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

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

NEW - For the Business Owners: Why That Cash-Only Sign Might Be Costing You Sales

If you run a small business and you've ever posted a cash-only sign to dodge card fees, the math in this one might change your mind. It turns out the fee you're avoiding and the sale you're losing land in almost the same place, and most people don't notice until someone actually runs the numbers. This one is for anyone who's made a business decision out of principle instead of arithmetic, whether that's a payment policy, a pricing rule, or a line you drew because a fee annoyed you. The bigger idea underneath it applies past fries: chasing margin at the expense of purpose is how a business quietly loses the thing that made people want to pay in the first place. Topics: cash only businesses, debit fees small business, frictionless payments, marketing psychology, small business strategy GUEST: Tony Chapman | http://chatterthatmatters.ca [http://chatterthatmatters.ca] Originally aired on 2026-07-15

Age Gap Relationships: Would You Date Someone a Decade Older Again?

If you've ever dated someone years apart from you in age, this one puts language to what that actually felt like, the parts that worked, and the moment it stopped. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch share their own age gap relationships and the exact point where growing at different speeds became the reason things changed. Jen Kirsch talks about a decade-older relationship that felt like perfect timing until she kept growing past it, and why missing someone's cultural references matters more in dating than it seems. Tony Tedesco explains what it's like watching a partner get left behind once your own life accelerates, and why that isn't really about the number attached to someone's age. Both answer the question worth sitting with either way: would you do it again. Topics: age gap relationships, dating older, dating younger, relationship growth, dating advice GUEST: Tony Tedesco | @‌tedescotony GUEST: Jen Kirsch | @‌jen_kirsch Originally aired on 2026-07-15