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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

01:28:41

Episode 300: Eccentric Media X(mas)VIII: JEFF?!

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/12/19

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: https://www.patreon.com/c/profilesineccentricity

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01:28:08

The North Pond Hermit: Christopher Thomas Knight

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/12/12

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.

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01:29:42

Dorothy Eady: Back To Egypt

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/11/21

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…

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01:27:12

Patreon Preview: We Gotta Figure Out These Pyramids

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/11/14

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.

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02:07:42

Bill Veeck Part 2: Take Me Out

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/11/07

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!

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02:09:22

Bill Veeck: Flamboyantly Forward

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/10/31

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!

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01:25:57

Vincent Price: Fun To Fear

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/10/24

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.

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01:23:13

Bloody Benders: The Family That Slays Together

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/10/17

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!

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02:51:24

ABA: The Rogue League That Rewrote Basketball

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/10/10

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!

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01:13:27

P.T. Barnum Part 3: Barnum Ends

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/10/03

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!

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01:14:49

P.T. Barnum Part 2: The Carnival Bark Knight

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/09/26

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!

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01:42:12

Patreon Preview: Culture Jamming

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/09/18

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!

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01:20:29

P.T. Barnum Part One: Barnum Begins

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/09/12

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!

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01:48:02

Moondog: Blind, Bizarre and Brilliant

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/09/05

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02:21:51

Eccentric Media XVII: PSArmegeddon

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/08/29

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!

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01:08:10

“King of the Everglades” John Ashley And Fraudulently...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/08/22

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!

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02:06:53

Nicolae Ceausescu: Stupid Stalinist

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/08/15

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!

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01:21:00

Nate Champion: Hero of the Johnson County War

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/08/08

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!

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02:09:05

Marchesa Casati: Millionaire Muse

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/08/01

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!

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01:55:28

Playboy Potluck: Alfonso de Portago, Denham Fouts,...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/07/25

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!

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