This week on Walley and Flip: A Figure Skating Podcast, we open up about our skating fan origin stories.

Then we dive into the land of maple syrup and miraculous recoveries: the Canadian comebacks are coming in hot. We try to make sense of Gabrielle Daleman and Keegan Messing's return, and the chances of them making the Olympic team.

We break down what little we know (and wildly speculate) about USFS Champs Camp and Summer Sizzler...where were the Shibtuanis?

We also brace ourselves for this season’s 90s-themed Rhythm Dance- a theme that sounds fun until you remember some people think Macarena counts as choreography inspiration.

And we debut a new game: “Whose Warhorse Is It Anyway?” - where one of us shouts out a classic overused (not necessarily negative) piece of music and the other has to yell out the first skater who comes to mind. No thinking, just instinct.

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00:00 Opening and how we became fans of figure skating

07:00 Canada comebacks (Gabrielle Daleman, Keegan Messing)

13:25 Japanese women tangent

15:50 Canada comebacks (cont'd)

16:46 USFS champs camp and summer sizzler (+ shibutanis)

23:30 Rhythm Dance 90's theme

26:15 Program announcement highlights

39:20 "Whose Warhorse is it Anyway?"

Walley and Flip have made their glorious return for the 2025-2026 season. Join the fabulous ladies as they share their thoughts on Sunset Boulevard, cranberry bogs, highlights from the Cranberry Cup, program announcements they are most excited for, potential upsets, skating conspiracy theories, and more!

00:00 - Introductions

02:15 - Cranberry Cup (cranberry bogs)

03:30 - Cranberry Cup highlights (Sofia Samodelkina, Isabeau Levito, Jia Shin, Sonja Hilmer, Aleksandr Selevko, Roman Sadovsky, Stephen Gogolev, Sophie Jolene Von Felten, and MORE!)

20:30 - Programs Flip is most excited for

22:00 - Yuma vs. Ilia

24:30 - Programs Walley is most excited for

26:20 - Upcoming competitions and closings

It's an off-season opener like no other! Sisters Walley and Flip are back and skating straight into the chaos, kicking things off with their takes on the headline of the moment: the Shibutanis' stunning return to competition after a 7-year retirement. But that's just the warm-up.

The main event? A no-holds-barred breakdown of the Ice Academy of Montreal—figure skating's powerhouse factory. From its humble beginnings to its world-dominating rise, we unpack IAM’s coaching magic, the politics that swirl behind the scenes, their recent controversies, and where they might be heading next. Is their reign untouchable, or is the ice getting thin?

0:00 Introduction and Shibutani's Return

04:23 Marie France, Patrice, and Romain

09:15 Gabi Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron/ + Laurence Fournier Beaudry

09:54 Humble Beginnings/IAM's olympic history, Tessa and Scott

15:25 Political Pull and Strategy

16:30 Choreography

22:25 Coaching Staff and Expansion

23:44 Scott Moir and Opening of the London Campus

25:40 IAM Culture and Controversies

36:14 90's Rhythm Dance Theme

38:40 Skate America Breaking News