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The Jone Stebbins Show
Memory Chips - July 09, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Where do I start with Jone? She has infinite interests and is infinitely interesting--even if we are just talking about vintage trailer camping, John Waters, condiments, and all the big plans we've made together in the course of our long friendship. Projects like "The ...
Independence Day the Hillsboro Way
Memory Chips - July 03, 2024 19:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Coming at you on Independence Day from the Town of Hillsboro, VA. The Town has the best 4th of July fireworks! Or second best, if you ask my Dad, who has lived outside of this tiny rural town for 37 years. I talk to him and other long term residents, new arrivals, and...
7 Layers of Mary Welcome: Episode 1 of Season All-American
Memory Chips - June 18, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. I don't know her actual name, but she goes by Mary Welcome. And she is easily one of the most fascinating and welcoming people I have ever met. And an artist and civic engineer who I connected with instantly, and who I envy for her vision and follow through. Take, fo...
Pat Arnao, ITALIAN
Memory Chips - September 05, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Patricia Arnao is a multimedia visual artist who was one of the first artists -in-residence at our art space in Turkey. Then I started a new one and I invited her to be first because she's Number 1!!! Pat showed up in West Virginia fresh off her most recent trip to Sic...
Sibel Horada: Like Water
Memory Chips - June 28, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Sibel Horada is an artist from Turkey. She is also my friend. A friend who calls me from the supermarket in Ankara (Turkey) to show me what kinds of chips they have! Sibel has been making sculptures from found styrofoam that has washed ashore on Turkey's beaches. In ...
The Cardinal Wyszynski
Memory Chips - April 04, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In the absence of live Polish friends available for "Chip Talk"--I instead reveal my ignorance about my relative, the esteemed and honorable Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. The only thing I knew about the Cardinal before researching for this episode is that he is the spittin...
Lagom on Fire: Arni Gudmundsson on our 11th Anniversary
Memory Chips - January 01, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In 1989 my husband, Árni Gu∂mundsson , accidentally burnt down the sculpture department of the Swedish Royal Academy of Art .** He recounts the trauma of that experience on the occasion of our anniversary. Our last anniversary episode involved trigger warnings, and so ...
Trainspotting with Charlotte Hagström
Memory Chips - November 29, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Why did I think it was a good idea to collect potato chip bags? I asked ethnologist, Charlotte Hagström about that, and she told me that it is a normal impulse . . . if I were a child . . . or an artist :) As a Senior Professor at Lund University in Sweden, Charlotte...
Quilling Chaos with Josie Jenkins
Memory Chips - November 15, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Quilling is the ancient art of paper rolling. Quilling Mistress and painter, Josie Jenkins,, tells me I have it ALL WRONG when trying to 'quill' two bags from my Chinese collection: Kimchi and Lay's Kyushu Seaweed Josie's Quilling site: https://josiejenkinsquilling....
Circus Communications with Holly Treddenick
Memory Chips - October 18, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The last time I saw Holly Treddenick I was dressed in a nude leotard. Things like this can happen when you take part in circus incubators, and other creative events that are concerned with communication between artists and audiences. Also, the last time I saw Holly Tre...
Circus Communications with Holly Treddenick
Memory Chips - October 18, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe last time I saw Holly Treddenick I was dressed in a nude leotard. Things like this can happen when you take part in circus incubators, and other creative events that are concerned with communication between artists and audiences. Also, the last time I saw Holly Treddenick in Toronto, I bou...
Ludvig Ödman: Mission Accomplished
Memory Chips - October 04, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It takes more than one onion to make a collection of onions. Ludvig Ödman is a collector from Sweden whose favorite chip flavor is "Triple Onion" (because one isn't enough!) Ludvig collects belly button lint, and various bodily sheddings--but his most recent and import...
Ludvig Ödman: Mission Accomplished
Memory Chips - October 04, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt takes more than one onion to make a collection of onions. Ludvig Ödman is a collector from Sweden whose favorite chip flavor is "Triple Onion" (because one isn't enough!) Ludvig collects belly button lint, and various bodily sheddings--but his most recent and important collecting work invol...
Obituary Obsession in Canada: Part II of Lindsay-palooza
Memory Chips - June 28, 2022 19:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Last episode I spoke with the "Yes Lady" Lindsay Anderson in Taber, Alberta about the strange path that led to her starting a soup business. Today, we get crackin' on writing our own obituaries, or at least talking about some of the obituaries in Lindsay's collection! ...
Canadian Extra Nice: Lindsay Anderson Says "Yes" (to everything)
Memory Chips - June 14, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The first part in a series of conversations with Lindsay Anderson--the woman who likes to say 'Yes". In this episode, Lindsay tells the unlikely story about how she started her soup business--which sounds like it would be boring--but because it is Lindsay--it isn't! C...
Berea Promise
Memory Chips - May 31, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Chatting over chips about the unparalleled Berea College with my recently graduated nephew, Avery Fair, his brother Silas Fair (a sophomore at Berea) and three of their friends: LaMonika Dent, Robert Emmill, and Yer Mama. I mean Luke. Berea College makes promises: ...
Chip Bag Tarot with Orlene Carlos
Memory Chips - May 03, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. My conversation with healer Orlene Carlos sparked an idea to create a real tarot deck out of potato chip bags--but that is for later. For now, Orlene and I discuss our time in China training umbrella foot juggling, circus performers as healers, and Swedish Roasted Garli...
Potato Chip Pride: Flag-Waving in Istanbul
Memory Chips - March 29, 2022 17:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. While negotiators meet today in Turkey to discuss a potential end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world hopes for some progress. And I remember a performance video I made in our neighborhood in Istanbul that played with the ideas of patriotism and nationalism a...
Mushrooms of the Stoics
Memory Chips - March 15, 2022 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This episode's guest was supposed to have been Anastasia Polubotko from Ukraine--talking about mushroom-hunting in Sweden and Swedish and Polish mushroom-flavored chips bags. But then a war rearranged our priorities, and instead I am talking about Nastia, about mushroom...
Ode to Joy (of Chips): Pole dancing, Turkish gender roles, strange coincidences
Memory Chips - March 01, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This episode's two flavors: Gourmet Red Pepper and Feta and Lay's Burger King Flame-Broiled Hamburger have nothing in common except that I got them both in Turkey. And also that they reminded me of Sevinç Gürmen Hall and her stage persona, Joy G. Wild. "Sevinç" is T...
Valentine's Day Sexercises with Anne and Árni
Memory Chips - February 14, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Valentine's Day special (WTF?!) Although this is the first time we decided to 'celebrate' Valentine's Day, we get really into it by talking about what surprises us about our relationship now as compared to what we expected at the beginning. The conversation if prompte...
Pernik, USA: A Tale of Two Sister Cities
Memory Chips - February 01, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. My co-host this episode is Nia Pushkarova from Sofia, Bulgaria. Nia and I met at the same artist initiatives meeting in Istanbul, Turkey where I met my husband. Mine and Nia's friendship is no less enduring. In fact, since 2015 the three of us have been trying to lin...
Mala: China Folk House Flavor with Dr. John Flower
Memory Chips - January 18, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Where do I start? How about with this episode's bags, which were collected by me in China in 2014: *Lay's Sichuan Pepper and Chicken Flavor *Lay's Spicy Green Peppercorn Fish *Lay's Numb and Spicy Hot Pot *Lay's Cheese Lobster *Lay's French Chicken *Lay's Kyushu Seawee...
Love and Ketchup: In Honor of Our10th Wedding Anniversary
Memory Chips - January 04, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. On December 30, 2011 my husband Árni Guðmundsson and I were married in Round Hill, Virginia. On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, we recorded ourselves telling the story of the night we met in 2009! This story features three bags of potato chips from Turkey, but yo...
Turkish Sucuk (Soojook) Flavor, or, How an Artist Thinks
Memory Chips - December 21, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Julie Upmeyer and I are artistic collaborators who ran an art space together in Istanbul, Turkey (Caravansarai). We also both had jobs collecting data for a market research company called Datamonitor. Sound boring? Well, does a Turkish-Swedish Meatball Eating Competit...
Vad the Hell är Fredagsmys?
Memory Chips - December 07, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Danish "hygge" (coziness) is sooo pre-pandemic! A new cozy marketing trend making is its way to the U.S. from Sweden and it's called, "Fredagsmys"-- The Friday Cuddle . . . and it involves lots of potato chips. I spent a Fredagsmys with my "plastic sons", Oskar, Adr...
British Sunday Dinner in a Bag
Memory Chips - November 23, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Happy Thanksgiving! Richard Bartle is a fantastic artist and exquisite host who stuffed us full of heavy British delicacies when we went to visit him in Sheffield, England--where he runs Bloc Studios. During that trip, I acquired the following crisps bags: Mackie's T...
Lightly Salted with Sarah Cohen of Route 11 Potato Chips
Memory Chips - November 09, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. If anything good comes from this podcast, it is that it gives me an excuse to meet and chip out with one of my personal talent crushes--Sarah Cohen of Route 11! In this episode, Sarah unleashes the roundabout origin story of my favorite local potato chips, and we go off...
Italian Meat Flavor
Memory Chips - October 26, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. "Xi" (Dr. Jessica Kendall, PhD) and "Nan" (me) together again! The first ever bag of chips in what ended up being a collection of chips bags gathered from shops, grocery stores, gas stations and (in this case) an abandoned gift shop in a train station in the small town...
Invention of the Chip: An Hysterical Reenactment
Memory Chips - October 12, 2021 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSend us a Text Message. My college roommate, Erica Heilman (Rumble Strip Vermont) joins me to reenact the potato chip's supposed "invention" by George Speck (or Crum) at the Moon Lake House in Saratoga Springs, NY. And to discuss other things we know nothing about. Which is almost everythin...
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