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Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift is your late-night companion for real talk, bold ideas, and unfiltered conversations that matter. Hosted by Canadian radio veteran Shane Hewitt, each episode dives into the headlines, human stories, and hidden truths shaping our world—always with curiosity, compassion, and a sharp edge.
From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring…
Episodes
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Video Games Lost Their Discs. This Box Could Fix It
A community movie library is showing up in neighbourhoods that already trade paperbacks, and it solves a problem video game owners know too well now that discs…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - What It Takes for Canadians to Actually Pay Attention
Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by a city…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite
A tick bite symptom is easy to miss, and this segment lays out anaplasmosis, the tick-borne illness now showing up alongside Lyme disease and pushing stomach…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Stuffed Drunk Raccoon Became Norway's Best Souvenir
Norway's soccer team lost to England, then went viral days later for something that had nothing to do with the match: a stuffed drunk raccoon somebody actually…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - A Satellite Startup Wants to Sell You Sunlight After Dark
Every invasive weed trick you've tried has probably failed, and Andy Barrar has the reason bindweed and mint keep winning. From there he turns to the AI chip…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: July 27th Is the Day Windsor Has Waited Over a Decade For
The Gordie Howe Bridge is set to open July 27th, more than a decade after the deal was signed, and Mike Kakuk explains exactly what changes the day trucks and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Good News-ish? The Slap Sport Where Competitors Get Knocked Out Cold
Competitors in power slapping get hit hard enough to lose consciousness, and a Kitchener woman just became the sport's first women's flyweight champion. From…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - His Great Uncle Was the First Black Order of Canada Recipient & now He is too
Duane D.O. Gibson's great uncle, Isaac Phills, was the first Black Canadian to receive the Order of Canada. Decades later, Duane received the same honour…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - This School Trains Shop Class in Virtual Reality First
Before a single grade eight student in Ontario touches a lathe, they're putting on a VR headset and learning a machine shop that isn't real yet. Kris Abel…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Canada Gave Up Bridge Profits. Here's Why It Still Wins
Canada financed the Gordie Howe Bridge, and under the new deal with the US, half the profits now go to an American development fund. Journalist Matt Gurney…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - He Canceled a Family Trip the Day He Got Laid Off
Bob Addison got laid off from radio in 2015 and canceled a family trip to Oregon the same day, certain everything was falling apart. A decade later, watching…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pick One Spot: The Hometown Game Sweeping the Show
The hometown road trip game only has one rule: pick a single spot to show a first-time visitor, no backup answer allowed. The hosts turn it into a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Would Fewer Years in Office Make Politicians Worse?
A political term limits debate usually stops at the slogan, but Andrew Caddell has covered Parliament Hill long enough to push past it and ask who really…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Inside Copy: Trash Can Candidates
Some stories you didn't need to know today start with a parking ticket and end up somewhere nobody expects. A Toronto driver who knew she'd stopped at the sign…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Steve Stebbing: A Reboot, a Spoof, and a Show Netflix Forgot to Promote
Weekend streaming picks from Steve Stebbing start with a question he can't shake: why remake Moana shot for shot with the same lead singing the same songs…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - One Changed Behaviour Doesn't Mean They're Cheating
Signs your partner is cheating rarely show up as one dramatic clue, and Dr. Laurie Betito spends this conversation drawing the line between suspicion and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Why Your AI Search Results Might Be Lying to You
AI search summaries are quietly replacing the second, third, and fourth sources you used to check before trusting an answer. Mohit Rajhans lays out how a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Thirteen Billion Dollars, and It's Still Not Ours
A Meta data center Alberta project worth thirteen billion dollars sounds like a win for Canadian business, but Emily Osborne makes the case for why the price…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada Has More Drive-Throughs Than the UK
Drive-thru culture is getting a real-time reaction this summer, as Europeans in town for the World Cup post themselves discovering it for the first time. One…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Why Some People Still Refuse to Give Up CRT TVs
Some people still insist a CRT television shows colour that no flat screen can replicate, and tech expert Carmi Levy says it is the same instinct that keeps…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Scream That Rebuilt Bonnie Tyler's Voice
Bonnie Tyler has died at seventy five, and music commentator Eric Alper traces the accident that built her voice: a doctor's order for six weeks of silence…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Mr. Dress Up's Final Goodbye to His Crew
Before his last episode aired, Ernie Coombs recorded a farewell message to the crew behind thirty two years of Mr. Dress Up, a moment that anchors this look…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Pipeline to Ontario Already Exists
Three major announcements landed in Alberta within days of each other, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge breaks down what is actually behind them. A new…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - In Search of a Value Meal: Why a KFC Bucket Now Costs Seventy Five Dollars
An eight piece bucket at KFC runs thirty four dollars in Canada right now, and the family size version tops seventy five. Shane Hewitt & the Nightshift went…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The 17 Minutes McDonald's Dinner the Chairs Were Built For
Fast food value meals only look like a deal. Food professor Sylvain Charlebois lays out the seventeen minute rule behind them: the average person sits…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Mr. Dress Up Never Once Used a Script
Mr. Dress Up ran for thirty two years, and historian Ed Conroy says Ernie Coombs and puppeteer Judith Lawrence built entire episodes with no script at all. Ed…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why the Mai Tai Has Nothing to Do With Hawaii and is still all Hawaii
A cocktail everyone associates with Hawaii was actually invented in Oakland, and Richard Crouse has the recipe along with his verdict on the Moana live action…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada's Cheapest Mortgage City Might Surprise You
Most affordable mortgage city in Canada is not a Toronto or Vancouver question, and it is not even close to one. A fresh Royal LePage ranking puts the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Smart Speakers - Should the Opposition Leader Keep His House?
The agency that insures Canadian mortgages just paid out thirty two million dollars in staff bonuses. The people footing that bill are the same ones struggling…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Summer Jobs Aren't a Waste of Your Time. They're Free Education
Career myths convince people they get one shot at everything: wrong major, wrong first job, and that's the whole story decided. Candy Ho, a CERIC board member…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Sound of the Sounds of the World Cup
World Cup fan celebrations are the actual show this tournament, the games are just the excuse. If the sport itself has never made sense, this is the entry…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Bermuda Triangle Is Safer Than This Canadian Lake
The Great Lakes Triangle has claimed roughly six thousand ships and hundreds of planes, and Nathan Radke explains why the losses feel supernatural even when…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Your Boss Might Be Drunk on AI
Something happens to a manager who spends all day getting agreed with. Greg Fish, a computer scientist behind Cyberpunk Survival Guide, lays out why the people…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Uncle Bob’s Bits: He Sold His FIFA Tickets to Fund a Better Trip
Canada World Cup travel plans do not usually involve selling tickets to one game so you can afford tickets to another, but that is exactly the math Bob Addison…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Marketing Lesson Hidden in a Celebrity Wedding
Marketing scarcity gets tested against a real example: a wedding with no leaked photos, no outside editor, and twenty six million dollars already routed to…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Welcome to Some Good News
Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners and a text line that keeps the good ones coming, and this week the good news starts with a 139-year-old…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - A Kid's Haircut Just Became Someone's Good News
Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners through a dedicated text line, and this week starts with Kyle Lowry set to sign a one-day contract so he…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Four Subs Now, Eight More Whenever Europe Can Build Them
Canada's submarine procurement finally has a plan, and Matt Gurney explains why getting there will still take most of a decade. He connects the announcement to…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - What’s on Your Mind Jim Richards: Sobriety
Sobriety gets treated like a confession, and Jim Richards is tired of feeling like he owes anyone an explanation for ordering a non-alcoholic beer. Coming up…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Thrifting 101: He Paid Four Dollars For A Quarter Million Dollar Jacket
A Portland teenager pulled Wilt Chamberlain's 1972 NBA Finals warm-up jacket out of a Goodwill bin for four dollars, and it is now headed to Sotheby's with an…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - We Don't Own Games Anymore, We Rent Them
PlayStation discs are going away entirely by 2028, and Kris Abel makes the case that the industry is repeating a mistake music already made, minus the concerts…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - An Asteroid Just Rewrote What DNA Ingredients Look Like
A six-year-old sample from asteroid Ryugu just confirmed all five major DNA building blocks, and Dr. Samantha Yammine breaks down why that finding matters more…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - He Walked 14,000 Kilometres to Learn Life’s Most Important Lesson
Rocco Rossi has walked the Camino de Santiago 23 times since 2002, and what started as a way out of a corporate career he no longer believed in has become…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The One That Got Away Simply Never Got To Disappoint You
Wanting what you cannot have applies to more than diets and dream cars. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch dig into why the person just out of reach so often becomes…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Cornhole Is the Secret to Any Good Party
A good party isn't about the location, it's about a short list of ingredients that keep showing up at the ones people actually remember. A backyard fire on a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Sony Just Killed the Video Game Disc for Good
Washing machine mold prevention starts with one habit almost nobody follows, leaving the door open after every load. Tech and DIY expert Andy Baryer breaks…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Caesar Is the Official Drink of Every Summer Event
Festival day drinking follows the same script no matter where in the country it happens, water and sunglasses in the morning, a Caesar by noon, full chaos by…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Canada Just Bought Submarines That Won't Arrive for a Decade
Canada submarine defence spending just became real, with a deal that won't deliver a single vessel for eight to ten years. The Monday study panel breaks down…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - How to Tell If Your Next Car Is Actually Canadian-Made
Canadian car buying tariffs are reshaping which vehicles are actually worth the money this year, and the answer isn't always the one buyers expect. Automotive…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Just Write the Book Already: Everyone has a Story Worth Collecting
Some jobs stick with you long enough to become writing a book of essays about. Alex Boyd worked a bookshop in the 1990s, the same kind of job George Orwell…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Canada Chose Political Optics Over the Best Submarine Delivery
Canada submarine deal analysis from a military expert lands on an uncomfortable question: why did Canada pass on the faster, cheaper option? Richard Shimooka…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Nobody Planned This Wednesday Holiday. Now Nobody's Working
Canada Day landed on a Wednesday and somehow half the country took the whole week off. Shane and Ryan are both at their desks, mildly annoyed, and very much in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - You Almost Always Turn Left. Here's Why!
Human movement bias is more consistent than almost anyone expects, and Samantha Yammine is here to explain why the research is harder to dismiss than it looks…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Stories You Did Not Need. Avoiding Them Was the Right Decision
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Horror With Headphones and Minions in Hollywood
Steve Stebbing, film and entertainment critic, splits this week into two rounds. First, Canadian titles built for a long weekend at home. Then, what's actually…