Episode 11
Sword and Scale
Incongruity
4.0 • 63.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sword and Scale, Episode 11, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. |
| 0:26.2 | We do love rabbit holes in this program, and boy have we found one. |
| 0:31.6 | A typical episode of Sword and Scale takes about 40 hours to produce, which includes researching the case, scheduling interviews, |
| 0:38.4 | conducting interviews, editing, mixing, obtaining the appropriate sound clips and music. You get the |
| 0:43.9 | idea. This episode has taken about five times as long to produce, and I for one will be happy |
| 0:49.8 | when it is behind me. But it's a story that had to be told. |
| 0:57.0 | The story of Morgan Ingram's unfortunate death and the circus of madness that followed. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know. I'm I'm I'm I'm |
| 1:12.6 | I'm |
| 1:13.6 | I'm William of Ackham was a 14th century English Franciscan friar and writer on topics of logic. |
| 1:39.3 | His claim to fame was the writings, |
| 1:42.3 | Plurality ought never be posited without necessity, or entities |
| 1:45.8 | must not be multiplied beyond necessity. Essentially what that means is that the fewer unnecessary |
| 1:52.0 | variables, the better. This is what is commonly known as Occam's Razor, which is a highly |
| 1:57.9 | useful tool for science, medicine, chemistry, and logic. |
| 2:02.7 | The reason it is referred to as a razor is because it removes the unnecessary assumptions from an argument, |
| 2:09.2 | much like a razor would remove unnecessary hair. |
| 2:12.7 | The modern version of Occam's razor, used in television and movies, states, |
| 2:19.4 | the simplest explanation is usually the correct explanation. You're about to hear two versions of the same event. |
| 2:27.3 | Judge for yourself. |
| 2:30.8 | Somebody, and please forgive me, my memory is really bad. |
| 2:36.0 | I had a minor head injury last year, and one thing it did was mess up my memory. |
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