Profiles In Eccentricity

This week Matt treats the boys to the story of the prison that started a baseball team full of rapists, thieves and murderers - and one forger - to play for the public while the players awaited execution! But was their star player truly guilty of murder?

Matt brings the boys another South Pole dance; this time on a mission to cross the continent! Ernest Shackleton and his crew have lost their ship and spiral out into the ocean on ice flows! Now a small crew have decided to brave a passage of ocean to send for help - who will survive and what will be left of them?

This podcast explores the harrowing race to the South Pole between British and Norwegian explorers, filled with betrayal, poor decisions, and brutal weather conditions. They discuss the challenges of navigation, the differences in approach between Amundsen and Scott, the Terra Nova expedition and its scientific goals, the extreme conditions of Antarctica, collecting penguin eggs, the journey and challenges faced by the polar party, and the mysterious disappearance of the protagonist.

This week Johnboy shares the story of the man who destroyed his body with tar while portraying a racist monstrosity and found that the disaster left him immune to pain and made a career out of being thrown, kicked, beaten by bats, fists, cudgels and even the world heavyweight boxing champion with a pool cue!

This week Johnboy provides four Irish lads that are all a bit off! The thug who used his head to break down doors! The one eyed man who successfully snuck into political and sporting events! The unofficial prison tour guide and "jail groupie!" The man who attacked cops and wrote poetry about it! Featuring Werner Squirts-Hog!!!!

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the story of a bigoted thug whose reputation was so fearsome that nobody dared challenge him when his double life and hypocrisy were exposed! But first, Matt goes mango mad in Cultural Revolution-era China!

This week Johnboy shares the tale of the congressman who started as a New Deal progressive before descending into an alcohol-fueled manic rampage that lasted half a year and included starting riots in Puerto Rico, driving on the White House lawn, and taking reporters on drunk driving rampages through the Capital before his shocking life comes to a screeching halt!

Thomas Midgley Jr., a brilliant inventor, discusses his inventions of freon and leaded gasoline, along with the horrifying injuries he suffered. The podcast also explores gender fluidity, the impact of inventions throughout history, engine knock in automobiles, eccentric behavior and inspiring inventions of Major Lee, the consequences of inventions, the dangers of tetraethyl lead, butterfly coloring, transformation, the harmful effects of lead and freon, and the importance of questioning and seeking knowledge.

Karen Greenlee, an unabashed necrophiliac woman, shares her experiences of sneaking into funeral homes and having sex with male corpses. The podcast discusses her rise to underground fame in the 80s, the legal consequences she faced, and the societal attitudes towards necrophilia. The conversation explores dark themes in artistic media, disturbing revelations in the mortuary, and embraces identity as a necrophile.

This week Matt takes the lads on a tour of the life of a young boy who ignored an arm injury and inadvertently created a motionless wing that would serve as a perfect goalie stick arm as he grew up. Terry Sawchuk would become a hockey legend, but would continue to ignore medical advice to even greater detriment!