Caustic Soda

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": would you rather be caught in a mudslide or have to eat a head made of frozen blood? Music: "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" by The Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald Images Videos Links Mud phobia pig gets its own boots FEMA: What to do BEFORE a mudslide FEMA: What to do DURING a mudslide FEMA: What to do AFTER a mudslide Movies Romancing the Stone Toren: 4/10 Joe: 6/10 Kevin: 7/10

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 ) Images Videos 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 V

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

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! Music: Images Videos 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

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 Images Links Space Robot Bonanza on SomethingAwful Videos 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

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" Images Videos 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

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.) Images Movies 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

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! Images Videos

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 Images Links http://www.afesip.org/ http://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

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 Images Videos 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

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 Images Links Rainbow Bomb Party

The Caustic Soda crew talks about vagina dentata, cross-species mating attempts in the animal kingdom, Captain America with a burrito in his pants, the difference between men and womens' sex drives, how many viagra it takes to kill a Moscow man, and the African penis trap. Note: Toren mentioned an episode of The Stranger's Savage Love podcast in which they talked about monogamy & plunger penis. The guest on that episode (#210) was author of "Sex At Dawn", Christopher Ryan PhD. Here's a link: http://www.sexatdawn.com/page1/page45/page45.html Music: Louis Armstrong "I Get Ideas" Images Video Links Sex Drive: How Do Men and Women Compare Movies Who Framed Roger Rabbit Toren: 7/10 Joe: 8/10 Kevin: 7/10 Teeth Toren: 7/10 Bound Joe: 9/10 Kevin: 7/10 The Last Picture Show Kevin: 8/10 Show girls Joe: 2/10 Kevin: 1/10 The Accused Joe: 7/10 Lolita Toren: 7/10

Supreme artist of the omniverse Chris Woods joins the crew to talk about murderabilia, Honore Fragonard's flayed dancing babies, art as torture, Theodore Gericault's severed heads, huge turd catastrophes, and macabre artists like Goya, Fuselli, HR Giger and Beksinski. Plus - was Jack the Ripper established artist Walter Sickert?

Toren, Joe, and Kevin give a few shoutouts to the fans that entered our Body Worlds Book Contest and then make the draw to see who the lucky winner is! Congratulations to Will Anderson from Wyoming! Your Body Worlds book is on its way!

The science of schadenfreude! The Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom! Tonya Harding! Drug-induced fatal car accidents! All this plus exploding breast implants! In our 6th episode on the seven deadly sins, Caustic Soda looks at the green-eyed monster: Envy! Music: Fred Astaire "Putting on the Ritz" Images Videos Movie Reviews Se7en Toren: 8/10 Kevin: 8/10 Joe: 8/10 Blade Runner Toren: 8/10 Kevin: 9/10 Joe: 10/10

Author Don Debrandt gives his expert testimony on Crime Scene Investigation techniques such as body farms, anthropometry, dactyloscopy, entomology, and the ever-exciting forensic accounting division "Questionable Documents". Music: "It Must Be Swell to be Laying Out Dead" by Alex Bartha's Hotel Traymore Orchestra This podcast sponsored by ToyHutt.com. Images Videos Movies Silence of the Lambs Toren: 8/10 Joe: 9/10 Kevin: 8/10 Star Wars: A New Hope Toren: 9/10 Joe: 9/10 Kevin: 9/10 Catch Me If You Can Toren: 7/10 Joe: 7/10 Kevin: 8/10 Sherlock Holmes (2009) Joe: 6/10 Kevin: 7/10

In our fifth (and extra-explicit) installment of The Seven Deadly Sins, we discuss road rage (and "Carma"), catharsis, destructotherapy, "going postal," the true story of the Count of Monte Cristo, the Hulk, Christian Bale and other purveyors of WRATH! Music: "Uuugh!" by Xavier Cugat Images Videos American Psycho Links Cracked.com Road rage stories from you - our listeners: Chaz L I used to get horrilbe road rage years ago. I'd do the typical stuff like pull up beside a person, give em the bird while screaming obsensities and blasting my horn. I followed one guy home, smashed my car into his mailbox and sped off, but one day my speedometer broke. I couldn't see how so slow(or fast) I was driving, and all my anger vanished. By the time I got it fixed my road rage had vanished. Yay! Will A Not really a story, but a number of years ago, during the "freedom fries" era, I forced a dude off the road for having a "France sucks" sticker on his bumper. He wasn't hurt, or anything, but it still probab

Was the star of Bethlehem a supernova? What raunchy pagan festivals did Christianity co-opt for Jesus' birthday? How many butchered children did Saint Nick resurrect, and who was St Nick's demonic sidekick? Is Santa Claus just Odin One-Eye rebranded? Also, tragic reindeer death! Watch out deipnophobes - it's the Christmas episode of Caustic Soda! Music: John Kirby & His Orchestra "Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies" Images Videos Movies Bad Santa The Nightmare Before Christmas Toren: 9/10 Joe: 8/10 Kevin: 6/10 It's A Wonderful Life Toren: 7/10 Joe: 7/10 Kevin: 2/10 Scrooged Toren: 6/10 Joe: 8/10 Kevin: 5/10 Gremlins Toren: 6/10 Joe: 6/10 Kevin: 7/10 Die Hard Toren: 7/10 Joe: 9/10 Kevin: 9/10 Elf Toren: 7/10 Joe: 7/10 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey version) Joe: 6/10 Kevin: 8/10 The Santa Clause Kevin: 6/10

Caustic Soda is PROUD to present our newest installment on the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride. We discuss body dysmorphic disorder, comorbidity,cankles, foot binding, stiletto heels & Morton's neuroma, botched plastic surgery, liposuction death, and the Fonz vs The Situation. Music: "In an 18th Century Drawing Room" Raymond Scott This episode is brought to you by Jett's Toy Hutt! Images Lesser of Two Evils: Attacked by a Grizzly bear, or have "foot binding" performed on your feet? What would you decide and why? Movies Zoolander Toren:4/10 Joe: 7/10 Kevin: 5/10

Bears! Polar bears, grizzly bears, brown bears, black bears, panda bears and yes, we even talk about poohs! You'll hear about bears eating faces, butchering families, and guarding marijuana grow-ops. So they're not all bad. Music: "When yuba plays the rhumba on the tuba" - Spike Jones Images Videos Polar Bear Zoo Attack