Latest Sovereignsyre Podcast Episodes
Hedy Lamarr |4 Mother of Invention
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - November 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 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...
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Gender of Diagnosis
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - November 13, 2023 14:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis 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...
Hedy Lamarr |3 A Gilded Cage
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - November 06, 2023 08:43 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis 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...
Men, Women and Chainsaws: The Theory of the Final Girl
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - October 30, 2023 08:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis 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 ...
A Quick And Dirty History Of Horror Films: From Nosferatu to The Final Girl
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - October 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFor 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 ...
Hedy Lamarr |2 Avant-Garde Darling
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - October 16, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis 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 masterpi...
Hedy Lamarr |1 “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - October 09, 2023 07:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 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 fe...
Sarah Baartman |2 The African Queen
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - October 02, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 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, s...
Sarah Baartman |1 From Camdeboo to Capetown
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - September 25, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBefore 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 industri...
Olive Oatman |2 The Girl With The Blue Tattoo
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - September 18, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 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. To...
Olive Oatman |1 On The Road To Utopia
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - September 11, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 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...
J.Z. Knight |3 What The Bleep Do We Know about Virginia Woolf?
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - September 04, 2023 16:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratings"In one statement from “Ramtha”, the spirit declares that the person behind QAnon “is divine intelligence.” In the final installment in our series on J.Z. Knight we document the second rise of Ramtha with the release of the pseudodocumentary "What The Bleep Do We Know?" and her precipitous fal...
J.Z. Knight |2 Ramtha's School Of Enlightenment
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - September 04, 2023 16:02 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings"It only takes one thought to give a man a hard-on!" In part two of our series on J.Z. Knight we follow the progress of a middle-class housewife as she encounters an interdimensional entity named Ramtha, learns to channel him, and lands a spot on the Merv Griffen show. What follows is complete...
J.Z. Knight |1 From Roswell to Ramtha
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - September 04, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJudith 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 ...
The Trotula: Wandering Wombs and Humours
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - June 27, 2020 03:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week Sov and Siouxsie Q discuss the first medical manual written by a woman, The Trotula! With special guest Dr. Ryan Byrne!
Tara Nephthys Binah: Radical Rest for Black Women
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - June 19, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week Siousxie Q and Sovereign sit with guest Tara Nephthys Binah to talk about radical rest for Black women, holistic healing and reclaiming feminine energy during a time of great social unrest and chaotic duress.
The Magdalene Laundries: Social Welfare or Womens' Prisons?
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - June 17, 2020 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week Siouxsie Q and Sovereign take a look at Magdalene Laundries, workhouses set up by the Catholic church to look after extraneous women; those who fell pregnant, were indigent, in debt or mentally ill at the turn of the twentieth century. These house came into the spotlight at the turn o...
Dorothea Dix: The child genius that became a world famous activist!
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 29, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week Sovereign Syre and Souixsie Q talk about Dorothea Dix, an early advocate and activist for the treatment of the mentally ill. Dix escaped a troubled home as a child, displayed all the hallmarks of genius by her teens, and went on to live a life that oversaw the change of the treatment ...
Anne Lister: Gentleman Jack
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 22, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week Souixsie Q and Sovereign Syre talk about Victorian lesbian, landowner, and bon vivant Anne Lister!
Florence Nightingale: Tenderheart or Iron Lady?
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 15, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this week's episode Sovereign Syre and Siouxsie Q James sit down to talk about the complicated legacy of Florence Nightingale. Once known as the Lady of the Lamp and the mother of modern nursing, there have been more recent discussions of the actual roles she played in either of these narrat...
Bradford Stephens: I had a $30,000 hooker budget!
Important Adults - May 12, 2020 16:00 - 50 minutesThis week is a prequarantine episode! Sovereign Syre picked up tech raconteur Bradford Stephens and drove him around Hollywood while they talked about cryptocurrency, crazy millionaire bosses, how to create your own cryptocurrency and how Silicon Valley is full of people like Elizabeth Holmes. ...
The Women of the Spanish Flu
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 08, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this episode Siouxsie Q and Sovereign Syre discuss the Spanish Flu Pandemic at the turn of the 20th century and the role of nurses in dealing with the brunt of care and life saving measures at the time. We talk live over IG during social distancing of the Covid 19 pandemic currently crossing...
Typhoid Mary: Killer or Victim?
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 30, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSovereign Syre and Siouxsie Q James explore the life and death of Typhoid Mary from the perspective of life in quarantine and the uncertainty of a novel virus. Exploring themes of social welfare, class, gender, and immigration.
Ken Reid:
Important Adults - April 28, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourSovereign Syre travels to Burbank to pick up the host of TV Guidance Counselor podcast Ken Reid and take him to walk up burgers at Tommy's. They talk about the crossover between porn and stand up, how to demand your worth as a creator, and how to translate podcasts to television and so much mor...
Ed Salazar
Important Adults - April 21, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourSovereign Syre picks up stand up comedian Ed Salazar and drives him around Pasadena. They talk about open relationships, sexting etiquette, how to initiate rough stuff, dating athletes, dating apps, and how shifting gender roles are changing the sexual landscape.
Ela Darling
Important Adults - April 14, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutesSovereign Syre picks up VR ingenue Ela Darling and drives her around Burbank. Ela Darling is an early adopter of VR tech in the adult space and they talk about how she went from being a porn heaux to a corporate CMO with lots of detours into the vagaries of being Sovereign's friend and being in...
Adam Lyons
Important Adults - April 14, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutesThis week Sovereign Syre picks up Adam Lyons and drives him around Hollywood. Adam Lyons is a dating coach turned entrepreneurial juggernaut. Adam and Sovereign talk about teaching your children financial literacy, how to be a good prospect to an employer, getting the life your really want, th...
Karla Lane
Important Adults - April 07, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourSovereign Syre picks up BBW Icon and AVN Hall of Fame performer Karla Lane and drives her around Highland Park. They eat street tacos, get tested for STIs and talk about what it takes to make it in the adult industry when you don't fit the standard.
Melanie Vesey
Important Adults - March 31, 2020 10:41 - 1 hourSovereign Syre picks up stand up comic and actress Melanie Vesey and drives her around Glendale! They talk about negotiating to get paid in money instead of exposure, how to make the most of your platforms, how to determine your brand, the writing process for stand up...and they try to scout a ...
Siri
Important Adults - March 31, 2020 10:06 - 56 minutesSovereign Syre picks up mysterious pornstar Sir in Las Vegas and drives her around The Strip. They talk about why Siri vanished from Porn Valley, how the adult industry has changed, the sex worker rights movement, mental health, and coming to terms with growing up and letting go of teenage drea...
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