Mike Regan

164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe

January 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 45 mins

america history, automotive, cars, chemist, chemistry, climate change, comedy, drinking, environmental, gas, global warming, history, idiot, inventor, nerd, podcast, research, tech

When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?!
Try a gas-huffing, pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a ecological Frankenstein's monster, but did his smooth-brained science cause his undoing?

163 - Dr. Spock: Boomer Childcare 101

January 7th, 2021  |  2 hrs 7 mins

america history, anti-establishment, baby boomer, boomer, child care, children, comedy, drinking, elites, freud, hippies, history, love, medicine, olympics, podcast, psychology, self indulgent, vietnam

Not Mr. Spock. Dr. Spock! This baby doctor looked to the sexual teachings of Sigmund Freud and came out with a revolutionary way to raise children in post-war America. The results... Lead paint-eating, self-indulgent, sociopaths we now call the Baby Boomers.

162 - King Farouk I: Pudgy Klepto King of Egypt

December 31st, 2020  |  2 hrs 22 mins

egypt, farouk. oyster, fat, king, rich, royalty, spoiled

Farouk was the last King of Egypt. He ascended to the thrown uneducated and unprepared. Farouk spent his time partying, shopping, and stealing. Farouk's lifestyle would ruin his kingly reign and royal waistline.

161 - Agnes Blannbekin & Jesus' Foreskin

December 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 54 mins

christianity, comedy, dark ages, drinking, history, insanity, jesus, middle ages, podcast, religion, religious history, satan, sex, sexuality

Would you suck Jesus' dick? Agnes Blannbekin would! This 13th century anchoress believed she was licking JC's foreskin when she took the eucharist. We explore the absurd journey through the millennia of Christ's penis hood and look into the mind of a cock hungry religious fanatic.

2020 Roast Mortem Countdown

December 17th, 2020  |  3 hrs 20 mins

2020, ancient history, art, art history, chinese, comedy, countdown, drinking, history, inventors, new years eve, nobility, paranormal, pirates, podcast, poop jokes, royalty, world history

It's that time of year again! The 2020 RMC Countdown! Matt from NFHC podcast joins us as we plow through the ages, marathon roasting idiots who died on the 20th year of their century! Exhaustion and inebriation be damned!

160 - Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Science Charlatan

December 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 38 mins

america history, christian, christian science, comedy, cult, drinking, feminism, fraud, ghosts, history, magic, metaphysical, podcast, powerful women, prayer, religion, spirits, spiritualism, temperance

Regarded as a feminist icon, morphine addict Mary Baker Eddy created a religion based on the power of suggestion. He followers protected her from spiritual assassins and MIND BULLETS! Maybe the next time you have a compound facture, just pray it away!

159 - Ned Kelly: Australia's Dirty Robin Hood

December 3rd, 2020  |  1 hr 58 mins

assault, australia, australian history, bootlegging, carbine, comedy, corruption, crime, down under, drinking, drunkard, felon, guns, history, jail, murder, outback steakhouse, podcast, rifle, robin hood, weapons

Garbage Andy throws some shrimp on the barbie and joins us in the Outback: The land of criminals, Mad Max, Steve Irwins and the majestic Bin Chicken. The character and spirit of this upside-down country is most embodied in the spirit of Ned Kelly. Ned lived fast and died young as a very distinctively Australian Robin Hood. Most of his mishaps involved accidental homoerotic scraps, nonchalant armed robbery and even a guns blazing shoot-out complete with iron body armor.

158 - Cary Grant: The Ultimate Man and his Ultimate Chin

November 26th, 2020  |  2 hrs 10 mins

acting, comedy, drinking, english, english acting, film, film history, gossip, history, hollywood, man, manly man, movies, podcast, poor parenting, rags to riches, scandal, star, vaudeville

From a dirty little street kid to the world's most handsome man, Cary Grant was Hollywood's ultimate handsome boy. Gotta be honest here, Tom gets pretty fanboy over this hunk of man meat on stilts... Not sure who gets roasted more, Tom or Cary?!

155 - George Washington (1732-1759): Failing Upwards

November 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 47 mins

18th century, adventurer, america, america history, britain, colonial america, comedy, drinking, founding father, french and indian war, frontier, george washington, history, iroquois, land, military, military history, ohio, podcast, privilege, red coats, seven years war, slavery, virginia, war, warfare

Part 1 of America's Thicc thighed founding father, George Washington. From the second GW was born, he pretty much failed at everything. In this episode, we cover Lil' George clawing his way up the Virginia social ladder, his 'fortunate' entry into military life, and how he started a world war thanks to his under stupidity.

154 - Marquis de Sade: The Unhinged Granddaddy of BDSM

October 29th, 2020  |  2 hrs 22 mins

18th century, banned books, bdsm, bondage, books, comedy, drinking, france, free love, french revolution, history, insanity, kink, murder, nihilism, novel, orgy, paris, philosophy, podcast, sadism, sex, true crime, whips, writer

This French 'philosopher' was so into his whips and chains he inspired the word Sadism . But while modern BDSM is a consensual activity, this noble narcosis to it far beyond anyone's comfort zone. Written in while locked away in the Bastille, '120 Days of Sodom' would be come history's most blacklisted book. It's pages full of the grotesque machinations of incest, scatology, torture, rape and murder straight from the unhinged mind of Marquis de Sade.

152 - Cattle Kate: Wyoming Cattle Wrangler

October 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 12 mins

cattle, dispute, frontier, land, law, lawless, wyoming

Ella Watson aka Cattle Kate was a rough and tumble Wyoming cattle wrangler that braved the frontier and grappled with corrupt lawmen over land and cattle disputes.

151 - Percy Grainger: Unhinged Willy Wonka of Music

October 8th, 2020  |  1 hr 43 mins

electronic music, jogging, mother, music, musician, racist, s&m

Percy Grainger was the Willy Wonka of music. He tinkered, experimented, and invented throughout his musical career that spanned his life. Skeletons in his closet include, self-flagellation, racism, and army oboe tooter. And the root cause of all this is his helicopter mother!

150 - King Henry VIII: The Quest for the Cream Queen

October 1st, 2020  |  2 hrs 42 mins

16th century, affair, beheading, change, comedy, drinking, english history, execution, history, insanity, king, manhunt, monarchy, murder, podcast, queen, renaissance, royal, scandal

Once a dashing example of chivalric manhood, years of head trauma from jousting led Henry to devolve into a mad king with a soft boner and a pension for beheading, burning on the stake and hanging anyone that opposed him. That included two unlucky Queens that just couldn't stomach the King's cummies.

149 - Benedict Arnold: Loyalist Unamerican Traitor

September 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 40 mins

america, colonial, great britain, loyalist, revolutionary, sellout, traitor, war

Matt from the NFHC podcast joins us as we take shots at Benedict Arnold. Benny sold out American forces during the Revolutionary War. With a hard on for protocol and rules, Benny was traitorous rat that screwed over baby America.

148 - William Chester Minor: Verbose Self-Mutilating Maniac

September 17th, 2020  |  2 hrs 31 mins

William Chester Minor was classically deranged monomaniac who was handy with words, handguns, and surgical instruments. He also majorly contributed to The Oxford English Dictionary, standardizing the proverbial urchin-molasses-fire that is the English language.

147 - Soapy Smith: The Mr. Clean of Wild West Con Men.

September 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 52 mins

abuse, alaska, arts and crafts, cards, colorado, comedy, con man, drinking, fraud, gambling, history, music, podcast, poker, scam artist, soapmaking, texas, thief, western, wild west

Soapy Smith was the Wild West's freshest con-artist. With a soap kinder egg in one hand, some rigged walnuts in the other and a deck of cards rolled into his foreskin he swindled his way from Texas to Colorado to the Klondike.