Roast Mortem Cast

160 - Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Science Charlatan

December 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 38 mins

america history, christian, christian science, comedy, cult, drinking, feminism, fraud, ghosts, history, magic, metaphysical, podcast, powerful women, prayer, religion, spirits, spiritualism, temperance

Regarded as a feminist icon, morphine addict Mary Baker Eddy created a religion based on the power of suggestion. He followers protected her from spiritual assassins and MIND BULLETS! Maybe the next time you have a compound facture, just pray it away!

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.

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!

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!!!

94 - Lou Pearlman: A Very Hands on Boy Band Manager

August 29th, 2019  |  1 hr 22 mins

90's, abuse, billboard charts, boy bands, comedy, drinking, fraud, history, music, podcast, pop music, scam artist, thief

Justin Whang joins us as we roast the 90's greatest shyster, Lou Pearlman. This sleazeball failed his way to the top; from owner of an advertising blimp to the manager of NSync, Backstreet Boys, New Kids on the Block, LFO. All thanks to insurance fraud, fishy contracts and a never-ending supply of teenage boys.

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.

51 - Matthew Hopkins: Witch Hunter with an Eye for Third Nipples

October 25th, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins

17th century, britain, church, comedy, crazy, crime, devil, devil worship, drinking, england, familiars, fraud, girls gone wild, halloween, history, murder, persecution, podcast, puritan, religion, satan, satanic, spirits, torture, uk, witch, witch hunting, witchcraft, zealot

Witches Gone Wild! Matthew Hopkins, self-proclaimed Witch-Finder General, is about to turn your small English village into the hottest satanic spring break ever! The girls are up all night (against their will), ready to show off their hard extra nipples, and getting wet from hours of being dunked underwater for a confession of witchcraft!

Yeah... Hopkins is that kind of zealot monster.

50 - Helen Duncan: The Last Goopy Witch of Britain

October 18th, 2018  |  1 hr 42 mins

britain, clairvoyant, classified information, comedy, crime, debunk, drinking, ectoplasm, fraud, ghost, ghost hunters, ghosts, history, mi5, podcast, psychic, scotland, seance, spirit, talking to the dead, uk, war, witch, witchcraft, world war, ww1, ww2, wwi, wwii

Witchcraft! Clairvoyance! Shoving cheese cloth up your vagina! We're taking an 'in-depth' look at Britain's last witch, Hellish Nell and her stinky, slimy ectoplasmic discharge.

44 - Wilbur Glenn Voliva: Flat-Earther, Evangelical Radio Host & Cult Leader

September 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 23 mins

anti-evolution, bible, christianity, comedy, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, crazy, cult, cult worship, drinking, evolution, flat earth, flat earther, fraud, higher criticism, history, oppression, podcast, radical, radio host, religion, revelation, scam, scopes monkey trial, worlds fair, zion

Roast Mortem takes an inside look into Zion City, IL. ALL MUST OBEY THE OVERSEER! Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva has deemed dancing, whistling, bathing suits and of course modern medicine punishable by his praetorian police. Oh and lets not forget THE EARTH IS FLAT.

34 - Wyatt Earp: Shoddy Lawman & Wild West Wuss

June 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 28 mins

19th century, america, american legend, american wast, americana, arizona, bounty, bounty hunters, brothel, cowboy, crook, drinking, fraud, frontier, gambling, gun, high noon, history, horses, lawman, pimp, podcast, quickdraw, revolver, sheriff, shootout, wild west

We break down the myths and legends behind one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West, Wyatt Earp. And what we find out... is he's an extra-soft ice cream boy. There's something fishy at the O.K. Corral and it's not one of Wyatt's numerous prostitutes.