Yikes!: Paul Sykes

For our final episode, the boys take turns telling each other of the different eras of the life of the artist in his many mediums. Through the War of the Worlds, his brief childhood, Citizen Kane, his marriages and loves, political advocacy, exile, struggles to continue to create and neuroses, we find a funny, sensitive, adventurous and immeasurably talented fellow. We bid you adieu with this lengthy episode and encourage you to follow us on our Patreon for more content in the future. We have loved this time spent together.

This week the lads bear the brunt of bizarre media tundra; an orgy of Appalachian druggy dancers, yoga creeps, deranged USSR propaganda commercials, Orson Welles in roast mode, petrifying PSAs, DVD commentary gone wrong and god knows what else!

This week Aaron gives us the incredible true story of the English hoodlum that became a pivotal double agent during the Second World War! Eddie Chapman made his way to prison through burglary and safe cracking before falling into German hands in Jersey. What followed would win him the German Iron Cross and the grudging admiration of his British military handlers!

This week Matt gives the lads an extensive view of the legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel! We find out Robert Craig Knievel was indeed a lecherous, mean, cheating, stealing scumbag - but he knew how to market performing audacious jumps that miraculously never killed him, and thus, his impact on sport, television, toys and entertainment culture is irreversible!

This week the listeners take the lads through 3 tales of oddity! The London Beer Flood of 1814 is a deadly freak accident that claims 8 lives! Elmer McCurdy is a dead bank robber who becomes more famous as a corpse! Daniel E Sickles gets away with murder in front of the White House before he nearly costs the Union the battle of Gettysburg!

For St. Patrick's Day this week, we revisted an old classic. John tells the lads about the Irish Republican Army's dysfunctional, bratty, petty, infighting, bomb-engineering, snitch-torturing, drug-dealing, hunger-striking, terrorist little step-brother, the Irish National Liberation Army.

This week Matt treats the lads to the tale of notorious prisoner, boxer and bully Paul Sykes! Paul, a large lad, makes his name in Wakefield, England as a local bully before he serves the first of many prison terms interspersed by impregnating teenagers, attacking friends, carousing and terrorizing internationally and wearing big hats! 

This week Aaron gives a beautiful analysis of how the US Military embraced the Nazi findings of extra sensory abilities post-war and ushered in a new era of enlisting psychic combatants in the US military!

This week Johnboy tells the lads and guest comedian Ramsey Badawi about the fanciest dressed terrorist maniac that ever lived! Ilich Ramirez Sanchez traverses the globe hijacking, kidnapping, drinking, bombing, womanizing and killing - all in the name of a free Palestine! The legendary abduction of OPEC, the Paris grenade attack and the testicle that ended his reign are all here! 

This week Matt brings us another tale of daring innovation: the attempt to connect the old and new worlds by wire! Cyrus W Field successfully tests connecting Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before engineers Lord Kelvin and Wildman Whitehouse are faced with engineering disasters including storms, snaps, sabotage and each other!