From the Hack

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.

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 Slam of the season. We end this week's episode with Sergio Vez who skipped Team Spain to a silver medal at the 2023 World Mixed Championship.

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.

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.

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 2023 World Junior Championships.