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NEW - The Last Space Shuttle Flew the Same Year Vancouver Burned
Season 2 Episode 219
NASA closed out thirty years of space shuttle missions the same year Vancouver's streets filled with flipped cars after a Stanley Cup Game 7 loss. 20…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
NEW - Flying for Free Isn't Dead. It Just Got Harder
Season 2 Episode 219
Four years of saving points. One redemption. And the taxes and fees still took a $900 bite out of a flight that was supposed to be free. That's the m…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Shiftheads - The Bridge Deal Where Nobody Gets Paid Until Debt Clears
Season 2 Episode 219
A $6 billion bridge, a private partner, and a new rule that changes the usual math entirely: no profit until the debt gets repaid first. Tim Powers b…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
ICYMI - A Human Tripod Once Caught a Falling Satellite
Season 2 Episode 219
Normally a spacewalk sends out two people. One time in NASA history, it sent out three, because a massive satellite wasn't cooperating and somebody s…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Year Bitcoin Hit a Dollar and Investors bought Pizza
Season 2 Episode 219
Bitcoin crossed a dollar in 2011 and almost nobody blinked. Ed Conroy revisits the year that felt completely ordinary at the time and turns out to ha…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Richard Crouse: 60ft Puppets and a Self Cast AI Wanna-Be
Season 2 Episode 219
A dart hitting the stage was enough to end a Metallica show outright, no warning, no encore. Richard Crouse has the story behind one of only four tim…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Video Games Lost Their Discs. This Box Could Fix It
Season 2 Episode 218
A community movie library is showing up in neighbourhoods that already trade paperbacks, and it solves a problem video game owners know too well now …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
NEW - What It Takes for Canadians to Actually Pay Attention
Season 2 Episode 218
Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite
Season 2 Episode 218
A tick bite symptom is easy to miss, and this segment lays out anaplasmosis, the tick-borne illness now showing up alongside Lyme disease and pushing…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
NEW - What Video Games Get Right That Hollywood Doesn't
Season 2 Episode 218
Video game remakes just did something Hollywood remakes have not managed in years, and the numbers make the case on their own. A pirate game older th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago