Digital lore of 2024 on Thursday's Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published January 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM MST

Picture of a rat shaped indentation in a sidewalk

Utah State University’s Digital Folklore Project’s #DigitalLoreoftheYear for 2024 is Chicago Rat Hole. Other contenders include how Brits wash dishes, eating cats and dogs parodies, and Moo Deng, baby hippo memes.

Our guests include the co-directors of the USU Digital Folklore Project, Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill. We’ll also talk with Afsane Rezaei, USU assistant professor of English.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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