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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 expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane’s signature style—thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real. If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.

  1. 3D AGO

    A TV Show Probably Shouldn't Fix Your Real Relationship But This One Did

    Relationship perspective shift from fiction sounds absurd until you finish 14 episodes feeling more grateful for your actual partner than when you started. You're sitting there unable to explain how watching two people fail to stay together for most of 20 years just improved your real relationship. Romantic media is supposed to make reality look disappointing. This did the opposite. One Day tracks the same date over 20 years. July 15th. Every year. Emma and Dex meet graduation day, then the show jumps forward 12 months showing only that single day again. Most of those 20 July 15ths they're apart. Not together. Living separate lives making different choices. The format forces you to see how one decision changes everything. One misunderstanding. One thing you needed to say but didn't. One assumption. By episode 14 someone's writing cards for future moments to capture how they're thinking today because the show proved how fragile every trajectory is. Valentine's Day shifts when you realize becoming the person your partner fell in love with beats the moment you met them. Fiction that shows 20 years of near-misses and wrong turns creates appreciation for what didn't go wrong in your actual life. Topics: relationship perspective shift, One Day Netflix, romantic media impact, Valentine's Day authenticity, relationship fragility RUNDOWN: The team examines how One Day's format of tracking the same date over 20 years with characters mostly apart created real relationship appreciation by showing how one unsaid thing changes everything.

    9 min

  2. 3D AGO

    Why 30 Years Married Means Skipping Valentine's Gifts

    Small romantic gestures create more connection than Valentine's consumption, but you're trapped in the wrong conversation. You're debating budget and restaurant reservations when your partner felt most loved the morning you moved the cars in the driveway so they didn't have to deal with the cold. That moment of thinking ahead, of making their morning easier, mattered more than anything you could purchase. The disconnect: you think romance requires money when it actually requires noticing what makes them feel cared for. Dr. Betito skips Valentine's gifts after 30 years of marriage. They agreed from day one. But mismatched expectations destroy couples when one person expects the gesture and the other doesn't believe in it. The bigger threat isn't disagreeing about holidays. It's couples stuck in patterns, coming home to separate couches, separate screens, bed, repeat. Boredom and stagnation kill what money stress doesn't. She tells couples: you choose to be here every day. Why? That answer matters. In toxic situations, asking reveals you don't have one. What proves you're paying attention beats what you can afford to buy. Marriage isn't the finish line where you captured someone. It's the starter pistol for ongoing effort. Compassion leads to passion when your partner sees you notice their stress and take action to help. The real Valentine's question: what small thing shows you're still choosing them today? Topics: small romantic gestures, Valentine's Day relationships, relationship boredom, daily partnership effort, romance without money GUEST: Dr. Laurie Betito | http://drlaurie.com RUNDOWN: Why does moving cars in a driveway make someone feel more loved than jewelry? Psychologist Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down the small daily gestures that matter more than grand Valentine's displays and the one question couples should ask themselves every day.

    20 min

  3. 3D AGO

    INSIDE COPY: A Seal Walks Into a Bar and Salmon on Pizza

    Silly season animals means marine mammals wandering into places they absolutely shouldn't be. You're having a lazy Sunday pint at a craft beer bar in Richmond, New Zealand when a baby fur seal waddles through the door looking for companionship. Scientists confirm this happens annually during months when seals and sea lions appear in houses, golf courses, and busy roads. The creature ended up in the women's washroom before rangers arrived. Bar staff kept the seal safe until release on Rabbit Island, chosen for its dog-free status. Just a normal Sunday in New Zealand. Why does a Pittsburgh woman get gift cards after being trapped in a car wash for almost an hour? That's the compensation for mechanical failure and genuine terror. A Nashville HOA threatened $2,000 fines for running a generator during a week-long power outage until WSMV television intervened. The board needed media pressure before granting permission to not freeze. Meanwhile, cross the Alabama state line into Tennessee and road conditions transform instantly. Alabama operates zero snow plows while Nashville maintains full winter programs thirty minutes north. The absurdity isn't isolated, it's systematic. Seals wander into bars during their annual silly season and get escorted to dog-free islands. Automated car washes trap people for an hour and offer them more car washes as apology. HOAs prioritize aesthetic guidelines over survival until TV stations get involved. These aren't outlier incidents, they're documented patterns of systems failing in ways nobody predicted but everyone should have expected. Topics: silly season animals, seal in bar, weird news stories, animal encounters, absurd situations RUNDOWN: Shane and Ryan cover genuinely weird news: a baby seal wandering into a New Zealand craft beer bar during annual silly season, a Pittsburgh woman trapped in an automated car wash for nearly an hour, and a Nashville HOA threatening generator fines during week-long power outages.

    9 min

  4. 3D AGO

    Valentine’s Steaming Picks: You Had Me at Vampire Swingers

    Movies: Why Your Date Night Needs the Weird Pick Your Valentine's movie choice says something. You pick the safe rom-com, you get two hours of forgetting the world exists. You pick the one about a guy falling for Scarlett Johansson's voice as an operating system, you get a film that saw the future coming. Joaquin Phoenix made Her fifteen years before men started proposing to AI partners. The prophecy happened. Next time you're scrolling for date night options, you'll recognize the film that saw this coming. What looks like weird Valentine's picks turns out to be the most honest choice about where relationships are actually heading. Topics: romantic films, Valentine's viewing, AI relationships, Emerald Fennell, modern romance, prophetic cinema   Movies: When Vampire Swingers Teach Better Relationship Lessons Than Rom-Coms Date night streaming usually ends with scrolling past the same titles for twenty minutes. You want something romantic but not cheesy, engaging but not exhausting. Then you realize the best relationship advice comes from a reality show about autism spectrum dating. Someone on their first date thanks the server, says a prayer, wishes goodness on strangers. You stopped doing that years ago. Your partner noticed. You'll catch yourself watching for entertainment and walking away with better manners. The most intimate thing in a relationship is observing kindness. That's what the wholesome reality show teaches. The vampire comedy just proves love spanning centuries still exists. Topics: streaming shows, Valentine's entertainment, relationship reality TV, vampire comedy, dating advice, Netflix originals GUEST: Steve Stebbing | http://stevestebbing.ca | @‌thestevildead RUNDOWN 1 : Film critic Steve Stebbing breaks down unconventional Valentine's picks including a Wuthering Heights remake scored by Charlie XCX, Canadian comedy Nirvana the Band, and Spike Jonze's disturbingly accurate Her. RUNDOWN 2 : Steve Stebbing recommends streaming for Valentine's weekend. A wholesome autism spectrum dating show on Netflix, vampire relationship goals on Disney Plus, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge lusting after a priest on Prime Video.

    19 min

  5. 3D AGO

    The Worst Night To Take Someone You Actually Like Out

    Valentine's Day restaurant prices hit differently when you realize Saturday is the worst possible night. You're making reservations, budgeting for the evening, preparing for premium everything. The worst days in the entire calendar year to dine out are Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. You'll pay more for worse service because operators make their February survival money in one weekend. If you love your date, great. But you hate yourself for choosing Saturday. Valentine's falls on Saturday this year, which means you can go Friday, Sunday, or Thursday and avoid peak desperation pricing. Two Michelin restaurants just closed in Canada. Not struggling neighborhood spots. Michelin-starred establishments. If operators survived January and made it to February, they're in decent shape, but even prestige can't overcome the economics. That $250 tableau d'hôte is per person. Delivery apps normalized the $27 club sandwich. Reduced alcohol consumption hurts margins. Bad winter weather kept people home when restaurants needed them most. The irony isn't lost on anyone paying premium for reduced quality. The night designed to celebrate relationships financially punishes the people trying to make them special. Next time you're planning Valentine's weekend, you'll remember Saturday is the industry's bailout night, not your romantic gesture. Topics: Valentine's Day dining, restaurant industry economics, special occasion pricing, Michelin closures, dining alternatives, food costs GUEST: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois | @‌foodprofessor RUNDOWN: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois reveals Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are the calendar's worst restaurant nights. Saturday premium pricing subsidizes February survival while two Canadian Michelin restaurants close despite peak season revenue.

    10 min

  6. 3D AGO

    The Olympic Moment That Never Happened

    AI Olympic deepfakes turn every viral moment into a trust problem. You're watching someone's dramatic fall during a key event. Your friend shares it. The comments section debates whether they'll recover in time for the next round. None of it happened. Someone in a different country created the video with AI because they don't like that athlete, and Italy's strict data collection rules can't stop content generated outside Italian borders. You have no way to verify it because proper fact-based stamps on synthetic video aren't being used. Welcome to the first AI Olympics. Rajhans calls this dial-up mode. LA 2028 will showcase high-speed AI with Hollywood production capabilities, autonomous vehicles, paperless entry, possibly retina scanning. America will flex every technological muscle available while you're still figuring out which 2026 footage was real. The judging shifts too. X Games already use AI because humans take bribes and make mistakes. You'll see upstairs flags like football reviews before full algorithmic control. Athletes compete knowing every micro-movement gets measured to precision humans can't detect. One hundredth of a degree blade angle matters now. AI democratizes training data access, leveling the playing field between wealthy and poor nations, but only if infrastructure exists. Parts of Canada still lack reliable broadband. The technology requires internet access smaller countries don't have. Men lie, women lie, numbers don't, which means athletic history gets rewritten when new measurement tools prove old achievements weren't what they seemed. The question isn't whether Italy 2026 will be entertaining. It's whether you'll know what actually entertained you versus what someone else wants you to think you saw. Topics: AI Olympic deepfakes, synthetic sports content, Olympic judging AI, Italy 2026, fake videos, athletic data GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca RUNDOWN: Italy 2026 marks the first AI Olympics where synthetic content outnumbers real footage and AI judging systems measure athletes to inhuman precision, says Mohit Rajhans.

    10 min

  7. 4D AGO

    When Half of This Town Got the Day Off (And You Didn't)

    Statutory holiday gaps between New Year's and Easter used to span four brutal months. You're living in Lloydminster in 2005. Your neighbor across the street has Family Day off because they're on the Alberta side. You're working because you're on the Saskatchewan side. Same town, different province, seventeen years of watching half the town celebrate while you clock in. Which side of the boundary line you live on determined whether you got a break or kept working. Alberta created Family Day in 1990 under Premier Don Getty. Allegations suggest it was a political play to show family values when his kid was arrested, but who cares, we got the holiday. Seventeen years passed before anyone else adopted it. Saskatchewan finally joined in 2007. Ontario waited until 2008. BC adopted it in 2013 but chose a different week to be different, then in 2018 said fine, we'll do it on your stupid day. Without Family Day, if Easter falls late April, you'd face January through April with zero statutory breaks. That's a brutal stretch. The holiday you assume is Canadian tradition is actually a 28-year provincial experiment that half the country resisted. Next time you check the calendar, ask which holidays only exist in your province and why everyone else took decades to follow. That four-month gap from New Year's to Easter still exists. Family Day just patches it temporarily in February, and some provinces didn't want the patch for almost three decades. Topics: statutory holiday gaps, Family Day history, provincial holidays, Alberta Don Getty, holiday adoption timeline RUNDOWN: Shane Hewitt and Ryan O'Donnell track Family Day's 28-year journey from Alberta's 1990 creation under Don Getty through provincial resistance, including Lloydminster's 17-year split where half the border town worked while half celebrated, ending with BC's 2018 alignment after initially choosing a different week to be different.

    10 min

  8. 4D AGO

    The Million-Dollar Program Based on 31 Interviews From 2010

    Harm reduction programs sound responsible until you check the evidence. You're walking past the playground near your house and there's broken glass on the ground. Could be a beer bottle. Could be a crack pipe. Your tax dollars paid for both possibilities: the distribution and the cleanup. Between 2021 and 2025, Toronto procured 2.3 million meth pipes and 3.5 million crack pipes. When pressed for the evidence base, the city provided four studies. One study interviewed four hospital receptionists about their impressions. That's not science. Of the three remaining studies, only one suggested free pipes might reduce sharing. The evidence? Thirty-one drug users in Victoria said in 2010 that free pipes might make them share less. Sixteen years ago. Thirty-one people. Millions of pipes. But here's the contradiction nobody talks about: a 2011 Vancouver study with similar sample size found users saying the opposite, that sharing pipes is essential to the social experience of smoking crack. The city calls this evidence-based while ignoring the evidence that contradicts them. Next time you see drug debris near a library or school, remember: you paid to distribute it, and you'll pay again to clean it up. The program isn't based on science. It's based on what active addicts said they wanted sixteen years ago. Topics: harm reduction programs, crack pipe distribution, evidence-based policy, taxpayer funding, drug paraphernalia cleanup GUEST: Adam Zivo | adamzivo.com RUNDOWN: Investigative journalist Adam Zivo exposes Toronto's procurement of 5.8 million crack and meth pipes justified by a single 2010 study interviewing 31 drug users, revealing how harm reduction programs ignore contradictory evidence while flooding communities with publicly-funded paraphernalia.

    10 min
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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 expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane’s signature style—thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real. If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.

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