FULL EPISODE: Coping With Valentine's Day Disappointment - February 11, 2026
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Welcome in. Here's what we'll cover tonight and some of the things you'll learn. It's Valentine's Day coming up, and you bought that special someone a cheap box of chocolates. You hide the receipt. It's like that $3 heart-shaped box just exposed your entire personality. Halfway through the hour, we'll ask, why is a bargain for a special gift so embarrassing?
How does social health relate to preventing mass shootings?
After that, we continue the Valentine's Day discussion and answer this question. What are you supposed to do when your life doesn't fit that specific script of a joyous, sexy Valentine's Day? You know, the picture-perfect TV Valentine's dinner with a romantic ending. So if your life or the life of someone you know doesn't quite match that, we'll give you tips for how to deal with it on Valentine's Day. That's towards the end of the hour. Those are some of the things we'll cover tonight. Let's dive in. Yesterday in British Columbia, in the remote town of Tumbler Ridge, the town was struck by tragedy, a horrific school shooting. Nine people were killed, two are seriously injured, another 25 are injured.
The suspected shooter was found dead.
What is consumption stigma and why is it relevant on Valentine's Day?
BC's Minister of Public Safety said the people of Tumbler Ridge remain in a state of crisis following one of the worst mass shootings in our province's and country's history. I want to talk about the psychological impact, the immediate one, on surviving students and staff and families in such a small, close-knit community of only 2,400 people. I am here with Steve Jordans, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, to discuss. Steve, welcome to the show. I wish you were coming on under better circumstances.
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, we need to learn from these things too, so they're always important to talk through, I think.
I think for me, what I'm so struck by is how close knit this community must be being so remote, being a community of just over 2000 people. And I think of the sort of day after, like the staff, the students going back to the school. What is returning to a scene like that, really a crime scene after such a tragedy?
Yeah, I mean, it's really tough.
What should you do when Valentine's Day doesn't meet expectations?
And the level of toughness kind of depends on the extent to which a given individual felt like their life was truly in danger. Those kids that were in the middle of it and that literally thought this could be it, our brain does something crazy In that state, we refer to it as PTSD. We think of PTSD as a bad thing. What the brain is actually doing is kind of saying, oh my goodness, I'm in a life or death situation. What was happening just before this? Is there anything in my environment that I can latch onto so that in the future, if that thing happens again, I can be ready for this before it happens. And so that's really what PTSD is. Now, the problem is it was probably a random shooting. So we have kids who might've, I don't know, eaten a sandwich or heard a song or smelled a given smell or whatever it might be.
And then suddenly they realize their life is in danger. For those children, that stimulus, whatever it could be, could be an instant trigger to bring them back to that fear that they have. And that's what we really think of as PSD. So for the ones most directly impacted, this is a very strong, enduring thing the brain does. It's meant to keep them safe. But in fact, it could literally haunt them and cause them to relive this incident over and over and over.
And that's what's so sad and so troubling of having to continue to go to a school every day in an aftermath like that. Likely, I guess, reliving the trauma over and over again.
How does queer representation in sports impact society?
Yeah. I mean, for those children, they might literally feel like they're right back there. But for everybody, the way our memory system works, it's all based on cues. So we connect events and stuff with things in the environment, with stuff that was going on.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What tragic event is discussed at the start of the episode?
0:00–0:45
2
How does social health relate to preventing mass shootings?
0:45–1:27
3
What is consumption stigma and why is it relevant on Valentine's Day?
1:27–2:25
4
What should you do when Valentine's Day doesn't meet expectations?
2:25–3:49
5
How does queer representation in sports impact society?
3:49–4:39
6
What are some messy money dilemmas discussed in the episode?
4:39–5:06
7
How is AI changing the hospitality industry?
5:06–5:50
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What are the implications of using AI versus human touch in hotels?
5:50–1:20:08
Speakers
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