This week Johnboy treats the lads to the story of a bigoted thug whose reputation was so fearsome that nobody dared challenge him when his double life and hypocrisy were exposed! But first, Matt goes mango mad in Cultural Revolution-era China!

This week Johnboy shares the tale of the congressman who started as a New Deal progressive before descending into an alcohol-fueled manic rampage that lasted half a year and included starting riots in Puerto Rico, driving on the White House lawn, and taking reporters on drunk driving rampages through the Capital before his shocking life comes to a screeching halt!

This week Matt treats the lads to the brilliant inventor who was far ahead of his time, inventing freon and leaded gasoline - while suffering horrifying injuries along the way - before his life ends cryptically with yet another invention involved!

This week Johnboy zeroes in on an unabashed necrophiliac woman who rose to underground fame in the 80s after granting a frank interview that told all about the practice of sneaking into funeral homes, having sex with male corpses, and the run-ins with the law that ensued as a result! Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid to rest!

This week Matt takes the lads on a tour of the life of a young boy who ignored an arm injury and inadvertently created a motionless wing that would serve as a perfect goalie stick arm as he grew up. Terry Sawchuk would become a hockey legend, but would continue to ignore medical advice to even greater detriment!

Returning a few days after the death of Blake, this week Johnboy wraps up the saga of the actor and the woman who sought fame until it killed her. We are introduced to a cast of sketchy stuntmen, vagrants and jilted lovers who may have played a role in the killing before exploring the flawed criminal trial, a curious dedication by Tarantino and beyond!

This week Johnboy begins the story of the relationship between professional grifter Bonnie Lee Bakley, faded film and TV star Robert Blake and the baby that would lead them individually into schemes of fraud, kidnapping and murder.

This week Aaron completes the Harry Houdini odyssey, exploring the first escape artist's superstardom, WWI patriotism, spirtual skepticism, pettiness, fame in film, showmanship, magic history academia, and so much more before covering the "first superhero's" contrversial death and enduring, endlessly fascinating legacy!

This week, in preparation for COCAINE BEAR in theaters this Friday, we take a look back at Aaron's early profiles of the real story the film is based on, first in Episode 8 and later at a live show! Plus Matt and John's stories from the live show are included - another of which still has tons of cocaine!

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This week A-a-ron begins the electrifying saga of Eric Weiss aka Harry Houdini from his childhood as a Jewish immigrant through his middling vaudeville performances in comedy and magic and forays into spiritualism before creating a sensational new act; the escape artist.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

From the patreon, a peek at some of the shit we do there: the first instance of John's new game, Aaron has some hot new yelp reviews, Matt has things to blame Jazz for, and then we end with Orson Welles' history lessons.

This week Johnboy takes us through the story of an early black aviator who's daring and deceit made him a brash war hero, gun runner and braggadocio who would parachute over Harlem while playing the saxophone!

This week Matt wraps up the saga of the murderous polygamist church leader whose imprisonment and even death couldn't stop the bloodshed when his progeny get a hold of a list of names and take their father's mission to a chilling crescendo!

This week Matt weaves us through the early history of Mormonism leading to the creation of the offshoot polygamist church of one man that would use murder to eliminate his rivals, including his own brothers! Plus John and Aaron want to play a game...

This week Johnboy tells the lads about some of the members of the American Nazi Party in the 50s and 60s including the grand dragon of the NY chapter of the Klan who was secretly Jewish!

This week Matt concludes the saga of the notorious lone star football team where at first a change in leadership can't stop the winning machine but all good things must come to an end!

This week Matt shows us how the Dallas Cowboys began as a middling NFL team before a management shake up and some daring and bizarre roster additions led them to take two superbowls in a row!

This week Johnboy wraps the saga of the 1970s leftwing terrorist group that had one wing become a death cult while the other became an international terrorist menace in an absurd, tragic series of bizarre events that mystify to this day.

This week Johnboy tells the lads the beginnings of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist group borne from the student protest movement following the second world war. Plus Canada's amputee mystery man!

This week Johnboy shares the life story of the famed writer Eric Blair aka George Orwell through his time pioneering embedded reporting among the impoverished, his imperial police days in India, revolutionary socialist military volunteer era in Spain and beyond while trying to make sense of the politics, neuroses, compromises and legacies of a still relevant but complex individual.

This week Matt breaks down the history and absurdity of the tradition of dueling from the nobles and elites of the dawn of the ritual in Europe through the more popular version of the ridiculous act of petty pride in the Old West and highlights some of the most preposterous matchups along the way!

This week Aaron unveils the portrait of a prodigy who's faith, aptitude and search for knowledge led him to unprecedented access and power in 16th century Britain at a time when the scientific method was as mysterious as magic.

This week John drops the linear path of the famed sicko porn actor who started as a poor youth aspiring to be an actor but not sell out, then became a porn actor who didn't sell out, went to the far reaches of kink without being unkind and surprisingly left behind an incredibly touching story.

This episode John shares scattered(!) debauched stories of porn legend Jamie Gillis who came up in porn through the peep show era in the early 70s and launched the reality and gonzo genres in the early 90s and was accused of murder and unabashedly defended depraved sex in his personal and public life!

This week Johnboy gets into the juicy, violent saga of the leftwing militant group that abducted a wealthy heiress that was groomed - or just convinced - to join their dysfunctional revolutionary struggle as the world watched, befuddled!

This week Matt concludes the saga of the brainstorming pitchman and entrepreneur Alfred Lawson by zeroing in on his final role - that of a cult leader peddling pseudoscience and personal hunches!

This week Matt shares with us the story of a man who buys his own bullshit - but is it with good reason? Alfred Lawson was a successful and unsuccessful baseball player, baseball manager, baseball promoter, publisher, aviator and airplane manufacturer - what will he do next? And has he got something or is he just an asshole?

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Matt brings the story of the Greatest Western Outlaw, some dull yahoo, and John introduces his plan to get Johnny Depp's Veleno guitar.

In this episode Aaron and John bring the Unabomber's saga to a close, discussing the bombing campaign, the iconic sketch and legendary manifesto in addition to Ted's acrimonious relationship with family, women, neighbors and dogs!

In this episode Aaron and John tag team exploring the origins of the man who created a decades long campaign of terror in the U.S., the investigation of which cost more than all serial killers combined.

This week Johnboy tackles the dandy rich boy who abruptly decided to take to the rough life of a pirate and we see how his fate brings him into the company of hostile navies and legendary pirates like the notorious Blackbeard!

This week Matt brings us the story of the astronaut who returned from the moon and had an epiphany, began espousing parapsychology, allying himself with Uri Geller and founding an institution exploring the metaphysical.

This week Johnboy tells the lads about the black aviators who crossed the country during the depression in a collapsing aircraft and used the good will of the segregated black and white communities to make sure their journey was a success.

This week the boys return to wrap up the saga of the most Batmanian villain of modern history and dissect the intricacies of crime and punishment, fame, empathy, incarceration and intelligence and try to grapple with the legacy of guilt that comes with imprisonment in America.

This week Johnboy begins the saga of the criminal who grew into legend as one of the most famed prisoners in history by the expanse of his intellect but was unflinching in his view of justice as a victim of abuse. The story of Robert Stroud starts here. Plus! Lenny Dykstra of the 86 Mets is a gifted lover?

This week Matt brings us the epic conclusion of the raunchiest team in baseball's rise to the top. The Mets head to the playoffs, a legendary error occurs during the world series' 6th game and Dwight Gooden watches a parade from his dealer's apartment!

This week Matt takes on the team in baseball who were at their best at their very worst. In 1986 a crew of vile rogues is assembled, led by Keith Hernandez and, while being flagrantly debauched, lead the season for all but 10 days. Stay tuned for the conclusion next week!

This week Marcella Lentz-Pope guests again as we wrap up the saga of the mysterious billionaire as he goes deeper into seclusion, drug addiction and insanity!

This week Marcella Lentz-Pope rejoins us to continue the saga of the original eccentric billionaire as he breaks new ground in aviation, defies movie censors and helps with the war effort before beginning to show the first signs of madness.

This week Johnboy begins the legacy of lunacy of Howard Hughes, the inventor, producer, pilot, business man, bachelor and maniac. Helping us focus this episode on his early years, Hollywood career and romances with actors is our friend Marcella Lentz-Pope!

This one is rough, heads up! This week John shares the harrowing yet fascinating story of Donny The Punk, who started as a gay activist before being jailed as a conscientious objector, repeatedly raped in jail and became a zen prison bottom!

This week Aaron brings us the heartwarming tale of a man who went from riches to ruin in a day before being reborn as the city of San Francisco's chosen oddball king.

This week Johnboy tells the lads about the gentlemanly bank robber Willie Sutton, famed for his 3 maximum security prison escapes, numerous bank robberies totalling millions of dollars and a quote he never actually said! Plus, major league sports teams with players that never existed!

This week Matt shares the fascinating saga of the ruddy midwest vagrant who later joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces and served in the regime as a famed public executioner before his undoing and mysterious end!

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This week the lads have another buffet of media miscellany to pore over! The boys unveil diabolically insane songs, show off their favorite news failures and reveal the tastelessly surreal excesses of porn and public access television!

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We're off this week, but bringing you another peak at the Patreon. In this one we talk Devo and Ireland, bring in some listener comments and suggestions, and bring up the a man going to the Sybian in the sky. Then George Brett asks who's pitching today.

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This week Johnboy tells the lads about the tawdry, tasteless, tacky saga of the men who killed lodgers and drifters in 19th century Edinburgh to gain measly sums selling the bodies to anatomical scientists all while everyone is absolutely shitfaced on whiskey!

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This week Johnboy shares the story of "Stalin's James Bond" the heavy drinking, womanizing Soviet spy who's intelligence work may have changed the outcome of the second world war and is considered by many the greatest spy who ever lived! Plus a 1980s strip club owner is murdered in the OC!

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This week Aaron shows us the cult that united black nationalism with Egyptian mythology, Islam and extraterrestrials and their maniacal leader who faced the most counts of sexual abuse in history and of course, performed on and produced R&B records!

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This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a man who escaped prison during World War One, designed ice ships for the allies during the Second World War and in between was a real oddball, inventor and journalist!

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This week John treats the lads to the bizarre saga of John Keehan aka Count Juan Raphael Dante, the man who started mixing martial art forms while involving himself in pornography, organized crime and hairdressing before he started the famed Dojo Wars!

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This week John takes a look at the anonymous person behind the Longmont Potion Castle recordings of prank "phone work" dating back to 1986, spanning almost 20 albums and celebrated among the metal and punk underground communities as stupid-genius!

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This episode the boys reflect on the singular, fearless, comedian everyone loved and discuss his career, ethics and astonishingly subversive humor. Goodnight Norm, we love you.

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This week John tells the boys about Joseph Goebbels and the Third Reich's film "Titanic," a movie that led to the director's execution and more deaths on board a ship than the Titanic itself.

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This week Matt treats the boys to the alternate history of mankind through the eyes of the author who believes we descended from cannibalistic apes whose brains grew too large for our skulls and set us on a path of de-evolution! Plus Aaron treats us to estranged twins on opposite ends of the second world war!

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This week John tells the boys about the twin brothers who revolutionized fertility medicine and rose to celebrity before drug addiction codependency and denial led them to withdraw and spiral further into madness.

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This week Johnboy tells the tale of America's most accomplished prison escapee and fugitive from justice - but before that, hear the lurid tales of an underground London sex club!

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This week Matt regales the boys with the story of an upstart prolific writer who crafted stories of heroes and seduced the public and ultimately tried to seize power behind the wall of lies he'd created!

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This week Aaron treats the lads to the tale of the Jewish chemist who tried to create a mind control program for the CIA, along the way dosing his unwitting coworkers with acid and developing torture methods that endure to this very day!

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This week the boys return for the tenth installment of Eccentric Media with obscure leaflets Aaron's childhood commercial acting, pearls of wisdom from Ice T and much more!

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This week Matt treats the boys to the story of a man who braved the wilderness and slayed creatures in order to survive as a publicity stunt...but was he lying to create hype or actually a survivor of the boonies?

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In this episode, John tells the boys about the rivalry between two mega-rich scumbags and their obsession with the same model which culminated in a murder at Madison Square Garden and "The Trial Of The Century!"

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This week Johnboy treats the lads to the saga of a woman who escaped British aristocrat life to become an adventurer in the middle east! Before walling herself into her own home to die, Hester Stanhope would pioneer archaeological excavations and become a local legend decades before Lawrence of Arabia.

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This week Johnboy treats the lads to the saga of Caligula, the most murderous, perverted, maniacal Roman emporer of all! Throwing people to their deaths and banging all of his sisters and making the senate pimp their wives and daughters - does this guy know how to party or what?

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This week Aaron tackles the famed turn-of-the-20th-century clairvoyant who gave sick patients miraculously accurate treatments and remedies while locked in a hypnotic state! An extensive discussion about the unexplained ensues, but before all that we have a phone interview with a couple who visited a famously romantic getaway; The Tik'!

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This week Matt brings the story of the hard drinking, hard fishing Hall of Fame pitcher, gator rassler, and brick thrower who tormented both teammates and opponents alike. Get the outfielders off the field!

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This week Johnboy tells the lads about a man known as the kamikaze of crime, Jacques Mesrine. International bank robbery and multiple prison escapes happen across continents as Mesrine eludes capture with endless disguises...and wigs! Plus another phone call to the Tik!

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This week Matt treats the lads to several examples of micronations; small, small, small, countries and the weirdos that start them. Really small countries. Like, smaller than your house. But before that, we get more calls from listeners to the Tiki Adult Theater!

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This week Johnboy tells the lads about the charismatic half-blind cult leader that recruited brilliant minds in Japan and Russia to build weapons of mass destruction in anticipation of Doomsday. Yikes! Plus, we get an incredible fan interaction at the beginning of this episode!

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This week Aaron tells the gripping story of the African bodyguard who served as the right hand to a Portuguese Jesuit missionary before becoming a samurai in feudal Japan! Plus we call the Tiki Adult Theater with a few questions!

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This week John treats the boys to the legend of the noblewoman who may be the most prolific female murderer of all time. Bathing in the blood of her victims to keep her beauty or just torturing servants and eating their flesh? Either way, that's a dracala!

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Anti-drug PSAs, pro-semen drug PSAs, nightmarish public access shows, a dive bar infested with reporters, a movie that never was, and a guidebook to having sex around the globe. You know the drill, it's a media episode with the peepee boys!

*Be advised hearing the first part of the Elagabalus episode is necessary for one long ass joke.

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Courage and cowardice dominate the discussion during Johnboy's profile of the Nazi doctor who faked horrific experiments a la Angel of Death Josef Mengele in order to keep prisoners from being executed at Auschwitz concentration camp.

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This week Matt tells the lads about the New England hamlet that was flooded by libertarians seeking political refuge from government until bears showed up!

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This week John tells the boys about the decadent Roman emperor that was an occasional prostitute, appointed men with huge cocks to high government positions and went in search of a sex change! But before all of this, Aaron and John celebrate the iconic perv character played by Juliet Anderson in the Taboo series of pornographic films

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This week Johnboy tells the lads about the Czech artist who became a dissident outcast after the invasion of the Soviet Union and created a massive trove of voyeur photography with cameras he built from trash!

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This week Matt treats us to the excellent story of a woman during the civil war who collaborated with a network of slaves, northerners and sympathizers to undermine the confederate forces in her local Virginia. She pretends to be a gator, but she's a beaver the whole time!

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This week we return to hear Aaron wrap the story of Iron Mike thus far. We find Mike as Champion in the late 80s before descending into imprisonment, addiction, infamy and a whole lot of wild partying before completely reinventing himself once again!

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A profile long in the making, this week Aaron takes us through the early wayward years of Kid Dynamite, his incarceration and then mentorship by boxing trainer Cus D'amato, who irrevocably changes the life of the fighter and turns him into one of the greatest boxing champions in history.

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This week Johnboy tells the story of the Nazi preacher and pedophile who started a cult with kidnapped children and former Nazis in rural Chile and collaborated with dictator Augusto Pinochet in matters of torture, disappearance and human experimentation!

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This week Johnboy tells the tale of the little known drug lord that ran a massive business operating in 21 states in the 60s and 70s. The black mafia, the Italian mafia, the French drug connection are all linked to the rise of Frank Matthews, possibly the biggest gangster of all time and his fate is shrouded in mystery.

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No regular episode this week, so we give you another from the Patreon vault. This was a classic tale recommended by one of our favorite Patrons which tells the tale of an infamous night our for one of New Zealand's greatest umpires. Stay to the end to hear the Umpire's Lament.

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This episode Matt tells us about the surprisingly charming pimp turned drummer who was the enforcer, accountant and band member for the Willie Nelson band!

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This week John brings the lads the insane, offensive, disgusting performer GG Allin! From a childhood of terror to punk underground infamy to ending his life after a riot, GG is a legend hard to look at or away from.

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This week Aaron tells the boys about the fabled Winchester widow and her bizarre, expansive never-finished home in California, her motives for building the enigmatic mansion, and the importance of the Winchester repeating rifle in American history!

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This week Johnboy delves into the life of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, his oddball exploits in WW2, his rise to television fame and his battles with sponsors and censors while trying to touch on the human condition. Plus a quadriplegic does some chop!

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This week Matt tells the boys about the religious fanaticism that led a man to cut out his own testicles before fighting for the Union in the Civil War, killing John Wilkes Booth and disappearing after being imprisoned in an asylum!

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He's back, folks! Joe Kaye returns to the program to learn the boys about the fascinating history behind the rides, openings, attractions and sections of Disneyland, Disneyworld, Epcot, California Adventure and more! Eisner Lives!

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In the concluding episode on the pimp-turned-author, Aaron delves into Slim's prison experiences and education, his return to pimping, reconciling with his mother and becoming a married author, father and folk hero.

WARNING: In the last 30 minutes the recorder ran out of storage and the audio was recorded on a very weak room mic with a lot of room tone. Apologies.

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This week Aaron treats the boys to the first half of the brutal, head-spinning, fascinating life of Iceberg Slim, the pimp-turned-author that influenced everyone from Irvine Welsh to Ice Cube!

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