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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
NEW - He Thought He Was Too Old to Start a Band in 1980. New It’s BeenForty-Six Years and 3,000 Shows Later
Punk rock and its community are the subject, and the perspective comes from someone who has been in it for forty-six years. Paul Gott started the Montreal band…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The AI That Was Going to Save You Money Just Got More Expensive
AI subscription costs are changing and not in the direction anyone hoped. The pay-by-workload model is replacing the all-you-can-eat subscription, and it looks…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
An Orange Orb That Split in Two and Outran a Fighter Jet: A 2025 Intelligence Report
UFO orbs are the subject and the newly released US government files go back further than most people realize. The phenomenon predates flying saucers by years…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Silicon Valley Is Building a God-Level AI. Its Backup Plan Is Genetically Engineered Children
Artificial general intelligence is what AI companies say they are building. Engineered super children are Silicon Valley's plan for when that AI takes over…
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NEW - Canada Is Buying a Surveillance Plane. It May Not Plug Into the System It Needs to Use
Canada military procurement made a move this week. Canada is looking to buy a surveillance plane built on a Bombardier airframe with Saab technology. Richard…
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NEW - Heavy Metal Has a Reputation for Danger. The Mosh Pit Has Different Rules.
Heavy metal community is the subject and the argument is simple. The music sounds aggressive. The culture is not. Ryan O'Donnell has been to hundreds of shows…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Good News Tuesday: A Thousand People Showed Up for a Six-Year-Old Who Could Not Have a Birthday Party
Good News Tuesday lands on one story that earns the name more than most. A six-year-old named Levi has leukemia and could not be surrounded by people for his…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS:What’s On Your Mind: Jerry Agar Edition - Running Out of Time to Delay the Things You Actually Want
Parenting adult kids is the subject and it starts with a phone call. Your daughter says she might come visit. The answer to might is just tell me when. Jerry…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Schoolyard Has More Asphalt. The Kids Have More Anxiety.
Kids recess in Canada has no legal protection. No legislation. Some schools have it. Some do not. A researcher who has been in this field for twenty-five years…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Nobody Told These Kids Metal Wasn't for Them. Now They're Obsessed.
Kids metal music has a home and it is called Howdytoons. Mike Whitla started writing heavy songs about dinosaurs for his young children in 2010, realised the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada Is Fixing Its Cities for the World Cup. Not for the People Who Live There.
Canada right track is the question one year out from the election. Matt Gurney's assessment is that we are more or less where he worried we would be. A poll…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Coming Soon: You Can Hire Digital Ozzy for Your Commercial. He Will Do Whatever You Want.
Tech news this week includes a digital Ozzy Osbourne available for commercial licensing, a Ferrari that looks like an Apple product, and a Canadian…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Dad Stuff: The Expensive Bass Clarinet His Son Picked is Now Awesome Somehow
Kids learning music rarely goes the way anyone plans. Bob Addison's son had never touched an instrument until September. It was mandatory. None of that matters…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Canada Funded the Research. Someone Else Owns the Patent.
Canadian innovation has a cost problem almost nobody talks about. Not the cost of building things, but the cost of giving them away after they work. Jim…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Sears Catalog Told You What to Buy. Social Media Tells You Who to Be.
The Sears catalog is having a moment online and it opened up something bigger. The difference between what shopping used to feel like and what it has become…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Andy Baryer: AI Toys Are Designed for Kids. They Are Not Safe for Kids.
DIY and tech tips cover a lot of ground this week, from what to do with grass clippings to what is quietly running inside the AI toy your kid wants. The Spring…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: A Post About Sears Went Viral. It Really Hits Home.
Sears nostalgia hit the internet this week and the hosts are not entirely buying the story being told. A viral post. A real set of numbers. And a question…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Divorce Solution: Work on Yourself Before the Breakup, not After
Divorce starts this conversation and doesn't let go. A viral post about resting on a Saturday for the first time in eight years opens something much more…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Eleven Billion Dollars Into Saskatchewan's Fields. Nobody Cut a Ribbon.
Canadian farming costs don't come with press releases or ribbon cuttings. Saskatchewan alone puts eleven billion dollars into the ground each spring on one…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada Has an Automotive Workforce. It Does Not Have an Automotive Industry.
Canada's automotive industry has been in decline for twenty-five years, and the first argument in this conversation is that the name itself is part of the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Mental Health Is Costing Canada $180 Billion a Year. That's the Low Estimate.
Mental health in Canada carries a price tag most people have never heard. $180 billion every year, and the lead author of the report that produced that number…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Your Separation Agreement Is Fair. That Doesn't Mean You Can Afford It.
Divorce finances start with a separation agreement and end somewhere much more expensive. The legal framework splits assets fairly. Fair and affordable turn…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Things Only Canadians Say: Yeah, No. It Means No… yeah?
Canadian expressions are invisible until someone from outside names them. With F1 weekend pulling visitors into Montreal from around the world, the hosts asked…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: What Does Quebec Know About Separation That Alberta Doesn't?
Alberta's separation talk is getting louder, and a man who organized Quebec's 1980 referendum is watching closely. Andrew Caddell has seen this before. The…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Inside Copy - The Cybertruck That Got a Boating Ticket
Three weird news stories make up this episode, and each one gets worse the more you think about it. A Texas man drove a Cybertruck into a lake. His citation…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Steve Stebbing on Why Star Wars Stopped Being a Cultural Event
What to watch this weekend covers six picks and a real argument: whether audiences have been permanently conditioned out of blockbuster excitement, with a new…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - AI and Humans in the Loop: Who's Actually Watching?
Humans in the loop only works as a safeguard if the humans know they are in one. Right now, across industries, most of them do not. Mohit Rajhans points to a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SCAMS: The Message Came From Apple. Apple Didn't Send It
iCloud phishing scams are targeting Canadians with messages so convincing they fooled a cybersecurity analyst's own mother. The pitch is simple: your storage…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Inside Job: Organized Crime, Airport Workers, and Your Luggage
Canada has an airport drug smuggling problem, and it starts with the people loading your bags. Avery Haines found that corrupt employees have been switching…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pac-Man Was Not 1983. Mario Was. A Trivia Game Goes Sideways
1983 brought Mario, the chicken nugget, and the Swatch Watch. A trivia game on air reveals all of them and gets one answer spectacularly wrong. The clues come…
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ICYMI: How to Know if a Watch Is Worth the Money, With the Horological Society of Canada
Swatch watch saved the Swiss watch industry in 1983. Forty-plus years later, a Swatch collaboration just made an Audemars Piguet accessible to mere mortals. A…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Ontario Charged Food Manufacturers a Billion Dollars. You Are Paying for It
Food inflation in Canada has a hidden driver nobody is talking about. Ontario just charged food manufacturers a billion dollars through it. You are paying that…
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People Lined Up at 5am for a $560 Swatch That Is Not Limited
Swatch watch was born in 1983. In 2026, people are lining up at 5am at malls across Canada to buy one they could just wait for. The Swatch collaboration with…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Alberta Separation Question Is No Longer Hypothetical
Alberta separation is no longer just a whisper. A court-blocked petition, a rushed committee meeting, and a premier's televised address are all arriving at…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Gambling on Wars: What Is Polymarket and Why Is a US Soldier Being Prosecuted Over It
Polymarket lets you bet on wars, missile strikes, and how many soldiers will die. A finance professor says it is gambling, not a market, and the difference…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Swatch Watches, the Gray Hoodie, and What Happened to 80s Fashion
Swatch watches turned a timekeeping device into a fashion statement. Ed Conroy had three or four lined up on his desk in grade three and felt like a high…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Richard Crouse: Colbert's Exit, Billy Joel's Fight, and Baby Yoda's Big Weekend
Star Wars is back on the big screen, and so is a fight over who gets to tell your story when you're famous. Nobody Told Billy Joel the Movie Was Happening…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - A Million Dollars and What It Actually Buys
A million dollars used to change everything. One Survivor winner turned theirs into $50,000 of debt. A CTV News piece tracking what Survivor winners did with…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Bag Tag Swapping, RCMP Arrests, and the W5 Airport Investigation
Airport security workers were arrested by the RCMP for swapping bag tags with drug shipments. The W5 investigation is only the beginning of the conversation…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Spy in the Gift Bag: A Former CSIS Officer on China, Coins, and Carved Eagles
Spy gifts aren't a conspiracy theory. A coin, a carved eagle, or a lanyard can all carry tracking devices. The White House delegation to China reportedly kept…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
He Won a Million Dollars on Survivor and Spent It on His Dog's Hip
A million dollars won on Survivor, and Danny Boatwright spent $10,000 of it on a new hip for his dog. He calls it the best money he ever spent. Season 3 winner…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - They Were Just Ordinary People. They Broke Into the FBI
COINTELPRO is one of the largest government surveillance programs in American history. A group of ordinary people found the proof by picking the locks. The…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Nietzsche, the Ubermensch, and Why Bad People Aren't Nihilists
Nihilism says nothing is special. Greg Fish says that is the most freeing idea in philosophy, and the most misunderstood. Greg Fish argues that the real source…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW: It's Not AI Blocking Your Job Application. Here's What Is
AI resume screening is not the reason your application disappeared. But what's actually blocking you is almost worse. Shelley Billinghurst surveyed Canadian…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Ozempic, Peptides, and the Shortcut That Might Cost You More Than the Weight
Ozempic side effects are starting to tell a story that the billions of dollars in prescriptions written haven't caught up to yet. Tony Chapman has been paying…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Scammiest Email Was Real: Your Bread Settlement Cheque Has Arrived
Good News Tuesday delivers rare validation that the suspicious-looking settlement email was actually legitimate, and $50 in bread money just landed in a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Smart Glasses? How About Smart Contact Lenses - Handy Andy
Smart contact lenses are in prototype, gardening pros have a trick nobody ever taught you, and the term glass holes is back. A tech and DIY expert connects all…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Good News Tuesday: Joel’s Dog, Tony’s Bird and Bobette
Good News Tuesday reaches into the remarkable with a dog missing for two years, a wild bird that found its human, and a host who cannot wait for the visit…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Canada's Military Reality: A Defence Analyst Says We're a Complete Non-Player
Canada military spending has been inadequate for so long that a defence analyst says the country won't have meaningful new capability until 2035. Richard…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ChatGPT Wants Your Bank Account. Kris Abel on Whether You Should Let it in.
ChatGPT bank account access is rolling out to select US users, and a tech journalist says Canada is next. His breaking news on next-gen Google Glass is the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Go See the Snowbirds: A Pilot on What's About to Change Forever
Snowbirds Tutor jets have one season of flying left after this one, and a pilot says the years between the last Tutor flight and the replacement arriving could…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Show and Shine: Why the Old Muscle Cars Still Have Something the New Ones Don't
Classic cars are about more than chrome and horsepower, and an automotive journalist says the ones that make people pull over are the ones attached to a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Trump Is Right About Canada's Military. Matt Gurney Says We've Known It for Decades.
Canada defence spending has been a broken promise for decades, and a political journalist says the US pausing a joint defence board is just the beginning of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Prairie Bound: A Summer Drive to Meet the Family He Never Knew He Had
Birth family connections don't always start with a meeting, and a radio contributor says the phone call that changed his life happened almost twenty years ago…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The 18% Default: How the Payment Screen Changed the Tipping Conversation
Tipping culture has a word problem. The receipt says gratuity. The machine says 18. Somewhere between those two things, the meaning changed. The hosts dig into…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
What’s On Your Mind, Elias Makso? Quebec Tried to Fix Tipping and broke it
Tipping in Quebec had a problem, so the government passed a law. The first tip option is now higher than it was before the law existed. The old system…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: What a Hospitality Professor Actually Thinks About Your 20% Tip
Tipping culture is being redesigned, and a hospitality professor says the first real test is already happening at restaurants near you. Wayne Smith says…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI What to Watch This Weekend: The Movie That Could Change Awards Season for Horror
What to watch this weekend just got a lot more specific, and a film critic from Penticton has already done the scrolling for you. The Movie That Could Make…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Secrets, Privacy, and White Lies: A Clinical Psychologist on What's Killing Your Relationship
Secrets in relationships aren't always what they look like, and a clinical psychologist says the distinction between privacy and secrecy could be the most…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Rogue Tool Problem: What Happens When Employees Go Off-Script With AI
Shadow AI is a one-click liability, and a tech consultant says most employers have no idea how deep it already goes inside their own organizations. Mohit…