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This Week in Anguish is the Canucks podcast that feels your pain out loud.

 

A weekly conversation about the only thing that really matters

with co-hosts Tristan and Ardella Thompson.

 

New episodes released each Sunday during the season,

some Sundays during the off-season.

Feb 28, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Ardella's opening statement begins with a sigh, followed by a brief moment of levity where she describes herself as being simply "so darn sad", before things really go downhill and it's hard to tell hockey- and COVID-fatigue apart as she laments, "Really? I had to live through this week just to...


Feb 21, 2021

This week in anguish:

- We revel in some of the more obscure benefits of a cratered season. We now cause other teams existential conniptions whenever we beat them, and we can look on the mere existence of an ember of team cohesion as the only victory that really matters.

- We comb the beaches and plumb the depths to...


Feb 14, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Life (or in this case its henchman, Bell Media) finds new and intriguing ways to punch us in the gut.

- JPat, who poured his actual tears and toil into 1040 over many years, spent just over 30 minutes talking about its demise. We spend nearly 45 minutes. 

- Get the nostalgia machine revved up and...


Feb 8, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Ardella, experiencing feelings, has prepared something of a speech. Tristan (more of a new media guy, really) would like to discuss a thumbnail. 

- There have been great indignities this week. These come with anecdotes. There has also been tremendous futility. This comes with statistics.

- We've...