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Pour yourself something warm. Let it drizzle outside. This one's for the curious.
The Mark & Toddcast is your weekly escape from the algorithm, the outrage cycle, and whatever fresh hell is trending. Broadcasting from the rainy heart of Portland, Oregon, two friends have spent 11 years and over 300 episodes doing exactly what you wish you could do at your favorite dimly lit neighborhood pub: sitting down with a pint and wandering through whatever's genuinely interesting.
Consider us comfort food for your brain.
Instead, expect pure Pacific Northwest chill and unfiltered curiosity about topics like:
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Why we absolutely hate the sound of our own voices
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The secret origin of the biohazard symbol
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America’s classified, Cold War plan to nuke the moon
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (and why it was actually kind of BS)
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Portland’s very own infamous Barbie-hacking culture jammers
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The unsolved mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
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And yes... the actual science of farts
What’s in an Episode?
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The Catch-Up: A little life banter between two longtime friends navigating the Rose City.
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Just the Headlines: A quick spin through the weirdest, wildest science and culture news of the week.
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The Deep Dive: A 20-minute, high-level plunge into whatever strange subject one of us couldn't stop reading about.
Meet Your Hosts:
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Mark spent his twenties operating nuclear reactors for the Navy before coming home to Portland's Silicon Forest to keep the machines that build microchips running. Now, he’s a technical director helping companies get found online.
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Todd has lived several lives—ad copywriter, artist, Newsweek-published writer, and an unrepentant Madonna superfan. Today, he’s a local therapist helping people untangle their stories and reconnect with the humans around them.
Pull up a chair. Grab a local beverage.
Science is funny.
Episodes
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
There are 7 different “Body Farms” – special areas designated by research scientists to study the decomposition of bodies to aid in the forensic analysis of unsolved crimes — located in the U.S. So what...
The post #102 – Bodies of Evidence appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Monday Nov 06, 2017
Monday Nov 06, 2017
Many of us have heard the terms “Deep Web,” “Dark Web,” and maybe even “TOR/Onion Routing,” but what exactly are those things? Or where are they? And am I on some sort of watch-list for...
The post #101 – How Deep Is Your Web? appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Because people asked for it, here’s a stand-alone compilation of the Dad Jokes Mark told during the first 100 episodes. Buckle down, it’s 27 minutes of the most groan-inducing jokes you’ve ever heard. You’ve been...
The post #100.5 – Just the Dad Jokes appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
We celebrate 100 (!) episodes by sharing mics with fellow podcast nerds Nate and Dave from the NotNerd podcast. Join us as we talk tech, Mystery Oreos (delivered in person via flaming bagpipe procession by...
The post #100 – Crossover? I Barely Knew Her! appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Monday Oct 09, 2017
This week we spin the Wheel of Wikipedia and discuss half a dozen short-but-sweet topics, ranging from why we don’t refer to the president as “Your Majesty” to “Berserk Llama Syndrome” to a Cold War...
The post #99 – Wheel of Wikipedia Vol. 1 appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Monday Oct 02, 2017
In this week’s episode we take a look at crystals: the otherworldly, geometric webbing of solid (and sometimes liquid) materials that make our up our fancy rings, computers, and TVs.Plus, the Unipiper dishes some great...
The post #98 – The Crystal Method appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Monday Sep 25, 2017
Monday Sep 25, 2017
It’s a super-sized episode as we get back into the swing of things and take a detailed look at the role the Cassini-Huygens Probe has played in our understanding of Saturn and its moons. And...
The post #97 – Cassini’s Final Descent appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Monday Sep 04, 2017
The future of food isn’t just GMO crops – it’s lab-grown and 3D-printed meat. As in real, perfect, just-like-meat meat, grown from animals’ stem and scaffolding cells, all done without harming or killing real animals....
The post #96 – Can You Beat Unnatural Meat? appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Monday Aug 28, 2017
The eclipse and its hype has passed, but Brian “The Unipiper” Kidd joins us in-studio to talk about our fantastic and memorable trip to Idaho and Eastern Oregon last weekend. We talk about some interesting...
The post #95 – The One With The Eclipse appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
We all know the nursery rhyme about Lizzie Borden and the untimely demise of her parents. But how much of it is true? And what actually happened in that Massachusetts house in 1892 that we...
The post #94 – Lizzie Borden Took an Ax… appeared first on Mark and Toddcast.