Completely Conspicuous Episode 88: The Great White North 

Special guest Dev Sarathy joins me to talk about the differences between the U.S. and Canada.  

Topics:

- Dev: Americans are friendlier

- U.S. cultural assimilation vs. Canada's melting pot

- More Muslim influence seen in Canada

- Religion leads to conflict

- Sports: Hockey's still #1 in Canada

- Toronto is extremely multicultural

- U.S. businessowners are more aggressive

- Political correctness runs amok in Canada

- Debating the merits of Jim Rice

- Whose beer is better?

- Dev's "eh?" moment

- Dev explains Hinduism

- Pinhead of the Week

Music:

- Metric - Help I'm Alive

- Yo La Tengo - Here to Fall

- Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire

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The Metric song is on the band's album Fantasies on Metric Music International; find out more and download the song at http://www.ilovemetric.com. The Yo La Tengo song is on the album Popular Songs on Matador Records; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/yolatengo. You can download the song at http://www.matadorrecords.com.

The Japandroids song is on the album Post-Nothing on Polyvinyl Records; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/japandroids. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL; you can download the song at http://www.rcrdlbl.com.  

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.com. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.

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