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    <title>Roast Mortem Cast - Episodes Tagged with “British Empire”</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed. 
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    <itunes:summary>We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed. 
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  <title>284 - Lord Minimus (Jeffrey Hudson) pt.2 - Pint-size Pandemonium </title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Walter from Not for Human Consumption continues are journey through the larger than life dwarf Jeffrey Hudson. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Walter from Not for Human Consumption continues are journey through the larger than life dwarf Jeffrey Hudson.  
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  <title>283 - Lord Minimus (Jeffrey Hudson) pt.1 - Pickle-chokingly small boy.</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Walter from Not for Human Consumption joins us as we travel back to the early 17th century, to look into the interesting life of the world's smallest man, Jeffrey Hudson. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>279 - William Penn (pt.1): The Mid Oatmeal Boy</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Brian &amp; Jim from Drink a Beer Play a Game joins us for a deep dive into the founder of their state of Pennsylvania, William Penn. As a stinky little rich kid, William Penn bumbles through life, from one old changing event to the next. All until he finds his true calling in the 17th century version of the hippies, Quakers.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>255 - Queen Elizabeth II (pt.4): Tales from the Walking Royal Crypt</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We take a look at the Queen's twilight years. Just shambling around for about two decades running damage control for her dysfunctional children. Specifically Prince Andrew and his connection to his two friend Jeffery and Ghislaine and their island of child massage specialist.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:44:10</itunes:duration>
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  <title>253 - Queen Elizabeth II (pt.2): Royal Doodies</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We jump into the riveting life of being a Royal Monarch in the 20th century. And while Elizabeth may have been the Queen, her sister Margaret was the Queen Slag. Which is awesome!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>252 - Queen Elizabeth II (pt.1): The Country of Cousinly Love</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>You probably haven't heard it but... Queen Elizabeth II is dead! Long live the Roast!
We take a look at the royal history leading up to this unexpected monarch and the rise of the Windsor family, or should we say the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Family. From her toothbrush mustache-loving Uncle Edward VIII, her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a mechanic, to the romance of her distance cousin Philip, Elizabeth’s youth was one hell of a ride.</itunes:subtitle>
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We take a look at the royal history leading up to this unexpected monarch and the rise of the Windsor family, or should we say the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Family. From her toothbrush mustache-loving Uncle Edward VIII, her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a mechanic, to the romance of her distance cousin Philip, Elizabeth’s youth was one hell of a ride. 
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We take a look at the royal history leading up to this unexpected monarch and the rise of the Windsor family, or should we say the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Family. From her toothbrush mustache-loving Uncle Edward VIII, her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a mechanic, to the romance of her distance cousin Philip, Elizabeth’s youth was one hell of a ride.</p>]]>
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  <title>241- Sir Richard Burton (pt.2): A Soldier's* Life </title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>*Not actively deployed to combat. Just spent his time documenting breasts, exposing homosexual activity, drinking weed, living amongst monkeys; calling one of them his wife. In fact, there is very little soldiering happening in this episode... It mainly consists of imperialistic debauchery in India and the raving of a madman.  </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:26:57</itunes:duration>
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  <description>*Not actively deployed to combat. Just spent his time documenting breasts, exposing homosexual activity, drinking weed, living amongst monkeys; calling one of them his wife. In fact, there is very little soldiering happening in this episode... It mainly consists of imperialistic debauchery in India and the raving of a madman.   
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  <title>39 - William Lyon Mackenzie: Canada's Try-Hard Revolutionary</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>When it comes to revolutionaries William Lyon Mackenzie is straight up the Charlie Brown of the bunch. The first mayor of Toronto had great intentions but failed at almost everything he ever did. We are talking Canadian independence here... There's a reason the queen is still on their bills. To get some inside insight, Travis captures two living Canadians in his poutine trap to discuss life in the Great White North.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:35:30</itunes:duration>
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