23: Lara Croft Tomb Raider

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We enter the world of video games this week as we peel back the mystery of the Tomb Raider. Also known as Lara Croft, she is an adventurer and action hero. She has had a series of video games released about her, but do you know here entire history? It's time to explore some caves and learn! So sit back and enjoy as Ashley and Jason begin their lesson. You might learn something. Enter your Mind University! Be careful! This podcast contains SPOILERS. So if you don't want to know what happens, then you should come back later. You can help support the show by buying the best geek & gamer gear that comes from Loot Crate, save 10% with code JAWIIN.Go to http://lootcrate.com/Jawiin Listen on Itunes or Stitcher. Make sure to visit our Facebook fanpage: facebook.com/geekhistorylesson and our Tumblr: geekhistorylesson.tumblr.com for the latest news on episodes and more geek facts. You can find Ashley on Twitter @AshleyVRobinson and Jason on Twitter @Jawiin. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class dissmissed!

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0:00.0	Do you know which video game character has been a feminist icon, a movie star, and had her history
0:06.3	retcon in less than 10 years?
0:08.3	Crash Bandicoo!
0:09.3	Absolutely not!
0:10.3	Because today we are talking Laura Crock the Tomb Raider and your Geek History
0:14.4	lesson is now in session. Hello and I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson.
0:33.6	And I'm Jason the Cave Crawler Inman.
0:36.4	Ooh.
0:37.4	Welcome to your Mind University because this is the podcast that is a university for your
0:42.2	pop culture mind. We take one character.
0:45.0	Just one character. Sometimes a group, maybe a legion, maybe a league, who knows, that all have to do with a certain thing.
0:56.3	And we explain to you who they are, their dreams, their hopes, their fears, and their favorite
1:01.6	pets when they were child.
1:02.8	That's very personal.
1:03.9	And today's episode is all about who, Ashley.
1:06.4	It is all about the Tomb Raider that is to say Miss Laura Croft,
1:10.9	who you may know from a lot of different mediums actually she's primarily a video game character but
1:15.4	definitely expands across media but mostly things called Tomb Raider mostly things called
1:19.7	Tomb Raider in fact almost exclusively things called Tomb Raider. He's never been in a game that's not been called Tomb Raider.
1:24.0	Not in my research.
1:26.0	Okay, good to know.
1:28.0	Cool.
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