This Week in Anguish

Tristan and Ardella Thompson

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 weekly during the season and occasionally during the off-season.

  1. 22 FEB

    This Golden Week 2: The Ninety-Ninth Percentile (2026/02/21)

    This golden week: - Has established for a fact that delaying the editing of a podcast is not the last little superstitious push the Olympians needed to get them across the golden goal-line.  - Sure, Claire Thompson may be known as Human ChatGPT to her teammates, but your stalwart co-Thompsons are unintimidated, since they've long been known as the Human Microfiche and the Human Disc One of Microsoft Encarta, respectively.  - How Did We Not Know that the meteorite that struck Bruderheim, Alberta, Brett Ratner (unfortunately as yet unstruck by any meteorites), and the reflection of local demographies in PWHL team theme nights would all be essential ingredients in this witch's brew of an episode.

    1h 34m

  2. 31 JAN

    Ep 198: Stages of Grief, Pt. II (2026/01/31)

    This week in anguish: - Speaks for itself.

    1h 37m
  3. Ep 197: Stages of Grief, Pt. I (2026/01/14)

    14 JAN

    Ep 197: Stages of Grief, Pt. I (2026/01/14)

    This week in anguish: - Firing madly off in all directions, various admixtures of goodbye, good riddance, and good grief are extended to Minnesota Wild legend Quinn Hughes, the culture of the team, and the powers that be who inculcated it.  - We've worked out way through denial and anger, and have swum through our familiar wallowing hole of depression. Join us next time as we attempt to collectively bargain our way to *checks notes*... acceptance? That can't be right.

    1h 25m

  4. 19/12/2025

    This Golden Week #1 (2025/12/17)

    This golden week... - Is vanguarded by some pretty sweet intro music, eh? It's a section from the track "Beach Runner" off the excellent Ocean City LP by Pacific Coliseum.  - This Week in Gulls flew too close to the sun on its one and only sortie; we disavow all past anguishes and grievances and welcome This Golden Week into the Thompsopodiverse.  - Wrongs will be righted if we'red united! A warm welcome to Goldeneyes Inaugural Game Promotional Towel-Holder, more-embarassed-than-she-let-on homemade jersey-wearer, and beloved wife and daughter-in-law of the pod Rachel Rabey, here to give her boots on the ground view from the upper bowl.  - Behold genly in your eyes the outsider art jersey design that made such a stir in the concourses of power, and enjoy, for archival purposes, a more downloadable version of my apparently mind-bending magic eye secondary logo proposal.   - Friend of the friendless Abby Boreen has seized more days than any other Goldeneye yet. On the rare occasions she falters, Surrey souer Jenn Gardiner takes up the torch and lights the way while tiny Katie Chan proudly defies her stature and slays giants for the good gals.

    59 min

  5. 16/11/2025

    Ep 196: This Is What I Bought Into? (2025/11/16)

    This week in anguish: - Was barrel-aged an extra week for no particular reason, but, since we track back our futility in this and all episodes to 1970, our analysis remains as perenially trenchant as it is petulant.  - Tristan heads to the fabric marker aisle and tries to remember what a duck looks like.  - Marvel at tales of past woes in Where Were You When? and glory days gone by in Why Are We Doing This? as the Canucks continue their supersemicentennial Quest for Cromulence.  - We learn how Abby Hoffman skated subterfugally and Justine Bailey sued supremely so that the Goldeneyes could one day...clang? Soar? Dive? We're learning, is the point.   - Honourable mention to Ardella for "whiplash / from hopes dashed", which was only not picked as the episode name for copyright concerns after it becomes the title of her slam poetry album. It got some beatnik finger snaps from The Editor, at least.

    1h 37m

  6. 05/11/2025

    Ep 195: Silky Hands, Golden Voice (2025/11/04)

    This week in anguish: - Is not merely emotionally but also technically anguished, with our li'l audio recorder pitching a few micro wildcat strikes throughout the episode. The coherence of one lacuna was rescued by the producer's surely imperceptible technical wizardry, whereas in other spots we lean upon the listener's own artificial general intelligence to fill in the ums and ahs that have been lost to time.  - We can no longer ethically use the "no segments were harmed in the making of this episode" certification, as Tristan unveils such certain-to-be-repeated gems as "Who the Heck Are You?", "Why Are We Doing This?", and "Where Were You When?" - With our vaunted next-warm-body-up philosophy, it's high time to better get to know Mackenzie MacEachern. - Bear witness to our tortured history of laying out the icy red carpet for everyone else's hockey milestones.   - In space, no one can hear you screaming as we try to recap this year's team hype-up video, so don't even bother.

    1h 27m

  7. 27/10/2025

    Ep 194: The Most Thing That Could Happen (2025/10/26)

    This week in anguish:   - The bruised and contused Canucks inspire us to revist Aaron Rome's ever-so-slightly-delayed hit in the harsh light of 5,249 days later.  - We map out the Bohemian past and DEL future of Lukas, by far the most Canuck of the many magnificent Reichels.  - How Did We Not Know what a can of fascinating worms would be opened via our discussion of the emptying of nets. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.  - Tristan deems various acts treasonous and calls various people traitors, in the way that you expect and appreciate from a light-hearted hockey podcast.

    1h 28m

  8. 20/10/2025

    TWIG Ep 1: No-Name Brand

    - Welcome to the first episode of This Week in Gulls (hereafter: TWIG), the PWHL Vancouver podcast that, oddly, shares a team-building philosophy with Tony Montana. First you get the name, then you get the logo, then you get the women.   -  Behold! But like, y'know, if a real person did it. The weird beak-frown can probably stay, though. - If you identify with or have affinity for one or more the following, you may be entitled to compensation after listening to this episode: the city of Buffalo, New York; the American Hockey League; Zellers; having weak sisters.  - If, for some unfathomable reason, you're not entirely sold on being a die-hard Gull-head, picture the noble future that could exist were we to enlist the services of Dame Cloudington, Duchess of Renfrew.  - We're genuinely excited about this team, but you better believe we've still gotta bushelful of buts. Audible ones!

    1 hr
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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 weekly during the season and occasionally during the off-season.

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  • Creator
    Tristan and Ardella Thompson
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    99
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    This Week in Anguish