Don't panic, get under a nearby load-bearing doorway and cover your head -- it's time for earthquakes on Caustic Soda!

Music: Theme to an Earthquake by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

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"Earthquake"

Toren: 4/10

"Superman"

Toren: 6/10

Kevin: 7/10

"Escape from LA"

Kevin: 3/10

Pack up your MREs, grab your weapon and kiss your best girl or boy goodbye -- Caustic Soda is heading to war! Special guest Jordan Pratt joins us from the Speedway Squad podcast and The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets to add some knowledge and to handsome up Caustic Soda a few notches.

Music: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" - Kay Kyser & his orchestra

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Internet Movie Firearm Database

Pride of Baghdad

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MOVIE REVIEWS

JARHEAD

Jordan: 9/10

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 5/10

Kevin: 5/10

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Jordan: 10/10

Toren: 10/10

Joe: 10/10

Kevin: 10/10

HURT LOCKER

Jordan: 9/10

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

Kevin: 8/10

MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)

Jordan: 6/10

Toren: 7/10

Kevin: 7/10

THREE KINGS

Jordan: 4/10

Toren: 6/10

Joe: 8/10

COURAGE UNDER FIRE

Jordan: 6/10

Kevin: 5/10

Get your filthy ears on us you damn dirty listeners! It's time for Caustic Soda's APES episode!

Song: Abba Dabba Dabba Honeymoon by Hoagy Carmichael

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What do you do if you're the only doctor on a Soviet Antarctic expedition and your appendix starts acting up? If you're not a wuss, you operate on yourself like Leonid Rogozov! If you're a Caustic Soda host, you cry in a corner until it explodes and you die painfully.

This episode you'll hear about a great many people of great will and their amazing self-surgeries!

Song: Dem Dry Bones by the Delta Rhythm Boys

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Movie Reviews

DIE HARD

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 8/10

Kevin: 8/10

THE TERMINATOR

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 8/10

Kevin: 8/10

PI

Toren: 8/10

Joe: Can't remember well enough to rate

Kevin: 6/10

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 4/10

Kevin: 9/10

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Toren: 9/10

Joe: 7/10

Kevin: 9/10

MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD

Toren: 8/10

Joe: 9/10

Kevin: 8/10

PAN'S LABYRINTH

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 8/10

Kevin: 9/10

PUNISHER (Thomas Jane)

Kevin: 7/10

Caustic Soda's talking about killing sprees and we're not gonna stop! It's a killing spree spree! Today you'll hear about the 'yellow son of a bitch' who inspired Natural Born Killers, grenades in China, the oddly dressed rich idiot who killed 35 people, a guy who killed 21 people with an ax and more wonderful, uplifting, life-affirming stories!

Music: I'll be glad (When you're dead) - Louis Prima

Movie Reviews

Natural Born Killers

Toren: 6/10

Kevin: 4/10

Joe: 5/10

The Fisher King

Toren: 7/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 9/10

The Frighteners

Toren: 6/10

Kevin: 6/10

Joe: 6/10

Boondock Saints

Kevin: 6/10

Joe: 5/10

American Psycho

Kevin: 10/10

Joe: 7/10

"I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on... hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her. Marooned for all eternity, in the center of a dead planet... buried alive. Buried alive." - Khan Noonien Singh

As "buried alive" goes, James Kirk had it pretty good - lots of space, food, and oxygen. Today on Caustic Soda we'll take a look at the far more gruesome examples of being... (whispers over the communicator) buried alive.

Music: "Diggin' Up the World" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets off their album "Great Old Ones" (c) 2010

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Movies

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Toren: 10/10

Kevin:10/10

Joe: 10/10

Kill Bill 2

Toren: 5/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

The Prestige

Toren: 7/10

Kevin: 8/10

Joe: 7/10

Casino

Toren: 8/10

Kevin: 8/10

Blood Simple

Toren: 8/10

Kevin:8/10

The Mummy

Toren: 4/10

Kevin: 6/10

Joe: 6/10

Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Vincent Price, Barbara Steele

Toren: 6/10

Cephalopods! Today the Caustic Soda crew takes a look at octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and all their tentacular, ink-spewing, camouflaging glory!

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Legging it: Evasive octopus who has been allowed to look for love

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MOVIE REVIEWS

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

Toren: 5/10

Kevin: 7/10

IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA

Toren: 5/10

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST

Toren: 6/10

Kevin: 5/10

Joe: 6/10

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END

Toren: 7/10

Joe: 5/10

CALAMARI WRESTLER

Toren: 7/10

CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)

Toren: 4/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 6/10 (probably nostalgia, it's been AGES)

CLASH OF THE TITANS (2010)

Kevin: 6/10

Caustic Soda's going down in flames with our latest episode - Air Disasters! Special guest Lucas Black joins us all the way from the UK via the magic of the Interwebs (and Skype and our engineer Mike). We look at some of the world's worst aviation disasters, from the Hindenberg to 9/11 to the horrible Sknyliv airshow disaster in Ukraine.

We had a few technical difficulties while recording this episode so please excuse the glitches and odd sounds you may hear, as well as some fairly obvious edits.

Music: "Flying Trapeze 1943" sung by Virginia O'Brien

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Tenerife airport disaster

AirDisaster.com has a photo gallery, video section and an accident Database going back to 1950

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Warning: This one gets GRUESOME with graphic depictions of the aftermath.

MOVIE REVIEWS:

Top Gun:

Lucas: 8/10 (the cockpit to cockpit USA/USSR bit is the "Superman mini balloons" that ruins it for me...)

Kevin: 8/10

Airplane:

Toren: 8/10

Lucas: 10/10 - Purely for the memories of laughing at it with my dad so much we couldn't breath. And the boobs.

Kevin: 7/10

Donnie Darko:

Toren: 9/10

Lucas: 9/10 Great bit of twisting

Kevin: 9/10

No Highway in the Sky:

Lucas: 10/10 - Proper film from when they made proper films, what ho chaps!

Superman Returns:

Toren: 7/10

Lucas: 5/10 I want to suspend belief... I really do...

Kevin: 6/10

The Aviator:

Kevin: 7/10

Lucas: 8/10 even though it has Leo in it.

Today on Caustic Soda your hosts Kevin, Joe, and Toren are joined once again by Dr. Rob. We discuss the gruesome, horrible "treatments" from the past and present. Lobotomies, electro-convulsive therapy, beatings and trepanning -- there's a long history of disgusting, painful and dangerous methods and we cover them all!

This episode's musical interlude is "Mairzy Doats" performed by Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers

Links

BC Eugenics

Drapetomania

Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Madhouse"

Bedlam - 1946 Life Magazine

The Snake Pit on IMDB

Movie Reviews

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Toren: 8/10

Kevin: 10/10

Joe: 9/10

A Beautiful Mind

Toren: 7/10

Kevin: 8/10

Joe: 9/10

The Snake Pit (1948)

imdb: 7.8/10

The Fujita Scale pop quiz, tornado myths, the most deadly tornadoes in history, notable twister survivors, and the astonishing first eye witness testimony from inside a tornado! Also pop culture.

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Fujita Scale

Todd Alcott's "A Serious Man" writeup (Part 1 of 12)

Music: Howard Keel "The Wind They Call Mariah".

Movie Reviews

TWISTER

Toren: 4/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 5/10

WIZARD OF OZ

Toren: 7.75/10

Kevin: 7/10

Joe: 7/10

A SERIOUS MAN

Toren: 7/10

Kevin: 5/10

Joe: 7/10