Profiles In Eccentricity

This week Marcella Lentz-Pope guests again as we wrap up the saga of the mysterious billionaire as he goes deeper into seclusion, drug addiction and insanity!

This week Marcella Lentz-Pope rejoins us to continue the saga of the original eccentric billionaire as he breaks new ground in aviation, defies movie censors and helps with the war effort before beginning to show the first signs of madness.

This week Johnboy begins the legacy of lunacy of Howard Hughes, the inventor, producer, pilot, business man, bachelor and maniac. Helping us focus this episode on his early years, Hollywood career and romances with actors is our friend Marcella Lentz-Pope!

This one is rough, heads up! This week John shares the harrowing yet fascinating story of Donny The Punk, who started as a gay activist before being jailed as a conscientious objector, repeatedly raped in jail and became a zen prison bottom!

This week Aaron brings us the heartwarming tale of a man who went from riches to ruin in a day before being reborn as the city of San Francisco's chosen oddball king.

Famed gentlemanly bank robber Willie Sutton's fascinating life as a master of heists and prison escapes, his popularity during the Great Depression, and his knack for blending in and meticulous planning to evade capture. The podcast also explores the debunking of misconceptions of wealth in movies and the allure of notorious personalities in podcasting.

This week Matt shares the fascinating saga of the ruddy midwest vagrant who later joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces and served in the regime as a famed public executioner before his undoing and mysterious end!

This week the lads have another buffet of media miscellany to pore over! The boys unveil diabolically insane songs, show off their favorite news failures and reveal the tastelessly surreal excesses of porn and public access television.

We're off this week, but bringing you another peak at the Patreon. In this one we talk Devo and Ireland, bring in some listener comments and suggestions, and bring up the a man going to the Sybian in the sky. Then George Brett asks who's pitching today. Join the Patreon for $5 a month and get an extra episode every week. https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity

This week 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!