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Profiles In Eccentricity

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Apr 3, 2025 • 1h 19min

The After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter Morgan

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! 
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Mar 27, 2025 • 1h 15min

Gaston Bullock Means: The Lie Is The High

  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! 
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Mar 20, 2025 • 55min

From The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx

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.
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Mar 13, 2025 • 1h 47min

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

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! 
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Mar 6, 2025 • 1h 20min

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

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?? 
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Feb 27, 2025 • 1h 7min

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

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. 
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Feb 20, 2025 • 1h 25min

The Fraudi Arabian Prince: Anthony Gignac

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??
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Feb 13, 2025 • 1h 4min

The Real Captain America: Audie Murphy

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!
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Feb 6, 2025 • 1h 23min

Pinhead Potluck: Stupid F*cking Idiots

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!
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Jan 30, 2025 • 1h 12min

Totalitarian Tolerated: Saparmuruat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov

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