Profiles In Eccentricity

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??