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What does it really cost to become an Olympic athlete in Canada? Behind every Olympic medal are years of sacrifice, financial struggles, mental pressure, and an entire team working behind the scenes. Gary Davies, President and CEO of Canadian Sport Institute Alberta (CSI Alberta), joins The Deets with Duddy to reveal what most Canadians never see about high-performance sport.

From Olympic and Paralympic training to sports science, nutrition, mental performance, and athlete development, Gary explains how CSI Alberta helps prepare Canada's elite athletes for international competition. We explore the razor-thin margins between Olympic success and disappointment, athletes working multiple jobs to support their dreams, career-ending injuries, and the emotional challenges of retiring from competitive sport. What happens when someone dedicates their entire life to the Olympics, only to fall short?

Gary also shares his unexpected journey from Calgary's media and events industry to leading one of Canada's major high-performance sport organizations. After losing approximately $5.2 million in booked business during the COVID-19 shutdowns, his career took a turn he never anticipated.

We also examine the business behind Canadian Olympic sport, including government funding, the $755 million federal investment discussed in the episode, athlete mental health, and how CSI Alberta works with companies like Lululemon, Under Armour, and Garmin to generate revenue that supports athletes. It's a conversation about leadership, resilience, the hidden costs of chasing Olympic dreams, and why success isn't always measured in medals.

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight. From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's Late-Night Show Podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder (@duddydoesit) sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

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What would make someone walk away from neuroscience to become a stuntwoman?

Alleya Bourne went from studying the human brain at the University of Alberta to performing stunts on HBO's The Last of Us and landing a major villain role in the Malayalam film Aadu 3. It's an unconventional career change that took her from a research lab in Edmonton to film sets around the world.

After losing her mother, Alleya began questioning the direction of her life and what she wanted to do with the time she had. She shares how gymnastics, martial arts and parkour led her into stunt training, why she eventually left neuroscience behind, and what it took to rebuild her identity around an entirely different career.

We get into her experience performing as a Clicker on The Last of Us, discovering acting after beginning her stunt career, and landing a major role in Aadu 3 without a traditional audition. Alleya takes us behind the scenes of filming in India, learning Malayalam, developing two villainous characters, and navigating fight scenes where full-contact kicks were sometimes expected.

Beyond the action, we explore how her neuroscience background influences her understanding of fear, visualization and performance. We also talk about overcoming injuries and mental blocks, trusting your creative instincts, stoic philosophy, and why you don't need to have your entire future figured out before taking a chance on something new.

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Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight.

From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's Late-Night Show Podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

Watch and listen: New episodes every Monday on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartRadio.

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Jessica Janzen has built a life and career around bringing joy into hard places. But that philosophy came from experiences that tested nearly every part of her life.

Jessica joins The Deets with Duddy to talk about growing up on a Manitoba farm, feeling unintelligent before discovering she had dyslexia and ADHD, struggling quietly with her mental health, and moving to Calgary with $300 and the chance to become a different version of herself.

We get into meeting her husband Ronnie, the devastating diagnosis that changed their family, and the decision to “bring the joy” when they were told their son likely would not make his first birthday. Jessica opens up about grief, dark humour, keeping a marriage together through enormous loss, and how that experience eventually grew into Love for Lewiston, which has now raised more than $4 million.

Jessica also talks about building a career as a keynote speaker, the pressure that comes with becoming known as “the joy person,” the times she has struggled to access her own message, and why she still believes joy belongs in difficult places. And despite everything she has already built, her ambitions are nowhere near finished.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary’s late-night show podcast - spotlighting the city’s culture, creativity, and people through unfiltered conversations with Calgary’s most interesting voices.

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Mandy Stobo has spent more than 20 years making art, but the path there has been anything but straightforward.

Before Bad Portraits became an international art project, Mandy was dreaming about working for Disney, spray painting train yards, raising her son, trying to find her place as an artist, and figuring out how to build a career on her own terms. She shares how a gallery director who hated her paintings accidentally helped launch her career, and why moving away from darker work eventually led her toward humour, connection and Bad Portraits.

We get into the strange ride that followed, including Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island helping the project take off, Ford Models discovering exactly how "bad" the portraits really were, and The Weeknd walking around the Junos carrying a giant portrait of himself.

The conversation also explores the artist beyond Bad Portraits. Mandy talks about creating work for film and television, experimenting with virtual and augmented reality, rediscovering her own creative identity, and returning to the Western imagery she grew up around. Her current work combines horses, cowboys, neon, street-art influences, memory and a changing relationship with Calgary and Alberta.

We also talk about boundaries, the fear that creative opportunities might disappear, what her kids have learned from growing up around an artist, the projects she still wants to make, and why after decades of creating, Mandy feels like her work is finally arriving at pure joy.

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight. From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

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Jade Elephant is built for the stage.

Mitchell Brady, Taylor Miles and Kyle Tenove join me to talk about the chemistry behind the Calgary rock trio, why they trust each other enough to take real risks live, and what happens when a mistake becomes part of the show instead of something to hide.

We get into recording live off the floor with Russell Broom, making their new record without a click track, writing lyrics together for the first time, and how the band is starting to figure out what the Jade Elephant sound actually is.

They also talk about opening for bands like Collective Soul, learning to feel like they belong on bigger stages, Kyle rebuilding his confidence as a singer, and why their latest single, “Who Would Have Known?”, is the most personal music they have made yet.

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight.

From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's Late-Night Show Podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

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What does it actually take to make a living as a magician?

Matt Gore has spent his life figuring that out. From discovering magic as a kid in Cape Town and learning how to command an audience, to performing more than 3,000 shows and competing on some of magic’s biggest stages, Matt has built an entire career around making difficult things look effortless.

We get into the years of practice behind a single effect, what separates doing tricks from actually entertaining a room, and what happens when something goes wrong live. Matt also shares what it was like leaving an established career in South Africa and rebuilding from scratch in Canada.

The conversation also gets into the business behind being a professional entertainer, why Matt expanded into hosting and keynote speaking, how becoming a father changed the way he works, and where he wants to take his career next, including a bigger one-man show and new opportunities beyond magic.

And yes, there’s magic. Stick around to the end of the YouTube episode for one more trick after the conversation wraps.

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight.

From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's Late-Night Show Podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

#TheDeetsWithDuddy #CalgaryPodcast #Magic

What does it actually take to build a film festival? Adam Keresztes is the Lead Shorts Programmer at the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF), where thousands of submissions, hundreds of decisions, and a whole lot of movie watching eventually become one of Calgary's biggest cultural events.

Adam joins The Deets with Duddy to explain how he went from software developer to film programmer, what makes a movie stand out, why even great films get rejected, and how the programming team turns individual selections into a festival. We get into everything from forgiving technical mistakes (except bad sound) to programming disagreements, filmmaking trends, and why some incredible movies might never be seen again if you miss them at a festival.

We also explore Calgary's growing film industry, what CIFF can mean for local filmmakers, how festivals create opportunities for networking and discovery, and why supporting Alberta-made films matters if we want the industry here to keep growing.

Plus, Adam gives us a look at CIFF 2026, including a record number of Alberta-made shorts, two nights of Alberta Shorts programming, major films coming to Calgary, Cody Lightning's Smudge the Blades, and how to approach the festival if you've never been before.

The Calgary International Film Festival runs September 24 to October 4, 2026.

Festival information and tickets: https://www.ciffcalgary.ca/

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight.

From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's Late-Night Show Podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

#TheDeetsWithDuddy #CalgaryFilm #CIFF

Logan Middleton hears a lot of new music. As the host of Xposure on X92.9, he helps spotlight local and independent artists on commercial radio while working across music programming and production at the station.

We talk about Logan’s path from being a music-obsessed kid and playing in bands to finding his place in radio, what makes a song immediately stand out, and what he has learned from hearing as many as 50 to 100 submissions in a week. Logan also explains what an Xposure spin can mean for an emerging artist and why getting played on commercial radio can open doors beyond that first moment.

The conversation also gets into what makes Calgary’s music community different, why artists here seem so willing to support each other, the bands Logan is excited about right now, and what he would still like to see change as the scene grows. Plus Kue Varo, Shy Friend, Micah Sage, Victrix, Guided by Voices, Sultans of Swing and a very specific casting choice for the Logan Middleton biopic.

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's Late-Night Show Podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward.

This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

#TheDeetsWithDuddy #CalgaryMusic #YYC

Shelby Morisseau is a Calgary-area content creator, UGC creator, and entertainment personality who left a secure corporate social media job to work for herself full time.

Shelby talks about growing up in Cochrane, starting as a dancer, struggling with eczema, studying medical aesthetics, and finding her way into content creation through storytelling, small businesses, and social media.

She also opens up about realizing the dream job was not actually the dream, walking away without guaranteed income, dealing with financial uncertainty, and learning how to build content creation into a real business.

This episode gets into UGC, brand partnerships, audience growth, anxiety, manifestation, meditation, and what it actually means to trust yourself before the proof is there.

The Deets with Duddy is Calgary's late-night show podcast, hosted by Jeff Dudder, featuring conversations with the people shaping Calgary's culture, creativity, and community.

Pat Kordyback joins The Deets with Duddy to talk about Delta Sweet, Stereos, MuchMusic, Summergirl, and what it means to build a new music chapter with real experience behind you.

Pat looks back on the grind before Stereos broke through, the wild overnight shift after MuchMusic’s Disband, and how fast life changed when Canadian television could still turn a band into a national story. He talks about Summergirl taking off, getting recognized almost instantly, the power of the music industry machine, and the lessons that came from living through that kind of success.

The conversation also gets into ego, yes-people, taxes, nostalgia, songwriting, country music, humour, and learning what kind of life you actually want once the attention changes. Pat is funny, honest, and self-aware about the parts of that era he is grateful for, and the parts he would not want to live through the same way again.

Now with Delta Sweet, Pat is making country music that feels personal, funny, direct, and fully his. He talks about specific songs, performing under a new name, building trust in country music, and why this chapter is not about starting over. It is about doing it his way.

Calgary is full of interesting people doing interesting things, and The Deets with Duddy is all about bringing them into the spotlight. From musicians, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and community builders to the people and projects shaping life in the city, every episode offers a chance to hear the stories happening across Calgary right now. The Deets with Duddy is Calgary’s late-night show podcast. Every week, Jeff Dudder sits down with the people shaping Calgary to explore the stories, experiences, and ideas driving the city forward. This is Calgary, one conversation at a time.

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