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." 

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. At some point we mention using the famous "triggered feminist" reaction image for our episode art, but we decided against it. If you didn't recognize it from our description, it's this one: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1872961-triggered-feminist--2 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/odiumsymposium.bsky.social