Profiles In Eccentricity

A show about weirdos. Hosted by comedians John Fahy, Aaron Pita, and Matt Brousseau, each episode tells a tale about someone who lives afoul of the rules most of us live by.

From The Vault: Neo Nazi Hot Tub Party 01/16/2025

From The Vault: Neo Nazi Hot Tub Party We're off this week due to the fires out here, so we've got one of our favorite old episodes. This episode John shares the story of a neo-nazi biker gang whose members were half undercover ATF agents, the story of a WW2 SS unit that committed such heinous atrocities that even the Nazi leadership was appalled, and the Norwegian phenomenon of preceding doppelgängers that show up before their real life counterpart. /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34878765

Storm Chasers Part 2: Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita 01/09/2025

Storm Chasers Part 2: Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita This week Matt throws us back into the storm with a savagely harrowing tale of a tornado made of fire in Wisconsin! Then we meet the next generation of experts, Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita and discover new ways of looking at devastating storms! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34766980

Storm Chasers Part 1: James Espy and William Redfield 01/02/2025

Storm Chasers Part 1: James Espy and William Redfield This week Matt treats the lads to the story of America’s first tornado chasers from Ben Franklin through the first meteorologists - who’s overblown egos and theoretical stubbornness revolted the scientific community! Along the way we get into the science of storms and the awe-inspiring violence and power of the tornado! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34684865

From The Vault: Pervert Potluck 12/25/2024

From The Vault: Pervert Potluck Dropping an old favorite on Xmas. From 2019: This week on Profiles each lad once again brings a wee bit for a 3 way love fest! Aaron tells of a 19th century prostitute who used steak creatively. John meditates on cosmonaut tragedy and sacrifice and Matt brings us to the island that cocaine changed dramatically! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34613140

Episode 300: Eccentric Media X(mas)VIII: JEFF?! 12/19/2024

Episode 300: Eccentric Media X(mas)VIII: JEFF?! This week the boys celebrate episode 300 with the 18th entry into our eccentric media series! We’ve got Canadian gay rock tunes, Santa toilet ads, headlines blaming women and comets, Marvel movie erotica, Jeffrey Dahmer’s drug dealer, Chinese bingo app commercials and a very merry DMX tune! Links to all videos are on our patreon: /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34528025

The North Pond Hermit: Christopher Thomas Knight 12/12/2024

The North Pond Hermit: Christopher Thomas Knight This week Johnboy tells the lads about the man who haunted a rural Maine community before his capture after 27 years of living in a frigid campsite, living solely on what he stole. His transition from myth to man in the public eye reveals challenging questions about survival, society and solitude. /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34408855

Dorothy Eady: Back To Egypt 11/21/2024

Dorothy Eady: Back To Egypt This week returning guest Laura Crawford explores the life and past life claims of Dorothy Eady, an English woman born in the early 20th century who claimed she was a reincarnated priestess of Ancient Egypt! Her return to Egypt and adherence to ancient religion and devotion to her claimed homeland are pitted against an early childhood injury as we seek to explore her mysterious life… /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34074956

Patreon Preview: We Gotta Figure Out These Pyramids 11/14/2024

Patreon Preview: We Gotta Figure Out These Pyramids We're off this week, but have a Patron's Choice episode for you from April. We talked Arizona, Kellogg, Xmen 97, Vikings! and more. /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33925717

Bill Veeck Part 2: Take Me Out 11/07/2024

Bill Veeck Part 2: Take Me Out This week Matt concludes the saga of the sensational promoter Bill Veeck!Amid the myriad squabbles with the MLB and ownership of several teams, we discover the touching charitable nature of the man, his responsibility for several long-lasting baseball traditions and one famous episode of a dwarf at-bat! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33826632

Bill Veeck: Flamboyantly Forward 10/31/2024

Bill Veeck: Flamboyantly Forward This week Matt treats the lads to the first half of the saga of the baseball innovator, promoter and owner who consulted fans, created bizarre promotional techniques and pioneered integration in the era of the Second World War! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33701587

Vincent Price: Fun To Fear 10/24/2024

Vincent Price: Fun To Fear This week Aaron recaps the distinct life of the ghoulish actor,television personality and renaissance man Vincent Price! The enduring legacy of his public persona and less known work as a philanthropist, writer and art connoisseur are intertwined in a compelling, informative and touching profile. /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33596057

Bloody Benders: The Family That Slays Together 10/17/2024

Bloody Benders: The Family That Slays Together This week Johnboy brings the story of the German family that killed traveler folk in Kansas while preaching spiritualism and free love post-civil war! Plus the saga of native murderer Queho and the sadist vengeance of Jack Slade! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33493147

ABA: The Rogue League That Rewrote Basketball 10/10/2024

ABA: The Rogue League That Rewrote Basketball This week Matt dives into the upstart basketball league that challenged the NBA to the point that it could no longer be ignored! The American Basketball Association brought fistfights, rule changes with long lasting consequences, pageantry and an entrepreneurial daring that brought us none other than Doctor J! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33287042

P.T. Barnum Part 3: Barnum Ends 10/03/2024

P.T. Barnum Part 3: Barnum Ends This week the boys conclude the saga of Phineas Taylor Barnum and reflect on his enduring legacy after first covering Jumbo The Elephant, a partnership and rivalry with Bailey, a public feud with ASPCA, a hasty marriage and Barnum’s final Egress! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33289712

P.T. Barnum Part 2: The Carnival Bark Knight 09/26/2024

P.T. Barnum Part 2: The Carnival Bark Knight This week Johnboy continues Barnum’s saga with his financial ruin, rescue from friends and new featured exhibits like Zip The Pinhead and Commodore Nutt, a love triangle of dwarf performers, ruinous fires and political forays in the era of Lincoln! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33215057

Patreon Preview: Culture Jamming 09/18/2024

Patreon Preview: Culture Jamming This week The Covid Kid aka Johnboy has the bug again so we will be back next week for Barnum Part 2! In the meantime, here is a classic Patreon episode from April where we get into, amongst much else, Caleb Landry Jones, cocaine beaches, and artificial intelligence! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33117642

P.T. Barnum Part 1: Barnum Begins 09/12/2024

P.T. Barnum Part 1: Barnum Begins This week Johnboy explores the origins of the pivotal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum and his initial series of traveling shows that brought him instant worldwide repute with Joice Heth, Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind; a slave woman reported as 161 years old, a dwarf with talent and charisma and an angelic voice who showed Barnum’s extent to manipulate the media narrative! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/33018947

Moondog: Blind, Bizarre and Brilliant 09/05/2024

Moondog: Blind, Bizarre and Brilliant /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32856582

Eccentric Media XVII: PSArmegeddon 08/29/2024

Eccentric Media XVII: PSArmegeddon This week the boys venture again into media mayhem with wild punk rock binges in mania, Ice T let loose on blaxploitation and Luchador wrestling and a slew of PSA ads that beg belief! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32783937

“King of the Everglades” John Ashley And Fraudulently Chinese Magician Chung Ling Soo 08/22/2024

“King of the Everglades” John Ashley And Fraudulently Chinese Magician Chung Ling Soo This week Johnboy hits the lads with two tales of weirdos! The first is a swamp bandit whose gang ruthlessly attacked police, robbed banks and controlled the illegal alcohol economy in South Florida! The second is a magician that worked in yellow face round the clock before having a very dangerous trick go exceedingly wrong! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32689417

Nicolae Ceausescu: Stupid Stalinist 08/15/2024

Nicolae Ceausescu: Stupid Stalinist This week Johnboy brings the tale of Nicolae Ceausescu, the conniving and cruel dictator of Romania who forced excessive childbirth on the population, razed homes to construct North Korean style palaces and cities, achieved status internationally as a rogue of the eastern bloc and finally was brutally executed along his evil bride on Christmas Day! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32585367

Nate Champion: Hero of the Johnson County War 08/08/2024

Nate Champion: Hero of the Johnson County War This week Johnboy treats the lads to the sordid class war saga of the Johnson County War, where cattle barons openly started a campaign of assassination against smaller cattle farmers before president Benjamin Harrison and local entrepreneurs intervened on either side of the conflict! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32495342

Marchesa Casati: Millionaire Muse 08/01/2024

Marchesa Casati: Millionaire Muse This week Matt regales the boys with the legacy of heiress Marchesa Casati, whose style, charisma, wealth and pomp made artists and high society fear and fawn over her exploits with sex, drugs, the occult and exotic animals! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32388062

Playboy Potluck: Alfonso de Portago, Denham Fouts, Gunter Sachs 07/25/2024

Playboy Potluck: Alfonso de Portago, Denham Fouts, Gunter Sachs This week the boys revisit the playboy lifestyle of the mid-twentieth century in Europe with the tales of three different playboys who entered the spheres of wealth and high society by virtue of just being hot, fun, connected bachelors! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32288342

David Hahn: Child Of The Atom 07/18/2024

David Hahn: Child Of The Atom This week Aaron brings us the story of chemistry prodigy - turned - nuclear threat, David Hahn - the child of divorce who applied DIY ethos to nuclear energy experiments before his creations became too unwieldy for US government agencies and still earned him an Eagle Scout badge! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32188122

Rod Ansell: Crocodile Hunter On Meth 07/11/2024

Rod Ansell: Crocodile Hunter On Meth This week Johnboy brings the tale of the young Australian boy who was trapped in the hostile wilderness of the Northern Territories for two months and became a national hero whose exploits became the basis for the film Crocodile Dundee, before his legal troubles and drug abuse led him to a bloody showdown with the law! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32094152

Harsh River: The Saga of the 19th century Mississippi River 07/04/2024

Harsh River: The Saga of the 19th century Mississippi River This week Matt profiles a time and place! The Mississippi River in the early 1800s takes in crime, geological aberrations, natural disasters and local politics in fascinating ways and identifies river folk as their own unique breed! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/32012047

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza: Playing The Schlong Game 06/27/2024

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza: Playing The Schlong Game This week Johnboy shares the tale of “Rubi,” the Latin lover, sportsman, diplomat, despot affiliate and international man of mystery who courted the wealthiest and most beautiful women of the middle of the 20th century due to his charismatic magnetism, gentlemanly disposition and big ol’ hawg! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/31905157

The Panczko Brothers: Crime And Ingenuity 06/21/2024

The Panczko Brothers: Crime And Ingenuity This week Matt shares the story of three Polish American boys- Butch, Pops and Peanuts -who grew up poor in Chicago, stealing food to survive and later went on to be responsible for some of the largest robberies in American history with endless arrests, schemes, bribes, chases, prison terms, bullet wounds, and heists in between! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/31842727

On Air Chaos: Morton Downey Junior 06/13/2024

On Air Chaos: Morton Downey Junior This week Johnboy shares the story of the chain-smoking combative talk show host that courted controversy and violence in the brief time his show soared in popularity before burning out abruptly! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/31739122

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