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Mr. Dr. Greg Bole is back with Toren, Joe, and Kevin to discuss jelly fish and their amazing gelatinous friends! Immortal jellyfish, the intense pain of some jellyfish stings, and a live tasting of jellyfish! Music: "Whippin' That Jellyfish" by the State Street Swingers Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJne0uWgaK8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL-5LgbACgM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6ZTrj0wXA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isTBU3gxB0

The most dangerous game! Drag hunting, paintball, tons of pop culture, plus the true horrible story of Robert Hansen. Alsoplus: Which is the lesser of two evils, hunting down someone close to you, or hunting someone you've never met? Music: "Looking Around Corners For You" by Tommy Dorsey Images Links http://www.ophthobook.com/videos/exploding-eye-lecture-video http://www.jabfm.org/content/25/1/124.full.pdf  

The Grim Reaper, Ereshkigal, the pale rider... it's the fourth horseman (or woman, as you'll hear) in a series of four: DEATH! This episode Joe, Toren, and Kevin take on the anthropomorphic personification of death throughout history and popular culture. Music: "O Death" by Dock Boggs Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG2IFsz_n5c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uY0ofqJur8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg0kQHIMx9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjl54v1irbs

What is the cause of depression? Are incidents of depression increasing? Can you cure depression with a bullet? None of these questions will be answered to your satisfaction, but Dr. Rob will nonetheless help dispel much of the myths and misinformation about clinical depression that come out of the other hosts' mouths. All donations made through causticgear.com for the first week of this episode's release will go directly to the Canadian Mental Health Association. Music: "My Melancholy Baby" by Django Reinhardt Images Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOIAXrS1GOM

The personification (and deification) of War is the focus of our third "Horsemen" episode. Ares, Belatu-Cadros, Murugan, Morrigan, and of course the actual Red Rider himself, the Horseman of War! Music: "This Is Worth Fighting For" by The Ink Spots Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgqDTpi6OA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNx7POhBt3E

Bat expert Yvonne Morrin joins us to talk about those weird and scary-to-some nocturnal flying mammals. Rabies, bat fellatio, guano, bat bombs, histoplasmosis, white nose syndrome, and of course the sanguivorous vampire bat! Also: what to do if a bat attacks you. Music: "Flip Flop and Fly" Joe Turner Charity of the Week: Batworld (Located in Texas) Bat rescue, rehab and education, and build new flight cages to get bats exercising before return to wild). Also: www.dontshootbats.com Images Links Filming in the Dark in Bat Dung Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvXhAXRIfc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0asSZFMQVg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Va9ull44yw

"Famine" is part 2 in our Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series. We discuss the Russian Famine of 1601, The Irish Potato Famine, the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, and more. Plus: what does it feel like to starve to death? Double plus: the 'famine food' pop quiz. Triple plus: which is the lesser of two evils, being inflicted with famine or pestilence? Music: "Everybody Eats When They Come To My House" by Cab Calloway Images Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlbsKQs1RVc#t=566s

We tried to bind this episode in human flesh but the MP3 codec's lossiness kept causing it cancer. This episode, Toren, Joe, and Kevin talk about Dr. Spock's bibliographic death-toll, anti-Jewish hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the copycat-inspiring The Collector and many more caustic tomes. Music: "Epilogue: Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93id9Wn9Xok

In part one of our four part series on the Horsemen of the Apocalypse we discuss various gods of pestilence, plague amulets, pest houses, plague doctors, and of course news and pop culture. Music: "When the Saints Go Marching In" Fats Domino Charity O' the week: Doctors Without Borders Images

Violence expert Lisa Gemino returns to discuss shivs, French nails, Millwall bricks, donkey jawbones, thrown animals, petrol bombs and many other improvised weapons. Plus news and pop culture. Music: "Holiday Fun" by Richard Myhill Images Links The Art of the Shiv Like this Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuU60r7VT30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFE4ymvn1o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC1d7dw24Gg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0ScNLt2zNc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-XYPJ3_YAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLquz4Iz-30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELSGwz7xTmM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFnmq5PPScA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBwvIX7Sao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhvRQGq5g3s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iELKMNjZx9o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNqKrX1sx8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAvRbWQ_Izg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy43iZCPeLI

Allan Newell brings his firefighter expertise to discussions on notable car wrecks, risk compensation, the car industry's built-in-hazards, the Mont Blanc tunnel fire, El Camino de la Muerte, collection fuel from crashed tankers, and what to expect when rescue responders have to cut you out of your crumpled Volkswagen. Plus: car crashes in movies. Music: "Blame the Accident" by The Invasives. Used with permission. Visit www.invasives.ca 'n' The Invasives on Facebook Charity of the Week: MADD Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGPoaBVYMp8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3XBWDlCtns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ucKunaSSQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzfSLgWkTlY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_akwHYMdbsM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyoAf2xhkU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yaU8ySrK7Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiR_gZEGIE

Steven M. Schwartz is back for the second part of our caustic look at Journalism. "Shrieking harpy" Nancy Grace, terrorist victim Daniel Pearl, Janet Cook, sock-puppets, Network, Transmetropolitan and more! Music: "It Ain't Right" by Artie Shaw Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPY7b35vF4  

Honest-to-goodness journalist Steven M. Schwartz joins Kevin, Joe, and Toren to talk about the caustic side of news gathering. We discuss bad journalists (who spy on people and tamper with evidence) and when bad things happen to good journalists. We had so much stuff we had to split it into two episodes! Music: ”Dies ist Unverschamtheit” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Charity: Reporters Without BordersImages 

All things rhinoceros including poaching, attacks on people, woolly rhinos and Operation: Crash. Plus pop culture and the Lesser of Two Evils: being attacked by a rhino or by 99 cats? Music: “Action Stations” by David Lindup Charity: http://www.rhinos.org/ really needs our help ASAP! Images Links Historyonics Videos

We got requests for a more gross and offensive follow up episode, and we delivered. Pop culture artist Chris Woods joins us to talk about female genital mutilation in Swedish art, green Klu Klux Klan uniforms, Darth Vader four-ways, virgin boy eggs, pink slime, Russian space guns, and how faulty understanding of statistics led to a mother  drinking herself to death. Plus: which is The Lesser of Two Evils, swallowing a couple dozen magnets or being a nuclear diver? Music: ”All That Meat and No Potatoes” by Fats WallerCharity: V-Day ImagesLinkshttp://www.indiegogo.com/sandstormVideos