ICYMI - She Planned It for a Year. Still Blew the Budget

SHIFTHEADS: Stories You Did Not Need. Avoiding Them Was the Right Decision

It's Canada Day weekend, give or take, and Shane and Ryan have three stories that will improve nothing about your life and yet somehow feel essential. First: the banana car. Twenty-three feet long, Ford F-150 engine, open top, eighty-five miles an hour, and a dedicated app so you always know where it's headed next. Second: Contemporary Calgary is currently housing a thousand-pound butter cowboy, kept from melting by fans running twenty-four hours a day inside a Monopoly exhibit that runs five months. Third: Florida paddleboarders pulled off a dramatic water rescue for what they were confident was a dog. It was a coyote. Everyone survived. Good job, Florida. Also in the mix: the definitive Batmobile ranking and a brief detour into Homer Simpson's car design philosophy. Topics: weird news Canada, banana car, butter cowboy Calgary, Florida coyote rescue, useless stories Originally aired on 2026-07-03

NEW - Horror With Headphones and Minions in Hollywood

Steve Stebbing, film and entertainment critic, splits this week into two rounds. First, Canadian titles built for a long weekend at home. Then, what's actually worth the theatre seat right now. Three Canadian Films Worth Your Canada Day Undertone is the one Steve keeps coming back to: a Canadian horror film built on sound, picked up and finished by A24, following a paranormal podcast whose hosts start working through nine anonymous tapes until things start happening at home. Headphones required. Mile and Kicks is a Montreal coming-of-age story set during the Arcade Fire era, starring Barbie Ferreira as a music critic leaving Toronto for her first big shot. Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie is Matt Johnson making one of the funniest Canadian films in recent memory, using old web series footage to build something that somehow brushes up against Back to the Future copyright territory. What's in Theatres Now The Invite keeps its biggest reveals off the trailer, which Steve argues should become standard practice. Olivia Wilde directs Seth Rogen opposite Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz in a dinner party that dismantles itself. Enola Holmes 3 delivers exactly what the first two promised. Millie Bobby Brown is charming, Henry Cavill is reliable, and Philip Barantini, who directed Adolescence, makes a sharp pivot into action. Minions and Monsters exists. Trey Parker voices a small Cthulhu. That's the pitch. Topics: Canadian films 2026, Undertone A24 horror, Mile and Kicks film, Minions Monsters Trey Parker, Enola Holmes 3 GUEST: Steve Stebbing | http://stevestebbing.ca [http://stevestebbing.ca]   Originally aired on 2026-07-03

Shiftheads - How Do You Measure What AI Actually Does?

AI evaluation in business sounds straightforward until you try to do it. Mohit Rajhans says most companies are realizing the math doesn't work the way they thought it would. Mohit runs http://ThinkStart.ca [http://thinkstart.ca] and tracks where technology meets business reality. This conversation starts with a simple problem: there's no gas pump ticker on AI. No visible meter telling you what you're spending as you use it, what it's producing, or whether the output justifies the cost. Two employees, same salary, same AI spend, wildly different results, and no clear reason why. The conversation moves into what that means for workers trying to prove their value in a moment when their job is being quietly reevaluated, and lands on a story about an intern who built something impressive, shared client data with a public model to do it, and nearly got fired for the thing she thought would save her. Doing more with AI isn't the same as doing the right things with it. Topics: AI evaluation, AI ROI, measuring AI productivity, AI and jobs Canada, AI tools at work GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca [http://thinkstart.ca] Originally aired on 2026-07-03

ICYMI - She Planned It for a Year. Still Blew the Budget

Vacation budgeting is something Jessica Moorhouse thinks about professionally. She still went to Italy for three weeks, blew past her carefully built spreadsheet, and came home with zero regrets and a slightly rejigged budget. Jessica is a personal finance expert and the author of Everything But Money, and this conversation is as honest as it gets about what travel actually costs versus what we plan for. She covers how she and her husband used a WISE account instead of credit cards to stay out of debt while still going over budget, why a plan that bends isn't a plan that failed, and how the money rules from her childhood, the ones that said don't buy the souvenir, don't get the trinket, followed her all the way to an Italian gift shop and had to be actively unlearned. She also has a few quiet tricks for keeping costs down mid-trip without feeling like you're cutting corners. A five-euro bottle of wine helps. Topics: vacation budget Canada, travel overspending, WISE account, flexible budgeting, childhood money stories GUEST: Jessica Moorhouse | http://jessicamoorhouse.com [http://jessicamoorhouse.com] Originally aired on 2026-07-03

The Game That Saves Lives: Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons started in 1974 with no budget and a simple idea, and Ryan O'Donnell makes the case that it has been saving lives ever since. If you've never rolled a die, this is the episode that explains why people who have can't stop talking about it. For neurodivergent kids especially, the game builds social skills that don't come easily anywhere else. A CBC story on a D&D group and a TED talk called Saving Your Brain with D&D back that up, and the story of Storm King at summer camp makes it impossible to dismiss. A professional Dungeon Master joins to explain what the role actually involves, and why the person running the table might matter more than anyone gives them credit for. Topics: Dungeons and Dragons, neurodivergent kids, social skills, tabletop RPG, community   Originally aired on 2026-07-02