SHIFTHEADS: Stories You Did Not Need. Avoiding Them Was the Right Decision

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Jul 4, 2026 · 9m

It's Canada Day weekend, give or take, and Shane and Ryan have three stories that will improve nothing about your life and yet somehow feel essential.

First: the banana car. Twenty-three feet long, Ford F-150 engine, open top, eighty-five miles an hour, and a dedicated app so you always know where it's headed next. Second: Contemporary Calgary is currently housing a thousand-pound butter cowboy, kept from melting by fans running twenty-four hours a day inside a Monopoly exhibit that runs five months. Third: Florida paddleboarders pulled off a dramatic water rescue for what they were confident…