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It’s another special Member Drive edition of the program and our guest is folklorist Lynne McNeill.
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On this Valentine’s Day we're joined by Jeannie Thomas to talk about love spells, heartbreak rituals, a study about fruit flies and breakups, and anthropologist Helen Fisher’s studies on what happens to our brains when we fall in love.
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Today we'll talk with UCLA Professor Patricia Turner discusses her latest book, Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century.
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We're once again joined by USU English professors Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill to talk about folklore. On this episode we focus on the most popular memes and digital trends of last year.
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USU English professors Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill join us to talk about some of the top trending digital items for the year of 2022.
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On this episode we talk folklore and music with Steven Hatcher, the Idaho Folk Arts Coordinator, and Damian Rodriguez, a Tejano musician who performed as part of the 2022 Fife Honor lecture.
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Tales of supernatural encounters may tell us more about ourselves than we realize. Writer and teacher Darren M. Edwards explains what spooky stories can reveal about Utah culture and the human experience.
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Often seen as symbols of witchcraft or bad luck in Western cultures, black cats are featured prominently on Halloween decorations and in ghost stories.
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On this episode we are joined by Lynne McNeill. We talk Slenderman's origins, The Kevin Bacon Number and more.
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A TikTok video of a young Scottish mailman singing the traditional sea shanty “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” and memes that poked fun at the self-described “QAnon Shaman” were among the top digital folklore trends of 2021.