Tony Chapman joins to unpack a listener question about consumerism, and the answer goes further than expected. Marketing used to work by getting loud and repeating itself. That’s not how it works anymore, and the shift changes what it means…
Greg Fish joins to explain why climate coverage keeps escalating into panic, and the reason has less to do with the planet than with what gets clicks in the first place. What he describes about how algorithms shape article titles…
Nathan Radke breaks down the history of mass panic, starting five hundred years ago with a printed prediction that convinced entire cities a disaster was coming. People built arks. Nobles fled to the hills. None of it was warranted. The…
Dolly Parton dies at eighty on the one day of the week built around good news only, and the question hangs over everything that follows. There’s no script for that, so the hour has to find one live. Two small…
Dogs with jobs is more than an internet joke on this Good News Tuesday. Somewhere between viral doggo videos and a dog famous purely for looking a bit odd, there’s a working breed doing something boaters across the country actually…
Dolly Parton has died at 80, and Pure Country host Shannon Ella shares what she learned about the singer’s final months, including how caring for her late husband Carl Dean may have delayed her own health care. It is a…
Body cameras have been standard in parts of the Canada for years, and former Toronto homicide detective Mark Mendelson is stunned to learn one major Canadian city is only rolling them out now. He explains why the footage has already…
Kris Abel joins to break down how humanoid robots are now setting world records once held by human athletes, and the way they’re doing it is what makes it worth a look for anyone who follows tech or sport. A…
Dolly Parton has died at eighty, after a career that produced more than fifty records. This hour plays a set of interview clips spanning decades, starting with an exchange where an audience member asks her advice about going bald. A…
Kids and AI use get blamed for a lot these days, but Dr. Michelle Sengara says the panic sounds a lot like every panic before it, from video games to the calculator to electricity itself. She questions whether what looks…
Canada-US trade talks fell apart last week, and Matt Gurney says the government’s response reveals a much older problem than this one negotiation. He walks through why Ottawa treats information as something to protect rather than share, and why Canadians…
A stranger’s cute baby video should not have been controversial. Bob Addison left one comment on it anyway, and within hours people who have never met him were calling him a Karen and telling him to calm down. What did…
A funeral is not supposed to be the best thing you attend all year, and yet that is exactly how Shane describes this one, for a 92 year old great uncle, capped off by two of the most remarkable speeches…
A milk carton, some string, and a plan borrowed straight from a cartoon coyote. That’s how Andy tried to trap a squirrel that wouldn’t leave his yard alone, and the outcome says a lot about exactly how far these animals…
A country with million dollar missiles is getting hit back by drones that cost a fraction of that, and Richard Shimooka explains why that gap is reshaping what modern warfare actually looks like. The math used to make sense. It…
