Profiles In Eccentricity

Starburns Audio, John Fahy, Aaron Pita, Matt Brousseau

A show about weirdos.

  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Patreon Preview: We Gotta Figure Out These Pyramids

    We're off this week, but have a Patron's Choice episode for you from April. We talked Arizona, Kellogg, Xmen 97, Vikings! and more.

    14 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 2 hours 7 minutes
    Bill Veeck Part 2: Take Me Out

    This week Matt concludes the saga of the sensational promoter Bill Veeck!Amid the myriad squabbles with the MLB and ownership of several teams, we discover the touching charitable nature of the man, his responsibility for several long-lasting baseball traditions and one famous episode of a dwarf at-bat!

    7 November 2024, 9:27 pm
  • 2 hours 9 minutes
    Bill Veeck: Flamboyantly Forward

    This week Matt treats the lads to the first half of the saga of the baseball innovator, promoter and owner who consulted fans, created bizarre promotional techniques and pioneered integration in the era of the Second World War!

    31 October 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    Vincent Price: Fun To Fear

    This week Aaron recaps the distinct life of the ghoulish actor,television personality and renaissance man Vincent Price! The enduring legacy of his public persona and less known work as a philanthropist, writer and art connoisseur are intertwined in a compelling, informative and touching profile. 

    24 October 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 23 minutes
    Bloody Benders: The Family That Slays Together

    This week Johnboy brings the story of the German family that killed traveler folk in Kansas while preaching spiritualism and free love post-civil war! Plus the saga of native murderer Queho and the sadist vengeance of Jack Slade!

    17 October 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 2 hours 51 minutes
    ABA: The Rogue League That Rewrote Basketball

    This week Matt dives into the upstart basketball league that challenged the NBA to the point that it could no longer be ignored! The American Basketball Association brought fistfights, rule changes with long lasting consequences, pageantry and an entrepreneurial daring that brought us none other than Doctor J!

    10 October 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    P.T. Barnum Part 3: Barnum Ends

    This week the boys conclude the saga of Phineas Taylor Barnum and reflect on his enduring legacy after first covering Jumbo The Elephant, a partnership and rivalry with Bailey, a public feud with ASPCA, a hasty marriage and Barnum’s final Egress! 

    3 October 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    P.T. Barnum Part 2: The Carnival Bark Knight

    This week Johnboy continues Barnum’s saga with his financial ruin, rescue from friends and new featured exhibits like Zip The Pinhead and Commodore Nutt, a love triangle of dwarf performers, ruinous fires and political forays in the era of Lincoln!

    26 September 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 42 minutes
    Patreon Preview: Culture Jamming

    This week The Covid Kid aka Johnboy has the bug again so we will be back next week for Barnum Part 2! In the meantime, here is a classic Patreon episode from April where we get into, amongst much else, Caleb Landry Jones, cocaine beaches, and artificial intelligence!

    18 September 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    P.T. Barnum Part 1: Barnum Begins

    This week Johnboy explores the origins of the pivotal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum and his initial series of traveling shows that brought him instant worldwide repute with Joice Heth, Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind; a slave woman reported as 161 years old, a dwarf with talent and charisma and an angelic voice who showed Barnum’s extent to manipulate the media narrative!

    12 September 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 48 minutes
    Moondog: Blind, Bizarre and Brilliant
    5 September 2024, 11:00 am
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