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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
ICYMI - Why He’d Never Raise Kids in the U.S. Again
Bulletproof backpack ads. Kindergarten lockdown drills. For Robert Komaniecki, those were the tipping points. In this gripping conversation, the American-born…
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NEW - Why a Three-Minute Shower Counts as Good News in Calgary
Good news stories aren't supposed to be about basic infrastructure working. You turn on the tap. Water comes out. That's not news. Except when your city's been…
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SHIFTHEADS: Representation or Profit: The Autistic Barbie Question
Autistic Barbie doll representation raises a hard question right away. Your kid asks for the doll with headphones. Do you buy it because it's inclusive, or…
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NEW - Bands More Famous Than Their Songs: The Grateful Dead Problem
Bands more famous than their songs create a strange cultural blind spot. Everyone knows the Grateful Dead. Mention their name and people nod. Ask them to name…
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Shiftheads - Wedding Budget Sacrifices: The $5,000 Friend Test
Wedding budget sacrifices force an impossible choice the moment planning starts. Your best friend invites you to their wedding in Cairo. Four days. Pyramids…
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Vacation Stress Follows You Because You Choose to Pack It
Vacation stress management starts before you leave home. Bob Addison returns from Mexico still obsessively checking his backpack for sunglasses and headphones…
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Deepfake Images: Tech Companies Choose Profit Over Safety
AI image manipulation crosses the line when your photo becomes someone else's weapon. Someone screenshots your Instagram. Runs it through Grok. Removes your…
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Best Credit Card Canada 2026: Why Cobalt Dominates Travel Rewards
Best credit card Canada 2026 rankings just dropped and one card still owns the category. The American Express Cobalt earns up to 5 points per dollar and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Galaxy Cluster Discovery Finds Gas 10 Times Hotter Than Theory Predicted
Galaxy cluster discovery just rewrote what scientists thought possible in the early universe. Dalhousie University researchers detected hot gas in a cluster…
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NEW - Canola Tariffs Hit $250K Per Farm While Trump Plays Reagan on Steroids
Part 1 Canola Tariffs Canada: Quarter-Million Dollar Losses Hit Saskatchewan Farms Canola tariffs hit Lesley Kelly's Saskatchewan family farm for a quarter of…
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True Crime Fascination: Why Heist Stories Hook Us
True crime fascination explains why you binge documentaries about robberies but sweat crossing the border with legal receipts. Shane admits he loves heist…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Robot Invasion: What CES 2025 Shows About Your Automated Future
CES Robots 2025: China's Fighting Machines Freak Out Tech Journalist CES robots in 2025 crossed a line tech journalist Andy Baryer never expected. A humanoid…
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Alleged Getaway Driver Arrested: He Flew Back Through the Same Airport That Was Robbed
Getaway driver mistakes don't get more baffling than this. You (allegedly) pull off a gold heist at Toronto Pearson Airport. You escape. Then you fly back…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW- True Crime Impact: Why Survivors Choose Violence Stories
True crime impact hits differently when you realize survivors seek it out on purpose. Your friend was assaulted. She's downloading murder podcasts. Why would…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Media Literacy Education Starts at Age 3 in Finland. Canada's Been Doing It Since 1989.
Media literacy education at age three sounds radical until you realize kids already distinguish storybooks from reality constantly. Finland teaches children to…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Paying Off Debt vs Investing: Why You Need Both
Paying off debt versus investing creates an impossible math problem. Your credit card charges 20%. Your investments might return 5%. Logic says dump everything…
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AI Sovereignty: The Only Business Moat Left
AI sovereignty determines which businesses survive. Mohit Rajhans says companies are getting acquired not for what they sell but for how they use AI. The tool…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Transformational Business Thinking: The $700M Junk Lesson
Transformational business thinking separates $700 million companies from junk haulers. Tony Chapman shares Brian Scudamore's realization: he wasn't removing…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shane Hewitt’s Simple Planning: The Last First Method
Last First planning flips goal setting upside down. Shane walks through his four-step process: start with where you want to end up, strip away all the life…
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NEW - Olympic Hockey Injury Concerns: Italy's Ice Problem
Olympic hockey injury concerns are real when the ice isn't ready. Shane and Matt Cause examine the Italy venue disaster: photos show design problems, ice…
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Weekend Movie Recommendations: Theater vs Streaming
What the Hell To Watch: The Stuff Studios Won't Bet On January movie releases are where studios dump projects they don't trust. Steve Stebbing walks through…
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Shiftheads - Pipeline Politics Flip When Survival Kicks In
Canadian Oil Dependency: Venezuela Changes Everything Canadian oil dependency becomes urgent when the US seizes Venezuela's heavy crude until debts get paid…
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NEW - Why Posted Salaries Kill Underselling Yourself
Salary transparency laws expose the gap between what jobs pay and what you've been accepting. Ontario's new rules require posted salary bands for positions…
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January Breakup Season: The Data on Divorce Spikes
January breakup season hits because people reassess everything after the holidays. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco explain why Google searches for "divorce" spike…
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NEW: The Decade That Never Ended: 80s Revival with Ed Conroy
The 80s nostalgia machine started the second the decade ended. Ed Conroy explains: January 1, 1990, Best of the 80s CDs were in stores. Every other decade…
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Much Dance 93 vs Big Shiny Tunes: Best Compilations Ranked
Best compilation albums of the 90s became the definitive way to discover music. Your friend's car had at least three. Your older sibling's bedroom had a stack…
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NEW - Throwback Thursday: Panama Invasion 1989: Why Venezuela Feels Familiar
Panama invasion 1989 ended with Manuel Noriega's surrender in January 1990. Thirty-five years later, Venezuela headlines trigger the same questions. How…
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Noriega's Surrender: 27,000 Troops, One Dictator
The Panama invasion of 1989 didn't end the way anyone expected. Twenty-seven thousand American troops surrounded one dictator hiding in the Vatican embassy. It…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Trump's Venezuela Move: Why America Just Made Canada Irrelevant
Alberta oil sands and Venezuela produce the same heavy crude. Both export to American refineries. The US just took control of Venezuela's supply. Shane's…
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Shiftheads: Pentagon Butt Plugs + Bear Evictions: Inside Copy
Weird news stories pile up when you're not paying attention. A Toronto sex shop gets a mysterious package back from the US government. Inside: returned…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Ozempic Changes the Food Industry: Restaurants and Protein
Ozempic food industry changes hit Canadian wallets in unexpected ways. Generic weight-loss drugs arrive January 4 at one-third the cost. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois…
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NEW - Mood Boosting Foods: Good Choices Can Change Everything
Mood boosting foods start with one missing ingredient in most diets: leafy greens. Alyssa B says spinach, kale, broccoli, and watercress contain every vitamin…
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Mickey Rourke's Rent Crisis and Is This Thing On? Review
Mickey Rourke GoFundMe: When Celebrity Money Disappears Mickey Rourke GoFundMe drama reveals how celebrity financial problems happen even to million-dollar…
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NEW - AI Influencers and Social Media Fraud: Why 46% of Users Don't Trust Them
AI influencers are making 46% of social media users uncomfortable, and marketing expert Tony Chapman says that discomfort is justified. Fake fitness ads…
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NEW - Is Canada's Oil Industry Irrelevant? Trade Wars, Venezuela, and Pipeline Politics Explained
Canadian Oil Industry Relevance: Why Energy Discounts and Pipeline Delays Threaten Canada's Future Canadian oil sells at a discount to American buyers, and…
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Shane's Recurring Underwater Dream Stopped After 20 Years—Here's What Happened
Deja vu happens 5-6 times yearly for Ryan O'Donnell, but Shane Hewitt experienced something stranger: a recurring dream about breathing underwater that…
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SHIFTHEADS: Should You Ask for a Raise Now That Salary Ranges Are Public
Ontario's salary transparency law (previously and similarly in BC and Maritimes) just forced every employer to show their hand. Job postings under $200,000…
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NEW - Listener Predicts 3 People By Name During Deja Vu: Simulation Proof?
Deja vu so intense a listener predicted three strangers walking out of a bar by name, in exact order. Grumpy Rob stands outside a Quebec bar decades ago, yells…
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Shiftheads - Simulation Theory: Why Millions Believe We're Living in a Computer Program
Simulation theory went from ancient philosophy to viral social media conspiracy. Philosopher Nathan Radke explains why people post "glitches in the matrix"…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Your Social Media Feed Is Just 4chan With Better Branding
You hate what you see in your feed. The outrage bait, the conspiracy theories, the content designed to make you angry enough to engage. But you keep scrolling…
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Toronto's Traffic Czar: Can One Person Fix Canada's Worst Congestion?
Toronto appointed a traffic czar to fix the worst traffic congestion in North America. Montreal and Vancouver are close behind. Automotive journalist Lorraine…
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NEW - Volunteering Slows Brain Aging by 20 Percent: Scientists Can't Explain Why
Volunteering two to four hours weekly slows cognitive decline by 15 to 20 percent, according to data from 31,000 adults. Dr. Samantha Yammine, neuroscientist…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - When Your Kid Gets Cancer and Medicine Has No Answers: So You Build It Yourself
Adam Sorenson beat stage 4 brain cancer at 13 using an extreme ketogenic diet and metabolic approach. He stayed in remission for 10 years, unheard of for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Reading the Shining Before Bed? (and Why Good News Makes Good News Babies)
Good News Tuesday brings personal wins from the team: Ryan's swapping TikTok scrolling for reading (starting with a Stephen King horror novel at…
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NEW - Good News Tuesday: Should You Sign a Contract Before Buying a Lottery Ticket With Coworkers
Someone in London, Ontario just won $80 million. In California, coworkers were asked to sign a contract before buying a group lottery ticket detailing who gets…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Modern Warfare Isn't What You Think—And That's the Problem
You can't win a war without an air force, but you can absolutely lose one without cyber defenses. Richard Shimooka unpacks how warfare has evolved to include…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Your Parents Weren't Perfect And That's the Point
Acknowledging parents are human doesn't mean your childhood was toxic. Shane Hewitt and Ryan O'Donnell take on the generational blame narrative and ask a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Switchbot Onuro H1 Robot: $10,000 for a Laundry-Folding Humanoid
Switchbot's Onuro H1 humanoid robot costs $10,000 and launches by December 2025. Kris Abel explains how elevator-track arms let it pick clothes off floors and…
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Humans Are Going Further From Earth Than Ever Before
Four astronauts are about to fly past the moon… further from Earth than any human has ever traveled. No landing. Just... past it. Why? Dr. Sarah…
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Why Asking "Was It Worth It?" Saves More Money Than Any Budget
Most people avoid their credit card statements in January because the numbers are terrifying. Financial planner Anita Bruinsma says that's exactly why you need…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Venezuela, Regime Change, and the Part Nobody Talks About
Maduro's gone. The vice president, security minister, and defense minister are still there. So what actually changed? Shane and Joe Varner dig into the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The TV Finales That Ruined Everything
Game of Thrones fumbled so badly that the creators lost their Star Wars deal. The Sopranos cut to black and people thought their cable boxes broke. Lost sent…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Protect your Pocket: How to Actually Protect Your Photos and Emails Before It's Too Late
The Photo Backup Strategy You're Probably Not Using You've been meaning to back up your photos for months. Maybe years. The dongle you bought for Christmas is…
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SHIFTHEADS: The Show That Watched You Grow Up
Stranger Things started in 2016. You were dating someone different, living somewhere else, chasing completely different dreams. Ryan reflects on watching the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada Changed Immigration Rules Mid-Game—Now Students Are Filing Refugee Claims
What happens when you promise permanent residence to 50,000 students, then pull the rug out? Immigration lawyer Guidy Mamann breaks down how Canada's sudden…
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When Everything You Invested In Falls Apart Overnight
The TV Finales That Left You Feeling Betrayed Game of Thrones spent seven seasons building Daenerys as a complex character. Then she unraveled in minutes…
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The Strength You Don’t See on a Map
Windsor has always stood apart — geographically, politically, and emotionally. It’s a city defined by its proximity to Detroit, but even more by…
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What Toronto Gets Wrong About the Rest of Canada
Does Toronto really see the rest of Canada — or just itself? Jim Richards tackles that question head-on in a conversation that moves from local traffic…
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He’s From Ottawa and Never Skated the Canal?!
What happens when a lifelong Ottawan admits he’s never skated the Rideau Canal? Stefan Keyes shares the shock of that confession and helps unpack a wild…