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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Cyrus the Great of Persia wanted to conquer the Massengetae people and, through cunning, he killed the son of their warrior-queen, Tomyris. It was a bad move.
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0:00.0 | Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. You come across a video of a teenage girl and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her. |
0:08.1 | It was shocking. It was very shocking. Like that could have been my daughter. Like you never know. |
0:12.6 | I'm Jen Swan. I'm the host of a new podcast called My Friend Daisy. It's the story of how and why a group of teenagers turn to social media to help track down their friends' killer. |
0:23.5 | Listen to my friend Daisy on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:30.3 | Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky. |
0:36.7 | Listener discretion advised. |
0:40.8 | Imagine an ancient battlefield littered with the carnage of the aftermath of a great battle. |
0:47.5 | One side has emerged as victorious and now the slow, arduous task of inventorying the corpses has begun. |
0:55.9 | Time for the victors to take stock of what has been lost and what has been gained. |
1:01.9 | But there's something unusual in this scene, a woman walking among the bodies. |
1:08.9 | Judging by the way the survivors defer to her, it's pretty obvious that |
1:14.3 | she's their ruler, a warrior queen. In her hand, she clutches a bag, a simple wine skin made of |
1:23.0 | leathered animal hide. At first glance, you might think she's brought libations to toast her army's |
1:29.7 | victory, but you would be very wrong. In the bag is a severed head, and it's not the head of some |
1:39.1 | random soldier. This head belonged to her sworn enemy, who also happened to be the most powerful man in that part of the world. |
1:49.3 | That head, which once devised brilliant strategies and conquered dynasties, was now reduced to sloshing around in a bag filled with the blood of his fellow fallen soldiers. |
2:02.6 | If you're a little tired of before he cheats as a female rage anthem, |
2:08.2 | I will direct you toward another innovator in the field of revenge. |
2:13.4 | This is the story of Tumiris, the warrior queen who brought down an empire builder, |
2:19.3 | who avenged her son's death and who made sure her enemy got exactly what she promised. |
2:26.9 | It's also one of history's most spectacular examples of messing with the wrong woman. |
2:37.4 | I'm Dana Schwartz, and this is Noble Blood. |
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