The AI Bill Is Coming. Businesses Aren't Ready

ICYMI - A Deal to Sign a Deal to Maybe Make a Deal About Iran

Strategic communications veterans Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead join to sort through the agreement to sign an agreement that may eventually become a peace deal in the Strait of Hormuz, and what any of it actually means for global energy markets, Canadian foreign policy, and the geopolitical leverage Iran just quietly secured for itself. The ceasefire may be good news for oil markets in the short term. But closing the Strait of Hormuz turned out to be the most powerful card Iran held, and the world just watched them play it successfully. Jamie and Lindsay dig into what the American position actually accomplished, why G7 leaders are cheering for a deal they can't fully explain, and where Israel fits into the aftermath. The conversation opens with something lighter: what makes a gift genuinely memorable. A hand-forged Japanese knife, a wooden cutting board, a power drill. The things nobody would call flashy that end up changing how you live. Topics: Strait of Hormuz deal, Iran ceasefire, global energy markets, Canada foreign policy, meaningful gifts GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | canaptus.com / Lindsay Broadhead | broadheadcomms.ca Originally aired on 2026-06-17

SHIFTHEADS: Getting More Value Out of Every Gas Station Stop

Gas rewards expert Patrick Sojka of http://RewardsCanada.ca [http://rewardscanada.ca] joins to map out which loyalty program and credit card combinations are actually worth the effort this summer, and why the system has gotten a lot more complicated than it used to be. Stacking Scene Plus with Shell, linking CAA to Scotiabank, converting Petro Points to car washes instead of fuel: the savings are real, but only if you know where to look. Patrick breaks down the per-litre math on the combinations that deliver the most value, and names the ones where the effort outweighs the return. There is also a reason these programs keep adding merchandise redemption options and ecosystem partnerships. Patrick explains why points sitting in your account are a liability on a company's books, and what that means for how these programs are actually designed. Topics: gas rewards Canada, loyalty programs, fuel savings, credit card points, Petro-Canada rewards GUEST: Patrick Sojka | http://rewardscanada.ca [http://rewardscanada.ca] Originally aired on 2026-06-17

NEW - Coffee Stunts Your Growth: Where Old Wives Tales Actually Come From

The phrase old wives tale goes back to a play written in 1595. By 1611 the King James Bible was using it to dismiss the knowledge of older women. The irony is hard to miss, because the women being dismissed were often the ones carrying the most practical knowledge about health, childbirth, and community care. Tonight runs through the greatest hits: junk food and appendicitis, gum stuck in your stomach for seven years, sitting too close to the TV, carrots fixing your eyesight. Most are false. Almost all of them are built on fear, which is what made them spread and what kept them alive long after anyone could remember where they started. The conversation also separates old wives tales from superstitions, two categories that get lumped together but operate on completely different logic. One gives advice. The other issues a transaction: do this, and that happens to you. Topics: old wives tales origin, folk health myths, superstitions, fear and misinformation, health advice history Originally aired on 2026-06-17

Shiftheads - He-Man, Satanic Panic, and Who Was Really After Your Kids

Nathan Radke of the Uncover Up Podcast is here to explain why a new He-Man movie is the perfect entry point into one of the most useful ideas you can carry into the news cycle right now. In the 1980s, He-Man was accused of recruiting children into the occult. Experts testified. Documentaries were made. Cassette tapes were sold. What was actually happening is a much better story, and a much more revealing one about who benefits when a society decides it has found the thing to blame for everything going wrong. Radke connects the Satanic Panic to a double murder in his own hometown, to the West Memphis Three, to Ronald Reagan's FCC, and to the question you should be asking every time someone hands you a simple answer to a complicated problem. The He-Man movie comes out this summer. The panic is already warming up. This conversation will change how you watch it happen. Topics: moral panic, Satanic Panic, He-Man, conspiracy theory, children's television 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] Originally aired on 2026-06-17

The AI Bill Is Coming. Businesses Aren't Ready

Cyberpunk Survival Guide author Greg Fish breaks down the economics behind AI token pricing and why the free ride is ending faster than most businesses realise. Every AI request costs money, measured in tokens: the subdivisions of language a large language model processes on the way in and the way out. The more complex the request, the more tokens burned, and the bill lands whether the answer was useful or not. Fish explains why that pricing has always been intentionally hard to track, and why it was designed that way: get companies dependent on the infrastructure, then collect once switching costs make it painful to leave. The investors funding the data centres and compute expansions want returns now. AI companies are hiking prices to deliver them. And businesses that built workflows around cheap AI access are about to find out what that dependency actually costs. Topics: AI pricing model, AI tokens explained, AI business costs, tech bait and switch, LLM profitability GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com Originally aired on 2026-06-17