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Robots Radio, games, lore, stories, community. Just press play. Welcome to the Fallout lore cast,

the podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of fallout.

One of the things that makes the world of fallout so very realistic and intriguing is the world building.

The feeling that this could be in a real place.

And one of the most important parts of the world building are remnants of the pre-war world,

little snippets and little details of things that remind us that the world used to be different.

In a number of ways, the ways that people would go about their daily lives, but also the kind of

influence that businesses had over the nature of, well, everything. Social interactions,

politics, decisions on the world stage, technology.

So here's my new project.

We're going to go through every single pre-world business,

and I'm going to reveal whatever information I can find that I find to be most interesting.

Going to comment on it a little bit. And a warning, some of these are very, very roughly and minimally mentioned in one game

here or there.

So I'll note that and we'll move on pretty quickly to the more interesting ones.

But I thought it would be fun to go through each one and just give them a little bit of a

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