web02.fireside.fm Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:45:05 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/tags/wwi Thu, 05 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0500 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. en-us episodic Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them. Roast Mortem Cast 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. yes History, Drinking, Roast, Roast Mortem, satire, Comedy, Dirty, Biography, Biographical, Roast Mortem Cast RoastMortemCast@gmail.com https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/haig6 480f3914-5e0c-44d7-b6f2-8133207736fe Thu, 05 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast We wrap up our series on Earl Douglas Haig and dive into how his legacy was born post-mortem. From a man-sized baby Winston Churchill, to an Adolf-loving PM David Lloyd George, to a crazy widow obsessed with deifying her lumpy late-husband. 1:30:24 yes We wrap up our series on Earl Douglas Haig and dive into how his legacy was born post-mortem. From a man-sized baby Winston Churchill, to an Adolf-loving PM David Lloyd George, to a crazy widow obsessed with deifying her lumpy late-husband. History, Comedy, England, WWI, WWII, World War, Scandal, Great Britain, military history, Churchill, UK, English history, tabloid We wrap up our series on Earl Douglas Haig and dive into how his legacy was born post-mortem. From a man-sized baby Winston Churchill, to an Adolf-loving PM David Lloyd George, to a crazy widow obsessed with deifying her lumpy late-husband.

]]> We wrap up our series on Earl Douglas Haig and dive into how his legacy was born post-mortem. From a man-sized baby Winston Churchill, to an Adolf-loving PM David Lloyd George, to a crazy widow obsessed with deifying her lumpy late-husband.

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/haig5 00a41d0a-4cc4-45cf-857a-c12df6aba50d Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast We wrap up the end of The Great War while Haig works on his handicap! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! And only 22 million dead! 1:18:35 yes We wrap up the end of The Great War while Haig works on his handicap! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! And only 22 million dead! History, Comedy, England, military history, Military, 20th century, warfare, Scotland, Scottish, WWI, military leaders, battlefield We wrap up the end of The Great War while Haig works on his handicap! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! And only 22 million dead!

]]> We wrap up the end of The Great War while Haig works on his handicap! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! And only 22 million dead!

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/haig3 b0ee15be-d0ca-4831-b350-4e15439e00cd Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast 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? 1:16:01 yes 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? History, Comedy, England, military history, Military, 20th century, warfare, Scotland, Scottish, WWI, military leaders, battlefield, The Somme 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?

]]> 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?

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/haig2 037d5957-f435-45ad-bba8-00e172b5c65e Thu, 01 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast 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! 1:45:00 yes 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! History, Comedy, England, military history, Military, 19th century, warfare, Scotland, Scottish, WWI, military leaders 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!

]]> 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!

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/haig1 11cd62ca-d5e2-49ed-aaf3-79a76a102f82 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast 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. 1:38:32 yes 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. History, Comedy, England, South Africa, military history, Boer wars, Sudan, Military, 19th century, warfare, Scotland, Scottish, WWI, military leaders 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.

]]> 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.

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/gustovkrupp1 d80e8d0a-1abb-4750-9238-b95d43c25abc Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast We return to the long twisted lineage of the Krupp family and their arms dealin empire. The Family has a shuffle up and a neurotic outsider becomes the Cannon King, just in time for The War to End All Wars! 1:54:39 yes We return to the long twisted lineage of the Krupp family and their arms dealin empire. The Family has a shuffle up and a neurotic outsider becomes the Cannon King, just in time for The War to End All Wars! Podcast, Comedy, History, Drinking, Germany, 19th century, inventor, steel, freak, German History, manufacturing, poop, poop smeller, arms dealer, weapons, wwi, World War, warfare We return to the long twisted lineage of the Krupp family and their arms dealin empire. The Family has a shuffle up and a neurotic outsider becomes the Cannon King, just in time for The War to End All Wars!

]]> We return to the long twisted lineage of the Krupp family and their arms dealin empire. The Family has a shuffle up and a neurotic outsider becomes the Cannon King, just in time for The War to End All Wars!

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/vilenin2 9e31b8c0-b8ae-4f00-90ff-c2ce888a71c8 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast The Communist Revolution is upon us, Comrades! The despotic rule of the moronic Romanovs' is over! Who will fill this Russian power vaccuum? Well our hard-brained V.I. Lenin, of course! This absentee revolutionary finally returns to Mother Russia, thanks to the help of right-wing Germany, and install his Communist Utopia. Communist Utopia? More like a fascist dictatorship, that rattled the already starving country into a dismal hellscape. Canabalism will make the country whole, Comrades! 1:54:14 yes The Communist Revolution is upon us, Comrades! The despotic rule of the moronic Romanovs' is over! Who will fill this Russian power vaccuum? Well our hard-brained V.I. Lenin, of course! This absentee revolutionary finally returns to Mother Russia, thanks to the help of right-wing Germany, and install his Communist Utopia. Communist Utopia? More like a fascist dictatorship, that rattled the already starving country into a dismal hellscape. Canabalism will make the country whole, Comrades! Podcast, Comedy, History, Drinking, russian History, Revolution, Communism, socialism, political theories, commie, Marx. marxism, Imperial Russia, insurrection, terrorism, Lenin, economics, WWI, World War 1, cannibalism, authoritarian, fascism, death camps, rebellion The Communist Revolution is upon us, Comrades! The despotic rule of the moronic Romanovs' is over! Who will fill this Russian power vaccuum? Well our hard-brained V.I. Lenin, of course! This absentee revolutionary finally returns to Mother Russia, thanks to the help of right-wing Germany, and install his Communist Utopia. Communist Utopia? More like a fascist dictatorship, that rattled the already starving country into a dismal hellscape. Canabalism will make the country whole, Comrades!

]]> The Communist Revolution is upon us, Comrades! The despotic rule of the moronic Romanovs' is over! Who will fill this Russian power vaccuum? Well our hard-brained V.I. Lenin, of course! This absentee revolutionary finally returns to Mother Russia, thanks to the help of right-wing Germany, and install his Communist Utopia. Communist Utopia? More like a fascist dictatorship, that rattled the already starving country into a dismal hellscape. Canabalism will make the country whole, Comrades!

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/zaharoff 1ab027c0-e0bc-438c-8e36-739fd9847fd4 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast Basil Zarahoff dealt the the world's most powerful killing machine, the Maxim Gun, to most of the world's superpowers right before WWI; all while posing as royalty to nut in as many aristocratic ladies he could! 1:54:22 yes Basil Zarahoff dealt the the world's most powerful killing machine, the Maxim Gun, to most of the world's superpowers right before WWI; all while posing as royalty to nut in as many aristocratic ladies he could! Podcast, History, comedy, warfare, WWI, guns, machine gun, arms dealer, scam artist Basil Zarahoff dealt the the world's most powerful killing machine, the Maxim Gun, to most of the world's superpowers right before WWI; all while posing as royalty to nut in as many aristocratic ladies he could!

]]> Basil Zarahoff dealt the the world's most powerful killing machine, the Maxim Gun, to most of the world's superpowers right before WWI; all while posing as royalty to nut in as many aristocratic ladies he could!

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/rasputin 234cb5d6-c63b-4c6f-98fd-bd59cedfdaf0 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast Rasputin had one hand in a bucket of hardboiled eggs, the other up the babushka blouses of half the Russian aristocracy. With his creepy hypnotizing eyes, this man banged his way to the highest echelons of power and in the process shaped the modern world as we know it. Did he have supernatural powers or just a dangerous dong? 1:42:48 yes Rasputin had one hand in a bucket of hardboiled eggs, the other up the babushka blouses of half the Russian aristocracy. With his creepy hypnotizing eyes, this man banged his way to the highest echelons of power and in the process shaped the modern world as we know it. Did he have supernatural powers or just a dangerous dong? podcast, comedy, history, Russia, Rasputin, WWI, Sex magic, Tsar, conspiracy, murder, wizard, sorcerer, Siberia, catholic, cult, sect, corruption Rasputin had one hand in a bucket of hardboiled eggs, the other up the babushka blouses of half the Russian aristocracy. With his creepy hypnotizing eyes, this man banged his way to the highest echelons of power and in the process shaped the modern world as we know it. Did he have supernatural powers or just a dangerous dong?

]]> Rasputin had one hand in a bucket of hardboiled eggs, the other up the babushka blouses of half the Russian aristocracy. With his creepy hypnotizing eyes, this man banged his way to the highest echelons of power and in the process shaped the modern world as we know it. Did he have supernatural powers or just a dangerous dong?

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/samhughes e08f88bc-a930-4ecb-96ad-d6c47b45c4fd Thu, 23 May 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast What happens when you take a warmongering sociopath and put him in charge of the military right before the outbreak of WWI? Sam Hughes happens! The man responsible for countless Canadian deaths, child like hissy fits and shameless slander. 1:54:01 yes What happens when you take a warmongering sociopath and put him in charge of the military right before the outbreak of WWI? Sam Hughes happens! The man responsible for countless Canadian deaths, child like hissy fits and shameless slander. Podcast, History, Comedy, WWI, warfare, Canada, army, reserves, The Somme, Passchendaele, generals, tactics, battlefield, enlistment, The great War, war, Nationalism, Military, Militaria, rifle, trench warfare, lacrosse, Toronto, Prime Minister, Politics, Corruption, patronage What happens when you take a warmongering sociopath and put him in charge of the military right before the outbreak of WWI? Sam Hughes happens! The man responsible for countless Canadian deaths, child like hissy fits and shameless slander.

]]> What happens when you take a warmongering sociopath and put him in charge of the military right before the outbreak of WWI? Sam Hughes happens! The man responsible for countless Canadian deaths, child like hissy fits and shameless slander.

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/tallulah 24b624f3-d41a-48c6-80b7-5bd9104a0376 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast With over 500 affairs and a daily consumption of 2 liters of bourbon, 150 cigarettes, an 8-ball of coke, weed and codeine, Tallulah Bankhead knew how to party. As queen of the 1920's flapper movement, every night was a yakked up orgy with a 2pm curtain call. But when you're constantly messed up. You constantly mess up. 1:52:45 yes With over 500 affairs and a daily consumption of 2 liters of bourbon, 150 cigarettes, an 8-ball of coke, weed and codeine, Tallulah Bankhead knew how to party. As queen of the 1920's flapper movement, every night was a yakked up orgy with a 2pm curtain call. But when you're constantly messed up. You constantly mess up. Podcast, comedy, history, drinking, drunk, flappers, broadway, acting, stage performer, singer, personality, thespian, orgy, coke, cocaine, bourbon, bisexual, West End, London, New York, Hollywood, movies, WWI, WWII, sex, sex addict, addict, weed, codeine, celebrity, tabloid, free love, group sex, STD, party, actress, With over 500 affairs and a daily consumption of 2 liters of bourbon, 150 cigarettes, an 8-ball of coke, weed and codeine, Tallulah Bankhead knew how to party. As queen of the 1920's flapper movement, every night was a yakked up orgy with a 2pm curtain call. But when you're constantly messed up. You constantly mess up.

]]> With over 500 affairs and a daily consumption of 2 liters of bourbon, 150 cigarettes, an 8-ball of coke, weed and codeine, Tallulah Bankhead knew how to party. As queen of the 1920's flapper movement, every night was a yakked up orgy with a 2pm curtain call. But when you're constantly messed up. You constantly mess up.

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/duncan 8d0cbd0e-25a4-4811-b882-3d306ff4d115 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast Witchcraft! Clairvoyance! Shoving cheese cloth up your vagina! We're taking an 'in-depth' look at Britain's last witch, Hellish Nell and her stinky, slimy ectoplasmic discharge. 1:42:10 yes Witchcraft! Clairvoyance! Shoving cheese cloth up your vagina! We're taking an 'in-depth' look at Britain's last witch, Hellish Nell and her stinky, slimy ectoplasmic discharge. Podcast, comedy, history, drinking, witchcraft, witch, psychic, clairvoyant, MI5, WW1, WWI, WWII, WW2, fraud, crime, talking to the dead, seance, classified information, war, world war, ectoplasm, ghost, Scotland, Britain, UK, Spirits, Ghosts, Ghost Hunters Witchcraft! Clairvoyance! Shoving cheese cloth up your vagina! We're taking an 'in-depth' look at Britain's last witch, Hellish Nell and her stinky, slimy ectoplasmic discharge.

]]> Witchcraft! Clairvoyance! Shoving cheese cloth up your vagina! We're taking an 'in-depth' look at Britain's last witch, Hellish Nell and her stinky, slimy ectoplasmic discharge.

]]> https://roastmortem.fireside.fm/macarthur 18155c53-a4fa-43b5-9f59-4d24e14bc03a Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:00:00 -0500 Roast Mortem Cast full Roast Mortem Cast While the Philippines fell to the Japanese, General MacArthur was spending his gift certificates to Outback. After the seventh Bloomin' Onion he uttered these famous words 'I shall return!'... as he ran to the bathroom. 1:18:41 yes While the Philippines fell to the Japanese, General MacArthur was spending his gift certificates to Outback. After the seventh Bloomin' Onion he uttered these famous words 'I shall return!'... as he ran to the bathroom. While the Philippines fell to the Japanese, General MacArthur was spending his gift certificates to Outback. After the seventh Bloomin' Onion he uttered these famous words 'I shall return!'... as he ran to the bathroom.

]]> While the Philippines fell to the Japanese, General MacArthur was spending his gift certificates to Outback. After the seventh Bloomin' Onion he uttered these famous words 'I shall return!'... as he ran to the bathroom.

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