Connor McCormack

224 - George C Scott (pt2): The Sophisticated Strangler

March 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 40 mins

acting, america history, cinema, comedy, drinking, film history, history, hollywood, oscars, patton, podcast

The ultimate American actor becomes the ultimate American General... And then he does it again... in a very lame TV production. We finish out the turbulant carreer of George C Scott, the man that put Hollywood in a choke hold.

223 - George C Scott (pt1): The Meathead Thespian

March 10th, 2022  |  2 hrs 29 secs

acting, america history, cinema, comedy, drinking, film history, films, history, hollywood, movies, podcast, violence

George C Scott can best be described as the American version of Oliver Reed... Except his drunken escapades usually ended in assault, battery or domestic abuse. George is best observed from a distance, a stages length at best.

222 - Gustav Krupp (pt2): Spicy Germany and the Big Boom Booms

March 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 59 mins

arms dealers, comedy, evil, germany, history, modern warfare, podcast, tanks, true crime, war, warfare, weapons, world war, wwii

We close out the Krupp Dynasty with a bang... cause we are talking about cannons... and WWII... Yeaaaaaaah.

The Krupps firm works with the Austrian 'Guttersnipe' and starts pumping out overly complicated Panzer tanks, amongst other weapons of death. But will the evil Krupps get their comeuppance when the war is over. Tune in to find out!

221 - Gustav Krupp (pt1): A Match Made in Germany

February 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 54 mins

19th century, arms dealer, comedy, drinking, freak, german history, germany, history, inventor, manufacturing, podcast, poop, poop smeller, steel, warfare, weapons, world war, wwi

We return to the long twisted lineage of the Krupp family and their arms dealin empire. The Family has a shuffle up and a neurotic outsider becomes the Cannon King, just in time for The War to End All Wars!

220 - Hergé: The Misadventures of Tintin

February 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 29 mins

20th century, animation, artist, belgian, belgium, cartoon, comedy, comic strip, comics, drinking, france, french, herge, history, iconic, occupation, podcast, reporter, tintin, world war 2, wwii

George Remi, a.k.a. Hergé, created one of the most influential and popular comics of the 20th Century... Tintin is such a favorite of Travis' that he has Captain Haddock tattooed on his leg!

But behind the exciting adventures of Tintin, lays a personal story of a struggling artist, German occupation, and a series of not-so-secret affairs.
Was Hergé a Nazi mouthpiece as depicted by the Belgian Resistance? Or was he just a whiney oblivious idiot trying to make ends meet.

219 - Alfred Krupp (pt2): We Build This City on Steel & Horse Shit

February 10th, 2022  |  1 hr 35 mins

19th century, comedy, crazy, genius, germany, history, manufacturing, podcast, steel, warfare

We continue the strange tale of the steel-forging, horse poop-smelling, genius boy, Alfred Krupp, Connor takes us on the strangest episode of MTV Cribs through Al's 'Villa Hügel', his influential role in the formation of Germany and his Steel empire!

218 - Alfred Krupp (pt.1): The Smell of Success

February 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 53 mins

19th century, arms dealer, comedy, drinking, freak, german history, germany, history, inventor, manufacturing, podcast, poop, poop smeller, steel, warfare, weapons

Alfred Krupp was a lot of things. A businessman. A genius inventor. An arms dealer. When it came to steel, especially steel cannons, there was no other.
But behind the accolades lays a very strange and curious man. A man who smelled horse poop for it restorative powers. A man that was afraid of breathing his own breath. A man that was afraid of fire, yet owned a foundry.
Join us as we explore the 19th century freak, Alfred Krupp!

216 - Agrippina the Younger: Move Over Dummies, Mom's Driving

January 20th, 2022  |  2 hrs 17 mins

agrippina, ancient rome, caligula, comedy, drinking, empress, history, incest, lust, money, murder, nero, podcast, powerful women, roman history, true crime, women history

You thought the Antichrist Nero was bad? Try Nero's mom, Agrippina the Younger. One of the most powerful woman of ancient Rome, Agrippina schemed, murdered and fucked her way to the top in an all out incest-fest.
Tits out for the Empress!

214 - Calamity Jane: BUT WAIT... She's wearing PANTS!

January 6th, 2022  |  1 hr 44 mins

19th century, america history, comedy, cowboys, deadwood, degenerate, drinking, female, gunslingers, history, jeans, montana, pants, podcast, powerful women, prostitution, sex work, south dakota, wild west, women's history, wyoming

Calamity Jane has become the stuff of American legend... But how much of her story is actually true?
Spoilers!!! Not that much! But she swore, whored, got wasted and wore pants! We take I deep dive into this trainwreck of a woman and dig up some stinky cattle wrangling genitalia!

213 - Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street

December 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 56 mins

america history, comedy, drinking, finance, history, podcast, powerful women, tycoon, wall street, wealth robber barron's, women

Ya'll like POWERFUL WOMEN?!? Well try a suck on these whale blubber rich tiddies of the Witch of Wall Street, Henrietta Green. From less then humble beginnings of New England whaling tychoons, Hetty became one of America's most infamous misers by penny pinching her inherited fortune and forging wills of her rich relatives. Think Angelica Pickles meets Jordan Belfort!

2021 Roast Mortem Countdown

December 23rd, 2021  |  2 hrs 2 mins

2021, ancient history, comedy, drinking, history, holiday, new years, podcast, warfare

It's that time again! The 4th annual Roast Mortem New Years Countdown. We traveling in our stupid time machine roasting idiots that died on the 21st year of their century! Let's close out 2021..... please.... PLEASE!!!!

212 - Chris Benoit: The Ultimate Family Man

December 16th, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

american history, brain damage, comedy, crime, death, drinking, french canadian, history, murder, podcast, professional wrestling, quebec, sports entertainment, sports injury, true crime, vince mcmahon, wrestling, wwe, wwf

Was Benoit a bad man? No. Did he repeatedly dive head first into his brain holster for 2 decades? HELL YEAH BROTHER! Gonna be honest with you here, this episode will be summited as evidence in by the prosecutor in the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer (A.K.A. Mike Regan) Trial.

211 - V.I. Lenin (pt2): Founder of the USSR (a.k.a. Karl Marx's Afterbirth)

December 9th, 2021  |  1 hr 54 mins

authoritarian, cannibalism, comedy, commie, communism, death camps, drinking, economics, fascism, history, imperial russia, insurrection, lenin, marx. marxism, podcast, political theories, rebellion, revolution, russian history, socialism, terrorism, world war 1, wwi

The Communist Revolution is upon us, Comrades! The despotic rule of the moronic Romanovs' is over! Who will fill this Russian power vaccuum? Well our hard-brained V.I. Lenin, of course! This absentee revolutionary finally returns to Mother Russia, thanks to the help of right-wing Germany, and install his Communist Utopia. Communist Utopia? More like a fascist dictatorship, that rattled the already starving country into a dismal hellscape. Canabalism will make the country whole, Comrades!