Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 2 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “german history”.
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221 - Gustav Krupp (pt1): A Match Made in Germany
February 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 54 mins
19th century, arms dealer, comedy, drinking, freak, german history, germany, history, inventor, manufacturing, podcast, poop, poop smeller, steel, warfare, weapons, world war, wwi
We return to the long twisted lineage of the Krupp family and their arms dealin empire. The Family has a shuffle up and a neurotic outsider becomes the Cannon King, just in time for The War to End All Wars!
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218 - Alfred Krupp (pt.1): The Smell of Success
February 3rd, 2022 | 1 hr 53 mins
19th century, arms dealer, comedy, drinking, freak, german history, germany, history, inventor, manufacturing, podcast, poop, poop smeller, steel, warfare, weapons
Alfred Krupp was a lot of things. A businessman. A genius inventor. An arms dealer. When it came to steel, especially steel cannons, there was no other.
But behind the accolades lays a very strange and curious man. A man who smelled horse poop for it restorative powers. A man that was afraid of breathing his own breath. A man that was afraid of fire, yet owned a foundry.
Join us as we explore the 19th century freak, Alfred Krupp!