This podcast is about re-seeing the magic in everyday life, starting with memes that matter. Each guest will share a meme that stuck with them and invite us to look at life in unexpected and creative ways.
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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, be as strong as a little girl holding the hawk. And it just jumped out at me." [We realized later in the conversation that it was an owl and not a hawk.]
Andy Dwyer Happy Meme - "It's a picture of Chris Pratt, and he has this total look of surprise. His mouth is open and... it's a happy surprise... It's like, 'Oh my gosh, I can't believe I just discovered this. I found something. I'm excited!' And I love that meme because throughout the day, I am in complete shock and surprise at the things that happen at the farm."
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 appeared multiple times."
Pick Your Battles Meme - "It's like a conversation between two accounts or like a reply to an initial post from one account. The initial poster is @thequeerwithoutfear is the handle and it says 'Pick your battles, pick... pick fewer battles than that. Put some battles back. That's too many.' And then Miss Voltairine, which going back to philosophy, replied and said, 'Me, frantically trying to hold on to my armload of battles, battles falling out of my pockets: NO I need ALL these battles.'"
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?'"
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 people use that meme is you have something that's yours, but there's something that's not yours that's catching your attention. But the thing that's in your hand is looking at you feeling neglected."
"If there is a metaphor, I would say if I'm the man, what's in my hand is life and what's walking away from me is football, right?"
"There's a quote from a show Friday Night Lights that I love and the quarterback Street said, 'You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.'... It's about timing and there's a sense of anxiety and you want things."
"A ship in the harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd
Underlying, or primary, metaphors:
KNOWING/UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING
DESIRE/NEED IS HUNGER
IMPORTANCE IS SIZE
PURPOSES ARE DESTINATIONS
ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION
CHANGE IS MOTION
CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WEATHER
TIME PERIODS IN OUR LIVES ARE CONTAINERS.
Magic:
Showing Up for a Life of Significance & Presence with Benjamin Williams
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."
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 the atmosphere for people or something encouraging. I enjoy encouraging people... I think typically when we hear the word invest... typically we think of money. Like, oh, yep. 'Where's your investment? What are you invested in?' We think of money. We think of gold stocks, bonds, all the things that have to do with monetary value. But none of that was on my mind when the quote came to me and thank you, Taran, because it never occurred to me to attach my name to it. I had never heard anyone say it before. So as far as I know, it's an original... I don't have evidence to tell me anything to the contrary, but since that came to me, it regularly just rises up in my thought process when I'm doing other things and, for me, investing in what we value crosses all aspects of life."
"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 without crying. Um, I want to be very clear. This is an image of Joe Biden, but it's not a political image. That's not why I chose this. It's an image of the day that I think it's the day of his son, Beau's funeral. And he's waiting outside with his family for the casket to arrive. And he's surrounded by his grandchildren and his children and his wife. And they're standing in a line. And Joe Biden is just looking up to the sky with his eyes closed... It's such a beautiful image because it says so much about grief and about pain just through an image." - Allison
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 2004. So, he's like leaning over the table and he's like, 'Leadership it's kind of a big deal, right?'"
Friendship Quote Meme - "It's two little like toddlers hugging and it says, 'We'll be best friends forever because you already know too much.'"
Support the nonprofit groups in your local area that are doing the work, whether that's to support survivors of domestic and sexual violence or other causes. In Katie's words, "Think about your local community and where you can plug in."
Purple Leash Project (a collaboration between Purina and Red Rover to keep beloved pets with their owners escaping and surviving domestic abuse situations)
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
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