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

Listener discretion is advised.

I was starting to praise it. I thought just to myself, why? And then when the knife was fully up and positioned at my mother, I

thought just now.

This is season 7, episode 159 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters

are real.

Well, I'd wish you a happy spring break, but that would be really, really cruel, because we all know what's going on.

We all know that the darkness of the great quarantine is upon us.

And while we're all sort of going a little stir crazy in our homes after having already

finished Netflix and trying to find something else to do, well, at least you have sword

and scale and we're back here for weekly shows for Plus members and biweekly shows for

everyone else. We're glad to have you back. This next story is pretty fucked up.

So we know you'll enjoy it because y'all like that sort of thing.

In any case, strap in for a hell of a most delicious of the bottom-feeding crustaceans, otherwise known as lobsters.

It's quiet there, especially during the winter, when the thick blankets of snow covered

the state.

With most of the state consisting of unspoiled forests, Maine is the 13th least densely populated

state in the U.S. and the least densely populated east

of the Mississippi River. With barely more than 1.3 million residents statewide and less than

40% living in urban areas, it is mostly rural and slow-paced. The aging population

contrasts with the new connected society we all live in. In Maine, things have been done

the same way for years, and the outside world has little effect on the way of life for many

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