Culture War

Sword and Scale Nightmares

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Amarillo, Texas is known to many as “Bomb City” because it’s home to the Pantex nuclear weapons facility. In the 90’s, Amarillo was filled with lots of country-folk and bible-belt families, but there also existed a subculture that the town worked hard to keep hidden. Just before Christmas in 1997, the veritable civil-war between the youth of these two groups came to an explosive head. This time, not everyone would be making it out alive.

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0:30.0	Just before Christmas in Amarillo, 1997, tensions between two major clicks in the neighbouring high schools had reached an all-time high.
0:50.0	Something bad was about to happen.
0:53.0	But no one expected things to escalate to murder.
0:59.0	No one thinks to be scared of a group of football players and punk kids duking it out in a parking lot after school.
1:07.0	But tensions in this town had escalated beyond your average school yard brawl.
1:15.0	This time, someone wouldn't make it out alive.
1:28.0	Welcome to Sword and Scale Nightmares, True Crime for Bedtime.
1:46.0	When Nightmare begins now.
2:03.0	Some say the Panhandle of Texas is the only place you can watch your dog run away for two weeks.
2:11.0	One portion of the Panhandle, a full quarter of its acreage is called Yanol Estacado or Stict Plain.
2:21.0	This part of the land was once a part of something even bigger called the Great American Desert.
2:28.0	It's one of the largest expanses of flat land in the world.
2:34.0	Because of the terrain, the prime industries in the Panhandle are petroleum, agriculture, and cattle.
2:41.0	Not a surprise at all.
2:44.0	Many of us know North Texas to be kind of a yeehaw cowboy land.
2:51.0	Even though that's mostly a Hollywood fiction.
2:54.0	But what isn't fiction is the fact that a third of the beef in the United States comes from this region.
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