Profiles In Eccentricity
Storytelling Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Storytelling Podcasts
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Contact:
4133743047
Episodes
The Death Mask Murder: Andrew Crispo Part 2
5/2/2024
In the finale of Matt’s Crispo saga, we see drug paranoia mixed with the heights of access, sycophantic sadists and power play into cruel sexual fantasies that lead to a dark crime that bears little justice and darker implications for society as a whole. Plus Joe Kaye!
Duration:02:17:40
Sketchy Socialite: Andrew Crispo Part 1
4/25/2024
This week we are joined by fan favorite Joe Kaye to begin exploring the tale of the orphan who ingratiated himself into the elite world of art during a time when gay culture was burgeoning in New York City and Andrew was keeping business fast and loose!
Duration:01:54:24
(Rerelease) Eccentric Media IV - Juiced
4/18/2024
In light of recent events we revisit an old patreon media episode: Our friend Nisa Ward joins us to talk about being duped into appearing in O.J. Simpsons’s TV prank show and John fills in with background on Juiced, the strangest and trashiest television show ever created.
Duration:00:54:05
Harlem’s Crime Renaissance: Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson
4/11/2024
This week Johnboy shares the story of “Bumpy” Johnson’s rise to power in the world of crime, taking on established Jewish and Italian gangsters, entertaining fame, women, celebrity and prison time after starting as a small plucky kid who might just cut your face!
Duration:01:14:48
Eccentric Media Sweet 16: Tony Little; Kill Yourself
4/4/2024
This week the lads collide with another smorgasbord of clips from the halls of miscellany with odd ads from Jack In The Box, a far too open interview with Vincent Gallo, Orson Welles remembering his time with Churchill and so much more!!
Links to all media available on Patreon.
Duration:02:28:42
The Fourth World: Jack Kirby Part 2
3/28/2024
This week Aaron concludes the biography of Jack “The King” Kirby with his trading talent to Marvel and DC, creating too many iconic heroes and villains to count and playing a pivotal role in an international spy ruse that saved American lives!
Duration:02:20:03
I Know A Gangster When I See It: Jack Kirby Part 1
3/21/2024
This week Aaron enthralls the lads with the beginnings of the comic book legend who came from immigrant parents to selling millions of copies of his creation Captain America before being drafted into the Second World War and returning to comics and finding himself at the mercy of exploitative publishers once again!
Duration:02:06:14
The Crime Boss Top Cop and the Rebel Thief: Jonathan Wilde and Jack Sheppard
3/14/2024
This week Johnboy treats the lads to the tale of London’s earliest policing, which was run by a stolen goods thief and fence who secretly organized theft into a scam that saw victims and thieves taxed alike to his benefit, before a rogue thief and routine prison escapee beloved by the public brought his reign to a bitter end!
Duration:01:34:59
Patreon Preview: Egg Cream
3/7/2024
We had to take this week off, so we decided to drop an old patreon episode if anyone wanted to get a sense of what those episodes are like! This one is the introduction of some of our favorite characters...
"We talk about a bad date and some Russian opera, but this one is really dominated by a couple of Southern Gentlemen."
Join us at: https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
Duration:01:30:33
Brothers of The Claw: The Von Erich’s Reign
2/29/2024
This week Matt tells the boys of the saga of the Von Erich family of wrestlers from their heights in international superstardom to their downfall laden with tragedy chronicled in the motion picture The Iron Claw!
Duration:02:03:35
Did Ya Like That?: Fred Dibnah
2/22/2024
This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a chimney repairman, or steeplejack, chronicled by the BBC in Northern England who became a national celebrity for his nerve, stubbornness, ingenuity in steam technology and resonance with the public in the shifting times of Britain economically, culturally and politically as a total weirdo!
Duration:02:22:46
Do Good; Have Power: Huey “The Kingfish” Long (Part 2)
2/15/2024
This week Johnboy continues the saga of the left-wing demagogue of Louisiana first as he ascends to the US Senate and pushes FDR to go further with the New Deal by next entering the Great Depression era political fray by running as a presidential candidate while keeping an iron grip on Louisiana affairs that pushes political opponents to openly call for his assassination!
Duration:01:47:22
One Man Political Machine: Huey “The Kingfish” Long (Part 1)
2/8/2024
This week Johnboy tells the lads about a poor boy from Louisiana who saw poverty and injustice as a youth and single-handedly built a political movement that would begin to rapidly transform the state the minute he became governor - but is his grip on power too tight?
Duration:01:22:18
Eccentric Media XV: A Step Too Far
2/1/2024
This week the boys are back with a slew of clips and media miscellany once again and we’ve got the exclusive on a new Spider-Man movie that leans explicit, the skinny on the subversive art of Melrose Place, a film littered with big cats mauling the actors and so much more!
Duration:02:07:49
Otto Skorzeny: The Most Dangerous Man In Europe
1/25/2024
This week Aaron enthralls the lads with the story of a bodyguard of Hitler who went on to liberate Mussolini from imprisonment and engineer Nazi commando operations before the post war era would see him conduct operations on behalf of the Israelis!
Duration:01:52:04
Bat Masterson: The Best Of The Worst
1/18/2024
This week handsome Matt brings us the tale of the legendary Wild West lawman Bat Masterson, from his beginnings in Buffalo hunting to the 20th century boxing ring with the legendary myths of his days as a man on both sides of the law leading to only more questions of right and wrong and power and freedom to befuddle us all!
Duration:02:34:55
The Rocketbelt Rejects Part 2
1/11/2024
This week Johnboy and the lads conclude the saga of the Rocketbelt 2000 or “Pretty Bird” by taking on the voices of the slimy characters involved! Hammer attacks, kidnapping, police corruption and murder all make appearances in the ruthless scramble to attain the most useless invention on earth!
Duration:01:56:58
The Rocketbelt Rejects Part 1
1/4/2024
This week Johnboy shares the story of the rocketbelt, from its fictional beginnings in science fiction in literature and film before engineers and the military brought it to life - sort of! From Nazi rocket scientists to a few guys at the back of a car stereo plaza; behold the rocketbelt rejects!
Duration:01:58:43
Cheap Shots: Rick “Elvis” Parker
12/21/2023
This week Matt brings us into the seedy world of professional boxing promotion in the 80’s and 90’s with a Kenny Powersesque scumbag that corrupted the sport in every way! From bribing and poisoning his own fighters while currying favor with George Foreman and Don King, Rick Parker became so loathesome that it brought on his own murder!
Duration:02:29:01
Josip “Tito” Broz Part 2: Cult Of Personality
12/14/2023
This week Johnboy concludes the saga of Yugoslavia’s long-reigning communist dictator, Tito! We see Josip Broz liberate the country from the Nazi occupation, exile the monarchy, survive multiple assassination attempts from Stalin and create a unique economic, cultural and geopolitical landscape all singularly Tito!
Sources:
https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/foto-site-zheni-koi-neuspeale-da-mu-odoleat-na-tito/
https://medium.com/@_lommol_/the-cult-of-tito-8907a0b4ff28
https://www.barrons. com/news/five-things-about-tito-thefather-of-communist-yugoslavia-01588211703
https://yugotour.com/blog/tito-leader/
https://www.kristinalang.uk/post/five-loves-of-josip-broztito-pet-ljubavi-josipa-broza-tita
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters 01.shtml#:
https ://www.youtube.com/watch_?v=9goS_1_n_HM_-E&t= 708s
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,868972,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia_and_the_NonAlignedMovement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_training_ship_Galeb
https://rm.coe.int/079317-queer-in-europe-during-thesecond-world-war-web-web/16808e4a53
Duration:01:48:43