Completely Conspicuous Episode 130: Over the Hills and Far Away

Part 3 of my conversation with special guest Matt Phillion about his experiences in Ireland.

Topics:

- In Ireland, liquor stores are called "off licenses"

- They loves the hard cider

- Not a great beer selection in stores

- No anti-American sentiment

- The Irish call McDonald's "Maccy D's" 

- Matt bonded with the immigrants

- Irish don't pronounce "th" sounds

- Fashion: They rock the popped collar

- Matt left a few shirts behind to avoid getting his ass kicked here

- The skinny jeans incident

- Mullets live on

- The women are "makeup ninjas"

- Tales of airport security

- Tough to break into Irish acting scene

- Shocked to get some modeling offers

- Sorting out customs paperwork

- A care package of 6 lbs. of Twizzlers

- Missing Dunkin' Donuts 

- Metric still confounds

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Black Mountain - Old Fangs

Japandroids - Younger Us

The Vaselines - I Hate the '80s

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The Black Mountain song is on the forthcoming album Wilderness Heart on Jagjaguwar Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/blackmountain and download the song for free at http://www.jagjaguwar.com/blackmountain.

The Japandroids song is on the band's Younger Us 7-inch. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/japandroids and download the song for free at http://pitchfork.com.

The Vaselins song is on the forthcoming album Sex With an X on Sub Pop Records. Find out more and download the song for free at http://www.thevaselines.co.uk.

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.net. 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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