Caustic Soda

Deadly toys discussed include Steven's Model Dockyard Locomotive, Slip 'n' Slide, lawn darts, Cabbage Patch Snack Time doll, the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab, Flubber, Silly String, Koba Kick, Hang Ten Mini-Hammock, Bucky Balls, Water Balz, Aquadots and more! Music: "The Toy Trumpet" by Raymond Scott CHARITY DE JOUR: British Toy & Hobby Association - http://www.btha.co.uk/ Established in 1944 to raise safety standards of practice in the toy industry, from safety in design to manufacturing of the products. Images Links Epic Toy Fail Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPnX-hx94OU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8efguf0XOs  

Sit! Lie down! Roll over! Now sacrifice your face for our safety! Good boy! In this episode of Caustic Soda, Joe, Kevin, and Toren fetch the weird and the gross about man's best friend: the domestic dog. We've got dog-on-human and human-on-dog weirdness for you, plus our favorite dogs in pop culture! Music: "Ill Barkio" by Spike Jonez Images Links Star Wars Inspired Museum Exhibition 'SANDSTORM' by Chris Woods Life Magazine images of Shavka and Brodyaga Judy (dog) Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZThr3POlQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxVvKb0fGAY

Live from VCON 37 in Surrey BC, the regular nerds talk about life in the post-apocalyptic wasteland with the help of Hugo Award-winning author and Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee Connie Willis and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author and astrophysicist Gregory Benford. Plus the lesser of two evils: Life after a nuclear armageddon or the biblical apocalypse? Music: "When the Saints Go Marching In" by Louis Armstrong Images Links ConnieWillis.net Bowl of Heaven by Gregory Benford Blackout by Connie Willis Apocalypse Now? A 2012 Survival Guide 20 Necessary Post-Apocalypse Skills Wasteland Weekend Tales from the Wasteland The Road -- John Hillcoats diary Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQ1rj9I8FI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWLE-1xpBtU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BUXkQ7puw4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOKO19BMPKk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oavwndvq-ZA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8aLKHShv9o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnCRj5-bC4

Sorry we're late. We had trouble getting this episode over the border! This week involves animals, drugs, and even drugs in animals! Kevin, Toren, and Joe are joined by the mysterious "Agent Smith" to take a look at the ups and downs -- let's face it mostly downs -- of smuggling! Music: "Caravan" by David Grisam Images  

Brigham Young University faculty member Stuart Parker helps us discern Mormon doctrine from folklore as we discuss Joseph Smith's assassination, the Mountain Meadows massacre, retroactive baptism, polygamy and racism in both the mainstream and splinter Mormon groups. Plus suggestions from the Quorum of Twelve on how to break your masturbation habit, and the Church of Latter Day Saints in film and TV. Music: "Tarred & Feathered" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6brMrFw0E Charity: http://www.mormonabuse.com/

Joe, Toren and Kevin are joined by Dr. Jenna to talk about not just the bubonic, but all things yersinia pestis-y: Bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plagues! We discuss the three "great" plagues of history as well as modern occurrences and outbreaks and even some pestilence-laden movies. Music: "Please God No" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Charity: Doctors without Borders

Follow ups, listener mail and updates on spina bifida, screech, cannibalism, running amok, cyclopea, parasitic barnacles, snake venom party drug, mesoamerican shrunken heads, drunk driving decapitation, Wesley Warren Jr's scrotal lymphodema, plus more! Music: "Spina Bifida" by Toren Atkinson (after The Beatles) Images Links http://absencecomic.com/ Charity World Wildlife Federation - Sharks Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada

Panji, door, spike, tiger, and whip traps, military applications and those more... "personal". From Vietnam to Hollywood to video games, Kevin, Toren, and Joe take a caustic look at booby traps! Plus: booby traps in the recent news! Music: "Execute Operation: Get the Hell Out of Here" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Links Vietnam War Booby Traps Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrzMGdYWZc

Mortsafes, Chinese Corpse Brides, and stealing corpses for profit -- Kevin, Toren, and Joe look at the creepy world of the body snatcher! Music: "All Of Me" by Frank Sinatra Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jxpZ8A8kE

Dr Rob returns to explain post-partum psychosis, Capgras delusion, Fregoli delusion, alien hand syndrome, wendigo psychosis, koro syndrome, Paris syndrome, reduplicative paramnesia, Alice in Wonderland syndrome, plus loads of pop culture. Music: "I'm Losing My Mind Over You" by Al Dexter Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwMsXL_YUEo   Charity Canadian Mental Health Association

Toren, Joe and Kevin discuss Leopard Boy, "Baby Hospital", Peter The Wild Boy, the Wild Child of Champagne, Tarzan and more children raised by animals -- or raised as animals by people we're declaring worse than animals. Music: "Ain't A Fit Night Out For Man Nor Beast" by Noble Sissle and His Orchestra Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntwSGBWCRIw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcozzl9wAOI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o

Our first entry in the "Evil Dames in History" series has the hosts separating mact from fyth on the supposed "blood countess" Elizabeth Bathory. Includes star kicking and other tortures she inflicted on her servants, plus her trial, death and legacy!

Mister Doctor Greg Bole - B.Sc. (Biology) and Ph.D. (Evolution and Ecology) - joins us to talk about sibling rivalry in the animal kingdom, which of course includes that most savage and destructive animal - homo sapiens. Includes siblicide, porbeagle ovophagy, adelphophagi, polyembryoni in parasitoid wasps, and the Dassler brothers, Karla Homolka & the Han sisters. All this plus news & pop culture including the Game of Thrones analysis you didn't ask for. Music: "Anything You Can Do" by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqgPjZ07Ts  

Robin Thompson is back for part two of our look at zomb...b... braaains... braaaaaaainsssss....

How do zombies and science connect? Very tenuously. "Zombie Jesus" creator and zombie connoisseur Robin Thompson is our fourth man this week. We discuss zombie-creating recipes, alleged Haitian zombie cases, zombiewalks, Cotard's syndrome, nanobot zombies, rage virus, brain-modifying parasites and more. Plus, would a zombie plague succeed in becoming an apocalypse, and what would be your favourite weapon? PART ONE OF TWO!

Chris "Stewie" Stewart joins us for brain tapeworms, murder by testicle crushing, cannibal cook cultists and more in our latest grab-bag "Followup" episode! Plus: Which is the lesser of two evils - having your testicles crushed over a parking space, or brain tapeworms?

The Cold War part two of two, with guest Allan Newell, includes: the nuclear arms race; Project: Ice Worm, LSD & the CIA; bungled Fidel Castro assassination attempts. Plus news and pop culture including Dr Strangelove, Manchurian Candidate, Thirteen Days, Our Man in Havana, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! and Red Dawn.

Allan Newell joins us to talk about as many caustic facets of the cold war that we could fit into a 2 hour mini-series. In part one we talk about the origin and players, then get into Igor Gouzenko and the space race, including top-secret projects to nuke the moon!

Live from the Roundhouse Community Centre and the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, Toren, Joe, and Kevin are joined by Cinema Sewer's Robin Bougie to talk about censorship. Book burnings, the Seven Dirty Words, the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Elvis' pelvis, and more! Music: "Shaving Cream" by Benny Bell Images Links Cinema Sewer Tubgirl (NSFW, NSFL) Hays Code Charities of the Week: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (USA) Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund (Canada) Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLSgqH2BOeg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXMzEdXpvPw Notes MPAA Film Board members are supposed to have children between the ages of 5 and 17. We had a segment about an Oxford Library burning, but on further research we believe that to have been an error so it was edited out. We'll try to find more information if we can.

For our "music" episode, Canadian comedy legend Sean Cullen joins us to talk about music-inspired riots, castrati, music as torture, Norwegian black metal and backmasking. Plus movies, TV, and Lesser of Two Evils: would you rather be a castrato or have soot wart? Music: "Cacheevo" by Sean Cullen Images Links The Station Nightclub Fire Gitmo Boombox Music seancullen.com Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RNw7sFUGc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpQfCcsqQ0E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUDG3Ze8w_0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-S3uoeTXg