Our Human Sacrifice episode features vikings, Aztecs, Incans, Olmec sacrifical bogs, the Peruvian temple of doom, the Decapitator god, Egyptian & viking burial rites, Mound 72, the torso in the Thames, General Butt Naked, human sacrifice in the Bible plus other items to turn your stomach!

Music: “The Chosen One” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Movies

Wicker Man (2006)

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom

Apocalypto

The Mummy

Heavy Metal

Dragonslayer

Conan The Destroyer

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Clash of the Titans (2010)

King Kong (1933)

King Kong (1976)

King Kong (2005)

Joe VS The Volcano

This week Caustic Soda returns to “Evil Men In History” with a discussion of Maximilien Robespierre, source of the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror”!

Music: “Unstoppable” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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Horsetrack Hooligans’ Jordan Pratt joins us to talk about P.O.W. Camps from the Civil War to Guantanamo Bay.

MUSIC: Roy Rogers “Don’t Fence Me In”

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Movies

Victory

Empire of the Sun

Deerhunter

Rescue Dawn

Stalag 17

Bridge on the River Kwai

First hand, second hand and third hand smoke, tobacco enemas and medicinal use of smoke, plus all the usual detrimental health effects of tobacco, not the least of which is giant exploding cigarettes in Thailand.

Music: “Smoke, Smoke, Smoke” Tex Williams

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Videos

Destroyed in Seconds – Exploding Cigarette

Links

Movies

Thank You For Smoking

Smoke

The Insider

X-Files

Toren, Kevin, and Joe once again welcome Chris Woods for a look at submarines, from the early days of the man-powered Turtle to the nuclear powered Nautilus. German wolf-packs, blue-on-blue engagement, emergency blows, and — we kid you not — submarine-launched bombers carrying medieval biological warfare!

Music: “Beyond the Sea” by Bobby Darin

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Fraser Cain of Universe Today and Astronomy Cast joins Toren, Joe and Kevin to talk about meteors, comets and asteroids including the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, the Tunguska blast, the Chicxulub impact event and the Dawn Mission to not one but two asteroids. Also news, films, pop culture, and some German kid who may or may not have been hit by a meteorite.

Music: “Caravan” by Gordon Jenkins

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Links

Videos

Movies

Armageddon

Empire Strikes Back

Deep Impact

Creepshow

Day of the Triffids (1962)

Meteor Man

The Blob

Night of the Comet:

Tuberculosis! It’s not just for lungs any more! Almost Dr. Jenna Capyk joins Joe, Toren, and Kevin to talk about the disease infecting one-third of the world’s population. Learn why those infected with TB were once thought to be vampires, why the hunchback of Notre Dame may have had TB, and more!

Music: You Leave Me Breathless by Mildred Baily

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Shock talk with special guest Derek Mack. We discuss the different kinds of burns and bodily harm caused by electricity, the war of the currents, macroshock vs microshock, electric eels, plus the usual news & pop culture. Note: “Lightning” and “Electric Chair” will be covered in subsequent episodes.

Music: “I’m Beginning to See the Light” by The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald

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Videos

Movies

The Running Man

Shocker

Frankenstein

Ernest Goes to Jail

Scurrying, skittering, and scampering into your ears, it’s the Caustic Soda rats episode! Toren, Joe, and Kevin look at the brown rat and black rat. Infanticide, rat-based murder and torture, and the “Ratamari Damacy” gruesomeness of “Rat Kings”, and rat-baiting!

Music: “Muskrat Ramble” by Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby.

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Videos

Movies

Willard (Remake)

Ratatouille

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Princess Bride

The Secret of NIMH

The Sweet Hereafter

Politically motivated murders! Hashshashin, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, the failed assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, the assassination that started World War I and more!

Music: “When That Man is Dead and Gone” by Glenn Miller

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Movies

Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Taxi Driver

Dead Zone

The Baker

Bourne Identity

The Terminator

Mars Attacks!

In The Line Of Fire

Valkyrie

Inglourious Basterds

Milk

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Manchurian Candidate (2004)