From the Hack

On this week's episode - Brendan Bottcher joins us to discuss his team's first-ever Grand Slam title last weekend at the Canadian Open in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.

We also preview the 2019 Continental Cup of Curling taking place this weekend in Las Vegas. We are joined by the coaches of Team World and Team North America, David Murdoch and Jeff Stoughton, along with Jon Killoran, the local Event Manager for the 2019 Continental Cup, who joined us to discuss the experience that awaits both the players and fans.

This week's guests - Ross Paterson fresh off his team's win at the Boost National (2:57). Lisa Weagle joins us to discuss Team Homan's win at the Boost National and their excellent start to the season (9:43). Devin Heroux of CBC Sports discusses some key topics and points of interest from the first half of the 2018-19 curling season (19:57).

On this week's podcast - Marc Kennedy discusses winning the Canada Cup with Team Jacobs and also discusses the exchange of words he had with Ben Hebert during the men's final (3:44). Coach Phill Drobnick of USA Curling joins us to recap the 2nd leg of the Curling World Cup in Omaha, Nebraska (14:29).

This week, guest contributor Kristina Frlan of the Lazy Handle Curling Show on YouTube helps us with interviews of Joanne Courtney (4:10) and Ben Hebert (12:35) as they prepared for the Canada Cup. We also welcome Jamie Sinclair (29:25) and Tracy Fleury (34:14) who will both skip their team in the 2nd leg of the Curling World Cup in Omaha, Nebraska. We also discuss the World Cup with curling broadcaster and journalist, Don Landry (38:55).

This week our guests include 2018 European champion skip Bruce Mouat (3:46), 2018 Travelers Curling Club Championship skip Morgan Muise (10:40) and we visit the FTH vault for a feature interview that 2010 Olympic silver medalist Cheryl Bernard did with Kevin Koe. One of the more in-depth interviews Koe has done in recent years. (22:13)