

Each finalist will undergo tremendous scrutiny from Mark and Brian, their listening audience and a specialized team of advisors that will include a relationship expert, an astrologer and even a lie detector. KLOS will screen the applicants and narrow the search down to five bride finalists who will be put through an intensive interview process on the MARK & BRIAN RADIO PROGRAM during the week of January 30. Want-to-be brides can submit their information via an online application at (application deadline for brides is: JANUARY 25 at 10A, and FEBRUARY 8 at 10a for grooms). The experiment will take place over the next seven weeks, during which Mark and Brian and their listening audience will conduct a series of auditions and interviews to select two complete strangers who will ultimately become husband and wife.

Mark and Brian first debuted on KLOS in 1985. Hearing their voices while sitting in horrendous LA traffic makes me feel close to home with a sense of fond familiarity. The novelty of recently moving to Southern California, just five miles away from where they broadcast, has not been wasted on me. While attending music school in college, I called them up and played my saxophone on the air for free Disneyland tickets. Mark & Brian allowed us to laugh together when we couldn’t even talk. In High School when my teenage angst prevented meaningful communication with my parents, sometimes I’d miss the bus and they’d have to drive me.

I recall listing to the Mark & Brian Radio Program as early as 1991, traveling to a new Elementary School in a new state.

And now that it has ended, I reflect on the role it’s played throughout the many phases and changes in my life. For the last twenty years, when I’ve found myself traveling on early weekday mornings, I tune in to the Mark & Brian Radio Program. There’s nothing like a suitable soundtrack to get from point A to B, and traditionally it’s my current favorite album or artist.
