Roast Mortem Cast
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Displaying 4 items of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag "business".
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225 - Hiroshi Yamauchi : Nintendo's Willy Wonka Hates You
March 24th, 2022 | 2 hrs 40 mins
1980s, 1990s, business, classic games, comedy, drinking, gaming, gaming history, history, japanese history, mario, monopoly, nintendo, playstation, podcast, retro games, video games, wealth
The boys from the Drink a Beer Play a Game Podcast join us for a roast of the Nintendo's grumpy, egotistical president Hiroshi Yamauchi. The meteoric rise of Nintendo Frankensteined the video game industry back to life in the 1980’s with Yamauchi at the helm. He manically micromanaged his team, the all while NEVER PLAYING A VIDEO GAME IN HIS LIFE
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113 - Jakob Fugger: History's Richest Idiot
January 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 55 mins
16th century, accounting, amazon, bezos, business, comedy, commerce, germany, global trade, history, loans, podcast, royalty, scam, trade, warfare, wealth
Want to get rich quick? Like 4 times richer than Jeff Bezos? Listen to how this 16th century german scheiße pretzel became history's richest man by scamming the the inbred Hapsburgs, a few popes and millions of german peasants. Oh and he started a beef with the hemorrhoid-scratcher Martin Luther.
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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...
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22 - Jack Tramiel: Video Game Dangus
April 4th, 2018 | 1 hr 38 mins
70s, 8 bit, 80s, atari, business, comedy, commodore, computer, darth vader, gaming, history, nintendo, pax, pax east, pc, podcast, video game history, video game industry, video games
This businessman left his big brown skid mark on the video game industry in the 70s & 80s. His iron fist, cut-throat management of Commodore and Atari gave him Darth Vader like status amongst programmers & gamers alike. Big old diarrhea boy!