Oren: I mean, it is really convenient when you find all the knowledge in an exposition book. Wes: God forbid you have to steal the declaration of independence and then find a secret map or riddle or whatever it was on the back of it in that movie. It’s like, “Here, now watch as we do very slow experimentation and iteration on this idea to figure it out.” That’s not as fun. One definitely is more conducive to stories than the other. It’s fun.Ĭhris: It’s way easier to discover something that, you know, somebody knew and put nicely in a book for you, and then the book was conveniently lost, than it is to do scientific method to regain all that. In a world where we’ve seen so much, there’s robots on Mars and stuff – but it’s the archeologist, it’s the Indiana Jones of it all, kind of figuring it out and finding it. Wes: There’s something to it when it’s lost, and you need to discover it. So it’s mostly, how do we find an excuse, so that knowledge can actually be lost. Especially with fantasy, it makes everything feel wondrous, and that’s what we’re going for most of the time. But I wanted to talk about it, it’s been on my mind recently, because I’m reading a book right now where reading is lost knowledge, which is weird and strange.Ĭhris: Well lost knowledge is really cool. So I’m part of the problem, to be absolutely clear.
Every other day, it’s like, “Hey, this NPC will tell you some lost history” and the other players seem to think that’s cool. Oren: And then there are other things like fantasy stories, which love to have ancient curses and the big bad that’s so old that nobody has written it down anywhere.
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You get the really obvious ones, like in post-apocalyptic stories, where not only have we forgotten things, but we don’t know how to do technology anymore because of an apocalypse.Ĭhris: Hence why podcasts are running on RSS feeds. No, today we’re talking about lost knowledge, which is a very common trope in various types of spec fic. I think that’s the lost knowledge you’re talking about. They say that podcasts once ran like water in the before times, but such knowledge is lost to us now… Can you guess what the topic is for today? Can you guess it?Ĭhris: Is it how hard it is to work with RSS feeds? Because they’re just like a technical nightmare. Now gather around friends, ‘round the campfire, for today we’ll be telling you about the lost ancient myth that is the Mythcreant podcast. I’m Oren and with me today is Chris and Wes. Oren: And welcome everyone to another episode of the Mythcreant podcast. Volunteer to transcribe a podcast.Ĭhris: You’re listening to the Mythcreant podcast with your hosts Oren Ashkenazi, Wes Matlock and Chris Winkle.
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