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John begins the show with a PSA regarding skips yelling ‘hard for a piece’ for all to hear (1:00). Then he sits down with former World Jr Champion and Youth Olympic Champion, Tyler Tardi. They kick things off with the “Top 4” questions (3:34), what went into the decision to forgo his final year of juniors and move up to men’s league (7:55), leaving his brother to play with Team Koe (25:00), what it was like trying to fit in with an older and learning from Kevin Koe (26:15.) Tyler also shares his idea on what curling needs to reach a new audience (31:50) and sets an all-time low in the ‘very difficult own career trivia’ (36:30).

Plus, the question of the week (42:00) asks curlers about action figures.

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The guys give an update on who has qualified for the Scotties (2:55) and the Brier (6:35), talk about the quality of the field (10:00), and answer an email about how decisions get made by Curling Canada (19:50).

They are then joined by Mike McEwen joins to talk about winning the qualifier in Ontario, his current team and their season to date, playing in Ontario colours after representing Manitoba for so long, how they handle their social media, why change team members and the recent changes to the playoff format.

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The guys talk to Mike and Dawn Mcewen about the pregnancy rule that’s been implemented by Curling Canada, Dawn comments on "a whole whack load’ of curlers who are pregnant in the first year of the new quad (3:15) and the inequality of the new rule (5:15), the extreme pressure to have children at the ‘right time' (6:50) and the risk of losing your position in the rankings to take time off for maternity leave (7:50)

Casey Scheidegger joins the guys for the second half of the show to discuss the ramifications of the new rule for her team (14:55). Also, she shares a major personal announcement (15:30), the viability of having a 5-person team (23:45) and how Curling Canada has been making decisions without consulting players…her team found out about the new rule changes on Twitter! (25:45).

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John isn’t happy. Buckle up, folks! (00:01)

Then he invites Anna Hasselborg onto the show for a very funny chat, starting as always, with the Big 4 Lightning Round (3:45), Anna talks about the Swedish funding system and how they work with their committees and sponsors to make a living in the sport (11:00) and they air out some ‘dirty laundry’ as we learn about the time Anna ‘made her way’ into an Oilers game … (27:00)

To close things out, John posed a very interesting Question of the Week (48:55) to Kelly Middaugh, Lindsay Dubue, Jacques Gauthier and the hero of the moment, Kayla Skrlik.

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The guys give an update on what took place at the provincial playdowns in Alberta this week (4:00) and the results from World University Games in Lake Placid (10:30). They then discuss the ‘interesting’ decision by a school board in Manitoba that says curling is a ‘high-risk activity’ (13:30), Curling Canada deciding to keep Brier and Scotties at 18 teams (19:00) and answer an email from a listener suggesting some ways to update things to make curling more accessible (23:00)

The guys chat with J. D. Lind (33:15) who lead Team Fujisawa to a Grand Slam victory in Camrose, Alberta and he tells the guys how he got involved in coaching in Japan.

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Kevin forgot his laptop in Palm Springs, so he made his way over to Jim’s place to record the podcast. The guys give an update on the Grand Slam results (4:50), who has qualified for the Scotties and Brier (11:15), Kevin googles himself live on air (14:00), Warren gives an update on the World University Games in Lake Placid, NY (14:45), they chat 8 end games vs 10 end games (23:10), some of the oddest and outdated rules in curling (31:35) and how they choose the games that get broadcasted from an event (33:15).

The guys then catch up with Canadian Open champion, Brendan Botcher, about finding their flow (36:40), the competitive nature of the team, playing with powerful sweepers, the development of youth players in Canada and he gives his thoughts on the new Players Association.

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Update podcast! The guys give an update on what’s happened at the Canadian Open (5:30) and give their predictions for the finals (12:40). Would you believe it, Jim is winning so far! Plus, Kevin tells the story of how he ended up on the news for something other than curling this week (1:30).

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John is back with episode three and he kicks things off with some updates from the curling world (00:30). He then is joined by John Epping (5:10) who is taken through the lightning round, talks about what kept him going on his long road to making the Brier (11:30), his coming out story and what it means to represent the LGBTQ2+ community in pro sports (15:30), talks about playing too often and they wrap it up with “Own Career Trivia”.

John welcomes a new segment to the podcast inviting Warren Hansen to give us a history lesson on corn brooms (40:30).

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The guys discuss whether they’d prefer to play against great teams to push themselves to get better, or play easy teams and have a better chance at winning and building confidence (5:30), Kevin says a few things about the 4th grand slam event of the year and the triple knockout format (7:50) and they make their picks for the upcoming slam (11:00) and Warren tells the guys about a tour of Scottish players coming to Canada for the Strathcona Cup, a very different kind of tour (13:30) and a club in Saskatchewan introduces some new, fun ideas which have helped re-invigorate their youth involvement (27:50)

The gents then chat with Heather Mair (31:45) about her studies into ways we can grow the game through maintaining community centres and reminding people that sports facilities are also social facilities and are very important to community well-being.

Warren comments on the passing of former world champion Bruce Roberts.

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