This is 99% Invisible.

I'm Chris Barube, sitting in for Roman Mars.

Back in January, about 10 million people tuned into the hockey romance series Heated

Rivalry.

Even I watched it, because the show is made in Canada by Canadians, and I'm Canadian.

And the Canadianness, it's kind of everywhere.

The main characters in the show go to a cottage at one point, not a cabin.

One of the hockey studs has an interview with a journalist in pretty passable high school

French.

Winnipeg is mentioned.

Look, it's all there in the text.

But if you ask me, the most Canadian part of the

series is the music. That's producer and fellow Canuck, Max Collins. The soundtrack is loaded

with artists from Canada. There's needle drops of songs by Feist and the Soul Jazz Orchestra and

Dilly-Dally. To me, this was delightful.

But the Canadian music wasn't obvious to everyone watching.

I found this out when I threw on the show with my roommate, Key.

Chris Clay.

Yes.

Unheated rivalry.

Can I ask if you've ever been with another guy?

Key knew and loved a lot of the songs on Heated Rivalry,

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