

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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Apr 23, 2021 • 3h 6min
Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet
This week Aaron tackles the famed turn-of-the-20th-century clairvoyant who gave sick patients miraculously accurate treatments and remedies while locked in a hypnotic state! An extensive discussion about the unexplained ensues, but before all that we have a phone interview with a couple who visited a famously romantic getaway; The Tik'!

Apr 16, 2021 • 3h 30min
Rube Waddell: Baseball's Pitching Savant
This week Matt brings the story of the hard drinking, hard fishing Hall of Fame pitcher, gator rassler, and brick thrower who tormented both teammates and opponents alike. Get the outfielders off the field!

Apr 10, 2021 • 2h 16min
Jacques Mesrine: Man Of A Thousand Faces
This week Johnboy tells the lads about a man known as the kamikaze of crime, Jacques Mesrine. International bank robbery and multiple prison escapes happen across continents as Mesrine eludes capture with endless disguises...and wigs! Plus another phone call to the Tik!

Apr 1, 2021 • 2h 14min
A Raft With Its Own Stamps: Micronations
This week Matt treats the lads to several examples of micronations; small, small, small, countries and the weirdos that start them. Really small countries. Like, smaller than your house. But before that, we get more calls from listeners to the Tiki Adult Theater!

Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 46min
Shoko Asahara: Aum Supreme Truth and The Search For Armageddon
This week Johnboy tells the lads about the charismatic half-blind cult leader that recruited brilliant minds in Japan and Russia to build weapons of mass destruction in anticipation of Doomsday. Yikes! Plus, we get an incredible fan interaction at the beginning of this episode!

Mar 19, 2021 • 2h 37min
Black Samurai: The Story Of Yasuke
This week Aaron tells the gripping story of the African bodyguard who served as the right hand to a Portuguese Jesuit missionary before becoming a samurai in feudal Japan! Plus we call the Tiki Adult Theater with a few questions!

Mar 13, 2021 • 2h 9min
Bloodbath and Beyond: The Cruel Saga of Elizabeth Bathory
This week John treats the boys to the legend of the noblewoman who may be the most prolific female murderer of all time. Bathing in the blood of her victims to keep her beauty or just torturing servants and eating their flesh? Either way, that's a dracala!

Mar 7, 2021 • 2h 24min
Eccentric Media IX: Turn Up The Volume Pills, All Is Paul
Anti-drug PSAs, pro-semen drug PSAs, nightmarish public access shows, a dive bar infested with reporters, a movie that never was, and a guidebook to having sex around the globe. You know the drill, it's a media episode with the peepee boys! *Be advised hearing the first part of the Elagabalus episode is necessary for one long ass joke.

Feb 20, 2021 • 1h 46min
Hans Münch: The Good Man Of Auschwitz
Courage and cowardice dominate the discussion during Johnboy's profile of the Nazi doctor who faked horrific experiments a la Angel of Death Josef Mengele in order to keep prisoners from being executed at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Feb 12, 2021 • 2h 57min
Bears Versus Ideology: The Free Town Project
This week Matt tells the lads about the New England hamlet that was flooded by libertarians seeking political refuge from government until bears showed up!


