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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 to the first part in our series on one of the most resilient and fascinating women in entertainment.  Support:  http://patreon.com/illrepute Sources: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehose by Phyllis Diller with Richard Buskin https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/08/23/remembering-phyllis-diller/ https://kottke.org/23/07/phyllis-diller-crashes-all-male-roast-at-the-friars-club-dressed-as-a-man-1983 https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/why-do-so-many-pretty-female-comedians-pretend-theyre-ugly/261510/ Credits: Script by: Sovereign Syre Hosted by: Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling Produced by: Josh Anderson Follow: ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/il

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, now a grown woman.  This week Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about how one of the most recognizable photographs ever to appear in National Geographic raises pressing questions about ethics in photojournalism, and the racist beginnings of the National Geographic brand.  Sharbat Gula's Charity:  https://futurebrilliance.org/ Support: http://patreon.com/illrepute Contact: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow Us:  ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling Merch:  http://importantadult.com Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McCurry https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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 series on Calamity Jane, and get ready for Season 2 starting next week. Lots of fun things planned for you guys to enjoy.  HAPPY NEW YEAR! Watch:  http://youtube.com/@ill_repute Sources:  Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by James D. McLaird http://legendsofthewest.com http://newspapers.com The Autobiography of Calamity Jane by Herself Lowdown on Calamity Jane by Dora Dufran http://wikipedia.com  https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/momaday19-native-american-mythology-video-gallery/n-scott-momaday/ Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers by Robert K. DeArment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WmPL98s4M https://www.youtube.com/w

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 James D. McLaird http://legendsofthewest.com http://newspapers.com The Autobiography of Calamity Jane by Herself Lowdown on Calamity Jane by Dora Dufran http://wikipedia.com  https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/momaday19-native-american-mythology-video-gallery/n-scott-momaday/ Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers by Robert K. DeArment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WmPL98s4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8  https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cummins-indian-congress/ http://publicdomainreview.org Credit: Script by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling Produced by Joshua Anderson Contact:

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 murders happening in the streets daily. Leaving town wasn't much easier; the recent victory at Little Big Horn had empowered the Native folks who were tired of the encroachments on their sacred hunting grounds, and death was just as likely on the road out of town. Not to mention the ubiquitous threat of road agents, ready to fleece any carriage found traveling alone.  While Jane was cavorting with oulaws and getting arrested for Drunk and Disorderly on the regular, back East she was featured in one of the most famous dime store novel series of all time: Deadwood Dick. And just like that, she became an overnight celebrity.  Watch:  http://youtube.com/@ill_repute Sources:

(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 before, her patient was unhappy. Angry, in fact: the doctor had neglected to treat the area between her eyebrows.  Apologizing, our doctor explained, “I’m sorry but I didn’t think you were spasming there.” The impatient patient retorted, “I know. I’m not spasming there, but every time you treat me there I get this beautiful untroubled expression.” This is how Dr. Jean Carruthers pioneered the cosmetic use of Botulinum Toxin, and thus Botox was born... and the "Discourse" has been ambivalent about its ubiquity ever since.  Either Botox is anti-feminist because, as one writer for the Washington Post put it, “Every choice to conform to sexist social norms makes it harder f

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 rectify that. In the following episodes we will profile her REAL life, and find that truth is far wilder than fiction.  In part two of our series, we follow a newly orphaned Jane as she navigates the politics of being a part of the Rolling Scum and her transition into military scout. Including original research by Sovereign Syre, we delve into some theories about what Jane was doing during her "missing years."  Watch:  http://youtube.com/@ill_repute Sources:  Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by James D. McLaird http://legendsofthewest.com http://newspapers.com The Autobiography of Calamity Jane by Herself Lowdown on Calamity Jane by Dora Dufran http://wikipedia.com

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 rectify that. In the following episodes we will profile her REAL life, and find that truth is far wilder than fiction.  In part one of our series, we chart Jane's early life. Born Martha Jane Canary in Missouri to a hopeless gambler and his teenage wife, a former dancehall girl, Jane was born to run. After the death of her grandfather, the family discovers that Jane's father had been embezzling from his own father to pay for his gambling habit, so with the threat of the law on the way, her father gathered up the family and put them on a wagon train headed for the gold and silver mines of Montana.  The world they arrive in is dangerous, crowded and filthy, justice is meted

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 to be a dime herself, of course.  Sources:  Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr, by Stephen Michael Shearer Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean.  Hedy Lamarr by Ruth Barton Credits:  Hosted by: Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling Script by:  Ela Darling Produced by: Joshua Anderson Contact: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow: Tiktok: @illreputepod @callmesovvy @eladarlingx IG: @weareillrepute @sovereign_syre @eladarling69 Twitter/X: @illreputepod @sovereignsyre @eladarling Facebook: Ill Repute!: a podcast YouTube: http://youtube.co

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 suicidality is markedly increased. This is an illness attacking women in large numbers, and it has a body count.  So let's intervene and disrupt the narrative that women with BPD just, never get better.  Content Warning:  Brief discussions of sexual abuse and assault and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org Sources:  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHBKQy/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHdQJG/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AH8MW4/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHdn41/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHNMoD/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHyenu/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHfPoJ/ https://www.tikto

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, Stephen Michael (2010). Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-55098-1. (Hoopla- Austin Public Library) "'Most Beautiful Woman' by Day, Inventor by Night." All Things Considered, NPR, November 22, 2011. Barton, R., Wilson, A., & Barton, R. (2010). In Heddy Lamarr: The most beautiful woman in film. essay, The University Press of Kentucky.  Rhodes, Richard. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the Word. New York: Doubleday, 2011.  Salamone, Debbie (October 24, 1991). "Heddy Lamarr Won't Face Theft Charges If She Stays In Line" Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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 & Ela Darling Produced by Joshua Anderson Contact: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow: Twitter: @illreputepod @sovereignsyre @ElaDarling IG: @weareillrepute @sovereign_syre @ElaDarling69 TikTok: @illreputepod @callmesovvy @eladarlingx Facebook: ILL REPUTE!  YouTube: http://youtube.com/ill_repute Merch: http://importantadult.com  

For the next two weeks ILL REPUTE! takes a break from Hedy Lamarr to celebrate Spooky Season. This week Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre deliver a quick and dirty history of horror films....and Ela celebrates her 14th porniversary. From Nosferaturu to the Final Girl, we plot out the trajectory of one of the most popular and enduring genres in American popular culture.  Credits: Written by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling Produced by Joshua Anderson Contact: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow: Twitter: @illreputepod @sovereignsyre @eladarling IG: @weareillrepute @sovereign_syre @eladarling69 TikTok: @illreputepod @callmesovvy @eladarlingx Facebook: ILL REPUTE! the podcast Merch: http://importantadult.com        

This week, Ela Darling continues to teach Sovereign Syre about Hedy Lamarr. It's the early thirties and the precocious teenager is a rising star in Austrian cinema. After convincing her parents to let her run off to Prague by herself, she is given the starring role in Ecstasy, an erotic masterpiece about a young, sexually repressed wife who finds release in the arms of a lover much younger than her husband. The film set the world ablaze with it's unfettered depiction of the female form and pleasure. The film established her as a star, a rebel, and...an outcast.  Sources:  http://www.kusd.edu/indiantrailpulse/?p=10438 Shearer, Stephen Michael (2010). Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-55098-1. (Hoopla- Austin Public Library) "'Most Beautiful Woman' by Day, Inventor by Night." All Things Considered, NPR, November 22, 2011. Barton, R., Wilson, A., & Barton, R. (2010). In Heddy Lamarr: The most beautiful woman in film. essay, The University Press of Kentucky.  Rhodes, Richa

In 1933, an unknown actress starred in one of the most controversial films every made. Ecstasy was a Czech erotic romantic drams directed by Gustav Machaty that went on to be banned in multiple countries for the nude scenes featuring a then 17 year old Hedy Lamarr and it's frank depictions of female pleasure. Listen this week as Ela Darling tells Sovereign Syre about the life of Hedwig Kiesler.  Sources:  http://www.kusd.edu/indiantrailpulse/?p=10438 Shearer, Stephen Michael (2010). Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-55098-1. (Hoopla- Austin Public Library) "'Most Beautiful Woman' by Day, Inventor by Night." All Things Considered, NPR, November 22, 2011. Barton, R., Wilson, A., & Barton, R. (2010). In Heddy Lamarr: The most beautiful woman in film. essay, The University Press of Kentucky.  Rhodes, Richard. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the Word. New York: Doubleday, 2011.  Salamone, Debbie (October 24, 199

In 1809, Sarah Baartman, an indentured servant from South Africa, was smuggled into England. She was put on display as the "Hottentot Venus" in Picadilly Square. Dressed in an elaborate costume of next to nothing, she sang and danced, while European onlookers gawked. Abolitionists at the time, saw her treatment as nothing more than trafficking and slavery, which had recently been outlawed in Britain and it's colonies. Sarah Baartman became the first test case of the new laws, and her celebrity was launched into the stratosphere. In our second and final installment on Sarah Baartman we trace her rise to fame and the tragedy that struck after.  Sources:  African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus, by Rachel Holmes From The Venus Sickness To The Hottentot Venus by Mansell Upham: https://mansellupham.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/from-the-venus-sickness-to-the-hottentot-venus-saartje-baartman-the-3-men-in-her-life-alexander-dunlop-hendrik-caesar-jean-riaux/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottentot_(racial_term

Before Nicki Minaj, before Kim Kardashian, before Marilyn Monroe, there was a South African woman whose voluptuous physique captured the European imagination. In 1809, Sarah Baartman an indentured servant to a free Black family in Capetown, caught the attention of a British surgeon. The industrious doctor envisioned a theatrical production to end them all, and make him, Sarah, and her employer rich. In part one of this two part series, we talk about where Sarah came from, and how she went from living in a thatched hut with her family in Camdeboo to performing in the African Theater of the bustling metropolis of Capetown, and two mens' audatious plan to smuggle her out of Africa and into Picadilly Square in London.  Sources: African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus, by Rachel Holmes From The Venus Sickness To The Hottentot Venus by Mansell Upham: https://mansellupham.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/from-the-venus-sickness-to-the-hottentot-venus-saartje-baartman-the-3-men-in-her-life-alexander-dunlop-hendr

In 1854 Olive Oatman, a white settler, was found living among the Mohave. She had been living among the natives for five years. She was forced to leave her adoptive family and return to settler society, where she was set upon by a Methodist preacher who wanted to exploit her story for profit. Today we conclude the incredible story of Olive Oatman, the woman with the blue tattoo.  Sources: The Blue Tattoo by Margot Mifflin Captivity of the Oatman Girls by Royal Byron Stratton, Lorenzo Oatman, and Olive Oatman Olive Oatman Biographics on Youtube Wikipedia  Credits: Script by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling Produced by Josh Anderson Contact: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow: Twitter: @illreputepod IG: @WeAreIllRepute TikTok: @illreputepod Merch:  importantadult.com

In 1849, Olive Oatman's father sold everything he owned and started out west with his wife and children. He was following a twenty-one year old Mormon prophet in search of Utopia, which he said was located in the middle of the desert somewhere in Arizona. As spiritual tensions broke up the wagon train, and the perils of the journey widdled away at their animals and supplies, the family found themselves on their own, stranded in a war zone.  Sources: The Blue Tattoo by Margot Mifflin Captivity of the Oatman Girls by Royal Byron Stratton, Lorenzo Oatman, and Olive Oatman Olive Oatman Biographics on Youtube Wikipedia  Credits: Script by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling Produced by Josh Anderson Contact: illreputepod@gmail.com Follow: Twitter: @illreputepod IG: @WeAreIllRepute Merch: importantadult.com  

Judith Darlene Hampton was born March 16, 1946, which makes her a Pisces and a boomer. In the first part of our series on JZ Knight, we follow her from her humble beginnings in rural New Mexico, the daughter of itenerant cotton pickers to her ascent into comfortable upper middle class existance and the malaise the got her caught up in Pyramid Power. Enjoy this deep dive into the origins of one of the most successful (alleged) cult leaders living today.  Sources:  J. Z. Knight - Wikipedia Ramtha Riled | Southern Poverty Law Center Shocking allegations from former JZ Knight follower Fox 13 Seattle The Ancient Spirit That Settled in Small-Town Washington | Seattle Met Obscenity-laced video by J.Z. Knight causes political storm – KIRO 7 News Seattle QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader J.Z. Knight The Daily Beast https://enlightenmefree.com Amazon.com: A State of Mind: My Story: Ramtha: The Adventure Begins (Audible Audio Edition) Credits:  Script by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darl