Caustic Soda

Burns

Joe — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:00:16 +0000

The secret world of burns is investigated with the help of veteran firefighter Allan Newell. How does one distinguish the four degrees of burns? What’s the ‘rule of nines?’ How did burning at the stake work? Also news and pop culture. Plus: Which is the lesser of two evils? Having 50% of your body burned in a car fire or getting mercury poisoning?

Music: “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” by The Ink Spots

Charity of the week: Burn Camps: http://www.canadianburnfoundation.org/donate.php

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GQ – Burning Man

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True Bugs

Joe — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:37:13 +0000

Forensic entomologiest Gavin Pitts joins the hosts to talk about the hemiptera order of insects, more commonly known as ‘true bugs.’ Assassin bugs, chagas disease, bat bugs and water bugs that take down reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals are all on topic! Plus: The Lesser of Two Evils – would you rather spend a few years in an Uzbekistan bug pit or trying to farm out a living under the Khmer Rouge?

Music: ”I’m Just a Jitterbug” by Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald

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Tsunami

Joe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:39:11 +0000

This episode Joe, Kevin, and Toren look at the giant waves known as tsunami. You’ll hear about the biggest and deadliest waves known to man, incredible stories of survival during one of nature’s deadliest disasters, and tsunami vs. kittens!

Music: ”Tidal Wave” by Fletcher Henderson

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The Passionate Eye – Tsunami Caught On Camera - only available for 45 days after last airing, sorry. If there’s another airing this will work again so I’m keeping the link up.
Hideaki Akaiwa – Badass of the Week
XKCD on “Tidal Wave” (we recorded before this went up, but agree with him!)

Videos

Hereafter Tsunami scene (can’t embed)

Demons

Joe — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:57:39 +0000

Succubi, oni, pishacha – call them what you will. Whether they’re scapegoats for serial killers or epilepsy, demons have been a part of human culture for aeons. The boys talk history, news and pop culture, plus as a special bonus: practical tips on how to summon a demon!

Music: ”Kamakilas” by S. Satoh (from Son of Godzilla)

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Movies
Night of the Demon
Toren: 5/10

The Keep
Toren: 5/10

Hellraiser
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 7/10

The Evil Dead
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 7/10

Evil Dead 2
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 9/10
Joe: 8/10

Army of Darkness
Toren: 9/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 9/10

Drag Me To Hell
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10

Pol Pot

Joe — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:11:12 +0000

Continuing the Evil Men in History series, Kevin, Toren, and Joe look at Cambodian Communist leader Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

Music: ”Call Me Irresponsible”

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Pol Pot (can’t embed, sorry)

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Cholera

Joe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:36:22 +0000

This episode’s got it coming out of both ends! Toren, Kevin, Joe are joined by Almost Dr. Jenna to talk about cholera. Death by vomit and diarrhea, cholera cots, mummies, and how procrastination led to the world’s first artificial vaccine!

Music: ”Shoggoths Away” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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UN Haiti Cholera Outbreak Report

Film Fatale

Joe — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:16:21 +0000

Comedy Film Nerd Graham Elwood joins Kevin, Joe, and Toren to talk about the perils of making moving pictures – film tragedies! The Crow, The Ten Commandments, The Twilight Zone and more horrible, horrible occurrences just so we could be entertained for 90 minutes.

Music: ”Hooray for Hollywood” by Johnny Mercer

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Movies

Wizard of Oz
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 6/10
Kevin: 7/10

The Crow
Toren: 5/10
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10

Troy
Joe: 5/10
Kevin: 8/10

Twilight Zone: The Movie
Joe: 6/10
Kevin: 5/10

Kidnapping

Joe — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:43:03 +0000

Express kidnappings, the “millionaire tour,” the Lindbergh baby, the Cudahy kidnapping, Chowchilla school bus incident, and more. Plus news, pop culture, how to survive a kidnapping and “The Lesser of Two Evils.” Don’t forget to pick up a copy of “Acts of Violence” at http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/support

Music: “5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days” by Louis Prima

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Movies
Proof of Life
Toren: 8/10

Taken
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10

Man on Fire
Kevin: 8/10

Suicide Kings
Kevin: 4/10
Joe: 5/10

Quackery

Joe — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:53:44 +0000

Step right up, Soda Jerks! What the boys at Caustic Soda have for you today is going to REinvigorate, REvitalize, REVULGARIZE you with their astounding look at the world of QUACKERY! It’s a homeopathic, detoxifying, quantum colloidal-silver potion that cures what ails ya! Ingredients include Joe, Kevin, Toren and special guest Doctor Rob!

Music: Snake Oil by Vaughn DeLeath

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Wolf Attack!

Joe — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:50:20 +0000

Death by wolf! Toren, Joe and Kevin discuss the many wolf attacks throughout history, the “sex lock”, and the mighty Dire wolf!

Music: “The Wolf Wobble” by Joe Venuti

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Elfquest

Movies

300
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 8/10

Frozen
Toren:
4/10

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 8/10

Rasputin

Joe — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:25:36 +0000

Continuing the “Evil Men In History” series Joe, Kevin, and Toren check out Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. Just how evil was this Russian that was so hard to kill it took stabbing, poisoning, shooting, drowning and then burning to make him completely stop moving? The answer may surprise y… oh who knows, really? But we’ll take our best barely-educated guesses!

Music: “Unstoppable” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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Doomed Expeditions – Part 2

Joe — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:55:39 +0000

Toren, Joe, and Kevin are back with guest Jessica Pink for the second half of the podcast of DOOOOOOM!

Music: “Funeral March” by Frederic Chopin

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DOOM-O-METER RATINGS (out of 10)

The Karluk Disaster
Toren: 5
Kevin: 2
Joe: 3
Jess: 5

Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Toren: 3
Kevin: 3
Joe: 3
Jess: 5

MOVIES

Blair Witch Project
Toren: 8
Kevin: 10
Joe: 7
Jess: 7

Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Toren: 7
Kevin: 4
Joe: 5

The Fountain
Kevin: 4

The Abyss
Toren: 7
Kevin: 7
Joe: 8
Jess: 6

Into the Wild
Kevin: 8
Jess:9

Sphere
Jess:7

Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Toren: 8
Kevin: 7
Joe: 8
Jess:8

Doomed Expeditions Part 1

Joe — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:23:40 +0000

Jessica Pink joins us to talk about our top seven doomed expeditions, in which we find out why you shouldn’t name your ship “Terror,” how not to treat helpful aborigines, how many captains it takes to spoil the expedition, how many pounds of rock samples are worth the lives of five scientists, how to make a polar tuxedo, and whether or not you should test your balloon steering system before you leave for the arctic. All this and pop culture too. Part 1 of 2.

Music: “Operation: Get the Hell Out of Here” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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DOOM-O-METER RATINGS

Franklin Expedition:
Toren: 10
Kevin: 10
Joe: 10
Jess: 9

Burke & Wills Australian Expedition
Toren: 7.5
Kevin: 6
Joe: 7
Jess: 7

Polaris Expedition
Toren: 4
Kevin: 3.5
Joe: 4
Jess: 7

Arctic Balloon Expedition
Toren: 8
Kevin: 6
Joe: 6
Jess: 8

Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition
Toren: 6
Kevin: 9.5
Joe: 6
Jess: 9

Brainwashing and Mind Control

Joe — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:54:58 +0000

Join Kevin, Joe, and Toren with guest Dr. Rob Tarzwell as they discuss MK Ultra, Psychic Driving, LSD, and High Energy Electroconvulsive Therapy!

Music: “The Innsmouth Look” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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Bad Cop, Bad Cop

Joe — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:04:55 +0000

In our “Bad Cop, Bad Cop” episode, we look at some of the most corrupt, venal, and downright outrageous abuses of police power past and present, as well as the best of the worst cop movies and TV shows.

Music: ”Jangled Nerves” by Fletcher Henderson

Movie Reviews

Serpico
Kevin: 7/10

Copland
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 6/10

First Blood
Joe: 6/10
Kevin: 8/10

Mississippi Burning
Joe: 8/10
Kevin: 9/10

Bad Lieutenant
Joe: 8/10
Kevin: 5/10

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call
Joe: 6/10

Thin Blue Line
Kevin: 7/10

Maniac Cop
Joe: 3/10
Kevin: 2/10

Training Day
Kevin: 6/10

Leon (The Professional)
Joe: 9/10
Kevin: 9/10

Cancer

Joe — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:49:10 +0000

Cancer! Dr. Rob returns as our expert for the big ‘C’. We discuss how jabbing radioactive beads in your prostate works, how mustard gas led to chemotherapy, “soot wart,” and common cancer myths. All this plus “Lesser of Two Evils” and a special appearance by Marielle Kho!

SPECIAL NOTE TO OUR FANS:

Say “fuck you!” to cancer the Caustic Soda way!

Hey soda jerks, you probably knew that you can go to the website of the Canadian Cancer Society and make a donation. But did you also know that If you want to be extra suck-uppy, you can select “Caustic Soda Podcast” under the Tribute Gift Information Field, or that there is also a “Where would you like to designate your donation?” field where you can select any of the cancers we talked about including Hodgkins research? Think about it!

Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/causticcancer

There. Now you can never say we’re a bunch of heartless bastards.

Music: “After You’re Gone” by Quintette Du Hot Club De France

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Movies

Green Mile
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10
Kevin: 7/10

50/50
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10

Halloween

Joe — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:59:54 +0000

Costumes, the confusing origins of Halloween customs, Devil’s night, old-fashioned candy vs. chocolate bars, candy-poisoning urban legends and of course Halloween movies and television specials!

Music: Ogdru Jahad by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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Axes of Evil

Joe — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:41:41 +0000

A brief history of axes and notable murders, news items, movies, comics and “The Lesser of Two Evils”

Music: “Butcher Pete” by Roy Brown

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So I Married an Axe Murderer
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 9/10

Two Towers
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 9/10

Return of the King
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 9/10 (they all blur together)

The Shining
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10

American Psycho
Joe: 7/10

Help Us, Soda Jerks!

Joe — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:54:08 +0000

Go vote at http://www.podcastawards.com/ – we’re in both the “Education” and “Best Produced” podcasts.

You can vote once/day until the awards are finished!

Flies ‘n’ Maggots

Joe — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:32:50 +0000

Caustic Soda is a labor of larva! Get to know the bot, tsetse, tumbu, bat and coffin fly, not to mention screw worm, sheep ked and ant decapitator. Also – what is myiasis? All this plus flies and maggots in pop culture, current events AND “Lesser of Two Evils”! Guest: Gavin Pitts

Music: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – Burl Ives

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Movies
The Fly (1958)
Kevin: 5/10
Gavin: 6/10

The Fly (1986)
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 8/10
Gavin: 10/10
Joe: 7/10

The Fly II
Gavin: 7/10

Return of the Fly
Gavin: 5/10

Dystopias (Recorded Live at VCON)

Joe — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:31:57 +0000

Special guests science fiction legend Larry Niven and Buffy/Angel/Firefly editor Lisa Lassek join Kevin, Joe, and Toren at Vancouver’s VCON! We cover the dysfunctional tech society of Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”, the system-spanning Alliance of Firefly, the comic book supervillain heaven of “Wanted” and more!

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The Feeling of Power, by Isaac Asimov

Bacteria

Joe — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:52:07 +0000

E-Coli, Salmonella, gut bacteria social networks (no, really!) and lots more infectious awesomeness! Jenna Capyk joins Kevin, Joe, and Toren for a podcast so chock full of prokaryotes it’s our longest yet!

Music: “Colour Me Green” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

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Followups 5

Joe — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:21:28 +0000

It’s Fünf for the whole Familie! More shark, crocodile AND bear attacks, self surgery, decapitations, Chinese internet addiction boot camps, art made of pee and poo, armadillo leprosy. All this plus witch’s nipples!

Music: “The Preacher and the Bear” – Phil Harris

Links: Museum of Bad Art

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VCON 2011 and The Podcast Awards

Joe — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:52:53 +0000

Wow! Larry Niven to guest on Caustic Soda!

Wow! Please nominate us for the Podcast Awards. For strategy’s sake, nominate Caustic Soda in the “Education” and “Best Produced” categories. And hey – thanks!

VOTE HERE – http://www.podcastawards.com/

Sexually Transmitted Infections Part 1: Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and HPV

Joe — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:32:24 +0000

Caution, cyprianophobes! Katie Scoular doles out the facts on three of the most common STIs: the slang, the history, and the science. Plus news, pop culture and “The Lesser of Two Evils.”

Music: ”Once In Love With Amy” by Ray Bolger

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Death Talks About Life

Scorpions

Joe — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:24:56 +0000

What you don’t know about scorpions can kill you! The biggest, the oldest, the deadliest, plus scorpions in biological warfare!

Music: Raymond Scott “Twilight in Turkey”

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Movies
Scorpion King
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 3/10
Joe: 4/10

Transformers
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 5/10

Mortal Kombat
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 5/10

Clash of the Titans 1981
Toren: 4/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 5/10

Clash of the Titans 2010

Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 5/10

The Black Scorpion
Toren: 3/10

Small Arms

Joe — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:01:07 +0000

Mike T. joins Joe, Toren, and Kevin to talk about small arms — firearms carried by an individual soldier. From the “grenade on a stick” beginnings of the fire lance all the way to caseless ammunition, Caustic Soda covers the history and science of these small arms, and even manages to talk about some of their favorite depictions of firearms in pop culture.

Music: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” by the Andrews Sisters

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Human Sacrifice

Joe — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:41:16 +0000

Our Human Sacrifice episode features vikings, Aztecs, Incans, Olmec sacrifical bogs, the Peruvian temple of doom, the Decapitator god, Egyptian & viking burial rites, Mound 72, the torso in the Thames, General Butt Naked, human sacrifice in the Bible plus other items to turn your stomach!

Music: “The Chosen One” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Movies

Wicker Man (2006)
Joe: 2/10

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
Kevin: 5/10
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 6/10

Apocalypto
Joe: 6/10

The Mummy
Kevin: 6/10
Toren 4/10
Joe: 6/10

Heavy Metal
Kevin: 5/10
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 5/10

Dragonslayer
Toren 7.5/10
Joe: 7/10

Conan The Destroyer
Kevin: 4/10
Toren 3/10

Clash of the Titans (1981)
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 4/10
Joe: 5/10

Clash of the Titans (2010)
Kevin: 5/10
Toren: 5/10

King Kong (1933)
Kevin: 6/10
Toren: 8/10

King Kong (1976)
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 5/10

King Kong (2005)
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 6/10

Joe VS The Volcano
Kevin: 5/10
Joe: 6/10

Robespierre

Joe — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:51:30 +0000

This week Caustic Soda returns to “Evil Men In History” with a discussion of Maximilien Robespierre, source of the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror”!

Music: “Unstoppable” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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P.O.W. Camps

Joe — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:48:18 +0000

Horsetrack Hooligans’ Jordan Pratt joins us to talk about P.O.W. Camps from the Civil War to Guantanamo Bay.

MUSIC: Roy Rogers “Don’t Fence Me In”

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Movies
The Great Escape
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 6/10
Jordan: 7/10
Toren: 7/10

Victory
Jordan: 4/10

Empire of the Sun
Kevin: 8/10
Jordan: 8/10
Joe: 7/10

Deerhunter
Kevin: 9/10
Jordan: 9/10
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 7/10

Rescue Dawn
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 6/10

Stalag 17
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 8/10

Bridge on the River Kwai
Kevin: 7/10
Jordan: 8/10
Toren: 8/10

Tobacco

Joe — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:15:13 +0000

First hand, second hand and third hand smoke, tobacco enemas and medicinal use of smoke, plus all the usual detrimental health effects of tobacco, not the least of which is giant exploding cigarettes in Thailand.

Music: “Smoke, Smoke, Smoke” Tex Williams

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Videos

Destroyed in Seconds – Exploding Cigarette

Links

Chris Woods’ Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms

Movies

Thank You For Smoking
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 8/10

Smoke
Kevin: 7/10

The Insider
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 7/10

X-Files
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 6/10

Submarines

Joe — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:09:39 +0000

Toren, Kevin, and Joe once again welcome Chris Woods for a look at submarines, from the early days of the man-powered Turtle to the nuclear powered Nautilus. German wolf-packs, blue-on-blue engagement, emergency blows, and — we kid you not — submarine-launched bombers carrying medieval biological warfare!

Music: “Beyond the Sea” by Bobby Darin

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Near Earth Objects

Joe — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:16:29 +0000

Fraser Cain of Universe Today and Astronomy Cast joins Toren, Joe and Kevin to talk about meteors, comets and asteroids including the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, the Tunguska blast, the Chicxulub impact event and the Dawn Mission to not one but two asteroids. Also news, films, pop culture, and some German kid who may or may not have been hit by a meteorite.

Music: ”Caravan” by Gordon Jenkins

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Videos

Movies

Armageddon
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 2/10
Joe: 5/10
Fraser: 2/10

Empire Strikes Back
Toren: 10/10
Kevin: 9/10
Joe: 9/10
Fraser: 9/10

Deep Impact
Kevin: 4/10

Creepshow
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 5/10
Fraser: 5/10

Day of the Triffids (1962)
Toren: 6/10
Fraser: 5/10

Meteor Man
Toren: 3/10

The Blob
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 2/10
Joe: 4/10
Fraser: 4/10

Night of the Comet:
Toren: 5/10
Joe: 6/10

Tuberculosis

Joe — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:46:44 +0000

Tuberculosis! It’s not just for lungs any more! Almost Dr. Jenna Capyk joins Joe, Toren, and Kevin to talk about the disease infecting one-third of the world’s population. Learn why those infected with TB were once thought to be vampires, why the hunchback of Notre Dame may have had TB, and more!

Music: You Leave Me Breathless by Mildred Baily

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That’s Science! - Almost Dr. Jenna’s blog!
List of tuberculosis victims

Electricity

Joe — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:42:41 +0000

Shock talk with special guest Derek Mack. We discuss the different kinds of burns and bodily harm caused by electricity, the war of the currents, macroshock vs microshock, electric eels, plus the usual news & pop culture. Note: “Lightning” and “Electric Chair” will be covered in subsequent episodes.

Music: ”I’m Beginning to See the Light” by The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald

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Movies
The Prestige
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 7/10

The Running Man
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 5/10

Shocker
Kevin: 3/10

Frankenstein
Kevin: 1/10

Ernest Goes to Jail
Kevin: 6/10

Rats

Joe — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:02:04 +0000

Scurrying, skittering, and scampering into your ears, it’s the Caustic Soda rats episode! Toren, Joe, and Kevin look at the brown rat and black rat. Infanticide, rat-based murder and torture, and the “Ratamari Damacy” gruesomeness of ”Rat Kings”, and rat-baiting!

Music: “Muskrat Ramble” by Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby.

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Movies

Willard (Remake)
Toren: 5/10

Ratatouille
Joe: 8/10
Toren: 8/10

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 7/10

The Princess Bride
Joe: 10/10
Kevin: 9/10
Toren: 10/10

The Secret of NIMH
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 7/10

The Sweet Hereafter
Kevin: 10/10
Toren: 7/10

Assassinations

Joe — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:42:52 +0000

Politically motivated murders! Hashshashin, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, the failed assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, the assassination that started World War I and more!

Music: “When That Man is Dead and Gone” by Glenn Miller

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Links

JFK Reloaded – Review and Download.

Movies

Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10

Taxi Driver
Kevin: 9/10
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 9/10

Dead Zone
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 7/10

The Baker
Toren: 7/10

Bourne Identity
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10

The Terminator
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 9/10

Mars Attacks!
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 6/10

In The Line Of Fire
Kevin: 7/10

Valkyrie
Kevin: 5/10

Inglourious Basterds
Kevin: 9/10
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 10/10

Milk
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 6/10

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 6/10

Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 7/10

Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Toren: 7/10

Fisticuffs

Joe — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:41:57 +0000

Lisa Gemino joins the Caustic Soda crew to talk about “punchy kicky stuff”. The one-inch punch, MMA, Houdini, Tinku, Krav-Maga, Panantukan, “buttons” and more!

Music: “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head” by Dean Martin

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Tactical Fighting

Videos

Movies

Fight Club
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 10/10
Kevin: 10/10

Grosse Pointe Blank
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10
Kevin: 9/10

Girl Fight
Kevin: 6/10

Raging Bull
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 10/10
Kevin: 10/10

Snatch
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 9/10
Kevin: 7/10

Spider-Man
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 9/10

Lethal Weapon
Toren: 5/10
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10

Enter the Dragon
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10

Above the Law
Joe: 5/10
Kevin: 5/10

Hard to Kill
Joe: 5/10
Kevin: 7/10

Marked for Death
Joe: 5/10
Kevin: 7/10

Bourne Identity
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 9/10
Kevin: 9/10

Drunken Master
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10

Blood Sport
Joe: 6/10
Kevin: 6/10

Followups IV

Joe — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:31:24 +0000

Sagawa the cannibal, Bruno the bear, a slavery-based syphilis cure, Hitler’s death, and LSD cults and SQUIIIIDSSS INNNNNNN SPAAAAAAAAACE! It’s an entire episode full of caustic updates with special guest Johnstone Metzger!

Music: Papa’s In Bed With His Britches On by Cab Calloway.

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Ted Bundy

Joe — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:40:25 +0000

America’s most well-known serial killer-rapist-necrophile is Caustic Soda’s next Evil Man In History. Kevin, Toren, and Joe discuss Ted Bundy, the “sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human’s pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after.”

Music: “Protein” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Slime

Joe — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:55:26 +0000

Snottites, star jelly, caca de luna, hagfish slime, marine mucilage, sneeze modellers, snail slime cream, and all things slimy!

Our iRiff of “The Blob” is getting some last-minute polish. We’ll have it up soon!

Music: “The Thing” by Phil Harris

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Videos

Hagfish and the Disgusting Slime – The funniest videos clips are here

Movies

Ghostbusters
Toren: 10/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 10/10

Ghostbusters 2
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 5/10
Joe: 6/10

The Blob (1958)
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 2/10
Joe: 4/10

The Blob (1988)
Toren: 3/10

Funerals

Joe — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:12:28 +0000

Caustic Soda puts the fun in funeral! Guest Arinn Dembo joins us to talk neanderthal cave burials, cremains, martyriums, slave sacrifice, wife-burning, The Great Death Pit, viking ship burials, Tibetan sky burial, corpse demons, the soothing rite of fire and much more!

Music: “My Grandfather’s Clock” – Sons of the Pioneers

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Six Feet Under Finale (SPOILERS!)

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Tibetan Sky Burial

Movies

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Toren: 9/10
Joe: 9/10
Kevin: 8/10

Harold and Maude
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 8/10

Get Low
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 7/10

Four Weddings and A Funeral
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10

Tanks A Lot!

Joe — Tue, 17 May 2011 03:35:32 +0000

Toren, Joe, and Kevin are joined by Kerberos Productions‘ Martin Cirulis to talk about landships,or “tanks”. We’ll hear about Britain’s attempts to hide this new weapon from their enemy while simultaneously naming it, the best and worst tanks of World War II, and some of the weirdest, biggest, and coolest tanks ever designed.

Sorry for the lateness folks, technical difficulties!

Music: “My Tank” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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My Tank is Fight! book by Zack Parsons

Movies
Tank Girl
Kevin: 5/10
Joe: 6/10
Toren: 2/10

Tank
Toren: 5/10

A-Team
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 5/10
Joe: 5/10

Kelly’s Heroes
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 8/10

The Beast
Kevin: 8/10

Best Defense
Kevin: 1/10

Cults

Joe — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:24:34 +0000

Joe, Toren, and Kevin are joined by Rebecca Dart to talk about cults! We talk about Brother XII, who claimed to be the Egyptian god Osiris, Shoko Asahara and his sarin gas using cult “Aum Shinrikyo”, The Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven’s Gate and more weird groups of True Believers.

Music: Cultists on Board by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Also: We’ve added another free ringtone to the Downloads page — from last week’s Leprosy episode it’s our reaction to hearing about rats eating a leper’s fingers. Eeeeeuuuuuuwwwwww!

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Movie Reviews

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 5/10
Joe: 6/10

Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 7/10

Videodrome
Kevin: 6/10

Ghostbusters
Toren: 10/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 10/10

Young Sherlock Holmes
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 5/10

Leprosy

Joe — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:56:15 +0000

Microbiologist Jenna Capyk joins Joe, Toren, and Kevin to talk about Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy. What the heck is it? Does it cause your body parts to fall off? Are there any other animals that can get leprosy? What have we done in the past to keep lepers separate from society? All these questions and more are answered in this episode of Caustic Soda!

News update: Since recording a study strongly suggests that leprosy can transfer from armadillos to humans.

“Our research provides clear DNA evidence that the unique strain found in armadillos is the same as the one in certain humans,” said Stewart Cole, of the Global Health Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Music: “Gimme Some Skin” The Andrews Sisters

Movies:

Ben Hur
Kevin: 10/10

Princess Mononoke
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10

The Fog (John Carpenter)
Toren: 5/10

Kingdom of Heaven
Toren: 4/10
Joe: 4/10
Kevin: 5/10

Braveheart
Joe: 9/10
Kevin: 9/10

Jack The Ripper

Joe — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:28:52 +0000

Today Toren, Joe, and Kevin take a look at the most famous serial killer in history: London, England’s very own Jack the Ripper.

Music: Guy Lombardo “Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (tour)

Movie Reviews

From Hell
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 4/10
Joe: 4/10

Amazon Women on the Moon
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10

Time After Time
Toren: 4/10
Joe: 6/10

Crocodilians

Joe — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:23:29 +0000

The science and history of the biggest and baddest man-eating, death-rolling crocodiles and alligators. Plus how to survive a crocodile attack and “Lesser of Two Evils.”

Music: Fats Waller “Alligator Crawl”

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Fisherman’s ‘inseperable relationship’ with crocodile.

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Mudslide

Joe — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:01:30 +0000

Watch out, mysophobes! History’s worst mudslides, the world’s largest mud volcano, and man-made lakes that failed epically, All this plus how to survive a mudslide plus “Lesser of Two Evils”

Music: “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” by The Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald

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Movies

Romancing the Stone
Toren: 4/10
Joe: 6/10
Kevin: 7/10

Hitler

Joe — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:49:23 +0000

How did Hitler rise to power? Why did he hate the jews? What was the Night of Long Knives? Did Hitler invent blow-up dolls, fart during staff meetings and try to bring back Paganism? Who was the British soldier that refused to kill Hitler when he had the chance? Did der fuhrer’s micro-managing lead to Germany losing the war? Where is Hitler’s brain? Our well-read expert Chris “Green Ronin” Pramas guests to answer these burning questions. Gotterdammerung!

Apologies for some minor technological glitches on Skype.

MUSIC: “Der Alte Cowboy (The Last Round Up)” The Comedian Harmonists
(Note, read more about this fascinating German harmony ensemble and their fate when the Nazis rose to power on Wikipedia )

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Punching Hitler: view on myspace

Movies

Downfall (Der Untergang)
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 8/10

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 8/10
Kevin: 7/10

Inglourious Basterds
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 9/10
Kevin: 9/10

Triumph of the Will
Kevin: 7/10

The Producers (1968)
Toren: 8/10

Valkyrie
Kevin: 6/10

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Followups / Year One Poll

Joe — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:39:41 +0000

Has it really been a year already? Kevin, Joe and Toren are joined by Australia’s Steve Parker for a look back at our first year of podcasting. We’ll see what your favorite episodes were, as well as the grossest, and hardest to get through and funniest bits as well as followups for Iraq War through Seven Deadly Sins.

Music: Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton

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Links

Southern Stand
Documenting Reality Guillotine Video (Warning: UGH)
Necronomicox
Captain Australia

Alcohol

Joe — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:06:07 +0000

Dr. Rob Tarzwell guests. Dipsomania, alcohol poisoning, drunken war elephants, weird and disgusting potables from around the world, sherry enemas PLUS the Caustic Soda drinking game!

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Movies
Arthur
Joe: 6/10

Leaving Las Vegas
Kevin: 9/10

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 5/10

Iron Man
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 9/10
Joe: 8/10

Strange Brew
Toren: 6/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 8/10

The Lost weekend
Toren: 8/10

Days of Wine and Roses
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10

Hoaxes

Joe — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:56:08 +0000

NOT A HOAX! Guest host Chris “Kerberos Productions” Stewart reveals the truth about Operation: Mincemeat and other WWII magic, Piltdown Man, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Cottingley Fairies, The Cardiff Giant, The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast, Marie Toft’s Bunny Babies and more.

Music: “Whatchamacallit” by Esquivel

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Links

Space Robot Bonanza on SomethingAwful

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Movies
Signs
Toren: 3/10
Joe: 3/10

War of the Worlds 1953
Toren: 8/10

War of the Worlds 2005
Toren: 5/10

2012
Toren: 3/10

Blizzard

Joe — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:43:44 +0000

The worst blizzards in history including The Storm of the Century, The Cleveland Superbomb, the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, and The Great Die Up, Also, how to survive a blizzard plus some Iron Man villain.

Music: Leroy Anderson “Mah-Na Mah-Na”

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Chicago Blizzard Time Lapse.

Movies
The Day After Tomorrow
Toren: 5/10
Joe: 3/10

Whiteout
Toren: 5/10

John Carpenter’s The Thing
Toren: 9/10
Kevin: 8/10

The Thing From Another World:
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10

The Shining
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10
Kevin: 10/10

Dinosaurs

Joe — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:22:45 +0000

What were the biggest, baddest and weirdest dinosaurs? Did killer algae take them out? What’s the deal with brontosaurus? Was T-Rex a cannibal? Who fought in the ‘bone wars?’ What kind of car does Predator X eat? Answers to these questions may or may not appear in the “Dinosaur” episode of Caustic Soda. Plus early paleontological blunders!

Music: “Downtown (in the Cenozoic)” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (Yes, the Cenozoic marked the end of the dinosaurs. Deal with it.)

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Land of the Lost
Toren: 6/10

Jurassic Park
Toren: 7/10
Joe: 7/10
Kevin: 9/10

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 5/10
Kevin: 6/10

Jurassic Park III
Toren: 4/10

Valley of Gwangi
Toren: 5/10

One Million Years BC
Toren: 3/10
Joe: 4/10
Kevin: 2/10

Killer Robots

Joe — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:50:53 +0000

Caustic Soda, robot fighters! We pit our powerful podcasting techniques against robotic threats like the biomass consuming EATR, firearm-wielding TALON and SWORDS, the frighteningly named Multiple Kill Vehicle and iRobot’s “Warrior” model. Also: Robots hitting people FOR SCIENCE, quadrocopters, The Terminator, Cylons, replicants, Westworld and many more robotic threats!

Music: Big Robot Dinosaur by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

This episode sponsored by Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy!

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Slavery

Joe — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:40:20 +0000

Slavery is alive and well in today’s world, and the CS crew pulls no punches. Slaves regaining their freedom in Aztec society, British slaves on the Barbary Coast, Somaly Mam’s escape from Cambodia, forced child labour on African cocoa farms, and of course a look at the Atlantic slave trade & slave ships. Also, a quick timeline of emancipation throughout the world.

Music: “Slave Ship” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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Links

http://www.afesip.org/
https://www.somaly.org/donate/make-a-donation
http://transfair.ca/ – logo to look for on the chocolate and coffee you buy

MOVIES

Amistad
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 5/10
Joe: 8/10

Taken
Kevin: 7/10

Traffic
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 7/10

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 4/10

Spartacus
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 7/10

Ben Hur
Kevin: 10/10

Born into Brothels
Kevin: 7/10

Blood

Joe — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:15:10 +0000

Guest Dr. Rob Tarzwell talks bloodletting, transfusions gone wrong, toxic shock, hemophilia, ebola, polycythemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders. Also, frozen heads made of blood and the Zero G Period!

Music: “Heartaches” Ted Weems

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Movies
Carrie
Kevin: 7/10
Toren: 7/10

Blade
Kevin: 8/10
Toren: 6/10
Joe: 7/10

The Shining
Kevin: 10/10
Toren: 8/10
Joe: 8/10

The Abominable Dr Phibes
Kevin: 1/10
Toren: 4/10

Followups II

Joe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:17:57 +0000

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ guitarist Warren BANKS! joins the crew to do another round of follow-ups and listener mail, including: Japanese cannibal checks himself out of mental institution; parasitological museum (a hot date spot); poisoning at a Chinese funeral; exploding hydrogen bombs in the Van Allen belt; an Aztec sword; the man with an iron bar in his head; using chickens to test airplane structural integrity; the Ika-Tako (squid/octopus) virus; honour killings in Turkey; gravedigging mishaps; gorilla pubic lice; and the Spaceship Zero roleplaying game!

Music: “Nobody Here But Us Chickens” by Louis Jordan

Be sure to fill out our Season One Poll and let us know what the best/grossest/funniest parts of Caustic Soda’s 2010 episodes were!

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Rainbow Bomb Party