SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite

NEW - What It Takes for Canadians to Actually Pay Attention

Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by a city that could not stop celebrating soccer. Gas Prices Are Climbing Again A shaky ceasefire falls apart and gas prices climb again, so the segment tracks how the Strait of Hormuz situation is moving oil markets and what that looks like at the pump on both sides of the Atlantic. Jamie Ellerton lays out why traders keep pricing in restraint even when the headlines suggest otherwise. A City That Showed Up From there the conversation tests a theory about resignation, the idea that a crisis only registers once it hits the wallet, before pivoting to a very different kind of attention. Lindsay Broadhead and Jamie Ellerton describe a Toronto electrified by the World Cup, proof that people show up when they feel like they belong to something. Topics: Canadian attention fatigue, ceasefire collapse, gas prices, World Cup Toronto, resignation theory GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | conaptus.com GUEST: Lindsay Broadhead | broadheadcomms.ca Originally aired on 2026-07-15

SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite

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 stomach trouble into the list of warning signs. Dr. Mitch Shulman walks through what actually happens after a tick attaches, why most of these infections need 24 to 48 hours on the body before transmission, and why removing it fast with tweezers still beats waiting to see what happens. He also covers when a pharmacist can prescribe treatment directly, and why photographing the tick for a site like eTick.ca can speed up identification. The bigger warning is for whoever treats you afterward. Flu-like symptoms one to two weeks after time outdoors need to come with the words camping, hiking, or tick, because the antibiotic that clears both Lyme and anaplasmosis only works if someone thinks to ask. Topics: tick bite symptom, anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, doxycycline treatment, tick removal GUEST: Dr. Mitch Shulman Originally aired on 2026-07-15

NEW - What Video Games Get Right That Hollywood Doesn't

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 than most Netflix subscriptions outsold a brand new Disney movie. The comparison is Assassin Creed Black Flag Recync against the live action Moana remake. Moana opened to just forty three million dollars in North America against a two hundred fifty million dollar budget, while the thirteen year old pirate game got rebuilt from the engine up and sold two million copies on day one. Creative director Terry Hahn explains what actually changed, cutting every loading screen between ports so the open world finally feels seamless, and why the characters and story still do the heavy lifting even with all the new tech. The takeaway lands on why refreshing the look is not the same as understanding what made the original work. Topics: video game remakes, Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Moana box office, movie remakes, Terry Hahn Originally aired on 2026-07-15

Shiftheads - The Alien Theory That Says They're Just Future Humans

What if the classic grey alien everyone describes is not an alien at all, but a human from thousands of years in the future? This conversation walks through a theory that reframes decades of UFO sightings, then digs into one of the strangest real cases behind it: a man who faxed a radio show in 1998 claiming to be a time traveler from 2036, warning about Y2K and a civil war that never came. From there the discussion gets into why the paradoxes of time travel make it nearly impossible, from killing your own grandfather to a time machine that loops back on itself with no actual inventor. It closes on the Mandela effect, the multiverse theory some people use to explain it, and the specific tricks social media accounts use to fake successful predictions. Listeners get a clear-eyed walk through why this stuff is so easy to believe and so hard to prove. Topics: time travel theory, UFO aliens, John Titor, grandfather paradox, Mandela effect GUEST: Nathan Radke | https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873/ [https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873/] | @‌theuncoverup Originally aired on 2026-07-15

ICYMI - The Real Reason Everyone Is Racing to Launch Satellites

Kessler syndrome is the risk hiding behind the race to launch satellites, and it has very little to do with giving you better internet. Greg Fish traces the satellite boom back to social media and search companies running out of new users to grow into around 2007 and 2008, which is what pushed Google, Facebook, and eventually SpaceX toward beaming internet down from orbit instead. Now Starlink wants forty two thousand satellites, China is planning two hundred thousand, and Amazon and Europe are both building their own constellations on top of sixty years of existing space junk. The risk is a debris field dense enough that it could make launching anything too dangerous for decades, threatening weather satellites, space stations, and the ability to study the universe at all. Topics: Kessler syndrome, satellite internet race, space junk, orbital debris, Starlink GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com Originally aired on 2026-07-15