Roast Mortem Cast

289 - Sterling Hayden (pt3): RED, white & Blue

August 31st, 2023  |  1 hr 19 mins

actor, comedy, communist, history, hollywood, leftist, socialist, war, wwii

We continue our journey with Sterling Hayden as he joins the communist partisans in Yugoslavia! Sterling is getting more and more RED as the days go on. Will this pretty face join the class struggle or will he just jerk it to a boat or something.

264 - Douglas Haig (pt6) - A legacy shaped by smooth brains.

January 5th, 2023  |  1 hr 30 mins

churchill, comedy, england, english history, great britain, history, military history, scandal, tabloid, uk, world war, wwi, wwii

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.

255 - Queen Elizabeth II (pt.4): Tales from the Walking Royal Crypt

October 27th, 2022  |  1 hr 44 mins

20th century, british empire, comedy, england, epstein, great britain, history, king, king charles, prince andrew, queen, queen elizabeth, royal life, royals, scandal, world war, wwii

We take a look at the Queen's twilight years. Just shambling around for about two decades running damage control for her dysfunctional children. Specifically Prince Andrew and his connection to his two friend Jeffery and Ghislaine and their island of child massage specialist.

253 - Queen Elizabeth II (pt.2): Royal Doodies

October 13th, 2022  |  2 hrs 5 mins

20th century, british empire, comedy, edward viii, england, great britain, history, king, queen, queen elizabeth, royal life, royals, scandal, the simpsons, world war, wwii

We jump into the riveting life of being a Royal Monarch in the 20th century. And while Elizabeth may have been the Queen, her sister Margaret was the Queen Slag. Which is awesome!

252 - Queen Elizabeth II (pt.1): The Country of Cousinly Love

October 6th, 2022  |  2 hrs 1 min

20th century, british empire, comedy, edward viii, england, great britain, history, king, queen, queen elizabeth, royal life, royals, scandal, the simpsons, world war, wwii

You probably haven't heard it but... Queen Elizabeth II is dead! Long live the Roast!
We take a look at the royal history leading up to this unexpected monarch and the rise of the Windsor family, or should we say the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Family. From her toothbrush mustache-loving Uncle Edward VIII, her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a mechanic, to the romance of her distance cousin Philip, Elizabeth’s youth was one hell of a ride.

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!

222 - Gustav Krupp (pt2): Spicy Germany and the Big Boom Booms

March 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 59 mins

arms dealers, comedy, evil, germany, history, modern warfare, podcast, tanks, true crime, war, warfare, weapons, world war, wwii

We close out the Krupp Dynasty with a bang... cause we are talking about cannons... and WWII... Yeaaaaaaah.

The Krupps firm works with the Austrian 'Guttersnipe' and starts pumping out overly complicated Panzer tanks, amongst other weapons of death. But will the evil Krupps get their comeuppance when the war is over. Tune in to find out!

220 - Hergé: The Misadventures of Tintin

February 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 29 mins

20th century, animation, artist, belgian, belgium, cartoon, comedy, comic strip, comics, drinking, france, french, herge, history, iconic, occupation, podcast, reporter, tintin, world war 2, wwii

George Remi, a.k.a. Hergé, created one of the most influential and popular comics of the 20th Century... Tintin is such a favorite of Travis' that he has Captain Haddock tattooed on his leg!

But behind the exciting adventures of Tintin, lays a personal story of a struggling artist, German occupation, and a series of not-so-secret affairs.
Was Hergé a Nazi mouthpiece as depicted by the Belgian Resistance? Or was he just a whiney oblivious idiot trying to make ends meet.

166 - Master Series: WWII Soldiers

January 28th, 2021  |  2 hrs 20 mins

american, battles, comedy, drinking, german, history, korean, military history, podcast, polish, russians, soldiers, war criminal, warfare, world war 2, wwii

Cullen from Cauldron Podcast joins us for a Master Series, as we look at the "The Good, The Bad and the Limp Dick War Criminal" of WWII. Featuring an American Nazi-killing, wife beating machine, a confused Asian, and German 'not-so-super soldier' deplorable SS officer.

67 - Tallulah Bankhead: The Flapper that Flops Out All the Two-Handers

February 21st, 2019  |  1 hr 52 mins

acting, actress, addict, bisexual, bourbon, broadway, celebrity, cocaine, codeine, coke, comedy, drinking, drunk, flappers, free love, group sex, history, hollywood, london, movies, new york, orgy, party, personality, podcast, sex, sex addict, singer, stage performer, std, tabloid, thespian, weed, west end, wwi, wwii

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.