Evil twins and the Odyssey

Three days ago, on May 24, I posted "Charlie Kirk, Ulysses, and twin flames," part of which deals with the They Might Be Giants song "My Evil Twin" and why I have interpreted it as being about Odysseus.

Today, fishing for new alt-Mormon content on YouTube, I was putting in various search prompts that I thought might turn up off-the-correlated-path "deep doctrine" kind of stuff. One of these returned a Mormon Stories episode called "The Ancient Devil & Joseph Smith w/ John Larsen | Ep. 1839." Mormon Stories is mostly normie content, but the title was sufficiently intriguing -- the way it specified "the ancient devil" suggested that it might refer to some other being than the common-or-garden devil -- that I gave it a chance.

It soon became clear that all they meant by "the ancient devil" was the devil as portrayed in (or retroactively inserted into) the Old Testament, and that the presenter's research on the topic had been a bit sloppy, so I stopped listening maybe a quarter of the way in. I found a sync right at the beginning, though. Here's how it starts:

John Dehlin: Welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John Dehlin, with goatee. It is November 21st, 2023, and we are super excited to have back on Mormon Stories Podcast the John Larson and the Carah Burrell, or NuanceHoe. It is another John Larson Carah Burrell Mormon Stories episode - woohoo!

John Larson: How do we know -- you got the goatee and the black hat -- how do we know that you're the actual John Dehlin and not the evil twin?

Wondering if there might be other synchronistic links to my "My Evil Twin" post, but not wanting to listen to the whole thing, I opened the transcript and word-searched it for Odyssey references. I found a hit, but it's an obvious error:

right so the The Odyssey is God the author of evil or is he subjected to it and I would think that it's clear from these passages and maybe we have to uh knit them together a little bit that Smith's theodicy meaning Smith's solution to the problem of evil is to place evil outside of God

Obviously the speaker said theodicy, not The Odyssey. Scott Alexander uses this pun in Unsong, where a particular house is known as Ithaca because "it's where theodicy happens."