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1979 COLUMBIA HOUSE LAUNCH IN CANADA
Season 3 Episode 35
What was it like to work in a music store? Ryan remembers HMV all too well…
Originally aired on 2026-09-16
3 weeks ago
NEW - The Fast Food Giant Quietly Dumping Pumpkin Spice
Season 3 Episode 35
Pumpkin spice coffee turns thirty four this year, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois reveals it was never supposed to exist in the first place. It started as…
3 weeks ago
SHIFTHEADS - This Planet May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected
Season 3 Episode 35
Mercury is shriveling up like a grape in the sun, a raisin! Dr. Sam breaks down why this is happening.
GUEST: Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD is a Neurosc…
3 weeks ago
NEW - Throwback Thursday: Columbia House - Did You Actually Pay for Your Ten Free Tapes?
Season 3 Episode 35
A friend hands over a card. Ten tapes, practically free, just don't bother cancelling and nobody comes looking. That was the pitch, and millions of p…
3 weeks ago
Shiftheads - University Report Just Priced Out Alberta Leaving Canada
Season 3 Episode 35
The Alberta separation referendum arrives in just over a month, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge lays out what a new university report says it would …
3 weeks ago
ICYMI - Sixteen Million People Fell for (and Benefited From) This CD Deal
Season 3 Episode 35
Columbia House once had sixteen million members across North America, and music expert Eric Alper explains how a penny-CD mail order club grew into a…
3 weeks ago
NEW - What Would Business Owners Would Do With Lower Taxes?
Season 3 Episode 35
Small business taxes get treated like an abstract line item until Corinne Pohlmann of CFIB puts real numbers on what businesses pay just to keep an e…
3 weeks ago
Why Columbia House Never Actually Had to Cancel Anyone
Season 3 Episode 35
Columbia House recently shut down, and Ed Conroy finally explains the business model that kept it running for decades after everyone assumed it shoul…
3 weeks ago
The Real Star of Brad Pitt's New Movie Isn't Brad Pitt
Season 3 Episode 35
Richard Crouse previews Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as a stranded special forces officer fighting to survive the Alask…
3 weeks ago
Your Biggest Expense Isn't Rent, Gas, or Groceries
Season 3 Episode 34
Your tax bill outweighs every other expense Canadians complain about, and new research backs that up. Shane and Ryan break down why the conversation …
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