Memes, Metaphors and Magic

Send a text This episode is the audio version of my first Substack post, where I'm officially launching my newsletter. I'll share why I'm pairing my podcast with Substack to more fully convey the spirit of Memes, Metaphors and Magic.  If you prefer to read and view the accompanying visuals, you can find the full written post linked below:  https://memesmetaphorsmagic.substack.com/p/...

Send a text Meme Nugget #4: "I'm glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season."  - Unknown

Send a text Meme Nugget #3: "Tomorrow is April fools' day.  Believe nothing and trust no one. Just like any other day."  - Unknown Resources: Once More, With Feeling: Partnering with Learners to Re-see the College Experience Through Metaphor and Sensory Language by Taran Cardone Philosopher, Poet, Trickster: New Role Models for Corporately Responsible Leaders by Donna Ladkin

Send a text Meme Nugget #2: "Even though it doesn't feel like it right now, you're going to end up exactly where you need to be, with the people who love you the most, doing what you were created to do. Until then, just keep going."  - Unknown Resources: Wonderful Digital Consulting Connection Project 360

Send a text We're trying something new on the podcast - a new series called Meme Nuggets, solo episodes discussing a particular meme. They'll be sprinkled throughout the podcast along with more amazing guest interviews!  Meme Nugget #1:  "Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. Wha...

Send a text Just a quick podcast update... wishing you a happy holiday and looking forward to bringing you new content in the new year! 

Send a text Shownotes Memes:  The Breakfast Club Quilting Meme - "Let me tell you about the Breakfast Club meme first because it's the iconic movie poster image of the stereotypical high school kids and I labeled it with different techniques, subcultures in the quilting world." Harry Potter "They're Quilts Not Blankets" Meme - "Harry Potter... has this arch enemy...

Send a text Shownotes Memes:  The "This is Fine" Meme - "So meme that I chose is the meme of this dog sitting at a table with his coffee, just kind of casually sitting there and then behind him is engulfed in flames, right? And so that's the one side of things. And he's just kind of.  And for those of you who might not be able to see or listening to the podcast, I just mad...

Send a text Shownotes Memes:  Beyonce Sipping Meme - "It's the meme where Beyoncé is kind of glancing at the crowd as if she walked into a conversation and she's sipping on a drink. Let's say it's a Sprite or Slurpee or something. And then she kind of gives this odd look of like, "This is really none of my business." And she walks away. That's the meme in a...

Send a text Memes:  Stay Away From Negative People Quote Meme "Beware of negative people. They always have a problem for every solution." - Albert Einstein (Maybe? The internet attributes this quote to several people.) It Isn't the End Quote Meme - "Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out yet, then it isn't the end." - Unknown Join our Facebook g...

Send a text Memes:  Dr. Who Pair-O-Docs Meme - "I was trying to find memes  that spoke to like our relationship and how I look at the world. So I found one and there are two actors from Dr. Who, which I don't watch. But one of them saying, 'Why can't you have two doctors in the same place? Reason is because it would be a pair of docs.' And it just struck me funny because w...

Send a text Memes:  Little Girl with Owl Meme - "The first meme is the girl. It's a young girl. I'm going to guess she's probably maybe 8 to 10 years old and she's literally holding her hand up and she has on this big thick brown leather glove covering her arm. And there's a huge hawk standing on her hand... And it's one of those empowering photos where you go, b...

Send a text Memes:  Tired AF Chihuahua in Unicorn Costume Meme - "Okay, well, the first one I sent it has a picture of an angry disgruntled chihuahua type dog in a costume. It's a unicorn costume with a bright purple horn and across the top of the Instagram photo it says when you're a magical majestic creature with secret powers but you're... tired af but, yeah, that one appear...

Send a text Meme(s):  Meme - "So it is a picture of Morpheus from The Matrix. So, hopefully, everybody has seen The Matrix. It's a fantastic movie. And it says, 'What if I told you eating quote unquote healthy isn't always conducive to a healthy relationship with food or one's mind and body?'" Join our Facebook group to be part of the conversation and view the me...

Send a text Memes:  Distracted Boyfriend Meme - "So this meme is the meme where you have one guy that's walking down the street with his girlfriend holding her hand, but he's looking, looking over his left shoulder back to another girl that caught his attention. So it's a very popular meme that people use. And then the people usually put words over it where essentially the way...

Send a text Meme(s):  Presence Quote Meme - "It's a quote from Malcolm Forbes, and it basically says, 'Presence is more than just being there.' And the word presence has come up in a lot of different spaces for me recently." Join our Facebook group to be part of the conversation and view the meme for this episode or you can follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic ....

Send a text Memes:  Esi Mathis' Original Quote Meme - "I was lying in bed and I just, I heard this... And I think maybe a year or so ago,  one day I just decided, 'Oh, let me post this online.' I'm not a big online presence. I don't post every day or even every week, but I try to post when I have something meaningful to share or something positive to put out there, in...

Send a text Memes:  "In the email that I send guests, it explains that a meme is really this culturally shared image, virally shared. So some of the images... may not be... the meme you picture with the Impact font and all that kind of stuff. So we have a different image today that we're going to get into." - Taran Meme - "So this image, I actually can't even look at it wi...

Send a text Memes:  Weird Barbie Parenting Meme - "So the first one is Weird Barbie from the Barbie movie and Weird Barbie is saying, 'When you're trying to look nice, but you have kids and you haven't slept in five years.'" Ron Burgundy Leadership Meme - "So the second one is... Ron Burgundy played by Will Ferrell, a character from Anchorman, which came out in 2...

Send a text Memes:  James Baldwin Quote Meme - "So, the first one is a James Baldwin quote that says to be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege and there's a sketch of him and colorful icons or drawings behind him." Yung Pueblo Quote Meme - "...the next one that you brought, which was a quote by Yung Pueblo... 'It is not a...

Send a text Meme(s):  How Do You Do Fellow Kids? Meme - "So I chose the Steve Buscemi meme of when he... comes in with a skateboard over his back. I think he has a backward cap on, saying hello fellow youths or kids. And that is like my day to day in a nutshell trying to like work with college age students as I get farther and farther away from that." Follow us on Instagram @memesmetapho...

Send a text Memes:  David Rose "Who Am I to Judge" Meme - "One is Schitt's Creek... and that meme has six images of David Rose, who, in some ways really resonates with my spirit. But the text above it says, 'Me: Who am I to judge?' And then... those six images are underneath that. It says 'also me' with various forms of very expressive judgmental faces, whet...

Send a text Memes:  Squat and Squint Meme - "The first one that I'm going to describe is of a black woman and she's in this like light pink kind of jacket blazer, these black pants, and she's outside and she's kind of leaning down and she's like what I assume out of breath, tired, just like, 'Oh, my gosh, what, what, what am I doing?'" Drew Scanlon Reac...

Send a text Memes:  Roll Safe Think About It Meme - "So the first meme is a gentleman in a leather shirt who is standing outside of a store. Looks like he's on the street somewhere and he's got a nice little crisp part. He's giving very 90's New Jack City vibes... What he's doing is he's tapping on his temple and his head in a gesture that makes you think that wh...

Send a text Meme(s): "Italians be like we'll put out a few snacks." "So it is a dining room in a house and basically the entire picture is filled with a table that has like mountains and mountains of food on it. It looks like it could be a holiday or it could just be a regular Sunday." - Matt Kwiatkowski Follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic to view the meme(s) fo...