Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 3 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “snake oil”.
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248 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.9): Damascus, Trieste & Bitter Tonics
September 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
19th century, adventure, anthropology, comedy, damascus, england, explorer, history, italy, london, middle east, snake oil
Burton is reassigned to Damascus, his dream consul position! But his over zealous wife, Isabel goes on a Catholic conversion spree, leaving him poor, defamed and bitter.
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176 - C.L. Blood: Nitrous Oxide Doctor with a flare for Malpractice
April 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 44 mins
19th century, america history, comedy, con artist, doctor, drinking, history, laughing gas, medical, murder, nitroxide, phish, podcast, snake oil, true crime
You know how to cure most diseases? Nitrous oxide, a.k.a. Laughing Gas! C.L. Blood was dishing out more balloons full of this stuff to 19th century TB patients than the hippie-mafia at Phish shows! This unscrupulous doctor was not afraid to go above and beyond the law to turn a profit.
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135 - John R. Brinkley: Hot & Heavy Goat Balls for Everyone!
June 18th, 2020 | 2 hrs 40 mins
20th century, american history, comedy, con artist, con man, drinking, fad craze, fraud, goat, history, medical history, medicine, millionaires, nuts, podcast, quackery, sex, sex drive, sex modification, snake oil, wealth
If there was one thing John Rom was good at, it was slicing open a man's nut sack and chucking in some XL goat nads to give him that sexual prowess he always deserved. Doesn't that sound hot?! Well it was all the craze during early 20th Century! This could be the strangest 'doctor' we've taken a look at on RMC!