Profiles In Eccentricity

Daredevil: Evel Knievel

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt gives the lads an extensive view of the legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel! We find out Robert Craig Knievel was indeed a leche...

The People's Potluck: The London Beer Flood, Elmer McCurdy and Daniel E. Sickles

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 M...

From The Vault: The Blood And Bickering Of The I.N.L.A.

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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, infig...

Yikes!: Paul Sykes

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Remote Viewing: US Research Into Psychic Phenomena

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Carlos The Jackal: The Ric Flair Of Terrorism (featuring Ramsey Badawi)

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy tells the lads and guest comedian Ramsey Badawi about the fanciest dressed terrorist maniac that ever lived! Ilich Ramirez Sanchez t...

The Transatlantic Telegraph: Lord Kelvin, Wildman Whitehouse, and Cyrus Fields

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt tells the tale of the ardous journies to lay the first telegraph cable connecting America to Ireland and England and the technological ...

Nazi Occult Missions with Dalan Musson

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

From The Vault: Otto Skorzeny: The Most Dangerous Man In Europe

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Eccentric's Eccentric: John Huston

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

From The Vault: Manufacturing Cadavers: The Burke And Hare Murders

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 sum...

Decadence and Desperation in Storyville: Tom Anderson, Emma Johnson and Lulu White

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

The Wandering Wonder of Johnny Appleseed

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron chronicles the mythic American folk hero's life and practices of piety, generosity and peaceful westward expansion of the United State...

From The Vault: Everybody Hates This Guy: Charles J. Guiteau

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing in Republi...

The Misfit Maestro: Ed Wood

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Movement, Momentum, Mystery: Louis Le Prince Part Two

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Louis Le Prince: Pioneer of Film Part One

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Gilles de Rais: The Faithful Sadist

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Canadian Biker Wars Part Two: Maurice "Mom" Boucher

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, r...

Canadian Biker Wars Part One: Walter Stadnick

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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. W...

From the Vault: Time Kills: The Self-Maiming Prankster Provocateur Artist Chris Burden

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode John profiles the combative art of Chris Burden, who willfully had himself shot to be taken seriously. Satirical and disturbing commercia...

Pervert Potluck 8: Neil Hopper, Milwaukee Bridge Wars, and The Copenhagen Biker War

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Pervert Potluck 7: Count Stenbock, King Ludwig II, and the Miami Aerospace Academy

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 writ...

The Basque Mask: Martin Guerre and Arnaud du Tilh

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

From The Vault: Muscle Measuring Maniac

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

Anton LaVey: The Satanic Televangelist

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 m...

Unrepentant: Jerome "New Jack" Young

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 crimi...

From The Vault: Creatures In The Courtroom, Bears At Battle

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 happen...

Colonel Thomas Rose: Daring, Drive and Discipline

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Monkey Factor: Igor Kenk

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt treats the lads to  the story of a very successful Slovenian fence for stolen bicycles and the philosophy that drives him; resourceful...

From The Vault: Yukio Mishima: Japanese Homosexual Author Tries To Overthrow Government And Be Ripped

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode Matt tells our first listener-suggested subject about Yukio Mishima, a nationally prized Japanese novelist and descendant of a samurai dy...

Craig Smith (Maitreya Kali) Part 2: Hootenightmare

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week returning Fan Favorite Laura Crawford returns to complete the saga of schizophrenic musician and star Craig Smith as he wades through losing...

Craig Smith (Maitreya Kali) Part 1: Golden Coast Glory

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Mairey...

Charles Lee: Dog In The Fight

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll: Decadent Deserter Desolate

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Wa...

From The Vault: Blowcaine Baseball

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Akasha Song: DMT And The Undying Ego

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Queho: Stalking Sin City

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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! Sur...

From The Vault: Eccentric Media 6: This Slick Is No Joke

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Pervert Potluck 6: Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West, Richard Dawson and The Many Deaths of Football

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Transgressive: Harris Glenn "Divine" Milstead

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Death And Taxes: Benjamin Franklin Part 3

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Tinkering With It All: Ben Franklin Part 2

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt takes the lads deeper into Ben Franklin's life of brilliant ingenuity, dysfunctional family dynamics, flirtatious relationships with yo...

Benjamin Franklin Part 1: Reluctant Rascal

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 desir...

Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson And The Revolutionary Spirit

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy chronicles the saga of the Public Universal Friend, born a woman of the Quaker faith, the tumultuous times of the American Revolutio...

Pervert Potluck 5: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Sean na Sagart, The Old Leatherman, Carl Barks

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the lads are joined by Laura Crawford for the ancient tradition of the story swap! Aaron has a Francophile African cannibal dictator, Johnbo...

The After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter Morgan

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Gaston Bullock Means: The Lie Is The High

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  This week Johnboy brings the tale of the man J. Edgar Hoover called "the most amazing figure in contemporary criminal history!" Gaston Bullock mean...

From The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

Civil War Cinema Part 2: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee, Shin Sang-Ok

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt brings the lads the thrilling conclusion of an impossibly obscure cinema saga! Kim Jong-il holds the stars of South Korea film royalty ...

Civil War Cinema: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-Ok

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt brings the first part of the history of film on BOTH sides of the demilitarized zone in Korea! We hear the struggle of South Korean act...

From The Vault: Hollywood's Underground Sex Network: The Scotty Bowers Story

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're off this week, but are rereleasing one of our favorite old ones. This episode John takes the lads into the world of the WW2 veteran turned Holly...

The Fraudi Arabian Prince: Anthony Gignac

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy tells the lads of the Colombian street kid who was adopted by American parents and then himself adopted a very royal persona! Anthon...

The Real Captain America: Audie Murphy

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron treats the lads to the impossibly unlikely tale of the rural scrappy lad that enlisted in the military after Pearl Harbor and became A...

Pinhead Potluck: Stupid F*cking Idiots

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys return with three tales of morons! A-A-Ron brings the miserable miser who hid his wealth in literal feces and ate tainted meat! Mat...

Totalitarian Tolerated: Saparmuruat "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vlad The Impaler: Stuck In The Middle Dracul

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron explores the life, legend and legacy of Vlad Dracula III and the boys explore to what extent the 15th century ruler of Wallachia influ...

From The Vault: Neo Nazi Hot Tub Party

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're off this week due to the fires out here, so we've got one of our favorite old episodes. This episode John shares the story of a neo-nazi biker g...

Storm Chasers Part 2: Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt throws us back into the storm with a savagely harrowing tale of a tornado made of fire in Wisconsin! Then we meet the next generation o...

Storm Chasers Part 1: James Espy and William Redfield

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt treats the lads to the story of America's first tornado chasers from Ben Franklin through the first meteorologists - who's overblown eg...

From The Vault: Pervert Potluck

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dropping an old favorite on Xmas. From 2019: This week on Profiles each lad once again brings a wee bit for a 3 way love fest! Aaron tells of a 19th c...

Episode 300: Eccentric Media X(mas)VIII: JEFF?!

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys celebrate episode 300 with the 18th entry into our eccentric media series! We've got Canadian gay rock tunes, Santa toilet ads, hea...

The North Pond Hermit: Christopher Thomas Knight

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy tells the lads about the man who haunted a rural Maine community before his capture after 27 years of living in a frigid campsite, l...

Dorothy Eady: Back To Egypt

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week returning guest Laura Crawford explores the life and past life claims of Dorothy Eady, an English woman born in the early 20th century who c...

Patreon Preview: We Gotta Figure Out These Pyramids

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're off this week, but have a Patron's Choice episode for you from April. We talked Arizona, Kellogg, Xmen 97, Vikings! and more.

Bill Veeck Part 2: Take Me Out

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt concludes the saga of the sensational promoter Bill Veeck!Amid the myriad squabbles with the MLB and ownership of several teams, we dis...

Bill Veeck: Flamboyantly Forward

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt treats the lads to the first half of the saga of the baseball innovator, promoter and owner who consulted fans, created bizarre promoti...

Vincent Price: Fun To Fear

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron recaps the distinct life of the ghoulish actor,television personality and renaissance man Vincent Price! The enduring legacy of his pu...

Bloody Benders: The Family That Slays Together

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy brings the story of the German family that killed traveler folk in Kansas while preaching spiritualism and free love post-civil war!...

ABA: The Rogue League That Rewrote Basketball

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt dives into the upstart basketball league that challenged the NBA to the point that it could no longer be ignored! The American Basketba...

P.T. Barnum Part 3: Barnum Ends

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys conclude the saga of Phineas Taylor Barnum and reflect on his enduring legacy after first covering Jumbo The Elephant, a partnershi...

P.T. Barnum Part 2: The Carnival Bark Knight

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy continues Barnum's saga with his financial ruin, rescue from friends and new featured exhibits like Zip The Pinhead and Commodore Nu...

Patreon Preview: Culture Jamming

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week The Covid Kid aka Johnboy has the bug again so we will be back next week for Barnum Part 2! In the meantime, here is a classic Patreon episo...

P.T. Barnum Part 1: Barnum Begins

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy explores the origins of the pivotal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum and his initial series of traveling shows that brought him instan...

Moondog: Blind, Bizarre and Brilliant

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eccentric Media XVII: PSArmegeddon

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys venture again into media mayhem with wild punk rock binges in mania, Ice T let loose on blaxploitation and Luchador wrestling and a...

"King of the Everglades" John Ashley And Fraudulently Chinese Magician Chung Ling Soo

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy hits the lads with two tales of weirdos! The first is a swamp bandit whose gang ruthlessly attacked police, robbed banks and control...

Nicolae Ceausescu: Stupid Stalinist

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy brings the tale of Nicolae Ceausescu, the conniving and cruel dictator of Romania who forced excessive childbirth on the population,...

Nate Champion: Hero of the Johnson County War

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the sordid class war saga of the Johnson County War, where cattle barons openly started a campaign of assassinati...

Marchesa Casati: Millionaire Muse

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt regales the boys with the legacy of heiress Marchesa Casati, whose style, charisma, wealth and pomp made artists and high society fear ...

Playboy Potluck: Alfonso de Portago, Denham Fouts, Gunter Sachs

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys revisit the playboy lifestyle of the mid-twentieth century in Europe with the tales of three different playboys who entered the sph...

David Hahn: Child Of The Atom

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron brings us the story of chemistry prodigy - turned - nuclear threat, David Hahn - the child of divorce who applied DIY ethos to nuclear...

Rod Ansell: Crocodile Hunter On Meth

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy brings the tale of the young Australian boy who was trapped in the hostile wilderness of the Northern Territories for two months and...

Harsh River: The Saga of the 19th century Mississippi River

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt profiles a time and place! The Mississippi River in the early 1800s takes in crime, geological aberrations, natural disasters and local...

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza: Playing The Schlong Game

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy shares the tale of "Rubi," the Latin lover, sportsman, diplomat, despot affiliate and international man of mystery who courted the w...

The Panczko Brothers: Crime And Ingenuity

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt shares the story of three Polish American boys- Butch, Pops and Peanuts -who grew up poor in Chicago, stealing food to survive and late...

On Air Chaos: Morton Downey Junior

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy shares the story of the chain-smoking combative talk show host that courted controversy and violence in the brief time his show soar...

Patreon Preview: Meat Shower

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're off this week, but here's a little extra episode from our patreon. We talk wild nature, porn blocking, bee facts, SBF, and more. Only $5 per mon...

John Kellogg: Enemas And Cereal

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron treats the lads to the far out ideas of John Kellogg, from his progressive ideas about diet, cleanliness and exercise to his problemat...

The Revengers: Tura Satana, Jason Vukovich and Shawn Nelson

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy assembles a team of vengeance-driven eccentric characters from the recent past, including a 60s femme fatale film star, an abused-ch...

Everybody Hates This Guy: Charles J. Guiteau

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing ...

Big Baby Business: Georgia Tann

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy shares the terrifying story of a woman whose disregard of the poor and greed led her to build a criminal empire in the world of adop...

The Death Mask Murder: Andrew Crispo Part 2

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the finale of Matt's Crispo saga, we see drug paranoia mixed with the heights of access, sycophantic sadists and power play into cruel sexual fanta...

Sketchy Socialite: Andrew Crispo Part 1

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are joined by fan favorite Joe Kaye to begin exploring the tale of the orphan who ingratiated himself into the elite world of art during ...

(Rerelease) Eccentric Media IV - Juiced

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In light of recent events we revisit an old patreon media episode: Our friend Nisa Ward joins us to talk about being duped into appearing in O.J. Simp...

Harlem's Crime Renaissance: Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Johnboy shares the story of "Bumpy" Johnson's rise to power in the world of crime, taking on established Jewish and Italian gangsters, enter...

Eccentric Media Sweet 16: Tony Little; Kill Yourself

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week the lads collide with another smorgasbord of clips from the halls of miscellany with odd ads from Jack In The Box, a far too open interview ...

The Fourth World: Jack Kirby Part 2

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron concludes the biography of Jack "The King" Kirby with his trading talent to Marvel and DC, creating too many iconic heroes and villain...

I Know A Gangster When I See It: Jack Kirby Part 1

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Aaron enthralls the lads with the beginnings of the comic book legend who came from immigrant parents to selling millions of copies of his c...

The Crime Boss Top Cop and the Rebel Thief: Jonathan Wilde and Jack Sheppard

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...