peoples Crusade', 'Hitler and the Spear of Destiny', 'Faking the Moon Landing' and 'Charlie Kirk, Culture, and the Chaos of Demons'. Between them they cover Greek myth, medieval church history, Nazi relic lore, the Apollo era and current events, all in the same voice. The Crusades are the spine. The Urban II episode places the pope's 1095 call to holy war alongside Alexios's plea for military aid, restless knights and a surge of pilgrimage and relic devotion. It also asks whether Urban was a visionary, a cunning politician or a man carried by his time. 'The Peoples Crusade' is harder going. It covers crusader massacres of Jews in Worms, Mainz and elsewhere in the Rhineland, and the victims who chose martyrdom over conversion, all before the armies got anywhere near the Middle East. The sources get weighed against each other: the host notes that accounts disagree over Peter the Hermit's part in the violence. He names the Siege of Antioch as a planned next chapter. The relic episode exists, he says, because the story was too good not to tell. It follows the Spear of Longinus through rival lances in Armenia and Vienna, then the Nazi fixation on the Vienna lance, citing Trevor Ravenscroft's 1973 book for the claim that a young Hitler felt a mystical connection to it. He recommends it to fans of his weirder episodes. The Deucalion episode is plain narrative: Zeus in human form visiting King Lycaon, a flood that drowns even the birds, a small boat caught on Parnassus. Then the host steps forward. Wade says he began the podcast as Waiting In, a pun on his name, and calls himself a blunt religion-and-politics guy. The moon episode grows out of his father's memories of watching the 1969 landing on TV and asks why it can't be repeated today, leaning on what he describes as his own experience in aerospace manufacturing. The Charlie Kirk episode is openly political and driven by faith. It includes a final section he titles 'Chaos Demon', and he admits the episode is heavier than his usual fare. A listener after straight history should start with the two Crusades episodes, and one after the strange should try the Spear of Destiny. Many blog posts on loreandlegends.net are episode transcripts with links to sources.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes history told as narrative, especially the Crusades and legends about sacred relics, and who is comfortable with a host who brings his own religious and political convictions into the conversation.
What sets it apart: Formal historical narration that names its sources and blunt personal commentary come from the same host, so an episode on Pope Urban II sits beside one reacting to Charlie Kirk's killing. He also draws on his faith and, in the moon episode, on what he describes as his own aerospace work.
Lore and Legends explores humanities past, present, and future through the the lore and legends of past cultures like Ancient Egypt, Greece, and the oft forgotten Native Americans. And of course modern myths, legends, and phenomena like bigfoot, UFO's, Conspiracies, and Religions.... https://www.loreandlegends.net
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A faith-inflected reflection on Charlie Kirk's assassination, public violence, and the theories gathering around it.
Charlie Kirk's assassination gives this Lore and Legends episode its point of departure, as the host moves from a personal account of religion and politics into a wider meditation on discernment, public violence, and the comfort people often assume will hold.
A practical look at why Apollo's achievement cannot simply be rebuilt.
The moon landing question gets a clear, practical airing as the episode looks at why a country that reached the lunar surface in 1969 cannot simply rebuild that achievement today.
Technology is power; wisdom is the question.
World myths with the sharp edges left on.
Charlie Kirk's assassination becomes the centerpiece of a Lore and Legends monologue that argues an invisible line has been crossed in American life.
Pope Urban II’s 1095 sermon at the Council of Clermont transformed a request from Emperor Alexios into the First Crusade.
Lore and Legends' 'Faking the Moon Landing' argues that the real problem is not proving Apollo 11 happened, but explaining why Apollo-era capability feels so hard to rebuild.
Amerigo Vespucci's reported 1497 voyage began after a 1496 meeting with Christopher Columbus in Seville, Spain.
Theseus and the Minotaur follows a hidden heir who lifts a stone at eighteen and claims Aegeus's sword.
This episode explores the history and extinction of the Woolly Mammoth and other Ice Age megafauna, including evidence of human hunting.
This episode explores the biblical and apocryphal accounts of the Nephilim, giants born from the union of sons of God and daughters of men, and their role in pre-flood mythology.
This episode examines the biblical story of the Nephilim and fallen angels, connecting it to broader ancient myths about gods interacting with humans.
This episode continues the Epic of Gilgamesh, covering Enkidu's death and Gilgamesh's quest for immortality.