Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 8 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “explorer”.
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282 - Crappy Colonies: St. Croix, Charlesbourg-Royal & France-Roy
May 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
16th century, american history, canada, canadian history, colony, comedy, explorer, french, french history, history, iroquois, quebec
We are back with another Crappy Colony. This time we are hitting the seas with the French, at there first attempt to settle the New World. Will the land of the Iroquois proof to be their land of gold or will they just find frozen death?
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257 - The Fox Sisters (pt.2): Ice Cold Mediums
November 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 31 mins
19th century, america, arctic, comedy, explorer, ghost stories, ghosts, hauntings, history, mediums, paranormal, spooky, women's history
We continue with the Spooooooky ladies, The Fox Sisters and their meteoric rise to international paranormal celebrities. And we take a trip to the Arctic in a hunt for the lost HMS Terror.
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249 - Sir Richard Burton (pt. 10): A Naughty Author's End
September 8th, 2022 | 2 hrs 13 mins
19th century, anthropology, arabian nights, author, banned books, comedy, english, erotic, explorer, history, kama sutra, language, translator
All great things come to an end. We wrap up the fantastic life of the 19th century's most interesting man Sir Richard Burton by diving into his erotic literary works. Translating the Arabian Nights, Kama Sutra and many other X-rated works in this final chapter of his life.
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248 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.9): Damascus, Trieste & Bitter Tonics
September 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
19th century, adventure, anthropology, comedy, damascus, england, explorer, history, italy, london, middle east, snake oil
Burton is reassigned to Damascus, his dream consul position! But his over zealous wife, Isabel goes on a Catholic conversion spree, leaving him poor, defamed and bitter.
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246 - Sir Richard Burton (pt. 7): Gorilla Hunting & the Cannibals
August 18th, 2022 | 1 hr 24 mins
19th century, africa, anthropology, burton, comedy, drinking, england, explorer, gorilla, history, jungle, podcast
Burton is back in Africa for his first consulship! We tag along for Burton's many explorations into West Africa as he hunts for the mysterious 19th century cryptid, the Gorilla. He also risks his skin to study tribes and kingdoms with some cannibalistic tendencies.
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244 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.5): Where the White Nile Grools
August 4th, 2022 | 1 hr 40 mins
19th century, africa, comedy, david livingstone, drinking, england, english, english empire, exploration, explorer, history, insects, jungle, london, nile, podcast, the nile
We take a deep dive into the arduous and disgusting exploration of Richard Burton & John Hanning Speke's quest for the source of the Nile. Along the way we will encounter massive sex organs, ear burrowing beetles and betrayal.
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240 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.1): Yung Ruffian Dick
July 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
adventure, childhood, comedy, drinking, english history, explorer, hell raiser, history, podcast
We begin a journey into one of the most eccentric adventures of all time, Sir Richard Burton. Looking into his life as a child hellraiser
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77 - Francisco Pizarro: Illiterate Pig-Farmer Conquistador
May 2nd, 2019 | 1 hr 26 mins
16th century, colonization, comedy, conquistador, discovery, drinking, explorer, genocide, gold, history, inca, llamas, murder, native, new world, peru, podcast, seafarer, sociology, spain, warfare
Remember the Incans? No? Probably cause this greedy illiterate asshole and a bunch of other Spanish idiots wiped them off the map. All we got left... Llamas! Drooling, stupid Llamas.