Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 4 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “1950s”.
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You Can Have Better Memory (1959) - Reading
July 20th, 2023 | 35 mins 10 secs
1950s, americana, audiobook, comedy, ephemera, history, memory
Come listen to Travis learn to read, with a reading of an interesting piece of 1950s ephemera, You Can Have Better Memory 1959
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120 - William S Burroughs (The Writer): King of the Goof Troupe
March 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 53 mins
1940s, 1950s, abuse, beat poetry, borroughs, comedy, counterculture, drugs, guns, history, homosexuality, literature, naked lunch, podcast, trust fund
Burroughs leaves the wake of destruction and murder that was his 30s and starts anew as a writer. All this means is that he does more drugs, bangs more boys and dives deeper into the new age, occult mumbo gumbo. In between deep throating, human pucked turkey, Alan Ginsberg, his heroin usages skyrockets as does his literary notoriety.
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119 - William S Burroughs (Early Years): King of the Goof Troupe
February 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 47 mins
1940s, 1950s, abuse, beat poetry, borroughs, comedy, counterculture, drugs, guns, history, homosexuality, literature, naked lunch, podcast, trust fund
The next entry into our 'Goof Troupe' Beat Poet series and this time we are taking on it's King, William S. Burroughs. This entitled gun-toting homosexual, loafed his way through life guzzling booze, shooting up heroin and mooching off his parents. He unabashedly went on a world tour of pedophilia amassing a his crew of other deadbeats sickos, like Ginsberg and Kerouac and inadvertently became the King of counter-culture
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13 - Che Guevara: Tobacco Pen15 Sucker
February 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 22 mins
1950s, 1960s, che, cold war, comedy, communism, cuba, drinking, funny, hanging out, history, kennedy, revolution
When he wasn't sucking that pen15 cigar, he was starting revolutions, executing defectors and egging on nuclear war. Now you know him as the guy on the t-shirts of angsty teens revolting against price hikes on their favorite latte. Che Guevara. We roast him... now!