Profiles In Eccentricity

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Harold Nathan Braunhut: Monkey Sea, Monkey What? Feb 09, 2023

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This week Matt brings us to the bizarre zone of comic book advertising and the strangest mogul of backpage scams like x ray spex, a Jewish man who gravitated to a strange political affiliation and made too much money from his work to be properly called out!

The Barefoot Bandit: Colton Harris Moore Feb 02, 2023

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This week Johnboy takes on the story of the traumatized child who started thieving for survival before becoming a folk hero who successfully evaded police for years while teaching himself how to steal and fly planes from the Puget Sound to the Bahamas during his time as a fugitive, challenging society!

Beau Monde Bohemian: Caresse Crosby Jan 26, 2023

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This week Matt regales the boys with the story of Caresse Crosby, the wealthy socialite that invented the bra, published works by legendary artists and writers, married drunk morons and entered into a suicide pact with her sleazy, shell-shocked proto-goth husband!

Never Growing Up: Doug Kenney Part 2 Jan 20, 2023

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In the final installment, Johnboy talks about Doug Kenney building The National Lampoon print empire and expanding into huge Hollywood movie hits, dying mysteriously and doing so much cocaine! Plus bawdy pahts!

Chagrin Falls: Doug Kenney Part 1 Jan 12, 2023

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This week Johnboy takes on the endlessly partying National Lampoon's Doug Kenney in his childhood through his college years and time at Harvard, but before that a mini-profile of the bizarre life of his friend Peter Ivers.

Pervert Potluck 2: Billy "In The Bowl" Davis, William "Every Conceivable Animal" Buckland, Joe "The Animal" Barboza, John "White Devil" Willis Dec 15, 2022

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The boys are back with a Christmas gift from each of us to you! John's got a disabled vagrant murderer from Ireland, Aaron's got a British theologian and archaeologist who ate a king's heart, and Matt and John share two different outsider gangsters from New England.

David Icke: Answers and Challenges Dec 09, 2022

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This week Johnboy gets the lads frisky about conspiracy while trying to make sense of the motivation, history and legacy of the "turd in the punchbowl" theorist, David Icke, who's spiritual awakening led him to spearhead a movement against the supposed enslavement that extraterrestrial lizards control earth from in the illuminati!

Eccentric Media XIII: That's True! Dec 01, 2022

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This week the boys get lost in another mess of videos, cartoons, clips, ads and PSAs including but not limited to madness at McDonald's, Freddy Kruger porn and a Far Side comic that went too far!

Sexual Socialite: Eve Babitz Nov 17, 2022

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This week Matt brings the boys the story of the original groupie who dealt in sex and drugs while serving as a muse and challenger to artists in the 60s, 70s and 80s, chronicling the experience in veiled fiction to wide acclaim!

Brooklyn Blood Bath: Tommy "Karate" Pitera Nov 10, 2022

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This week Johnboy tells the lads about the notorious mafia hitman that veered into serial killer territory after growing up a victim of bullying and becoming a martial arts champion!

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