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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award Waterstones best book of the year 2023 'A remarkable feat of storytelling' Rosie Hewlett This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right? Wrong. This is the story of everyone else...

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Since there's no Olympics this year and live comedy is illegal, lets go back 112 years for historically accurate live coverage of the very first London Olympic Games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Red York has seen it all: the Maple Leafs’ 45 consecutive Stanley Cups, Toronto’s designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site, the emergence of the Toronto Telegram as the nation’s greatest newspaper. Now, in response to at least two readers’ requests, and with the aid of a ghostwriter whose name he can’t ever remember, the award-winning columnist has penned a definitive history of the city of Toronto in the back half of the 20th century.

Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL. The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the...

Two Guys (Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers). Five Rings (you know, from the Olympics logo). One essential podcast for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) and Matt Rogers (Palm Royale, No Good Deed) of Las Culturistas are back for a second season of Two Guys, Five Rings, a collaboration with NBC Sports and iHeartRadio. In this 15-episode event, Bowen and Matt discuss the top storylines, obsess over Italian culture, and find out what really goes on in the Olympic Village.

Strap in—this debut episode goes off the rails in the best way. The Girlz break down iconic Olympic fails that made us roll our eyes, confess our favourite "Olympic performance" adult toys (for science, obviously), and get brutally honest about the unspoken struggle of holding it (and by "it" we mean bodily functions and expulsions) together during the honeymoon phase of a relationship. It’s sweaty athletes, chaotic dating energy, zero filters, and the kind of conversations you only have with your closest friends—or after two drinks and bad decisions. Expect laughs, side-eye, oversharing...