Best Harold And Frank Podcasts (2024)

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Lisa Frank 1 | Gumballs and Interplanetary Ice Cream Cones 1:01:14

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Today we’re discussing Lisa Frank, the artist behind the eponymous brand Lisa Frank Inc. If you were alive in the 80s and 90s, the psychedelic, neon airbrushed designs of unicorns and teddy bears and dolphins had a chokehold on your childhood. From stickers to binders to pencil cases, Lisa Frank merchandise was what divided the cool from the broke.…

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Cass Elliot 2 | Make Your Own Kind Of Music 1:05:10

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This week is part two of our two parter on Cass Elliot. Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling talk about Cass's life after the break up of The Mamas And The Papas and her vindication as a solo singer. Once money started coming in, Cass hosted artist salons at her large Laurel Canyon estate. She was kind and charismatic, easily making her the most popular …

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Cass Elliot 1 | Don't Call Me Mama! 1:02:24

7d ago1:02:24

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This week on the podcast, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling talk about Cass Elliot, in our opinion, the most important member of The Mamas and The Papas. Credits: written by Ela Darling hosted by Ela Darling & Sovereign Syre produced by Joshua Anderson Contact/Support/More: http://ILLREPUTEPODCAST.COM Sources: Fiege, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me :…

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Anna Nicole Smith | 2 It's Very Expensive To Be Me 58:31

13d ago58:31

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In the flash of the paparazzi's cameras, Anna had gone from stripper, to Playmate, to Playmate of the year, to the face of Guess Jeans. A contract rumored to have been worth millions of dollars. Anna’s beauty, sex appeal and supernatural charm had carried her to the edge of the finish line, all she had to do was cross it. In this week's episode, So…

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Anna Nicole Smith | 1 She Was Born Beautiful 1:04:58

20d ago1:04:58

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In part one of a two parter, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling delve into the origins of a 2000s icon. Anna Nicole Smith was a polarizing, misunderstood figure. Often remembered for being an absolute trainwreck. Her rise to fame, from the girl next door to supermodel, made her a media darling, her campy, over the top persona, and ditzy girl humor on o…

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The Bombshell 55:43

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From the silent era's vamps to the Golden Age goddesses of Hollywood, the bombshell has always been an enchanting figure, shaped and reshaped by societal desires and anxieties. The bombshell is not a static ideal. It has morphed and adapted, mirroring the shifting landscapes of culture and feminism. Today, in the digital age, the bombshell exists i…

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Michael Dillon: The First Trans Man 1:27:23

1M ago1:27:23

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His transition required thirteen operations and took place over four years, with no one the wiser. Dillon went on to be a surgeon himself, and traveled the world with various naval vessels for six years, living life as a man, with no one suspecting his origins. He was ultimately outed because of his nobility. There are peerage records that are made…

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Harold Gillies: The Father Of Plastic Surgery 58:46

1M ago58:46

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Today, we are taking on our first man. Because sometimes men do important stuff for women. Like creating the field of plastic surgery. He’s a saint that changed the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers during WWI and pioneered many of the cosmetic procedures that are used today…primarily on women. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. Harold Gillies Sources:…

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Prozac Nation 41:07

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“Prozac Nation is a young person’s book, both in terms of its author and its target audience…What seemed most important to me about Wurtzel’s writing was that she had been messy, and she was willing to detail that mess without apology…It was a radical departure from how I’d seen women write about themselves…Whether we like it or not, Prozac Nation …

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Elizabeth Wurtzel: The "It" Girl of Generation X 50:49

2M ago50:49

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This week Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling profile writer and icon, Elizabeth Wurtzel. A beautiful, young, Harvard graduate whose memoir Prozac Nation got her on the New York Times Bestseller List and made her an overnight celebrity. She also suffered from major depression and was one of the first people to be prescribed the drug Prozac. She was both…

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The Hustlers at Scores 1:18:45

2M ago1:18:45

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Roselyn “Rosie” Keo was the daughter of Cambodian refugees. When she was younger, her parents got caught up in gambling and nightlife, taking off for Atlantic City, leaving Rosie and her siblings to be raised by their elderly grandparents. She was a wild child, getting in fights, having bad boyfriends, typical teenage rebel stuff. She was growing u…

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Ada Lovelace |2 The Analytical Engine 1:07:30

2M ago1:07:30

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It's the end of Season Two! We did it! This week we conclude our series on Ada Lovelace. In September 1843, Ada Lovelace published her paper on the Analytical Engine in Scientific Memoirs under the title "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator.". Ada was 27 years old, an aristocratic, married mother of three children at the…

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Flowers In The Attic: The Birth of Dark Young Adult 1:35:48

3M ago1:35:48

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“Plot: A young wife is suddenly widowed. Left with four children. She is totally unskilled for the labor market, and deeply in debt. Her home and all she has are repossessed. However… she has one choice. She is the sole heir to a tremendous fortune. If she can deceive her dying father, and never let him know she is the mother of four children whom …

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V.C. Andrews: IFYKYK 1:01:35

3M ago1:01:35

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In today's episode, we discuss VC Andrews, a writer who created her own genre of fiction and scandalized a generation of young female readers. We cover Virginia's early life, her emergence as a writer, and the real life inspiration for her most famous novel, Flowers In The Attic. Contact Us: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow Us: ILL REPUTE! links: http…

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Ada Lovelace | 1: Born of Scandal 1:25:50

3M ago1:25:50

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When one of the smartest women in England, Anne Isabella Milbanke, fell in love with the most scandalous, and handsome, creative genius of his time, Lord Byron, the fallout was nothing less than a national scandal. Their young daughter, Ada, was caught in the crossfire. Ada spent her early childhood being used as a bargaining chip in her parents di…

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Misery Lit | 2: Ethics of Exploitation 1:09:36

3M ago1:09:36

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In the conclusion of our series on Misery Lit and Literary Fraud, we discuss two more famous cases of fabricated memoir and what our conspicuous consumption of trauma porn tells us about ourselves and the cultural narratives around female suffering. Contact Us: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow Us: ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod Sover…

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Zone of Tolerance: The Murder of Sheila Anderson 1:05:40

4M ago1:05:40

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On a very special episode of ILL REPUTE! we interview Ret. Constable Tom Wood of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1983, Constable Wood was called to investigate the murder of Sheila Anderson, a local sex worker. During his investigation, he came to understand that the sex industry had changed, and so did the way they needed to police it. Tom tells us how he…

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Misery Lit | 1: Memoir Meets Marketing 1:14:46

4M ago1:14:46

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Misery Literature is a genre of memoir that details the real-life struggles and adversities of individuals, focusing particularly on themes of abuse, poverty, addiction, and survival against the odds. They are usually harrowing stories of the author's survival through complex trauma, usually told from the first person perspective, which generally e…

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The Witch Hunts 2| The Black Death and The Hammer of Witches 1:24:52

4M ago1:24:52

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The plague led to a drastic reduction in population, labor shortages, and social upheaval. Entire villages and towns were depopulated, and some regions saw a collapse of agricultural and economic systems. People in the 14th century had little understanding of the causes of the plague, and various responses were attempted, including quarantine measu…

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The Witch Hunts 1 | From Feudalism to Capitalism 1:08:14

4M ago1:08:14

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The European Witch Craze, also known as the Witch Hunts or the Witch Trials, was a period of intense persecution of individuals accused of witchcraft in Europe from the late 15th century to the 18th century.Thousands of people, primarily women, were accused, arrested, tried, and often executed as witches during this time. The witch hunts were roote…

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Ethnic Identity Fraud: In Conversation with Dr. Kim Tallbear 1:31:32

4M ago1:31:32

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This week on ILL REPUTE! Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling welcome their very first guest! Dr. Kim Tallbear is a Native scholar who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA, and has become the defacto expert on self-indigenization, more commonly known as race shifting, ethnic fraud, or pretendianism. We talk with Dr. Tallbear about what indigen…

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Buffy Sainte Marie | 2 The Big Ones Get Away 2:07:38

5M ago2:07:38

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In 2022, PBS released the documentary “Carry It On” about Buffy Sainte Marie’s life. A Native journalist sat down to watch it, and found herself uneasy as the documentary progressed. Something about Buffy’s adoption story didn’t add up; Buffy had never found her real parents. So she started digging and found what she considered damning evidence tha…

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Buffy Sainte Marie | 1 It's My Way! 1:26:23

5M ago1:26:23

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Buffy Sainte-Marie burst onto the folk music scene in the early sixties, playing in the coffee houses of Manhattan and Toronto with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. She quickly caught the attention of music critics with her warbling delivery, and her unapologetically political songs about Native American issues. …

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ADHD: The Gender of Diagnosis 1:19:15

5M ago1:19:15

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In this episode of gender bias in medical diagnosis, Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre tackle ADHD. What is it? Why are so many women denied a diagnosis despite suffering from the same symptoms as their male cohorts? Support Us: http://patreon.com/illrepute Contact Us: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow Us: ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod …

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The Most Beautiful Suicide 1:33:34

5M ago1:33:34

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This week on the podcast Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling examine three different iconic depictions of female suicide and talk about their impact on the culture, and what they can teach us about how we view female suffering. They analyze the painting "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais and the later suicide of the woman who posed for it, Elizabeth Sidd…

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Phyllis Diller |3 Comedy Cums From Tragedy 1:12:04

6M ago1:12:04

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This week, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling conclude their series on Phyllis Diller. “As a child I had very strong passions and aspirations, and I’ve lived to realize them all. I’ve had a family, I’ve known great romance, clothes are coming out of my ears, God only knows the friends I have, and although I didn’t foresee all the travel, it has been ju…

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Phyllis Diller |2 Not Another Pretty Face 1:18:14

6M ago1:18:14

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This week on the pod, Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about Phyllis Diller's whirlwind rise to fame, making her the first female stand up comedian to become a household name. While her star was on the rise however, her turbulent homelife was about to implode. Phyllis found herself in new territory, navigating the Hollywood system, being cast over …

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Phyllis Diller |1 The Unhappy Homemaker 54:29

6M ago54:29

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This week on the podcast Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about Phyllis Diller. During her career she became the first female stand up to become a household name, but Phyllis Diller started at the very bottom, a mother of five children married to charismatic loser that was at turns dismissive and abusive. In the 1950s. In her late thirties. Welcome…

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Sharbat Gula: The Making Of A National Geographic Supermodel 1:03:17

6M ago1:03:17

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Greetings and welcome to SEASON TWO of ILL REPUTE! In 1984, an ambitious photojournalist snuck into Afghanistan to document the refugee crisis there. When he came across a beautiful young Afghan girl with blazing green eyes, he knew he had to get a photo of her...and seventeen years later, would go on a highly publicized search to locate the girl, …

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Calamity Jane |5 Calamity's Last Ride 1:32:57

7M ago1:32:57

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SOV ACCIDENTALLY UPLOADED THE WRONG FILE! It's fixed now, but if you started playing and it was episdoe four, it's the correct file now, so just redownload. In the conclusion of our series on Calamity Jane, Sovereign Syre teaches Ela Darling about modernity and how it failed the frontier, or something like that. Enjoy the final installment in our s…

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Calamity Jane |4 From Outlaw to Mother to National Monument 1:25:47

7M ago1:25:47

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Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Or if you don't believe, Happy Monday! In part four of our series on Calamity Jane, we follow the Dime Store Novel Heroine as she navigates motherhood and celelebrity with all the drinking and fu*king she's used too. Enjoy! Watch: http://youtube.com/@ill_repute Sources: Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by Jam…

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Calamity Jane |3 From Deadwood to Deadwood Dick 1:21:25

7M ago1:21:25

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In the third installment in our series on Calamity Jane, Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about the birth of Deadwood. Initially a settlement of a few storefronts and tents, in a period of a few months the town nestled in the Black Hills attracted close to ten thousand citizens. Far from a bustling metropolis, the town was full of outlaws with murd…

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 2:05:00

7M ago2:05:00

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Join the TV Tantrum of Jamie, Karen and AJ as they tackle another night of TV Tonight... Dr. Who, Surreal Estate, Quantum Leap, A Murder at the End of the World, Monarch: Legacy of Monsers, and whatever else sounds goodBy NDB Media

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Botox: Is Anti-Aging Anti-Feminist? 1:05:57

7M ago1:05:57

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(No. It's not.) It’s 1983 and our heroine, an ophthalmologist, is treating a patient with a condition called blepharospasm, a painful neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle spasms and contractions of the eyelid. After administering a neuromodulator to the affected muscles, a procedure she had performed with her patient many times befo…

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 1:43:00

7M ago1:43:00

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Join the Exciting Enthusiasts Jamie, Karen and AJ as they dig into another night of TV Tonight... Dr. Who, Surreal Estate, A murder at the End of the World, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and whatever else tickles our fancyBy NDB Media

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Calamity Jane |2 From Rolling Scum to Army Scout 1:05:29

8M ago1:05:29

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In her lifetime Calamity Jane was the most famous woman in the world, and her name still evokes the spirit of the WIld West. She has been a character in countless dime novels, television shows, and feature films, and yet all of them were largely fabricated bearing no resemblence to her actual life. In this series on Calamity Jane, we hope to rectif…

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 2:08:00

8M ago2:08:00

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Join the Dastardly Dialect of Jamie,Karen and AJ as they digest another night of TV Tonight on FA... Surreal Estate, A Murder at the End of the World, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and whaever else sounds goodBy NDB Media

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Calamity Jane |1 Born To Run 58:10

8M ago58:10

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In her lifetime Calamity Jane was the most famous woman in the world, and her name still evokes the spirit of the WIld West. She has been a character in countless dime novels, television shows, and feature films, and yet all of them were largely fabricated bearing no resemblence to her actual life. In this series on Calamity Jane, we hope to rectif…

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 1:34:00

8M ago1:34:00

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Join the Chatty Critics Jamie, Karen and AJ as they digi into another night of TV Tonight... Fear the Walking Dead, Surreal Estate, Quantum Leap, A Murder at the End of the WorldBy NDB Media

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Hedy Lamarr |4 Mother of Invention 1:35:25

8M ago1:35:25

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In the final installment in our series on Hedy Lamarr, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Hedy Lamarr's most famous invention, frequency hopping, and how the US government f*cked her in the deal to the tune of 30 billion dollars. How is it possible that the inventor that brought us WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth never saw a dime? Because she happened …

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TRAVEL ITCH RADIO 30:00

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For the past 30 years, St. Augustine has marked the Saturday before Thanksgiving with Light Up! Night. During the annual Nights of Lights, millions of twinkling white lights come to life and illuminate the historic architecture of the nation’s oldest city. The festival, which encompasses more than 20 blocks of the historic district, has roots in th…

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 2:13:00

8M ago2:13:00

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Join the Dastardly Dialect of Jamie, Karen and AJ as they tackle another night of TV Tonight... Fear the Walking Dead, Surreal Estate, Loki, Quantum Leap, American Horror Stories and whatever else sounds goodBy NDB Media

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Borderline Personality Disorder: The Gender of Diagnosis 1:09:33

8M ago1:09:33

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This week on the pod Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Borderline Personality Disorder. Why? Because 75% of those diagnosed with BPD are women, and it is the most stigmatized mental illness out there...and according to the literature, the most painful. People who suffer from BPD live twenty years less than their counterparts, and the rate of s…

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 5:00

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Join the Crazy Critics Jamiee, Karen and AJ as they digest another night of TV Tonight's Line-up... Fear the Walking Dead, Sureal Estate, Loki, Quantum Leap, AH Stories and whatever else sounds goodBy NDB Media

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Hedy Lamarr |3 A Gilded Cage 59:11

9M ago59:11

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This week on ILL REPUTE! Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre discuss Hedy Lamarr's Gilded Cage of a marriage to the richest man in Austria. Plus, we take some side journies to debate the merits of sugaring versus escorting. Which is very important to consider, when considering Hedy's life. Sources: http://www.kusd.edu/indiantrailpulse/?p=10438 Shearer, …

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Fandom Access: Week in Review 2:11:00

9M ago2:11:00

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Join the Terrific Trio of Jamie, Karen and AJ as they dig into another night of TV Tonight... Fear the Walking Dead, Surreal Estate, Loki, Quantum Leap, InvasionBy NDB Media

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Men, Women and Chainsaws: The Theory of the Final Girl 1:27:52

9M ago1:27:52

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This week on ILL REPUTE! the podcast, Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre discuss the book Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover and what the Final Girl trope in slasher films tells us about how we feel about men, women, and violence. Sources: Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover Credits: Script by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre & …

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