Inside Curling with Kevin Martin & Jim Jerome

The Old Bear joins the show in the season finale! John sits down with Kevin Martin for an hour-long conversation. As always, they kick things off with the Top 4 lightning round…which quickly dissolves into stories from Kevin’s career (3:10). John asks Kevin about playing with ’fiery thirds’ throughout his career (14:15), doing PR and building the Martin brand the old school way (17:50), and Kevin...

The guys are joined by Emma Miskew and Tracy Fleury fresh off their Champions Cup victory (4:50). They give their thoughts on the future of the ‘no tick’ rule, Tracy talks about her sweeping prowess, their practice schedule, Emma gets into how they decided to shuffle their lineup and what their training schedule looks like for the upcoming off-season. They then get into the Mailbag, What’s Happeni...

Ben Hebert and Marc Kennedy join the guys ‘In the House’ and talk about how they celebrated their victory at the Champions Cup (2:30), their impressive shooting percentage, the importance of winning the hammer, changes they’ve made to add some consistency to their team shooting, Warren asks Ben about shooting 100% in the final, how the no tick rule has changed the job of the lead, curlers attempti...

Kevin gives an update on the action at the Champions Cup as we head into the final weekend of the season (2:45) they discuss the ‘draw to the button’ (7:55) and then they make their picks for the weekend (14:20). Kevin sat down with Kevin Koe and Karrick Martin to talk about the new addition to the team (18:45), Karrick talks about learning to sweep with a new partner (20:45) and Kevin talks about...

In the penultimate episode of the season, John talks about the Best in the West tournament in Saskatoon (0:00) then he welcomes in Reid Carruthers! They kick things off with the lightning round (3:25), Reid talks about his headwear fashion choices, his role in developing the Pro Slide, playing with Jeff Stoughton and what they did to bond as a team, and in the Dirty Laundry segment, John digs up a...

Fresh off their gold medal performance at the World Mixed Doubles Championships in Korea, Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse join the guys (4:30) to talk about how they were able to pull off such a great performance (8:10), their philosophy behind the game, how they became a team and how their careers have always paralleled each other, the use of the power play in mixed doubles, how they intend to bal...

The guys check in for a quick update on the World Mixed Doubles and World Senior Championships in Korea. Kevin talks about an impressive showing from Estonia (6:20) and an update on Canada’s Jennifer Jones and Brett Laing (7:20). They discuss how to watch the mixed doubles games via Recast (8:30), Warren gives his take on the mixed doubles round robin (10:00), then they get into the World Senior C...

The guys are all over the place this week with Kevin in Korea and Jim in Ontario. The guys look at the way baseball implemented new rules to speed up the game in Hot Rock Topics and wonder if curling could do the same (6:15). Then they are joined by 4-time Brier champion and 14-time Grand Slam winner, Glenn Howard. Glenn talks about coaching Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing at the Mixed Doubles Cham...

Kerry Galusha recently played her 150th career game at the Scotties. She joined John to talk about curling in the Northwest Territories, playing on natural ice, the travel challenges, beating Jennifer Jones in her prime, the different rule iterations of representatives from the north, as well as relegation pushing northern teams out of the Scotties and Brier. Kerry talks about stepping up her game...

Isabella Wranå joins the guys fresh off her ‘dream come true’ win at the Princess Auto Players’ Championship (3:55). Kevin asks if the idea of being the Players Champion has sunk in, wonders what she is going to do with all the prize money, and Warren asks about their training schedule and what they are all up to besides curling while getting an update on her mixed doubles plans. Isabella discusse...

From Toronto, Kevin talks about the weekend at the Players’ Championship (2:00), Warren agrees with the playoff format, they review their picks from the past week (8:00) and make their picks for the finals this weekend. Earlier in the weekend, Kevin caught up with Kaitlyn Lawes and Jocelyn Peterman (13:40) to discuss the pregnancies on the team (14:00), adjustments they’ve made this season, the su...

Bruce Mouat joins the guys, fresh off of winning Gold at the Men’s World Championships (2:00).  He talks about how cool it was to see so many people showing support with Scottish flags at the tournament, the importance of the sweepers in the modern game, the effect of re-sanding the stones halfway through events, Kevin asks about throwing ‘spinners’ after seeing ‘The Greatest Shot of All Time’ by...

A quick update before the weekend gets underway at the Men’s Final in Ottawa. Jim tells a story about his sleeping habits at the patch (1:30) and Kevin recaps the action that has happened at the Men's Worlds thus far, with a special shout-out to Türkiye’s performance (3:05). Jim asks Kevin if it’s better to lose in certain situations in order to end up playing a more favourable opponent in the pla...

John starts off with his thoughts on all the team changes in the curling world (0:15). Then, he is joined by Matt Dunstone (3:55) to talk about what makes him cry (4:45), his famous 12-end game in the Manitoba final (6:00), being a young skip (15:45), why he thinks he can land a plane (18:50) and crushing A&W teen burgers (22:30). Matt talks about re-uniting with Colton Lott (23:45) and the mutual...

Kevin starts off with a general update on the Men’s World Championship in Ottawa (3:00) and some interesting things happening with the ice (5:30). Warren explains the playoff system being used at the Worlds (6:50). The guys make their predictions for the Final Six at the Worlds (9:00), and Warren updates us on the Canadian Juniors where the Alberta girls made history (10:15) and then discusses the...

The guys talk to Silvana Tirinzoni and Alina Pätz from team Switzerland, fresh off their win at the Women’s World Championships (2:45). Jim asks about how their win was celebrated by their home country (3:30). They tell Jim that they never get sick of being around the game and they have plans to come directly over to watch the Mens Championship in Ottawa (4:15) and they talk about how they each go...

Kevin joins us from the Women’s Worlds in Sweden. The guys talk about the future of Team Scotland now that Eve Muirhead has retired (4:45), Kevin gives a special shoutout to Denmark for beating both Canada and Sweden in the round-robin (5:35) Warren shares his thoughts about how to change the qualifying round (6:30), and why Team Einarson is at a bit of a disadvantage due to the scheduling of the...

John starts the show with a story about the worst of his many losses (0:10). Then he is joined by a true winner, Jill Officer and they jump right into the 'Top 4' lightning round (4:20) Jill talks about meeting Jennifer Jones at a Coke machine (10:10) and the crazy 1995 Juniors (11:42). Jill talks about why she and Jen were able to have such a lasting partnership (17:30) and what makes Jennifer th...

Kevin joins us from the Women’s World Championships in Sweden to discuss the interesting venue they are in (3:15, explains what ‘matching rocks’ means and how stones can differ. In the Mailbag segment, the guys respond to an email about the scheduling, and also the way ads are run during certain broadcasts (14:30 ), Warren reviews the results of the University Curling championships in Sudbury (19:...

The guys chat with two-time Brier champion E.J. Harnden, fresh of his win in London (2:00). They chat with E.J. about what makes Brad Gushue so special (8:00), playing against his brother in the final, attention to detail in Team Gushue practices, his thoughts on sanding stones mid-event, rise in quality and the parity that’s coming to curling all over the world, and E.J. gives his thoughts on sho...

The boys provide the latest Brier update and take a look at how they got the final 4 (3:20). Warren shares his displeasure with the current playoff system (6:45), Kevin talks about the challenges with the ice due to the weather conditions in London (7:25) and the challenges of sanding the rocks mid event (8:15). Warren clarifies what people are incorrectly calling ‘sharpening the rocks’ (11:55) an...

John opens the show with his thoughts on the ‘hogline handles’ (1:15) and then brings on the most decorated curler in the history of American Men’s Curling, John Shuster. As always, John Cullen throws his guest right into the deep end with the world-famous, rapid-fire’Top 4’ (3:55). They discuss  .. John’s early days of getting started in curling How he ‘threw together’ a team to win the Junior na...

Jim opens the show with a moose call (0:20). Kevin gives an update on the Brier results so far (2:40), and Warren gives some stats on the excellent shooting percentages of the top teams (4:10). The World Juniors finished up in Germany - Warren fills us in on the results, including some very big surprises (4:45) and they re-visit some issues with the current Canadian Junior system.  The newest indu...

What’s happening around the curling world? The guys discuss the Scotties, particularly team Einarson’s front end (3:30) and how the No Tick rule affected things. Warren talks about how the Scotties and Brier have changed since he played in the 1970s (12:05) and updates us on how their Scotties predictions worked out (13:00) The World Jr’s took place in Germany and you may be surprised by the resul...

The boys get together late on Friday night to talk about what’s been happening at the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Kamloops. Warren tries to explain the incredibly complicated structure at the Scotties this year (3:15) and recaps how they’ve arrived at the final 4. They also talk about a couple of surprises who didn’t make the final 4 (9:15), Warren and Kevin offer some thoughts on how th...