Shiftheads - The Bermuda Triangle Is Safer Than This Canadian Lake

Shiftheads - The Bermuda Triangle Is Safer Than This Canadian Lake

The Great Lakes Triangle has claimed roughly six thousand ships and hundreds of planes, and Nathan Radke explains why the losses feel supernatural even when they are not. His book Uncover Up spent a decade tracing how ordinary people get talked into extraordinary beliefs. This episode follows his own trip into the vortex, out to isolated Main Duck Island, home to an old lighthouse and oversized, cannibalistic snakes. It also revisits the 1889 disappearance of the schooner Bavaria's crew, found missing from an undamaged ship with fresh bread still in the oven and a canary singing alone. It traces the region's vanishing planes and ghost ships back to atmospheric optics, an ancient meteor's magnetic pull, and weather violent enough to sink freighters and bury cars in snow, building a case for natural forces over portals, monsters, or ghosts. Topics: Great Lakes Triangle, Main Duck Island, Bermuda Triangle, ghost ships, shipwrecks 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 2026-07-08

ICYMI - Your Boss Might Be Drunk on AI

Something happens to a manager who spends all day getting agreed with. Greg Fish, a computer scientist behind Cyberpunk Survival Guide, lays out why the people running the meeting are more likely than anyone underneath them to fall into what he calls AI psychosis, and why it has nothing to do with curiosity and everything to do with pressure from above. The mechanics are almost too simple. An idea gets validated instead of challenged, a two-year project gets simulated in days, and thirty thousand lines of generated code get handed off to a team with no realistic way to check it all. When it breaks, there is a built-in excuse sitting right there: blame the machine, take the mulligan, look like a leader who was just trying something new. Anyone who has sat in a meeting that somehow always circles back to a chatbot will recognize exactly what is being described here. Topics: AI psychosis, corporate AI, managers, KPI pressure, workplace AI GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com Originally aired on 2026-07-08

NEW - Uncle Bob’s Bits: He Sold His FIFA Tickets to Fund a Better Trip

Canada World Cup travel plans do not usually involve selling tickets to one game so you can afford tickets to another, but that is exactly the math Bob Addison worked out when Canada advanced to Houston. Three seats to an American match turned into just over eight thousand dollars, enough to cover a father-son trip from Seattle to Texas and pay his mother back for the credit card that started it all. The game itself delivers a full range of emotion: a strong first half against Morocco, a defensive collapse in the second, and a lingering concern over Alphonso Davies walking off the field without warming up, raising questions about whether Bayern Munich had a hand in holding him back. What lands hardest by the end has nothing to do with the score, it is what a father learns about a trip his son says he will remember for the rest of his life. Topics: Canada World Cup, Alphonso Davies, Houston, father son trip, ticket resale GUEST: Bob Addison | @‌riobobbo Originally aired on 2026-07-08

The Marketing Lesson Hidden in a Celebrity Wedding

Marketing scarcity gets tested against a real example: a wedding with no leaked photos, no outside editor, and twenty six million dollars already routed to charity before the criticism could show up. Tony Chapman, host of Chatter That Matters, treats Taylor Swift's approach as a working blueprint for owning a narrative completely, from the venue choice down to which streaming platform gets the eventual documentary. The scarcity angle gets pushed further, tracing a line from Grace Kelly's staged arrival in Monte Carlo to a modern strategy where withholding access is the whole point, and every unanswered question just builds demand. A harder question sits underneath all of it: whether a tactic like this counts as marketing, anti marketing, or both, and where that line falls between solving a need and manufacturing one. The takeaway extends past celebrity, landing on anyone whose LinkedIn or Instagram is quietly doing brand work whether they've noticed or not. Topics: marketing scarcity, brand ownership, Taylor Swift, anti marketing, personal brand GUEST: Tony Chapman | http://chatterthatmatters.ca [http://chatterthatmatters.ca] Originally aired on 2026-07-08

Welcome to Some Good News

Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners and a text line that keeps the good ones coming, and this week the good news starts with a 139-year-old former church rectory brought back to life one room at a time. Eight months of sanding, painting, and running between renovation work and studio duties finally paid off in the form of two strangers stopping mid-walk to compliment it.   Alongside that, a thrift store windbreaker sparks a full debate over whether a certain hockey team's old logo was actually the best branding in sports, purple duck mask and all, even from someone who does not root for the team wearing it.   The segment leans on a simple idea: sometimes finding the good means putting in the work first and letting the response come to you.   Topics: Good News Tuesday, house renovation, thrifting finds, community stories, hard work   Originally aired on 2026-07-07