Acid Pop Podcast

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Acid Pop explores the fascinating and horrible aspects of history, science, and everyday life.

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Sunday Jan 26, 2020

The Eye

Sunday Jan 26, 2020

This week we blink in terror over the awful things that can happen to your peepers. Join us as we discuss eyes filled with contacts, hairy eye tumors, the unfortunate side effect of cat eyes, and several eye parasites.

Images we squirmed about:

19:40 https://images.emedicinehealth.com/images/slideshow/eye_diseases_and_cond_s8_uveitis.jpg

23:35 https://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/d3110487-be15-4fd3-8e78-7682c43f6113.png

25:57 https://www.livescience.com/25933-hairy-eyeball-rare-tumor.html

29:27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/548c8698e4b0d8f79a361776/1528240360104-TFD2JUHM9I1G1IGA3RQJ/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMfmDRYjq1DZOEzXkNqalv5Zw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZamWLI2zvYWH8K3-s_4yszcp2ryTI0HqTOaaUohrI8PIRIOrN9Lwzue3jE9EJrEKbcm05EfEhgk2e9tLgFnY20YKMshLAGzx4R3EDFOm1kBS/1387289668.jpg?format=300w

Links:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/eye

https://phobia.wikia.org/wiki/Ommetaphobia

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/563242/parts-of-the-eye-facts

https://www.light-for-the-world.org/causes-blindness

https://www.healthline.com/health/eye-herpes#recovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017226

https://whatdewhat.com/10-animals-two-eyes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

https://www.healthline.com/health/ophthalmoplegia#symptoms

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-man-michael-spann-cries-tears-of-blood-says-report/

https://theconversation.com/inside-the-colourful-world-of-animal-vision-30878

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/farthest-milk-squirting-distance

https://www.aop.org.uk/ot/science-and-vision/research/2017/07/14/uk-surgeon-finds-27-missing-contact-lenses-in-womans-eye

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor

https://www.livescience.com/25933-hairy-eyeball-rare-tumor.html

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/26/cat-eye-syndrome

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20180212/ick-us-woman-has-first-case-of-human-eye-worm#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelazia

https://www.emedicinehealth.com/image-gallery/blepharitis_picture/images.htm

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166410.php#complications

https://www.lighthouseguild.org/vision-health/biettis-crystalline-dystrophy/

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a19179723/kaylee-muthart-eye-gouge-crystal-meth/

Sunday Jan 19, 2020

Counterfeiting

Sunday Jan 19, 2020

This week's podcast is just as good as previous ones but half the cost! Join us as we discuss fake eggs, suing ones self for plagiarism, and how to destroy a government with counterfeit money.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/counterfeit

https://www.etymonline.com/word/forge

https://blog.redpoints.com/en/five-surprising-facts-about-the-global-counterfeiting-market

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/supreme-italia-legal-fake/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/art-forgeries-2011-6#actor-steve-martin-was-one-of-the-people-involved-in-a-49-million-art-scam-in-germany-7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard

https://mashable.com/2014/05/11/woman-counterfeit-printer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Malskat

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61714/astounding-counterfeit-nazi-invasion-map-youve-never-heard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves_dos_Reis

https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-paper-caper

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-fatal-consequences-of-counterfeit-drugs-139422027/

https://abcnews.go.com/International/counterfeit-prescription-pills-made-fentanyl-killing-americans-dea/story?id=66740190

https://www.themodernrogue.com/counterfeit_products

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roomykhan/2019/05/10/counterfeits-amazon-etsy-ebay-instagram-and-others-duping-consumers-and-damaging-innovation/#2cec85d16002

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/quick-facts/Quick_Facts_Counterfeiting_FY14.pdf

Sunday Jan 12, 2020

Getting High

Sunday Jan 12, 2020

This week things get groovy as we discuss all the strange ways people get high. Join us as we discuss toads, nutmeg, reindeer pee, and human feces.

Sources:

https://www.alternet.org/2013/03/10-craziest-ways-people-have-tried-get-high/

https://family-intervention.com/blog/17-unusual-drugs-people-use-to-get-high/

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/ss/slideshow-crazy-things-teens-use-to-get-high

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-deodorant-fatal-sniffing/death-of-a-teen-shows-dangers-of-sniffing-huffing-to-get-high-idUSKCN1NK37B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack

https://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/consequences/true-stories/david-manlove-16-inhalants

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=1&contentid=2617

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

https://www.dailygrail.com/2012/09/taking-the-pss-did-shamans-really-drink-reindeer-urine/

http://www.drugdiscoverytoday.com/view/14778/why-reindeer-love-magic-mushrooms/

https://www.healthline.com/health/high-on-nutmeg#warnings

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15563650500514590

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296282/I-dosing-How-teenagers-getting-digitally-high-music-download-internet.html

https://www.narconon.org/drug-abuse/prescription/motion-sickness-pills.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_toad

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/bath-salts

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/synthetic-cathinones-bath-salts

Sunday Jan 05, 2020

Mummies

Sunday Jan 05, 2020

This week we dig up some stories about jerkified humans. Join us as we discuss fire mummies, honey mummies, sec diorama mummies, mummy medicine, and mummy paint.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mummy

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/necro-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabayan_Mummies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mummy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_of_Guanajuato

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museo-de-las-momias-de-guanajuato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchorro_mummies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mummies-of-philippi

http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/blog/dr-thomas-joseph-pettigrew-a-k-a-mummy-pettigrew-a-short-biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopic_jar

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/18/these-red-haired-chinese-mummies-come-from-all-over-eurasia-dna-reveals/#33aaf4ce3e2c

Sunday Dec 29, 2019

Archaeology

Sunday Dec 29, 2019

Nothing like looking back at the past to make you feel better about the here and now. Join us as we discuss some pitfalls of archeology such as telling the Queen of England about your artifact before checking it thoroughly, making up languages to sound cool, and assuming everything is about sex.

Sources:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science/

https://www.livescience.com/61989-famed-archaeologist-created-fakes.html

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00224/mazur-getting-to-the-bottom-of-the-dorak-affair.htm

http://www.georgia-archaeology.org/EarlyGA/may2001/EarlyGeorgia_29_1_10.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runamo

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/written-rock-of-gelt-06984.html

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/dealing-past-how-did-ancient-egyptians-get-nicotine-and-cocaine-009223

https://steemit.com/science/@deeallen/self-portraits-of-fertility-symbols-venus-figurines-of-upper-paleolithic-eurasia-nudity

https://www.livescience.com/25510-terracotta-warriors.html

https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/11/11/the-mysterious-tomb-of-qin-shi-huang/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/europe/ireland-bog-butter/index.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-19-me-hoax19-story.html

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/03/francis-drakes-golden-plate-hoax-backfired/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-mummy-hoax-might-be-wrapped-up-in-a-modern-murder

Sunday Dec 22, 2019

Relics

Sunday Dec 22, 2019

This week we fix what needs fixing with the power of some dead guy's pinky. Join us as we discuss how to perform miracles, the popularity of severed body parts, and how easy it is to mistake animal bones for human ones.

Sources:

https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/galleries/10-strange-places-the-face-of-jesus-appeared.aspx

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/jmbwzg/the-weird-and-fraudulent-world-of-catholic-relics-456

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_holy_foreskin/

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_shroud_of_turin/

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_medieval_relic_trade/

http://www.forallthesaints.info/fakes.htm

https://www.livescience.com/19520-alleged-christian-relics-jesus.html

https://www.cracked.com/article_23314_the-5-most-unintentionally-disgusting-religious-artifacts.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/nov/18/st-peters-bones-christian-relics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic#Christianity

https://historycollection.co/religious-relics-never-found/2/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/how-many-foreskins-does-one-god-need

Sunday Dec 15, 2019

Food Poisoning

Sunday Dec 15, 2019

We're coming to you live from inside our bathrooms as we went a bit too deep researching this week's episode. Join us as we discuss edible missteps such as raw egg ice cream, moldy peanuts, and hallucinogenic bread.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/food

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=poison

https://www.fda.gov/food/recalls-outbreaks-emergencies/outbreaks-foodborne-illness

https://phobia.wikia.org/wiki/Cibophobia

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/23413/illin-villain-foods-most-likely-poison-you

https://www.cdc.gov/campylobacter/faq.html

https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/general/index.html

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/4/04-0739_article

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/diseases/staphylococcal.html

https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/index.html

https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-foodborne-illness-outbreaks#emlisteriaem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/21/442335132/peanut-exec-gets-28-years-in-prison-for-deadly-salmonella-outbreak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_outbreak

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2017/12/jack-in-the-box-e-coli-outbreak-25th-anniversary/

https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/28/justice/cantaloupe-listeria-deaths-sentencing/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/pdf/listeriosis-timeline102711.pdf

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/558020/pont-saint-esprit-france-1951-bread-poisoning-mass-hallucinations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/titanic-cast-crew-pcp-chowder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foodborne_illness_outbreaks_in_the_United_States

http://fsns.com/news/listeria-in-south-africa

Sunday Dec 08, 2019

Immortality

Sunday Dec 08, 2019

As your favorite podcast, we've decided to stick around forever. Just for you. Join us as we discuss some techniques that didn't work so well on the road to immortality such as drinking mercury, pumping bodies full of toxic chemicals before freezing them, and drinking the blood of children.

Sources:

https://www.seeker.com/seeking-immortality-so-have-others-1767387860.html

https://io9.gizmodo.com/7-ways-that-people-died-trying-to-become-immortal-1691947345

https://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/05/05/5-ancient-legends-secret-immortality/

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150622-can-anything-live-forever

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-many-rich-men-who-have-tried-to-live-forever

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/03/13/silicon-valley-trying-make-humans-immortal-and-finding-some-success-311402.html

https://www.inverse.com/article/29604-parabiosis-peter-thiel-blood

https://blog.ferrovial.com/en/2017/02/initiative-2045-or-the-moment-when-robots-will-overtake-humans/

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/search-immortality-killed-emperor-china-0010207

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-history-of-blood

https://www.cryonics.org/about-us/myths/

https://alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html

Sunday Dec 01, 2019

World Records

Sunday Dec 01, 2019

This week we enter the annuls of history as we explore what it means to be immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records. Join us as we discuss some of the dumbest and most dangerous records ever, uh, recorded as we learn (yet again) that it's always a bad idea to break your own record.

Sources:

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-deadliest-attempts-break-world-record.php

https://www.cracked.com/article_16893_8-guinness-world-record-attempts-that-failed-hilariously.html

https://www.therichest.com/the-biggest/fail-10-guinness-world-record-attempts-gone-wrong/

https://www.etymonline.com/word/world

https://www.etymonline.com/word/record#etymonline_v_7412

https://www.funkidslive.com/news/weirdest-world-records-in-new-guinness-world-records-book/

https://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-world-records-2015-5#this-piece-of-luggage-unveiled-at-the-100th-chinese-export-commodities-fair-in-guangzhou-china-in-2006-has-been-certified-as-the-worlds-largest-by-the-guinness-world-records-and-stands-nearly-six-feet-tall-16

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/the-application-process/reasons-applications-are-rejected.html

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-confirmed-person-to-survive-two-nuclear-attacks/

https://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-world-records-2015-5#a-group-of-1000-customers-receive-a-facial-massage-at-a-sports-center-in-jinan-china-may-4-2015-all-women-the-group-was-given-a-30-minutes-of-facial-beauty-treatment-together-that-achieved-a-guinness-record-for-the-largest-group-of-people-having-beauty-treatment-in-the-same-location-according-to-local-media-25