Dazed and Confused (1993)

You say you don't subscribe to our podcast?  You'd be a lot cooler if you did.  Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasting crew: Ian's riding solo from the BFE (Meg & Ethan are running from a bat-wielding Liam... Georgia manages to evade and join slightly late) as he's paying his freshman dues Richard Linklater's 1993 love letter to the mid 1970s in Dazed and Confused.  We're joined by a senior classman who teaches us how to live as we FINALLY are able to welcome spiritual cousin of the pod, Ed from The Film Effect Podcast to get us into the party at the Water Tower.  We're breaking car windows with bowling balls in our 190th episode as we discuss:

• How our sensibilities change as we age
• Which actor was so hated by the rest of the cast it resulted in his part being heavily cut
• Which actor benefitted from the above changes
• There are 2 Oscar winners in the cast.  Did you spot them both?
• Ian points out an issue with the arcs of our protagonists
• Were all the sophomores and juniors forced to stay at home?
• Ian and Ed discuss Richard Linklater's ability as a screenwriter and wax poetic a bit about how life was different in the pre-digital age
• Both Ian and Georgia share moments where they didn't realise who was on the screen (Georgia's is priceless)
• We rail on the acting ability (or lack thereof) of one of the main cast
• How did this film manage to get so many great songs on the soundtrack
• We postulate which character represents Linklater and which character he wishes he was
• Ed reveals some truths about American life and Ian considers if this film has an age, gender, and nationality accessibility problem for Georgia
• There's also some wrestling talk as Ian and Ed discuss the passing of Bray Wyatt and the firing of CM Punk
• Whether or not Dazed and Confused is the Best Film Ever

Here more from Ed at The Film Effect Podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-film-effect-podcast/id1551755963 (Apple) or https://open.spotify.com/show/7AzClWhpGO7lcz2arSOg2b?si=9c8741d506f84e25 (Spotify)

Become a Patron of this podcast and support the BFE at https://www.patreon.com/BFE

We are extremely thankful to our following Patrons for their most generous support:

• Juleen from It Goes Down In The PM
• Hermes Auslander
• James DeGuzman
• Lina Oberholzer
• Ensign Ian Davies
• Chris Pedersen 
• Duane Smith (Duane Smith!)
• Randal Silva
• The Yeetmeister
• Nate The Great
• Rev Bruce
• Cheezy (with a fish on a bike)
• Andy Dickson
• Holly Callen
• Richard
• Ryan Kuketz
• Dirk Diggler
• Shai Bergerfroind
• AJ from Nova Scotia
• Stew from the Stew World Order podcast

Buy some BFE merch at https://my-store-b4e4d4.creator-spring.com/

Massive thanks to Lex Van Den Berghe for the use of 'Mistake' by Luckydog.  Catch more from Lex's new band, The Maids of Honor at https://soundcloud.com/themaidsofhonor

Also massive thanks to Moonlight Social for our age game theme song.  You can catch more from them at https://www.moonlightsocialmusic.com/