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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.