Mark and Toddcast

Portland radio legend Daria Eliuk (formerly Daria O'Neill) visits us to talk about her radio career, the changes radio has gone through during the 2000s, muckbang videos, Insectaurs, and much, much more on this special episode of the show. There would have been news, but Todd forgot to press record. Oops.

Homing pigeons have been around for over 3,000 years, and were even used to deliver the results from the literal first Olympics. So how do they work? How do you train them? All that and a wrap-up of Todd's trip to a Forest Airplane Rave with the Unipiper!

We hear it every hurricane season: "But if we could drop a nuclear bomb into a hurricane, it would dissipate the storm and we'd be saved!" This idea, along with terraforming Siberia, melting the arctic, and flooding the Sahara, are just some of the real-life ideas people have proposed using nuclear bombs in the past. In the news: 5G health concerns, Ring's doorbell surveillance, Apple apologizes, a "scooternado, and more. Enjoy!

Join us as we discuss a wide swath of topics on today's show, including the pressures of the bottom of the ocean, what's going on in Hong Kong, and a very special look inside an upcoming Unipiper project (with the Unipiper himself) with some of Portland's biggest luminaries. In the news: Proud Boys/Antifa wrap-up, more Democratic candidate talk, the Grand Ronde tribe gets Willamette Falls back, and more. Enjoy!

This week we learn all about cruise ships and the Alaskan Inside Passage as Todd took a family trip to see Juneau, Ketchikan, Skagway, and Glacier Bay. Hear all about the cruise ship, the glaciers, the towns, and plenty of boat facts. Plus, the answer to the question we've all been asking: what would happen if you fell into a pool filled with orbi's? Enjoy!

Like most modern materials, rubber is ubiquitous, but also hides a darker history than most of us know. And, like many of the materials that have built our world, its history involves a crucial mix of both science and global exploitation. Find out how the rubber met the road in this week's episode. In the news: Naomi comics, the last of the VW Beetles, you're always being recorded, Facebook fined $5 billion (yawn), the first photo of quantum entanglement, and the Corpse Flower blooms in America's Vancouver. Smell ya later!

Mark is back from his business trip to China, and he talks about his adventures to the Great Wall, not knowing that language, and traveling alone. He interviews a American ex-pat who is a social media influencer, and makes a video that ended up getting over one million views. And, most importantly, he brings back snack foods and souvenirs! Enjoy!

There are approximately 748 Democrats running for their party's Presidential nomination -- how many do you know? In this episode, Mark reads a random name and Todd has to figure out if its the name of a candidate, or someone currently on Oregon's death row for murder. All that, and a special drop-in from the Unipiper, who gives us the Pepsi/New Coke challenge. In the news: Madonna's new album!, the FBIs vast collection of facial photos, more psychedelic mushrooms go legal, Alex Jones has to pay Pepe the Frog $15,000, the last Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor closes, and more. Enjoy!

On this special episode, we visit W.L. Henry Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon to take a tour with principal Lisa Aguilar Fasel. W.L. Henry is a completely dual-lingual school, which means half the day is taught in English, and half in Spanish. It has a 90% Hispanic student population, and is implementing an amazing environment for learning and for emotional growth. The first half of the episode is a sit-down interview, and the second is a walking tour of the school. It's a fascinating and reassuring look at public education from a person whose goal it is to foster the inherent value of each and every student.


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It was Memorial Day, which means the Wilhelm Portland Memorial Funeral Home had its annual open house tour - and this year we both went. With over 7 miles of corridors and over 90,000, the Wilhelm is as astonishing place, and this week we talk all about it. Also covered: Cinetopia acquired by AMC, Burgerville closes a location while In-N-Out starts a new one, human composting, malaria vaccine, San Fran says "no" to facial recognition, and Mr. Pee and Poo flush down from Vancouver to teach us about what we can put in the toilet.