HeyJaredPurity & Danger
A pair of cultural artefacts beget thematic resonances.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
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- Sep 20, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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The Tempestuous Princelet (opens the original)
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Last episode, Sylvie and Dora termed the four-year-old Marquis de Sade a “tempestuous princelet”. Thus a new phrase was coined, definition “a wilful child possessing the imperious manner of a young noble”. In this episode the ladies risk reputational damage trawling local playgrounds for this newly identified specimen. Two candidates are unearthed: saintly Little Lord Fauntleroy, the unwitting aristocrat who launched a thousand pairs of knickerbockers, and The Tin Drum's Oskar Matzerath, the dim
Sadomasochism Summer w/ Lydia Eliza Trail (opens the original)
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A threesome come together in an ecstasy of Sadean delight. In this guest episode, art critic and sexual adventurer Lydia Eliza Trail seeks refuge at Purity & Danger’s pleasure palace to speak upon infamous French pornographer the Marquis de Sade. Dosed with Spanish fly, Sylvie, Dora and Lydia are introduced to the libertine world of commoners and kings. There they are bound, whipped and stimulated by talk of Sade’s multiple imprisonments, the duality of Justine and Juliette, Angela vs. Camille v
I Have No Back, and I Must Rooms (opens the original)
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Purity & Danger charge up the modem and hack the mainframe. Noclipped out of reality, newly minted console cowboys Sylvie and Dora discover the Backrooms, a labyrinthine alternate universe extrapolated from a cursed image of an abandoned furniture store posted on 4chan, and the AI-controlled post-apocalyptic hellscape of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, a 1995 video game inspired by a Harlan Ellison short story. The girls are translated into binary and, wandering through a yet inexperienced c
The Dunhamesque (opens the original)
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Purity & Danger join the long-awaited Lena Dunham renaissance. Impatient and afraid, hungry and heartbroken, Sylvie and Dora reflect upon her prodigious smash-hit Girls in the light of her recent tell-all memoir Famesick. The pitfalls of early fame, confessional writing, twee-on-twee crime and the hipster are all pieces of the puzzle that is the Dunhamesque.
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