Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
About the show
We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed.
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Episode List
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57 - Gregor MacGregor: 19th Century Trouble in Paradise
December 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 40 mins
british military, comedy, con artist, desert island, drinking, filibuster, fraud, freebooting, getaway, history, imperialism, military, new world, paradise, podcast, reinventing your life, scam, scotland, south america, starvation, survival, transatlantic, venezuela
Tired of rainy 19th century Scotland? Come to the South American Paradise of Poyias! We DEFINITELY have an Opera house, streets paved with gold... Hell we might even have running water! All you have to do is give all your money to Gregor MacGregor and jump on that boat.
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56 - Edward Drinker Cope: History's Most Bone-Headed Paleontologist
November 29th, 2018 | 1 hr 34 mins
19th century, america, bone, bone wars, brontosaurus, comedy, dig, dinosaurs, discovery, drinking, excavation, explosives, feud, fossils, frontier, history, jurassic park, mining, moron, natural history, naturalist, nerd, paleontologist, paleontology, podcast, race, research, rivalry, science, scientific discovery, scientist, skeletons, tnt, wild west
Seen the documentary Jurassic Park? Think you know dinosaurs? Well, Edward Drink Cope sure doesn't... Even though he discovered a whole bunch of 'em. This dangus started a Bone War that shook the field of paleontology for centuries.
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55 - Commodus: The Most Erect Roman Emperor
November 22nd, 2018 | 1 hr 39 mins
blood, blood sport, brutal, colosseum, comedy, demagogue, despot, drinking, emperor, entitled, fall of rome, famine, fight, fire, gladiator, history, imperial, murder, party, podcast, roman, roman emperor, rome, trust fund, tyrant
Hey Ridley Scott! Think your Gladiator movie was so cool... Well Roast Mortem tells it better. You left out the parts where people drink out of penis cups like they are at a shitty Roman Dick's Last Resort.
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54 - Django Reinhardt: Gypsy Jazz Legend and Extra Hardt
November 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 43 mins
30s, comedy, django, drinking, france, french, guitar, guitar legend, gypsy, gypsy jazz, history, jazz, jazz guitar, music, music history, podcast, romani, swing, traveling
We learn what it means to be a gypsy jazz guitar legend... Be extra French, smoke a billion cigarettes, blow off shows to go drunk fishing, and permanently screw up your meat claws in a caravan fire. Worked for Django Reinhardt.
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53 - Andrew Jackson: America's First Maniac President
November 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 47 mins
19th century, 50 cent, affair, america, anger, brutal, campaign, comedy, currency, democrat, deregulation, dollar, drinking, duel, elections, expansionism, genocide, history, imperialism, jackson, manifest destiny, military, money, native american, old dead dude, oppression, pistol, podcast, politics, president, revolution, ruler, scandal, shot, trail of tears, trump, us history, usa, war, war of 1812, western democracy
You might know him as the 20 Dollar Bill Boy but in his time he was simply known as President Andrew Jackson. When he wasn't physically stealing other peoples wives, this wacky waving inflatable man was flexing America's Manifest Destiny boner, by systematically destroying native culture and spreading slavery. As his pet parrot would scream during his funeral 'ASSHOLE!'
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52 - Master Series: Horror Actors of Hollywood
October 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 56 mins
actor, affair, bela lugosi, boris karloff, classic film, comedy, dracula, drama queen, drinking, drunk, film, frankenstein, halloween, history, hollywood, lon chaney jr, monster, monster movies, podcast, scandal, universal monster movies, vampire, werewolf, wolfman
We take a look behind the scenes at three of the most iconic Hollywood Universal Monsters, Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. We'll they weren't the monsters.. actually they kind of were. Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man and The Mummy all in one room with one cookie. Who will finish last?!
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51 - Matthew Hopkins: Witch Hunter with an Eye for Third Nipples
October 25th, 2018 | 1 hr 20 mins
17th century, britain, church, comedy, crazy, crime, devil, devil worship, drinking, england, familiars, fraud, girls gone wild, halloween, history, murder, persecution, podcast, puritan, religion, satan, satanic, spirits, torture, uk, witch, witch hunting, witchcraft, zealot
Witches Gone Wild! Matthew Hopkins, self-proclaimed Witch-Finder General, is about to turn your small English village into the hottest satanic spring break ever! The girls are up all night (against their will), ready to show off their hard extra nipples, and getting wet from hours of being dunked underwater for a confession of witchcraft!
Yeah... Hopkins is that kind of zealot monster.
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50 - Helen Duncan: The Last Goopy Witch of Britain
October 18th, 2018 | 1 hr 42 mins
britain, clairvoyant, classified information, comedy, crime, debunk, drinking, ectoplasm, fraud, ghost, ghost hunters, ghosts, history, mi5, podcast, psychic, scotland, seance, spirit, talking to the dead, uk, war, witch, witchcraft, world war, ww1, ww2, wwi, wwii
Witchcraft! Clairvoyance! Shoving cheese cloth up your vagina! We're taking an 'in-depth' look at Britain's last witch, Hellish Nell and her stinky, slimy ectoplasmic discharge.
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49 - Ty Cobb: Baseball's Dirtiest Player slides into your DMs
October 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 26 mins
all star, assault, bad sportsmanship, baseball, bases, brawling, comedy, drinking, fighting, history, legend, murder, playing dirty, podcast, sports, sports legend
Baseball legend Ty Cobb played a dirty game on and off the diamond. His hobbies included…pistol whipping men to death, picking fights with amputees and digging out viscera from between his cleats. His level of violence really knocked it out of the park.
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48 - Charles Darwin: The Science of Boobies & Barnacle Dong
October 4th, 2018 | 1 hr 21 mins
19th century, awkward, barnacle, boobies, comedy, darwin, darwinism, drinking, england, english, evolution, facts, finch, friends, galapagos, history, podcast, sailing, science, scientist, theory, uk
The father of evolution, Charles Darwin, spent his lifetime laboriously ogling the boobies of the Galapagos and rigorously examining the huge dongs of the promiscuous barnacles.
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47 - Martin Luther: The 95 Feces
September 27th, 2018 | 1 hr 23 mins
16th century, comedy, feces, hate, hemorrhoids, history, hypocrite, monastery, podcast, poop, pope, priest, protestant, protestant reformation, rebel, rebellion, reform, reformation, religion, scat
Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Reformation, but between changing minds about the relationship between god and his followers... he was a hemorrhoid-scratching, foul-mouthed hypocrite who’s anti-Semitic fervor would eventually be the foundation of the Holocaust.
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46 - Janis Joplin: Attention-seeking, Free-loving Wannabe
September 20th, 2018 | 1 hr 19 mins
60s, 69, blues, comedy, counter culture, drinking, drugs, free love, hippy, history, love, peace, podcast, rock, rock and roll, san francisco, summer of love, texas, trippy
Janis Joplin is remembered as the free-loving spirit of the 60s... but in reality, she was a freeloading, needy addict that was always 'too good' for the talented people that surrounded her. If she was so hip and in touch with her generation, why couldn't she write her own lyrics?
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45 - Albert Einstein: The Stanky Cousin Pounder
September 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 31 mins
antisocial, bomb, comedy, drinking, eggs, einstein, german, history, incest, math, nuclear, physicist, podcast, science, scientist, smart, ww2
You think you know who Albert Einstein is, but actually he was a stinky, egg-sucking soup boy that liked to pound his cousin.
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44 - Wilbur Glenn Voliva: Flat-Earther, Evangelical Radio Host & Cult Leader
September 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 23 mins
anti-evolution, bible, christianity, comedy, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, crazy, cult, cult worship, drinking, evolution, flat earth, flat earther, fraud, higher criticism, history, oppression, podcast, radical, radio host, religion, revelation, scam, scopes monkey trial, worlds fair, zion
Roast Mortem takes an inside look into Zion City, IL. ALL MUST OBEY THE OVERSEER! Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva has deemed dancing, whistling, bathing suits and of course modern medicine punishable by his praetorian police. Oh and lets not forget THE EARTH IS FLAT.
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43 - Master Class: Cooks 'Typhoid Mary and the Gals'
August 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 26 mins
20th century, baked goods, baking, cannibal, chef, comedy, cooking, crime, criminal, culinary, dating, disease, drinking, epidemic, food, history, ice cream, irish, italian, italy, kitchen, murder, new york, plague, podcast, poison, romania, romanian, soup, true crime
You are cordially invited to the Roast Mortem's Master Class: Cooks. We will be entering the kitchen of three culinary legends to study their unconventional techinques, recipes and ingredients. Typhoid Mary and her Gals know the best meals are prepared with a little extra 'love'.
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42 - Tarrare: The Ravenous French Horror
August 23rd, 2018 | 1 hr 25 mins
anomaly, eats, france, history, tarrare
Chris Paskett joins us as we roast Tarrare, the walking trash monster that could easily put any modern competitive eater to shame. Triple Quarter-Pounder? Try a wheelbarrow of bull viscera.