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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
Why Calling It the Robot Olympics Is a Stretch
A robot ran itself straight into a wall this year, and what happened next is the kind of clip that gets shared for the wrong reasons. Carmi Levy has been…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Best Newspaper is the Paper You Can Only Get At One Deli
There's a paper being handed out in one Calgary neighbourhood right now that most people have never heard of, made by two residents with no funding and no…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - What Actually Happened Before the Towers Fell
A quarter century after 9/11, Nathan Radke makes the case that understanding what happened requires going back to a Cold War strategy most people never learned…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
If AI Can Do Every Job, Why Sell It as a Subscription?
Greg Fish has a test for separating what AI is actually good at from what it's being sold as, and it comes down to one sharp question he keeps asking companies…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Why a Yoga Pants Resale Program Might Backfire
A new program from Lululemon lets shoppers trade in gently used gear for a payout, but the fine print reveals exactly what the company is hoping people choose…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - What Birth Control Actually Does Beyond Prevention
The birth control pill does a lot more than most people realize, according to Dr. Mitch Shulman. Beyond preventing pregnancy, he explains how it can control…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Greatest Dogs List Everyone's Arguing Over
A tweet ranking the greatest dogs of all time set off a debate once it became clear some of the most obvious picks weren't included, and the argument over who…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Good News Tuesday: The Race Car Driver With No Arms Hitting 110 MPH
A race car driver with no arms held speeds past 100 miles an hour at one of motorsport's most demanding endurance races, and the method behind it says…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
MapQuest Refused to Rename the Lake. The Internet Noticed
A company most people assumed was long gone just became an unlikely symbol of resistance. Vass Bednar, managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
What’s On Your Mind: What Deb Hutton Wishes She'd Valued More
An ordinary walk to school turned into a bigger realization for Deb Hutton, one tied to a countdown she didn't expect to be thinking about yet, and it shapes…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - A Teenager Found a T-Rex Just Walking a Riverbed
Alberta is one of the richest fossil regions on the planet, but there is a catch that surprises almost everyone who finds one, tied to a law most Canadians…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The De-Stressing Trick That Takes No Extra Time
Most stress isn't the workload. It's the story a person tells about the workload, and a researcher who studies wellbeing explains why the exact same amount of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - A Rescue Robot That Might Also Terrify You
Imagine you're trapped under rubble after an earthquake, injured, and the first thing that reaches you is a cockroach wearing a tiny electronic backpack…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Why Detroit Looks Cleaner Than Most Canadian Downtowns
Matt Gurney has a theory that doesn't sit well with most people: Canada's problems mostly aren't about the United States at all. He and Shane dig into the idea…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Greatest Dogs List Everyone Is About To Argue Over
A viral ranking of famous TV and movie dogs sorts every legendary pup into five tiers, from certified greats to outright failures, and Bob Addison isn't buying…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
How a Whiteboard Became So Much More
The whiteboard next to Antonietta Nobile's desk in a hospital's heart investigative unit had exactly one job: track the date and which doctor a patient was…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Long Weekend Travel: Flight Prices Are Up. Here's the Day That Isn't
Flight searches, hotel bookings, and car rentals are all spiking this long weekend, and one Canadian airport alone is moving tens of thousands of people a day…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Happy Friday Roundup 41,000 Jobs Vanished
A jobs report that was supposed to show growth instead wiped out tens of thousands of positions in a single month, and Andrew Caddell says the real story isn't…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Inside Copy - The Mayor That Found His Own Face on a Dartboard
A small-town Ontario mayor walked into a thrift store and found something with his own face on it, built for exactly one purpose. He's decided to keep it in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Three New Movies, One Old Theater Idea
Steve Stebbing runs through this week's new releases and makes the case for bringing back a kind of theater most people have forgotten existed. New Releases…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Friday Night Love Shack: What You Saw Your Parents Do Is Showing Up Now
The way a couple was affectionate, or wasn't, tends to resurface decades later in their own relationships. Dr. Laurie Betito explains how early modeling shapes…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
When Should You Actually Trust AI?
Where does AI trust actually start, and where does it stop. Mohit Rajhans has spent his career inside this tech and still isn't sure where that line sits…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Prediction Markets Are Not Investing. It's Betting With Extra Steps
Prediction markets are showing up inside Canadian banking apps, and Vincent Gregoire, Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology at HEC Montreal, unpacks…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Matchmaking Helps Friends. It Also Ends Them
Matchmaking sounds like a favour until someone gets hurt, and Jen Kirsch has watched it go wrong from every angle. Friends turned into third parties, blind…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Storm Left Concert Stands in Pieces Before AC/DC Even Arrives
Yesterday's windstorm in Toronto left more than just chaos on the sidewalks. Stadium scaffolding built for an upcoming AC/DC show took real damage, and there's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canadian Tire's Cash Loyalty Just Met Tim Hortons
Some retail pairings work and some quietly disappear. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, food economist and host of the Food Professor Podcast, walks through the ones…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Five Second Rule Started Hundreds of Years Ago
The five second rule feels like something everyone has just always known, but Dr. Keith Warriner, microbiologist, traces its actual origin back centuries…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Fifty Dollar Thrift Store Find Turned Out to Be Worth Hundreds
1988 was the year CDs officially overtook vinyl records in sales, and a CBC report from that exact era laid out why listeners were making the switch, citing…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Canadians Are Hearing About This Deal From the Wrong Country First
Rob Breakenridge breaks down why Canadians keep learning about their own trade negotiations from American officials before their own prime minister says a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Hockey Season: One Conversation in 2022 Changed the Entire NHL
Victoria Matiash traces the current wave of NHL player movement back to a single moment in 2022, when one star told his general manager exactly what he wasn't…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Vinyl Sales Keep Climbing. Carmi Levy Explains Why
Something about a needle in a groove still beats digital, at least according to Carmi Levy, who breaks down why vinyl sales have grown by double digits every…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Your Favourite Song Isn't the Version You Remember Anymore
Ed Conroy, founder of Retro Ontario, makes the case for cassette tapes over CDs for one very specific reason that still holds up among certain music fans…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Tom Hardy's New Album Has a Shakespeare Monologue in It
Richard Crouse rounds up three unexpected entertainment stories this week, starting with an actor best known for period drama who's now dropping rap albums…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Elbows Up, Except at the Chick-fil-A Drive-Thru
American fast food chains are expanding into Canada faster than almost anyone expected, and Shane and Ryan dig into how far it's actually gone. Some of these…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Are We Only Mad About Spending When We Don't Like the Cause?
Lindsay Broadhead and Jamie Ellerton take on the double standard hiding inside a lot of government spending outrage, using a very specific and very Canadian…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Can You Be Grateful While You're Still Stuck in the Mud?
Good News Tuesday opens with a question worth sitting with: is gratitude something that only shows up after the hard part is over, or can it exist while you're…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Good News Tuesday: This Little League Team's Secret Weapon Was Ice Cream
Some nights the news is heavy enough that finding the good in it takes real effort. Tonight is built around doing exactly that, starting with a group of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Favourite Places Gone Forever: A Love Letter to a Water Slide
Calgary's Thunder Run water slide is gone after decades of freezing walkups, flashing green lights, and a climb that always felt endless. Before its final…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
What’s On Your Mind, Tony Chapman: The Greatest Gift of His Career.
Tony Chapman built and sold two marketing agencies before deciding, fourteen years ago, that he was done with that chapter entirely. Then AI showed up, and he…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Is Cuba Getting Crushed and Nobody's Talking About It?
Mark Carney's Liberals just won three by-elections while he was overseas addressing the European Parliament, and Matt Gurney, journalist and columnist at Read…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Why the Tupac Conviction Isn't the Cultural Moment You'd Expect
Thirty years after Tupac was shot on the Las Vegas strip, a conviction has finally landed, and Eric Alper, former Death Row Records publicist, walks through…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
He's Got Three Weeks to Empty an Entire House
Bob Addison inherited his uncle's house over two years ago, and after a slow market finally produced a buyer, he's now racing to clear out decades of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Dyson's New Toothbrush Has a Camera Watching You Brush
Dyson just teased a toothbrush unlike anything currently on the market, combining circular bristles, a high-velocity water jet, and a built-in camera. Kris…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
She Quit Publishing, Became a Lawyer, Then Started Writing Again
Darlene Madott left a career in publishing to attend law school on a dare, and no sooner had she graduated than the writing came back. She explains what pushed…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - There's DNA in You From an Ancestor Science Can't Name
A new genetic technique just uncovered stretches of DNA in modern humans that do not match any known ancestor, not Neanderthal, not Denisovan, not anything on…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Is It Too Soon for Christmas Trees at Costco
Fall is barely a feeling yet and Christmas is already on the shelves. Shane Hewitt and Ryan O'Donnell open the show arguing over whether Costco stocking a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Photography Tricks and Back to School Tech on a Budget
Carmi Levy joins the show for back to school tech advice and a photography lesson that costs nothing but attention. He explains how noticing small details…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Texting and Driving's Even Uglier Sibling
Texting and driving is not safe, but we all do it… maybe a little but. Crashes are up but also are unmeasurable and untraceable by nature. What happens…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Have you Been…? Banff, Whale Watching & the Bay of Fundy
At Sunshine Village in Banff, you can get on a chairlift in Alberta and get off in British Columbia, then ski your way back across the line. Shane Hewitt and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Won't the PM Address Our Own Parliament
He's flying to Europe to speak to the EU Parliament this week. Ottawa is a different story. Jimmy Zoubris and Lesley Kelly start here, and neither one lets it…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Burnout: The Stress That Helps and the Kind That Breaks You Down
Burnout doesn't always look like exhaustion. Sometimes it's the swear word slipping out mid-argument, or every driver on the road suddenly seeming like an…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
TV Watching Flashing Back to Old School Linear Channels?
YouTube long-form videos have quietly taken over Friday nights, starting with an almost three-hour video of a stranger driving through the Swiss Alps with…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The World Won't Call It Lake America
Duty free stores tariffs and falling cross-border travel are hitting hard, and this Friday roundup asks whether the sympathy actually matches the situation…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Inside Copy: What's Actually in a Broadcaster's Ear (Pranks and Yelling)
That small coiled wire running down a TV broadcaster's neck has a real purpose, and it is also exactly what caused one meteorologist to completely lose it on…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: What The Hell Should We Watch This Weekend? A Cancelled Movie
Coyote vs Acme almost never made it to theatres, and Steve Stebbing explains the strange decision behind that near miss, along with two other movies worth the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Friday Night Love Shack: The Apology That Isn't Actually an Apology
Relationship repair starts long before the fight ends, and Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down why couples who say they're "just drifting" are usually describing a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - AI Isn't Dumb. It Just Learned to Flatter You
Every AI answer lately sounds a little too nice, and educator Mohit Rajhans argues that isn't a glitch. It's the design working exactly as intended, and it…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Municipal Election That Never Was
Municipal election turnout across Canada tells a strange story, and John Wright of Canada Pulse Insights explains why entire towns are handing mayors a new…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Childhood Hero Died With Zero Warning in 1986
News broke of Peter Cullen's death, and this conversation opens with what he meant to a generation raised on his voice, including a much softer character than…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
What Actually Happens Behind a Voice That Sounds Effortless
Voice actor Hans Wackershauser explains why raising your volume by even a small amount on camera can ruin an otherwise perfect take, while the exact same…