Profiles In Eccentricity

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!