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Cannibalism May 03, 2010

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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

Volcano! Apr 26, 2010

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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

Black Holes Apr 19, 2010

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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

Radiation! Apr 12, 2010

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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: ??

Two Tickets to Parasites Apr 05, 2010

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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 Episode 1 – Shark Attack Mar 29, 2010

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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

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