Roast Mortem Cast

79 - Andy Warhol: Voyeuristic, Commercial Meme Lord

May 16th, 2019  |  2 hrs 3 mins

1960s, 1970s, albino, american art, american history, andy warhol, art house, art of sale, artist, asexual, attempted murder, avant garde, avant garde film, bisexual, comedy, commercialism, drinking, drugs, film, gay, greenwich, history, lgbtq, mass produced art, models, nyc, podcast, pop art, pretentious, self centered, silk screening, the factory, thief, vain, voyeurism, weeny boy

Did Andy Warhol singlehandedly destroy art or just invent the Meme? This frail little albino boy had a propensity for watching eccentrics slowly kill themselves at his Blade-style night club (- techno, vampires & cybergoths) The Factory.

78 - Valerie Solanas: The Feminist Eugenist that gunned down Andy Warhol

May 9th, 2019  |  1 hr 46 mins

1960's, 1968, andy warhol, art history, attempted murder, avant garde, crazy, criminal, drinking, feminism, gay movement, greenwich village, history, hobo, lgbtq, murder, now, nyc, patriarchy, philosophy, podcast, pop art, powerful women, scum manifesto, the factory, writer

Was the woman who gunned down Andy Warhol a radical feminist fighting the patriarchy or just a hobo Hitler that wanted to exterminate the inferior male gender? Find out as we roast the queen of bumming cigarettes and giving out quickies, Valerie Solanas.
Plus a extremely kid friendly lesson about the birds and the bees from Travis.

68 - Boss Tweed: NYC's Obese Political Swindler

February 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 31 mins

1800s, 19th century, boss tweed, cheat, comedy, congress, corruption, democrats, drinking, fat, firefighting, gangs of new york, history, immigrants, lawyer, manhattan, new york, nyc, obese, phantom menace, podcast, politics, rich, wealth

The original New York City fat cat. Worked over the political system to swindled over poor immigrants so he could suck down dump trucks of oysters. He was a big boy with a big attitude and was definitely in the Phantom Menace.

15 - Schemin' Carlo Ponzi

February 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 15 mins

1920's, comedy, con man, drinking, get rich quick, great depression, history, immigrant, italian, money, new york, nyc, ponzi, scheme

Best known for his use of the Ponzi Scheme (dat's his name), Carlo could polish off a full bucket of meatballs in 30 seconds flat... That might not be true... but he is history's slimiest con man.

11 - Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols

January 18th, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins

1970s, british, comedy, drinking, drugs, history, nancy spungen, nyc, punk, rock, sex pistols, sid vicious