Profiles In Eccentricity

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! 

  This week Johnboy brings the tale of the man J. Edgar Hoover called “the most amazing figure in contemporary criminal history!” Gaston Bullock means falls in love with the thrill of deception as a youth and it takes him from blackmailing criminals while a government agent to grafting and murdering an heiress and finally, exploiting the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby! 

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 would not die, unwittingly surviving as many as five separate attempts on his life by a collective of five of his friends. Matt tells the story of a man who weaned himself off of a self love practice involving nutting super hard and often. Plus, Aaron tells of the meth fueled couple that threw a death and sex "parde" ending in one fatality! This episode brought to you by Claritin and Glass, in theaters now.

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 in captivity in a bid to boost the silver screen output of the most sinister regime on earth, while our estranged stars dream of an escape! What happens next?? Be forewarned: harsh descriptions of prison torture contained herein! 

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 actress Choi Eun-hee and her oddball producer husband Shin Sang-ok and how their meteoric rise in cinema success led them to catch the eye of a secret cinephile - Kim Jong-il?? 

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 Hollywood matchmaker for secretly gay, straight, and bisexual encounters between celebrities and prostitutes - while accepting, “no money?” From the Royal family to Katherine Hepburn, from Iwo Jima to a threesome with Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, there is no life like that of Scotty Bowers. FORE MORE SCOTTY STORIES: Look up our "Patreon Preview: Ooze It Or Gooze It" which we put out Oct 09, 2019. 

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! Anthony Gignac never works a job but always works his hustle of pretending to be a Saudi Prince and along the way he dupes Johnny Cochran, American Express and multiple investors out of millions of dollars! What will stop him??

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 America's most decorated soldier through accomplishing unfathomable feats of bravery against the fascists before taking on fame, Hollywood and the addictions and afflictions of post-war life!

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! Matt has the cult who embraced castration via scriptural misinterpretation! John has Russia's empire-ending, catastrophic naval expedition!

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 influenced Bram Stoker's novel! Vlad cuts an equally chilling figure as a daring, sadistic, brutal ruler and military leader - with a flare for unfathomably macabre spectacle!

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 gang whose members were half undercover ATF agents, the story of a WW2 SS unit that committed such heinous atrocities that even the Nazi leadership was appalled, and the Norwegian phenomenon of preceding doppelgängers that show up before their real life counterpart.

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 of experts, Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita and discover new ways of looking at devastating storms!

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 egos and theoretical stubbornness revolted the scientific community! Along the way we get into the science of storms and the awe-inspiring violence and power of the tornado!

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 century prostitute who used steak creatively. John meditates on cosmonaut tragedy and sacrifice and Matt brings us to the island that cocaine changed dramatically!

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, headlines blaming women and comets, Marvel movie erotica, Jeffrey Dahmer's drug dealer, Chinese bingo app commercials and a very merry DMX tune! Links to all videos are on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/profilesineccentricity

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, living solely on what he stole. His transition from myth to man in the public eye reveals challenging questions about survival, society and solitude.

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 claimed she was a reincarnated priestess of Ancient Egypt! Her return to Egypt and adherence to ancient religion and devotion to her claimed homeland are pitted against an early childhood injury as we seek to explore her mysterious life…

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.

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 discover the touching charitable nature of the man, his responsibility for several long-lasting baseball traditions and one famous episode of a dwarf at-bat!

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 promotional techniques and pioneered integration in the era of the Second World War!

This week Aaron recaps the distinct life of the ghoulish actor,television personality and renaissance man Vincent Price! The enduring legacy of his public persona and less known work as a philanthropist, writer and art connoisseur are intertwined in a compelling, informative and touching profile. 

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! Plus the saga of native murderer Queho and the sadist vengeance of Jack Slade!

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 Basketball Association brought fistfights, rule changes with long lasting consequences, pageantry and an entrepreneurial daring that brought us none other than Doctor J!

This week Johnboy continues Barnum's saga with his financial ruin, rescue from friends and new featured exhibits like Zip The Pinhead and Commodore Nutt, a love triangle of dwarf performers, ruinous fires and political forays in the era of Lincoln!

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 episode from April where we get into, amongst much else, Caleb Landry Jones, cocaine beaches, and artificial intelligence!

This week Johnboy explores the origins of the pivotal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum and his initial series of traveling shows that brought him instant worldwide repute with Joice Heth, Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind; a slave woman reported as 161 years old, a dwarf with talent and charisma and an angelic voice who showed Barnum's extent to manipulate the media narrative!

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 slew of PSA ads that beg belief! 

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 controlled the illegal alcohol economy in South Florida! The second is a magician that worked in yellow face round the clock before having a very dangerous trick go exceedingly wrong!

This week Johnboy brings the tale of Nicolae Ceausescu, the conniving and cruel dictator of Romania who forced excessive childbirth on the population, razed homes to construct North Korean style palaces and cities, achieved status internationally as a rogue of the eastern bloc and finally was brutally executed along his evil bride on Christmas Day!

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 assassination against smaller cattle farmers before president Benjamin Harrison and local entrepreneurs intervened on either side of the conflict!

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 and fawn over her exploits with sex, drugs, the occult and exotic animals!

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 spheres of wealth and high society by virtue of just being hot, fun, connected bachelors!

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 energy experiments before his creations became too unwieldy for US government agencies and still earned him an Eagle Scout badge!

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 became a national hero whose exploits became the basis for the film Crocodile Dundee,  before his legal troubles and drug abuse led him to a bloody showdown with the law!

This week Matt profiles a time and place! The Mississippi River in the early 1800s takes in crime, geological aberrations, natural disasters and local politics in fascinating ways and identifies river folk as their own unique breed!

This week Johnboy shares the tale of “Rubi,” the Latin lover, sportsman, diplomat, despot affiliate and international man of mystery who courted the wealthiest and most beautiful women of the middle of the 20th century due to his charismatic magnetism, gentlemanly disposition and big ol' hawg! 

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 later went on to be responsible for some of the largest robberies in American history with endless arrests, schemes, bribes, chases, prison terms, bullet wounds, and heists in between!

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 soared in popularity before burning out abruptly!

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 month. Find us at https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity

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 problematic notions about sex, genetics and masturbation prevention through genital mutilation!