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    <title>Roast Mortem Cast - Episodes Tagged with “Snake Oil”</title>
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    <description>We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed. 
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    <itunes:summary>We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed. 
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  <title>248 - Sir Richard Burton (pt.9): Damascus, Trieste &amp; Bitter Tonics </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>176 - C.L. Blood: Nitrous Oxide Doctor with a flare for Malpractice </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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!</itunes:subtitle>
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