It's the One Year Anniversary of America's Best Worst Canadian Sports Podcast, and we're hitting all of our usual topics: Jim Benning being a bungling idiot at the NHL draft, dead gorillas, and the IMDb message boards. PLUS: the very nature of sports fandom, whether today's living legends are being appreciated in their day, and if you could poop a puck out your butt.
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50 episodes! Can you believe we're still doing this?? This week we're celebrating the big 5-0 with top-shelf guests, new and old! Writer/model Melissa Stetten talks up THE PISTOL SHRIMPS as the L.A. women's rec league basketball squad hits the big screen, and shares a priceless Blake Griffin story. NEXT, Dalhousie Tigers forward (and RGS Official College Student) Jackson Playfair returns to the show to analyze how his friend Auston Matthews' vibrant personality will shine under the big-league media spotlight. FINALLY, Jesse Farrar desperately tries to make it on to the big anniversary special, and this description should already tell you he succeeds.
Follow Melissa on Twitter: @MelissaStetten - 28:37
Follow Jackson on Twitter: @jackplayfair - 59:01
Follow Jesse on Twitter: @BronzeHammer - 1:59:54
Catch the Pistol Shrimps documentary on Seeso.com
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This week on the show that's getting it done in OT, rock journalist Daniel Ralston pops by to discuss his BuzzFeed piece about fake bands, fraudulent tours, and the disreputable origins of ZZ Top. ...at least, we *think* it's the real Daniel Ralston. PLUS: Muppet Babies! The Frasier-verse! The Finals roll on! And we continue our thorough investigation of Troy Brouwer's gigantic balls.
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Follow Patrick on Twitter: @pattymo
Read more about the fake Zombies: www.buzzfeed.com/danielralston/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock
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This week on the show that we don't understand but still very much enjoy, the Cincinnati Zoo murders their gorilla... That counts as a sport, right? At the very least it sends us down a monkey movie rabbit hole, beginning with the monkey-in-a-hotel classic Dunston Checks In, and ending with Air Bud Studios' dog-wrestling movie Russell Madness. PLUS: The merits of playoff bandwagoning, and Troy Brouwer's enormous balls.
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