Ian Boothby, The Simpsons comics writer and co-host of Sneaky Dragon podcast, joins Kevin, Joe and Toren to talk about cyclopean albino sharks, crab parasites, octopus wrestling, prehistoric krakens, the Glore Psychiatric Museum, cement butt implants, ancient Roman lead poisoning, alkaline hydrolisis and other funerary awkwardness. All this plus how to stay in the eye of a tornado and… BADGERS!
Music: “Panic Patrol” by Kenny Graham
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Adopt an octopus!
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Toren! Joe! Kevin! Dr Rob! Dr Jenna! Stewie! It’s a Caustic Soda pageant of shame and horror both for your eyes and ears. Featuring a 6-way Lesser of Two Evils and Q&A. Plus we’ll have buttons and t-shirts. Admission by donation, only 30 seats!
6pm
733 Beatty St [map]
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Kevin, Joe, and Toren cover cocaine-laced products with papal approval, cocaine intake options, some personal insight on cocaine addiction from a friend of the show, plus cocaine-centric songs and movies! In case you hadn’t figured it out, this week’s topic is cocaine!
Music: ”Cocaine Blues” by Luke Jordan
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Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 6/10
Toren: 7/10
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.
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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
Charity de Jour: The Chagas Disease Foundation
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