On a warm afternoon in Wichita Falls, TX the twisted mind of Kody Lott would be unleashed on the unsuspecting middle-schoolers walking home. Forever etched in their minds is the day that their friend Lauren Landavazo was gunned down in front of them. The reason for Kody’s actions perhaps rivals the heinous act itself.
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Somebody that beautiful, that loving, that kind could be taken away. There's something wrong. I already knew the world was a mess. If you don't understand that or realize that, you're not paying attention to that.
They say you build it and they will come. I don't know who said that. It's probably in a movie or something. Anyway. We built it about nine months ago. It's called Sword and Scale Television. There's nine episodes available right now, and there's many, many more coming next year. We made it for true crime fans like you, because we're true crime fans as well.
So we wanted to make a TV show for the fans, by the fans, in a way that leaves out all the cheesiness of Hollywood, all the... Bad actors, put it that way. And gives you just a solid true crime story. Right now, it's once a month, and I know we said we were going to do two a month, but that's just on me. That's my fault. I've been crashing.
I've been unable to keep pace, and unfortunately, there's only one of me, and I can only do so many things. Unfortunately, when you get to a certain size, you spend most of your time running a business, being a CEO rather than a podcaster. It's just the way it is. When you get to a certain size...
You just have to hire people and you have to manage people and you have to manage people that manage people and so on and so forth. And then you become a CEO and it sucks because I don't want to be a CEO. But there we are. We all do things we don't want to do in life. Anyway, what I was really trying to say is just go watch it.
You know, you could try it and if you don't like it, you can unsubscribe at any time. It's really easy. You don't need to contact support or anything. You can just do it on your phone. So if you liked your crime, the place to find it is swordandscale.com. So It's usually a lesson you learn when you're young. Anything worth having is worth the effort to get it.
You have to work hard to achieve the things you want in life. It won't just be handed to you. And this lesson is mostly true. Sure, there are people out there who never learn this lesson and everything is handed to them. But if you see one of these people come face to face with opposition, watch out. Anger and chaos will ensue. You see, the lesson isn't really about working hard.
You can work hard and still fail. The lesson is really about learning the fact that sometimes you just can't have what you want. I know, I know, I know. It's hard, it's hard to come to terms with such a reality. But it's true. So the quicker you accept it, the better off everyone will be.
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