Shiftheads - When to Seek Help with your Relationship

NEW - What the Hell to Watch this Weekend

This week's picks come with a warning: if you bought any of them digitally, you might not have them as long as you think. Steve Stebbing has 4,100 movies on physical media and has been laughing off the "just go digital" advice for years. PlayStation just deleted 500 purchased films from users' libraries, Terminator 2 among them, with no refund and no recourse. Steve, Ryan, and Shane work through what that actually means before getting into the weekend's viewing. In theatres, Supergirl takes Kara into a space odyssey of self-discovery that Steve says works better than the internet wants it to. Jackass Best and Last closes the book on the franchise with new stunts, old footage, and Johnny Knoxville at 51 choosing his head carefully. On streaming, Little Brother pairs John Cena with a gonzo Eric Andre on Netflix, The Bear ends its run on season five, and House of the Dragon returns for season three with Emma Darcy carrying the weight of the Targaryen throne. Own the disc. Trust nothing else. Topics: what to watch this weekend, Supergirl 2025, digital movie ownership, The Bear season 5, House of the Dragon season 3 GUEST: Steve Stebbing | stevestebbing.ca Originally aired on 2026-06-26

Shiftheads - When to Seek Help with your Relationship

There's a six-year gap between when relationship problems start and when most couples finally ask for help. Dr. Laurie Betito has spent a career on the other side of that gap, and she wants to close it. Dr. Laurie is a Montreal-based clinical psychologist and relationship expert, and this conversation goes after the reasons people wait: the fear of what therapy might uncover, the stigma of needing help, the comfort of having adapted to unhappiness so completely that it no longer feels like unhappiness. She names the specific patterns worth paying attention to, the recurring fight that never resolves, the intimacy that quietly disappears, the partner who stops bringing things up at all, and explains why therapy works best when both people are still in, not when one is already gone. The conversation also covers why men tend to resist the most and benefit the most, and what it looks like to use therapy as prevention rather than rescue. You don't wait until all your teeth fall out before seeing a dentist. Topics: couples therapy Canada, when to get relationship help, men and therapy, relationship warning signs, preventative counselling GUEST: Dr. Laurie Betito | drlaurie.com Originally aired on 2026-06-26

You Bought It. You Don't Own It

Digital ownership in Canada is mostly a polite fiction. You buy the movie, the game, the scale, the heated seat, and what you actually get is permission to use it until the company changes its mind. This conversation pulls the thread on a trend that keeps expanding into new territory. GTA 6, the most anticipated video game release in years, ships in a physical box with no disc inside, just a piece of paper with a download code. Smart scales have been bricked overnight when companies shut down servers. Heated seats in new cars sit locked behind monthly subscription fees. Digital movies bought years ago disappear when licensing agreements change. The pattern is the same every time: the purchase is real, the ownership is not. Shane and Ryan connect it to a broader habit of letting companies and governments offload responsibility onto consumers, the same move that spent decades telling people to feel guilty about recycling while the recycling went to incinerators. You're not the owner. You're the subscriber who forgot to read the terms. Topics: digital ownership, software licensing, GTA 6 disc controversy, subscription economy, consumer rights Canada Originally aired on 2026-06-26

ICYMI - The Vomit of Change: AI, Kids, and No Manual

AI and kids in Canada is no longer a future problem. Mohit Rajhans says the rules are already changing, most parents don't know it yet, and the confusion isn't a sign something's gone wrong. It's the whole situation. The vomit of change: a volume and velocity of shifts in policy, platform, and capability that arrives whether you're ready or not, with no manual and no single place to go for answers. The conversation covers Canada's proposed under-16 social media ban and what it actually means for a generation that uses Instagram to buy shampoo, the gap between parents who don't understand the tools their kids are using and the kids who can't opt out of them, and why willful ignorance at this moment carries real consequences. Not knowing isn't neutral anymore. Topics: AI and kids Canada, social media ban under 16, parenting and technology, digital literacy, AI regulation GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca [http://thinkstart.ca] Originally aired on 2026-06-26

Pizza Hut Got Its Name From a Nine-Letter Sign

It's Throwback Thursday and Shane, Ryan, and Noah dig into one of 1995's defining fast food moments: the arrival of stuffed crust pizza and the competitive war that produced it. The story starts in 1958, when two college students borrowed six hundred dollars from their mom, found a small brick building with room for exactly nine letters on the sign, and called it Pizza Hut because that was all that fit. Sixty-seven years later the chain is a takeaway staple, the dine-in era is gone, and the stuffed crust is thirty years old. Along the way: the best pizza topping debate gets settled by nobody, Ryan gets a tip about cold tomatoes that may change his life, and the cheeseburger-in-the-crust question gets the answer it deserves. Topics: Pizza Hut history, stuffed crust pizza 1995, fast food wars, pizza toppings debate, throwback Thursday food Originally aired on 2026-06-25