TEX AVERY - "WOLFWHISTLES FROM BEYOND THE 4th WALL!"

It's the first ever "Request Line" episode! In which I take a listener's request and utterly warp it into my usual variety of utterly weird shit! Enjoy! Spookiness coming soon!Email us! [email protected] excerpts from copyrighted material included for educational and/or cultural critique purposes. Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!*Go to Liqure.com & use promo code "ICON" for 20% off your entire purchase!*Go to Shimmerwood.com and use promo code "ICON" for 30% off your entire purchase![**SOURCES**]:Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (John Canemaker, 1996) — definitive biography from Da Capo Press.https://archive.org/details/texaverykingofca00caneThe Tex Avery interview (1975) from Animation World Magazine archives — insight into his humor and philosophy.https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.1/articles/lamb1.1.htmlA Wild Hare (1940) & Duck Amuck (1953) — both available in the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection (Warner Bros.) and on the official Warner Bros. YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ9FzYw9K1gMetafiction & cartoon semioticsHenry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Routledge, 1992) — foundational text on audience participation and fictional awareness.Umberto Eco, “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage,” in Travels in Hyperreality (1986).Borges, “The Circular Ruins” (1940) — prototype of creator/creation recursion in fiction.Occult / cultural crossoverJoshua Cutchin, The Ecology of Souls (2022) and Fourth Wall Phantoms (2023) — discussions of thoughtforms, media attention, and liminal awareness.https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=176Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (1995) — classic study of imagination shaping the real.Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working materials summarized in George Pendle’s Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).*If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, please dial 988.