Slacker

Send us Fan MailMan, I just had the weirdest dream - back on the bus there? Did you ever have one of those dreams that are completely real. I mean they're so vivid. It's just like completely real. It's like, there's always something bizarre going on, though. I have one about every 2 years or something. I always remember 'em real good. Like there's always someone getting run over, or something really weird. Um, one time I had lunch with Tolstoy. Another time I was a roadie for Frank Zappa. Anyway, so this dream I just had was just like that, except instead of anything bizarre going on, I mean, there was just nothing going on at all. Man. It was like the Omega Man. It was just nobody around. I was just traveling around, you know, staring out the windows of buses, and trains, and cars. When I was at home, I was like flipping through the TV stations endlessly. Reading. How many dreams do you have when you read in a dream, you know?  Or how about dreams where you can actually smell what's around you.  Do you smell that?  It's that new theme smell... kind of like new car smell but mixed with popcorn and whatever is making the theater floor sticky.  Anyway, our new theme for this round is "strange bed-fellows" and kicking things off is the 1990 cult classic 'Slacker' from Richard Linklater.  This film weaves together a snapshot of early 90's Austin, Texas through a series of vignettes following the disconnected lives of assorted interesting characters. We discuss the origins of "strange bed-fellows" and how it applies to modern cinema.  Karl asks AI what it thinks about our podcast and Rachael has a moment of growth where she actually enjoys a film by a previously despised director starring a previously despised actress.