Caustic Soda

The Fujita Scale pop quiz, tornado myths, the most deadly tornadoes in history, notable twister survivors, and the astonishing first eye witness testimony from inside a tornado! Also pop culture. Images Links Fujita Scale Todd Alcott's "A Serious Man" writeup (Part 1 of 12) Music: Howard Keel "The Wind They Call Mariah". Movie Reviews TWISTER Toren: 4/10 Kevin: 7/10 Joe: 5/10 WIZARD OF OZ Toren: 7.75/10 Kevin: 7/10 Joe: 7/10 A SERIOUS MAN Toren: 7/10 Kevin: 5/10 Joe: 7/10

Katanas, claymores, rapiers, bat'leths and more! We look at man's once-favorite tool for killing each other, its history, science, and variations. Also swords used in home defense, swords in the news and pop culture. MUSIC: "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khatchaturian Images Links Sword-swallower sets world record Tokyo samurai women punish fat with sword workout Porn Star On The Run After Samurai Killing Alleged Porn-Star Killer Dies After Police Shoot And He Falls Off Cliff

That's no moon! Kereberos Productions' Martin Cirulis joins the Caustic Soda crew as we venture into the final frontier and fight things we find there! This week's intermission song is The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' "Frogstar". Images Links Air Force launches X-37B Space Plane Secret US spaceplane spotted by hobbyists Sword of the Stars Spaceship Size Comparison Chart Exploding H-Bombs in Space A quick example of how B5's Starfury fighter can rotate and keep moving in its original direction. MOVIE RATINGS STARSHIP TROOPERS Toren: 6/10 Kevin: 9/10 Joe: 7/10 WAR OF THE WORLDS 1953 Toren: 7/10 Kevin: 7/10 Joe: 7/10 WAR OF THE WORLDS 2005 Toren: 5/10 Kevin: 7/10 Joe: (hasn't seen) STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE Toren: 9/10 Kevin: 9/10 Joe: 9/10 SPACESHIP ZERO Toren: 10/10 Kevin: movie? Album: 10/10 Joe: 9/10

Dr. Rob Tarzwell joins us once again as we look at the the wrathful, jealous, angry, drunken (ok, we have no direct evidence of drunkeness) God of the Old Testament: Jehovah! Images Links Testament: Roleplaying in Biblical Era The Skeptic's Annotated Bible Videos

Join Kevin, Joe and Toren as we look at some of the grossest things we eat. Hakarl, casu marzu, kopi luwak, popcorn worker's lung, ambelopoulia, bird's nest soup, breatharianism, lysteriosis, monkey brains, sweaty cowboys, double down sandwiches, food eating competitions and McDonaldland are all discussed, WITH RELISH! MUSIC: "Blackstrap Molasses" by Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Jane Wyman, and Jimmy Durante. Update: We screwed up! The KFC Double-Down Sandwich has 1380 mg of SODIUM, not calories. It has a much more reasonable 540 calories for its original and 460 calories for its grilled version. Images Links Kopi Luwak Popcorn Worker's Lung Indian Yogi Claims to Have Had No Food or Water For 70 Years $27M settlement reached in Maple Leaf listeriosis suits Thisiswhyyourefat.com has been taken down! Read the juicy details! Recycled Cooking Oil Found to Be Latest Hazard in China

Recorded before the rest of the world went "holy crap look at that sinkhole in Guatamala!" here's the timely Sinkhole episode of Caustic Soda! We've also got a lot of follow-ups to previous episodes! Pay special attention to Joe "Huge Doctor Who Fan" Fulgham totally brain-fart about Doctor Who actors! Images Links Qattara Depression Great Blue Hole Dean's Blue Hole Sinkhole Leads to Underground Complex Mystery Oil industry sinkhole threatens to swallow city Family of four found dead in Quebec sinkhole Update links Door to Hell Videos And for the record, the Silurian Sea Devils first appeared during Jon "The Third Doctor" Pertwee's run in the episode "The Sea Devils". Yes, I knew this, yes I was out of it for some reason. - Joe.

They'll envenom your heart and hug you until you can't breathe. Join Toren, Joe and Kevin as they look at the creepiest of crawlies -- snakes! Links Man Hit On Head With Snake Jean Hare and lover Charles Darnell charged over python snake death of Shaiunna Hare Python stalks, eats family dog in front of kids Badass of the Week Naga Oglaf - Snakeskin (NSFW)

Join the Caustic Soda crew and special guest Chris Stewart as we kill (comedically) and get away with it! Serial Killers, murder-suicide, and the legal misconceptions around murder trials. Images Links Claus von Bülow Jack the Ripper Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, serial killer turned mob hitman Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer Clifford Olson, another Canadian serial killer Twinkie Defense Corpus delecti Murder Castle Leopold and Loeb

"Yar! Pirates!" Special Guest Chris Pramas of Green Ronin Publishing, creator of Freeport: City of Adventure and writer for Pirates of the Burning Sea, on keelhauling, the career of Black Bart, Captain Morgan's "ship bomb", and modern pirates in the Gulf of Aden who serve spaghetti dinners to their hostages. Music from Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Images Links Jolly Roger gallery Green Ronin Publishing Mutants and Masterminds -- Joe's favorite RPG! Pirates of the Burning Sea MV Maersk Alabama on Wikipedia Sid Meier's Pirates! on Steam -- only $9.99 and well worth it! Movie Ratings Yellowbeard Toren: 6/10 Kevin: 7/10 Joe: 7/10 Hero's Island Toren: 8/10 Captain Blood Toren: 8/10 Pirates of the Caribbean: CURSE of the Black Pearl Toren: 7/10 Kevin: 8/10 Joe: 8/10 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Toren: 6/10 Kevin: 6/10 Joe: 7/10 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Toren: 6/10 Kevin: Conscientious Objector Joe: 6/10 The Princess Bride: Toren: 9/10 Kevin

Warning: Consumption of this podcast may cause increased knowledge, laughing fits, and a mild queasiness. Our topic is poison! Poisonous frogs and mushrooms as well as famous victims of poisoning are featured and much much more! Cannibalism Update: Timothy, by "The Buoys" -- a song about cannibalism! Links Wikipedia's List of Fictional Toxins The Legacy of Agent Orange Movie Reviews Princess Bride Toren - 10/10 Joe - 10/10 Crank Kevin - 5.5/10 Poisoner's Handbook Kevin - 10/10 D.O.A. Kevin - 9/10

Join us at the table and chow down on a podcast full of tender, succulent information. Our main course today is "long pig", aka "human flesh"! How does it taste? Who are some of history's most infamous cannibals? Was there any cannibalism in World War II? You'll even hear about people volunteering to be cooked and eaten alive! This episode features "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals" by Raymond Scott. Links BBC Profile - Armin Meiwes MOVIE REVIEWS: Cannibal! The Musical Toren: 5/10 Joe: 6/10 Ravenous Joe: 7/10 Kevin: 7/10 Silence of the Lambs Toren: 8/10 Joe: 9/10 Kevin:9/10 Delicatessen Kevin:10/10 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Toren 7/10 Kevin:6/10 Joe: 5/10 Soylent Green: Toren: 4/10 Kevin: 5/10 Alive: Toren: 7/10 Kevin: 7/10 The Road Toren: 8/10 Kevin: 4/10

What's it like to be horribly killed by a volcanic eruption? What's a cryovolcano? How would you score on the volcano pop quiz? Find out in the hottest episode yet of Caustic Soda yet. Pompeii, Mt St Helens, Krakatoa - you got nothin' on us! Features "Too Darn Hot" by Cole Porter featuring Ann Miller. "You've gone too far this time, Joe, Toren & Kevin!" MOVIE REVIEWS: VOLCANO Kevin: 2/10 Joe: 3/10 DANTE'S PEAK Kevin: 4/10 JOE VS THE VOLCANO Kevin: 5/10 Joe: 7/10 Next episode: Cannibalism

Hard Science by Soft People! Kevin, Joe and Toren dare to probe the secrets of a black hole and emerge with their underpants on the outside of their clothes. Musical guests: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets perform "The Math Song." LINKS Spaceship Zero CD Spaceship Zero roleplaying game Death from the Skies! The Four Techniques of Horror Films by Toren Atkinson MOVIE REVIEWS The Black Hole Toren: 3/10 Joe: 4/10 Kevin: 5/10 Event Horizon Toren: 3/10 Joe: (never saw) Kevin: 7/10 Star Trek 2009 Toren: 8/10 Joe: 8/10 Kevin: 6/10

Dr Rob Tarzwell guests to tell us the intimate, unpleasant details of radiation. Get your iodine pills and your lead shields prepped for this extra-long episode of Caustic Soda! For our musical interlude, we honour the Fallout 3 video game by playing some classic Ink Spots "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano." Listening to the episode in full may get you your Nuclear Science merit badge. FOOTNOTES Blue kryptonite is harmful only to Super-Bizarro LINKS Personal radiation protection: http://www.radshield.com/ VIDEO Fallout 3 trailer (Toren's favourite video game OF ALL TIME, and it gets a 9.5/10 from Joe! A must-play!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZpR51XgW0 MOVIE RATINGS Strange Brew: Toren: 6.7/10 Joe: 7.5/10 Kevin: ??

Caustic Soda Episode 2: "Two Tickets to Parasite" AKA "Things That Make You Go EUGHHHH" - Joe, Kevin and Toren talk about liver flukes, ichneumon wasps, guinea worms, the life cycle of the facehugger and the chestburster, and of course Star Trek 2's ceti eel. Featuring "Burrow Your Way to my Heart" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets." Episode 1 Update: Here's the painting of "Watson and the shark" Here are the images from Episode 2: Parasites Here's our pinup, the Bedbug from Giantmicrobes.com and here are the rest of the images, currently in no particular order: And this episode's videos: Guinea worm (can't embed, sorry!) Links! Human Parasites on Wikipedia. "Burrow Your Way To My Heart" courtesy of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Full disclosure: It's Toren's band! Buy some shirts! Carl Zimmer's "The Loom" Blog - Update: He talks about looking for fossil evidence of the Cordyceps parasite!

Caustic Soda's first podcast is now online with their first episode: Shark Attack! Join your hosts Toren Atkinson, Kevin Leeson and Joe Fulgham as they look at the gruesome and fascinating world of sharks attacking! This episode's pinup, Andrea Lynch. Shark attack survivor! Show notes/links. Instructions for Reporting a Shark Attack to the International Shark Attack File! Great White Sharks attack seals (from "Planet Earth") Henri Bource, post-shark attack video. Megashark vs. Plane View the original and a high-quality PDF at Stephen Taubman's blog Jaws Toren: 7/10 Megashark VS Giant Octopus Toren: 2/10 Deep Blue Sea Toren: 3/10