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Profiles In Eccentricity

John Fahy, Aaron Pita, Matt Brousseausites.libsyn.com
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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Episodes

Catalina de Erauso: Cross-dressed Nun On The Run Maniac

Matt delivers a maniacal portrait of a woman who left the Catholic church in Spain in the 16th century only to become a marauding menace to colonial South America, all while dressed as a man. She escapes death, incredibly meets family members a world away, and achieves glory and worldwide fame before death! Holy shit!

May 23, 20181 hr 14 minEp. 26

Vladimir Putin's Greatest Hits

Special guest Adam Tod Brown talks about Vladimir Putin's secretly disturbing rise to power and the insane and sometimes (uncomfortably) hilarious things he does to expand that power.

May 09, 20181 hr 22 minEp. 25

Sophie Scholl: Nazi Resistance Leader

John tells the story of a 21 year old woman that fought Nazis in Germany at the height of the Second World War. Plus! Matt gives a history of piss in music!

Apr 25, 20181 hr 17 minEp. 23

Malcolm McLaren and The Pedophilic Post-Punk Prank

John weaves a tale of Sex Pistols manager, artist, impresario and provocateur Malcolm McLaren and his loftiest aspirations to destroy pop music with a prank centered around the fetishization of children! Matt shares a funny porn clip! We announce the Patreon!

Apr 18, 20181 hr 10 minEp. 22

Profiles In Eccentricity Live!

This episode live at the Hollywood Hotel has Matt delving into John Lennon and Harry Nilsson getting super chopped and bombed in L.A., Aaron reveals more about the dealers behind the Pablo Escobear fiasco, and John tells of the ongoing saga of the ex-con who posed as a genius to sell tons of nut to a sperm bank!! The gang's all here! Try it out!

Apr 11, 201854 minEp. 21

The Blood And Bickering Of The I.N.L.A.

John tells the lads about the Irish Republican Army's dysfunctional, bratty, petty, infighting, bomb-engineering, snitch-torturing, drug-dealing, hunger-striking, terrorist little step-brother, the Irish National Liberation Army.

Mar 21, 20181 hr 9 minEp. 35

Last Words

This episode has John sharing some of his favorite final words from the famous, the infamous and the fameless! Try It Out!

Mar 14, 20181 hr 6 minEp. 19

Satchel Paige: Second Class Immortal

Matt drops the beautiful, poignant profile of a legend of integration era baseball with no shortage of witty quotes! Plus, John finds out James Joyce loves girl's farts. Yikes.

Mar 07, 20181 hr 17 minEp. 18

Trash, Cheese, Porn

Guest Cindy Aravena talks about a trash kingpin and the bizarre San Fernando Valley theme park the man built on his garbage empire! Matt talks about gigantic hunks of cheese made for early US presidents and it's nasty! John tells Aaron about top porn searches by country for Aaron's birthday!

Feb 28, 20181 hr 9 minEp. 17

The Isolation and Innovation of Music Producer Joe Meek

This week Matt tells the lads of the true criminal whose crime created the martyrdom of a folk singer Joe Hill and John tells the tale of producer Joe Meek, the man who hated the Beatles demo, destroyed the wall of sound recording method and shot his landlady with a shotgun!

Feb 21, 201858 minEp. 16

Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World

This episode Aaron shines a light on a character linked to Jack Parsons, famous occultist, socialite, accomplished mountaineer, poet, high-functioning pervert and STD petri dish Aleister Crowley! Aaron gives a rundown of the famous Satanist that creeped the boys out to the point that they did not want to investigate further! John has a hard time during the reading of a poem! And piss and shit!

Feb 14, 20181 hr 22 minEp. 15

The New Coke Catastrophe and The Bank Robbing, Drug Dealing MMA Fighter

This episode our guest Radiston Zahariev tells the story of a tough guy from London that laid out his dad, became a gang leader, drug dealer and bank robber, who terrified police in addition to being an amateur UFC fighter that infamously laid out Toto Ortiz in a bar! But first, John drops the sad, bizarre saga and legacy of the launch of New Coke by Coca-Cola.

Feb 07, 20181 hr 20 minEp. 14

Pervert Popes: Vatican Orgies and Papal Corpse Court

Matt drops his first profile; a pope whose exhumed corpse was put on trial and Aaron discusses orgies in the Vatican with prostitutes crawling on the floor for chestnuts and other fellas that would win prizes for chasing their own "nut."

Jan 31, 20181 hr 1 minEp. 13

High Gravity BeerPiss and Eccentric Media

Matt, Aaron, and John discuss strictly bizarre media including highly questionable TV interviews, staggering classified ads, bogus urban legends, Ramones radio ads for Steel Reserve beer, scientific books with dark humor and even some weird crap from our own podcast! Pissclaimer: Lots of pee talk.

Jan 17, 20181 hr 3 minEp. 12

Porno Samurai Killer

This episode explores themes of testicular smithereening as Aaron tells John and Matt of instances of mass hysteria and John replies with a tale of a low level porn creep that committed heinous crimes against his fellow mopes. Matt makes John lose it real bad.

Jan 04, 201859 minEp. 11

Alexander Alekhine

Episode 10 has John telling a story he's been saving since the beginning of the show. The boys get sentimental on a very special episode of Profiles In Eccentricity.

Dec 21, 20171 hr 1 minEp. 10

Anthony Curcio/Oliver The Humanzee/Gil Perez

In this episode Aaron tells John of more animal eccentricity with Oliver the Humanzee, John riffs on the unexplained transportation of Gil Perez from Manila to Mexico in 1593, the boys reveal inner Tik secrets after going to the adult theater and John tells Aaron about his favorite robbery of all time committed in 2008 by a guy named Anthony Curcio.

Dec 14, 20171 hr 1 minEp. 9

Pablo Escobear/Cassie Chadwick

In this episode John tells Aaron about a turn of the century con artist who impersonated Andrew Carnegie's daughter, Aaron tells John about a bear that dipped into way too much cocaine and Aaron go over some further discoveries about the Tiki Adult Theater!

Dec 07, 201752 minEp. 8

Freaks at the Tik'/Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino

This episode takes on the colorful customers yelp reviews of the Tiki Adult Theater near John's house, Aaron talks a moment about the Santa Barbara shooter's dad being an idiot and John tells Aaron of the fearless cop that waged war on the mafia in pre-prohibition New York!

Nov 30, 20171 hr 11 minEp. 7

Carl Panzram

John and Aaron discuss the insanely brutal life and times of notorious serial killer Carl Panzram.

Nov 09, 201744 minEp. 6

Jack Parsons

Sex! Drugs! Rocketry! We flip the script this week as Aaron performs his first profile on the magickal, perverse and cameo-laden life of renegade rocket scientist Jack Parsons.

Nov 01, 20171 hr 2 minEp. 5

Ruggero Deodato and Roger Watkins

The men behind two of the most insane films in cinema history (Cannibal Holocaust and Last House On Dead End Street) are the subject of this week's episode! Your hosts are John Fahy and Aaron Pita, as always!

Oct 24, 201747 minEp. 4

The Prince Of Porn

Filmmaker Brian O'Hara joins John and Aaron to discuss the strange life and career of porn legend Philip Prince.

Oct 16, 201759 minEp. 3

Doc Dart

The strange life and times of punk rock legend Doc Dart.

Sep 09, 201744 minEp. 2

Matthew Weigman

The first episode! Hosts John Fahy and Aaron Pita discuss the strange story of notorious phone "phreaker" Matthew Weigman.

Aug 19, 201744 minEp. 1
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