Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 34 in total of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “warfare”.
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263 - Douglas Haig (pt5): Par 22 Million
December 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
20th century, battlefield, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, warfare, wwi
We wrap up the end of The Great War while Haig works on his handicap! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! And only 22 million dead!
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261 - Douglas Haig (pt3): The Butcher of the Somme
December 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
20th century, battlefield, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, the somme, warfare, wwi
Today we dissect one of history's bloodiest battles, The Battle of the Somme and the failings of the Allies Field Marshall Douglas Haig. Did Haig deserve the gruesome title of The Butcher of the Somme, or was this massive loss of life inevitable? And more importantly, is Haig a bitch?
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260 - Douglas 'Horsegirl' Haig (pt2): Prancing into WWI
December 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 45 mins
19th century, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, warfare, wwi
That is right! We are going into WWI with nothing but horses and 19th century concepts of warfare. Let's see how Douglas and the Doughboys stack up against the Maxim gun!
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259 - Douglas Haig (pt1): Brogue, Boers and Brown Noses
November 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 38 mins
19th century, boer wars, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, south africa, sudan, warfare, wwi
We begin a deep dive into WWI's most controversial figures Field Marshall Douglas Haig a.k.a. The Butcher of the Somme. But before we get to the War to End All Wars. We take a look into his scottish, whiskey-distilling family, his money assisted climb up the social later and his time with the British Army in Africa.
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237 - Alexander the Great (pt6): All GREAT things come to an end
June 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 34 mins
alexander the great, ancient greece, ancient history, classical, comedy, drinking, greek history, history, influential people, military, podcast, warfare
All great things come to an end, we unpack the mysterious and sudden death of Alexander the Great, his legacy and all the chafed thighs he affected!
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236 - Alexander the Great (pt5): Hitting the Hindu Kush
June 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 43 mins
alexander the great, ancient greece, ancient history, antiquity, battle tactics, comedy, empire, epic, history, india, iran, legend, military history, pakistan, persian, podcast, warfare
Alex expands further and further into Asia. Into a world previously unknown to the Hellenic states. Where people eat spicy curry, ride giant ants and smoke the dankest nugs!
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235 - Alexander the Great (pt4): Empire Building 101
June 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
alexander the great, ancient greece, ancient history, antiquity, battle tactics, comedy, empire, epic, history, legend, military history, persian, podcast, warfare
Alexander continues to steamroll around the the Mediterranean. He mashes the Gordian Knot, he poops his pants with malaria, he creates a freaking peninsula to attack the island city of Tyre!!! Oh and if you thought Zeus and Philip were his only daddies.... Try Amon-Ra. Cause guess what, he takes Egypt. All leading up to the decisive battle against the flaccid Darius at the Battle of Gaugamela!
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233 - Alexander the Great (pt2): Hard Hellenic Hell-Raising
May 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
alexander the great, ancient history, classical, comedy, drinking, greece, greek history, history, macedonia, persia, podcast, politics, warfare
Our saga of Alexander the Great continues... or begins, as Alexander is pooped out into the world, electrified by the jizzbolts of the mighty Zeus!
But lil' Alex isn't great just yet, he is just a baby boy! His daddy Philp on the other hand is smacking around all of his other Hellenic neighbors, even scores himself a druggie Oracle. DOPE!
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231 - Chiang Kai-shek (pt4): Taiwan!!! second times a charm, right?
May 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 35 mins
china, chinese history, cia, cold war, comedy, dictator, drinking, espionage, history, podcast, revolution, taiwan, us foreign politics, warfare
The final episode of our Chiang Kai-shek series. The ultimate showdown between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek... Spoilers Chaing losses... From his tiny island of Taiwan, he declares that he will one day retake mainland China!
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230 - Chiang Kai-Shek (pt3): WWII Gangbang
April 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 31 mins
1930s, 1940s, america, china, chinese history, combat, comedy, communism, history, international diplomacy, japan, military history, podcast, war, war crimes, warfare, wwii
We cover the Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII as Chiang goes to war with modern mechanized Imperial Japan as he burns his own country to the ground. And after some sailors in Hawaii have a really bad day Dec 7th 1941, America joins the fight!