Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 7 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “con artist”.
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206 - Iceberg Slim: Legendary Pimp with the Drip
November 4th, 2021 | 2 hrs 37 mins
african american author, american history, comedy, con artist, history, hustle, hustler, jail, literature, money maker, pimp, podcast, prison, sex worker, true crime, violence, writer
Is Roast Mortem gonna have to slap a bitch?! Adam from Houston of WGS Podcast joins us and we pimpwalk though the life of legendary hustler Iceberg Slim. From sloppy sex workers, to doing time, to an influential African-American author, Iceberg did it ALL!
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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.
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135 - John R. Brinkley: Hot & Heavy Goat Balls for Everyone!
June 18th, 2020 | 2 hrs 40 mins
20th century, american history, comedy, con artist, con man, drinking, fad craze, fraud, goat, history, medical history, medicine, millionaires, nuts, podcast, quackery, sex, sex drive, sex modification, snake oil, wealth
If there was one thing John Rom was good at, it was slicing open a man's nut sack and chucking in some XL goat nads to give him that sexual prowess he always deserved. Doesn't that sound hot?! Well it was all the craze during early 20th Century! This could be the strangest 'doctor' we've taken a look at on RMC!
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116 - Henry Beecher: Founder of the 'Megachurch Backroom Special'
February 6th, 2020 | 2 hrs 2 mins
19th century, affair, church, comedy, con artist, history, megachurch, orator, podcast, preacher, religion, scandal, sex, slavery, suffrage, temperance
What happens when you mix religious fame, a skilled smooth talker and a bunch of sheltered, horny 19th century chicks. One of the biggest sex scandals in American history! Henry Beecher, brother of the famous Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), became the first American Preacher to become a media sensation. His lessons in chastity, temperance, women's suffrage and abolition, became overshadowed by his 40 years of seducing and scamming women and children in the backrooms of his churches.
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111 - George Psalmanazar: Phony Asian with a Fantastic Imagination
January 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 56 mins
asian, charlatan, comedy, con artist, formosa, history, linguistics, podcast
This French charlatan went around Europe claiming he was an asian man from the mystical land of Formosa. He went to such lengths to protect lie that he created an entire language, history, culture, even maps of his made-up land.
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106 - Roy Cohn: The Ultimate 20th Century Lawyer Scumbag
November 21st, 2019 | 2 hrs 3 mins
attorney, comedy, communism, con artist, conservative, corruption, history, homosexuality, hypocrite, lavender scare, law, lawyer, nixon, podcast, reagan, red scare, rosenburg trial, trump, tuna
This homosexual attorney was responsible for almost everything terrible and corrupt that happened in the 20th Century. Roy had his fingers in the elections of Nixon, Reagan and was the role model and personal fixer to Donald Trump in the 80's. He was also responsible for ruining the lives of countless fellow gays by exposing them in a time where homosexuality meant losing your government job. He did this all while sucking down cans of tuna fish and waterskiing in the polluted waters of the Hudson.
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57 - Gregor MacGregor: 19th Century Trouble in Paradise
December 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 40 mins
british military, comedy, con artist, desert island, drinking, filibuster, fraud, freebooting, getaway, history, imperialism, military, new world, paradise, podcast, reinventing your life, scam, scotland, south america, starvation, survival, transatlantic, venezuela
Tired of rainy 19th century Scotland? Come to the South American Paradise of Poyias! We DEFINITELY have an Opera house, streets paved with gold... Hell we might even have running water! All you have to do is give all your money to Gregor MacGregor and jump on that boat.