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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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All Episodes

01:30:04

Four Irish Maniacs: John Curran, James "Butt" Riley,...

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2023/04/27

This week Johnboy provides four Irish lads that are all a bit off! The thug who used his head to break down doors! The one eyed man who successfully snuck into political and sporting events! The unofficial prison tour guide and "jail groupie!" The man who attacked cops and wrote poetry about it! Featuring Werner Squirts-Hog!!!!

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01:29:08

Nazi Nicky Crane: Secretive Skinhead

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2023/04/20

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the story of a bigoted thug whose reputation was so fearsome that nobody dared challenge him when his double life and hypocrisy were exposed! But first, Matt goes mango mad in Cultural Revolution-era China!

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01:32:02

Loony Legislator: Marion Zioncheck

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2023/04/13

This week Johnboy shares the tale of the congressman who started as a New Deal progressive before descending into an alcohol-fueled manic rampage that lasted half a year and included starting riots in Puerto Rico, driving on the White House lawn, and taking reporters on drunk driving rampages through the Capital before his shocking life comes to a screeching halt!

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01:47:36

Chemicals and Contraptions: Thomas Midgely Jr.

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2023/04/06

This week Matt treats the lads to the brilliant inventor who was far ahead of his time, inventing freon and leaded gasoline - while suffering horrifying injuries along the way - before his life ends cryptically with yet another invention involved!

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01:27:01

Morgue Rat: Karen Greenlee

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2023/03/30

This week Johnboy zeroes in on an unabashed necrophiliac woman who rose to underground fame in the 80s after granting a frank interview that told all about the practice of sneaking into funeral homes, having sex with male corpses, and the run-ins with the law that ensued as a result! Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid to rest!

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02:02:16

Terry Sawchuk: The Iron Wing

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2023/03/23

This week Matt takes the lads on a tour of the life of a young boy who ignored an arm injury and inadvertently created a motionless wing that would serve as a perfect goalie stick arm as he grew up. Terry Sawchuk would become a hockey legend, but would continue to ignore medical advice to even greater detriment!

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01:27:05

That's The Way That Tune Goes: Robert Blake and...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/03/16

Returning a few days after the death of Blake, this week Johnboy wraps up the saga of the actor and the woman who sought fame until it killed her. We are introduced to a cast of sketchy stuntmen, vagrants and jilted lovers who may have played a role in the killing before exploring the flawed criminal trial, a curious dedication by Tarantino and beyond!

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01:14:07

Moth To A Flame: Robert Blake and Bonnie Lee Bakley...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/03/09

This week Johnboy begins the story of the relationship between professional grifter Bonnie Lee Bakley, faded film and TV star Robert Blake and the baby that would lead them individually into schemes of fraud, kidnapping and murder.

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01:43:03

Houdini Part 2

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2023/03/02

This week Aaron completes the Harry Houdini odyssey, exploring the first escape artist's superstardom, WWI patriotism, spirtual skepticism, pettiness, fame in film, showmanship, magic history academia, and so much more before covering the "first superhero's" contrversial death and enduring, endlessly fascinating legacy!

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59:30

Cocaine Bear Revisited!

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/02/22

This week, in preparation for COCAINE BEAR in theaters this Friday, we take a look back at Aaron's early profiles of the real story the film is based on, first in Episode 8 and later at a live show! Plus Matt and John's stories from the live show are included - another of which still has tons of cocaine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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01:23:24

Houdini Part 1

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/02/16

This week A-a-ron begins the electrifying saga of Eric Weiss aka Harry Houdini from his childhood as a Jewish immigrant through his middling vaudeville performances in comedy and magic and forays into spiritualism before creating a sensational new act; the escape artist.

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01:35:17

Harold Nathan Braunhut: Monkey Sea, Monkey What?

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/02/09

This week Matt brings us to the bizarre zone of comic book advertising and the strangest mogul of backpage scams like x ray spex, a Jewish man who gravitated to a strange political affiliation and made too much money from his work to be properly called out!

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01:18:08

The Barefoot Bandit: Colton Harris Moore

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/02/02

This week Johnboy takes on the story of the traumatized child who started thieving for survival before becoming a folk hero who successfully evaded police for years while teaching himself how to steal and fly planes from the Puget Sound to the Bahamas during his time as a fugitive, challenging society!

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02:00:27

Beau Monde Bohemian: Caresse Crosby

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2023/01/26

This week Matt regales the boys with the story of Caresse Crosby, the wealthy socialite that invented the bra, published works by legendary artists and writers, married drunk morons and entered into a suicide pact with her sleazy, shell-shocked proto-goth husband!

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01:54:42

Never Growing Up: Doug Kenney Part 2

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/01/20

In the final installment, Johnboy talks about Doug Kenney building The National Lampoon print empire and expanding into huge Hollywood movie hits, dying mysteriously and doing so much cocaine! Plus bawdy pahts!

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01:47:34

Chagrin Falls: Doug Kenney Part 1

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2023/01/12

This week Johnboy takes on the endlessly partying National Lampoon's Doug Kenney in his childhood through his college years and time at Harvard, but before that a mini-profile of the bizarre life of his friend Peter Ivers.

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01:44:15

Pervert Potluck 2: Billy "In The Bowl" Davis, William...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2022/12/15

The boys are back with a Christmas gift from each of us to you! John's got a disabled vagrant murderer from Ireland, Aaron's got a British theologian and archaeologist who ate a king's heart, and Matt and John share two different outsider gangsters from New England.

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02:27:24

David Icke: Answers and Challenges

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2022/12/09

This week Johnboy gets the lads frisky about conspiracy while trying to make sense of the motivation, history and legacy of the "turd in the punchbowl" theorist, David Icke, who's spiritual awakening led him to spearhead a movement against the supposed enslavement that extraterrestrial lizards control earth from in the illuminati!

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02:15:46

Eccentric Media XIII: That's True!

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2022/12/01

This week the boys get lost in another mess of videos, cartoons, clips, ads and PSAs including but not limited to madness at McDonald's, Freddy Kruger porn and a Far Side comic that went too far!

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01:57:05

Sexual Socialite: Eve Babitz

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2022/11/17

This week Matt brings the boys the story of the original groupie who dealt in sex and drugs while serving as a muse and challenger to artists in the 60s, 70s and 80s, chronicling the experience in veiled fiction to wide acclaim!

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