Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
We found 5 episodes of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “mob”.
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181 - Arnold Rothstein: Word Series Fixer
May 13th, 2021 | 1 hr 45 mins
1919 world series, betting, bookie, corupt, fixer, gambler, gangster, mafia, mob, new york, rich, scam, wager
Arnold Rothstein was the go-to gambler and fixer of organized crime. He fixed the 1919 World Series by bribing the Black Sox into throwing games. He brought alcohol and heroine into America during prohibition. He was the kingpin of dirty money, contraband, and dubious wagers.
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142 - Louis Armstrong: Tootin' Doody
August 6th, 2020 | 2 hrs 16 mins
america history, bebop, black culture, chicago, comedy, drinking, harlem, harlem renaissance, history, jazz, louis armstrong, mafia, mob, music, music history, new orleans, new york, podcast, rag time, satchmo, trumpet
The life of this extraordinary trumpet player takes us through the evolution of Jazz itself. From razor wielding prostitutes, to Chi-town mafioso, the cultural explosion of the Harlem Renaissance and abroad; Louis lived a fast life! But his bowels were even faster.
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140 - Victor Lustig: Smooth Talk meets Smooth Brain
July 23rd, 2020 | 2 hrs 20 mins
art of the deal, betting, comedy, con man, drinking, france, gangster, history, mob, money, new york, otb, podcast, scam, scar, swindler, wealth
Victor Lustig could talk his way out of a fleshy hairy bag. This infamous cat burglar con many a man out of their fortunes including syphilitic sausage mobster Al Capone. This man was such a smooth talker he even 'sold' France's most iconic landmark, The Eiffel Tower, for scrap to some greasy baguette slurpin' mook.
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139 - Sam Adams: Spicy, Revolutionary Puppet Master Deadbeat
July 16th, 2020 | 2 hrs 17 mins
america, america history, boston, burning, comedy, crime, democracy, drinking, drunkard, felon, founding fathers, history, looting, mob, patriot, podcast, protest, revolution, revolutionary war, riot, unrest
Everything you know about the American Revolution is a LIE! This deadbeat revolutionary carefully crafted the mob violence that fueled the colonies fire for independence. The Sons of Liberty burned, looted, tortured, boycotted the city of Boston into a starvation.
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101 - Frank Sinatra (pt1): The Lady is a Tramp... Let me get in it tho!
October 17th, 2019 | 1 hr 41 mins
big band, brat, comedy, crooner, frank sinatra, history, italian mafia, mob, music, music legends, new jersey, new york, nightmare, podcast, rat pack, singers, spoiled, swooning
Swooning and crooning didn't come easy for Frank Sinatra, in fact he had the voice of a hoary marmot in heat and the temper of a spoiled baby meatball. While his mother was off performing basement abortions, Frankie was off slipping it in whatever he could get his fat marinara fingers on.