Originally posted Jan 1, 2025, first part only bc of Spotify Music AI takedown BS

Episode about cartoons and how they shape the world around us with Mike Bilandic + his article How Fred Flintstone Became One of America’s Greatest Cultural Exports 

Eurodance music with Smurfs and Flintstones, the purpose and legacy of Dexter's Lab, Hanah Barbera, Casimir Spaulding aka Glo Mula, Glo Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Iceberg: Fred infiltrating fashion, loukos_por_trenzinhos_ofc, cartoon imagery on legalized weed and gray market dispenseries, Degentrificartion, 1960's, a history of drugs and cartoons, Street artist Kenny Scharf making a Flintstones and Jetson's religion, Hugus who painted 50 Rick & Morty murals in NYC, Latino love for Loony Tunes, Cartoons in the hood and in rap music, Teletubbies: total psychedelic illiteracy, the Smurf conference at the start of Covid: first super spreader event, Turmoil in the Toy Box, cartoons in the age of AI, the NFT Ape effect, Florence Fang and the Flintstone's House (1976)

Edit by Alex Talan