Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 11 in total of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “wealth”.
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225 - Hiroshi Yamauchi : Nintendo's Willy Wonka Hates You
March 24th, 2022 | 2 hrs 40 mins
1980s, 1990s, business, classic games, comedy, drinking, gaming, gaming history, history, japanese history, mario, monopoly, nintendo, playstation, podcast, retro games, video games, wealth
The boys from the Drink a Beer Play a Game Podcast join us for a roast of the Nintendo's grumpy, egotistical president Hiroshi Yamauchi. The meteoric rise of Nintendo Frankensteined the video game industry back to life in the 1980’s with Yamauchi at the helm. He manically micromanaged his team, the all while NEVER PLAYING A VIDEO GAME IN HIS LIFE
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217 - Harry Selfridge: Department Store Sugar Daddy
January 27th, 2022 | 1 hr 45 mins
chicago, comedy, drinking, history, london, mall, podcast, retail, shopping, sugar daddy, vaporwave, wealth
You ever stuff your face with Auntie Anne's, waddle into a Macy's and think 'Wow! This sure am pretty!". Well we sure have! Join us for a roast of retail magnate, Harry Gordon Selfridge. This American ex-pat redefined the customer experience with London's Selfridge Department Store... Only to squander it all away on a series of gold-digging arm candies.
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144 - Arthur Orton: The Tale of Two Penises
August 20th, 2020 | 2 hrs 20 mins
australia, comedy, con man, drinking, english history, english nobility, history, manhunt, podcast, wealth
400 lb Arthur Orton was a man that lived triple lives... pun intended.
Was he cockney seaman Arthur Orton? Or maybe Austrailian, stinky butcher Thomas Castro? Or conveniently lost at sea English Aristocrat Barronett Rodger Tichborne?
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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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137 - Andrew Carnegie: Monopoly Man Meets Momma's Boy
July 2nd, 2020 | 3 hrs 8 mins
19th century, america history, american business, comedy, drinking, gilded age, history, monopoly, podcast, unions, wealth, workers rights
Capitalism gone WILD!!! Andrew Carnegie was not afraid to break up unions, scam his competition and make his workers' lives a living hell, but when it came to the ladies, he needed to check with his momma.
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136 - Robert Kardashian: The Simp, the Momager & the Hell Spawn
June 25th, 2020 | 2 hrs 34 mins
affair, american history, comedy, drinking, fashion, gossip, history, kardashian, law, lawyer, model, murder, podcast, pop culture, reality tv, self centered, sex, thief, true crime, vain, wealth
The Armenian heir to a rancid Meat Packing Company, yuppied his flaccid penis around LA's hottest nightclubs with his pal OJ Simpson. Everything changed when he met the teenager of his dreams and professional gold digger & cum dumpster Kris. And with that one of the largest cases of cultural brain drain had been unleashed on the world. The age of Kardashian had begun.
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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!
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130 - Heinrich Schliemann: The Lost City of Troy & the Glory-seeking Archaeologist the 'Found' it.
May 14th, 2020 | 2 hrs 4 mins
ancient greece, ancient history, archaeology, artifacts, comedy, con man, drinking, excavation, gold rush, greece, history, homer, money, podcast, wealth
Arguably one of the most notable archaeologist in the field, Heinrich made history when he unearthed the lost city of Troy. Using his vast wealth, he then went about rewriting his own history and buying out anyone that questioned his sketch methods of excavation.
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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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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.