Caustic Soda

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 Images Links UN Haiti Cholera Outbreak Report

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 Images Links Comedy Film Nerds Laffghanistan Videos 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

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" - would you rather be kidnapped for ransom or savaged by a pack of wolves? Music: "5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days" by Louis Prima Images Videos 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

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 Images Videos Links Quackwatch Museum of Quackery What's the Harm? Ear Candles Are Illegal

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 Images Links 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

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 Images  

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 Images 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

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 Images 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

Join Kevin, Joe, and Toren with guest Dr. Rob Tarzwell as they discuss MK Ultra, Psychic Driving, LSD, and High Energy Electroconvulsive Therapy! Plus Lesser of Two Evils: would you rather get ocular myiasis or lose your memory and identity from psychic driving? Music: "The Innsmouth Look" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Videos

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! 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" (would you rather have colon cancer or listen to your loved one being eaten by a bear?) 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"

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 Images Links (some cut from the show for time!) BeeDogs Zombie Pumpkins X-Entertainment

A brief history of axes and notable murders, news items, movies, comics and "The Lesser of Two Evils": murder by axe or murder by sword? Music: "Butcher Pete" by Roy Brown Images Movies 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

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 and current events. Guest: Gavin Pitts Music: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Burl Ives Images Video 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

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! Images Links The Feeling of Power, by Isaac Asimov

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. Images   Videos

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 Images Videos

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 Images Links Death Talks About Life

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" Images Videos 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

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 Images Videos Links Internet Movie Firearms Database Cracked.com Walton Creel - Deweaponizing the Gun