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The insights these men shared never left me and I will be eternally grateful for their influences. Whether the interests be governmental or private, it was these men’s belief that forces in power were shaping agendas thru the influence of popular opinion – via news outlets. Obviously, both father and grandfather (though different bloodlines) each held fairly blatant distrust of news media based on events they each had personally witnessed. Read and watch but only with caution.“ I loved that man. They are here to shape our opinions in favor of someone else’s objectives. These things are not there to inform you. Then I remember my father telling me, after serving for years on US nuclear submarines through the Vietnam era and the Cuban Missile Crisis, “Never trust what you read in the papers or see on the news.

What happened to them, what did they go thru? These questions are haunting. The idea of dark forces stealing souls in the night, and the imaginative mind of an artistic child… while these were dark themes, they were also exciting in the possibilities of a creative youngster’s imagination. The question of what happened to the relatives that went missing had always stuck with me. Traitors to human decency and values everywhere we look, and in to be found in no greater numbers than in seats of power at center stage.

It stuck with me to this day as I look at political, business, and religious frauds that world over. I think because of this, being honorable meant a great deal to him. You can imagine how my grandfather despised traitors. They never saw him again, but it was rumored that it was turncoat Latvians that had turned him in. He was still quite young when one night his father was taken away by secret police. That’s how my grandfather saw it, his people being enslaved. His father had been running something of a spy network out of his barber shop in resistance to the soviet forces that were occupying and “enslaving” Lativa. I remember being mesmerized as a little kid listening to my grandfather, a Latvian immigrant, who would tell us stories about his father and other members of the family that had disappeared back in Latvia before WWII. I think the core essence of the Oddworldic themes were zapped into me at a very young age. Once I discovered that art could be more than just craft and commerce, I sought a path were conditions of media, environment, and public trust would become my primary areas of inspiration.

LL: Profound influences in my life shaped and continue to shape my storytelling and media interests. Lanning for taking the time to answer our questions and making our first 'Revival Club Podcast' special!ĤPP: What outside influences inspired the creation of the Oddworld Universe? And more specifically, Stranger's Wrath.

Once again, we would like to send our deepest thanks to Mr.

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Without further delay, click the link below to be taken to the full interview. Well, the new and improved has made it possible. We simply couldn't do it efficiently on our old site. We said we would post the interview on the site but were at a loss as to the best way to go about posting it. You may remember awhile back, when we recorded our first 'Revival Club Podcast', we had conducted an email interview (questions courteous of Brad) with Lorne Lanning, founder of 'Oddworld Inhabitants', about his involvement in 'Oddworld: Strangers Wrath'.