Lake Ontario renamed to Lake America is the kind of headline built to get a reaction, and journalist Rob Breakenridge explains why the timing might matter more than the joke itself. While the trolling dominates headlines, something else has gone…
Dolly Parton’s death set off a week of strange entertainment stories, and film critic Richard Crouse walks through the strangest ones. One involves a song nobody will hear for two decades. The other involves a real house from a Batman…
Peter Cullen’s death has hit lifelong fans harder than most people expected, and this Throwback Thursday traces where that voice actually came from, starting with a piece of advice from his brother that shaped how he played Optimus Prime for…
Peter Cullen’s death has TFCon founder Colin Douglas reflecting on the man behind Optimus Prime, and the fallout of one decision Hasbro made in 1986 still shapes how studios write character deaths today. This one goes past the tributes into…
A simple question about hobbies people wish they’d start turns into something more revealing on this episode, as the crew catches themselves shooting down their own ideas before they’ve even said them out loud. One host admits to signing up…
Lindsay Broadhead and Jamie Ellerton join for a two-part conversation that starts light and turns serious fast, moving from personal hobbies straight into a breakdown of the latest Trump comments about Canada. A Hobby Nobody Saw ComingThe panel trades hobby…
Falk had no formal training before he started tattooing. What he used instead is the kind of detail that makes this story worth hearing on its own, before anything else about him even comes up. That same instinct to just…
Ali Velshi has spent years broadcasting in the United States as a proud Canadian, and this conversation asks him what that’s actually been like since trade tensions between the two countries started escalating. His answer covers both the surprising upside…
Back to school eye exams rarely make the list, but CNIB executive director Craig Peterson says skipping one can cost more than blurry vision. He lost his own vision at fifteen, and he ties that experience directly to a number…
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…
