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Profiles In Eccentricity

John Fahy, Aaron Pita, Matt Brousseau

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.

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01:19:05

Serial Killer Celebrity: Johann “Jack” Unterweger

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2023/10/05

This week Johnboy tells the lads about an Austrian criminal who went to prison for murdering a woman and became a celebrated writer in prison. Jack Unterweger was such a beloved writer and model prisoner, in fact, that the literary elite petitioned successfully for an early release and made Jack a star - but Jack wasn’t finished killing!

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01:35:02

Timothy Leary Part 2: Feedback Loop

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2023/09/28

This week Aaron continues the chronicle of the life of Tim Leary and we resume with him being a quasi cult leader, national figure of disdain and a major drug dealer before his encounters with everyone from Charles Manson to Ronald Reagan before he faces death and his legacy with varying conclusions among historians!

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02:07:08

Timothy Leary: Hero of American Consciousness

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2023/09/21

This week A-A-Ron treats the boys to the first half of a biography of the man who would later be called by Nixon, “the most dangerous man in America,” Timothy Leary. Here Aaron charts Leary’s conservative beginnings in a religious home, military school and service in the Second World War before entering academia and having a fateful encounter with psychedelic drugs!

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01:15:34

(Rerelease) Catalina de Erauso: Cross-dressed Nun On...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/09/14

Matt delivers a maniacal portrait of a woman who left the Catholic church in Spain in the 16th century only to become a marauding menace to colonial South America, all while dressed as a man. She escapes death, incredibly meets family members a world away, and achieves glory and worldwide fame before death! Holy shit!

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01:30:53

Body Dysmorphia Cult: Dylan and Tank

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2023/09/07

This week Johnboy shares the bizarre and tragic saga of a cultish stable of “pups” who’s “master” led them to drastically alter their bodies to cartoonish levels any way he wanted - from their muscles to their testicles - ultimately leading the greater queer community to shun the group before a member lost his life in pursuit of their insane fetish goals!

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01:21:53

Viciously Organized: Ken “Tokyo Joe” Eto

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/08/31

This week Matt chronicles the life of a Japanese-American who went from the WW2 internment camps on the West coast to the heights of organized crime in Chicago by running gambling operations and executing rivals. But when his own execution goes awry, Joe disassembles The Outfit like one of his victims!

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01:19:46

Psycho Cop: John “The Cop” Manniel

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/08/17

This week Johnboy shares a documentary about a Brooklyn cop who moonlighted as a ninja crime fighter and focused on youth outreach during the heyday of gang violence in New York!

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02:17:10

The Gifted Cheater: Alvin “Titanic” Thompson

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/08/10

This week Matt brings us the story of a true American scoundrel whose riverboat card talent and trickery as a youth turned into a career as a hustler of all contests from tossing horseshoes to golfing and beyond! Hanging with and cheating mobsters, marrying girls that are way too young, golf’s outlaw origins, it’s all here, folks!

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01:17:51

A Very Shakespearian Shitshow: Robert “Romeo” Coates

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/08/03

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of a rich boy of the Victorian era that fancied himself a thespian and paid his way onto stage,finding audiences that were so amused and revolted by how terrible and unconventional the performances were that he became an overnight sensation! But does he know what a laughing stock he’s turned into as he becomes the subject of satirical plays himself?

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01:33:38

Hibachi Hero: Hiro “Rocky” Aoki

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/07/27

This week Aaron treats the lads to the entrepreneurial saga of Benihana founder “Rocky” Aoki, an immigrant success story whose rise played out amid various side obsessions including boat racing, gambling, backgammon and of course, women!

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03:00:41

Canada Lee: He Can Do Anything

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/07/06

This week Matt brings us the story of Canada Lee, a gifted black child musician who abandoned the violin to become a jockey and then a pro boxer before ultimately turning to acting and becoming a pioneer in the art form alongside Orson Welles!

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01:31:09

Death Machines: James McClintock and The CSS Hunley

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2023/06/29

This week the boys submerge into the topical history of submarines with a look at the CSS Hunley, the craft used in the only successful submarine attack of the civil war - but it’s flawed design killed more working and testing the craft than Northern enemies and it’s designer would go on to the world of bomb makers and con men before mysteriously dying and reappearing in another scam!

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01:49:43

“Crazy” Eddie Antar: Insane Price

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/06/22

This week Matt treats the lads to the saga of Crazy Eddie, the sales and advertising icon of New York who pioneered as much in advertising as he innovated inventory and tax scams while battling the jealousy within his own family!

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02:03:05

Rob Ford: The Mayor Is On The Pipe

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2023/06/15

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the saga of the second famed mayor rocking the crack pipe! We follow Rob’s municipal achievements, see the network he built that made him a populist sensation and crush the competition for mayor before unraveling spectacularly in office!

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01:19:11

Workout Demon: Bernarr “Body Love” MacFadden

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/06/08

This week Johnboy tells the boys about the original health nut and tabloid news pioneer who eschewed medicine in favor of starvation and pseudoscience, wrestled his employees and brought news reporting to a whole new low!

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01:44:47

Eccentric Media XIV: Barely Getting Bi

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2023/06/01

The boys are back this week with yet another media episode! This time we’ve got a cross section of porn titles, a Japanese Twin Peaks coffee commercial series, a train enthusiast on YouTube, bizarre music videos, an NFL rap song, a penis pump pitchman and so much more!

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01:36:18

Death Row Baseball: The Wyoming State Penitentiary...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/05/25

This week Matt treats the boys to the story of the prison that started a baseball team full of rapists, thieves and murderers - and one forger - to play for the public while the players awaited execution! But was their star player truly guilty of murder?

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02:04:41

Another Antarctic Ice Capade: Ernest Shackleton

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/05/18

Matt brings the boys another South Pole dance; this time on a mission to cross the continent! Ernest Shackleton and his crew have lost their ship and spiral out into the ocean on ice flows! Now a small crew have decided to brave a passage of ocean to send for help - who will survive and what will be left of them?

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02:26:16

The Doomed Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/05/11

This week Matt tells the harrowing tale of the British race to reach the South Pole against the Norwegian explorers trying to get there first amid brutal weather conditions, betrayal and very poor decisions made beforehand!

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01:23:14

The Man To Beat: Oofty Goofty

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2023/05/04

This week Johnboy shares the story of the man who destroyed his body with tar while portraying a racist monstrosity and found that the disaster left him immune to pain and made a career out of being thrown, kicked, beaten by bats, fists, cudgels and even the world heavyweight boxing champion with a pool cue!

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