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This week's episode is our season finale. We recap and discuss the major stories from the 2023-24 season with Devin Heroux, and we follow-up with a panel discussion that includes John Cullen and Mike Fournier.
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This episode focuses on the recent announcmeent that the Grand Slam of Curling was sold to a new entity called The Curling Group. I chat with Nic Sulsky, a key member of The Curling Group about their plans for the Slams moving forward and with Olympic gold medalist Marc Kennedy about what impact this new era for the Slam might have on the players.…
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This week, we preview the 2024 World Men's Curling Championship by interviewing Bruce Mouat and Brad Gushue who faced each other in last year's final and are both back for another crack at a championship. We also chat with the skip of a Team New Zealand that has been on an interesting curling journey this season, to say the least.…
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On this week's episode we look back at the 2024 Brier with guests Mike McEwen and E.J. Harnden.
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On this week's podcast we preview the 2024 Women's Worlds with guests - Alina Paetz (SUI), Rachel Homan (CAN), Anna Hasselborg (SWE), Tabitha Peterson (USA), Jen Dodds (SCO) and Jess Smith (NZ).
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This week's podcast includes interviews with 2024 Scotties champion Tracy Fleury of Team Homan, all-star alternate Krysten Karwacki of Team Einarson and Myla Plett who just led her team to a 4th place finish at the World Jrs and qualified Canada for the event in 2025.
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In this year's Brier preview we welcome the two brads, Gushue and Jacobs along with Mike McEwen, Ben Hebert, Matt Dunstone, Aaron Sluchinski and Tyler Tardi.
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In Part 1 of our 2024 Scotties preview we are joined by - Jenn Jones, Sarah Wilkes of Team Homan, Clancy Grandy (BC), Kate Cameron (WC), Danielle Inglis (ON) and Heather Smith (NS).
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On this week's episode, we chat with Beau Welling, president of the World Curling Federation. We discuss many of the sport's hot-button topics. I also ask the world-renowned golf course designer if the sport of curling ever comes up in his conversations with Tiger Woods.
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In this week's episode, we chatted with Nolan Thiessen, the new CEO of Curling Canada. We cover several hot-button topics facing Thiessen and the team at Curling Canada.
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In the final episode of 2023, we chat with Olympic gold medalist Marc Kennedy, Laura Walker of the #1 ranked mixed doubles team in the world, Alyssa Nedohin from the reigning Canadian U18 and U21 Canadian champs Team Plett, and we are also joined by Northern Ontario curling upstart Deanna Chilton.
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On this week's episode, we are joined by four-time world champion Glenn Howard. We are also joined by Kayla Skirlik, who represented Alberta at the 2023 Scotties. Howard and Skrlik were coming off big wins on the World Curling Tour last weekend.
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On this week's episode we are joined by Emma miskew of Team Homan and Jacques Gauthier of Team Kevin Koe whose teams each won the tour event in Red Deer las weekend. Our discussions touch on many topics including Miskew's work with curling's developing player's association and Gauthiers transition from skip to second.…
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On this week's episode, my guests are Olympian Hans Frauenlob, who joins us to recap an exciting and controversial 2023 Pan-Continental Championship and Mike Fournier, who recently penned a blog in the persona of the "Unknown Curling Fan", which received a lot of attention in the competitive curling community.…
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On this week's episode, we hear from Karlee Burgess of Team Jennifer Jones. Karlee won her first career Grand Slam last week in Niagara Falls. Our second guest this week is Olympic gold medalist Ryan Fry who now coaches Italy's Team Retornaz. We discuss the Italian team, currently ranked second in the world and recap their win at the first Grand Sl…
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In the Season 9 premiere, we welcome David Murdoch, the new Director of High Performance at Curling Canada. We also chat with Laurie St. Georges and Felix Asselin who will represent Canada at the 2023 World Mixed Curling Championship. The duo recently won a mixed doubles event and they also have several events planned with their respective four-per…
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On the 2022-23 season finale, we are joined by Devin Heroux of CBC Sports, 2021 Brier champion Brendan Bottcher and Phill Drobnick of USA Curling.
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This week, we recap the 2022-23 season with John cullen and Mike Fournier who have both curled at the elite level and are also well-known for their work in covering the sport through their blogs, podcasts and other platforms.
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On this episode we are joined by Mark Ideason who recently won a silver medal at the World Wheelchair Curling Champonship and his teammate Gil Dash who recently also won his 4th Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship. We are also joined by Myla Plett, a young lady who has already won three Canadian titles; a U20 title and two U18 titles.…
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On this week's peisode we chat with Bruce Mouat who won his first World Championship last week in Ottawa. Mike Harris joins us to recap the Men's Worlds and Laurie St-George discusses her new lineup for next season.
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On this episode we preview the Men's Worlds with Olympian Hans Frauenlob who will be calling some of the action for the World Curling Federation TV. We then have an insightful conversation with Team Einarson coach Reid Carruthers. Last but not least, we catch up with Emily Deschenes and Asutin Snyder a few weeks after they represented Canada at the…
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On this week's episode we chat with EJ Harnden and Geoff Walker of the 2023 Brier champs, Team Gushue. We also chat with Colin Hodgson about his retirement from the men's game and Olympian Hans Frauenlob joins us to preview the 2023 Women's Worlds.
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On this week's episode we welcome Kerri Einarson and Shannon Birchard fresh off their 4th consecutive Scotties title. We are also joined by Canadian curling legend Rick Lang, who coached Team McCarville to another close call at the Scotties.
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On Part 2 of our 2023 Brier preview our guests include - Brad Gushue (CA), Marc Kennedy (WC1), JD Lind (WC3), Jacques Gauthier (BC) and Mike McEwen (ON).
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In Part 1 of our 2023 Brier preview we chat with Bj Neufeld (MB), Tyler Tardi (AB), Tanner Horgan (NO) and Nathan Young (NL).
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On this week's episode we take a look back at the 2022 European Championships with winning skips Madeleine Dupont of Denmark and Bruce Mouat of Scotland. We also chat with Greg Baldson who led his team to a title at the 2022 Everest Canadian Curling Club Championship.
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This week we present a mini-episode with our guests Laurie St. Georges and Félix Asselin fresh of their victory at the 2022 Canadian Mixed Championship.
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Recapping the Pan-Continental Championships with guests - Jess Smith (NZ) and EJ Harnden (CAN).
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On this week's episode of the From the Hack podcast we recap the first-ever Pan-Continental Championships held last week in Caglary. Our firs guest is Jessica Smith whose team earned New Zealand's first ever invite to the World Women's Championship after finishing 5th in Calgary, less than two after after being diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. Our…
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On this week's episode we welcome twelve time Grand Slam winner Emma Miskew, 2022 World Mixed champion Jean-Michel Ménard and Olympian/curling broadcaster Hans Frauenlob who helps us preview the upcoming Pan-Continental Championship.
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This week we take a deep dive into two major issues that are currently the focus of the U.S. curling community. Our guests are Monica Walker, Jen Nguyen and Bryan Pittard of the DEI Task Force, Kristen Conrad of the Grand National Curling Club and USA Today's Nancy Armour who has been reporting on the Yates Report and its fallout in both the U.S. s…
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This week we present an abbreviated episode that includes short interviews conducted at the first Grand Slam of Curling event of the 2022-23 season. Our guests - Niklas Edin, Jamie sinclair, Tracy Fleury, Glenn Howard, Joel Retornaz, Matt Dunstone and Jason Gunnlaugson.
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On this week's episode we preview the 2022-23 Grand Slam of Curling with Pierre Charette and we discuss the U.S. high performance teams with Phill Drobnick of USA Curling.
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On this week's episode we recap the PointsBet Invitatiomal in Fredericton with guests Karlee Burgess of Team Jennifer Jones, Reid Carruthers and Chelsea Carey.
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In Part 2 of our 2022-23 season preview we chat with two-time Olympic gold medalist Kaitlyn Lawes, 2020 World Junior champion Mackenzie Zacharias of Team Jennifer Jones and Olympic medalist/broadcaster/curling administrator Mike Harris.
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Part 1 of our 2022-23 season preview with guests David Murdoch of British Curling, 3x Scotties champion Kerri 'Einarson and 4x world champion Glenn Howard.
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On this week's episode - Coach Pierre Charette discusses Team Tirinzoni's third consecutive title at the Women's Worlds... Laura Walker and Kirk Muyresdiscuss their decision to focus on mixed doubles next season and Mike Harris previews the 2022 Men's Worlds in Las Vegas where he will be part of the World Curling Federation's broadcast team. -…
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The latest episode o From the Hack includes an interview with 2022 Brier champion Brad Gushue, Olympian Hans Frauenlob previews the Women's Worlds and we have our first-ever team interview with all four members of Team Einarson and coach Reid Carruthers. *Note, This episode was recorded prior to the 2022 Women's Worlds.…
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This week... Kerry Einarson, Shannon Birchard and Reid Carruthers join us to discuss their 2022 Scotties title and Kim Tuck joins us to discuss the Mixed Doubles competition at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing由From the Hack
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In this episode our guests are Canadian Trials winner Brad Gushue, European champion skips Eve Muirhead and Bruce Mouat and Olympic medalist/TSN broadcaster Cheryl Bernard.
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Our preview of the Canadian Olympic Women's Trials includes interviews with Kerri Einarson, Tracy Fleury, Kelsey Rocque, Kate Cameron, Krista McCarville and Emma Miskew.
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In Part 2 of our 2021 Canadian Olympic Trials men's preview, our guests are - Kevin Koe, Jason Gunnlaugson, Marc Kennedy and Mike McEwen.
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In art 1 of our 2021 Canadian Trials preview we are joined by - Brendan Bottcher, Matt Dunstone, Tanner Horgan and Brad Gushue.
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On the season premiere episode of From the Hack, we welcome the CEO of Curling Canada, Katherine Henderson and we also welcome 1998 Olympic silver medalist/curling broadcaster Mike Harris.
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Our guest on this special episode of the From the Hack podcast is Pat Simmons who was the winning skip the last time the Tim Hortons Brier was held in Calgary in 2015.
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On today's episode of "Waking Up With The Brier" my guest is Marc Kennedy of Team Jacobs.
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On today's episode of "Waking Up With The Brier" we welcome Quebec's new curling power couple, Laurie St. Georges and Felix Asselin. We are then joined by Bryan Mudryk of TSN who is calling the morning draw this week at the Brier along with broadcast partner Cathy Gauthier.
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On Wednesday's episode of "Waking Up With the Brier", we recap Tuesday's Brier action and we interview Glenn Howard of Wild Card Team Howard and BJ Neufeld of Wild Card Team Koe -
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On today's episode we welcome Ryan Fry of Team Ontario who are off to a 3-1 start in round-robin play at the 2021 Brier. We are also joined by Briane Meilleur of Team Einarson who will represent Canada at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championships in early May.
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On today's episode we get ready for the big Gushue vs Koe matchup on Sunday evening by chatting with Koe's brother and sister, Jamie Koe and Kerry Galusha. We also chat with Scotland's Bruce Mouat who will be entering the Calgary bubble at the end of the month to compete in the World Championship and the two Grand Slam events.…
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On today's episode we highlight the World Curling Federation's announcement that the World Women's Curling Championship will take place in the Calgary bubble from April 30th to May 9th. We've got clips of a post-announcement press conference by members of Team Einarson, and a chat with coach Phill Drobnick of USA Curling. Also on today's episode, w…
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