Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying Episode 11 - 20 of 37 in total of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “19th century”.
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245 - Sir Richard Burton (pt. 6): Burton Does America
August 11th, 2022 | 1 hr 24 mins
19th century, america, british, comedy, cowboys, drinking, english explorer, exploration, history, podcast, salt lake city, san francisco, wild west
Burton travels across the pond in search of the Mormon Mecca, Salt Lake City. This booze-fueled coast-to-coast tour is full of scalps, guns, and Polygamy!
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244 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.5): Where the White Nile Grools
August 4th, 2022 | 1 hr 40 mins
19th century, africa, comedy, david livingstone, drinking, england, english, english empire, exploration, explorer, history, insects, jungle, london, nile, podcast, the nile
We take a deep dive into the arduous and disgusting exploration of Richard Burton & John Hanning Speke's quest for the source of the Nile. Along the way we will encounter massive sex organs, ear burrowing beetles and betrayal.
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243 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.4): An Examination of the Gash.
July 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 34 mins
19th century, africa, comedy, crimean war, drinking, england, ethiopia, exploration, history, kenya, podcast, river, sociology, somalia, the nile
Burton sets out for an expedition of the unexplored city of Harar in modern day Ethiopia, he documents extreme female circumcision, fights in the Crimean War and had a decisive scuffle with the Somali's and his stalker back in London.
The quest for the source of the Nile has begun!
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242 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.3): Undercover Hajj to Mecca
July 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 56 mins
19th century, britain, comedy, cultural studies., desert, drinking, exploration, history, islam, mecca, podcast, undercover
Richard Burton meets his stalker fan girl then sets off on a exploration of Islam's most venerated cities, Medina & Mecca, disguised as Mizra Abdullah.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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! -
208 - Dan Sickles (pt1): F*ck the Star-Spangled Banner, Kid!
November 18th, 2021 | 2 hrs 17 mins
19th century, america, america history, civil war, comedy, corruption, drinking, history, international, murder, new york, podcast, political scandal, politics, scandal, sex, sex work, true crime, washington
The first leg of our journey through the magnificent American, Dan Sickle. This man boned his way around the 19th century world, from the seedy streets of Manhattan, to cut-throat halls of Congress, even the royal courts of Europe. Join us as we see where his 'rockets red glare' takes him.
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176 - C.L. Blood: Nitrous Oxide Doctor with a flare for Malpractice
April 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 44 mins
19th century, america history, comedy, con artist, doctor, drinking, history, laughing gas, medical, murder, nitroxide, phish, podcast, snake oil, true crime
You know how to cure most diseases? Nitrous oxide, a.k.a. Laughing Gas! C.L. Blood was dishing out more balloons full of this stuff to 19th century TB patients than the hippie-mafia at Phish shows! This unscrupulous doctor was not afraid to go above and beyond the law to turn a profit.