Episode 103
Sword and Scale
Incongruity
4 • 61.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Nothing quite says fear like a machete. In this episode we bring you to distinct stories of some of the most barbaric and utterly inexplicable attacks with a blade to poor souls who did nothing to deserve such brutality.
The first story comes from Apex, North Carolina, where an 18-year-old girl named Priyanka Kumari is savagely attacked on her way home from school. The second comes from South Florida of course, where 17-year-old Jose Amaya-Guardado is ganged up on and killed by his classmates at a live-in trade school for troubled youth. They then have sex near Jose's corpse because nothing quite says romance like hacking up a kid to pieces.
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| 0:00.0 | Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences |
| 0:05.5 | Listener discretion is advised |
| 0:31.5 | Hello, I'm your host Mike Bude, welcome to season 4 episode 103 of Sword and Scale |
| 0:39.5 | A show that reveals that the worst monsters are real |
| 1:09.5 | We are constantly reminded of the horrors that guns can unleash |
| 1:17.5 | The aurora theater murders Sandy Hook, the Las Vegas shootings |
| 1:23.5 | The idea that a crazed gunman can take the lives of so many in such a short period of time is very scary |
| 1:33.5 | But for some reason, maybe because of the nature of our entertainment culture, guns don't seem to elicit the same sheer panic and horror that other instruments of death do |
| 1:45.5 | Are heroes in movies and TV carry guns and use them often |
| 1:51.5 | The figures that really scare us are in horror films and they use other tools entirely |
| 1:59.5 | And Friday the 13th, for example, Jason Voorhees didn't carry a gun, he carries a machete |
| 2:07.5 | Today we will tell you about two very real stories where the weapon of choice is straight out of a horror movie |
| 2:37.5 | The suburbs, little houses all in a row and a couple of kids, maybe a dog or a cat |
| 2:47.5 | Quiet neighborhoods where repetitive daily routines are the norm |
| 2:51.5 | Parents get up and go to work to support their families |
| 2:55.5 | Children go to school aspiring to realize their dreams to become doctors, lawyers or even podcast hosts |
| 3:01.5 | Neighbors look out for each other, for many people this is the epitome of a safe life |
| 3:09.5 | But sometimes that safe life is an illusion |
| 3:13.5 | Our story takes place on January 12th of 2017 in Apex, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh with a reported population of almost 50,000 |
| 3:25.5 | But the place itself isn't important, this could be any suburb in America, any neighborhood, in fact it could be yours |
| 3:37.5 | What happened in this neighborhood on January 12th will prove to you that no place is really safe and all it takes is one person with a violent idea and a blade |
| 3:49.5 | I am right outside 1836, the New Zealand way and it's a mobile helicopter, it's a division I'm sure you've gotten phone calls but they're a man with it's not much of a strategy but it looks like it and he is just stabbing through the halls |
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