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Profiles In Eccentricity

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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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Jan 23, 2025 • 1h 21min

Vlad The Impaler: Stuck In The Middle Dracul

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!
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Jan 16, 2025 • 1h 50min

From The Vault: Neo Nazi Hot Tub Party

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.
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Jan 9, 2025 • 1h 19min

Storm Chasers Part 2: Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita

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!

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