Profiles In Eccentricity

This week Johnboy tells the lads about an 18th century society boy who upended the standards of his noble status by endlessly engaging in pistol duels, grudges, intimidation via his pet bear, gang wars and other debauchery in his native west of Ireland and elsewhere in Europe. Was it his brain injury from an early duel, boredom and affluence or innate madness that drove George Robert Fitzgerald to his bitter end?

This week Johnboy brings us the story of the ultimate femme fatale, a maelstrom of anger and violence from a woman so beautiful and alluring that she caused multiple riots, closed down theaters, socialized her ways into the halls of power in Europe and toppled governments!

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.