Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
We found 10 episodes of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “history”.
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113 - Jakob Fugger: History's Richest Idiot
January 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 55 mins
16th century, accounting, amazon, bezos, business, comedy, commerce, germany, global trade, history, loans, podcast, royalty, scam, trade, warfare, wealth
Want to get rich quick? Like 4 times richer than Jeff Bezos? Listen to how this 16th century german scheiße pretzel became history's richest man by scamming the the inbred Hapsburgs, a few popes and millions of german peasants. Oh and he started a beef with the hemorrhoid-scratcher Martin Luther.
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112 - Rob Ford: Toronto's Rotund Crackhead Mayor
January 9th, 2020 | 1 hr 39 mins
canada, comedy, crack, crackhead, drugs, drunk, history, mayor, ontario, party, podcast, politics, rob ford, toronto
Rob Ford and his family, or the Canadian Kennedys, partied their way to the top. This train wreck of a lineage blew, guzzled, injected and smoked their way into the national spotlight all while dominating Ontario politics. Rob's partying and the rise of camera phones gave the world a wonderful glimpse into his crack-fueled late nights with the Canadian chapter of the Bloods.
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111 - George Psalmanazar: Phony Asian with a Fantastic Imagination
January 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 56 mins
asian, charlatan, comedy, con artist, formosa, history, linguistics, podcast
This French charlatan went around Europe claiming he was an asian man from the mystical land of Formosa. He went to such lengths to protect lie that he created an entire language, history, culture, even maps of his made-up land.
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110 - Theodosius I: The Roman Emperor that Started the Dark Ages
December 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 48 mins
catholic, comedy, constantinople, dark ages, emperor, fall of rome, goths, history, orgies, podcast, religion, religious war, roman empire, rome
Roman was one big party; orgies, wine, festivals and bad ass gods. Theodosius was having none of it! This roman emperor made Catholicism the state religion and plunged Europe into the Dark Ages. Party Poo Poo doodie head.
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Roast Mortem 2019 Countdown Special
December 19th, 2019 | 2 hrs 44 mins
comedy, countdown, dead people, history, holiday, nye, podcast, special
It's that time of the year again, The 2019 Roast Mortem Cast countdown. We are going through the ages digging up idiots that died on the 19th year of their century.
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109 - Giovanni Belzoni: Tomb Raiding Strongman Waterboy
December 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 57 mins
adventure, ancient aliens, archaeology, artifacts, carnival, circus, comedy, discoveries, egypt, egyptology, freak, history, mummy, podcast, pyramids, strongman, treasure hunter
Through a series of random events, this 6'6 Italian strongman found himself history's first Egyptologist. Belzoni looted his way through pyramids and ancient tombs, mashing mummies and destroying priceless artifacts, creating an infamous legacy for envious archaeologists that followed in his massive footsteps.
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107 - Aretha Franklin: The Soul Diva surrounded by Butthole Weenies
November 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 33 mins
african american, civil rights, comedy, diva, history, music, pedophilia, podcast, pop music, r&b, religion, singer, soul, strong women
While she was a diva, Aretha was not a complete asshole. BUT the people surrounding her life, such as her pedophile bible-thumping father and abusive stamp-collecting husband, sucked a big one. Join us as we take a dive into Detroit's own Queen of Soul.
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106 - Roy Cohn: The Ultimate 20th Century Lawyer Scumbag
November 21st, 2019 | 2 hrs 3 mins
attorney, comedy, communism, con artist, conservative, corruption, history, homosexuality, hypocrite, lavender scare, law, lawyer, nixon, podcast, reagan, red scare, rosenburg trial, trump, tuna
This homosexual attorney was responsible for almost everything terrible and corrupt that happened in the 20th Century. Roy had his fingers in the elections of Nixon, Reagan and was the role model and personal fixer to Donald Trump in the 80's. He was also responsible for ruining the lives of countless fellow gays by exposing them in a time where homosexuality meant losing your government job. He did this all while sucking down cans of tuna fish and waterskiing in the polluted waters of the Hudson.
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105 - Basil Zaharoff: WWI Merchant of Death with an Acorn Penis
November 14th, 2019 | 1 hr 54 mins
arms dealer, comedy, guns, history, machine gun, podcast, scam artist, warfare, wwi
Basil Zarahoff dealt the the world's most powerful killing machine, the Maxim Gun, to most of the world's superpowers right before WWI; all while posing as royalty to nut in as many aristocratic ladies he could!
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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!!!