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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.

comedy

All Episodes

01:52:12

Decadence and Desperation in Storyville: Tom...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/12/11

This week Matt walks us through the history of New Orleans madams and sex workers and the men who enhanced, empowered and enabled their trade in the illegal sex trade with all of the brutality and hypocrisy imaginable!

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01:30:11

The Wandering Wonder of Johnny Appleseed

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/12/04

This week Aaron chronicles the mythic American folk hero's life and practices of piety, generosity and peaceful westward expansion of the United States all while barefoot and wearing a tin pot hat, burlap sack - spreading seed everywhere!

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01:35:09

From The Vault: Everybody Hates This Guy: Charles J....

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/11/27

Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing in Republican politics - failing at that as well - and trying to finally attain success as the assassin of President Garfield! A rerelease in time to talk to your family about the show, "Death By Lightning," about Guiteau and President Garfield.

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01:31:18

The Misfit Maestro: Ed Wood

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/11/20

This week Johnboy unravels the myth and tragic history of the "worst director" and finds a dreamer who unites a motley crew of oddballs and creates a legacy of B-movie legend amidst the backdrop of Hollywood promise and sketchy porno payday certainlty as a means to survive!

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01:30:10

Movement, Momentum, Mystery: Louis Le Prince Part Two

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/11/13

This week Matt concludes the saga of film pioneer Louis LePrince! As the 20th century draws near, several inventors are on the cusp of making motion pictures a reality. Louis has patents in place that will enshrine him as the first if he can evade the skullduggery of Thomas Edison, but a sudden disappearance makes things much more complicated!

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01:06:35

Louis Le Prince: Pioneer of Film Part One

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/11/06

This week Matt begins the life of an artist who found inspiration from his family friend Louis Daguerre, an early pioneer of photography, before war in France led him to work in England where he increased his work in imagery and began to dream of the movement of picture!

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01:15:15

Gilles de Rais: The Faithful Sadist

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/10/30

This week Aaron details the life of a famed French knight, a comrade of Joan of Arc, a practitioner of black magic and a big time murderer, Gilles de Rais! We follow his poor upbringing, lavish banquets, extensive crimes and an unwavering faith in God amid the bloodshed! Be warned: this episode contains child murder, torture and sexual violence.

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01:35:22

Canadian Biker Wars Part Two: Maurice “Mom” Boucher

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/10/23

This week Johnboy returns to the Rock Machine/Hells Angels conflict known as The Quebec Biker War with a focus on the Montreal leader whose cunning, ruthlessness and daring made him the most famous criminal in Canadian history!

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01:37:04

Canadian Biker Wars Part One: Walter Stadnick

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/10/16

This week Johnboy starts the history of the Canadian Biker Wars with a focus on the man that would become the leader of the Hell’s Angels in Canada. Walter Stadnick is a mysterious wee man with a horribly scarred face who evades capture by the police and being usurped by rivals in the Hell’s Angels, Satan’s Choice and other violent motorcycle gangs by being a little smarter than the rest!

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01:02:06

From the Vault: Time Kills: The Self-Maiming...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/10/09

This episode John profiles the combative art of Chris Burden, who willfully had himself shot to be taken seriously. Satirical and disturbing commercials, crucifixion to a Volkswagen and a habit of creating terrifying and visceral live performances and inventions were all a part of Burden's vision.

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01:57:13

Pervert Potluck 8: Neil Hopper, Milwaukee Bridge...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/10/02

This week Laura fills in for Aaron with a loopy tale of a respected surgeon who falls ill before his ties to a sketchy underground amputation circle is exposed! Matt gives a brief history of a burgeoning Milwaukee and the battles over bridges and Johnboy dives into the battle between the first chapter of the Hell’s Angels in Scandinavia and the native Bullshit Motorcycle Club!

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01:29:33

Pervert Potluck 7: Count Stenbock, King Ludwig II,...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/09/25

A sad diletante, a Swan King, and a school full of demons! This week fan favorite Laura Crawford fills in for Johnboy as Matt covers the annoying writer Count Eric Stenbock, Aaron brings the tale of the oppulent King Ludwig II of Bavaria, lover of Wagner and fake caves, and Laura wraps it up with the wild story of a Miami high school full of headless chickens and demonic teenagers.

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01:17:20

The Basque Mask: Martin Guerre and Arnaud du Tilh

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/09/11

This week Matt brings us the dark ages tale among the great unwashed that was too juicy to deny noble interest! Martin Guerre, a Frenchman of Basque origin, disappointed and disappeared from his village life in France until he reappeared - or did he?

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01:11:12

From The Vault: Muscle Measuring Maniac

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/09/04

After the news of the maniac's death, we revisit John's story of England’s Purple Aki, a bizarre profile of a fitness enthusiast whose compulsion to squeeze young men’s muscles led him to being labelled as a sex offender, serving time in prison, and his conviction for being involved in a young man’s death. Plus, Matt serves up harrowing early talking dolls.

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01:25:30

Anton LaVey: The Satanic Televangelist

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/08/28

his week Aaron gives the singular tale of a man known for infamy - creator of The Church of Satan, Anton LaVey! Aaron breaks down the origins of the man, his myriad lies, brushes with celebrity and his peculiar rise to notoriety while showing how his church and preaching serves as a mirror to a more pertinent evil in world!

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01:28:08

Unrepentant: Jerome “New Jack” Young

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/08/21

This week Johnboy brings the lads the story and legend of the baddest wrestler ever, New Jack! We hear of Jack’s horrendous upbringing and early criminal life before he reaches wrestling and creates a hostile persona that shocks the world with brutal in-ring acts on camera and leaves a legacy that continues to fascinate to this day!

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01:29:06

From The Vault: Creatures In The Courtroom, Bears At...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/08/14

This episode Matt drops the shockingly insane history of humans putting animals and insects on trial and John talks about a WWII hero that also happens to be a bear!

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01:04:32

Colonel Thomas Rose: Daring, Drive and Discipline

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/08/07

This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of the biggest prison escape in US history! Union Colonel Thomas Rose finds himself in the horrifyingly bleak Confederate Libby Prison and faces starvation, disease, rats and death by sewage drowning before finally breaking out - but will be able to reach Union lines now that he’s free in the heart of the confederacy?

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01:15:12

The Monkey Factor: Igor Kenk

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/07/31

This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a very successful Slovenian fence for stolen bicycles and the philosophy that drives him; resourcefully repurposing anything that he can find and staying hungry! Is Igor Kenk the most prolific bicycle thief of all time or someone to admire?

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01:26:23

From The Vault: Yukio Mishima: Japanese Homosexual...

Profiles In Eccentricity ·

2025/07/24

This episode Matt tells our first listener-suggested subject about Yukio Mishima, a nationally prized Japanese novelist and descendant of a samurai dynasty, who, after the second world war, tried to take Japan to the far right, overthrow the government, and loved figuratively shredded dudes getting literally shredded by arrows.

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