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A weekly comedy, science, and culture podcast for the endlessly curious. Need an escape from the algorithm and the daily outrage cycle? For over a decade and 300+ episodes, two Portland friends have been serving up comfort food for your brain.If you love deep dives into weird history, psychology, and strange science without the anxiety or hot takes, pull up a chair. We sit down with a drink and explore the fascinating stories you wish you were talking about with your smartest friends.No politics. No anxiety fuel. Just genuine curiosity and laughs about topics like:• Why we absolutely hate the sound of our own voices• The secret origin of the biohazard symbol• America’s classified, Cold War plan to nuke the moon• The Stanford Prison Experiment (and why it was actually kind of BS)• Portland’s infamous Barbie-hacking culture jammers• The unsolved mystery of the Toynbee Tiles• The actual science of fartsWhat’s in an Episode?• The Catch-Up: Life banter and comedy from two long-ti
Unknown Host hosts Mark and Toddcast, a comedy show with 100 episodes published.
The Unipiper celebrates the closing of the iconic Lloyd Center by being kicked out, finding sugar in space, public backlash against AI data centers while the EPA removes pollution limits from them, a meteorite literally
This week we're back in the saddle to discuss some of the amazing things that have been happening, including our trip to see the Savannah Bananas baseball game, as well as the history of the Banana Ball league. Come for
Does anyone even read these descriptions? You'll figure it out when you listen.
This week we take a look, um, "inward" with a discussion about the very real science of finally figuring out flatulence -- and more specifically, just *how* they do that, and what we can learn. Also, we take a trip to th
This week we take a rollicking journey through Mark's gluten and boat news, the rise of Clavicular and LooksMaxxing, how much clouds weigh, Mark's ChatGPT humiliation fetish, hacking the French language, Ohio tries to st
tbh so much goes on in this episode there's no way to summarize it.
Creating a new symbol to reflect the deadly consequences of something completely undetectable required two essential components: the symbol had to be meaningless enough to carry zero current meaning to any culture on ear
Let's go to Las Vegas, CES, and the Sphere with Mark!
There's a lot more happening when we hear our own voice than you'd think. We've all heard "it's because the bones in your head are conducting sound," but that's only part of it. Find out the rest of the reasons in this w
"Ugly Laws" were ordinances across the United States disallowed anyone who was “diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object” for appearing in public places. Not shocki
This week we take a look into space by discussing the weird interstellar object known as 3i/Atlas, conspiracy theories about what the object may be, and how the original Apollo astronauts figured out their exact location
We're finally back after a two month hiatus, and we threw out the format of the show to see where the conversation took us. The discussion veers from drying off after a shower to AI cats to what g-force actually is, to o
It's been a minute, but Mark and Todd are back for an end-of-summer news wrap-up, including great news for promiscuous koalas! (And for those looking for a break from last week's big news story, we don't discuss that her
The Unipiper noted that this movie begins like "Stand by Me," but ends up like "Reservoir Dogs." While not exactly right, he's not far off describing this 2000 movie with some legitimately shocking twists and compelling
Our Portland at the Movies server is having issues, so in the meantime, here's the latest episode of PatM, which looks at the 2006 Alan Arkin film "Raising Flagg." "This month we head out to the Oregon countryside (and S
A mile underground under the tiny city of Lead, South Dakota -- a former gold mining town -- is home to one of the most sensitive scientific measurement systems ever created, all to find and measure one of the most abund
After graduations, sicknesses, hospitalizations, travel, and more, we're finally back in the saddle catching up on all the news we missed while we were out. Come for the measles, and stay for a bath!
In this exciting all-news episode, we take a look at the dozens of attendees at Idaho's "Heterosexual Awesome Fest," asbestos is back, Washington State's proposed speed laws, Idaho brings back the firing squad, baseball
Our planned interview fell through for this week, but that gives us an opportunity to catch up on all the news we've been putting off. Come with us as we meander through 250 million bees on the loose, acid leaks and new
With so many so-called "alien encounters" throughout history, has there been any consistency in people's descriptions? This week we dive into the top 5 most recounted alien types who may be living among us right now. Yes
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