Millennial nostalgia gets dismissed as cringe culture - blurry photos and bad fashion. You see 2010 throwbacks and mock the filters, the flannel, the avocado toast optimism. But you're actually looking at documentation: housing at $336,800, Instagram that rewarded authenticity over polish, economic participation without being house-poor. What Gen Z ridicules was when imperfection didn't cost extra.

Jack Layton brought political accountability to Canada nobody's replaced since 2011 - the same year Instagram shifted from authentic sharing to corporate performance after Facebook's acquisition. Why can't people spend in the economy now? Housing tripled from its $336,800 average, making it impossible to afford leaving the house. The pattern across platforms, politics, and prices: authenticity went from accessible to gatekept in one decade.

The nostalgia isn't misplaced - it's accurate. That 2010 era documented when authenticity in platforms, politics, and economics all came without barriers. What changed wasn't taste or trends. It was the systematic pricing of imperfection out of reach, making optimism a luxury good instead of a baseline condition.

Topics: millennial nostalgia, 2010 throwback, early Instagram, housing affordability, Canadian politics, throwback culture

Originally aired on 2026-02-05

Millennial nostalgia gets dismissed as cringe culture - blurry photos and bad fashion. You see 2010 throwbacks and mock the filters, the flannel, the avocado toast optimism. But you're actually looking at documentation: housing at $336,800, Instagram that rewarded authenticity over polish, economic participation without being house-poor. What Gen Z ridicules was when imperfection didn't cost extra.
Jack Layton brought political accountability to Canada nobody's replaced since 2011 - the same year Instagram shifted from authentic sharing to corporate performance after Facebook's acquisition. Why can't people spend in the economy now? Housing tripled from its $336,800 average, making it impossible to afford leaving the house. The pattern across platforms, politics, and prices: authenticity went from accessible to gatekept in one decade.
The nostalgia isn't misplaced - it's accurate. That 2010 era documented when authenticity in platforms, politics, and economics all came without barriers. What changed wasn't taste or trends. It was the systematic pricing of imperfection out of reach, making optimism a luxury good instead of a baseline condition.
Topics: millennial nostalgia, 2010 throwback, early Instagram, housing affordability, Canadian politics, throwback culture
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-05

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.

NEW - Cringe Mourning 2010

AI cyberbullying gave your kid's bully a production studio. You hand them a phone thinking you've set appropriate restrictions. You've blocked certain apps, enabled screen time limits, reviewed their friend lists. Then someone at school uses a different app you've never heard of to create a deepfake video of your kid and shares it with 300 people before third period. Your parental controls didn't even register the threat because the tool didn't exist when you researched "keeping kids safe online" last month.

Rajhans makes it clear: you cannot outsource this to TikTok parenting influencers or blog posts written by people paid by the platforms. Every piece of your kid's online activity is being commodified and can be used against them. The platforms selling you safety features are the same ones embedding AI creation tools in every social feed. Apple's adding on-device protections, but that only helps if you understand what you're protecting against. You're leading without a map because the territory changes faster than anyone can document it.

What your parents did with teaching you about car safety doesn't translate here. The investment isn't the phone, it's the digital footprint your kid starts building the moment they go online, and that footprint becomes permanent data someone else owns. Set your own agenda, build your own family culture around this, because waiting for platforms to fix themselves means you're already years behind the harm.

Topics: AI cyberbullying, social media safety, synthetic content, parenting digital age, online harassment, platform accountability

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

Originally aired on 2026-02-06

AI cyberbullying gave your kid's bully a production studio. You hand them a phone thinking you've set appropriate restrictions. You've blocked certain apps, enabled screen time limits, reviewed their friend lists. Then someone at school uses a different app you've never heard of to create a deepfake video of your kid and shares it with 300 people before third period. Your parental controls didn't even register the threat because the tool didn't exist when you researched "keeping kids safe online" last month.
Rajhans makes it clear: you cannot outsource this to TikTok parenting influencers or blog posts written by people paid by the platforms. Every piece of your kid's online activity is being commodified and can be used against them. The platforms selling you safety features are the same ones embedding AI creation tools in every social feed. Apple's adding on-device protections, but that only helps if you understand what you're protecting against. You're leading without a map because the territory changes faster than anyone can document it.
What your parents did with teaching you about car safety doesn't translate here. The investment isn't the phone, it's the digital footprint your kid starts building the moment they go online, and that footprint becomes permanent data someone else owns. Set your own agenda, build your own family culture around this, because waiting for platforms to fix themselves means you're already years behind the harm.
Topics: AI cyberbullying, social media safety, synthetic content, parenting digital age, online harassment, platform accountability
GUEST: Mohit Rajhans |<a href="http://thinkstart.ca"> http://thinkstart.ca</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-06

ICYMI - The New Rule: You're the Only Filter That Works

Cyberbullying follows your kid home now. You gave them the phone in grade five. Seemed fine that first year. Summer hits. They're scrolling. Someone filmed themselves committing suicide and posted it in a feed your kid follows. Your fifth grader sees it. Nightmares start. You find out weeks later. What else did they see that you don't know about?

Victoria Talwar's research documented that exact case. Not a kid seeking harmful content. Just scrolling. The nightmares lasted months. The bullying you experienced stopped when you got home from school. Your kid's doesn't. Group chats at midnight. Gaming voice channels during homework. Posted photos they can't delete. Comments they can't escape. One parent Talwar interviewed called it the guinea pig generation, the first to raise kids with social media when nobody knows the rules yet.

The weekend used to be the reprieve. That's gone. Your kid's identity forms while strangers post about them in spaces you can't see. But bystanders change outcomes. Research proves passive ignoring makes it worse, and intervention stops it. That's the part nobody's teaching yet.

Topics: cyberbullying, digital parenting, online safety for kids, bystander intervention, youth mental health

GUEST: Victoria Talwar | http://youthdigitalcompass.com

Originally aired on 2026-02-06

Cyberbullying follows your kid home now. You gave them the phone in grade five. Seemed fine that first year. Summer hits. They're scrolling. Someone filmed themselves committing suicide and posted it in a feed your kid follows. Your fifth grader sees it. Nightmares start. You find out weeks later. What else did they see that you don't know about?
Victoria Talwar's research documented that exact case. Not a kid seeking harmful content. Just scrolling. The nightmares lasted months. The bullying you experienced stopped when you got home from school. Your kid's doesn't. Group chats at midnight. Gaming voice channels during homework. Posted photos they can't delete. Comments they can't escape. One parent Talwar interviewed called it the guinea pig generation, the first to raise kids with social media when nobody knows the rules yet.
The weekend used to be the reprieve. That's gone. Your kid's identity forms while strangers post about them in spaces you can't see. But bystanders change outcomes. Research proves passive ignoring makes it worse, and intervention stops it. That's the part nobody's teaching yet.
Topics: cyberbullying, digital parenting, online safety for kids, bystander intervention, youth mental health
GUEST: Victoria Talwar |<a href="http://youthdigitalcompass.com"> http://youthdigitalcompass.com</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-06

When Did the Bullying Become 24/7?

Government UFO cover-up stories usually come from unreliable witnesses you dismiss immediately. You've heard the cable news interviews at midnight with people claiming they saw lights. This isn't that. You're watching 34 military and intelligence officials with security clearances testify that there's been an 80-year cover-up of non-human intelligent life, and the US is racing China and Russia to reverse engineer the technology. These are admirals, generals, sitting senators from both parties, and Navy pilots trusted to fly with nuclear weapons. Do you believe career officials risking their reputations, or assume they're all lying for a documentary?

Republicans and Democrats can't agree on anything right now, but they're completely aligned on this. Both parties' leadership knows about it and supports keeping certain details classified. Farah spent a year earning trust through off-the-grid conversations, cell phones away, navigating pushback from people invested in the cover-up who didn't want this film made. He interviewed the Secretary of State. The officials call it "the Manhattan Project on steroids" because the stakes involve technology that could shift global power. They only reveal what's lawfully unclassified, which means there's substantially more on the other side of that line.

The film sets the stage for more information to become public, but right now you're left with verified government testimony about non-human intelligence and a technology race with adversarial nations. One senior intelligence official says hopefully soon the full picture becomes unclassified so the public learns how it impacts us all. That "impacts us all" line isn't speculation from a conspiracy theorist. It's from someone with direct knowledge who legally can't say more yet.

Topics: government UFO cover-up, non-human intelligence, UAP disclosure, classified technology race, military testimony, bipartisan secrecy

GUEST: Dan Farah | X: @‌ageofdisclosure, TikTok: @‌ageofdisclosure, YouTube: @‌theageofdisclosure, Instagram & Facebook: @‌ageofdisclosure

Originally aired on 2026-02-06

Government UFO cover-up stories usually come from unreliable witnesses you dismiss immediately. You've heard the cable news interviews at midnight with people claiming they saw lights. This isn't that. You're watching 34 military and intelligence officials with security clearances testify that there's been an 80-year cover-up of non-human intelligent life, and the US is racing China and Russia to reverse engineer the technology. These are admirals, generals, sitting senators from both parties, and Navy pilots trusted to fly with nuclear weapons. Do you believe career officials risking their reputations, or assume they're all lying for a documentary?
Republicans and Democrats can't agree on anything right now, but they're completely aligned on this. Both parties' leadership knows about it and supports keeping certain details classified. Farah spent a year earning trust through off-the-grid conversations, cell phones away, navigating pushback from people invested in the cover-up who didn't want this film made. He interviewed the Secretary of State. The officials call it "the Manhattan Project on steroids" because the stakes involve technology that could shift global power. They only reveal what's lawfully unclassified, which means there's substantially more on the other side of that line.
The film sets the stage for more information to become public, but right now you're left with verified government testimony about non-human intelligence and a technology race with adversarial nations. One senior intelligence official says hopefully soon the full picture becomes unclassified so the public learns how it impacts us all. That "impacts us all" line isn't speculation from a conspiracy theorist. It's from someone with direct knowledge who legally can't say more yet.
Topics: government UFO cover-up, non-human intelligence, UAP disclosure, classified technology race, military testimony, bipartisan secrecy
GUEST: Dan Farah | X: @&zwnj;ageofdisclosure, TikTok: @&zwnj;ageofdisclosure, YouTube: @&zwnj;theageofdisclosure, Instagram &amp; Facebook: @&zwnj;ageofdisclosure
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-06

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