Episodes
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Who is Alex Jones? With Joni DeRouchie
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Most likely you've at least heard (or seen a meme of) Alex Jones at some point over the past two decades, and more recently during his trial for defamation about his Sandy Hook conspiracy theories. But who is he, really? Where did he come from? And is a dangerous true believer, a con artist, a ringmaster, a manipulator, or just a soulless, narcissistic troll? We speak with Joni DeRouchie about the man behind the meme.
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Vacation onTape
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
We finally put the "Mark" back in the Mark & Toddcast as Mark rejoins the show after his hiatus. This week we catch up on Todd's family vacation to Colorado, science, culture, and Portland news, and then give an little overview of how the VHS and Beta formats work.
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Exploring the Enneagram with Chelsea Heath
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
This week we dive into one of the most useful personality type tools out there: the Enneagram, which has been used throughout human history. Special guest Chelsea Heath joins the show to give an overview of what the Enneagram is (and isn't), how it works, and what it can mean for people who are striving to know themselves and their traumas better.
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Panic! At the Morals. w/ Nate Heath
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Nothing is more predictable about society than the fact that old people panic about how everything they don't understand is a sign of the end times. Aristotle complained about how rude the youth were to the elders. Authority figures freaked out about Teddy Bears and cars. Parents rended their garments about the Satanic grip radio and comic books had on kids. All you have to do is substitute the nouns, but the panic remains the same. This week guest host Nate Heath joins the show to talk about how the more things change, the more they stay the same. You can find Nate Heath weekly on his podcast NotNerd.
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
The Scale of the Universe with Dave Baehler
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
This week special guest host Dave Baehler of the NotNerd Podcast joins the show to take us on a trip from the theoretically smallest things in the universe, to the incomprehensibly largest things, and everything in between, from yottameter to zettameter. Meter? I barely knew her!
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Go Ask Emerson - With Special Guest Rick Emerson
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
"Go Ask Alice" was a publishing and cultural phenomenon, with ramifications felt from the household level to the actual White House, and whose very real fallout included both the War on Drugs and the "Satanic Panic" of the 70s and 80s. But as Emerson discovered, perhaps not all was as real as it seemed with the mysterious, "Anonymous" book that still today is a best-seller and a cultural touch point. Find out the wild story, which is the basis for Emerson's new book "Unmask Alice," available in July.
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Cooking with James Beard, Smoking with Zymo
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
This week we take a look at an international renowned chef and cookbook author James Beard, whose impact was so large that even Julia Child was a fan. We take a look at his start in Oregon, and his rise to be one of the most influential chefs in history. All that, and a special appearance by Zymo! "What is Zymo?" you may ask? Find out this week.
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Music Makes the People (But Not Animals) Come Together
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Humans are the only species on earth that can "understand" music. Why is that? What exactly *is* music, and why can't animals seem to put the pieces together? This week we take a look at what goes on inside the human brain to turn sound into that magic entity -- which has the capacity to help us heal, grow, learn, recover, remember, and more -- we call music. (It also makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel.)
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Blockchain Explained (or: Ledger? I Barely Knew Her!)
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Yes, we've explored blockchain and bitcoin and NFTs before, but we're heading back in with a special guest (Mark's business partner Brett) who actually knows what he's talking about - so again we take a dive into just what this all means, especially for us "regular people."
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
War of Wikipedia #6 -with Nate and Dave from the NotNerd Podcast
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Mark's away, which means Todd can play - and record an extra long episode with Nate and Dave from one of our favorite podasts, The NotNerd Podcast. After a wrap-up of news stories, Nate and Dave go head-to-head for this latest round of War of Wikipedia, in which each present a short, weird Wikipedia article to be judged by Todd as to whose is the most amusing. It's a Christmas miracle!