878: New Lore Drop

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People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.

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People discovering information about their own lives that they
did not know, and suddenly everything
looks very different.

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Prologue: When Pete turned 18, his dad took him on a drive to
reveal a family secret he was finally old enough to
know. (11 minutes)

Act One: Sometimes, a lore drop comes when you least expect
it. That happened to Jake Cornell and his grandmother.
Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talked to Jake about it. (14
minutes)

Act Two: Ben Austen had a kind of new lore drop happen to him
recently. But it was not the clarifying kind of lore drop, where
everything suddenly makes sense — it was kind of the
opposite. (29 minutes)

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