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Canuck is a Slur

Pizdets Productions

A podcast about highly specific Canadian culture & history.Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28Watch us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@CanuckIsASlurFollow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

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67:07

UNLOCKED BONUS: Canuxploitation

Canuck is a Slur ·

2026/01/07

Like many podcasts, we decided to give the public a free bonus episode for the holidays—and there's no holiday more important in the annals of Canuck is a Slur than Orthodox Christmas! Or, more accurately, Christmas according to the Julian calendar. By popular vote in the Discord server, the clear winner was Bonus #6, "Canuxploitation." Here is the original description:Bryan and Dave from Bring Me The Axe are here to school Kelly on the "tax shelter era" that led to a glut of low-budget cinema that

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1:51

CIAS Bonus Preview: Glyphosate

Canuck is a Slur ·

2026/01/07

The hosts of SeedPod are here to explain the ins and outs of herbicides, including glyphosate—the main target of the "Stop Spraying New Brunswick" campaign.Check out SeedPod wherever you get your podcasts!Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurFind SeedPod wherever you get your podcasts!Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

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147:12

CIAS #19.9: The Horse With No Name

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/12/25

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Fresh off of learning about the unmitigated clownshow that was the Las Vegas Posse, we ask the question: "Okay but what if you made it really humid, too? What if you added circus animals?? What if the field tried to kill you???" We also ask the question: "How many CFL franchises do you get a crack at running into the ground with your small adult failson?" And additionally: "What do

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100:53

CIAS #19.8: Hot & Dry Posse

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/12/13

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Eight episodes in, we finally directly address the question of "how did Canadian football come to be different from American football?" before skipping straight to the early 1990s to get to the good part! Namely, the time the CFL—on the brink of financial ruin—threw a Hail Mary by trying to expand into a market that was surely ripe to accept Canadian football: the United States of

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107:06

CIAS #19.7: A Dainty Uppercut

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/12/06

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd mean it today—no, more "violent" than actual combat sports. It's so, so, so much more

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1:26

CIAS Bonus Preview: About a Couch

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/11/25

Andrew Grant—an Ontario-born, Vancouver-based comedian with a master's in linguistics—is on the show to help present an overview of general Canadian English, as well as some of the specifics of various Anglo-Canadian accents & dialects.We also cover some regional phrasing and terminology, from "parkade" and "bunny hug" to asking for your eggs "side by each" to specify "where they're to."Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurJoin our Discord:

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81:22

CIAS #19.6: Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Leprechaun Tigers

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/11/14

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.There's no getting around it: we shot our wad early with all the jokes about balls and busting...and now we have to catch up on history. The 1870s through the 1890s brought an eruption of rule changes that moved the Rugby game away from the Association game, and shaped the other five codes we have today, as everyone is desperate to do something about all the tedious

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110:09

CIAS #19.5: Rough Riders vs. Roughriders

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/11/07

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.In this installment, we track the progression from the heady college days of Canadian and American football, to the groups that would go on to form the Canadian Football League. Come along and find out, from among these many schools and clubs: which team names were the exact same, which ones were the dumbest, and which ones were the most racist (none of these categories are

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94:18

CIAS #19.4: Foot-ball, Freshie!

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/10/31

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.This is an episode all about institutionalized bullying: from the halls of Eton and Rugby, as fictionalized in a transatlantic hit of a novel; to the fields of Harvard and Dartmouth, as materialized in the genocide of innumerable people and cultures.In Part 4, we track the continued evolution of ball games in the places that the English were creatively calling "New England,"

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90:37

CIAS #19.3: Stagger for the Dagger

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/10/24

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Now that we've finally finished with the ball jokes (mostly), we can set aside our three horrid fancy-boy schools and get on to the business of talking about...another fancy-boy school that the first three turn their noses up at: Rugby.In this episode, come learn about: which recurring CIAS character had a cameo role in the myth-making of rugby football's origins, what the Don

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72:10

CIAS #19.2: Dribbling and Busting From the Hot-men's...

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/10/17

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.In the pursuit of covering the history of Canadian football, we've accidentally found ourselves covering the history of all football. Now that we've finally gotten out of our "ball-play" jokes out of the way, there shouldn't be any double entendres going forward. Right?In this episode, we investigate the primordial soup of proto-football games being played in 19th-century fancy-boy

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88:57

CIAS #19.1: An Incompleat Historye of Baule-pleyenge...

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/10/09

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.It's time we covered one of the absolute cornerstones of "Canadian sports," and for that, we have to begin with the logical starting point: England in the 14th century! It's going to be a long series.In Part 1, we investigate: whether you can be killed by a tennis ball, whether knives or "murther" have any place in sports, and if it's possible to be pranked so hard by "wags" that

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1:51

CIAS Bonus Preview: The Rocket (2005)

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/08/24

Nicole is back to discuss the 2005 Québécois film The Rocket, about the life and career of Maurice Richard, up to the point of the 1955 Richard Riot. It also contains another recurring figure from the show.Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

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68:43

CIAS #18.4: Nasty Bizness

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/08/17

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.After a bleak ending to Part 3, we cleanse the palate with the question: what if dril was a professional athlete tweeting under his own name? And got a lucrative media career out of it? And that's what leads us to our final Hockey Guy of the series: Paul "BizNasty" Bissonnette.Links I promised to include: the first collection of Biz tweets, the second collection of Biz tweets, and

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76:29

CIAS #18.3: Sloppy Seconds

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/08/10

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Fresh on the heels of the worst-landed bit of all time, we explore the fallout from this incident, as well as the rest of Sean Avery's career. Then we get into his post-retirement activities...including his legal troubles.Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28Follow our various socials:

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57:36

CIAS #18.2: The Avery Rule

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/08/03

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.In the first full, proper episode of this series, Nicole finally gets to discover who Sean Avery is—and why she's being forced to learn about him. We explore the whole continuum of Hockey Decorum, including: how quickly you can alienate 28 teams in a 30-team league, how to navigate situations of you or your opponents marrying a sister-in-law, and the kind of violation of

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47:50

CIAS #18.1: The Most Hated Man in Hockey

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/07/27

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Less than a year after getting out of the Tim Horton dungeon, Nicole is once again locked in a room to forcibly learn about the intersection of hockey guys, bad vibes, and questionable decisions. But first, we have to take a little time to thank each and every one of the show's wonderful, lovely patrons.This one is a little different than usual—we spent a lot of time goofing

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1:27

CIAS Bonus Preview: Unsere Besten

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/07/20

Kelly sits down with "Mao," a pseudonymous German doctor, to discuss the German TV program Unsere Besten ("Our Best"), which predates The Greatest Canadian by a year.Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

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64:00

CIAS #17: Paskwâw Nehîyawewin ᐸᐢᒁᐤ ᓀᐦᐄᔭᐍᐏᐣ

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/07/11

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Plains Cree teacher Lisa Auger is on the show to tell us about: Plains Cree! Bush Cree! Other dialects of Cree! We talk about the forces that have tried to put indigenous languages down, the forces that have been trying to lift indigenous languages up, and of course: we learn how to say "dick."Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlurJoin our Discord:

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119:19

CIAS #16: Deborah Grey's pitch for Wayne Gretzky

Canuck is a Slur ·

2025/07/05

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.Kelly reunites with Emily, an old co-worker from many years back, to reminisce about Edmonton and talk about how Wayne Gretzky sucks. Also there's some stuff in there from a right-wing politician about how much she loves Gretzky, but who cares?Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials:

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