We’re getting raw this episode when Josh goes solo with Brad Conrad, General Manager of Rodney’s Oyster House in Calgary, and that rawness continues when Jonathan and Mama T get into it over their childhood celebrity crushes. After the sage wisdom from T, Jonathan fans out over our interview with Calgary Flames Alumni and 1989 Stanley Cup winner Dana Murzyn.

Our first interview this episode is with Brad Conrad, a man who’s been known to shuck a few oysters and General Manager of the Calgary location of Canadian seafood institution, Rodney’s Oyster House. We discuss Brad’s start the restaurant industry, lying about his age to work in a dish pit, and later the start 18 year long history with Rodney’s. Brad spent 13 years at the original Rodney’s before being asked to come out west to help open the Calgary location. He spent just a month here before moving back home and then being asked to come back out for another three months to help out. Those three months turned into four, four became six, and now five years later Calgary is home.

During the break Jonathan and Mama T share some confessions of their own, including the worst things they’ve ever attempted to eat, and later they reveal their teenage celebrity crushes.

In the back half of this episode Jonathan gets to fulfill a dream when he casts with Dana Murzyn, one of the few people to have won a Stanley Cup for Calgary. Dana gives us a play by play of what happened after the boys got off the ice on that legendary night in ’89, from their locker room party to terrifying the pilot of their plane with a group photo with the cup, and a 6am stop for pizza the next morning. We chat about the Flames' “friendship tour” in former Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1989, and the experience of touring the region just prior to the fall of the USSR. We also discuss the role the Flames Alumni plays both for the community and for the players themselves, and what they get up to with their time: eating ribs, playing shinny, and best of all no-one gives them a hard time these days about a few beers the night before a game.

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Rodney’s Oyster House

Calgary Flames Alumni