Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

CBC + USG Audio

Episodes 8
Avg. Duration 27m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (211)
Since Apr 2024
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Schedule
Monthly
Format
Serial
Hosting
www.cbc.ca

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About This Podcast

For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out.


Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curler and fully professional comedian John Cullen (Blocked Party) is exposing the unbelievable, never-before-told scandal that rocked the sport of curling. Yes, curling.

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Recent Episodes

Broomgate Introduces: The Big Five

Apr 27, 2026 55m

The Big Five answers the most pressing question of our time: what are the “Big 5” of any given category? Not the best 5. Not the top 5. Not anyone’s favourite 5. But objectively, the Big 5. In each…

Broomgate Introduces | Split Screen: Thrill Seekers

Oct 01, 2024 35m

A TV crew offers 12 ordinary people the chance to take part in the adventure of a lifetime. But there’s a catch. The audience knows everything but the contestants are kept in the dark. As the cameras…

Introducing SNAFU: MEDBURG

Aug 15, 2024 32m

From the Executive Producers of Broomgate comes SNAFU, a show about history’s greatest screw-ups, hosted by actor, writer, and comedian Ed Helms. Today we’re excited to share the first episode of…

S1E6 EP 6: Broom to Broom

Jun 27, 2024 28m

Host John Cullen has a heart-to-heart with producer Kathleen Goldhar about curling, Broomgate, and all the bonus stories they left on the cutting room floor.

S1E5 E5: Sweeping Summit

May 27, 2024 32m

For as long as curling has been a game there was nothing in the rulebook about brooms, and so players had nowhere to turn when Broomgate hit. Tensions kept growing, and there were near blow ups and…

S1E4 E4: Rumble at High Park

May 20, 2024 29m

Another company, BalancePlus, decides to get into the broom modification game to challenge the Hardline broom. It all comes to a messy confrontation when teams go head to head at a 2015 bonspiel. The…

S1E3 E3: The Chess Master

May 13, 2024 23m

Some people say Brad Gushue, Olympic gold medalist and world title holder, plays the sport of curling with the strategy and cunning of a chess grandmaster. So when he starts losing to two particular…

S1E1 E1: The Mystery Broom

May 06, 2024 27m

It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique.…

S1E2 E2: Magic Mike

May 06, 2024 23m

Flush with an infusion of cash from investors the brothers behind the Hardline Curling company are ready to take their revolutionary curling broom into the world. Now all they need is to convince a…

Introducing Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

Apr 25, 2024 2m Trailer

A six-part series that tells the never-before-told story of how a broom almost killed curling. Featuring interviews with some of the biggest names in curling — and the men behind the infamous broom.…

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Broomgate: A Curling Scandal has published 8 episodes since April 2024, covering topics in Comedy.

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