Profiles In Eccentricity

This week Matt brings us another tale of daring innovation: the attempt to connect the old and new worlds by wire! Cyrus W Field successfully tests connecting Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before engineers Lord Kelvin and Wildman Whitehouse are faced with engineering disasters including storms, snaps, sabotage and each other!

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, upcoming Street Fighter film!) as Aaron delves into the Nazi search for powerful mythological artifacts and portals to underworld realms, as well as the early influence of theosophy on the burgeoning Third Reich!

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 from imprisonment and engineer Nazi commando operations before the post war era would see him conduct operations on behalf of the Israelis!

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 discuss the banned WW2 documentaries, Huston's many loves, his relationship with his actor father, extensive gambling and partying and his friendship with primates!

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 sums selling the bodies to anatomical scientists all while everyone is absolutely shitfaced on whiskey!

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 illegal sex trade with all of the brutality and hypocrisy imaginable!

This week Aaron chronicles the mythic American folk hero's life and practices of piety, generosity and peaceful westward expansion of the United States all while barefoot and wearing a tin pot hat, burlap sack - spreading seed everywhere!

Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing in Republican politics - failing at that as well - and trying to finally attain success as the assassin of President Garfield! A rerelease in time to talk to your family about the show, "Death By Lightning," about Guiteau and President Garfield.

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 legacy of B-movie legend amidst the backdrop of Hollywood promise and sketchy porno payday certainlty as a means to survive!

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 pictures a reality. Louis has patents in place that will enshrine him as the first if he can evade the skullduggery of Thomas Edison, but a sudden disappearance makes things much more complicated!