Like many podcasts, we decided to give the public a free bonus episode for the holidays—and there's no holiday more important in the annals of Canuck is a Slur than Orthodox Christmas! Or, more accurately, Christmas according to the Julian calendar. By popular vote in the Discord server, the clear winner was Bonus #6, "Canuxploitation." Here is the original description:

Bryan and Dave from Bring Me The Axe are here to school Kelly on the "tax shelter era" that led to a glut of low-budget cinema that would be come to be referred to as "Canuxploitation," as well as the knock-on effects that helped build the modern Canadian film industry.

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Intro: "What Would You Do For A Timbit?" as sung by the cast of The Last Timbit

Outro: "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" as performed by Nickelback

The hosts of SeedPod are here to explain the ins and outs of herbicides, including glyphosate—the main target of the "Stop Spraying New Brunswick" campaign.

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Fresh off of learning about the unmitigated clownshow that was the Las Vegas Posse, we ask the question: "Okay but what if you made it really humid, too? What if you added circus animals?? What if the field tried to kill you???" We also ask the question: "How many CFL franchises do you get a crack at running into the ground with your small adult failson?" And additionally: "What do you do with your jingle after the NFL sues you to make you stop using your team name?" Not to mention: "What is the most appropriate way to write about a public figure dying in a nursing home?" We don't get a lot of good answers, but there are definitely a ton of questions.

This brings us to what Francis Fukuyama was talking about when he said "the end of football history": the 1994 Grey Cup. That's it! There's simply no more football to discuss after that. All that's left is to hammer out George Stroumboulopoulos' role in the past nine episodes. Oh, and "Danton Barto" is in there.

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Intro: "A Horse With No Name" by America

Outro: "Baltimore CFL Football Theme" by WMAR-TV Baltimore

Major sources:

"End Zones & Border Wars: The Era of American Expansion in the CFL" by Ed Willes (2013)

"This Isn't How a Legend Should End" by Earl McRae, for the Ottawa Sun (23 June 2007)

Las Vegas Posse vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders (16 July 1994)

Baltimore CFL Football Club vs. Calgary Stampeders (16 July 1994)

Baltimore CFL Football Club vs. B.C. Lions (27 November 1994)

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Eight episodes in, we finally directly address the question of "how did Canadian football come to be different from American football?" before skipping straight to the early 1990s to get to the good part! Namely, the time the CFL—on the brink of financial ruin—threw a Hail Mary by trying to expand into a market that was surely ripe to accept Canadian football: the United States of America.

In this one: you'll learn how close we got to getting any more Rough( )riders, the CFL learns the hard way why Americans don't play football in late June, and one obscure anthem singer learns how butchering "O Canada" can make you the most recognizable Yank in Shanghai.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"Canadian Football: The Grey Cup Years" by Frank Cosentino (2017)

"End Zones & Border Wars: The Era of American Expansion in the CFL" by Ed Willes (2013)

"25 Years on, Infamous O Canada Performance Remains Part of CFL Folklore" by Dan Ralph, for CBC Sports (2019)

Las Vegas Posse vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders (16 July 1994)

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We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd mean it today—no, more "violent" than actual combat sports. It's so, so, so much more violent than that. And more fatal.

In Part 7, you'll learn: the physiognomic differences between Irish and English legs, the proper sporting way to go about fighting a spectator, and which of Napoleon's marshals would've made the best offensive coordinator for American football.

As mentioned in this episode, here is the video of Mark Cuban completely dismantling Skip Bayless on live television.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

"Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster" by Francis Markham (1903)

"Football: a study in diffusion" by Graham Curry (2001)

"Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man" by Julie Des Jardins (2015)

"The Rise and Fall of the Flying Wedge: Football's Most Controversial Play" by Scott McQuilkin and Ronald Smith (1993)

The New York Times, 2 December 1893

"Football facts and figures: A symposium of expert opinions on the game's place in American athletics" by Walter Camp (1894)

Andrew Grant—an Ontario-born, Vancouver-based comedian with a master's in linguistics—is on the show to help present an overview of general Canadian English, as well as some of the specifics of various Anglo-Canadian accents & dialects.

We also cover some regional phrasing and terminology, from "parkade" and "bunny hug" to asking for your eggs "side by each" to specify "where they're to."

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There's no getting around it: we shot our wad early with all the jokes about balls and busting...and now we have to catch up on history. The 1870s through the 1890s brought an eruption of rule changes that moved the Rugby game away from the Association game, and shaped the other five codes we have today, as everyone is desperate to do something about all the tedious "scrummaging."

In Part 6, you'll learn how Americans were the only people wonderful and special enough to innovate new rugby-football rules, and then how people in northern England subsequently innovated new rugby-football rules. You'll also learn which racial group the sporting elites liked to compare the working class to—you might be surprised (you absolutely won't).

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)"

Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man" by Julie Des Jardins (2015)

"The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889" by Bob Braunwart (1997)

"A Sporting Pilgrimage" by Caspar Whitney (1895)

"Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players: a sociological study of the development of rugby football" by Eric Dunning & Kenneth Sheard (1979)

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In this installment, we track the progression from the heady college days of Canadian and American football, to the groups that would go on to form the Canadian Football League. Come along and find out, from among these many schools and clubs: which team names were the exact same, which ones were the dumbest, and which ones were the most racist (none of these categories are mutually exclusive).

Part 5 is also a great place to learn about "emotional support slurs," exactly how transmissible Scottishness is, and exactly which of our many trophies' namesakes were intimately involved in Rhodesia.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.

This is an episode all about institutionalized bullying: from the halls of Eton and Rugby, as fictionalized in a transatlantic hit of a novel; to the fields of Harvard and Dartmouth, as materialized in the genocide of innumerable people and cultures.

In Part 4, we track the continued evolution of ball games in the places that the English were creatively calling "New England," including the sports that the French were creatively calling "Curved Stick." All the while, the settlers marvel at the suspicious happiness of the "uncivilized" people of these new lands, who engage in such incomprehensible behaviour as "sharing resources" and "drinking water."

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"From Football to Soccer" by Brian D. Bunk (2021)

"New England's Prospect" by William Wood (1634)

"Old Division Football: The Indigenous Mob Soccer Of Dartmouth College" by Scott Meacham (2006)

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

"An Historical Sketch of the Oneida Football Club of Boston" by Winthrop Salstonstall Scudder (1926)

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Now that we've finally finished with the ball jokes (mostly), we can set aside our three horrid little fancy-boy schools and get on to the important business of talking about...well, another fancy-boy school that the first three turn their noses up at: Rugby.

In this episode, come learn about: which recurring CIAS character had a cameo role in the myth-making of rugby football's origins, what the Don Cherry of 1860s football was complaining about, and what went on in the wild life of the man most responsible for the emergence of Australian football.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"Football: The First Hundred Years" by Adrian Harvey (2005)

"Football: a study in diffusion" by Graham Curry (2001)

"Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players: a sociological study of the development of rugby football" by Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard (1979)

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

"Tom Wills: the insubordinate life of an Australian sporting legend" by Greg de Moore (2008)