Profiles In Eccentricity

This week John concludes the Nixon Profile by talking about the paranoid president’s motives for self destruction and zeroing in on some miscellaneous clips including Tricky Dick joking about JFK’s true killer.

Episode 50 sees John share the first half of the story of Richard Milhous Nixon! Poverty, hard work, a little cucky courtship, and a touching friendship with and fondness for another president are just a few of the little known details of the story of the oddball POTUS!

For the holidays, a taste of our Patreon page. We're rejoined by Radostin Zahariev so John can tell the guys about this anonymous Canadian man who is married to a woman but also "dating" a horse. He gets into his sexual history with the horse and is adamant it's consensual. WARNING: This is an episode that is only for creeps!!!! Saddle up! Check out Profiles In Eccentricity on Patreon and consider joining.

This episode John shares the story of England’s Purple Aki, a bizarre profile of a fitness enthusiast whose compulsion to squeeze young men’s muscles led him to being labelled as a sex offender, serving time in prison, and his conviction for being involved in a young man’s death. Plus, Matt serves up harrowing early talking dolls.

This episode Matt shares the tale of high society sapphic socialite Anne Lister, the snobby Englishwoman who turned her nose up at lower class clams. Plus, John dishes on his favorite North Korean execution and South Korean Fan Death superstitions.

This Halloween John shares the spooky pervert saga of physician Carl Tanzler, the German immigrant in Key West who fell in love with a woman who died in his care before graverobbing her carcass and DIY rigging it up to stay "loveable" indefinitely.

Matt concludes the saga of folk singer and entertainer Woody Guthrie with his exploits through the second world war, veering between fame and obscurity, multiple evils from his past returning to haunt him, all concluding in the most emblematic and poignant, beautiful tale of highs and heartbreak in America.

Matt returns from the woods to drop the first half of the tale of folk singer and authentic Okie entertainer Woody Guthrie and it’s filled with tragedy, Americana, carousing, shitty breakfasts, Communism, Facism, and a girl burnt so bad she froze to death… all played out against the backdrop of American history.

This episode Aaron drops the poignant tale of basketball prodigy Pete Maravich, whose obsession with the game would lead him to create never beefore seen maneuvers and a mountain of career records, but who suffered when his staggering success left him searching for more.

This week Godfather of Profiles, Joe Lachut, guests to tell the story of two brothers in the '20s who hoarded literally tons of garbage in their Harlem home. Also, John shares the tales of two men who terrorized Long Island during his childhood: a kidnapper and a sniper!