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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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01:54:55

Death And Taxes: Benjamin Franklin Part 3

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/05/08

This week Matt concludes the life of Poor Richard aka Benjamin Franklin! We see Franklin use his diplomatic muscle by day to persuade France to join the American cause while engaging in frisky French frivolities at night! His feuds, literary shenanigans and inventions continue all while putting together a little nation called The United States!

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01:37:17

Tinkering With It All: Ben Franklin Part Two

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2025/05/01

This week Matt takes the lads deeper into Ben Franklin’s life of brilliant ingenuity, dysfunctional family dynamics, flirtatious relationships with young women, and an affection for nudity all while the relationship between the states and Britain begins to sour!

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01:22:56

Benjamin Franklin Part One: Reluctant Rascal

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/04/24

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!

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01:08:02

Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson And The...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/04/17

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!

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01:40:31

Pervert Potluck 5: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Sean na...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/04/10

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!

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01:19:08

The After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter Morgan

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/04/03

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!

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01:14:56

Gaston Means

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/03/27

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54:38

From The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/03/20

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

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01:47:27

Civil War Cinema Part 2: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee,...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/03/13

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!

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01:20:18

Civil War Cinema: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee and Shin...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/03/06

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??

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01:06:52

From The Vault: Hollywood’s Underground Sex Network:...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/02/27

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

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01:24:33

The Fraudi Arabian Prince: Anthony Gignac

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/02/20

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??

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01:03:58

The Real Captain America: Audie Murphy

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/02/13

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!

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01:23:10

Pinhead Potluck: Stupid F*cking Idiots

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/02/06

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!

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01:11:42

Totalitarian Tolerated: Saparmuruat “Turkmenbashi”...

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2025/01/30

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01:20:52

Vlad The Impaler: Stuck In The Middle Dracul

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/01/23

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!

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01:49:47

From The Vault: Neo Nazi Hot Tub Party

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/01/16

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.

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01:18:53

Storm Chasers 2: Corporal John Park Finley and Ted...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/01/09

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!

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01:13:07

Storm Chasers Part 1: James Espy and William Redfield

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/01/02

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!

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01:23:36

From The Vault: Pervert Potluck

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/12/25

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!

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