Profiles In Eccentricity

This week Johnboy takes us through the story of an early black aviator who's daring and deceit made him a brash war hero, gun runner and braggadocio who would parachute over Harlem while playing the saxophone!

This week Matt wraps up the saga of the murderous polygamist church leader whose imprisonment and even death couldn't stop the bloodshed when his progeny get a hold of a list of names and take their father's mission to a chilling crescendo!

This week Matt weaves us through the early history of Mormonism leading to the creation of the offshoot polygamist church of one man that would use murder to eliminate his rivals, including his own brothers! Plus John and Aaron want to play a game...

This week Johnboy tells the lads about some of the members of the American Nazi Party in the 50s and 60s including the grand dragon of the NY chapter of the Klan who was secretly Jewish!

This week Matt concludes the saga of the notorious lone star football team where at first a change in leadership can't stop the winning machine but all good things must come to an end!

This week Matt shows us how the Dallas Cowboys began as a middling NFL team before a management shake up and some daring and bizarre roster additions led them to take two superbowls in a row!

This week Johnboy wraps the saga of the 1970s leftwing terrorist group that had one wing become a death cult while the other became an international terrorist menace in an absurd, tragic series of bizarre events that mystify to this day.

This week Johnboy tells the lads the beginnings of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist group borne from the student protest movement following the second world war. Plus Canada's amputee mystery man!

This week Johnboy shares the life story of the famed writer Eric Blair aka George Orwell through his time pioneering embedded reporting among the impoverished, his imperial police days in India, revolutionary socialist military volunteer era in Spain and beyond while trying to make sense of the politics, neuroses, compromises and legacies of a still relevant but complex individual.

This week Matt breaks down the history and absurdity of the tradition of dueling from the nobles and elites of the dawn of the ritual in Europe through the more popular version of the ridiculous act of petty pride in the Old West and highlights some of the most preposterous matchups along the way!