Caustic Soda

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

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 Images

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" Images 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

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 Images 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

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 Images  

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 Images Links Astronomy Cast Universe Today Gerrit Blank's alleged meteorite injury Dawn Mission 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! 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 Images Links That's Science! - Almost Dr. Jenna's blog! List of tuberculosis victims

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 Images Videos 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

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. Images Videos 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

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 Images 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

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 Images Links 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

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. Links Bleek and the MetaFriends Go-Rilla in Mid-Afternoon of the Living Dead

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  

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 Images 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

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 Images Videos Six Feet Under Finale (SPOILERS!) Links 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

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 Images Links 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

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! Images Videos 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

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

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" Images Videos Links 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

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:" would you rather be attacked by a crocodile or have an iron bar shot through your head? Music: Fats Waller "Alligator Crawl" Images Links Fisherman's 'inseperable relationship' with crocodile. Videos