DEEP CUTS Episode 89: A Slice of Heated Rivalry!

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Scott and A take a look at how hockey, romance books, and cable TV collide to create Heated Rivalry. (Mild spoilers for general concepts of the show and the books, and for Season 1, Episode 1 of the Crave TV show.) Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment Honestly, I prefer peanut butter in my chocolate. I might blog about it and snag my new domain using GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG to save 99% on the first year of a new domain registration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a smash hit from a best-selling romance book series
0:05.0	that combines, wait for it, wait for it, sports and romance,
0:11.2	and also representation, and also people adore it,
0:14.8	and hockey.
0:17.3	It's a niche monster, which is what streaming TV is all about.
0:23.1	And as a sports fan and a writer of many, many books, I think it's definitely worth chatting about.
0:34.4	So we are going to chat all about it and maybe head to the cottage right after
0:40.1	this quick break.
0:45.9	Now, are all the traitors present? Let's get started, shall we? From rags to riches. I'm so sick of
0:52.8	this. Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:55.3	Yorkshire to New York.
0:56.8	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:58.5	A life dedicated to revenge.
1:00.5	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
1:03.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
1:05.3	Stream now.
1:20.9	Welcome to Deep Cuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slices Fiction Podcast, where a sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world of fiction and pop culture.
1:26.2	I am Scott Sigler, sci-fi horror author known far and wide as the Future Dark Overlord.
1:31.5	And I am A.B. Sigler, audiobook narrator and publisher at M.T. Set Entertainment.
1:39.3	Tonight, we're talking heated rivalry and the chokehold it has on entertainment right now. Plus,
1:47.0	it has hockey. It does have some hockey. A reminder, this is a bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slices podcast feed, not part of any particular story.
1:48.1	You don't have to listen to this episode.
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