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    <title>Roast Mortem Cast - Episodes Tagged with “Literature”</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed. 
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    <itunes:subtitle>Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:summary>We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed. 
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  <title>206 - Iceberg Slim: Legendary Pimp with the Drip</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>120 - William S Burroughs (The Writer): King of the Goof Troupe</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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 </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>71 - William Shakespeare: To Cream or Not to Cream!</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>38 - Allen 'Kid Diddling' Ginsberg: Goof Troupe pt. 1</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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? </itunes:subtitle>
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