I celebrate three years of podcasting CompCon with part 2 of my conversation with Dev Sarathy, this time discussing the pros and cons of the Canadian healthcare system. Click here to listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly here (right click and "save as").
The show notes...
Topics:
- In Canada, paying taxes = healthcare coverage
- Canadian taxes are extremely high
- Health insurance doesn't cover "natural health" services like chiropractic
- Quality of life vs. quantity of life
- Money isn't going into preventive healthcare/wellness
- Old man Kumar: No kids play outside anymore
- Dev's awesome impression of his dad
- Fat people are fatter nowadays
- Canadian delays: Three-month waiting period for MRIs
- Maybe a hybrid of the two systems would work
- Canadian system abused by trivial ER visits
- Dev would make more money in U.S. system
- Canadians aren't used to paying for health services
- Hard to roll out a national plan due to sheer size of U.S.
- Outsourcing is a serious problem
- Pinhead of the Week
Music:
- Lou Barlow - Gravitate
- Big Dipper - She's Fetching
- MSTRKRFT (feat. N.O.R.E.) - Bounce
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!
The Lou Barlow song is on the forthcoming album Goodnight Unknown. The Big Dipper song is on the box set Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology. Both albums are on Merge Records, where you can download the songs.
The MSTRKRFT song is on the album Bounce on Dim Mak Records. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL, where you can download the MP3.
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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography here.
Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Completely Conspicuous 88: The Great White North
Back from vacation with a new episode of the podcast featuring a discussion with my cousin Dev Sarathy about the differences between the U.S. and Canada. Click here to listen to it in streaming audio or download it directly here (right click and "save as").
The show notes...
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
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!
The Metric song is on the band's album Fantasies on Metric Music International; find out more and download the song here. The Yo La Tengo song is on the album Popular Songs on Matador Records, where you can find out more and download the song.
The Japandroids song is on the album Post-Nothing on Polyvinyl Records. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL, where you can download the song.
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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photographic work here.
Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.
The show notes...
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
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!
The Metric song is on the band's album Fantasies on Metric Music International; find out more and download the song here. The Yo La Tengo song is on the album Popular Songs on Matador Records, where you can find out more and download the song.
The Japandroids song is on the album Post-Nothing on Polyvinyl Records. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL, where you can download the song.
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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photographic work here.
Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.
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