Profiles In Eccentricity

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!

This week John giddily tells the story of an underground right wing Japanese activist who starred in porn filmes and attempted to assassinate a Yakuza boss in a kamikaze plane attack! Matt gives the bow wow bio of a famous lofty pup!

This week Aaron drops the tale of the strangest, brainiest man in professional baseball: mediocre ballplayer and secret wartime spy Moe Berg! Don't touch his fucking newspaper!

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.

John brings the bizarre lonely saga of a fed up newscaster that shocked home audiences by abruptly shooting herself in the head on live television. Aaron talks about cool eels that do blow.

Matt hits us with the inspiriational tale of Mildred Burke, a woman who trailblazed for female wrestlers and defeated all challengers in REAL and staged fights whie simultaneously enduring the abuse of her lowlife manager!

Laura Crawford tells the boys about Sputnik Monroe, a pimp-themed wrestler who sought black fans and deliberately forced integration at his shows.

This week our guest David Sharp shares the unbelievable life story of gambling legend Amarillo Slim. This was recorded immediately after our last episode for our Patreon, but we decided to share so the regular fans could see the sort of thing we have cooking on our Patreon account! Support the show.

The Boys run a train on this episode with a 3-way of mini weirdses! First Aaron gives us some background on Alfred Hubbard, the "Johnny Appleseed of LSD," then John gives poses a question about straight edge pedophiles in the hardcore punk scene, before Matt closes us out with bizarre fads through time! Have yourself a nice piss and try it out! Support the show.

This week Matt delivers a history of chopped up baseball with the saga of the Pittsburgh Pirates 80s coke addiction!!

This week John shares the tale of the most offensive band in history.

This week the boys play the clips they've been mumbling and stuttering about for a while from eccentric films, songs and of course, porn.

This week our guest Chris Crittenden shares the story of Steve Rocco, who built the culture of modern skateboarding simply because he was told he could not.

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.

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!

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.

John McAfee gets the profile treatment from Aaron in this episode and it is a wild, scary, fascinating and dirty ride! This is a hell of a story, folks, so get tucked in!

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!

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!

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!

This episode has Matt drop the tale of obscure musician, member of Jefferson Airplane and avid psychedelic drug abuser Alexander Skip Spence!

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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