🎃HALLOWEEN SPECIAL🎃 Ruthie Mae McCoy | 1: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman!
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
Release Date: 10/28/2024
Little Repute Minisode: Trump's 2nd Inauguration, the Tiktok "ban"
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
Welp... looks like were in the prologue of a YA dystopian novel. Hope our protag has the pluck and gumption to tackle this one, cuz we're running out of ideas!
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Lil Repute Minisode: LA wildfires, Disaster Economics, The end of social media
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
Hope you and your loved ones are safe and well! We talk about the LA wildires and its potential impact of the future of LA, delve into a little bit about how disaster's can drive policy, and touch on the (maybe) the final days of Tiktok. Donation link for the victims of the LA wildfires: https://lacity.gov/LAstrong
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Little Repute Minisode: Predictions 2025
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
Look at us! Just a couple of Nostradamus's over here. Sov and Josh ponder the kind of inaguration you could throw for 5Million. We also brace for impact with our mouths full of sour grapes. Who's know for sure, but we can all agree this year is going to be a wild one!
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Little Repute Minisode: Last Episode of 2024
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
So long 2024, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya! As we say good bye to 2024, we can't help but drag the upcoming administration one last time. If 2024 is any indication, 2025 is gonna be a wild one! Love you guys and thank you so much for sticking around through our first full year, it's been really great connecting with those of you who generously spend your time with us. Great things are coming, SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
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Lil Repute Minisode: Merry X Mas!
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
Happy Holidays! We do a little year in review, nothing too heavy ;) Love you guys, thanks for sticking with us!
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Lil Repute: Polarization
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
This week we give some pipin' hot takes (or lets face it, mostly just pretty lukewarm ones) Other than that this ones pretty chill, actually. We also talk about what the heck is going on the podcast for the next few months.
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Lil Repute Minisode: Sov's works through some new stand up material, Josh has some questions, and some stuff about class warfare
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
This week: Sovereign shares some of her new bits that she's working on, Josh has some questions about vaginas, and then it sort of devolves into speculating about the upcoming class war. BOOK US FOR YOUR NEXT PARTY!
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Wonder Woman!
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
This week Sov and Becky talk about the origins of Wonder Woman. Support Us: About Us: Credits: Hosted by Sovereign Syre and Becky Poole Compiled by Sovereign Syre Produced by Joshua Anderson Works Cited: Daniels, Les. Wonder Woman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books, 2000. A comprehensive history of Wonder Woman, exploring her creation, evolution, and cultural impact. Lepore, Jill. The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. A detailed biography of Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, and the feminist roots of the character. ...
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Lil Repute Minisode: Free Hunter, Destiny's leaked sextape, RIP Hard Rock Nick
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
This weeks Itty Bitty Repute Committee: Joe Biden: Great President, terrible Father or is it the other way around? The left's addiction to moralizing all interpersonal conflict, and we lament the passing of Hard Rock Nick
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Jemima Wilkinson: Publick Universal Friend
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Becky Poole
Jemima was born on November 29, 1752, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, She was the eighth of twelve children in a big, devout Quaker family. Her dad, Jeremiah Wilkinson, was super active in their local meeting house. Her mom, Amy's presence in Jemima’s life was cut tragically short—she died in 1764 when Jemima was about 12 or 13. According to accounts, Jemima was always a pretty girl, but after her mother passed away, she became lazy and combative. She would find anyway she could to get out of working, she would feign illnesses, argue and so on. She was just generally considered pretty but...
info_outlineToday we’re talking about Ruthie Mae McCoy, the real-life inspiration for the urban legend of Candyman. We’re going to read the article that started it all and react to it as we go. But before we dive into the real-life case that inspired Candyman, let's set the stage by talking about the legend itself—how it started, where it came from, and why it freaks people out so much.
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Compiled by Sovereign Syre
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Produced by Joshua Anderson
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Glass, Ira, and Cecil Adams. “They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror.” Chicago Reader, 1987.
Hunt, Darnell M. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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