Roast Mortem Cast

154 - Marquis de Sade: The Unhinged Granddaddy of BDSM

October 29th, 2020  |  2 hrs 22 mins

18th century, banned books, bdsm, bondage, books, comedy, drinking, france, free love, french revolution, history, insanity, kink, murder, nihilism, novel, orgy, paris, philosophy, podcast, sadism, sex, true crime, whips, writer

This French 'philosopher' was so into his whips and chains he inspired the word Sadism . But while modern BDSM is a consensual activity, this noble narcosis to it far beyond anyone's comfort zone. Written in while locked away in the Bastille, '120 Days of Sodom' would be come history's most blacklisted book. It's pages full of the grotesque machinations of incest, scatology, torture, rape and murder straight from the unhinged mind of Marquis de Sade.

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.

75 - Benjamin Franklin (1776-1790): Franklin's War against Crown, Country & Family

April 18th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

1776, america, american revolution, ben franklin, colonial america, comedy, death, diplomacy, drinking, england, espionage, founding fathers, france, history, murder, paris, podcast, scandal, sex, spy, war, war for independence

The second and final episode on America's founding father Benjamin Franklin. The once dutiful royalist turns patriot, leaving a wake of propaganda, broken families and even the country he helped build.

73 - Charles Domery: The Grotesque Human Dumpster

April 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 25 mins

18th century, abnormal, army, battle, cannibal, cats, comedy, competitive eating, disorder, drinking, eating, england, france, gluttony, history, human dumpster, hungry, navy, podcast, poland, prussia, strange, war

Asterios Kokkinos joins in on the roast of Charles Domery; serial eater, cat hunter, turncoat and all around human dumpster.

60 - Thomas de Marle: Medieval Crusader with the Truck Nutz to prove it.

January 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 46 mins

bros, chivalry, comedy, crusade, fight, first crusade, france, history, knights, medieval, pillaging, podcast, royalty, swords, truck nutz, war, warfare

When you think of the Crusades, do you think of knights in shining armor? Try goose following idiots with purple Truck Nutz on tied to their horses! We take a look at Thomas de Marle, the 11th century moron that just couldn't stop pillaging. Thought chivalry was dead?!? You don't know the first thing about it.

54 - Django Reinhardt: Gypsy Jazz Legend and Extra Hardt

November 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 43 mins

30s, comedy, django, drinking, france, french, guitar, guitar legend, gypsy, gypsy jazz, history, jazz, jazz guitar, music, music history, podcast, romani, swing, traveling

We learn what it means to be a gypsy jazz guitar legend... Be extra French, smoke a billion cigarettes, blow off shows to go drunk fishing, and permanently screw up your meat claws in a caravan fire. Worked for Django Reinhardt.

42 - Tarrare: The Ravenous French Horror

August 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

anomaly, eats, france, history, tarrare

Chris Paskett joins us as we roast Tarrare, the walking trash monster that could easily put any modern competitive eater to shame. Triple Quarter-Pounder? Try a wheelbarrow of bull viscera.

36 - Coco Chanel: The Fashionable, Fascist SS Operative

July 12th, 2018  |  1 hr 45 mins

20s, allies, axis, chanel, chanel no 5, coco chanel, comedy, couture, drinking, espionage, fascist, fashion, fashionista, flappers, france, french, gold digger, high fashion, history, little black dress, nazi, podcast, runway, spy, uk, ww2

Gabriella Ferreira joins us as we roast Coco Chanel. The queen of couture has a very dark secret. Here's a hint... it invovles the Nazis, Winston Churchill and a lot of erections. Her 'little black dress' wasn't just sexy af, it was covert.

27 - John VI of Portugal (a.k.a J6 Hot Pocks)

May 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins

18th century, brazil, chicken, comedy, drinking, eating, failure, france, history, hot pockets, inbreeding, king, monarchy, napoleon, podcast, portugal, queen, revolution, royals, royalty, slob, spain, spanish, surrender, war, warfare

The enemy is closing, your wife is plotting against you and having orgies that you're not invited to; What do you do? If you're King John VI, you pull out some old pocket chicken, ditch your capital and ask your manservant for a hand jibber.

16 - Charles II of Spain and his Family of Inbreds

February 22nd, 2018  |  59 mins 5 secs

1600s, 17th century, comedy, drinking, europe, european, france, friends, habsberg, history, inbreeding, royals, spain, spanish