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NEW - Earth Destroyed Its Own Origin Story. The Moon Kept It
Season 2 Episode 160
What the moon can teach us is the part of our own story we cannot find anywhere down here, because this planet erased it. Every earthquake, every oce…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
When Did Car Shopping Start Feeling Like Buying a Washing Machine?
Season 2 Episode 160
New car prices in Canada are up almost 60% in six years, and Lorraine Sommerfeld says that number didn't just change what people can afford. It chang…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Pokemon Pocket Man-sters. Twenty-Seven Years of Getting It Wrong
Season 2 Episode 159
Pokemon throwback Thursday 1998 starts with a confession. The spelling on the show document said P-O-K-E-M-A-N. It has said that since 1998. Pokemon …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Much Music Corner on Queen Street Still Feels Like Something
Season 2 Episode 159
MuchMusic is gone long enough now that people are finally understanding what it was. That is Bill Welychka's theory and ten years of book signings ha…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
SHIFTHEADS: Two People. Same Banana. Different Price
Season 2 Episode 159
Surveillance pricing grocery stores are not a future problem. Tests in the United States put 20 people in the same room buying the same product at th…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Last Year Before Everything Changed
Season 2 Episode 159
1998 throwback Thursday lands on a year that felt safe and new at the exact same time. The Discman was still in your bag. Blockbuster still had a lin…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Rob Breakenridge: One Point. Worst Team in the League. Rob Is Nervous for his Team
Season 2 Episode 159
Canadian NHL playoffs are here and the Oilers have been handed the simplest possible test going in. One point. Against the worst team in the entire l…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Pokemon: Poker Meets Chess. Also, There Are Dragons
Season 2 Episode 159
Pokemon card game competitive play has a world championship, a global tournament circuit, and kids making tens of thousands of dollars. Most adults s…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
NEW - Teenage Clothing Choices: Grey Is a Personality Now
Season 2 Episode 159
Fashion labels teenagers claim as identity had to arrive from somewhere, and Bob Addison watched it happen in real time. One kid in Trail, BC came ba…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Throwback Thursday 1998: The Year Before Everything Got Complicated
Season 2 Episode 159
1998 nostalgia hits differently once someone points out that it was actually the last safe year. Google arrived. Email became something everyone had.…
4 months, 2 weeks ago