CIA secret operations history has a documented file titled Happy Days. It's 1959. Indonesia. The CIA wants to discredit a foreign leader named Sukarno, so they find a lookalike, film a fake sex tape, screen it internally, and conclude that nobody will believe it. The operation that was too unbelievable even for a propaganda campaign never gets released. The CIA moves on.

Operation Midnight Climax is a subproject of MKUltra, the verified program with documented victims and government payouts. The CIA approaches sex workers in San Francisco, asks them to bring clients to a CIA safe house, doses those clients with LSD without their knowledge, and watches from behind a one-way mirror to take notes on what happens. Meanwhile, British soldiers in a separate documented experiment are given LSD on a field exercise with weapons. One drops his gun and climbs trees to feed birds. The commanding officer stands exposed in an open field, unable to give instructions. They forget how to be soldiers entirely.

The historian covering this used to dismiss all of it. That's his own admission. The person most qualified to evaluate whether something is real or fringe changed his position after looking at the evidence. That's worth knowing before you decide which category this falls into.

Topics: CIA secret operations history, MKUltra LSD experiments, Operation Midnight Climax, Cold War spy history, government conspiracy facts

GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | @‌theuncoverup

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

CIA secret operations history has a documented file titled Happy Days. It's 1959. Indonesia. The CIA wants to discredit a foreign leader named Sukarno, so they find a lookalike, film a fake sex tape, screen it internally, and conclude that nobody will believe it. The operation that was too unbelievable even for a propaganda campaign never gets released. The CIA moves on.
Operation Midnight Climax is a subproject of MKUltra, the verified program with documented victims and government payouts. The CIA approaches sex workers in San Francisco, asks them to bring clients to a CIA safe house, doses those clients with LSD without their knowledge, and watches from behind a one-way mirror to take notes on what happens. Meanwhile, British soldiers in a separate documented experiment are given LSD on a field exercise with weapons. One drops his gun and climbs trees to feed birds. The commanding officer stands exposed in an open field, unable to give instructions. They forget how to be soldiers entirely.
The historian covering this used to dismiss all of it. That's his own admission. The person most qualified to evaluate whether something is real or fringe changed his position after looking at the evidence. That's worth knowing before you decide which category this falls into.
Topics: CIA secret operations history, MKUltra LSD experiments, Operation Midnight Climax, Cold War spy history, government conspiracy facts
GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | @&zwnj;theuncoverup
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

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.

Shiftheads - The CIA Made a Sex Tape and Decided Nobody Would Believe It

Youth career advice usually sounds like a plan. Tony Chapman's version starts earlier and goes somewhere different. His mom rented him the pitcher for his lemonade stand, made him calculate profit margins on Kool-Aid concentrate, figure out how many cups per glass, and walk to the park where it was sunny before she'd let him sell a thing. That's not a lemonade stand story. That's a first lesson in how you can impact outcome.

The helicopter parent makes the lemonade, designs the sign, and emails the neighbors to stop by. Then they show up to sit in the lobby at their kid's job interview. Chapman hired a lot of young people and said directly: if a parent came in to sit in the lobby, that candidate didn't stand a chance. The thing parents think is support is producing the exact result they're trying to prevent. Meanwhile, a kid alone on a farm road outside Ottawa selling sunflowers in the heat, no parents, negotiating price on the spot, is already running laps on the version being raised in the lobby.

The oxygen of life is curiosity. Know why you're there and you'll know when you can leave. Love is when time disappears. Three things worth writing down.

Topics: youth career advice, helicopter parenting, entrepreneurial mindset kids, career reinvention, curiosity and success

GUEST: Tony Chapman | http://chatterthatmatters.ca

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Youth career advice usually sounds like a plan. Tony Chapman's version starts earlier and goes somewhere different. His mom rented him the pitcher for his lemonade stand, made him calculate profit margins on Kool-Aid concentrate, figure out how many cups per glass, and walk to the park where it was sunny before she'd let him sell a thing. That's not a lemonade stand story. That's a first lesson in how you can impact outcome.
The helicopter parent makes the lemonade, designs the sign, and emails the neighbors to stop by. Then they show up to sit in the lobby at their kid's job interview. Chapman hired a lot of young people and said directly: if a parent came in to sit in the lobby, that candidate didn't stand a chance. The thing parents think is support is producing the exact result they're trying to prevent. Meanwhile, a kid alone on a farm road outside Ottawa selling sunflowers in the heat, no parents, negotiating price on the spot, is already running laps on the version being raised in the lobby.
The oxygen of life is curiosity. Know why you're there and you'll know when you can leave. Love is when time disappears. Three things worth writing down.
Topics: youth career advice, helicopter parenting, entrepreneurial mindset kids, career reinvention, curiosity and success
GUEST: Tony Chapman |<a href="http://chatterthatmatters.ca"> http://chatterthatmatters.ca</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

NEW - The Parent Who Does Everything Is Guaranteeing the Wrong Outcome

Career college in Canada has a number most people haven't heard and it's worth stopping on. 71% of graduates go directly into a field related to their training. The average student is in their 30s, has children, and is making a deliberate choice to retrain, not falling back on something. One to five o'clock every day is what they have. Career colleges are built around that window. Universities and community colleges generally are not.

A massage therapist trained in Alberta wanted to move to BC. The only pathway the system offered: go to Newfoundland, get recertified, then qualify for BC from there. A personal support worker doing the same job in a care home in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and BC can't just move between provinces and keep working. Canada needs welders, electricians, dental hygienists, and healthcare workers. The regulatory structure governing who can work where is actively slowing that down, and Michael Sangster appeared in parliament last week to say so directly.

The first person in a family to graduate from post-secondary education, walking across a stage into a logistics career at a company like Amazon or Canada Post, with ten family members watching, changes the trajectory of that family. That outcome is happening inside career colleges right now at a rate most Canadians don't know about.

Topics: career college Canada, trade school Canada, skilled trades shortage, interprovincial credential recognition, retraining adults Canada

GUEST: Michael Sangster | @‌naccanada | CEO, National Association of Career Colleges

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Career college in Canada has a number most people haven't heard and it's worth stopping on. 71% of graduates go directly into a field related to their training. The average student is in their 30s, has children, and is making a deliberate choice to retrain, not falling back on something. One to five o'clock every day is what they have. Career colleges are built around that window. Universities and community colleges generally are not.
A massage therapist trained in Alberta wanted to move to BC. The only pathway the system offered: go to Newfoundland, get recertified, then qualify for BC from there. A personal support worker doing the same job in a care home in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and BC can't just move between provinces and keep working. Canada needs welders, electricians, dental hygienists, and healthcare workers. The regulatory structure governing who can work where is actively slowing that down, and Michael Sangster appeared in parliament last week to say so directly.
The first person in a family to graduate from post-secondary education, walking across a stage into a logistics career at a company like Amazon or Canada Post, with ten family members watching, changes the trajectory of that family. That outcome is happening inside career colleges right now at a rate most Canadians don't know about.
Topics: career college Canada, trade school Canada, skilled trades shortage, interprovincial credential recognition, retraining adults Canada
GUEST: Michael Sangster | @&zwnj;naccanada | CEO, National Association of Career Colleges
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

SHIFTHEADS: 71% Land Directly in Their Field. The Backup Plan Is Outperforming the Plan

Canadian athlete funding is worth having and both people in this conversation agree on that. What they don't agree on is whether the ask being made right now deserves to be taken seriously. Two days after Milan Cortina ended, the Canadian Olympic Committee called for more money. Jamie Ellerton's read: cheap and lazy. The last serious investment was Vancouver 2010 and Own the Podium. Everything since has been drift without a documented gap analysis or a sport-by-sport strategy to show for it.

Lindsay Broadhead's counter is structural. Investing at the elite level is one of the few places where trickle-down economics actually works. Women's hockey is the case study: fund it properly, market it properly, and you change what the sport looks like a generation down the track. Kids without extracurriculars, without access, without funded sport in schools show a direct correlation between money in and the kind of humans and communities that come out. The Olympic Committee wants a blank check. What Jamie wants is a 20-year plan with the gaps named.

Trump's State of the Union ran for an hour and forty minutes, brought up eggs again, and the markets moved on before it ended. The communicators watching it weren't tracking the content. They were tracking the format.

Topics: Canadian athlete funding, Olympic funding strategy Canada, women's sports investment, Trump State of the Union, career path curiosity

GUEST: Lindsay Broadhead | http://broadheadcomms.ca
GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | http://conaptus.com

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Canadian athlete funding is worth having and both people in this conversation agree on that. What they don't agree on is whether the ask being made right now deserves to be taken seriously. Two days after Milan Cortina ended, the Canadian Olympic Committee called for more money. Jamie Ellerton's read: cheap and lazy. The last serious investment was Vancouver 2010 and Own the Podium. Everything since has been drift without a documented gap analysis or a sport-by-sport strategy to show for it.
Lindsay Broadhead's counter is structural. Investing at the elite level is one of the few places where trickle-down economics actually works. Women's hockey is the case study: fund it properly, market it properly, and you change what the sport looks like a generation down the track. Kids without extracurriculars, without access, without funded sport in schools show a direct correlation between money in and the kind of humans and communities that come out. The Olympic Committee wants a blank check. What Jamie wants is a 20-year plan with the gaps named.
Trump's State of the Union ran for an hour and forty minutes, brought up eggs again, and the markets moved on before it ended. The communicators watching it weren't tracking the content. They were tracking the format.
Topics: Canadian athlete funding, Olympic funding strategy Canada, women's sports investment, Trump State of the Union, career path curiosity
GUEST: Lindsay Broadhead |<a href="http://broadheadcomms.ca"> http://broadheadcomms.ca </a>GUEST: Jamie Ellerton |<a href="http://conaptus.com"> http://conaptus.com</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

Shiftheads - The CIA Made a Sex Tape and Decided Nobody Would Believe It

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