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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
The First Launch I Have Watched Since Challenger
Artemis 2 launched today and for one person watching, the last time a space launch was watched all the way through was 1986. Crisscross applesauce on a library…
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NEW - A Rocket to the Moon and a Primetime Sideshow
Artemis 2 launch reaction is the kind of thing that surprises you. Lindsay Broadhead did not expect what she felt watching it. Jamie Ellerton remembered a…
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SHIFTHEADS: No Sandwiches in Space. That Rule Has Been There Since 1965 for Good Reason
Jeremy Hansen space launch is something Kris Abel has been waiting for since he met Hansen years before the mission existed. They did simulations together…
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NEW - Disclosure: You Draw a Flying Saucer Because of Movies. Not Because of Aliens
Alien conspiracy theories in 2025 are moving fast and Nathan Radke, who teaches this for a living, has been tracking all of it. The US government registered…
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Shiftheads - Jeremy Hansen Is Ready. The Rest of Us Are Nervous
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is going around the moon on Artemis 2 and Rachel Ward-Maxwell, who studies space for a living, is nervous. The astronauts are…
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ICYMI - If You Have to Explain It in Primetime, It Is Not Going Your Way
Trump Iran war speech ran tonight and Matt Gurney's first observation was this: when a president goes on national television in primetime to reassure his own…
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It Is International Whiskey Day and Also Apparently Smashburger Day Is a Thing
International Whiskey Day lands on a Friday this year and World Theatre Day is today too, which means you can go to the theatre and drink whisky and…
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The Most Exciting Whisky Market in the World Is Canada
Canadian whisky has been reaching past its reputation and most people have not noticed yet. Stephen Beaumont says Canada is currently the most exciting whisky…
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SHIFTHEADS: Say Their Names First: Air Canada Crash Fallout
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau's English-only statement after two pilots died had a problem that had nothing to do with language. It had to do with order. The…
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NEW - Project Hail Mary Sold Out. Here Is What to Watch While You Wait
Space movies like Project Hail Mary do not come around often and the box office proved it. The biggest opening day for an original film in years. Sold out on…
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Not The Mama! Murdoch Dynasty v. Duck Dynasty
What to watch this weekend starts with Morgan Freeman narrating a visually stunning dinosaur documentary on Netflix called The Dinosaurs. Ryan O'Donnell has…
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ICYMI - Relationship Breakdowns: Money Is Not About Numbers
Money and relationships break down the same way every time: two people who never had the conversation discover they are not on the same page and by then it has…
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NEW - AI Technology Did Not Wait for You to Read the Terms and Conditions
AI agents on your computer are already here and the checkbox most people ignore is the one that decides whether it touches one folder or everything you own…
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How Are You? Two in Five say Not OK
Declining mental health in Canada has a specific number attached to it now. Statistics Canada measured how many people reported feeling happy and interested in…
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Thank You Wave: Generous or an Evil Trap?
Staged car collisions in Canada are up 400 percent and the friendly wave is one of the most common setups. Someone stops. They wave you out of the parking spot…
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NEW - What Is the Smallest Amount You Would Actually Go Back For?
Grocery store refund stories have a threshold moment and this one involves potato peelings. Tony cooked the potato. Then he checked the receipt. The price was…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canadian Oranges from Saskatchewan VIA Egypt
Maple washing is what happens when a grocery store uses the maple leaf to raise prices on a product that is not Canadian. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has seen it in…
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SHIFTHEADS: Food Prep vs Groceries: The Math Works Until You Open the Fridge
Meal kit delivery versus groceries is a math problem until you go back through the weeks and find the ordering-in receipts. Three meals plus lunch supplies for…
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THROWBACK THURSDAY 1995 - The Finance Minister Was Taking Your Calls. Live. On TV
1995 Canada had a finance minister who went on Canada AM and took unscreened phone calls from Canadians about his budget cuts. Paul Martin sat there and…
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Shiftheads - WAR and OIL: The Background Is Now the Foreground
Alberta referendum votes on October 19th are drawing a line that will be hard to ignore once it is drawn. Immigration. Constitutional reform. Separation on the…
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ICYMI - Fourteen Years Ago Gord Downey Was Way Ahead
Tragically Hip music has a way of arriving late for some people. Not because the songs changed but because the listener did. Ryan O'Donnell grew up hearing his…
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NEW - SNL 1995 with the Tragically Hip: He Said the Wrong Word and It was Accidental Genius
Tragically Hip Saturday Night Live 1995 started with Gord Downie walking out and saying the wrong first lyric. Instead of fabulously rich he said tragically…
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Where Did All the Leading Men Go?
Hollywood leading men are disappearing and Ed Conroy has a specific way of putting it: when Clooney and DiCaprio and Pitt are gone, where is the new Paul…
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The $500,000 Movie That Made $15 Million + 2 Vince Vaughns
Movie theater comeback stories do not usually start with a $500,000 Canadian horror film made by people nobody has heard of yet. This one does, and Richard…
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NEW You'll Bet on a Slot Machine But Not on Yourself
Gambling on yourself is the one bet most people will not take. A slot machine run by a casino with odds set against you? Fine. A sports app with a two-second…
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NEW - Las Vegas Is Now in Your Pocket. Nobody Wrote the Rules for That
Sports betting in Canada is now in the broadcast, embedded in the commentary before the game even starts. Jamie Ellerton takes out a hundred dollars, wins it…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Kid Who Watched Hannah Montana Is Running the Meeting Now
Hannah Montana turns 20 this year, and the kids who came home from school and put it on are now the doctors, the managers, the people running things. Katelyn…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
What Did You Watch When You Were 10 Years Old?
By the Power of Grayskull versus the Biggest Pop Star in the World. Generational TV shows tell you everything about who raised a generation and how. In 1985…
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ICYMI - SORA: I Told You So, Love Greg Fish
OpenAI Sora shut down after a couple of months, Disney pulled a billion-dollar deal, and Greg Fish has been saying for almost a year that this was coming. Not…
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NEW - Sora, Not Sora: Are You the AI Conductor or Passenger
AI replacing jobs is already happening, but Tony Chapman says the mechanism is not what most people think. It is not that AI arrived and took over. It is that…
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The Casino Is in Your Pocket Now
Gambling addiction signs start long before anyone loses everything. Melissa Toney-Williams names the quiet ones: missing social events, hiding what you are…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Complaint Isn't About the Chicken
Complaints are requests in disguise, and most people stop one layer too soon to see it. The meal kit was leaking. The turkey smelled like rotten eggs. The…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Boomer-Zoomer Free Yellow Payphone Solving Loneliness
Good News Tuesday has a payphone story tonight. It is yellow, it sits in a university coffee shop in Boston, and it is connected to a seniors home in Nevada…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You're Paying More Than Cable Now and Getting Ads again
Streaming service costs have quietly crossed a line most people did not notice. What started at seven dollars a month is now twenty-five, and that is just one…
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Matt Gurney: Canada’s Normal Just Isn’t Good Enough
Canadian government inefficiency is not really about failure. It is about expectation. Matt Gurney has one example that makes that distinction impossible to…
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NEW - Every Generation Thinks They Invented Turning 30
Turning 30 as a millennial looked like a death sentence from a distance. Bed by nine. No more fun. House, kids, the whole package. Less than half have the…
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ICYMI - Complainers: What Are They Actually Asking For?
Why we complain is rarely the story we tell ourselves about it. Leadership consultant Rachel Levy draws the line between the complaint you can hear and the one…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Robot Showed Up for Its Shift at McDonald's
Humanoid robots at McDonald's are not a concept anymore. Shanghai is testing four of them right now: one in full uniform taking orders, one in a chef's hat…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You Built a Great Life. Someone's Trying to Get In.
Dating after 50 puts a question on the table that nobody talks about out loud: is this chemistry, or is this indigestion? Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco sat with…
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Shiftheads - Bob’s Bits: The No-Plan Plan That Actually Worked
Spring break with a teenager and Bob Addison's plan was simply: call it an adventure day. One rainy Vancouver Thursday later, there were axolotls, a Pink Floyd…
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SHIFTHEADS Why Saying Hi Is the Actual Answer to Loneliness
Talking to strangers statistically works out better than anyone walking into it believes it will. Three hundred participants. A week-long scavenger hunt built…
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The Soap That Hates Rabbits and the Phone That Hates Apps
DIY household hacks this useful are already sitting in your bathroom cabinet and kitchen drawer, waiting. Two things most people use for exactly one purpose…
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ICYMI: Getting Flamed: When You Speak Up for a Stranger
Stepping into a stranger's conversation about vaccines in 2025 should have gone badly. The bartender doing the teasing was expected to get defensive. Instead…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Mustard Seed, a Basketball, and Ryan Gosling in Space
Project Hail Mary science hides something real that the movie barely touches, and Dr. Elaina Hyde found it. The microbes proposed for Venus's atmosphere, the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
How a Fire Truck Changes Everything on Final Approach
LaGuardia Air Canada crash investigators are working through wreckage after the crash, and the question at the centre of it is a direct one. The plane landed…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - 200,000 Canadians a Year Leave Hospital Sicker
Hospital-acquired infections affect 200,000 Canadians every year and kill 12,000 of them. These aren't people who arrived critically ill. These are people who…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Monday Study: The Price of Everything Going Up, Including War
Iran conflict costs are landing on a Saskatchewan farm before the planting season even starts. Trump said he'll keep bombing for fun. The markets moved when he…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Why Financial Anxiety Arrives Before the Bill Does
Financial anxiety has a way of arriving before the bill does. Somewhere between the morning news and the gas station sign, a number that has nothing to do with…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Legend Who Became a Meme and Owned Every Second of It
Chuck Norris's legacy hit different for the generation that never watched his movies. They knew his name every single day anyway, in classrooms and group…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pierre Poilievre Went on Joe Rogan and Nobody Saw This Coming
Pierre Poilievre on Joe Rogan was always going to be a moment worth watching. What nobody predicted was that the most striking thing about a two-hour…
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NEW - AFROMAN: He Was Gonna Sue the Cops. Turns Out He Did
Afroman's defamation case win started with a police raid that found absolutely nothing. No drugs. No kidnapping victims. Just lemon pound cake on the counter…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Chuck Norris, Project Hail Mary, and Everything Worth Watching This Weeken
What to watch this weekend is usually a Friday question with easy answers. This Friday it comes with a little more weight. Chuck Norris passed away at 86 and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Dr Laurie: Would You Choose Your Partner Again Today?
Silver split divorces are rising faster than any other age group and the moment most couples point to is the same one. The kids leave. The house goes quiet…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The AI Native Generation Isn't Waiting for Permission
Kids and AI is not a novelty story anymore. It's baked in. The resume, the social post, the cover letter, the assignment, the car that got fixed on a Tuesday…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Walk. Water. Protein. That's Actually It
Health transformation is visible before most people can name it. Not in a before-and-after photo, but in someone's eyes. The brightness that shows up when a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Ed Hardy Is Back. So Is Everything Else from 2003
2003 nostalgia is running at full speed, and not just the fun parts. Every high school kid outside a Starbucks is wearing Ed Hardy. Limp Bizkit is huge with…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Gas Was 80 Cents. Toronto Houses Were $293,000. That Was Twenty Three Years Ago Tonight
Throwback Thursday 2003 hits on the actual date: March 19th, when America announced the Iraq invasion. Gas was 80 cents a litre. A Toronto house cost $293,000…
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SHIFTHEADS: The Iran Story Everyone Is Missing (It's Not About Oil)
Diesel prices in Canada are up 11 cents by Saturday morning alone. Six cents Friday, five Saturday, four to five more Sunday. April 15 adds another ten cents…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Fish Where the Fish Are: Poilievre, Rogan, and the Case for Canada
MAID Alberta restrictions are moving while the federal government is still working out what to do. Alberta is blocking mental illness as a qualifying condition…
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Shiftheads - Twenty Three Years Later and the Pattern Is Running Again
Iraq War lessons from 2003 are back on the table tonight, and the conversation does not land softly. This week marks the anniversary of the invasion. Listeners…