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What Happened to Richard Linklater's Austin?

On the latest 'MUNCHIES: The Podcast' I sit down with Louis Black, the man who co-founded SXSW, directed a doc on Linklater, and changed the Austin landscape with art.

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On the latest episode of 'MUNCHIES: The Podcast', we're talking to Louis Black, the Austinite who co-founded the Austin Chronicle and SXSW, and most recently directed a documentary about filmmaker Richard Linklater called Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny. Linklater is one of the most important Texan filmmakers of our time, and one of the first people to capture the laid-back vibe of old Austin with his films Slacker and Dazed and Confused.

Black is a tour du force who has watched SXSW—and this town—experience massive changes since the festival began 29 years ago. I spoke with him about pre-SXSW Austin, his friendship with Linklater, the new doc, and how that iconic drive-in scene in Dazed and Confused with Matthew McConaughey and a hot redhead came to be. We also swung by Top Notch, the actual drive-in featured in the film, to see how this place has changed since the movie first premiered.

So go ahead and get into the vibe, download the podcast, and tell your friends to do the same. And if you haven't done so already, subscribe to MUNCHIES: The Podcast on iTunes and Soundcloudif you feel like it. Check back in two weeks for the next episode, which involves us leaving our fate up to chicken shit.