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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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9:41

SHIFTHEADS - 9,000 Tickets Sold: The Shorzy Classic...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/24

Shorzy Classic tour tickets sell out in your city. You're watching a TV comedy character play actual hockey against NHL alumni at a sold-out arena. Nine thousand people paid to see this. The team raises tens of thousands for charity while running shirtless laps after giving up ten goals. This isn't a promotional stunt—it's becoming legitimate hockey culture. The Calgary Saddledome sold nearly 9,000 tickets for a comedy show's hockey team to play Flames alumni. When the alumni scored ten goals,

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7:58

NEW - The Ryan Wedding Arrest Press Conference Nobody...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/24

Ryan Wedding arrest gets announced with FBI and RCMP bosses standing together. You're watching the press conference. FBI Director Kash Patel calls Wedding a "modern day El Chapo" and "modern day Pablo Escobar." Then he credits President Trump's leadership for the capture. The RCMP Commissioner congratulates everyone. The stage is packed with law enforcement from two countries celebrating six of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted captured this year. Edwards points to the spectacle: 60 metric tons of cocaine

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9:01

TikTok Jingles: When User Content Becomes Corporate...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/24

Viral jingle commercial partnerships change everything. You notice Dr. Pepper has no jingle. You make one on TikTok in 15 seconds. The video hits millions of views. Three weeks later, you're sitting in front of your TV watching your homemade clip air as an official Dr. Pepper commercial to 20 million viewers during a major game. Career changed. Romeo Bingham created the jingle because the brand didn't have one. Dr. Pepper turned it into their real commercial campaign. The catch: partnership

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18:29

Shiftheads - Trump's Greenland Deal Nobody Can...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/24

Billion-Dollar Peace Board + Federal Job Cuts = Mark Carney's Week Trump peace board rejection saves Mark Carney from questionable company. You're watching a peace advisory board form that includes Vladimir Putin, Belarusian dictator Lukashenko, and a billion-dollar entry fee nobody can explain. Carney gets dropped after his Davos speech rejecting Trump's approach. Meanwhile, Trump announces a Greenland deal that Greenland's former MP says doesn't exist and NATO's leader has no authority to grant

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9:48

ICYMI - AI Hiring Systems Make Recruiters More...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/24

AI hiring systems scan your resume. You're clicking through the application form. Checkbox: Do you have a degree? You select no. Thirty years of industry experience in this exact field. None of it matters. The system filters you out before a human reads line one. Rajhans points to the central problem: AI uses point-scoring that can't understand context. The personality perfect for a tackle shop might be perfect for corporate sales too, but the checkbox filter never asks. Candidates now use ChatGPT

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9:27

Why Canada China Food Trade Actually Protects...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/24

Canada China food trade reopens, and you're standing in the meat aisle watching beef prices. The news says Canada just shipped beef to China. Your brain does the math: more exports equals less supply equals higher prices for you. But that equation might be completely backwards. Charlebois argues shipping more beef to China actually lowers Canadian prices, not raises them. China buys special cuts Canada can't supply in volume anyway. The export market encourages Canadian cattle producers to grow

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9:29

NEW - He-Man, Satanic Panic, and early 1980s Toy Trap

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

Your 1980s toy nostalgia peaks at birthday parties where you watch your friend unwrap Castle Grayskull while holding the $2 GI Joe you brought as a gift. Eight other kids brought the same thing because $2 was the magic price point parents approved without hesitation, so now there's a pile of duplicate soldiers next to that massive $25 skull fortress. Your single figure feels worthless without the complete world to put it in, which is exactly how Hasbro designed the experience. They lost money on

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8:55

NEW - Why Trump's Greenland 'Deal' Might Actually...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

Arctic sovereignty becomes real when someone else claims it first. You're watching Trump announce a Greenland deal. He says it covers the entire Arctic region, including Canadian territory. Your government ignored Arctic defense for decades, and now a U.S. president just announced plans without asking permission. Trump says he'll explain the deal in two weeks. That's his standard answer for everything, but here's the thing: the U.S. already had access to whatever it needed in Greenland through

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9:36

1984 Nostalgia Meets Masters of the Universe: Why...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

You're standing in 1984 nostalgia right now, whether you lived through it or just admire it from afar. The Apple commercial that dropped pre-Super Bowl changed marketing forever with its "fight the man" philosophy. That same year launched the peak era of Masters of the Universe toys, and now there's a new movie trailer bringing He-Man back in a very modern version. The original 1987 Masters of the Universe sounded cartoony. The new version doesn't. Gen X nerds and Gen Z fans are both excited,

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8:52

NEW - Why Nobody Remembers the 1984 Super Bowl Score...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

You're watching a woman sprint down an aisle toward a massive screen. She's holding a sledgehammer. You have no idea what you're watching until she throws it. The screen explodes. Cut to Apple logo. That's the 1984 Apple commercial, and it's more famous than the Super Bowl game it aired during. Oakland Raiders 38, Washington 9. John Madden on the call. One of the largest championship blowouts ever. Can you name a single play from that game? The commercial cost $368,000 for 30 seconds and created

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9:58

SHIFTHEADS: What Apple's 1984 Ad Reveals About...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

Technology and independent thinking barely coexist anymore. You pull out your phone before deciding where to eat. You open GPS before trusting your instincts about which route to take. You search symptoms before calling a doctor. When exactly did checking replace thinking? Apple sold the idea of unleashing creativity in 1984. The Macintosh was actually a black box. Dr. Paolo Granata's claim: we're controlled not by Orwell's oppression but by Huxley's pleasure, where too much entertainment makes

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19:47

Shiftheads - What Men Actually Need to Know About...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

You notice your coworker walking into a room and forgetting why she's there. Brain fog, she jokes. But she's at the top of her career, leading projects, making critical decisions. Supporting women through menopause extends beyond your partner to every woman in your workplace navigating symptoms that look like other conditions but stem from one source: fluctuating hormones. Jordan Smith started WTF is Menopause after his friend Jackie was dismissed by doctors who missed perimenopause symptoms

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8:21

ICYMI - 1984 Macintosh Commercial: When Did the Rebel...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

1984 Macintosh commercial runs during the Super Bowl. You're watching Apple position itself as the counterculture smashing IBM's dominance. You look at your devices today: they're all Apple. The company that threw the sledgehammer built the screen everyone stares at now. How did the rebel become the empire it promised to destroy? Why didn't the commercial show the product? Levy explains that selling philosophy over features was revolutionary for tech advertising. The Mac introduced clicking instead

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19:26

2026 Oscars: Why Horror Finally Broke the Academy's...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/23

Part 1 - The Record-Breaking Nomination That Changes Everything 2026 Oscar nominations arrive and you notice the number next to Sinners: 16. You check the previous record: La La Land with 14 nominations ten years ago. Before that, Titanic. Before that, All About Eve 25 years earlier. The film that just broke the record is a vampire movie, and the Academy actually acknowledged it. The previous record was 14 nominations. Crouse notes that Sinners, a January release that usually gets forgotten by year

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12:07

NEW - Why Mark Carney's WEF Speech Was Canada's...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/22

Mark Carney's WEF speech came during active tariff negotiations with Trump. You're watching Canada's new Prime Minister deliver his first major international speech. He's supposed to be de-escalating Trump's tariff threats. Instead, he's signaling partnership with China on rare minerals. You're thinking: is this brilliant negotiation or political suicide? Tony Chapman calls it "one of the riskiest speeches of Canada's history" because Carney sided with "Trump's greatest adversary, China"

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19:50

Shiftheads - Cancer Cures and the Alternative...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/22

Cancer cure conspiracy theories flood your social media feeds daily. You see the testimonials. Someone's uncle cured stage four with broccoli. Another swears by lemon water. Those med bed videos keep circulating. Nathan Radke asks one question that flips the entire premise: if pharmaceutical companies are driven by greed, why wouldn't they cash in on an actual cure? The answer reshapes everything. Any company that developed a real cure would become the wealthiest corporation on earth. Cancer isn't a

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9:38

The Curiosity Test: Learner or Sucker?

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/22

The curiosity conspiracy trap starts with innocent questions. You pause the movie mid-scene. That spaceship rotation in 2001: A Space Odyssey looks impossible for 1968. You need to know Kubrick's technique before you can continue watching. Your brain won't let the story proceed until you understand the mechanism. Is this healthy learning or the first step toward believing moon landing conspiracies? One approach: pause movies to research visual effects, becoming "a walking talking bank of facts and

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19:58

NEW - Federal Job Cuts Meet Global Realignment:...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/22

Why Mark Carney's WEF Strategy Leaves Trump IsolatedFederal job cuts in Ottawa are hitting every hallway. Your neighbor works at Defense. Your friend is at the RCMP. The person across the road is at CBSA. Someone down the street is at Transport. Everyone you know is suddenly worried about their job disappearing. Jamie Ellerton says the government needs to be "right-sized after a decade of getting bloated beyond the capacity of Canadians to pay," but acknowledges people will get "generous packages"

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9:00

SHIFTHEADS: How Protein Timing Fixes Hormonal Mood...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/22

Perimenopause nutrition changes demand more fiber and protein. Your breakfast worked fine last year. Now it triggers a 2pm crash. Your favorite dinner exhausts you. The foods that sustained you for decades suddenly betray your body. Why does joint pain worsen in your 40s? Alyssa B's answer: protein deficiency, not just age. She argues protein is "everything in our body from our skeletons and muscles to our hair and joints and cartilage." Blood sugar spikes drive mood swings women blame purely on

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9:52

NEW - Your Kid's Minecraft Addiction Might Be...

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift ·

2026/01/22

Minecraft teaches problem solving, or does it just teach YouTube dependency? Your kid has been building elaborate digital worlds for four hours straight. You're debating whether to shut it down. You grew up dumping Tinker Toys from a tin can with zero instructions and figuring it out through failure. Which approach actually prepares them for real work? Tinker Toys have been around for over 100 years with "no instructions in that box" where "curiosity and creativity is how you get to the finish

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