Odium Symposium

24. The Dolphin Fucking Elders of Atlantis

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:24:38 GMT

SORRY THIS IS LATE! Our podcast hosting service went 'LLM based' and then stopped working, so we had to switch.

Sarah and Helen learn about new age crystal healing pioneer Frank Alper and his channeled lectures on Atlantis, Lemuria, Anti-Atlantis, crystals, and the future of humanity.

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22. On Chasers ft. Amy Marvin

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Helen and Sarah sit down with Professor Amy Marvin, a philosopher who specializes in feminist philosophy and trans theory. We discuss the relationship between chasers, transphobia, and ruinous obsession, and ask how that intersects with stand-up comedy.

Amy Marvin's forthcoming book will be titled Trans Fascination, and you can also check out her work here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-marvin

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Mr. Rogers' Crouton

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Helen introduces Sarah to the work of conservative philosopher, grifter and tobacco lobbyist Roger Scruton. Along the way the two learn about, among other things, the difference between values and orthodoxies, between ideologies and "just something normal people believe" and between male and female homosexuals.

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20. Death of a Subreddit

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Helen and Sarah talk about /r/fuckingfascists, a fascist domination roleplay subreddit intended for good liberals, which instead ended up getting eaten alive by nazis.

19. Nightmare Chess Rotation

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Helen and Sarah look at Things That Matter, the racist and pseudointellectual best-of collection from Pulitzer prize winning op-ed columnist Charles Krauthammer.

18. Swallowing Fruit from the Tree of LIfe

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Helen leads Sarah through the life and activism of notorious homophobe and orange juice queen, Anita Bryant. The two talk about how anti-gay activism both has and hasn't changed over the last 50 years, and try to learn some lessons from the gay activists of the past.

You can listen to "Squeeze a fruit for Anita" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-rLX5DwsU

You can watch Anita Bryant get hit in the face with a banana cream pie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBX6UvHpLj0

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17. Introduction to Pick-Mes ft. Danielle Procope Bell

Tue, 26 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Helen sit down with Danielle Procope Bell, an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to discuss her recent paper “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere” (https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2262163 ).

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16. Strange People on the Hill ft. Michael Edison Hayden

Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Helen are joined by reporter on the far right Michael Edison Hayden to discuss his new book Strange People on the Hill, about what happened when far right propaganda outlet VDARE bought a castle overlooking a small West Virginia town.

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15. Patagonian Royalty in the Camp of the Saints

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:35:51 GMT

Helen and Sarah discuss The Camp of the Saints, a racist novel that has quietly become fundamental to how the right wing talks about immigration.
PS: Our RSS publisher bugged out. Sorry to be getting this episode to you twelve hours late!

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14. Just Call Me a Slur

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:00 GMT

In this twist on the "theory and practice" format, Helen introduces Sarah to Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini's Gender Without Identity, a contemporary work of queer psychoanalytic theory. Then, the two dive in to a case study concerning a young child and his parents who want a therapist to "straighten out" his effeminacy.

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13. The Joker is both Strong and Weak

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT

In this "theory and practice" episode, Sarah and Helen read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism," then see how it applies to Frank Miller's 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns.

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12. Invasion of the Gender Snatchers w/ Julia Cameron

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Helen invite a guest to the symposium to talk about a foundational work of transphobia: Janice Raymond's Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, and discover that despite its pretensions to feminism, it is steeped in some pretty classic misogyny.

Our guest, Julia Cameron, is an educator and writer based in Boston.

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11. Groyper Superchat Superhell

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT

In this tribute to Knowledge Fight, Sarah and Helen go through an episode of notorious neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes's show, and find out he's locked in a Freudian cycle of abuse and disgust with his own fans.

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10. Project 1789

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Helen introduces Sarah to French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and in particular his writing on the proper education of women.

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9. The First Misogynist

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:03:32 GMT

Sarah introduces Helen to Joseph Swetnam, the man the word "misogyny" was coined to describe, who turns out to have gotten his ass beaten on four separate occasions by the authors of Elizabethan England.

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8. Ceci N'est Pas Un True Crime Podcast

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Helen introduces Sarah to the work of Louis Althusser.

The book Helen references several times, which is a great place to learn more if you're interested is Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men by Francis Dupuis-Déri.

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7. Who's Afraid of Gerald Schoenewolfe?

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Helen are forced to confront their penis envy as they dive into the writings of the psychoanalyst from hell.

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6. The Haters v. Ayn Rand

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Helen and Sarah join Ayn Rand's war on haters... on the side of the haters.

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5. 4chan: The French Connection

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:00:00 GMT

In this "theory and practice" episode, Sarah and Helen read a text about bigotry, then apply it to some actual bigotry. The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre turns out to have a lot to say about 4chan, the notorious Nazi news site the Daily Stormer, and the affect of the modern right as a whole.

4. The Everyone is Bari Weiss Theory

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Helen introduces Sarah to a classic British racist, and the two of them learn that time is a flat circle.

3. Crack-Sucking Togas

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:58:14 GMT

Sarah gives Helen a lesson in Ancient Roman history and the two of them learn that some ideas, like "women be shopping" and "women be a foreign invasion that must be subjugated at all costs" have surprisingly deep roots.

2. Woman, Thy Name is Russia

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:39:31 GMT

Helen walks Sarah through the works of frontier doctor and dispenser of folksy wisdom, Joseph H. Peck, MD, whose writing is best described as "Mark Twain if he sucked."

Pilot - The Misogynist Question

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:21:59 GMT

Our first episode! Just in time for Charlie Kirk remembrance day eve!

Sarah introduces Helen to obscure Canadian luminary Stephen Leacock, and we learn all about how and why women aren't funny.

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Bonus 3: Metanoia's wretched Little Boy

Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Helen reviewer Little Boy, a disastrous film from the makers of the QAnon flavored hit Sound of Freedom. Along the way, they meet with a failed Mexican presidential candidate, as well as Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.

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EMERGENCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:29:48 GMT

Helen tricks Sarah into watching Sean Hannity's straight-to-Rumble Christmas comedy Jingle Smells

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23. Gobsmacking the Nincompoops

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Helen introduces Sarah to the work of J.K. Sheindlin, the self described "most-censored man on the internet." Is he a truth-telling patriot who has so terrified the elites that they will stop at nothing to shut him down, or a racist crank beaten into incoherence by the internet? Listener, we'll leave that for you to decide.

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1. Ezra Klein is a Disgusting Worm

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:54:25 GMT

Sarah and Helen listen to the episode of the Ezra Klein show that made Sarah realize he was full of shit. WE ARE NOW SELLING MERCH! You can find a link to our store on our website: https://www.odiumsymposium.com. You can join our discord by clicking here. Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium. Episode art and merch design by @canis_kunst on Instagram.

PREVIEW Bonus 2: On the Theory of Heaven Breasts

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Helen take a look at some research papers from viXra, the scientific publishing site for cranks and pseudoscientists, and end up learning about the sensual curves which underlie reality itself.

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