Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying items 1-10 of 11 in total of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag "scam".
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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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180 - Bernie Madoff: Embezzler Extraordinaire
May 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 48 mins
billions, biography, comedy, crook, drinks, embezzlement, hedge fund manager, history, money, ponzi scheme, scam, steal, stocks, theif, wall street, white collar
Bernie Madoff is responsible for the largest case of "skimming of the top" carried out by a single individual. He siphoned billions of dollars from friends, family and strangers alike. Strategic deception and a good sales pitch can go a long way... that is, until the bubble ultimately pops.
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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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126 - Joanna Southcott: Gross 64 y/o Pregnant Prophetess
April 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 54 mins
comedy, cult, drinking, england, history, occult, podcast, pregnancy, psychic, religion, scam, sect
Joanna Southcott was more than just your average crazy woman screaming about Revelations. She was the pregnant mother of the second coming of Christ at the ripe old age of 64. This religious freak show drove England and the World into complete madness.
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121 - Harold von Braunhut: Racist Inventor of the Sea Monkeys
March 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 40 mins
60s, boomer, comedy, drinking, history, podcast, racist, scam, sea monkey, toy manufacturer, toys
Tonight we are talkin' SHRIMP! Well, actually Artemia salina... which aren't shrimp. Sea Monkeys!!! These harmless little creatures from another planet were the brainchild of a terrible little man, Harold Von Braunhut. This toy-maker, turned weapons manufacturer, turned Jewish donor to the Aryan Brotherhood is a real POS!
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113 - Jakob Fugger: History's Richest Idiot
January 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 55 mins
16th century, accounting, amazon, bezos, business, comedy, commerce, germany, global trade, history, loans, podcast, royalty, scam, trade, warfare, wealth
Want to get rich quick? Like 4 times richer than Jeff Bezos? Listen to how this 16th century german scheiße pretzel became history's richest man by scamming the the inbred Hapsburgs, a few popes and millions of german peasants. Oh and he started a beef with the hemorrhoid-scratcher Martin Luther.
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66 - L. Ron Hubbard: Sailing, Scientology & Satanic Sex Magic
February 14th, 2019 | 1 hr 59 mins
blasphemy, comedy, cult, drinking, fiction, history, hubbard, leader, navy, orgy, podcast, religion, sailing, satan, satanic, satanic ritual, scam, scam artist, scandal, sci-fi, scientology, sex, shipwreck, tax evasion, thief
Everyone knows that L. Ron Hubbard started the world biggest scam, Scientology. But in his free time he enjoyed blindly crashing ship, a little bit of satanic sex magic and writing really bad science fiction which he used in the mythos of his 'religion'.
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65 - Jacob Frank: The Second Unkosher, Orgy Throwin', Jewish-Illuminati Messiah
February 7th, 2019 | 1 hr 23 mins
apocalypse, blasphemy, catholic, comedy, conspiracy, converted, crypto religion, drinking, drunk, greece, history, illuminati, incest, islam, israel, jew, jewish, judaism, kabbalah, kosher, leader, messiah, murder, not kosher, orgy, party, podcast, poland, polish, prostitution, rave, religion, scam, scam artist, scandal, secret society, sex, turkey, zion
If you thought Sabbatai was wild, Jacob Frank doubles down his messianic attempt at an unkosher savior. We're talking orgies, incest, murder... the list goes on. Frank even helped found the father of all secret societies, the Illuminati. We confirmed it!
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64 - Sabbatai Zevi: Ham Sammich Eatin' Jewish Messiah
January 31st, 2019 | 1 hr 37 mins
apocalypse, blasphemy, comedy, conspiracy, converted, crypto religion, drinking, drunk, greece, hebrew, history, islam, israel, jew, jewish, judaism, kosher, leader, messiah, not kosher, orgy, party, podcast, prostitution, rave, religion, scam, scam artist, scandal, sex, talmud, torah, turkey, zion
This 17th century attention-seeking goth convinced half of the Jewish population that he was the messiah by eating a bacon, egg & cheese. Come join the party and get ready for the rapture!
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57 - Gregor MacGregor: 19th Century Trouble in Paradise
December 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 40 mins
british military, comedy, con artist, desert island, drinking, filibuster, fraud, freebooting, getaway, history, imperialism, military, new world, paradise, podcast, reinventing your life, scam, scotland, south america, starvation, survival, transatlantic, venezuela
Tired of rainy 19th century Scotland? Come to the South American Paradise of Poyias! We DEFINITELY have an Opera house, streets paved with gold... Hell we might even have running water! All you have to do is give all your money to Gregor MacGregor and jump on that boat.