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.

Benjamin Franklin Part One: Reluctant Rascal 04/24/2025

Benjamin Franklin Part One: Reluctant Rascal 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! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/36283165

Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson And The Revolutionary Spirit 04/17/2025

Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson And The Revolutionary Spirit 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! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/36203195

Pervert Potluck 5: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Sean na Sagart, The Old Leatherman, Carl Barks 04/10/2025

Pervert Potluck 5: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Sean na Sagart, The Old Leatherman, Carl Barks 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! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/36076955

The After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter Morgan 04/03/2025

The After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter Morgan 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! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35986780

Gaston Bullock Means: The Lie Is The High 03/27/2025

Gaston Bullock Means: The Lie Is The High 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! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35878855

From The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx 03/20/2025

From The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx 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. /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35795755

Civil War Cinema Part 2: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee, Shin Sang-Ok 03/13/2025

Civil War Cinema Part 2: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee, Shin Sang-Ok 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! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35668575

Civil War Cinema: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-Ok 03/06/2025

Civil War Cinema: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-Ok 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?? /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35552480

From The Vault: Hollywood’s Underground Sex Network: The Scotty Bowers Story 02/27/2025

From The Vault: Hollywood’s Underground Sex Network: The Scotty Bowers Story 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. /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35454850

The Fraudi Arabian Prince: Anthony Gignac 02/20/2025

The Fraudi Arabian Prince: Anthony Gignac This week Johnboy tells the lads of the Colombian street kid who was adopted by American parents and then himself adopted a very royal persona! Anthony Gignac never works a job but always works his hustle of pretending to be a Saudi Prince and along the way he dupes Johnny Cochran, American Express and multiple investors out of millions of dollars! What will stop him?? /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35359235

The Real Captain America: Audie Murphy 02/13/2025

The Real Captain America: Audie Murphy This week Aaron treats the lads to the impossibly unlikely tale of the rural scrappy lad that enlisted in the military after Pearl Harbor and became America’s most decorated soldier through accomplishing unfathomable feats of bravery against the fascists before taking on fame, Hollywood and the addictions and afflictions of post-war life! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35268055

Pinhead Potluck: Stupid F*cking Idiots 02/06/2025

Pinhead Potluck: Stupid F*cking Idiots This week the boys return with three tales of morons! A-A-Ron brings the miserable miser who hid his wealth in literal feces and ate tainted meat! Matt has the cult who embraced castration via scriptural misinterpretation! John has Russia’s empire-ending, catastrophic naval expedition! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35169390

Totalitarian Tolerated: Saparmuruat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov 01/30/2025

Totalitarian Tolerated: Saparmuruat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/35079080

Vlad The Impaler: Stuck In The Middle Dracul 01/23/2025

Vlad The Impaler: Stuck In The Middle Dracul This week Aaron explores the life, legend and legacy of Vlad Dracula III and the boys explore to what extent the 15th century ruler of Wallachia influenced Bram Stoker’s novel! Vlad cuts an equally chilling figure as a daring, sadistic, brutal ruler and military leader - with a flare for unfathomably macabre spectacle! /episode/index/show/535c71df-699c-448e-b74c-a41785563b0a/id/34963655

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

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