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 man”.
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147 - Soapy Smith: The Mr. Clean of Wild West Con Men.
September 10th, 2020 | 1 hr 52 mins
abuse, alaska, arts and crafts, cards, colorado, comedy, con man, drinking, fraud, gambling, history, music, podcast, poker, scam artist, soapmaking, texas, thief, western, wild west
Soapy Smith was the Wild West's freshest con-artist. With a soap kinder egg in one hand, some rigged walnuts in the other and a deck of cards rolled into his foreskin he swindled his way from Texas to Colorado to the Klondike.
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144 - Arthur Orton: The Tale of Two Penises
August 20th, 2020 | 2 hrs 20 mins
australia, comedy, con man, drinking, english history, english nobility, history, manhunt, podcast, wealth
400 lb Arthur Orton was a man that lived triple lives... pun intended.
Was he cockney seaman Arthur Orton? Or maybe Austrailian, stinky butcher Thomas Castro? Or conveniently lost at sea English Aristocrat Barronett Rodger Tichborne?
The secret to his true identity lay untouched, hidden away for decades between his THICC thighs. -
140 - Victor Lustig: Smooth Talk meets Smooth Brain
July 23rd, 2020 | 2 hrs 20 mins
art of the deal, betting, comedy, con man, drinking, france, gangster, history, mob, money, new york, otb, podcast, scam, scar, swindler, wealth
Victor Lustig could talk his way out of a fleshy hairy bag. This infamous cat burglar con many a man out of their fortunes including syphilitic sausage mobster Al Capone. This man was such a smooth talker he even 'sold' France's most iconic landmark, The Eiffel Tower, for scrap to some greasy baguette slurpin' mook.
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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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130 - Heinrich Schliemann: The Lost City of Troy & the Glory-seeking Archaeologist the 'Found' it.
May 14th, 2020 | 2 hrs 4 mins
ancient greece, ancient history, archaeology, artifacts, comedy, con man, drinking, excavation, gold rush, greece, history, homer, money, podcast, wealth
Arguably one of the most notable archaeologist in the field, Heinrich made history when he unearthed the lost city of Troy. Using his vast wealth, he then went about rewriting his own history and buying out anyone that questioned his sketch methods of excavation.
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104 - Gaston B. Means: 100% Shyster with a Dash of Geriatric Murder
November 7th, 2019 | 1 hr 47 mins
comedy, con man, conspiracy, detective, fraud, history, murder, podcast, private eye, thief
Gaston B. Means, besides having a hilarious name, was an oaf. This lumbering jackass actually testified against himself in court. How do you do that? By robbing, cheating and stealing anything he could get his hands on under the guise of being a 'Private Eye'. Also known a dick!!!
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15 - Schemin' Carlo Ponzi
February 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 15 mins
1920's, comedy, con man, drinking, get rich quick, great depression, history, immigrant, italian, money, new york, nyc, ponzi, scheme
Best known for his use of the Ponzi Scheme (dat's his name), Carlo could polish off a full bucket of meatballs in 30 seconds flat... That might not be true... but he is history's slimiest con man.