Bob Addison got laid off from radio in 2015 and canceled a family trip to Oregon the same day, certain everything was falling apart. A decade later, watching two Vancouver stations and two in Calgary go dark last week, that’s the story he keeps coming back to for the colleagues who just lost their jobs: losing the gig is not losing the life.

Bob and Shane land on a real theory for where AM radio actually ends up, a single national emergency network repeating FM content by day and standing ready the moment something goes wrong, and argue about whether Vancouver and Calgary even register next to Ontario and Quebec’s population numbers.

Along the way, Bob describes standing underneath a retired space shuttle that rides piggyback on a 747, a scale that only hits once you’re actually there looking up at it.

Topics: AM radio layoffs, Bob Addison, Vancouver radio, Calgary radio, space shuttle exhibit

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Originally aired on2026-07-14