Food expiry dates dictate what you toss and what you keep. You open the fridge, check the date, throw out the yogurt. But here's the thing: some of those dates are meaningless, while others you're ignoring completely. Your dental floss has an expiry date. So does bar soap. Honey that's turned into a brick technically lasts forever, but the package says otherwise.

The hosts test the logic: eggs float or sink to reveal freshness, not the carton date. Milk? Your nose knows better than any stamp. Spices fade but don't spoil. Meanwhile, you're gambling with wedding budgets and wondering when "sell by" became "throw away by." One co-host is planning a wedding, discovering that family politics cost more than the venue, while the other admits counseling beats lawyers every time.

You'll recognize which dates protect you and which ones just sell you more product. The next time you're about to toss something, you'll know whether the date matters or the manufacturer just wants your money. And you'll understand why some things expire when they shouldn't, and others never should have lasted this long.

Topics: food expiry dates, wedding budget planning, marriage counseling, food safety myths, consumer product labeling

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

Why pop music turned dark isn't a mystery anymore. You turn on the radio expecting something catchy, something that lifts you up for three minutes. Instead, you get lyrics so spiteful they make '80s breakup songs look like love letters. The melancholy isn't occasional. It's the default. Every chart topper trades hooks for heartbreak, and the stuff sticking in your head is embedding something darker than you probably realize.

Algorithms on Spotify and TikTok reward longer listening sessions, and heartbreak keeps people clicking. Climate anxiety, COVID, economic collapse shifted the collective mood, and pop music stopped being escape. In the '80s, Duran Duran sang about reflexes and Honeymoon Suite had new girls. Now platforms cherry pick confessional lyrics that hit emotional triggers, mostly targeting heartbreak. Justin Bieber leads this year's Junos with six nominations, joining only k.d. lang, Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Arcade Fire, The Weeknd, and Drake as three-time Album of the Year nominees at both Grammys and Junos. The Cure's Boys Don't Cry just hit a billion streams because one line in that song powered the entire resurgence.

The next time a song gets stuck in your head, you'll notice what it's actually saying. Pop music isn't broken. It's reflecting exactly what algorithms discovered keeps us listening. Those melancholic lyrics your kids are absorbing aren't accidents. They're the inevitable result of platforms that profit from sustained emotional engagement, and escape isn't on the menu anymore.

Topics: dark pop music trends, Juno Awards 2025, streaming platform algorithms, melancholic songwriting, music industry economics

GUEST: Eric Alper | @thatericalper, thatericalper.com

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

Catherine O'Hara legacy built slowly, then suddenly you realize she's been everywhere that mattered. You're reading she died January 30, 2026, at 71, and scrolling through the list of credits. Home Alone. Beetlejuice. Best in Show. SCTV. 30 Rock. Modern Family. Kids in the Hall. The Last of Us just last year. The weight of what she touched becomes clear when you see how quietly she influenced decades of comedy and drama without demanding attention.

SCTV remains the greatest Canadian TV show ever, and O'Hara was integral to making it undeniable. Her first major film role in Beetlejuice proved range most comedians never access. Rewatching it two years ago when the sequel released revealed how incredible she was when most audiences were just discovering her. The Schitt's Creek family seemed like a unit because O'Hara built real relationships everywhere she worked. Eugene Levy partnership lasted decades. Dan Levy's recent Instagram activity shows connections with castmates that extended beyond scripts. This pattern followed her entire career. Not luck. Intentional presence, kindness, saying yes to opportunities while maintaining authenticity.

You'll rewatch her work differently now. The roles you loved will carry new weight. Her influence on how women age onscreen without apology matters more than most realized while she was building it. Fifty years of showing up, being present, creating joy. That's the actual legacy.

Topics: Catherine O'Hara career highlights, SCTV influence, Beetlejuice performance, authentic acting legacy, comedy and drama excellence

GUEST: Bill Brioux | brioux.tv

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

What to watch this weekend comes down to ignoring professional advice. Trap on Netflix with Josh Hartnett; everyone is screaming it’s a bad idea. It cost 30 million dollars but looks cheap. The story turns dark and suspenseful. Then the critic tells you Shyamalan's daughter inexplicably becomes the world's greatest detective in the third act, the FBI profiler nemesis never intersects with the protagonist, and Shyamalan writes dialogue like an extraterrestrial studying human interaction. None of that stops you.

Catherine O'Hara died this week after being nominated for The Studio with Seth Rogen. She was present, working, suddenly gone. Send Help puts Rachel McAdams on a deserted island with her boss from hell, Sam Raimi directing at 93 percent certified fresh. Iron Lung is a YouTuber's first feature about a convict welded into a submarine searching blood oceans, building to a Hellraiser wild third act. Wrecking Crew pairs Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa as tender funny half brothers. Wonder Man takes Marvel off script with a struggling actor's LA odyssey starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen III and Ben Kingsley. Shrinking Season 3 brings Michael J. Fox back for Parkinson's conversations television has never delivered this honestly before.

Critics hate things audiences watch anyway because Hartnett elevates everything around him just by existing in the frame. What Fox did addressing Parkinson's frankly on camera matters more than anything else releasing this month. The 93 percent rating on Send Help makes it the safest theatrical bet, but safe rarely wins against curiosity about what everyone says you shouldn't watch.

Topics: weekend streaming guide, theatrical releases January 2026, Michael J. Fox acting return, Catherine O'Hara legacy, honest disability portrayal

GUEST: Steve Stebbing | stevestebbing.ca

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

Trump Bombardier decertification threat targets planes his own military flies. You're reading the announcement: decertify Bombardier unless Canada licenses Gulfstreams here. It's business extortion dressed as negotiation. The actual impact? US military operations compromised. Skywest, Endeavor, PSA, Flexjet, Gojet, Delta Connection all operate CRJs for commuter routes. Connector airline travel stops. The military loses jets it actively uses. All for unclear benefits that one panelist says disrupts perfectly fine cooperation while undermining international trust.

Legitimate certification concerns exist. Boeing self-certifies with FAA. Regulators want more Bombardier information before certifying Global Express jets for Canadian registration. These expensive jets fly in and out of Canada but can't be registered here due to allegations about wing icing and fuel freezing for jets stored in Canada. Meanwhile, Alberta separatist support maxes out at 20 to 25 percent, nowhere near enough for sovereignty. Quebec sovereignty movement is much stronger, yet media fixates on Alberta as if it's the real threat. One panelist calls it manufactured story overblowing domestic voices. Another identifies it as primarily domestic but with exaggerated influence, potentially an attempt to smear Canadian right with political baggage that doesn't actually exist.

Twenty percent support doesn't make a crisis, but media amplification does. Trump's threat would hurt US operations more than Canadian business. The gap between polling reality and narrative intensity reveals which stories get manufactured for maximum outrage versus actual democratic backing.

Topics: Bombardier certification crisis, separatist movement polling, media narrative manufacturing, US military aviation reliance, Quebec versus Alberta sovereignty

GUEST: Adam Zivo, Andrew Caddell

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

Workplace AI adoption challenges start when your assistant stops challenging you. You're using ChatGPT. You draft something. It responds: "That's a great idea. This is good." You refine it. Same response. You've entered what Mohit Rajhans calls the Ralph Wiggum effect. The AI isn't helping you think better. It's placating you. And now you have to prompt it to disagree, which is the opposite of what anyone taught you to do with AI.

You thought AI was a laser beam. Point it at a problem, get 1% of what it can do. Turns out it's a bulldozer. It gives you 100%, and now you're writing rules to exclude the 99% you don't need. That's more work, not less. Meanwhile, knowledge management is the single biggest corporate AI issue. People won't use sanctioned tools because they're worried the first five drafts will be documented and look bad. So they're using ChatGPT on their phones instead of the Copilot their company pays for. More people are using unauthorized AI than the approved tools. It's called shadow AI, and it's happening in real time with no rule book.

Cloudbot and Moltbot are the counter-trend. Personal AI hubs you air-gap from the internet so they only train on your information. The nerds are building sovereignty. The rest of the workplace is still figuring out whether the efficiency tool is making them more efficient or just telling them they're doing great.

Topics: workplace AI challenges, ChatGPT productivity, shadow AI, corporate AI tools, knowledge management

GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

Edmonton Oilers superfan known as McMullet just attended his 200th consecutive game. You're doing the math: he lives 30 minutes east of Calgary, drives two and a half hours north to Edmonton, then 30 minutes downtown. Three and a half hours each way. For every single home game. Including matchups against Columbus Blue Jackets. Including games during emotional breakdowns when the team struggles. He bought season tickets after being sober for a year when his wife told him to do something for himself. Now he helps others in recovery too.

Meanwhile, dental floss has expiry dates despite being string with no medical ingredients. Netflix greenlit a show where a man climbed Taipei 101's 1,800 feet with bare hands, creating content with only two possible endings: success or watching someone die in high definition on live television. The ethical question: is this different from Evel Knievel's Grand Canyon stunts, or does HD change everything? French climber Alain Robert did it with ropes in 2004 taking four hours. This guy did it ropeless. Oscar Meyer Wiener 500 returns with cars named after hot dog flavors racing around the Wiener Circle.

Three and a half hours each way for 200 consecutive games isn't fandom. It's commitment bordering on madness, powered by sobriety and wife encouragement. Netflix betting on either triumph or tragedy in 4K raises questions Evel Knievel never faced. Dental floss expires for reasons nobody can explain. The world keeps getting weirder.

Topics: Edmonton Oilers fan culture, sobriety through sports, Netflix extreme content, unnecessary product expiration, hockey dedication stories

Originally aired on 2026-01-30

Prenuptial agreement benefits sound unromantic until you're spending six times the value fighting over coats. You're getting married. You're penguins. You're meant to be together. Talking about a prenup feels like planning for failure. Julia Fogarty's response: 50% of marriages end in divorce, and the ones without domestic contracts spend thousands more getting there.

January is divorce month because people defer separations through Christmas, especially with children involved. By the time you're negotiating in January, emotions are high and rationality is gone. One client spent $30,000 in legal fees fighting over a coat collection worth $5,000. The emotional attachment made the economic decision irrational. A prenup prevents this by setting terms when you're not hurt. It also forces financial disclosure. You'll know your partner has no credit before you co-sign a mortgage. You'll see the debt before you're legally tied to financial irresponsibility.

Life changes, and so can the contract. You can amend a prenup or create a postnuptial agreement when major events happen. Maybe neither of you wanted kids, you had an accident, became great parents, and one of you left your career. The terms should reflect that shift. The conversation is uncomfortable, but defining what happens if it doesn't work actually takes pressure off the relationship while it does.

Topics: prenuptial agreements, divorce planning, domestic contracts, marriage financial disclosure, postnuptial updates

GUEST: Julia Fogarty | Senior Associate Lawyer at Shulman and Partners LLP

Originally aired on 2026-01-30