Episode 36: Our fabulousness and flaws, as people, are on display. Hear from Patty about how every day can be equally frustrating and entertaining, learn from Rob about understanding your personality type, and listen to Christian’s last-minute song selection from Goapele.

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Meandering Rant: “Agh!” by Patty

Book Report: Personality Types, as presented by Rob

Music Segment: Goapele “Break of Dawn”, brought to you bu Christian

Want to know your Meyers Briggs personality type? Learn more here.

Podcasts and rest are good for your brain.  Help a friend’s brain; tell them to listen to The Slacker Factor.

Episode 35: Jack Johnson uses some percentage of French fry grease to fuel his tour buses, walking in San Diego can spark musical creativity, and living in New Jersey doesn’t guarantee an orange tan-glow. All will make sense when you listen to the conversational lessons of St. Marquis, your favorite Slackers, and the beautiful vocals of Anya Marina.

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Meandering Rant: “Weather Report” by special guest St. Marquis

Book Report: Grease Cars, information by Christian

Music Segment: Anya Marina, brought to you by Patty, featuring the song “All the Same to Me” from Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II http://www.anyamarina.com/

Check out more from St. Marquis, writing as Brett Bickley for the Parsippany Patch.

Episode 34: Well-adjusted children, and Perry Ferrell music, and cultured foods get all talked-up in this podcast; plus, we got Bryan Davis. How can you possibly resist?

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Listen to my song, please:
Mediate featuring Tricky (Robert LaFrance Remix) – INXS

Meandering Rant: “How to Raise Well Adjusted, Semi-Sane, Hopefully Successful Children” by Robert LaFrance

Book Report: Special Guest Bryan Davis from AskBryan.com

• Book: Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz and Sally Fallon
• Bulletproof Diet
• Bulletproof Executive
• GT’s Kombucha

Music Segment: Jane’s Addiction “Irresistible Force”

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Episode 33: Love George Carlin? Inspired by art? Heard the music of Brett Dennen? Know anything about Dubstep? (If you’re into reggae, you should.) Katy Perry lyrics invading your life? Listen and experience these and more, with fellow slackers Christian, Rob, and Patty.

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Meandering Rant: “A Modern Man” by George Carlin

Book Report: Dubstep 101, a guide to a new dance music genre, by Rob

• Dubstep Wikipedia
• Pitchfork column “The Month in Grime and Dubstep”
• Dubstep radio: Dubstep.fm

Music Segment: Brett Dennen “Song for Leaving”

• Link to Brett Dennen’s web site and videos

Links to Sculpturs and Sculptures that inspire Patty:

• Jaume Plensa
• Jaume Plensa’s Echo at Madison Square Park in New York City
• Constantin Brâncusi
• Winged Victory at the Louvre (The Nike of Samothrace)

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The Slacker stiffs slip into the abyss with music from the apocalypse.  We explore our musical mortality with two favorites from
each of the Slackers. Fin.

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Apocalyptic Musical Selections:

• “The Apocalypse Song” by St. Vincent
• “The Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash
• “Leave Them All Behind” by Ride
• “Miami 2017″ by Billy Joel
• “Hallelujah” Live at Sin-E by Jeff Buckley
• “The End” by The Doors

Episode 31: Harmonious yet eclectic is probably the best way to describe the conversations and consternations of this podcast. Your favorite Slackers move from the intensity of dealing with food allergies to the conservatism of protestant religious communities to the 80s Bauhaus throwback music of Slove. Always something to learn, always something to share; thanks for always listening.

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Meandering Rant: “I Fight with Food” by Patty

Book Report: Amish 101, a conversation lead by Christian

Music Segment: Slove “Do We Need?”

• Link to Slove’s YouTube Video
• Slove’s web site (for all our French Fans)

Episode 30: A psychic connection about Paris Hilton, you say? Why, yes, we have that in this podcast. We also have a concerning playground story, a talk about being straight-up with others, a fret about fracking, and Beck-tacular music from a not-so-young Youth. Truthfully, we make your lounge time informatively special.

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Meandering Rant: “Honesty & the Lack Thereof” by Rob

Book Report: Hydraulic Fracturing & the Energy Industry, an interview with Jason Solinas

Music Segment: Thurston Moore “Demolished Thoughts”

Inform yourself and others about Hydraulic Fracturing, also known as Fracing, bywatching Josh Fox’s documentary “Gasland”. Encourage your legislators to save theaquifers and support safe drinking water by passing the Frac Act.

Keep an eye out for Patty in the up-and-coming film on Generation X, “Xingularity”. We’llinterview Manny Merchan, the film’s Director, on a future podcast.

Episode 29: The title, basically, says it all. We begin in the brain of a three-and-a-half-year-old, expound on the how-to’s of scheduling down time, move through mispronounced French grape varietals, and wind up in the former Soviet Union. Can you keep up with the relaxed fervor? Listen in and find out.

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Meandering Rant: “All Work and No Play…Well, Not Enough, Anyway” A VacationRant by Christian

Book Report: Wine, presented by our resident wine enthusiast, Rob

Music Segment: “I was made for you” – Escome Featuring Flyfoxmusic

• Escome’s Sound Cloud
• Flyfoxmusic’s My Space

If you’re interesting in learning more about wines, do what Rob did and learn from GaryVaynerchuk’s online wine stuff at tv.winelibrary.com or his new venture, Daily Grape.

If you’re enjoying our podcast, encourage your friends to listen, too.

Episode 28:  Episode 28: Somehow, in this episode of the podcast, life has become untethered and we get all kinda crazy with stories and ideas and whatnot. Let us take you on a magical adventure where we meet cloned animals, glorified poser karaoke singers, confused stripper cross-dressers, the royalty of little brine shrimp, and music to suit every pretty mood. You can check out any time
you’d like, but you can never leave.

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Meandering Rant: Rob on American Idol… 1:27 seconds That Killed Gen X and Y

Book Report: Patty presents a conversation on Cloned Animals and Our Food:

• United States Food & Drug Administration info on Cloned Animals
• Eat Well Guide

Music Segment: Patty brings you Stereomood.com and they bring us Pretty Lights Isn’t that so

Psst! Thanks for listening and being part of the Slacknation.  Tell your friends.

Episode 27:  Is it the end of the world, as we know it? Patty doesn’t know, and she speaks her doubts about trusting anything anymore. Christian ignites a conversation about vitamin supplements, and whether or not he trusts them. In the end, Rob saves the future, and the podcast, by sharing the retro-bass-beat and video-game-like vocals of Nero. Are you ready?

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Meandering Rant: Trust, by Patty

Book Report: Vitamins, report by Christian

Music Segment: A little dubstep action with Nero “Me & You”

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