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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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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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01:30:46

David Hahn: Child Of The Atom

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/07/18

This week Aaron brings us the story of chemistry prodigy - turned - nuclear threat, David Hahn - the child of divorce who applied DIY ethos to nuclear energy experiments before his creations became too unwieldy for US government agencies and still earned him an Eagle Scout badge!

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01:22:52

Rod Ansell: Crocodile Hunter On Meth

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/07/11

This week Johnboy brings the tale of the young Australian boy who was trapped in the hostile wilderness of the Northern Territories for two months and became a national hero whose exploits became the basis for the film Crocodile Dundee, before his legal troubles and drug abuse led him to a bloody showdown with the law!

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02:29:39

Harsh River: The Saga of the 19th century Mississippi...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/07/04

This week Matt profiles a time and place! The Mississippi River in the early 1800s takes in crime, geological aberrations, natural disasters and local politics in fascinating ways and identifies river folk as their own unique breed!

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01:33:02

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza: Playing The Schlong Game

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/06/27

This week Johnboy shares the tale of “Rubi,” the Latin lover, sportsman, diplomat, despot affiliate and international man of mystery who courted the wealthiest and most beautiful women of the middle of the 20th century due to his charismatic magnetism, gentlemanly disposition and big ol’ hawg!

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02:35:06

The Panczko Brothers: Crime And Ingenuity

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2024/06/21

This week Matt shares the story of three Polish American boys- Butch, Pops and Peanuts -who grew up poor in Chicago, stealing food to survive and later went on to be responsible for some of the largest robberies in American history with endless arrests, schemes, bribes, chases, prison terms, bullet wounds, and heists in between!

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