Shownotes:  

This was a Spanish Webcast.  Join us as we
discuss Pre-Columbian Folklore.  The Rodriguez Clan;  Jorge Adrian
Rodriguez, Don Rosendo Rodriguez and I (Jose Rodriguez) are joined by
Kevin Sandridge.  Special thanks to my It's Elementary Webcast buddies
Lisa Durff and Alice Mercer (AKA stream checkers).  Yes Alice; There
was a story about Giants. I had a last minute change in computers after
simplecast crashed on me.  The skype gods stayed on my side.  Only
difficulty was audio on my mic was really low.  Special thanks to Jorge
Rodriguez for his superb storytelling;  you can contact him at
buscaespantos@yahoo.com.mx

Stories referred to on show below;

 

La
Llorona; The Weeping Women a women that drowned her children and now is
cursed to look for them for eternity. We talked about the different
versions popular throughout Mexico. Many people claimed to have seen
her, even today. Rosendo shared his experience. One night his wife
sewing late into the night when she heard her wailing down the streets.

Duendes/Chaneques; miniture goblins that create havoc. Don
Resendo gives us examples of how the goblins would hide their sandals
and throw them in the prickly pears. Don Rosendo talks about duendes
appearing near the Laguna where he lives now. 

Tales from the Belen Cemetery in Guadalajara Mexico. El nino que
le tenia miedo a la oscuridad.(Nachito) The boy that  was afraid of the
darkness.  When he was left at home and his night light went off, he
died of fright.  When he was buried the next day its tomb was open and
the body outside. The grave digger reburried the body.  Each night for
the next 10 days the same would happen.  It wasn't until his body was
put on an outside grave with the body exposed so that light would it
rest in peace.  Visitors still routinely leave candy and and toys to
him. Many believe him to be a guardian angel.

Tales about Giants.
The Mountain of dead in the state of Aguas Calientes.  How Giants that
lived on Earth were called back to the heavens.  When they refused to
go they were turned into Mountains.  There was a certain romanticism.
About a couple of Giants that still walk the alleys of Aguas Calientes.
 

Jorge shared with us a story about the great Volcanoes. The son
of the Sun and the daughter of the moon come down to Earth. An Adam and
Eve story and how they lost their divinity.  When She dies he is so
heartbroken he stays at her side until and filled with sorrow the cries
his hear out (literally) the Sun God so endeared decides to keep them
together forever as the two great Volcanoes outside of Mexico City.

Kevin shared with us his trip to Puebla.  The Folklore he
learned while there.   Jorge tells us of the Creation of the Sun and
the Moon. How the Sun is put in the sky. and how when the Moon is
created it was just as bright as the Sun. The Aztec Gods decide this
could not be.  The Aztec Gods thew a rabbit at the Moon.  It's
impression is still there today.  And with impact it starts the Moons
rotation around the Earth.

Finally, Don Rosendo shares his
personal stories of the bracero life in El Norte.  The times he shared
with my grandfather Tomas Rodriguez. 

Chat Log Below

12:01:37 AliceMercer : Hi Jose, you
getting this going?

12:01:41 JoseR : Hi Alice about 5
more min

12:01:48 JoseR : not on air yet

12:02:01 JoseR : I am starting call
in 3 min

12:02:16 AliceMercer : Ahhh, let me
know if you need a stream check

12:03:06 JoseR : hi durff just about
to get started

12:04:08 AliceMercer : Stream is up,
but no sound yet

12:04:14 JoseR : can you check audio
on stream

12:04:24 AliceMercer : No sound,
just stream

12:04:30 AliceMercer : Say
something?

12:05:28 AliceMercer : Stream
disappeared

12:08:20 JoseR : is there any sound
on stream

12:08:28 AliceMercer : Once again,
stream is there, but no sound

12:08:44 AliceMercer : VAC repeater
on?

12:08:51 JoseR : yes

12:09:03 JoseR : let me restart one
sec

12:09:07 AliceMercer : sure

12:09:26 AliceMercer : I'll be
around to be your sound check gal...

12:14:59 Durff : i got kicked out

12:15:10 Durff : froze the whole
machine

12:15:18 Durff : got a sledgehammer?

12:21:24 AliceMercer : So Durff, I
keep refreshing the Listen page to look for the stream

12:21:32 AliceMercer : It comes up
now and again. and I test the sound.

12:21:39 AliceMercer : When there is
no sound, I post here.

12:21:42 AliceMercer : JOse is
offline

12:21:49 AliceMercer : He is, I
think, trying to reboot

12:22:35 Durff : he says he justgot
simplecast on

12:23:02 Durff : i had to reboot too

12:23:19 Durff : the first time i
entered char

12:23:41 Durff : it's on

12:23:56 Durff : A

12:24:20 Durff : too soft

12:24:27 Durff : turn it up

12:25:58 AliceMercer : Lots of fuzz

12:26:04 AliceMercer : I hear the
skype call going

12:26:15 Durff : i hear fuzz

12:26:28 Durff : and jose very
quietly

12:26:31 AliceMercer : Sound quality
is NOT great

12:26:40 Durff : which is quiet out
of character

12:27:06 AliceMercer : Okay, just so
you know, I can only get impressions of what is said, becasue I can't
follow a regular speed conversation in Spanish.

12:27:09 Durff : sound is bien

12:27:22 Durff : me neither

12:27:38 Durff : icch spreche
deutsch

12:27:58 AliceMercer : Jose, I don't
know if you can improve volume without uping fuzz in background.

12:28:07 AliceMercer : Maybe you
should move into the mic a little?

12:29:56 Durff : the guest is good
and on a regular phone

12:30:00 Durff : hi jan

12:30:38 AliceMercer : Turn off your
skpe messages Jose.

12:30:44 AliceMercer : They are
beeping away

12:32:07 Durff : i think he is
waiting on a phone call

12:32:18 Durff : guests are all
regular phones

12:35:22 Durff : who is fuzzy durff?

12:35:38 Durff : hmmm

12:37:13 AliceMercer : Stream died

12:37:26 AliceMercer : Oh, no it was
just hiccuping

12:37:34 AliceMercer : (buffering)

12:37:54 Durff : A always does that
to me too

12:38:13 Durff : must be ISP or sth

12:40:02 AliceMercer : I love this
guys voice.

12:40:55 Durff : I wonder what they
are saying?

12:41:42 Durff : manana i remember
that word

12:43:27 AliceMercer : He's talking
about teaching in Guadalajara

12:43:38 AliceMercer : And they are
chatting.

12:43:57 Durff : whatever you say

12:43:58 AliceMercer : which is
good. Are you going to get to scary stories Jose?

12:44:02 Durff : i believe you

12:44:18 AliceMercer : THings he
likes?

12:44:19 Durff : scary stories in
spanish?

12:44:23 Durff : cool

12:44:36 AliceMercer : About what is
Mexican culture?

12:45:08 AliceMercer : I just have a
real general impression with snips and snippets

12:45:11 Durff : isn't there Mayan
in there somewhere? Or Aztec?

12:45:25 AliceMercer : I don't think
that is where Jose's family is from.

12:45:29 Durff : porque i know that

12:45:30 AliceMercer : That's
Yucatan area

12:45:38 AliceMercer : Mayan at
least

12:45:48 Durff : i'm thinking you
are getting more than i am

12:45:50 AliceMercer : Buffering
again. lost stream

12:46:01 AliceMercer : Well, I may
be getting the wrong thing, lol

12:46:16 AliceMercer : About kids
and learning?

12:48:02 AliceMercer : Reading

12:48:21 AliceMercer : Explaining
about the Mexican story telling tradition.

12:48:42 AliceMercer : Hi Susan...

12:49:02 AliceMercer : I'm providing
a really rough, and probably inaccurate translation of what is being
said

12:49:04 SusanEttenheim : hi all

12:49:17 AliceMercer : No stories
yet. Background chat

12:49:44 AliceMercer : Okay, the old
guy has a great voice for story telling....

12:49:46 Durff : hi susan

12:49:52 AliceMercer : Older, I
should say, lol

12:50:54 AliceMercer : Elegantes?

12:51:01 AliceMercer : Don't know
that word

12:51:15 AliceMercer : El gigantes

12:51:17 AliceMercer : The giants

12:51:46 SusanEttenheim : lost my
chat window when I opened the stream!

12:51:54 SusanEttenheim : whisper
louder!

12:51:57 Durff : me too

12:52:04 Durff : first time

12:52:08 SusanEttenheim : so where
is jose?

12:52:18 SusanEttenheim : not doing
the chat too?

12:52:40 AliceMercer : No

12:52:57 Durff : he is everywhere -
very annoying

12:53:42 AliceMercer : I'm asking
him to come here in skype

12:54:25 AliceMercer : I was RIGHT
it's a giant story

12:54:37 AliceMercer : I should save
it for students to listen to...

12:54:59 AliceMercer : Someone died

12:55:07 AliceMercer : or is dead

12:55:24 AliceMercer : and someone
is putting on clothes

12:55:36 AliceMercer : Susan, if you
know better Spanish than I, you can translate

12:55:43 AliceMercer : Cause mine
s*cks

12:56:08 SusanEttenheim : no mine is
not great either

12:56:24 AliceMercer : Well, put up
anything you catch.

12:56:25 SusanEttenheim : there is a
buzz in the background that is making it hard to understand

12:56:41 AliceMercer : Discussion of
type of Mexican and hispanic stories

12:56:45 SusanEttenheim : do you
hear the fuzz?

12:56:50 SusanEttenheim : yes

12:56:52 AliceMercer : Yep, and
we've told him.

12:57:07 AliceMercer : He is having
to bring landline calls in from Mexico, BUT

12:57:20 AliceMercer : The fuzz was
there before he added them in, so it's him.

12:57:50 SusanEttenheim : if one or
both - how many are on teh call ? would mute themselves that would
probably solve it

12:57:57 AliceMercer : romance, and
I think I heard silver

12:58:03 AliceMercer : 3

12:58:12 AliceMercer : but it was
like that before anyone was added to the call

12:58:15 SusanEttenheim : so only
the person talking should be unmuted

12:58:17 AliceMercer : so it's Jose.

12:58:24 SusanEttenheim : he can
mute himself

12:58:56 AliceMercer : I passed it
on in skype chat

12:59:14 SusanEttenheim : lol i hear
his skype everytime you do that

12:59:28 AliceMercer : If it isn't
Jose, there is little to do, because they are on land lines in Mexico

12:59:30 SusanEttenheim : uh oh he
just muted the whole call - ah he knew and fixed it

12:59:37 AliceMercer : they can't
mute themselves

12:59:45 AliceMercer : I guess he
could mute them.

13:00:03 AliceMercer : I'm almost
used to fuzz

13:00:04 SusanEttenheim : he can
change his skype notifications to bouncing icon but no sound so the
skype blurps don't broadcast

13:00:24 AliceMercer : Pass it along
when he's off cast?

13:00:26 SusanEttenheim : yes it
seems he can't mute himself without stopping the stream i can tell he
has tried twice

13:00:36 SusanEttenheim : maybe jeff
will have some ideas

13:00:52 AliceMercer : We had this
same sound issue during the Monday webcast

13:00:55 SusanEttenheim : maybe he
can edit some of it out after since it is such a distinct sound

13:00:56 AliceMercer : And he was
streaming

13:01:11 SusanEttenheim : must be
something from his mic i've had the same problem

13:01:16 AliceMercer : He got it out
of It's elementary

13:01:26 SusanEttenheim : he
probably just needs a mic that he can mute

13:01:28 AliceMercer : Someone else
will stream our next show.

13:01:29 SusanEttenheim : himself

13:01:35 SusanEttenheim : wow good
audio editing

13:01:43 AliceMercer : I don't know
what it was?

13:01:47 SusanEttenheim : i wonder
how he got it out of the show

13:02:03 AliceMercer : Maybe it's
just part of stream, but not local?

13:02:06 SusanEttenheim : noice
removal maybe

13:02:22 SusanEttenheim : ahh kevin
is breathing in the mic

13:02:30 SusanEttenheim : hear it?

13:03:01 SusanEttenheim : he's doing
a great job calling in kevin

13:03:36 AliceMercer : I sent him
another message about Kevin.

13:03:40 SusanEttenheim : when he
was in mexico , did he hear stories about the culture

13:03:46 SusanEttenheim : now it's
ok

13:03:58 SusanEttenheim : he's doing
great!

13:04:07 SusanEttenheim : tell him i
said that pls!

13:04:10 AliceMercer : Kevin or
Jose?

13:04:13 SusanEttenheim : jose

13:04:21 AliceMercer : yeah. he is
VERY patient

13:04:28 AliceMercer : He'd have to
be working with the likes of me.

13:04:33 SusanEttenheim : lol

13:04:59 AliceMercer : brb family
chat in RL

13:13:26 SusanEttenheim : got to
go.. great job jose congrats!