Caustic Soda

Kevin, Toren, and Joe continue their look at Joseph Stalin with WWII-era horribleness, news about the return of a Georgian monument to Stalin and pop culture with Children of the Revolution, Animal Farm, and more! Music: "Stalin Kicked the Bucket" by Ray Anderson Images Links Trotsky: A Graphic Biography Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaNnaMgbF0

This week in Evil Dudes in History it's Joseph Stalin: the "Man of Steel" responsible for even more deaths than in Zack Snyder's movie! We'll talk about his rise to power, daring thefts, murders, the "Road of Bones" and so much more horribleness that we had to save some for next week! Music: "Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High On The Hog" by Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith and his Crackerjacks Images  

Babies in cellophane, lead for kids, bad advertiser turned propagandist Edward Bernays, Tom Vu, the Marlboro Man, Joe Camel, Pizza Hut's moon advertising plan, and more! Sorry for the slight lateness of this one -- we had a pretty severe tech problem to recover from and so editing took quite a bit longer. Music: "Try Wheaties" (the world's first jingle!) by The Wheaties Quartet Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzsSpDyBc_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEep5BrexT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQc-zD7WrzA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0jjG9CbqA

Steven Schwartz returns to discuss all of the horrible things that happen on cruise ships, including fires, collisions, murders, sexual assaults (trigger warning!), suicides, medical malpractice, disease, and Mal de Debarquement Syndrome. All this plus pop culture too! Music: "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Helen Ward Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3279Ry6bN4k

Can you clone a mammoth and have it build a pyramid? Baz Edmeades of megafauna.com joins us to talk about prehistoric elephants, hell pigs, terror birds, giant ground sloths, marsupial lions, hippopotamus wombats, moas, sabretooth cats, stellar sea cows and more! Music: "Downtown (in the Cenozoic)" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Links Megafauna.com Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XfFtKGECjI

Rolling into flaming pits, roasting in bronze statues, or just leaving them exposed to the elements, there's a plethora of ways to kill infants. Joe, Toren, and Kevin look at infanticide across history and in the animal kingdom, as well as featuring in horrible recent news and mercifully less-horrible pop culture. Music: "Baby Face" by Buddy Clark & the Andrews Sisters Charity o' the Week: AMT Children of Hope Foundation Images  

From our live Space Disasters (in 3D!) event at at EXP Restaurant in Vancouver, B.C. where we were joined by Sneaky Dragon and One Minute Medical School! In this episode we'll discuss Kessler Syndrome, the cold depths of space, vacuum exposure, fluid redistribution, plus Soyuz 11, Vostok II, space debris, galactic cosmic radiation, space hazards in pop culture, and another live Lesser of Two Evils! Music: "20 Minutes of Oxygen" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Links Sneaky Dragon Episode 85 One Minute Medical School - Electrocution Live! Spaceship Zero Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rSI-rMPVJM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdesgp_xEVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8L9tKR4CY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8B6Vn7ixAk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSccwmmrS5A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6m6NM_Md0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vL3x6KaWsUM&t=386

Lisa Gemino joins us to talk judicial dueling, naked dueling, famous duelists like La Maupin and Lord Minimus, plus how dueling in a carriage and in balloons worked (or didn't work). Also Magic: The Gathering and duels in film! Music: "Feudin' Banjos" by Arthur Smith Images Links Trial by Combat Irish Code Drive To Work Podcast (also on iTunes) Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27M5KWI_q50

Adam Barlev joins Toren, Kevin, and Joe for a look at the caustic chemicals known as "acids". Hydrofluoric, Sulfuric, Muriatic, and more. Toren reveals the details of the Sausage-Vat Murders and the Acid-Bath Murderer. Plus acid attacks in the news, and Breaking Bad's grisly acid-related "bathtub" scene. Music: "It's Bad For Me" by Al Bowlly Charity of the Week: Acid Survivors Trust International Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kgNL1tYFvc

AstronomyCast's Fraser Cain joins Toren, Joe and Kevin to talk about The End of All Things -- the death of the entire Universe. Everything, everyone, even the very atoms themselves! The Big Crunch, The Big Chill, dark energy, and a whole lot more that confuses the heck out of Kevin. Plus: Doctor Who, Spaceship Zero, and what Marvel's all-time eating champion Galactus has to do with the end of the Universe. Music: "Theme from Spaceship Zero" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Links Astronomycast Universe Today Universe Today on YouTube Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9cBlvfjow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZiXC8Yh4T0

The science and main causes of mining disasters, and a closer look at specific mining accidents, including the 1913 Senghenhydd Pit Disaster, the 1966 Aberfan Disaster, the 1972 Honkeiko Colliery, the 1975 Chasnala Mine Disaster and the Springhill Mining Disasters. Also mining disasters in the news and pop culture. Music: "Whistle While You Work" by Comedian Harmonists Images Links Minecraft Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmB9b5njVbA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xFOf_n_lOc

Gavin Pitts is back with Joe, Kevin, and Toren to discuss wasps, from the world's smallest of the amoeba-sized Fairy Fly to the Asian Giant Hornet! Plus the difference between wasps, hornets, ants and bees, how the Green Fairy Wasp "drives" cockroaches around via their antennae, a pop quiz on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, several recent wasp-related deaths, and some terrible wasp-related movies. News: We're doing another live podcast at EXP Restaurant & Bar with special guests Sneaky Dragon and a live One Minute Medical School! Details at tickets available at Caustic Gear. Music: "I Got The Stinger" by Jabo Smith's Rhythm Aces Images Links Damn Interesting - Mind-Controlling Wasps and Zombie Spiders Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkDMrG6tog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aHOnyXIOI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtF-u4q7dI4

This chapter of Caustic Soda's "-icide guide" explores the psychological reasons as to why children kill their fathers. In history we discuss Beatrice Cenci, Richard Dadd, the Menendez Brothers, Chris Porco, and the Tochigi Case. Also, patricide in the news and in pop culture! Music: "Daddy's Little Boy" by The Mills Brothers Images Videos

Live from the EXP Restaurant and Bar in Vancouver, BC, it's The Caustic Soda Live EXPerience! Recorded May 12, 2013 in front of a packed-house, Joe, Toren, Kevin and follow-up aficionado Warren Banks cover a variety of stories, including squid spermatophores in disturbing places, a squid bomb, shitty radiation shielding for a trip to Mars, "blood facials", self-cannibalism, and a special Lesser of Two Evils featuring a face-off between a story from this show and one chosen from Soda Jerk suggestions by our live audience!

In the news: ninja festival and marijuana thieves. Pop culture includes: Snake Eyes, You Only Live Twice, Miami Connection, Shinobi No Mono, American Ninja, and of course Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Plus Nels Anderson gives us the scoop on Mark of the Ninja! Part 2 of 2. Music: "Mad Shinobi Skills" by Toren Atkinson Images Links Mark of the Ninja Natori.co.uk Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvTIztzDL8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZu69OB2KM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FvrTb-iJQY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f8nonuK0RA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMlu7ZleclI