Inside Curling with Kevin Martin & Jim Jerome – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Welcome to Inside Curling season number five....this

is our first official show of the 2024 – ’25 season and

we have a lot of things to cover.

When we did our summer show in August we

announced that Inside Curling is no longer part of

Sportsnet and have moved over to Acast. We would

again like to thank everyone at Sportsnet for the three

great years we spent with the network. Also, in

addition to kevin, Warren and Jim we would like to

welcome our technical producer for the third year,

Mike Rogerson along with Rod Palson who is doing

our social media for the fifth year, mainly Face Book

and X (Twitter) but once we are into the season we

are also going to branch into Instagram and Tik Tok

more than we have in the past. In this coming season

we will have clips, segments and some interviews on

You Tube.

Here is what is on the show today’s show…

What’s Happening Around the Curling World?

World Curling concluded it’s annual

Curling Congress in Montreal on September 8 th and

Warren was there so we will review what took

place.

A number of smaller spiels have already

happened and this weekend in Cornwall, Ontario

the annual Shorty Jenkins Classic is taking place

involving some of the best teams in the world so

we will look in on what is happening there.

On September 17th and 18 th an

interesting new event is taking place in Lafayette,

Colorado, the Everest North American Curling Club

Championship….We will review what is taking

place there. An interesting playoff took place this

past week in Sweden involving Anna Hasselborg

and Isabella Wrana….We will review what

happened. During our summer show we talked

about the Governor General’s Curling and it held

its 150 anniversary gathering in Ottawa,

September 8 – 12…We announced the Showdown at the

Saville on our show in August and we will bring

you up-to-date on what is happening with the

Showdown.

Hot Rocks Topics, During the World Curling meetings some

interesting discussions were brought up regarding

rules enforcement by some retired athletes and

coaches who were present….you will be surprised

at what they had to say….

The issue of 8 ends versus 10 wasn’t on the

agenda...wasn’t even discussed…what would

be the reason for that?

In The House, Brad Jacobs is now the skip of the old

Brendan Bottcher team and Brad will be with us to

talk about the up coming season.

Mailbag, Even though it is summer we are

getting emails and we will review one.

What Are You Hearing, Brianne Harris, lead on team Einarson

was suspended from all competition at the end of

February because of a banned substance detected in a

sample taken on January 24 th . A-B sample was taken

in early March and the substance Ligandrol was

detected again. Harris has been suspended since but

this week on Face Book a posting was made bringing

everyone up to speed on the situation - we will take a

look at it.

Hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jungle Jim Jerome.

Recorded, Edited, Mixed by Mike Rogerson.

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Inside Curling has made a move into the

curling event business with the announcement in

July of four new events at the Saville Centre in

Edmonton that will be known as the ShowDown

at the Saville. The events will happen between

April 23 rd and May 11 th . We will dig in and review

exactly what the ShowDown at the Saville

involves. The first major event of the season, the

Points Bet Invitational will get underway at

Canada Olympic Park (COP) in Calgary on

September 25 we will review the field for that

event. The first Grand Slam of the season, the

Hearing Life Challenge will start on October 1 st in

Charlottetown hasn’t been a lot of news out of

the Grand Slam so we will review what is or isn’t

happening there. Kevin’s Curling Academy has had a busy

summer and we will take a look at what’s

happening with the Academy. USA Mixed Doubles Pre-Trials were

completed on August 11 th and there are now

seven out of 10 teams determined for the USA

Trials in February, We will review what has

happened so far in determining a USA

representative for the 2026 Olympics In the first week of September the

Governor General’s Curling Club will celebrate it’s

150 anniversary, We will review what the GG’s

really is and why it is important to curling in

Canada.

Inside Curling is hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jim Jerome.

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Today we bring you a special interview with World Mixed Doubles Champion Rasmus Wrana. In the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame at only 29, Wrana's resume is already incredibly impressive.

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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.

This podcast is produced by Warren Hansen, recorded and mixed by Mike Rogerson, and hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jim Jerome. Social support by Griffin Porter.

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The guys talk about the Team Carruthers shake-up (5:30), Colleen Jones being appointed to the Order of Canada (10:00) and they take an email from a wheelchair curling coach about the lack of access at many facilities (14:00) as well as an email from a young curler about eliminating blank ends (15:45).

They then do a year-end wrap-up with Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun (23:30) — they chat about Reid Carruthers adding Brad Jacobs, his take on the new players association, the importance of creating communication between the players association and the large curling organizations, the mix up of teams we saw this season and the declining number of ‘in person’ fans and media at current events today vs ‘the good old days’.

This podcast is produced by Warren Hansen, recorded and mixed by Mike Rogerson, and hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jim Jerome. Social support by Griffin Porter.

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Kevin chats with Matt Dunstone and B.J. Neufeld about their consistency early on, what Colton Lott and Ryan Harnden bring to the team, how the team prepares spread across the country,  if their expectations have adjusted due to their early success, how much time they spent practicing the draw to the button and the importance of being able to match and read stones.

This podcast is produced by Warren Hansen, recorded and mixed by Mike Rogerson, and hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jim Jerome. Social support by Griffin Porter.

Contact the podcast -- insidecurling@gmail.com

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates. 

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