Profiles In Eccentricity

This week John tells the boys about the maniacally subversive two year plot 47 former samurai hatched to avenge their master who was forced to commit seppuku after a dispute with a hugh-ranking shogun official! RIP Richard Bain

This episode Matt treats us to the saga of the self-made single mother who used her cunning. wits, charm and sexuality to bring her to massive financial success while running brothels and hanging out with gangsters and bank robbers. Matt makes Aaron lose it and Aaron makes John lose it.

Heads up: Matt almost throws up this time, so it's pretty gross! Any clips? Any clips? Eccentric Media returns with public access TV prank calls, anti-drug PSAs, and of course the scariest, weirdest, dumbest porn to ever come screaming out of your nightmares!

This week Aaron regales the boys with the tale of the two warring scientists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, who pioneered dinosaur fossil discovery before John tells the tale of the lightning fast surgeon Robert Liston who saved lives by being faster than his contemporaries but also occasionally cut off way too much in his fury! Plus, a history of unlucky individuals!

This week Aaron treats the boys to the story of a woman far ahead of her time, the daughter of Lord Byron and first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace!

This episode Johnboy tells the lads about "The Human Letter" who tested the limits of the postal service for his own amusement and even mailed himself to his father. This leads to a study of eccentric hobbies and great pranks throughout history.

An extra episode this week, for all, from the vault: Matt brings the story of Canadian Ken Carter, focus of "The Devil At Your Heels." Ken offhandedly mentions the death of Lucky Teeter, the original American stunt driver, so Matt tells his tale as well.

This week Matt treats the boys to the life of the famously strange author of The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka. Despondent in relationships and acutely tormented by his father, Kafka is an overly neurotic figure awaiting judgment.

This week Aaron tells the boys about the Spaniard who faked spying on the British for the Nazis and created 27 imaginary fellow agents all reporting a mixture of truths and horseshit.

In this episode from the Patreon vault: Matt runs down a list of how New York City has been destroyed through popular fiction, but then also some moments in popular non-fiction. Very popular stuff. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, laughable disasters, they're all there. Patreon.com/ProfilesInEccentricity $1 per month gets you an old patreon episode every weekday during quarantine and ad-free regular episodes. $5 per month gets you ALL patreon episodes, including new patreon episodes every weekend, and ad-free regulars. Plus, we have merch and we'll be tossing up extra dumb shit every week.