Roast Mortem Cast

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.

172 - Frederick Duquesne: Spy Ringleader

March 11th, 2021  |  1 hr 58 mins

britain, epionage, germany, hippo, hippopotamus, hunter, lake bacon, poacher, sabateur, sabotage, saboteur, spy, torpedo

The British Crown destroyed his family. He sabotaged 22 British merchant ships, spied on British forces, and established an espionage ring to get even. Along the way he engineered multiple jailbreaks and added a few animals to the endangered species list.

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.

74 - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1776): Royal F-ckboy, Tabloid Journalist & Half-assed Inventor

April 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 40 mins

1776, 18th century, affair, america, american history, american revolution, ben franklin, brexit, britain, business, colonialism, colony, comedy, currency, drinking, entrepreneur, fake news, founding father, history, inventor, legend, london, loyalist, money, myth, newspapers, noble, orgy, parliament, patriot, philadelphia, podcast, politics, propaganda, revolution, royals, satanism, scandal, sex, success, tabloid, war

We all know Ben Franklin as an American Patriot, but was he really?! In this episode, we're exploring the man before the Declaration of Independence. What we find is a self-serving, vain, adulterous royalist that was far from the Patriot portrayed on the 100 dollar bill... Plus we talk about his dick... yes there are drawing of it...

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.

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.