Steve Stebbing highlights his favourite movies and shows from 2024

Steve Stebbing highlights his favourite movies and shows from 2024

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.

Shane Hewitt &amp; 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&mdash;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&rsquo;s signature style&mdash;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.

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Shane Hewitt is known for his engaging and relatable on-air personality, which captivates listeners. His ability to blend insightful commentary with humour and empathy creates a genuine connection with listeners.  Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift provides relatable content, informative discussions and expert insights – along with a balance of anecdotes and entertainment.

Shane Hewitt is known for his engaging and relatable on-air personality, which captivates listeners. His ability to blend insightful commentary with humour and empathy creates a genuine connection with listeners.  Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift provides relatable content, informative discussions and expert insights – along with a balance of anecdotes and entertainment.

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Fake news detection just got a harder test, and the cartels just raised the bar. You're watching Mexico unravel in your feed and the images are terrifying: skylines on fire, planes on tarmacs reduced to ash, buildings exploding. But those planes weren't burning at that airport. Those images were AI-generated by the cartels themselves, seeded deliberately to amplify fear during real violence. You couldn't tell. Almost nobody could.

That's not a personal failure, it's a systemic one. An Ipsos poll of 25,000 people found 90% of Canadians have fallen for fake news, even though only 10% believe they have. Math turns out to be a surprisingly useful filter: when a post claims a million people attended a protest in a small town square, you can run the numbers on whether that crowd is physically possible. University of Washington professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West built a whole framework around exactly this.

This is a calibration problem, not a gullibility problem. The skeptic on the beach dismissing everything was as wrong as the accounts posting AI explosions. Buses burned. Stores were looted. Real fear was real. Finding the middle requires building new habits for reading your feed.

Topics: fake news detection, AI-generated images, cartels Mexico, media manipulation, information literacy

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Fake news detection just got a harder test, and the cartels just raised the bar. You're watching Mexico unravel in your feed and the images are terrifying: skylines on fire, planes on tarmacs reduced to ash, buildings exploding. But those planes weren't burning at that airport. Those images were AI-generated by the cartels themselves, seeded deliberately to amplify fear during real violence. You couldn't tell. Almost nobody could.
That's not a personal failure, it's a systemic one. An Ipsos poll of 25,000 people found 90% of Canadians have fallen for fake news, even though only 10% believe they have. Math turns out to be a surprisingly useful filter: when a post claims a million people attended a protest in a small town square, you can run the numbers on whether that crowd is physically possible. University of Washington professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West built a whole framework around exactly this.
This is a calibration problem, not a gullibility problem. The skeptic on the beach dismissing everything was as wrong as the accounts posting AI explosions. Buses burned. Stores were looted. Real fear was real. Finding the middle requires building new habits for reading your feed.
Topics: fake news detection, AI-generated images, cartels Mexico, media manipulation, information literacy
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

Mexico Fake News AI: The Cartel Knew You'd Share It

Evolution textbook timelines tell you when specific adaptations appeared. You learned herbivores developed complex plant-shredding teeth at a specific point in history. That's the fact. Except there's a skull sitting in a lab in Ottawa right now with those exact teeth, and it's millions of years older than the date your textbook says they're supposed to exist. One of those things has to be wrong.

The problem? This skull millions of years before herbivore teeth like this were supposed to evolve. The skull is smaller than your fist. It came from inside a hollow tree trunk in Nova Scotia where the animal either lived, denned, or fell in 310 million years ago. They named the species Tyrannorode, meaning Tyrant Digger, because it's ironically giant for something called a "microsaur."

The timeline you were taught as settled science just got updated by a fossil that wasn't supposed to be possible yet.

Topics: evolution textbook wrong, fossil discovery, evolutionary timeline, Nova Scotia paleontology, herbivore teeth

GUEST: Dr. Hillary Madden | Carleton University

Originally aired on 2026-02-24

Evolution textbook timelines tell you when specific adaptations appeared. You learned herbivores developed complex plant-shredding teeth at a specific point in history. That's the fact. Except there's a skull sitting in a lab in Ottawa right now with those exact teeth, and it's millions of years older than the date your textbook says they're supposed to exist. One of those things has to be wrong.
The problem? This skull millions of years before herbivore teeth like this were supposed to evolve. The skull is smaller than your fist. It came from inside a hollow tree trunk in Nova Scotia where the animal either lived, denned, or fell in 310 million years ago. They named the species Tyrannorode, meaning Tyrant Digger, because it's ironically giant for something called a "microsaur."
The timeline you were taught as settled science just got updated by a fossil that wasn't supposed to be possible yet.
Topics: evolution textbook wrong, fossil discovery, evolutionary timeline, Nova Scotia paleontology, herbivore teeth
GUEST: Dr. Hillary Madden | Carleton University
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-24

NEW - How to Train Your Dino: The Fossil That Appeared Millions of Years Too Early

Robots and AI technology just solved two problems you didn't know had the same answer. After an ice storm in China, a quadricopter drone flies out, finds the loaded power lines, and repels down a tiny robot that latches on and rides the line like a zip line, spinning blades chopping ice the whole way, operating in fog, low visibility, and active snowstorms without sending a single person up in a helicopter.

 

The robot restaurant in China was built for a community of senior citizens. Bowls come with printed instructions. Tables have handholds. A robot at the entrance scans your face and your tongue, assesses your health conditions, factors in your horoscope, and recommends your meal. The tech expert covering this story was born a super taster, meaning coffee tastes like body odor to him, and he's the first to admit he's not sure about the science of tongue scanning while being his own best argument for it.

 

Pokemon turns 30 this Friday in Japan, where 10 hotels are running full Pokemon room immersions and piloting a rental clothing concept: arrive with one bag, wear rented clothes the whole trip, leave the same way. It's either the future of travel packing or a bowling shoe situation. Kris Abel has thoughts.

 

Topics: robots and AI technology, power line ice clearing drone, robot restaurant China, Pokemon 30th anniversary, rental clothing Japan

 

GUEST: Kris Abel | realkrisabel.com | @realkrisabel


Originally aired on 2026-02-24

Robots and AI technology just solved two problems you didn't know had the same answer. After an ice storm in China, a quadricopter drone flies out, finds the loaded power lines, and repels down a tiny robot that latches on and rides the line like a zip line, spinning blades chopping ice the whole way, operating in fog, low visibility, and active snowstorms without sending a single person up in a helicopter.
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The robot restaurant in China was built for a community of senior citizens. Bowls come with printed instructions. Tables have handholds. A robot at the entrance scans your face and your tongue, assesses your health conditions, factors in your horoscope, and recommends your meal. The tech expert covering this story was born a super taster, meaning coffee tastes like body odor to him, and he's the first to admit he's not sure about the science of tongue scanning while being his own best argument for it.
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Pokemon turns 30 this Friday in Japan, where 10 hotels are running full Pokemon room immersions and piloting a rental clothing concept: arrive with one bag, wear rented clothes the whole trip, leave the same way. It's either the future of travel packing or a bowling shoe situation. Kris Abel has thoughts.
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Topics: robots and AI technology, power line ice clearing drone, robot restaurant China, Pokemon 30th anniversary, rental clothing Japan
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GUEST: Kris Abel | realkrisabel.com | @realkrisabel
 Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-24

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