Episode 160

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Never before have so many of us been forcibly cooped up in our houses for this length of time. COVID-19 has shaken up our routines and our state of mind. During this quarantine, we’ve seen an increase in drug and alcohol consumption, in stress-levels and exacerbated mental illness, loneliness, hopelessness, all of the things that breed conflict. In this episode, we’re starting with a broad scope, talking about all of the attempted acts of domestic terrorism happening on the outside while we sit at home in our own little bubbles, but also the turmoil happening inside homes right now.We're joined by Charles Adams from the KPRC 950 AM and iHeartRadio show The Truth with Charles Adams to dissect the psychology, legal and political issues behind the recent COVID19-related crime wave.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:11.7	If I get Corona, I get Corona.
0:14.0	At the end of the day, I'm not going to let it stop me from partying.
0:20.7	Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Sword and Scale, season seven episode
0:27.2	One60, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are viruses.
0:38.3	Yeah. I'm I'm I'm I'm
0:40.3	I'm Well, yes, we have decided to drop everything and scramble to make a surprise episode that we're calling the Corona Crimes episode, or COVID crimes, or Chinese Communist Party crimes, depending on how you look at it.
1:14.1	Stay tuned. This episode is going to go viral. We are living in an unprecedented time, a time that will undoubtedly be memorialized in history textbooks.
1:50.7	Some of us here in the United States have been quarantining for well over a month.
1:55.6	Many of our nation's people are deemed essential workers, while others are being laid off indefinitely or having to
2:03.3	change their entire routine to accommodate working from home. While Oprah is dancing around in her
2:09.0	kitchen pretending like she cooks her own food and a hodgepodge of other celebrities selfie themselves
2:14.9	singing John Lennon's Imagine from their ivory towers, millions of
2:19.3	others do not know how they'll pay their bills or feed their families or get their medicine.
2:26.7	They lie awake at night knowing they won't be able to get up to go to work to make money
2:31.7	in the morning, helplessly awaiting their trump check.
2:36.0	Their growing and festering anxiety lingers and builds on itself day after boring, uneventful day.
2:45.0	Look, for a lot of people out there, their job is inexorably linked to their sense of self. Their chosen
2:52.0	profession isn't just a bi-weekly paycheck, but instead part of who they are. When they're
2:57.2	told they can't be that anymore, for weeks or even months with no end in sight, the whittling away
3:03.9	at their sense of self-worth becomes intolerable.
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