Hey guys, this is Mike Boudet.

After the show, go check out the latest episode of Sword and Scale Rewind, number 123,

where I drop in with Stephanie and Matt to talk about the Star Wars obsessed killer, Adrian Loya.

Just search for Sword and Scale Rewind on any podcast player.

Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.

Listener discretion is irrational.

Like most instinctual emotions,

fear does not respond in a sober and measured way based on factual information. It's primal. It's animalistic.

For the most part, we fear things that don't make sense. The monsters in the dark waiting for their turn to strike.

We lock our doors at night, turn on our fancy alarm systems, and some of us even

check to make sure a gun is nearby, adequately stocked with ammunition. We fear the outside

world and all of the uncertainty that comes with it. We fear the depravity of man and what can happen when it's unleashed.

But how logical is this fear?

After more than 140 episodes, we've been telling you that this evil is all around us.

This darkness inside each and every one of us is part of who we are.

Sure, we've been playing into those fears to some degree, but do you know that there are many,

many more things to fear other than homicidal psychopaths and face-eating junkies.

There are fears that actually make sense, that are actually based on factual information and statistics.

In fact, out of the top 15 causes of human death, murder at the hands of another isn't even on the list.

Instead, almost all of the top causes are based in disease.

Heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease, diabetes.

You are about 45 times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than you are of being murdered.

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