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Brady (1:44)
Brady, we got at least two occupants in here. No one's moving. Oh, my God.
Host (1:53)
Hello and welcome to season 11, episode 274 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Have you ever been unfortunate enough to have seen HBO's show Euphoria? No. Good on you. Well, if you haven't, let me, let me break it down for you. Unfortunately, it's relevant. It's relevant. Just follow along. Trust me. Euphoria is a show about a bunch of American high schoolers and all the drama in their lives, which, you know, is always a lot, so plenty of material. The show dives into each teen's dirty laundry, let's say, connecting them together along the way to create a shocking representation of American teenage Life in the 2000s. It's a show that seems to almost rely on shock value in an age where it's difficult to shock most people, even if they're sitting on an electric chair. It's meant to be an over dramatization, and viewers know that. What some people may not realize is that though it's shocking and hyperbolic. It seems to accurately represent many American teens these days. Just maybe the shockingly adult content in Euphoria is depicting reality art imitating life and vice versa. But forget about the cast of Euphoria for a sec, because we're going to replace them with some real life examples. Real life people. This case is much more shocking and much more horrible than any story HBO could come up with. And it takes place in a little place called Strongsville, Ohio. It was the summer of 2022. The feeling of freedom and newfound maturity was still fresh in the minds of all the new graduates of Strongsville High School. Ohio tends to only have a few good months of really nice warm weather out of the year. Otherwise, it's just a miserable place. You know the feeling of those hot, muggy summer nights. Yeah, Ohio doesn't get too many of those, not like Texas. During the very last weekend of July, the new graduates continued to take advantage of all the quote unquote grad parties their friends had invited them to. In other words, they were going to your average house party. The kind where no parents are around. The kind of Risky Business type shenanigans occur. I don't know why that movie stuck out with me so much as a kid. Probably because it was about dirty adult things. I don't know. For Paul, a new graduate, this weekend was the perfect time to host a party of his own. His parents were out of town, and though he says it wasn't a party per se, there were seven rowdy teens in the house all night with no supervision. That kind of sounds like a party to me.