Profiles In Eccentricity

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of London's earliest policing, which was run by a stolen goods thief and fence who secretly organized theft into a scam that saw victims and thieves taxed alike to his benefit, before a rogue thief and routine prison escapee beloved by the public brought his reign to a bitter end!

We had to take this week off, so we decided to drop an old patreon episode if anyone wanted to get a sense of what those episodes are like! This one is the introduction of some of our favorite characters... "We talk about a bad date and some Russian opera, but this one is really dominated by a couple of Southern Gentlemen." Join us at: https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity

This week Matt tells the boys of the saga of the Von Erich family of wrestlers from their heights in international superstardom to their downfall laden with tragedy chronicled in the motion picture The Iron Claw!

This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a chimney repairman, or steeplejack, chronicled by the BBC in Northern England who became a national celebrity for his nerve, stubbornness, ingenuity in steam technology and resonance with the public in the shifting times of Britain economically, culturally and politically as a total weirdo!

This week Johnboy continues the saga of the left-wing demagogue of Louisiana first as he ascends to the US Senate and pushes FDR to go further with the New Deal by next entering the Great Depression era political fray by running as a presidential candidate while keeping an iron grip on Louisiana affairs that pushes political opponents to openly call for his assassination!

This week Johnboy tells the lads about a poor boy from Louisiana who saw poverty and injustice as a youth and single-handedly built a political movement that would begin to rapidly transform the state the minute he became governor - but is his grip on power too tight?

This week the boys are back with a slew of clips and media miscellany once again and we've got the exclusive on a new Spider-Man movie that leans explicit, the skinny on the subversive art of Melrose Place, a film littered with big cats mauling the actors and so much more!

This 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 handsome Matt brings us the tale of the legendary Wild West lawman Bat Masterson, from his beginnings in Buffalo hunting to the 20th century boxing ring with the legendary myths of his days as a man on both sides of the law leading to only more questions of right and wrong and power and freedom to befuddle us all!

This week Johnboy and the lads conclude the saga of the Rocketbelt 2000 or "Pretty Bird" by taking on the voices of the slimy characters involved! Hammer attacks, kidnapping, police corruption and murder all make appearances in the ruthless scramble to attain the most useless invention on earth!

This week Johnboy shares the story of the rocketbelt, from its fictional beginnings in science fiction in literature and film before engineers and the military brought it to life - sort of! From Nazi rocket scientists to a few guys at the back of a car stereo plaza; behold the rocketbelt rejects!

This week Matt brings us into the seedy world of professional boxing promotion in the 80's and 90's with a Kenny Powersesque scumbag that corrupted the sport in every way! From bribing and poisoning his own fighters while currying favor with George Foreman and Don King, Rick Parker became so loathesome that it brought on his own murder!

This week Johnboy concludes the saga of Yugoslavia's long-reigning communist dictator, Tito! We see Josip Broz liberate the country from the Nazi occupation, exile the monarchy, survive multiple assassination attempts from Stalin and create a unique economic, cultural and geopolitical landscape all singularly Tito! Sources: https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/foto-site-zheni-koi-neuspeale-da-mu-odoleat-na-tito/ https://medium.com/@_lommol_/the-cult-of-tito-8907a0b4ff28 https://www.barrons. com/news/five-things-about-tito-thefather-of-communist-yugoslavia-01588211703 https://yugotour.com/blog/tito-leader/ https://www.kristinalang.uk/post/five-loves-of-josip-broztito-pet-ljubavi-josipa-broza-tita https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters 01.shtml#: https ://www.youtube.com/watch_?v=9goS_1_n_HM_-E&t= 708s https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,868972,00.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia_and_the_NonAlignedMovement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_training_ship_Galeb https://rm.coe.int/079317-queer-in-europe-during-thesecond-world-war-web-web/16808e4a53

This week from the new studio Johnboy brings the tale of the future communist dictator of Yugoslavia, Tito, as he endures, eludes and deftly dances through battles, purges, revolutions, strikes, prison terms and life as a political fugitive between two world wars!

Due to sickness we have to drop another old favorite this week. From the archives: Aaron regales the boys with the epic tale of the Chinese woman who rose from prostitution to the illicit control of the Eastern seas with a massive fleet of men and vessels at her whim. But first, Matt treats us to the absurdly sad and stupid saga of the Ketchum brothers, the doomed train robbers who idolized Jesse James.

Subbing for the fetching Aaron Pita we are joined by the gorgeous queen Laura Crawford, as Matt brings the tale of one Irish woman who braved endless war to find her husband -IN DRAG - and another who used their filicide to become a legendary executioner!

This episode our guest Radiston Zahariev tells the story of a tough guy from London that laid out his dad, became a gang leader, drug dealer and bank robber, who terrified police in addition to being an amateur UFC fighter that infamously laid out Toto Ortiz in a bar! But first, John drops the sad, bizarre saga and legacy of the launch of New Coke by Coca-Cola.

Sex! Drugs! Rocketry! We flip the script this week as Aaron performs his first profile on the magickal, perverse and cameo-laden life of renegade rocket scientist Jack Parsons.

This week Johnboy shares the story of celebrity Irish criminal Martin Cahill and his exploits in stealing from a young age to becoming the greatest thief in Irish history and cultivating an image that showed his absolute disdain for authority from the bedroom to the courtroom before a bid with paramilitaries led to his demise!

This week Matt brings us the story of Ada and Minna Everleigh and into their high class brothel, the Everleigh Club! Kick off a shoe and pour yourself some champagne and hear a story of gangsters, politicians, top tier sex service and a moral outcry that ruined everything!

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of a man who declared himself king of a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, his French aristocracy roots, his planned revenge against the British after they took his island from him and of course, his guide to suicide!

This week Matt brings us the tale of an unofficial American colonial expedition - then known as a filibuster - and how it's original popularity led to some domestic and foreign legitimacy, before the man at the helm destroyed it all by through greed, tyranny, and enslavement.

This week Johnboy tells the lads about an Austrian criminal who went to prison for murdering a woman and became a celebrated writer in prison. Jack Unterweger was such a beloved writer and model prisoner, in fact, that the literary elite petitioned successfully for an early release and made Jack a star - but Jack wasn't finished killing!

This week Aaron continues the chronicle of the life of Tim Leary and we resume with him being a quasi cult leader, national figure of disdain and a major drug dealer before his encounters with everyone from Charles Manson to Ronald Reagan before he faces death and his legacy with varying conclusions among historians!

This week A-A-Ron treats the boys to the first half of a biography of the man who would later be called by Nixon, "the most dangerous man in America," Timothy Leary. Here Aaron charts Leary's conservative beginnings in a religious home, military school and service in the Second World War before entering academia and having a fateful encounter with psychedelic drugs!

Matt delivers a maniacal portrait of a woman who left the Catholic church in Spain in the 16th century only to become a marauding menace to colonial South America, all while dressed as a man. She escapes death, incredibly meets family members a world away, and achieves glory and worldwide fame before death! Holy shit!

This week Johnboy shares the bizarre and tragic saga of a cultish stable of "pups" who's "master" led them to drastically alter their bodies to cartoonish levels any way he wanted - from their muscles to their testicles - ultimately leading the greater queer community to shun the group before a member lost his life in pursuit of their insane fetish goals!

This week Matt chronicles the life of a Japanese-American who went from the WW2 internment camps on the West coast to the heights of organized crime in Chicago by running gambling operations and executing rivals. But when his own execution goes awry, Joe disassembles The Outfit like one of his victims!

This week Johnboy shares a documentary about a Brooklyn cop who moonlighted as a ninja crime fighter and focused on youth outreach during the heyday of gang violence in New York!

This week Matt brings us the story of a true American scoundrel whose riverboat card talent and trickery as a youth turned into a career as a hustler of all contests from tossing horseshoes to golfing and beyond! Hanging with and cheating mobsters, marrying girls that are way too young, golf's outlaw origins, it's all here, folks!

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of a rich boy of the Victorian era that fancied himself a thespian and paid his way onto stage,finding audiences that were so amused and revolted by how terrible and unconventional the performances were that he became an overnight sensation! But does he know what a laughing stock he's turned into as he becomes the subject of satirical plays himself?

This week Aaron treats the lads to the entrepreneurial saga of Benihana founder "Rocky" Aoki, an immigrant success story whose rise played out amid various side obsessions including boat racing, gambling, backgammon and of course, women!

This week Matt brings us the story of Canada Lee, a gifted black child musician who abandoned the violin to become a jockey and then a pro boxer before ultimately turning to acting and becoming a pioneer in the art form alongside Orson Welles!

This week the boys submerge into the topical history of submarines with a look at the CSS Hunley, the craft used in the only successful submarine attack of the civil war - but it's flawed design killed more working and testing the craft than Northern enemies and it's designer would go on to the world of bomb makers and con men before mysteriously dying and reappearing in another scam!

This week Matt treats the lads to the saga of Crazy Eddie, the sales and advertising icon of New York who pioneered as much in advertising as he innovated inventory and tax scams while battling the jealousy within his own family!

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the saga of the second famed mayor rocking the crack pipe! We follow Rob's municipal achievements, see the network he built that made him a populist sensation and crush the competition for mayor before unraveling spectacularly in office!

This week Johnboy tells the boys about the original health nut and tabloid news pioneer who eschewed medicine in favor of starvation and pseudoscience, wrestled his employees and brought news reporting to a whole new low!

The boys are back this week with yet another media episode! This time we've got a cross section of porn titles, a Japanese Twin Peaks coffee commercial series, a train enthusiast on YouTube, bizarre music videos, an NFL rap song, a penis pump pitchman and so much more!

This week Matt treats the boys to the story of the prison that started a baseball team full of rapists, thieves and murderers - and one forger - to play for the public while the players awaited execution! But was their star player truly guilty of murder?

Matt brings the boys another South Pole dance; this time on a mission to cross the continent! Ernest Shackleton and his crew have lost their ship and spiral out into the ocean on ice flows! Now a small crew have decided to brave a passage of ocean to send for help - who will survive and what will be left of them?

This week Matt tells the harrowing tale of the British race to reach the South Pole against the Norwegian explorers trying to get there first amid brutal weather conditions, betrayal and very poor decisions made beforehand!

This week Johnboy shares the story of the man who destroyed his body with tar while portraying a racist monstrosity and found that the disaster left him immune to pain and made a career out of being thrown, kicked, beaten by bats, fists, cudgels and even the world heavyweight boxing champion with a pool cue!

This week Johnboy provides four Irish lads that are all a bit off! The thug who used his head to break down doors! The one eyed man who successfully snuck into political and sporting events! The unofficial prison tour guide and "jail groupie!" The man who attacked cops and wrote poetry about it! Featuring Werner Squirts-Hog!!!!

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the story of a bigoted thug whose reputation was so fearsome that nobody dared challenge him when his double life and hypocrisy were exposed! But first, Matt goes mango mad in Cultural Revolution-era China!

This week Johnboy shares the tale of the congressman who started as a New Deal progressive before descending into an alcohol-fueled manic rampage that lasted half a year and included starting riots in Puerto Rico, driving on the White House lawn, and taking reporters on drunk driving rampages through the Capital before his shocking life comes to a screeching halt!

This week Matt treats the lads to the brilliant inventor who was far ahead of his time, inventing freon and leaded gasoline - while suffering horrifying injuries along the way - before his life ends cryptically with yet another invention involved!

This week Johnboy zeroes in on an unabashed necrophiliac woman who rose to underground fame in the 80s after granting a frank interview that told all about the practice of sneaking into funeral homes, having sex with male corpses, and the run-ins with the law that ensued as a result! Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid to rest!

This week Matt takes the lads on a tour of the life of a young boy who ignored an arm injury and inadvertently created a motionless wing that would serve as a perfect goalie stick arm as he grew up. Terry Sawchuk would become a hockey legend, but would continue to ignore medical advice to even greater detriment!

Returning a few days after the death of Blake, this week Johnboy wraps up the saga of the actor and the woman who sought fame until it killed her. We are introduced to a cast of sketchy stuntmen, vagrants and jilted lovers who may have played a role in the killing before exploring the flawed criminal trial, a curious dedication by Tarantino and beyond!

This week Johnboy begins the story of the relationship between professional grifter Bonnie Lee Bakley, faded film and TV star Robert Blake and the baby that would lead them individually into schemes of fraud, kidnapping and murder.