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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

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19:00

What Menopause Actually Creates (Not What It Takes Away)

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/21

Menopause emotional changes arrive before your body gives physical clues. You're standing at your sink. Water circles the drain. The thought hits: is this as good as it gets? You're emotionally plummeting and you don't know why yet. Perimenopause sneaks in through your mental state, not your cycle. Helen Valleau noticed at 46 and completed the transition by 55. Her personality shifted. She stopped putting up with nonsense. Boundaries appeared where none existed. Emotional outbursts and easy crying

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9:48

The $70 IKEA Lamp That Broke the Internet

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/21

Tech gadget surprises happen when companies underestimate what people actually want. Your IKEA released a $70 LED floor lamp called the Slovenden. Red. Tall. Narrow arch design. Three dimming levels. Works indoors and outdoors. It sold out worldwide within hours. No anticipation. No Slovenden 1 preparing anyone for Slovenden 2. Just a quiet launch that immediately became unavailable in every IKEA store globally. The lamp looks like a paperclip standing on end without the inside curl. The LED runs

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19:21

Trump's Greenland Threat: When Allies Face Extortion

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Part 1 Electric Cars for Canola: The Bingo Card Nobody Had Nobody predicted this. Canada China canola deal swaps reduced agricultural tariffs for electric vehicle market access. You're planning next year's crops wondering if Chinese trade stabilizes or if this becomes another temporary fix before more disruption. The deal wasn't just canola. Peas, lobster, crab, now beef too. Pork and canola oil still face tariffs. Lesley Kelly anticipated long drawn-out negotiations across multiple industries. The

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9:42

NEW- Writing for Mental Health: The Companion Nobody...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Blue Monday hits hard. Writing for mental health sounds abstract until you're sitting alone feeling funky and realize you need something tangible. You're not depressed. The vibe just went stinky. Ottawa never gets warm, just stays below zero and breezy. Calgary had sunshine bumps. You notice the difference this time of year. Catherine Black started at nine years old with tons of feelings and a notebook. Decades later, nothing changed. Pen and paper mean she's never alone. Coffee shop, airplane,

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9:43

The Creative Fix Nobody Talks About on Blue Monday

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

You need to cheer yourself up but Blue Monday makes everything feel harder. Your usual tricks aren't working. Music helps sometimes but today you need something different. What pulls you back when quick fixes fail? Creative activities emerge as the unexpected solution: dumping Lego buckets and building something. Logging into Minecraft to construct towers. Watching colorful content to let the right brain take over while the left brain rests. The idea: different mood levels require different

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19:36

NEW - Why ChatGPT Ads Signal the End of Free AI

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Winter Car Maintenance: The Tire Pressure Math Nobody Checks Winter car maintenance gets ignored until your dashboard lights up. Your tire pressure warning flashes on during the morning commute. It disappears by afternoon. You assume it's fine. It's not. The temperature dropped 10 degrees and your tires lost 2 PSI you didn't account for. Andy Baryer explains the physics: air contracts in cold, losing one to two PSI for every five to six degree Celsius drop. The TPMS system warns you in cold

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12:01

SHIFTHEADS: Perimenopause Symptoms: The 10-Year Sneak...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Perimenopause symptoms accumulate slowly. Your hair falls out in the shower. You need more coffee to get through the day. You walk into rooms and forget why. Six months of small changes add up to something unrecognizable. You wonder what's happening to your body. Dr. Iliana Lega confirms perimenopause can last up to 10 years for some women. Hot flashes average seven years of duration. In Ontario, nothing is covered for 50-year-old women unless they have disability or private drug plans. That

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9:59

Why Your Teen Needs to Call the Bank Themselves

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Your teenager lost their debit card. Teaching teens about money starts with moments like this. You could call the bank and fix it in five minutes. Instead, you hand them the phone. They panic. You stay on the couch. They figure it out. Anita Bruinsma challenges parents to stop taking over. When kids open their first bank account around age 10, let the bank employee talk directly to them. Let them explain what they need. Intimidation drops when familiarity builds. She makes her sons responsible for

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8:39

Blue Monday Coping Strategies: Ryan Says Sad Music...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Blue Monday coping strategies usually tell you to fight the feeling. You woke up grumpy. The vibe feels off. Fighting it makes it worse. What if leaning in works better than wrestling with sadness? Sad music functions as cushion, not amplifier. Fleet Foxes' "Blue Spotted Tail" asks what life means in intimate simplicity. The Smiths' "I Know It's Over" mourns relationships that never started. Mac DeMarco's "Moonlight on the River" explores grief conflict. These songs listen when nothing else does

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9:41

Chinese EV Tariffs: The Trade-Off Canada Just Made

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/20

Electric vehicle tariffs from China just collapsed from 100% to a quota system. You're looking at 50,000 new vehicles entering Canada annually at prices domestic manufacturers can't match. Your government chose affordability over protectionism. Now you get to choose which matters more: your wallet or where the technology comes from. Why do plug-in hybrid owners never plug in? Lorraine Sommerfeld cites industry studies showing people haul two complete power systems and burn gasoline anyway. The

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9:53

ICYMI - Why 2016 Became the Internet's New Nostalgia Era

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

Digital privacy means nothing when social media platforms own your archive. You posted freely in 2016 because the grip wasn't obvious yet. No AI curation. No constant tracking. Just you, your filtered photos, and the illusion that your digital life belonged to you. Now those companies are pulling you back into dormant content, calling it nostalgia, making you feed the algorithm with memories you thought were yours. Rajhans explains why people are celebrating 2016 as retro: "People would have put

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18:59

NEW- Steve Stebbing's Theater vs Streaming Picks...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

Part 1 Movies: What's Actually Worth Theater Money Weekend movie releases force a choice: theaters or streaming. You've got three new options hitting screens, each pulling different directions. A zombie sequel that "shifted into an all new gear." A hostage thriller from the Good Will Hunting director that "never really gets to that kind of attention level." A vampire cop movie with CM Punk. Your wallet picks one. Stebbing calls 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple the standout, claiming it exceeded

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9:34

Why 2016 Became the Internet's Nostalgia Cutoff

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

The 2016 nostalgia trend hit your feed this week. Instagram prompted you to post a photo from 10 years ago. You scrolled through old albums, found pictures of yourself at summer camp or working retail or figuring out college. Maybe you posted it. Maybe you just looked and remembered how different life felt then. The question nobody's asking: why 2016 specifically when nostalgia usually runs on a 20-year cycle? The hosts note Happy Days in 1974 looked back to the 1950s. That 70s Show premiered in the

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8:59

NEW - Canada China EV Deal: The Tariff Trade-Off...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

The Canada China EV deal brings electric vehicles into the country that was labeled a security threat nine months ago. Your government negotiated tariff quotas on cars and canola with the nation whose technology was banned from cell networks. Now that same technology will fill roads in $33,000 vehicles while auto workers question if their jobs got traded for cheaper imports. Baron explains Canada is "heavily dependent on our commerce relationship with the US" and needed diversification. China

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8:12

The Ontario Snowstorm Answer That Went Viral

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

The Ontario snowstorm response that captured national attention wasn't about accumulation totals or road conditions. You watched a CTV reporter approach a random guy on a Toronto street during 22 centimeters of snowfall. You expected complaints about transit or shoveling. Instead, he delivered the most Canadian answer possible, then walked away. That was all. Done talking. Peak Canadian in one sentence. Ottawa got 33 centimeters. Toronto got 22. Schools closed, something Alberta kids "can only dream

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18:26

Shiftheads - What "New World Order" Actually Means...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

Part 1: Canada China Trade Deal: The Surveillance Tech We're Importing The Canada China trade deal brings electric vehicles from the country whose technology was banned from cell networks nine months ago. You're watching your government remove tariffs on "the most high tech of the retail products you can probably buy right now in the form of a digital recording device with wheels." The same surveillance concerns that kept Chinese tech out of telecom infrastructure now arrive on four wheels with

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10:03

NEW - Early Alzheimer's Diagnosis: The Independence...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

Alzheimer's stigma kills independence before the disease does. You notice memory problems but wait years to mention them because you're afraid of what it means. Assisted living. Lost autonomy. Friends treating you differently. Meanwhile, the stigma stops you from getting help that could let you live alone, advocate for yourself, and maintain the life you built. Jacobs trains with people living with Alzheimer's who own their diagnosis publicly. Mario, living with the disease since 2008, teaches

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9:54

Friend Advice in Relationships: When Support Becomes...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/17

Friend advice in relationships gets complicated when their baggage clouds what they see in yours. Your closest friend gives you relationship advice. It sounds helpful. But their last breakup was brutal, and now you're wondering: are they seeing your situation clearly, or filtering everything through their own pain? Shane talks with Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco about navigating friend influence, including Ashley Tisdale leaving a toxic celebrity mom circle. Jen shares how she prefaced advice with "I

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9:49

NEW - 80 Million Viewers: How MASH Proved TV's...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/16

TV shows that defined generations create identity markers you didn't choose. Your parents watched Happy Days and learned to romanticize decades they never lived. You watched Breaking Bad and witnessed television's peak. Gen Z watches Euphoria on devices while you wonder what happened to shared cultural moments. Conroy: before Happy Days, nostalgia industries didn't exist. MASH finale drew 80 million viewers in 1983. Star Trek flopped originally, became an empire through syndication. Beverly Hills

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9:13

NEW - What Canada's China Partnership Actually Costs

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/16

Canada China trade policy just forced your Prime Minister to praise a government surveilling your neighbors. You can't use a plastic straw, but your country is thrilled to export coal to Beijing. Chinese tariffs are costing one family farm $250,000 per year in canola losses alone. Your leader is in China talking about "new world order" partnerships while that government runs secret police stations in Canadian cities. The economic realities stack up fast. Saskatchewan agriculture got walloped by

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