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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219 - Alfred Krupp (pt2): We Build This City on Steel & Horse Shit
February 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 35 mins
19th century, comedy, crazy, genius, germany, history, manufacturing, podcast, steel, warfare
We continue the strange tale of the steel-forging, horse poop-smelling, genius boy, Alfred Krupp, Connor takes us on the strangest episode of MTV Cribs through Al's 'Villa Hügel', his influential role in the formation of Germany and his Steel empire!
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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! -
217 - Harry Selfridge: Department Store Sugar Daddy
January 27th, 2022 | 1 hr 45 mins
chicago, comedy, drinking, history, london, mall, podcast, retail, shopping, sugar daddy, vaporwave, wealth
You ever stuff your face with Auntie Anne's, waddle into a Macy's and think 'Wow! This sure am pretty!". Well we sure have! Join us for a roast of retail magnate, Harry Gordon Selfridge. This American ex-pat redefined the customer experience with London's Selfridge Department Store... Only to squander it all away on a series of gold-digging arm candies.
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216 - Agrippina the Younger: Move Over Dummies, Mom's Driving
January 20th, 2022 | 2 hrs 17 mins
agrippina, ancient rome, caligula, comedy, drinking, empress, history, incest, lust, money, murder, nero, podcast, powerful women, roman history, true crime, women history
You thought the Antichrist Nero was bad? Try Nero's mom, Agrippina the Younger. One of the most powerful woman of ancient Rome, Agrippina schemed, murdered and fucked her way to the top in an all out incest-fest.
Tits out for the Empress! -
215 - Dimebag Darrell: Beta-Pantera Shredder & White Wine Enthusiast
January 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 52 mins
america history, bands, comedy, dimebag darrell, drinking, guitar, guitar god, history, local music, metal, metallica, music, music history, pantera, party, podcast, rockstar, texas
Dylan from Not For Human Consumption podcast joins us for a roast of Metal Guitar God Dimebag Darrell. We WALK through the long career of the Abbott brothers, Darrell and Vinny Paul. From the not-so-humble begins of hair metal Beta-Pantera ft. Terry ‘Jizzman’ Glaze… Through the ‘’9/11 of Rock music’ that lead Dimebag through those CEMETERY GATES.
We also examine the questionable antics of frontman and white wine enthusiast, Phil Anselmo. Cause… well you’ll hear it! -
214 - Calamity Jane: BUT WAIT... She's wearing PANTS!
January 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 44 mins
19th century, america history, comedy, cowboys, deadwood, degenerate, drinking, female, gunslingers, history, jeans, montana, pants, podcast, powerful women, prostitution, sex work, south dakota, wild west, women's history, wyoming
Calamity Jane has become the stuff of American legend... But how much of her story is actually true?
Spoilers!!! Not that much! But she swore, whored, got wasted and wore pants! We take I deep dive into this trainwreck of a woman and dig up some stinky cattle wrangling genitalia! -
213 - Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
December 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 56 mins
america history, comedy, drinking, finance, history, podcast, powerful women, tycoon, wall street, wealth robber barron's, women
Ya'll like POWERFUL WOMEN?!? Well try a suck on these whale blubber rich tiddies of the Witch of Wall Street, Henrietta Green. From less then humble beginnings of New England whaling tychoons, Hetty became one of America's most infamous misers by penny pinching her inherited fortune and forging wills of her rich relatives. Think Angelica Pickles meets Jordan Belfort!
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2021 Roast Mortem Countdown
December 23rd, 2021 | 2 hrs 2 mins
2021, ancient history, comedy, drinking, history, holiday, new years, podcast, warfare
It's that time again! The 4th annual Roast Mortem New Years Countdown. We traveling in our stupid time machine roasting idiots that died on the 21st year of their century! Let's close out 2021..... please.... PLEASE!!!!
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212 - Chris Benoit: The Ultimate Family Man
December 16th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
american history, brain damage, comedy, crime, death, drinking, french canadian, history, murder, podcast, professional wrestling, quebec, sports entertainment, sports injury, true crime, vince mcmahon, wrestling, wwe, wwf
Was Benoit a bad man? No. Did he repeatedly dive head first into his brain holster for 2 decades? HELL YEAH BROTHER! Gonna be honest with you here, this episode will be summited as evidence in by the prosecutor in the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer (A.K.A. Mike Regan) Trial.
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211 - V.I. Lenin (pt2): Founder of the USSR (a.k.a. Karl Marx's Afterbirth)
December 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 54 mins
authoritarian, cannibalism, comedy, commie, communism, death camps, drinking, economics, fascism, history, imperial russia, insurrection, lenin, marx. marxism, podcast, political theories, rebellion, revolution, russian history, socialism, terrorism, world war 1, wwi
The Communist Revolution is upon us, Comrades! The despotic rule of the moronic Romanovs' is over! Who will fill this Russian power vaccuum? Well our hard-brained V.I. Lenin, of course! This absentee revolutionary finally returns to Mother Russia, thanks to the help of right-wing Germany, and install his Communist Utopia. Communist Utopia? More like a fascist dictatorship, that rattled the already starving country into a dismal hellscape. Canabalism will make the country whole, Comrades!