Profiles In Eccentricity

This week consummate pretty boy Aaron Joseph Pita brings us the murderous saga of mafia hitman and eventual crime boss Albert Anastasia, who's rise to power was brutal, bloody and began and ended with a barber!

This week Matt brings us the story of the polio-sticken blues singer who would create some of the biggest hits of all time and shape popular music while undergoing immense highs and lows in his personal life and crossing paths with a litany of the most famous and bizarre characters of his era. (Correction, the version of "Piney Brown Blues" that Doc heard was probably the 1940 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYRA5f3kQQ) Sources: "Lonely Avenue" by Alex Halberstadt "AKA Doc Pomus" by Peter Miller and William Hechter

This week Aaron does his magic and breaks down the themes, references, callbacks and significance of the highest grossing film of all time, Marvel's Avengers Endgame!

This week Aaron shares some yellow journalism with a few news stories relating to urine and John tells of a counterfeit conman we lost this week and a pervert priest who also passed on after being pissed on!

In a departure from the usual, this week the boys get the creator of Bill and Ted on the phone and discuss the new film, Bill and Ted Face The Music, his new book The Buddha Story, writing advice, Keanu Reeves, Shane Black, Chris's father Richard Matheson and writing in and about the family, theological humor and lots more! Station!

This week Johnboy takes on the reviled Roman ruler Nero! The fire and fury, the incest and intrigue, the extravagance and excess of the madman's reign are all here! Plus Matt shows us the film "Diplomat Tricked In Bathroom!"

This week the boys return with an election won by a household product, a police force undone by a brawl with clowns, and a Prussian king with a fetish for gargantuan soldiers!

This week Matt tells of the rebel maroons in the early 1820s who fled to the swamps and remote countryside to wage war and free slaves from plantation owners. Before that, Johnboy tells of the legendary regiment in ancient Greece composed entirely of gay couples.

We're off this week, but here's Aaron breaking down Terminator 2. If you like this sort of thing, check out the patreon. $5 a month and an extra episode every weekend. Our last patreon episode? John explains Pulp Fiction.

This week Matt opens the episode up with news on a pornographer accused of manslaughter by psychedelics, John tells of a mental disorder where people believe that they are dead and rotting, and Aaron tells the story of the astronomer who vastly improved the map of the heavens, had a pet elk, his own island, and a dwarf jester who predicted the future! Get some!