Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying Episode 231 - 240 of 272 in total of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “history”.
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41 - Ching Shih: China's Unforgiving Pirate Queen
August 16th, 2018 | 1 hr 34 mins
bad ass, capital punishment, china, comedy, decapitation, drinking, female pirate, high seas, history, ocean, piracy, pirates, podcast, powerful woman, prostitute, vigilante
From call girl to queen of the high seas, Ching Shih became the most powerful pirate in the Pacific. While she was a brilliant strategist, some might call her a tad harsh to her crew. Where's your head at?
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40 - Sawney Bean: All in the Cannibal Family
August 9th, 2018 | 1 hr 22 mins
1500s, 16th century, ambush, cannibal, cave, cave dwelling, comedy, crime, criminal, drinking, history, inbred, inbreeding, legend, man eater, murder, podcast, raiders, scotland
What's your favorite food at a family BBQ? Human haggis with a side of inbreeding, maybe? Emily Saltman presents a disturbing look into Sawney Bean and his family of cave-dwelling cannibals.
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39 - William Lyon Mackenzie: Canada's Try-Hard Revolutionary
August 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 35 mins
19th century, america, british empire, buffalo, canada, colonial, colonialism, comedy, constitution, drinking, history, immigrants, insurrection, newspaper, ontario, podcast, political, politics, press, rebellion, reform, revolution, scotland, toronto, upstate new york
When it comes to revolutionaries William Lyon Mackenzie is straight up the Charlie Brown of the bunch. The first mayor of Toronto had great intentions but failed at almost everything he ever did. We are talking Canadian independence here... There's a reason the queen is still on their bills. To get some inside insight, Travis captures two living Canadians in his poutine trap to discuss life in the Great White North.
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38 - Allen 'Kid Diddling' Ginsberg: Goof Troupe pt. 1
July 26th, 2018 | 1 hr 31 mins
50s, 60s, 70s, abuse, baby boomer, beat generation, beatnik, comedy, counter culture, drinking, drugs, free love, hack, hippy, history, literature, lsd, monster, nature, new york, pedophile, podcast, poem, poet, poetry, predator, san francisco
Melanie Moat joins us as we roast 'beat poet' Allen Ginsberg. Have you ever read his poem 'Howl'? You know, the book your professor made you read that barely made sense and had the writing structure of a 2nd grader? The truth is Ginsberg openly touched 2nd grader dong for pleasure... Actually, that may have been his inspiration. Did your professor tell you that?
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37 - Sir Isaac Newton: Asexual Asshat Astronomer
July 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 34 mins
17th century, 18th century, abstinence, alchemy, alex mack, apple, comedy, creep, drinking, enlightenment, gravity, history, physics, podcast, science, space, universe
If Isaac Newton was such a smart boy then why did he think The Secret World of Alex Mack was a documentary?
That's right, we're roasting the dude that figured out things fall down, dog! -
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.
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35 - Hank Williams: The Sauced Southern Icon
July 5th, 2018 | 1 hr 43 mins
comedy, country, country music, drinking, guitar, hillbilly, history, music, podcast, southern, trailer park, yodeling
Hank Williams the grandaddy of country music, knew how to sing, knew how to play but boy did he know how to drink. You don't know trailerpark trash until you've heard this man yodel!
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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.
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33 - John Mytton: History's Drunkest Aristocrat
June 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 34 mins
19th century, alcoholic, animal cruelty, bear, comedy, death metal, dogs, drinking, england, english, history, inheritance, millionaire, monkeys, nobility, party, party animal, podcast, rich, rockstar, spoiled rich, wagon crash
Will Smith from Artificial Brain joins us as we roast history's drunkest aristocrat, John Mytton. This 19th century English noble makes even the craziest rockstars look like precious schoolboys! Who were his drinking buddies? A menagerie of freaking wild animals!
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32 - Jerry Garcia: Keep on Truckin' till You Drop!
June 14th, 2018 | 1 hr 21 mins
70s, addiction, classic rock, comedy, counter culture, dead heads, drinking, drugs, grateful dead, hippies, hippy, history, jam bands, phish, podcast, psychedelics, rock, rock and roll
He was good with an ax, terrible with an axe and horrendous with his ex. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, much like the self-serving generation he helped shape, always put himself first. His heroin-fueled pursuit of good vibes did not change the world, it simply made hacky sacks more popular… man.