Profiles In Eccentricity

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Tinkering With It All: Ben Franklin Part 2 May 01, 2025

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This week Matt takes the lads deeper into Ben Franklin’s life of brilliant ingenuity, dysfunctional family dynamics, flirtatious relationships with young women, and an affection for nudity all while the relationship between the states and Britain begins to sour!

Benjamin Franklin Part 1: Reluctant Rascal Apr 24, 2025

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This week Matt shows the boys the early years of Benjamin Franklin and how his devotion to publishing, writing, debate and philosophy leads to a desire to create organizations and societies that center on the distribution of information and even the formation of American militia!

Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson And The Revolutionary Spirit Apr 17, 2025

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This week Johnboy chronicles the saga of the Public Universal Friend, born a woman of the Quaker faith, the tumultuous times of the American Revolution would have them found the first religious order in the burgeoning country as a non-binary being sent from heaven!

Pervert Potluck 5: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Sean na Sagart, The Old Leatherman, Carl Barks Apr 10, 2025

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This week the lads are joined by Laura Crawford for the ancient tradition of the story swap! Aaron has a Francophile African cannibal dictator, Johnboy has a priest-slaughtering Irish bounty hunter, Matt has the mysterious-yet-reassuring Leatherman and Laura has the man who secretly created revered Donald Duck comics that Walt Diz took credit for!

The After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter Morgan Apr 03, 2025

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This week Matt brings us the tale of twin armed robbers who grew up in a life of crime before taking on the law themselves before the war amongst each other brings their spree to an end and extends beyond!

Gaston Bullock Means: The Lie Is The High Mar 27, 2025

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This week Johnboy brings the tale of the man J. Edgar Hoover called “the most amazing figure in contemporary criminal history!” Gaston Bullock means falls in love with the thrill of deception as a youth and it takes him from blackmailing criminals while a government agent to grafting and murdering an heiress and finally, exploiting the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby!

From The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx Mar 20, 2025

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We had to take this week off, but we'll be back next week with some grand foolishness. Until then:

This episode John shares the tale of the man who would not die, unwittingly surviving as many as five separate attempts on his life by a collective of five of his friends. Matt tells the story of a man who weaned himself off of a self love practice involving nutting super hard and often. Plus, Aaron tells of the meth fueled couple that threw a death and sex "parde" ending in one fatality! This episode brought to you by Claritin and Glass, in theaters now.

Civil War Cinema Part 2: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee, Shin Sang-Ok Mar 13, 2025

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This week Matt brings the lads the thrilling conclusion of an impossibly obscure cinema saga! Kim Jong-il holds the stars of South Korea film royalty in captivity in a bid to boost the silver screen output of the most sinister regime on earth, while our estranged stars dream of an escape! What happens next?? Be forewarned: harsh descriptions of prison torture contained herein!

Civil War Cinema: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-Ok Mar 06, 2025

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This week Matt brings the first part of the history of film on BOTH sides of the demilitarized zone in Korea! We hear the struggle of South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her oddball producer husband Shin Sang-ok and how their meteoric rise in cinema success led them to catch the eye of a secret cinephile - Kim Jong-il??

From The Vault: Hollywood’s Underground Sex Network: The Scotty Bowers Story Feb 27, 2025

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We're off this week, but are rereleasing one of our favorite old ones.

This episode John takes the lads into the world of the WW2 veteran turned Hollywood matchmaker for secretly gay, straight, and bisexual encounters between celebrities and prostitutes - while accepting, “no money?” From the Royal family to Katherine Hepburn, from Iwo Jima to a threesome with Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, there is no life like that of Scotty Bowers.

FORE MORE SCOTTY STORIES: Look up our "Patreon Preview: Ooze It Or Gooze It" which we put out Oct 09, 2019.

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