Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 5 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “literature”.
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206 - Iceberg Slim: Legendary Pimp with the Drip
November 4th, 2021 | 2 hrs 37 mins
african american author, american history, comedy, con artist, history, hustle, hustler, jail, literature, money maker, pimp, podcast, prison, sex worker, true crime, violence, writer
Is Roast Mortem gonna have to slap a bitch?! Adam from Houston of WGS Podcast joins us and we pimpwalk though the life of legendary hustler Iceberg Slim. From sloppy sex workers, to doing time, to an influential African-American author, Iceberg did it ALL!
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120 - William S Burroughs (The Writer): King of the Goof Troupe
March 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 53 mins
1940s, 1950s, abuse, beat poetry, borroughs, comedy, counterculture, drugs, guns, history, homosexuality, literature, naked lunch, podcast, trust fund
Burroughs leaves the wake of destruction and murder that was his 30s and starts anew as a writer. All this means is that he does more drugs, bangs more boys and dives deeper into the new age, occult mumbo gumbo. In between deep throating, human pucked turkey, Alan Ginsberg, his heroin usages skyrockets as does his literary notoriety.
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119 - William S Burroughs (Early Years): King of the Goof Troupe
February 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 47 mins
1940s, 1950s, abuse, beat poetry, borroughs, comedy, counterculture, drugs, guns, history, homosexuality, literature, naked lunch, podcast, trust fund
The next entry into our 'Goof Troupe' Beat Poet series and this time we are taking on it's King, William S. Burroughs. This entitled gun-toting homosexual, loafed his way through life guzzling booze, shooting up heroin and mooching off his parents. He unabashedly went on a world tour of pedophilia amassing a his crew of other deadbeats sickos, like Ginsberg and Kerouac and inadvertently became the King of counter-culture
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71 - William Shakespeare: To Cream or Not to Cream!
March 21st, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
16th century, acting, adultery, bisexual, books, cheating, classics, comedy, conspiracy, cover up, drama, drinking, england, english language, history, julius caesar, literature, london, macbeth, masterpiece, murder, painting, piercings, plays, podcast, poetry, romeo & juliet, school, sex, shakespeare, teacher, the stage, theater, uk
Was William Shakespeare an imposter? Maybe! We do know this Master of the English Language believed 'Anyth holeth is thyne goal' and he definitely got his ears pierced at Claire's.
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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?