Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying 4 items of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag "nerd".
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164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe
January 14th, 2021 | 1 hr 45 mins
america history, automotive, cars, chemist, chemistry, climate change, comedy, drinking, environmental, gas, global warming, history, idiot, inventor, nerd, podcast, research, tech
When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?!
Try a gas-huffing, pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a ecological Frankenstein's monster, but did his smooth-brained science cause his undoing? -
153 - Jack Parsons: Satanic Sexy Rocketnerd
October 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 55 mins
alcester crowley, america history, comedy, drinking, explosives, flight, flying, history, idiot, inventor, magic, magik, nasa, nerd, orgy, podcast, research, rockets, satanic, scandal, sex, space, space travel, tech, weapons
When he wasn't nearly blowing off his hand with explosives he was blowing loads in satanic rituals with Alcester Crowley. This genius of jet propulsion and forefather of NASA was blacklisted for his dubious practice of sex black magik.
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56 - Edward Drinker Cope: History's Most Bone-Headed Paleontologist
November 29th, 2018 | 1 hr 34 mins
19th century, america, bone, bone wars, brontosaurus, comedy, dig, dinosaurs, discovery, drinking, excavation, explosives, feud, fossils, frontier, history, jurassic park, mining, moron, natural history, naturalist, nerd, paleontologist, paleontology, podcast, race, research, rivalry, science, scientific discovery, scientist, skeletons, tnt, wild west
Seen the documentary Jurassic Park? Think you know dinosaurs? Well, Edward Drink Cope sure doesn't... Even though he discovered a whole bunch of 'em. This dangus started a Bone War that shook the field of paleontology for centuries.
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12 - Steve Jobs (not sorry iTunes)
January 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 19 mins
apple, comedy, computers, drinking, guru, hardware, history, iphone, itunes, mac, nerd, sex, software, steve jobs
You all you the man who invented the iPhone, but did you know he claimed not to spray man-juice? We're roasting the 'visionary' Steve Jobs... Just don't tell iTunes.