Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 272 in total of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “history”.
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289 - Sterling Hayden (pt3): RED, white & Blue
August 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
actor, comedy, communist, history, hollywood, leftist, socialist, war, wwii
We continue our journey with Sterling Hayden as he joins the communist partisans in Yugoslavia! Sterling is getting more and more RED as the days go on. Will this pretty face join the class struggle or will he just jerk it to a boat or something.
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288 - Crappy Colonies: Charlesfort, Fort Caroline & St. Augustine
August 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
16th century, colonial america, colony, comedy, florida, france, history, spain, spanish, us history
We are coming at you with a new Crappy Colonies episode. This week, the Spanish and French go head-to-head over the Bath Salts capital of the world, Florida
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You Can Have Better Memory (1959) - Reading
July 20th, 2023 | 35 mins 10 secs
1950s, americana, audiobook, comedy, ephemera, history, memory
Come listen to Travis learn to read, with a reading of an interesting piece of 1950s ephemera, You Can Have Better Memory 1959
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287 - Sterling Hayden (pt2): A very cool, hot headed man who is very hot.
June 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 14 mins
actor, comedy, history, hollywood, italy, marines, navy, podcast, sailing, sailor, ships, ww2
We continue the story of pretty boy sailor, Sterling Hayden. The world goes to war and Sterling joins the fight.
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286 - Sterling Hayden (pt.1): Hard Wandering
June 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
acting hollywood, actor, comedy, fishing, history, maine, podcast, sailing
Not only was this man handsome, he smelled like old fish. Sterling Hayden had a bit of a rough start, but his real passion was sailing the seas, that is until Hollywood got a look at him.
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285 Lord Minimus (Jeffrey Hudson) pt.3: A loss and gain of stature
June 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 31 mins
17th century, comedy, duel, dwarf, england, english civil war, france, history, north africa, pirates, podcast, royalty, slavery
Walt from Not For Human Consumption joins us for the conclusion of Lord Minimus. After a life of luxury in the Royal court of Queen Henrietta Maria, Jeffrey's life takes a serious turn for the worse.
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283 - Lord Minimus (Jeffrey Hudson) pt.1 - Pickle-chokingly small boy.
June 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 33 mins
17th century, british empire, comedy, dwarf, england, english civil war, great britain, history, king, queen, royal life, royals
Walter from Not for Human Consumption joins us as we travel back to the early 17th century, to look into the interesting life of the world's smallest man, Jeffrey Hudson.
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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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281 - William Penn (pt.3): Always Crumby in Philadelphia
May 18th, 2023 | 53 mins 1 sec
american history, colonial america, comedy, england, history, podcast, quakers, revolution
Jim and Brian from Drink a Beer Play a Game joins us as we wrap up the confusion that was William Penn's life.
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280 - William Penn (pt.2): The City of Brotherly Lovin'
May 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 14 mins
america, american history, colonial america, comedy, history, idiots, pennsylvania, quakers, religion, us history
Brian and Jim from Drink a Beer Play a Game join us again as we continue our look into the life of William Penn and the birth of Pennsylvania. William dives into the deep end and acquires a royal charter for Penn's Forest Land. His new 'holy experiment' quickly devolves into madness as he blunders way though governing his new charter, setting up his 'modern city' of Philadelphia