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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
AI: The Third Voice in the Room Nobody Invited
AI in everyday life is no longer something you opt into. Mohit Rajhans makes the case that it arrived through your last app update, and most people have no…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Before the Game Boy, There Was the Punch Buggy Game
The Game Boy turns 36 this year, and the throwback is not just about the hardware. It is about what changed the moment a screen showed up in the back seat of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Technology Giveth and Technology Taketh Away
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to ask what actually changed the moment handheld gaming arrived in the back seat of the family car. Carmi Levy has a clear…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Dairy Myth and What Canada Is Actually Giving Up at the Trade Table
Canada US trade negotiations are at a crossroads, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says the messaging coming out of Ottawa is conflicting enough to be a problem on…
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1989: The Year the Game Boy Arrived and a Home Cost $125,000
Throwback Thursday lands in 1989, and the gap between then and now is either comforting or devastating depending on what you look at first. The Game Boy…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - We Have the Oil, the Gas, and the Minerals. The Question Is Whether We Use Them
Canada trade talks with the United States are stuck in a holding pattern, and Rob Breakenridge says the bigger problem is that nobody has defined the end game…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Three Questions That Change How You See Spring Cleaning
Decluttering is not a weekend project. Megan Golightly says it is a mindset shift, and once it clicks, you cannot unlearn it. The hard part is not the stuff…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - No Save Button, No Shortcuts: What the Original Game Boy Actually Built
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations about 1989: the things you had to earn before anyone handed…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Great Concerts, Thin Biography: The Michael Jackson Movie Reviewed
Michael Jackson's biopic is in theatres now, and whether it deserves the praise depends entirely on what you want from it. Meanwhile, a UK judge just called…
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Same Mall. Same Moment. Two Completely Different Experiences
Perception and storytelling are the same mechanism, and both of them drift. Shane Hewitt makes the case that the game of telephone is not just a party game. It…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - One Optimist, One Realist, One Very Big Week for Canada
Canada-US trade is being negotiated against a backdrop of a premier's private jet controversy, airline consolidations, and a summer travel season that is…
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SHIFTHEADS: Romance Doesn't Die Dramatically. It Dies in Sweatpants on the Couch
Relationship drift does not announce itself. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco have a name for where it ends up: roommates. Not a blowup, not a betrayal. Just two…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
INSIDE COPY: Drake Put Ice in a Parking Lot and Toronto Had to Call the Fire Department
Weird news stories today do not get much better than a rapper placing a massive block of ice in downtown Toronto for an album launch and the city spending 16…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - How a Joke About Birds Became Something People Actually Believe
How conspiracy theories spread is the question Dr. Lee Kuhnle has been building a career around, and the answer is less about deception than about distance…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Being Professionally Awful Online Now Pays. That Is the Actual Problem
Why people are meaner online has a cleaner answer than most people want to admit. Greg Fish ran the experiment himself: three months of deliberately aggressive…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
More Cameras. More Evidence. Not More Justice
Digital evidence and justice have a complicated relationship, and Tyler Hatch has spent a career inside that gap. The footage exists. The screenshot exists…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Ten Cents a Can and Strong Opinions About Your Blue Bin
Recycling habits in Canada are not a national conversation. They are twelve separate provincial arguments, and Bob Addison from Surrey is ready to have all of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Good News Tuesday Stories: The Sweater, the Stranger, and the Backyard Full of People
Uplifting news stories Canada doesn't always look like headlines. Sometimes it looks like a Vancouver man sitting across from the mother of the stranger whose…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Small Moments, Real Feeling: Good News Tuesday
Good news stories in Canada live in the spaces most people aren't looking. Ryan O'Donnell found his in an IMAX seat, watching a film from 2008 that somehow hit…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Antidote to Loneliness Has Been There the Whole Time
Volunteering in Canada powers things most people take entirely for granted. Community events, sports leagues, hospital visits, search and rescue. Dr. Megan…
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SHIFTHEADS: Canada Has a Drone Advantage Nobody Is Talking About
Canadian drone industry experts will tell you Canada is behind. Richard Shimooka will tell you exactly how far, and it is not a comfortable number. There is a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW- AN Epiphany: What You're Actually Blocking Out With Your Headphones
Headphones and human connection turn out to be in direct competition, and most people have already picked a side without realizing it. Ryan O'Donnell took his…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Why Saving Energy Doesn't Always Save You Money
Canadian electricity rates are among the lowest in the world. That does not mean your bill is easy to understand or easy to reduce. Pierre-Olivier Pineau has a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Robot Beat the Human. Robot Marathons?
Humanoid robots in 2026 just ran a half marathon faster than the human world record for the same distance. Last year one robot finished in two hours and forty…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Our Expectations Are the Problem. Canada's Too.
Canadian certainty expectations are at the centre of every political conversation right now, and Matt Gurney says that's exactly the problem. Not the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Ten Minutes. One Link. A Measurable Drop in Depression.
Depression intervention tools that take ten minutes and live at a free link are not a silver bullet. Benji Kaveladze will tell you that clearly. A 4% average…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Making Friends After 50 Has Two Approaches, and You've Probably Only Tried One
Making friends after 50 sounds like something that quietly stops being possible. Then Shane moved to a small town, started going out on weekends, and keeps…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Your Attic Has a Streaming TV in It. You Just Don't Know Yet.
DIY home upgrades have a way of starting with something you forgot you owned. Andy Baryer found a monitor so old it had no HDMI port. It's now a streaming TV…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Four Hours. Eighty-Two Minutes of Wrestling.
Ad creep in sports has officially eaten the event. Four hours of WrestleMania. Eighty-two minutes of wrestling. If you paid $500 for a seat in Las Vegas this…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Strait of Hormuz: The 53-Kilometre Threat Nobody Took Seriously
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has turned a 53-kilometre waterway into the most consequential question in global energy. One to three ships are transiting it…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Inside the Pilot Frequency: Why “Meowing” on the Radio Is a Real Aviation Problem
High above the ground, communication isn’t optional—it’s survival. So why are pilots sometimes joking on the very frequency designed for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Playoffs, Politics, and the Awkward Truth About Making Friends After 40
Hockey loyalties collide, but that’s just the warm-up. This conversation moves from playoff passion to something far more personal—why making…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The 50 Cents That Bothers You and the $40 That Doesn't
Financial anxiety hits different when every headline feels like evidence that it's all out of your hands. But the part that's actually in your hands is bigger…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Happy Friday! Have You Ever Cheated on a Test?
Cheating on tests used to have a clear definition. A binder on the floor in fourth grade, pages turned with two feet, and Dorothy across the aisle who saw the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Happy Friday Round Up: Good Politics, Bad Economics
The Canadian grocery rebate hits accounts this week and the gas tax comes off the pump. September is when one of those reverses, and the gap between now and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Inside Copy - 91 Year Old Gamer Goes Missing Due to Brain Rot
Welfare check calls go unanswered for a lot of reasons. In Ohio, the reason was a 91-year-old in her bedroom trying to beat her record. Police radioed it in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Screen Disney Invented Because It Couldn't Have the One It Wanted
Disney Infinity Vision is the new premium format launching the same weekend as Avengers Doomsday. The full announcement is laser projection and premium audio…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Relationship Gaps - PDA What the Couple at the Bar Did for Everyone
PDA in relationships is where two completely different upbringings end up in the same parking lot. One person reaches. The other one doesn't. And somehow that…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - We Called It Cheating. They Called It Figuring It Out
Kids using AI to get answers at school. Cheating, or just faster at figuring it out than the adults who wrote the rules? The guardrails are gone, and nobody…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Earth Destroyed Its Own Origin Story. The Moon Kept It
What the moon can teach us is the part of our own story we cannot find anywhere down here, because this planet erased it. Every earthquake, every ocean, every…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
When Did Car Shopping Start Feeling Like Buying a Washing Machine?
New car prices in Canada are up almost 60% in six years, and Lorraine Sommerfeld says that number didn't just change what people can afford. It changed how…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pokemon Pocket Man-sters. Twenty-Seven Years of Getting It Wrong
Pokemon throwback Thursday 1998 starts with a confession. The spelling on the show document said P-O-K-E-M-A-N. It has said that since 1998. Pokemon means…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Much Music Corner on Queen Street Still Feels Like Something
MuchMusic is gone long enough now that people are finally understanding what it was. That is Bill Welychka's theory and ten years of book signings have…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Two People. Same Banana. Different Price
Surveillance pricing grocery stores are not a future problem. Tests in the United States put 20 people in the same room buying the same product at the same…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Last Year Before Everything Changed
1998 throwback Thursday lands on a year that felt safe and new at the exact same time. The Discman was still in your bag. Blockbuster still had a line on…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Rob Breakenridge: One Point. Worst Team in the League. Rob Is Nervous for his Team
Canadian NHL playoffs are here and the Oilers have been handed the simplest possible test going in. One point. Against the worst team in the entire league. The…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pokemon: Poker Meets Chess. Also, There Are Dragons
Pokemon card game competitive play has a world championship, a global tournament circuit, and kids making tens of thousands of dollars. Most adults still think…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Teenage Clothing Choices: Grey Is a Personality Now
Fashion labels teenagers claim as identity had to arrive from somewhere, and Bob Addison watched it happen in real time. One kid in Trail, BC came back from…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Throwback Thursday 1998: The Year Before Everything Got Complicated
1998 nostalgia hits differently once someone points out that it was actually the last safe year. Google arrived. Email became something everyone had. Cell…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You Are My God. She Said to the Drummer?
New album release day driving deaths tracked in a Harvard study are linked to the ten biggest album drops between 2017 and 2022. Traffic fatalities rose nearly…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Booze and Reviews: Little Lorraine - They Were Not Moving Lobsters
Little Lorraine is a real place. Sixty people. A mine that exploded. A fishery that dried up. And then a man called Uncle Huey came back to town with a lobster…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Successful People: The Power of a Good Team or Partner
Yes people leadership is what happens when the person in charge stopped needing to be challenged a long time ago. Nobody is going to stop you. That is exactly…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Smart Speakers: The Gas Tax Gamble
Liberal majority government is new enough that the cabinet has barely unpacked, and it has already put a gas tax cut on the board and a Conservative caucus…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: I Got Rid of Everything. Then I Did It Again
Too much stuff is a cycle, and the embarrassing part is how fast it closes. Five truckloads to the dump. An online auction. Everything gone. Moved from Calgary…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - How Old (and safe) Are Your Plastic Containers?
Plastic container safety gets worse every time you do the responsible thing. Every wash. Every microwave cycle. Every time you rinse it out and put it back in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - When Treason Was the Backup Plan To Save Humanity
Nuclear weapons control rests, constitutionally, with one person. In 1969 that person was drunk, incensed, and on the phone to the Joint Chiefs ordering a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Cold Objective Machine That Just Agrees With You
AI love bombing feels different from a friend agreeing with you. A friend you can discount. They like you. They are on your side. A machine has no side. And…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Artemis ReCap - Eat Cookies, Name a Crater and Then Back to Work
Artemis mission photographs showed the far side of the moon with Earth in the background. They looked like a science fiction film. The astronauts said exactly…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Cancer Was in Dinosaurs. Dr. Chris Hillis on How Far We’ve Come
Cancer treatment advances have changed what a diagnosis means, and most of us haven't updated our mental model for it. Cancer was in dinosaur bones. It is as…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
GOOD NEWS TUESDAY - The 90-Year-Old Who Chose Kettlebells for Her Birthday
Good News Tuesday lands on a week that opened with a 3.9 earthquake near Ottawa and somehow still found four stories worth stopping for. A 90-year-old Ottawa…