Profiles In Eccentricity
Episodes
Patreon Preview: Egg Cream
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Brothers of The Claw: The Von Erich's Reign
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 lade...
Did Ya Like That?: Fred Dibnah
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Do Good; Have Power: Huey "The Kingfish" Long (Part 2)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
One Man Political Machine: Huey "The Kingfish" Long (Part 1)
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 moveme...
Eccentric Media XV: A Step Too Far
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 expl...
Otto Skorzeny: The Most Dangerous Man In Europe
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 comma...
Bat Masterson: The Best Of The Worst
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Rocketbelt Rejects Part 2
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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! Ham...
The Rocketbelt Rejects Part 1
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy shares the story of the rocketbelt, from its fictional beginnings in science fiction in literature and film before engineers and the...
Cheap Shots: Rick "Elvis" Parker
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Josip "Tito" Broz Part 2: Cult Of Personality
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy concludes the saga of Yugoslavia's long-reigning communist dictator, Tito! We see Josip Broz liberate the country from the Nazi occu...
Josip "Tito" Broz Part 1: Dancer
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
(Rerelease) The Chinese Pirate Empress: Ching Shih
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kit Cavanaugh And Lady Betty: Rogue Irish Women With A Body Count
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
(Rerelease) The New Coke Catastrophe and The Bank Robbing, Drug Dealing MMA Fighter
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
From The Vault: Jack Parsons
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 rock...
The Rebel Thief: Martin "The General" Cahill
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Top Tier Madams: Ada and Minna Everleigh
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Nobody Cares, Your Highness: James A Harden-Hickey
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
An American Tyrant in Nicaragua: William Walker
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt brings us the tale of an unofficial American colonial expedition - then known as a filibuster - and how it's original popularity l...
Serial Killer Celebrity: Johann "Jack" Unterweger
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Un...
Timothy Leary Part 2: Feedback Loop
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ma...
Timothy Leary: Hero of American Consciousness
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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,"...
(Rerelease) Catalina de Erauso: Cross-dressed Nun On The Run Maniac
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Body Dysmorphia Cult: Dylan and Tank
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 cartoo...
Viciously Organized: Ken "Tokyo Joe" Eto
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Psycho Cop: John "The Cop" Manniel
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
The Gifted Cheater: Alvin "Titanic" Thompson
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A Very Shakespearian Shitshow: Robert "Romeo" Coates
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Hibachi Hero: Hiro "Rocky" Aoki
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Aaron treats the lads to the entrepreneurial saga of Benihana founder "Rocky" Aoki, an immigrant success story whose rise played out amid va...
Canada Lee: He Can Do Anything
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 befo...
Death Machines: James McClintock and The CSS Hunley
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 atta...
"Crazy" Eddie Antar: Insane Price
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 innov...
Rob Ford: The Mayor Is On The Pipe
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 networ...
Workout Demon: Bernarr "Body Love" MacFadden
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tells the boys about the original health nut and tabloid news pioneer who eschewed medicine in favor of starvation and pseudoscience...
Eccentric Media XIV: Barely Getting Bi
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 commercia...
Death Row Baseball: The Wyoming State Penitentiary All-Stars
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 pl...
Another Antarctic Ice Capade: Ernest Shackleton
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Doomed Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 bru...
The Man To Beat: Oofty Goofty
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Four Irish Maniacs: John Curran, James "Butt" Riley, John "One Lung" Curran, James Leo "One Eyed" Connelly
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Nazi Nicky Crane: Secretive Skinhead
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Loony Legislator: Marion Zioncheck
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Chemicals and Contraptions: Thomas Midgely Jr.
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt treats the lads to the brilliant inventor who was far ahead of his time, inventing freon and leaded gasoline - while suffering horrifyi...
Morgue Rat: Karen Greenlee
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Terry Sawchuk: The Iron Wing
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 se...
That's The Way That Tune Goes: Robert Blake and Bonnie Lee Bakley Part 2
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Moth To A Flame: Robert Blake and Bonnie Lee Bakley Part 1
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy begins the story of the relationship between professional grifter Bonnie Lee Bakley, faded film and TV star Robert Blake and the bab...
Houdini Part 2
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Aaron completes the Harry Houdini odyssey, exploring the first escape artist's superstardom, WWI patriotism, spirtual skepticism, pettiness,...
Cocaine Bear Revisited!
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in preparation for COCAINE BEAR in theaters this Friday, we take a look back at Aaron's early profiles of the real story the film is based ...
Houdini Part 1
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week A-a-ron begins the electrifying saga of Eric Weiss aka Harry Houdini from his childhood as a Jewish immigrant through his middling vaudevill...
Harold Nathan Braunhut: Monkey Sea, Monkey What?
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt brings us to the bizarre zone of comic book advertising and the strangest mogul of backpage scams like x ray spex, a Jewish man who gra...
The Barefoot Bandit: Colton Harris Moore
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy takes on the story of the traumatized child who started thieving for survival before becoming a folk hero who successfully evaded po...
Beau Monde Bohemian: Caresse Crosby
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt regales the boys with the story of Caresse Crosby, the wealthy socialite that invented the bra, published works by legendary artists an...
Never Growing Up: Doug Kenney Part 2
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the final installment, Johnboy talks about Doug Kenney building The National Lampoon print empire and expanding into huge Hollywood movie hits, dyi...
Chagrin Falls: Doug Kenney Part 1
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy takes on the endlessly partying National Lampoon's Doug Kenney in his childhood through his college years and time at Harvard, but b...
Pervert Potluck 2: Billy "In The Bowl" Davis, William "Every Conceivable Animal" Buckland, Joe "The Animal" Barboza, John "White Devil" Willis
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are back with a Christmas gift from each of us to you! John's got a disabled vagrant murderer from Ireland, Aaron's got a British theologian ...
David Icke: Answers and Challenges
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy gets the lads frisky about conspiracy while trying to make sense of the motivation, history and legacy of the "turd in the punchbowl...
Eccentric Media XIII: That's True!
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the boys get lost in another mess of videos, cartoons, clips, ads and PSAs including but not limited to madness at McDonald's, Freddy Kruger...
Sexual Socialite: Eve Babitz
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt brings the boys the story of the original groupie who dealt in sex and drugs while serving as a muse and challenger to artists in the 6...
Brooklyn Blood Bath: Tommy "Karate" Pitera
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tells the lads about the notorious mafia hitman that veered into serial killer territory after growing up a victim of bullying and b...
Patreon Preview: Your Honor
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the patreon, a peek at some of the shit we do there: the first instance of John's new game, Aaron has some hot new yelp reviews, Matt has things ...
Hubert Fauntleroy Julian: The Black Eagle of Harlem
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy takes us through the story of an early black aviator who's daring and deceit made him a brash war hero, gun runner and braggadocio w...
The Four O'Clock Murders: Ervil LeBaron Part 2
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt wraps up the saga of the murderous polygamist church leader whose imprisonment and even death couldn't stop the bloodshed when his prog...
Blood Atonement: Ervil LeBaron Part 1
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt weaves us through the early history of Mormonism leading to the creation of the offshoot polygamist church of one man that would use mu...
Dan Burros: The Jewish Nazi
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tells the lads about some of the members of the American Nazi Party in the 50s and 60s including the grand dragon of the NY chapter ...
Dynasty's End: The Dallas Cowboys Part 2
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt concludes the saga of the notorious lone star football team where at first a change in leadership can't stop the winning machine but al...
Winning And Sinning: The Dallas Cowboys Part 1
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt shows us how the Dallas Cowboys began as a middling NFL team before a management shake up and some daring and bizarre roster additions ...
Mountain Mayhem, Airline Anarchy: Japanese Red Army Part 2
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy wraps the saga of the 1970s leftwing terrorist group that had one wing become a death cult while the other became an international t...
Japanese Red Army Part 1: Grounds For War
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tells the lads the beginnings of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist group borne from the student protest movement following the seco...
The Fight For Common Decency: George Orwell
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy shares the life story of the famed writer Eric Blair aka George Orwell through his time pioneering embedded reporting among the impo...
The Duel: Chaos, Justice or a Means To An End?
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt breaks down the history and absurdity of the tradition of dueling from the nobles and elites of the dawn of the ritual in Europe throug...
John Dee: The Science Of Myth
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Aaron unveils the portrait of a prodigy who's faith, aptitude and search for knowledge led him to unprecedented access and power in 16th cen...
The Subversive Pervert: Jamie Gillis Part 2
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week John drops the linear path of the famed sicko porn actor who started as a poor youth aspiring to be an actor but not sell out, then became a...
The Far Reaches Of Perversion: Jamie Gillis Part 1
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode John shares scattered(!) debauched stories of porn legend Jamie Gillis who came up in porn through the peep show era in the early 70s and...
The Life And Death Of Tania: The SLA and Patty Hearst
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy gets into the juicy, violent saga of the leftwing militant group that abducted a wealthy heiress that was groomed - or just convince...
The World's Big Asshole: Alfred Lawson Part 2
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt concludes the saga of the brainstorming pitchman and entrepreneur Alfred Lawson by zeroing in on his final role - that of a cult leader...
The World's Big Asshole: Alfred Lawson Part 1
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt shares with us the story of a man who buys his own bullshit - but is it with good reason? Alfred Lawson was a successful and unsuccessf...
Patreon Preview: Harry Tracy Alfred
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a preview of what you might find on our Patreon: Matt brings the story of the Greatest Western Outlaw, some dull yahoo, and John introduces...
The Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Part 2
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Aaron and John bring the Unabomber's saga to a close, discussing the bombing campaign, the iconic sketch and legendary manifesto in ad...
The Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Part 1
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Aaron and John tag team exploring the origins of the man who created a decades long campaign of terror in the U.S., the investigation ...
The Poseur Pirate: Stede Bonnet
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tackles the dandy rich boy who abruptly decided to take to the rough life of a pirate and we see how his fate brings him into the co...
The Space Cadet: Edgar Mitchell
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt brings us the story of the astronaut who returned from the moon and had an epiphany, began espousing parapsychology, allying himself wi...
The Flying Hobos: James H. Banning and Thomas C. Allen
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tells the lads about the black aviators who crossed the country during the depression in a collapsing aircraft and used the good wil...
The Birdman: Robert Stroud Part 2
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the boys return to wrap up the saga of the most Batmanian villain of modern history and dissect the intricacies of crime and punishment, fam...
The Birdman: Robert Stroud Part 1
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy begins the saga of the criminal who grew into legend as one of the most famed prisoners in history by the expanse of his intellect b...
The Scum Bunch: The 1986 New York Mets Part 2
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt brings us the epic conclusion of the raunchiest team in baseball's rise to the top. The Mets head to the playoffs, a legendary error oc...
The Scum Bunch: The 1986 New York Mets Part 1
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt takes on the team in baseball who were at their best at their very worst. In 1986 a crew of vile rogues is assembled, led by Keith Hern...
High Flying Hermit: Howard Hughes Part 3
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Marcella Lentz-Pope guests again as we wrap up the saga of the mysterious billionaire as he goes deeper into seclusion, drug addiction and i...
The Crashing Crackpot: Howard Hughes Part 2
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Marcella Lentz-Pope rejoins us to continue the saga of the original eccentric billionaire as he breaks new ground in aviation, defies movie ...
High Flying Hypochondriac: Howard Hughes Part 1
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy begins the legacy of lunacy of Howard Hughes, the inventor, producer, pilot, business man, bachelor and maniac. Helping us focus thi...
Pacifist Prison Punk: Donny The Punk
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This one is rough, heads up! This week John shares the harrowing yet fascinating story of Donny The Punk, who started as a gay activist before being j...
Self-Made Monarch: Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Aaron brings us the heartwarming tale of a man who went from riches to ruin in a day before being reborn as the city of San Francisco's chos...
Classy Criminal: Willie Sutton
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Johnboy tells the lads about the gentlemanly bank robber Willie Sutton, famed for his 3 maximum security prison escapes, numerous bank robbe...
Castro's Butcher: Herman Marks
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt shares the fascinating saga of the ruddy midwest vagrant who later joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces and served in the regime as a...
Eccentric Media XII: Actually, It's A Man
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the lads have another buffet of media miscellany to pore over! The boys unveil diabolically insane songs, show off their favorite news failu...
Patreon Preview: The Pounding Fathers
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're off this week, but bringing you another peak at the Patreon. In this one we talk Devo and Ireland, bring in some listener comments and suggestio...
Manufacturing Cadavers: The Burke And Hare Murders
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Most Formidable Spy In History: Richard Sorge
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 out...