It’s never been easier to meet people — yet harder to know where things stand. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco join Shane Hewitt to explore how modern dating culture thrives on ambiguity and why directness is the antidote. They discuss the role of self-awareness, boundaries, and emotional vulnerability in finding real connection beyond the apps. The episode offers practical reflections on how communication can simplify even the most complicated relationships and why being yourself remains the most powerful dating strategy.

GUEST:
Jen Kirsch
Tony Tedesco

Originally aired on 2025-11-03

It&rsquo;s never been easier to meet people &mdash; yet harder to know where things stand. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco join Shane Hewitt to explore how modern dating culture thrives on ambiguity and why directness is the antidote. They discuss the role of self-awareness, boundaries, and emotional vulnerability in finding real connection beyond the apps. The episode offers practical reflections on how communication can simplify even the most complicated relationships and why being yourself remains the most powerful dating strategy.
GUEST: Jen Kirsch Tony Tedesco
Originally aired on&nbsp;2025-11-03

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.

ICYMI - Situationships and Self-Awareness: Dating in Real Life

AI data privacy is built on promises nobody can verify, and you've already accepted those terms. You pay a monthly subscription to feed your ideas, your business data, your writing into a system that will, when pushed correctly, reveal behavioral patterns across its entire user base. You're building their platform. You're funding their valuation. And the data agreement you clicked through didn't cover any of this.

Mohit Rajhans points to the gap most people miss: the tech has already changed completely from 18 months ago, and it's still hallucinating on basic requests. Businesses are attaching full-access bots to their internal systems, yet a simple conversation can extract behavioral data from an AI about how it processes input from every user. What exactly is staying private?

Mohit's final word: forget the buzzwords, try the tools yourself, figure out what you can afford to ignore. The harder question is whether the thing you can't afford to ignore is what you've already given away. You're paying for the privilege of building someone else's asset. That's the gym analogy, and it lands.

Topics: AI data privacy risks, agentic AI, ChatGPT data security, AI business tools, AI hallucinations

GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca

Originally aired on 2026-02-20

AI data privacy is built on promises nobody can verify, and you've already accepted those terms. You pay a monthly subscription to feed your ideas, your business data, your writing into a system that will, when pushed correctly, reveal behavioral patterns across its entire user base. You're building their platform. You're funding their valuation. And the data agreement you clicked through didn't cover any of this.
Mohit Rajhans points to the gap most people miss: the tech has already changed completely from 18 months ago, and it's still hallucinating on basic requests. Businesses are attaching full-access bots to their internal systems, yet a simple conversation can extract behavioral data from an AI about how it processes input from every user. What exactly is staying private?
Mohit's final word: forget the buzzwords, try the tools yourself, figure out what you can afford to ignore. The harder question is whether the thing you can't afford to ignore is what you've already given away. You're paying for the privilege of building someone else's asset. That's the gym analogy, and it lands.
Topics: AI data privacy risks, agentic AI, ChatGPT data security, AI business tools, AI hallucinations
GUEST: Mohit Rajhans |<a href="http://thinkstart.ca"> http://thinkstart.ca</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-20

NEW - What Happened When Shane Asked AI Why It Lied

AI mental health support is built around user satisfaction, and that's exactly the problem. You open ChatGPT at 2am, type out what's wrong, and it listens. It validates. It never pushes back. A therapist optimizing for your satisfaction the way a chatbot does would have a serious ethics problem on their hands, because making you feel good and helping you get better are not the same thing.

Amelia Knott asked ChatGPT what it thought its role in mental health was. It described itself as a first-line response offering support, validation, and resources. She found that answer compelling and concerning in equal measure. A chatbot will let someone ruminate about a breakup for six or seven hours if that's what the user wants. A therapist interrupts that pattern. And a therapist notices when you start tapping your foot mid-session, which opens doors the conversation wasn't heading toward on its own.

AI can be one item on the menu: type out a scenario, get some orientation, then take it to a real relationship. The limitation isn't that it's unhelpful. It's that it can't notice what's happening in the room with you, and sometimes that's the whole thing.

Topics: AI mental health support, chatbot therapy limitations, therapy vs AI, mental health access Canada, somatic therapy

GUEST: Amelia Knott

Originally aired on 2026-02-20

AI mental health support is built around user satisfaction, and that's exactly the problem. You open ChatGPT at 2am, type out what's wrong, and it listens. It validates. It never pushes back. A therapist optimizing for your satisfaction the way a chatbot does would have a serious ethics problem on their hands, because making you feel good and helping you get better are not the same thing.
Amelia Knott asked ChatGPT what it thought its role in mental health was. It described itself as a first-line response offering support, validation, and resources. She found that answer compelling and concerning in equal measure. A chatbot will let someone ruminate about a breakup for six or seven hours if that's what the user wants. A therapist interrupts that pattern. And a therapist notices when you start tapping your foot mid-session, which opens doors the conversation wasn't heading toward on its own.
AI can be one item on the menu: type out a scenario, get some orientation, then take it to a real relationship. The limitation isn't that it's unhelpful. It's that it can't notice what's happening in the room with you, and sometimes that's the whole thing.
Topics:&nbsp;AI mental health support, chatbot therapy limitations, therapy vs AI, mental health access Canada, somatic therapy
GUEST:&nbsp;Amelia Knott
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-20

Your Therapist Noticed Your Foot. The Chatbot Wouldn't Have

Police body worn cameras are in your city, on the officers you interact with, recording everything. In Canada, if you want to see footage that documents you, you file a freedom of information request and wait. The officer who recorded you reviews it whenever they want. That asymmetry is not a bug someone is working to fix. It's how the policy is written.

Chris Schneider spent years tracking how "transparency" and "accountability" became the defining language around body cams, and found that the research literature on whether cameras actually change police behavior is inconclusive. Sometimes use of force drops. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes civilian complaints decrease. Sometimes they don't. The cameras keep rolling out anyway, at significant taxpayer expense, attached to terms nobody has agreed to define.

Professional liability insurance is Schneider's most direct fix: tie misconduct findings to premiums, let the insurance math do the work that oversight agencies haven't. If police administrators are right that bad actors are rare, almost no officer would be affected. That's the version of accountability that comes with a number attached to it.

Topics: police body worn cameras, body cam footage Canada, police accountability, freedom of information, police reform

GUEST: Chris Schneider | http://chrisschneider.org

Originally aired on 2026-02-20

Police body worn cameras are in your city, on the officers you interact with, recording everything. In Canada, if you want to see footage that documents you, you file a freedom of information request and wait. The officer who recorded you reviews it whenever they want. That asymmetry is not a bug someone is working to fix. It's how the policy is written.
Chris Schneider spent years tracking how "transparency" and "accountability" became the defining language around body cams, and found that the research literature on whether cameras actually change police behavior is inconclusive. Sometimes use of force drops. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes civilian complaints decrease. Sometimes they don't. The cameras keep rolling out anyway, at significant taxpayer expense, attached to terms nobody has agreed to define.
Professional liability insurance is Schneider's most direct fix: tie misconduct findings to premiums, let the insurance math do the work that oversight agencies haven't. If police administrators are right that bad actors are rare, almost no officer would be affected. That's the version of accountability that comes with a number attached to it.
Topics: police body worn cameras, body cam footage Canada, police accountability, freedom of information, police reform
GUEST: Chris Schneider |<a href="http://chrisschneider.org"> http://chrisschneider.org</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-20

ICYMI - Situationships and Self-Awareness: Dating in Real Life

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