Ahh. It only plays short on Windows Media Player. It plays fine on other my other audio players.

Thanks, Joe.

“Good enough for this podcast.” Ha!

Added to my doc for our next Followups episode.

Nope, working fine for me in both iTunes and the web player above. Redownload?

Tsunami
http://www.comicvine.com/tsunami/29-17660/

Disclaimer: I know this isn’t even remotely accurate but it was kind of a fun exercise.

So I got a bit bored and calculated the volume of tears shed at the worst Tsunami. Joe estimated one million people were crying. I found an estimate that the average person cries 121 pints during their lifetime. It was a british stat so I got the average life expectancy of a Brit which was apparently 80 years. I then worked out that approximately a person would cry 0.0007 ounces in an hour. I then multiplied that by one million. We’re looking at 1,350 gallons of tears shed!

More seriously, things you may have discussed but got edited out…

Alaska has a tendency to get hit with Tsunamis. The worst was the Megatsunami that destroyed Lituya Bay, which it turns out, is the “highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami

Finally, if you want a good Tsunami film, you might want to check out Tsunami: The Aftermath. It’s an HBO film about the ‘tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand two years ago’. Great cast. Might make up for Roland Emmerich.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758789/

Love THE ABYSS in its uncut form- though I wouldn’t like to work for Mr Cameron!

The product placement was not “the joke”. There was no making fun of it and it was presented as blatantly as possible. If you want product placement done tongue-in-cheek properly watch “Josie and the Pussycats”. That movie was funny, and engaging, and didn’t take itself too seriously. The opening scenes with “Du Jour” are funnier than anything in Little Nicky.

That said, I also think there’s enough good stuff in Dirty Work to make it almost salvageable.

1. Lizzy Borden – one of the reasons they were able to acquit her, despite the evidence, is that by some statistical anomaly there was another axe murder in the vicinity, so it held up her claims of an intruder (despite the doors all being locked from the inside and the intruder having to hide somewhere for an hour and a half between murdering the step mother and the father.)

2. What about the Axe gang from Kung Fu Hustle? The best dancing axe murderers I’ve ever seen.

Finally, I’m really impressed with Caustic Soda and the way it is evolving, and can’t wait for more episodes!

“Constantine unwittingly steps into a war between gods, most notably Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec deity of death, who resents Constantine’s intrusion into his business, and Beroul, a demon who behaves as if he were a Hollywood movie executive, holds hostage the soul of Chas’ granddaughter Trish.”

Also, you didn’t want to talk about the Balrog? He’s probably number two in a list of most influential demons. I remember finding it funny how D&D’s Balor are a straight up copy of the Balrog. I know most of D&D’s original content was just an adaption of Tolkein’s work, but it always struck me how blatant that specific bit was.

Finally – I remember hearing about a potentially funny film titled “Rare Exports.” It’s set in Norway, where they unearth a buried and frozen Santa Claus. It turns out he’s a demon, or something comparable.

A guy in Connecticut is being held on US$1 million bond for allegedly murdering a homeless man with an ax and then eating part of the body. From the Connecticut Post:

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Man-accused-of-cannibalism-held-on-1-million-bond-2915789.php

I just caught this in my national news feed. Anybody else notice this?

I just found an interesting new:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069143/Parents-forced-change-sons-Vampire-Diaries-supernatural.html

His own story before escaping Cambodia is pretty sad. He was imprisoned with his pregnant wife, but she died giving birth – despite being a Gynecologist, he couldn’t reveal his training otherwise they’d all die. But she ran into complications and died. You’d have to imagine that’ll tear at a man’s soul for life.

On the other hand, I don’t know if you guys count novels as popular culture.

Opening scene here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhARR-zmTCE&feature=related

Here, have some Etruscan fiends and bearded snakes:
http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Post/1237653

Just for clarification, D&D bowed to pressure from Christian Groups to remove devils and demons from the game. Devils became Baatezu and represented law. Demons became Tanar’ri and represented chaos.

I enjoyed some of THE KEEP, but once the demon turned up as a guy in a dodgy rubber suit, it got rather Meh.

I think my favourite demon-related movie is PUMPKINHEAD, a 1989 horror flick directed by FX maestro Stan Winston (ALIENS, TERMINATOR, PREDATOR) that features Lance Henrikson as a father who loses his son in an accident and conjures up the titular demon, a personification of vengeance, to deal with the kids who killed him.

Also love “I of Newton” a hilarious short Eighties TWILIGHT ZONE with Ron Glass (FIREFLY) as a hip demon out to steal the soul of a maths teacher. Glass’ t-shirt keeps changing slogans “Hell is a city much like Newark”)

Also, you guys expressed some confusion about performers being a ‘triple threat’. I’ve been working in theatre for a long time and in my experience that refers to someone who’s talented at Acting, Singing, and Dancing. Assuming it’s the same for film, dancing was the part you couldn’t remember.

I’m also left wondering… did you guys examine the 15th-17th century explorations of the new world when considering this? Or African expeditions? I don’t know much about them, but it seems like there must have been some doomed explorations there.

Perhaps you could have counted Roanoke, despite being a colonization expedition.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094910/

The Couch Trip – Dan Aykroyd

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/

What About Bob – Bill Murray

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

A Clockwork Orange – Malcolm McDowell

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236640/

Prozac Nation – Christina Ricci

I’m sure there are scads of others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deadliest_Warrior_episodes#Episode_27:_Saddam_Hussein_vs._Pol_Pot

Swimming to Cambodia – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094089/

Eddie Izzard on evil “mass mudering fuckheads” –

“But there were other mass murderers that got away with it! Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, well done there; Pol Pot killed 1.7 million Cambodians, died under house arrest at age 72, well done indeed! And the reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people, and we’re sort of fine with that. “Ah, help yourself,” you know? “We’ve been trying to kill you for ages!” So kill your own people, right on there. Seems to be… Hitler killed people next door… “Oh… stupid man!” After a couple of years, we won’t stand for that, will we?”

If you ever run short on ideas, maybe Caustic Soda should do an actual show about caustic soda— good old sodium hydroxide (NaOH), otherwise known as lye. I’ve worked around plenty of it, and it is nasty stuff. It’s heavily used in industry as a solvent, and has the sometimes handy talent of being able to dissolve flesh.

From Wikipedia: “This process involved placing a carcass into a sealed chamber, then adding a mixture of sodium hydroxide and water (which breaks the chemical bonds that keep the flesh intact). This eventually turns the body into a coffee-like[11][12] liquid, and the only solid that remains are bone hulls, which could be crushed between one’s fingertips.[13] Sodium hydroxide is frequently used in the process of decomposing roadkill dumped in landfills by animal disposal contractors.”

I’ve gotten it on my skin many times, but only in small doses. It causes chemical burns. The first sign of it being on you is that the skin feels slick. Then, it turns red and starts to slough off. There isn’t any burning sensation. The reason for this is that the chemical burns away the nerve endings, so you don’t actually feel the damage being done.

Many people have been badly hurt using this common chemical. A co-worker of mine ended up in the hospital after getting a face full of hot water and caustic. He left the job with a medical disability as a result, permanently scarred. You can see pictures of the damage it does on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_soda#Food_preparation

I also a recall a scene later, while Dr. Haing Ngor is captured… a child comes by and rips of several plants that he had managed to grow outside his hut. Dr. Haing is very penitent in that “please don’t kill me” way to the child… but I don’t remember understanding what the complaint was. The growing of plants seems acceptable according to the agrarian party line you talked about. Did you guys catch the reason? (I think this might have been while famine was going on, as well.)

My favorite was easily the hall of infants.

I did a little write-up and photoset here:

http://motorcityblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/ongoing-accidental-mummies-of.html

One quick comment about polecats: the European polecat is far more closely related to the domestic ferret (to the point of possibly being the genesis of the modern domestic ferret), whereas the skunk has now been classified into it’s own family, after comparing the genetic evidence.