110. Engraving part 1: Epitaph

The Allusionist

Helen Zaltzman

Arts, Education, Words, Linguistics, History, Entertainment, Helen Zaltzman, Etymology, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Dave Nadelberg of Mortified used to visit his mother’s grave, he would look around at the nearby gravestones and see similar - or even the exact same - epitaphs for lots of different people. And it made him curious: who were these people, really? What were their personalities, what happened in their lives? And didn’t they deserve something more meaningful, more personal, than these bland and repetitive epitaphs? So when Dave’s father died a few years later, Dave was determined to choose better words to represent him in perpetuity.

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0:00.0	Thanks to Canver for sponsoring the illusionist. Want to make your presentations look nice rather than like the menu screen from 1997 DVDs.
0:10.0	You want your logos to be better than clip art? Me too, but I didn't go to design school.
0:17.0	And my visual imagination deserted me somewhere along the side of a not very exciting looking road. Are you there too?
0:25.0	Well, lucky for us there's Canver with its libraries of fonts and graphics, even audio and video you can use.
0:31.0	You can also design for lots of different things, not just presentations and documents and Instagram and YouTube and posters and photo collages, although that is a lot to be getting on with.
0:42.0	But also things like mugs, invitations, hoodies. And if you're working on a project with other people, you can design and collaborate with Canver for teens.
0:53.0	Right now you can get a free 45 day extended trial when you go to Canver.me slash illusionist. That's c-a-n-v-a.me slash illusionist for a free 45 day extended trial. Canver.me slash illusionist.
1:14.0	This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, receive a free spritz of language from a department store, then walk around reeking of it all day.
1:28.0	Today we're looking at the words that describe us long after we can speak for ourselves. With Dave Nadelberg, founder of mortified the podcast stage show, Netflix show, etc.
1:39.0	Content note, death. But nothing gory or anything. Just mostly about the concept.
1:46.0	On with the show.
1:57.0	Yeah, Lily, a life well lived.
2:01.0	Gary, you reached for our hands and forever touched our hearts.
2:07.0	She lived her life with an open heart and may.
2:11.0	A friend to animals.
2:13.0	Your heart is with ours. Thoughts of you bring us love after joy will cherish you forever.
2:20.0	This is sweet. We will miss your love, zest for life and perfect smile.
2:25.0	That's great.
2:29.0	You're going to hear the lovely crunch of grass. That's exciting.
2:33.0	I do like the noise of the crunch of grass.
2:35.0	It's thinking of who we're walking across.
2:38.0	This happens to be a cemetery where both of my parents are buried and they are buried side by side, actually.
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