Profiles In Eccentricity

This week the listeners take the lads through 3 tales of oddity! The London Beer Flood of 1814 is a deadly freak accident that claims 8 lives! Elmer McCurdy is a dead bank robber who becomes more famous as a corpse! Daniel E Sickles gets away with murder in front of the White House before he nearly costs the Union the battle of Gettysburg!

For St. Patrick's Day this week, we revisted an old classic. John tells the lads about the Irish Republican Army's dysfunctional, bratty, petty, infighting, bomb-engineering, snitch-torturing, drug-dealing, hunger-striking, terrorist little step-brother, the Irish National Liberation Army.

This week Matt treats the lads to the tale of notorious prisoner, boxer and bully Paul Sykes! Paul, a large lad, makes his name in Wakefield, England as a local bully before he serves the first of many prison terms interspersed by impregnating teenagers, attacking friends, carousing and terrorizing internationally and wearing big hats!

This week Aaron gives a beautiful analysis of how the US Military embraced the Nazi findings of extra sensory abilities post-war and ushered in a new era of enlisting psychic combatants in the US military!

This week Johnboy tells the lads and guest comedian Ramsey Badawi about the fanciest dressed terrorist maniac that ever lived! Ilich Ramirez Sanchez traverses the globe hijacking, kidnapping, drinking, bombing, womanizing and killing - all in the name of a free Palestine! The legendary abduction of OPEC, the Paris grenade attack and the testicle that ended his reign are all here!

This week Matt brings us another tale of daring innovation: the attempt to connect the old and new worlds by wire! Cyrus W Field successfully tests connecting Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before engineers Lord Kelvin and Wildman Whitehouse are faced with engineering disasters including storms, snaps, sabotage and each other!

This week the boys are joined by writer Dalan Musson (The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Captain America: Brave New World, upcoming Street Fighter film!) as Aaron delves into the Nazi search for powerful mythological artifacts and portals to underworld realms, as well as the early influence of theosophy on the burgeoning Third Reich!

This episode relates to our new episode next week! Aaron enthralls the lads with the story of a bodyguard of Hitler who went on to liberate Mussolini from imprisonment and engineer Nazi commando operations before the post war era would see him conduct operations on behalf of the Israelis!

This week the lads are joined by Craig Hammill of Secret Movie Club Podcast to discuss the life and work of the maverick film director John Huston! We discuss the banned WW2 documentaries, Huston's many loves, his relationship with his actor father, extensive gambling and partying and his friendship with primates!

Johnboy tells the lads about the tawdry, tasteless, tacky saga of the men who killed lodgers and drifters in 19th century Edinburgh to gain measly sums selling the bodies to anatomical scientists all while everyone is absolutely shitfaced on whiskey!

This week Matt walks us through the history of New Orleans madams and sex workers and the men who enhanced, empowered and enabled their trade in the illegal sex trade with all of the brutality and hypocrisy imaginable!

This week Aaron chronicles the mythic American folk hero's life and practices of piety, generosity and peaceful westward expansion of the United States all while barefoot and wearing a tin pot hat, burlap sack - spreading seed everywhere!

Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing in Republican politics - failing at that as well - and trying to finally attain success as the assassin of President Garfield! A rerelease in time to talk to your family about the show, "Death By Lightning," about Guiteau and President Garfield.

This week Johnboy unravels the myth and tragic history of the "worst director" and finds a dreamer who unites a motley crew of oddballs and creates a legacy of B-movie legend amidst the backdrop of Hollywood promise and sketchy porno payday certainlty as a means to survive!

This week Matt concludes the saga of film pioneer Louis LePrince! As the 20th century draws near, several inventors are on the cusp of making motion pictures a reality. Louis has patents in place that will enshrine him as the first if he can evade the skullduggery of Thomas Edison, but a sudden disappearance makes things much more complicated!

This week Matt begins the life of an artist who found inspiration from his family friend Louis Daguerre, an early pioneer of photography, before war in France led him to work in England where he increased his work in imagery and began to dream of the movement of picture!

This week Aaron details the life of a famed French knight, a comrade of Joan of Arc, a practitioner of black magic and a big time murderer, Gilles de Rais! We follow his poor upbringing, lavish banquets, extensive crimes and an unwavering faith in God amid the bloodshed! Be warned: this episode contains child murder, torture and sexual violence.

This week Johnboy returns to the Rock Machine/Hells Angels conflict known as The Quebec Biker War with a focus on the Montreal leader whose cunning, ruthlessness and daring made him the most famous criminal in Canadian history!

This week Johnboy starts the history of the Canadian Biker Wars with a focus on the man that would become the leader of the Hell's Angels in Canada. Walter Stadnick is a mysterious wee man with a horribly scarred face who evades capture by the police and being usurped by rivals in the Hell's Angels, Satan's Choice and other violent motorcycle gangs by being a little smarter than the rest!

This episode John profiles the combative art of Chris Burden, who willfully had himself shot to be taken seriously. Satirical and disturbing commercials, crucifixion to a Volkswagen and a habit of creating terrifying and visceral live performances and inventions were all a part of Burden's vision.

This week Laura fills in for Aaron with a loopy tale of a respected surgeon who falls ill before his ties to a sketchy underground amputation circle is exposed! Matt gives a brief history of a burgeoning Milwaukee and the battles over bridges and Johnboy dives into the battle between the first chapter of the Hell's Angels in Scandinavia and the native Bullshit Motorcycle Club!

A sad diletante, a Swan King, and a school full of demons! This week fan favorite Laura Crawford fills in for Johnboy as Matt covers the annoying writer Count Eric Stenbock, Aaron brings the tale of the oppulent King Ludwig II of Bavaria, lover of Wagner and fake caves, and Laura wraps it up with the wild story of a Miami high school full of headless chickens and demonic teenagers.

This week Matt brings us the dark ages tale among the great unwashed that was too juicy to deny noble interest! Martin Guerre, a Frenchman of Basque origin, disappointed and disappeared from his village life in France until he reappeared - or did he?

After the news of the maniac's death, we revisit John's story of England's Purple Aki, a bizarre profile of a fitness enthusiast whose compulsion to squeeze young men's muscles led him to being labelled as a sex offender, serving time in prison, and his conviction for being involved in a young man's death. Plus, Matt serves up harrowing early talking dolls.

his week Aaron gives the singular tale of a man known for infamy - creator of The Church of Satan, Anton LaVey! Aaron breaks down the origins of the man, his myriad lies, brushes with celebrity and his peculiar rise to notoriety while showing how his church and preaching serves as a mirror to a more pertinent evil in world!

This week Johnboy brings the lads the story and legend of the baddest wrestler ever, New Jack! We hear of Jack's horrendous upbringing and early criminal life before he reaches wrestling and creates a hostile persona that shocks the world with brutal in-ring acts on camera and leaves a legacy that continues to fascinate to this day!

This episode Matt drops the shockingly insane history of humans putting animals and insects on trial and John talks about a WWII hero that also happens to be a bear!

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of the biggest prison escape in US history! Union Colonel Thomas Rose finds himself in the horrifyingly bleak Confederate Libby Prison and faces starvation, disease, rats and death by sewage drowning before finally breaking out - but will be able to reach Union lines now that he's free in the heart of the confederacy?

This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a very successful Slovenian fence for stolen bicycles and the philosophy that drives him; resourcefully repurposing anything that he can find and staying hungry! Is Igor Kenk the most prolific bicycle thief of all time or someone to admire?

This episode Matt tells our first listener-suggested subject about Yukio Mishima, a nationally prized Japanese novelist and descendant of a samurai dynasty, who, after the second world war, tried to take Japan to the far right, overthrow the government, and loved figuratively shredded dudes getting literally shredded by arrows.

This week returning Fan Favorite Laura Crawford returns to complete the saga of schizophrenic musician and star Craig Smith as he wades through losing friends, delusions of grandeur and homelessness before his work in music lands him posthumous acclaim!

This week fan favorite Laura Crawford begins the first episode of a two-part series on the life of saccharine music and TV star Craig Smith aka Maireya Kali! We see Craig born into an alcoholic home here in Los Angeles before exploring a career in TV and music fame in the 60's, which ultimately leads to a dire situation abroad!

This week Aaron brings us the tale of the hygienic deplorable rival to General George Washington in time for the nation's birthday! Charles Lee was a loudmouth British-born oddball with pedigree and an impressive understanding of indigenous struggles but showed himself to be a classic wanker-in-waiting!

This week Johnboy shares the story of the infamous draft dodger who lived a life of gleeful merriment, access and privilege, before the First World War made him a pariah and brought the nation to a reckoning on avoiding war time service!

Matt delivers a history of chopped up baseball with the saga of the Pittsburgh Pirates 80s coke addiction!!

This week Matt takes us to Colorado, Brazil and the corners of the dark web to show us the saga of DMT Kingpin Akasha Song! We peel back the effects of DMT, hear from our own listeners' experiences with the drug and find a man who can't let go of the money!

This week Johnboy revisits a Patreon subject with the legend of Queho, a native man with a limp who terrorized the whites of burgeoning Las Vegas! Surviving the desert wilderness for decades evading capture, was Queho really the first Nevada serial killer, or simply a man who was fed up and trying to live?

This episode the lads dine once again on their favorite clips from movies, PSA albums, wrestling promos, and, of course, porn. We'll be back next week with more debauchery!

This week the boys got a stew goin'! Aaron brings us a CIA Agent obsessed with mind control and LSD, John explores the career of a very lecherous game show host and Matt gives us a not-completely-gunshot-free history of the deaths in early American football!

This week Aaron treats the lads to another example of the profoundly profane with the tale of Divine! Harris Glenn Milstead emerges from a childhood of strictness and cruelty before shocking the world as the muse of John Waters then blossoming further to prove themselves as a truly gifted actor, singer and performer in their final act!

This week Matt concludes the life of Poor Richard aka Benjamin Franklin! We see Franklin use his diplomatic muscle by day to persuade France to join the American cause while engaging in frisky French frivolities at night! His feuds, literary shenanigans and inventions continue all while putting together a little nation called The United States!

This week Matt takes the lads deeper into Ben Franklin's life of brilliant ingenuity, dysfunctional family dynamics, flirtatious relationships with young women, and an affection for nudity all while the relationship between the states and Britain begins to sour!

This week Matt shows the boys the early years of Benjamin Franklin and how his devotion to publishing, writing, debate and philosophy leads to a desire to create organizations and societies that center on the distribution of information and even the formation of American militia!

This week Johnboy chronicles the saga of the Public Universal Friend, born a woman of the Quaker faith, the tumultuous times of the American Revolution would have them found the first religious order in the burgeoning country as a non-binary being sent from heaven!

This week the lads are joined by Laura Crawford for the ancient tradition of the story swap! Aaron has a Francophile African cannibal dictator, Johnboy has a priest-slaughtering Irish bounty hunter, Matt has the mysterious-yet-reassuring Leatherman and Laura has the man who secretly created revered Donald Duck comics that Walt Diz took credit for!

This week Matt brings us the tale of twin armed robbers who grew up in a life of crime before taking on the law themselves before the war amongst each other brings their spree to an end and extends beyond!

This week Johnboy brings the tale of the man J. Edgar Hoover called "the most amazing figure in contemporary criminal history!" Gaston Bullock means falls in love with the thrill of deception as a youth and it takes him from blackmailing criminals while a government agent to grafting and murdering an heiress and finally, exploiting the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby!

We had to take this week off, but we'll be back next week with some grand foolishness. Until then: This episode John shares the tale of the man who would not die, unwittingly surviving as many as five separate attempts on his life by a collective of five of his friends. Matt tells the story of a man who weaned himself off of a self love practice involving nutting super hard and often. Plus, Aaron tells of the meth fueled couple that threw a death and sex "parde" ending in one fatality! This episode brought to you by Claritin and Glass, in theaters now.