Lisa Gemino joins the Caustic Soda crew to talk about "punchy kicky stuff". The one-inch punch, MMA, Houdini, Tinku, Krav-Maga, Panantukan, "buttons" and more!

Music: "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" by Dean Martin

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Tactical Fighting

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Movies

Fight Club

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 10/10

Kevin: 10/10

Grosse Pointe Blank

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 8/10

Kevin: 9/10

Girl Fight

Kevin: 6/10

Raging Bull

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 10/10

Kevin: 10/10

Snatch

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 9/10

Kevin: 7/10

Spider-Man

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

Kevin: 9/10

Lethal Weapon

Toren: 5/10

Joe: 7/10

Kevin: 8/10

Enter the Dragon

Joe: 7/10

Kevin: 8/10

Above the Law

Joe: 5/10

Kevin: 5/10

Hard to Kill

Joe: 5/10

Kevin: 7/10

Marked for Death

Joe: 5/10

Kevin: 7/10

Bourne Identity

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 9/10

Kevin: 9/10

Drunken Master

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

Blood Sport

Joe: 6/10

Kevin: 6/10

Sagawa the cannibal, Bruno the bear, a slavery-based syphilis cure, Hitler's death, and LSD cults and SQUIIIIDSSS INNNNNNN SPAAAAAAAAACE! It's an entire episode full of caustic updates with special guest Johnstone Metzger!

Music: Papa's In Bed With His Britches On by Cab Calloway.

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Bleek and the MetaFriends

Go-Rilla in Mid-Afternoon of the Living Dead

America's most well-known serial killer-rapist-necrophile is Caustic Soda's next Evil Man In History. Kevin, Toren, and Joe discuss Ted Bundy, the "sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after."

Music: "Protein" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Snottites, star jelly, caca de luna, hagfish slime, marine mucilage, sneeze modellers, snail slime cream, and all things slimy!

Our iRiff of "The Blob" is getting some last-minute polish. We'll have it up soon!

Music: "The Thing" by Phil Harris

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Hagfish and the Disgusting Slime - The funniest videos clips are here

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Ghostbusters

Toren: 10/10

Kevin: 8/10

Joe: 10/10

Ghostbusters 2

Toren: 7/10

Kevin: 5/10

Joe: 6/10

The Blob (1958)

Toren: 4/10

Kevin: 2/10

Joe: 4/10

The Blob (1988)

Toren: 3/10

Caustic Soda puts the fun in funeral! Guest Arinn Dembo joins us to talk neanderthal cave burials, cremains, martyriums, slave sacrifice, wife-burning, The Great Death Pit, viking ship burials, Tibetan sky burial, corpse demons, the soothing rite of fire and much more!

Music: "My Grandfather's Clock" - Sons of the Pioneers

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Six Feet Under Finale (SPOILERS!)

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Tibetan Sky Burial

Movies

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

Toren: 9/10

Joe: 9/10

Kevin: 8/10

Harold and Maude

Toren: 8/10

Kevin: 8/10

Get Low

Toren: 8/10

Kevin: 7/10

Four Weddings and A Funeral

Joe: 7/10

Kevin: 7/10

Toren, Joe, and Kevin are joined by Kerberos Productions' Martin Cirulis to talk about landships,or "tanks". We'll hear about Britain's attempts to hide this new weapon from their enemy while simultaneously naming it, the best and worst tanks of World War II, and some of the weirdest, biggest, and coolest tanks ever designed.

Sorry for the lateness folks, technical difficulties!

Music: "My Tank" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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My Tank is Fight! book by Zack Parsons

Movies

Tank Girl

Kevin: 5/10

Joe: 6/10

Toren: 2/10

Tank

Toren: 5/10

A-Team

Kevin: 7/10

Toren: 5/10

Joe: 5/10

Kelly's Heroes

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 8/10

The Beast

Kevin: 8/10

Best Defense

Kevin: 1/10

Joe, Toren, and Kevin are joined by Rebecca Dart to talk about cults! We talk about Brother XII, who claimed to be the Egyptian god Osiris, Shoko Asahara and his sarin gas using cult "Aum Shinrikyo", The Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate and more weird groups of True Believers.

Music: Cultists on Board by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Also: We've added another free ringtone to the Downloads page -- from last week's Leprosy episode it's our reaction to hearing about rats eating a leper's fingers. Eeeeeuuuuuuwwwwww!

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Movie Reviews

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom

Toren: 6/10

Kevin: 5/10

Joe: 6/10

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Toren: 8/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

Videodrome

Kevin: 6/10

Ghostbusters

Toren: 10/10

Kevin: 8/10

Joe: 10/10

Young Sherlock Holmes

Toren: 5/10

Kevin: 6/10

Joe: 5/10

Microbiologist Jenna Capyk joins Joe, Toren, and Kevin to talk about Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy. What the heck is it? Does it cause your body parts to fall off? Are there any other animals that can get leprosy? What have we done in the past to keep lepers separate from society? All these questions and more are answered in this episode of Caustic Soda!

News update: Since recording a study strongly suggests that leprosy can transfer from armadillos to humans.

"Our research provides clear DNA evidence that the unique strain found in armadillos is the same as the one in certain humans," said Stewart Cole, of the Global Health Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Music: "Gimme Some Skin" The Andrews Sisters

Movies:

Ben Hur

Kevin: 10/10

Princess Mononoke

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 8/10

The Fog (John Carpenter)

Toren: 5/10

Kingdom of Heaven

Toren: 4/10

Joe: 4/10

Kevin: 5/10

Braveheart

Joe: 9/10

Kevin: 9/10

Today Toren, Joe, and Kevin take a look at the most famous serial killer in history: London, England's very own Jack the Ripper.

Music: Guy Lombardo "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

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Videos

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On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (tour)

Movie Reviews

From Hell

Toren: 6/10

Kevin: 4/10

Joe: 4/10

Amazon Women on the Moon

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

Time After Time

Toren: 4/10

Joe: 6/10

The science and history of the biggest and baddest man-eating, death-rolling crocodiles and alligators. Plus how to survive a crocodile attack and "Lesser of Two Evils:" would you rather be attacked by a crocodile or have an iron bar shot through your head?

Music: Fats Waller "Alligator Crawl"

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Fisherman's 'inseperable relationship' with crocodile.

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