Profiles In Eccentricity

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This week 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 Johnboy shares the story of "Stalin's James Bond" the heavy drinking, womanizing Soviet spy who's intelligence work may have changed the outcome of the second world war and is considered by many the greatest spy who ever lived! Plus a 1980s strip club owner is murdered in the OC!

This week Aaron shows us the cult that united black nationalism with Egyptian mythology, Islam and extraterrestrials and their maniacal leader who faced the most counts of sexual abuse in history and of course, performed on and produced R&B records!

This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a man who escaped prison during World War One, designed ice ships for the allies during the Second World War and in between was a real oddball, inventor and journalist!

This week John treats the lads to the bizarre saga of John Keehan aka Count Juan Raphael Dante, the man who started mixing martial art forms while involving himself in pornography, organized crime and hairdressing before he started the famed Dojo Wars!

This week John takes a look at the anonymous person behind the Longmont Potion Castle recordings of prank "phone work" dating back to 1986, spanning almost 20 albums and celebrated among the metal and punk underground communities as stupid-genius!

This episode the boys reflect on the singular, fearless, comedian everyone loved and discuss his career, ethics and astonishingly subversive humor. Goodnight Norm, we love you.

This week John tells the boys about Joseph Goebbels and the Third Reich's film "Titanic," a movie that led to the director's execution and more deaths on board a ship than the Titanic itself.

This week Matt treats the boys to the alternate history of mankind through the eyes of the author who believes we descended from cannibalistic apes whose brains grew too large for our skulls and set us on a path of de-evolution! Plus Aaron treats us to estranged twins on opposite ends of the second world war!

This week John tells the boys about the twin brothers who revolutionized fertility medicine and rose to celebrity before drug addiction codependency and denial led them to withdraw and spiral further into madness.

This week Johnboy tells the tale of America's most accomplished prison escapee and fugitive from justice - but before that, hear the lurid tales of an underground London sex club!

This week Matt regales the boys with the story of an upstart prolific writer who crafted stories of heroes and seduced the public and ultimately tried to seize power behind the wall of lies he'd created!

This week Aaron treats the lads to the tale of the Jewish chemist who tried to create a mind control program for the CIA, along the way dosing his unwitting coworkers with acid and developing torture methods that endure to this very day!

This week the boys return for the tenth installment of Eccentric Media with obscure leaflets Aaron's childhood commercial acting, pearls of wisdom from Ice T and much more!

This week Matt treats the boys to the story of a man who braved the wilderness and slayed creatures in order to survive as a publicity stunt...but was he lying to create hype or actually a survivor of the boonies?

In this episode, John tells the boys about the rivalry between two mega-rich scumbags and their obsession with the same model which culminated in a murder at Madison Square Garden and "The Trial Of The Century!"

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the saga of a woman who escaped British aristocrat life to become an adventurer in the middle east! Before walling herself into her own home to die, Hester Stanhope would pioneer archaeological excavations and become a local legend decades before Lawrence of Arabia.

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the saga of Caligula, the most murderous, perverted, maniacal Roman emporer of all! Throwing people to their deaths and banging all of his sisters and making the senate pimp their wives and daughters - does this guy know how to party or what?

This week Aaron tackles the famed turn-of-the-20th-century clairvoyant who gave sick patients miraculously accurate treatments and remedies while locked in a hypnotic state! An extensive discussion about the unexplained ensues, but before all that we have a phone interview with a couple who visited a famously romantic getaway; The Tik'!

This week Matt brings the story of the hard drinking, hard fishing Hall of Fame pitcher, gator rassler, and brick thrower who tormented both teammates and opponents alike. Get the outfielders off the field!

This week Johnboy tells the lads about a man known as the kamikaze of crime, Jacques Mesrine. International bank robbery and multiple prison escapes happen across continents as Mesrine eludes capture with endless disguises...and wigs! Plus another phone call to the Tik!

This week Matt treats the lads to several examples of micronations; small, small, small, countries and the weirdos that start them. Really small countries. Like, smaller than your house. But before that, we get more calls from listeners to the Tiki Adult Theater!

This week Johnboy tells the lads about the charismatic half-blind cult leader that recruited brilliant minds in Japan and Russia to build weapons of mass destruction in anticipation of Doomsday. Yikes! Plus, we get an incredible fan interaction at the beginning of this episode!

This week Aaron tells the gripping story of the African bodyguard who served as the right hand to a Portuguese Jesuit missionary before becoming a samurai in feudal Japan! Plus we call the Tiki Adult Theater with a few questions!