Foul Puck Pod

For Olympic Minisode the 6th, Rachel introduces us to the origins, styles, and scoring of freestyle skiing, which the rest of us know nothing about! Alternate Title: Pipe Dragon If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Join us as Rebecca, our hockey person, talks about Olympic hockey! Includes the differences between the NHL and Olympic play, why you won't see any NHLers at the Olympics, and why the women's team captains keep marrying each other. CW: minor discussion of racism. Alternate Title: Episode Wepisode If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice!...

Winter Olympics Primer the Fourth takes us to some very normal hills where we learn about V-style, the K-spot, and just a hint of sexism (in case you thought we'd gone off brand for too long). Alternate Title: Geese Everywhere Nod Knowingly If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on...

In our third Winter Olympics minisode, we discuss whether we'd prefer to go highway speeds down an icy waterslide headfirst or on our back. The one thing we can all agree on? Driving the luge-track zamboni must be hella fun. Alternate Title: Hey Baby, Wanna See My Monobob? If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with question...

Join us for our second Winter Olympic Mini-sode as Rachel introduces us to the various types and events of Alpine (Downhill)Skiing! Alternate Title: Gravity, Take The Wheel If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Welcome to the first of our Winter Olympic Primer Minisodes! Join us as Rebecca explains the equipment, format, points, rankings, and all the other details of Long Track Speed Skating! Alternate Title: It's Not About The Distance, It's About The Size Of The Track If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comm...

Welcome to our very first Winter Olympics Mini-sode! In this short episode, Rachel gives an overview of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Content warnings for brief discussion of the Uyghur genocide. Alternate title: Shuffle Shuffle Bang! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod o...

Our fiftieth episode!!! In which we find that two thirds of the pod do not know where The Washington Football Team is based. Contents include: - Pandemic check-in at 20 months - Ovi and the scoring record chase - Who won the World Series, anyway? - Geography who? I don't know her. - Native American mascots (CW: discussion of racism and racial slurs) - Warriors update If you enjoy this podcast, ple...

In which we root for a sinkhole to open under the field of the 2021 World Series, and in which Nancy waxes ecstatic about the WNBA Playoffs. Contents include: The End of Baseball (incl the Giants) WNBA Post-Season: Finals and formats; Phoenix vs Aces; players of note; controversies; Sky vs Sun; Chicago + Candace If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform...

Rachel tells us all about sports betting. Alternate titles include: All Levels of Hyperbole; The Pie and Laundry Episode. Sports betting: rule changes; legalization and sponsor agreements; advertising; pros and cons WNBA Playoffs: format; Sky, Mercury, Storm, Sun, Aces Vaccination: Women's sports, NBA, NHL If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of yo...

A Paralympics Viewing Discussion and Rec List, followed by Evander Kane: The Extended Saga. Alternate title: "Reason for Firing: Pressed Ham" Contents Include: Paralympics: What are we watching? Evander Kane: The Extended Saga Indoor sports and vaccination rules in the age of plague: continued Unwritten Rule of Baseball: The Fans Are Never Wrong A Brief History of Soapboxes If you enjoy this podca...

Slippery balls and the Commissioner's Cup. Alternate titles include: More Slip Than Grip; #StickyStuff: The Stickening Contents Include: #StickyStuff: pitchers v batters; safety concerns; details of the ban; incidence of injury Commissioner's Cup: concept; hosting; Breanna Stewart Warriors Update: summer league and the draft; return of Iggy; other trades Indoor sports and vaccination rules in the...

In which we learn a whole lot about sports, get really excited about the Paralympics, and talk a little too much about trains. Contents include: - Historic Disabled Olympians - Trains - Paralympic Games History - Paralympic Classifications - Paralympic Sports - How to Watch - Who to Watch If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us...

In which the best way to get ahead in gymnastics is to be a twin. Potential titles included: "Man go fast on bike, man win race"; "a cheeto riveted to the wall"; and "sportsmanship and kindness." Contents include: Gymnastics, Rhythmic and Artistic: Simone Bikes; the Averina sisters Climbing: Janja Garnbret beats the pants off everyone Cycling: man go fast, win race Softball: concern trolling and p...

The Olympics have a storied history, and the early Olympics even more so. Join us as Rachel gives us a run-down on how to go from "event bystander" to "gold medalist" in a matter of minutes! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Manage to catch some of the Olympic diving that's been all over the airwaves the past week or so? Rebecca explains how on earth the scoring for that works, as well as the different kinds of dives and diving apparatus, while Rachel speculates as to how you might become a Left Guy Judge. Join us! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! H...

Rebecca fills us in on the differences between track cycling and road cycling, the peloton and the velodrome, and explains how a sport that awards medals to individuals is still, somehow, a team sport. Also: Olympic breaking wind. If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter o...

Ever wondered whether you'd perform better in the kata or kumite Olympic Karate competitions? Or what the difference is between a sport-based vs event-based approach to the Olympics? We have the answers! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodca...

How do you have surfing as a competition in a land-locked host city? and other questions, answered by Rachel! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Ever wondered about the correct technique for putting your shot? Or how we ended up with such an event in the first place? Rebecca reveals all in our latest primer! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

An exploration of types of Olympic swimming, past and present, including vocabulary terms and event descriptions for multiple swimming events, as well as who to watch! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

If you watched the opening ceremonies, you saw the little montage of athletes working out and practicing while in pandemic lockdown. This episode is about the person climbing their fireplace (and all their friends). f you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at fo...

Presenting the fourth of our Summer Olympics Sports Primers! In this episode, host Rachel takes us through some of the differences between fast-pitch softball and baseball and tells us how to watch some of the first Olympic Softball in over a decade! Also included: windmill terminology. If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up...

Presenting the third of our Summer Olympics Sports Primers! A very fast and dirty overview of the types of olympic gymnastics; events, scoring, and apparatus; and who to watch in 2021. Alternate Title: Shut Up, Nancy. *note: Nancy misspeaks - MyKayla Skinner is not an alternate, she is an individual competitor with the US team. Also, the women's team is not majority minority; it is an even split....

Presenting the second of our Summer Olympics Sports Primers! In this short episode, Rebecca teaches us which way to face in a boat, and reassures us that we'll be able to get our feet free and thus not drown if the boat tips over. Thanks, Rebecca! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuc...