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!"
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.
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?
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'!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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! The shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ProfilesPodcastMerch
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.
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!
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.
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. Just $5/month for extra profiles and music shows and oddities that wouldn't fit in the regular episodes. And for just $1/month you can get the regular episodes ad free. www.Patreon.com/ProfilesInEceentricity Try it out!...
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
This week Johnboy regales the lads with the story of the freak show claw daddy known as Lobster Boy! Hear of the murder he committed and his own killing at the hands of the Human Blockhead! Plus Matt talks about satanic dinosaurs!!
