Thanks to Canva for sponsoring the illusionist and for helping me address a massive gap in

my skills, I know, can you believe it? A gap in my skills says it isn't so, it is so.

Being a podcaster, I'm good at making noises. But visuals? Not great. I didn't get into

audio making because I'm good at visuals, but people do sure love looking at stuff.

I don't blame you. The first bite of the internet is with the eye mouths, as they say.

So, like many of my podcaster friends, how did you make that cool thing? Oh, I used Canva.

I'm using Canva to spruce up my game on Instagram and the slides for the illusionist live shows

and YouTube where the podcast is now available, but with currently zero visual interest.

Not for too much longer though. I am really excited to play with all this and will update you with

my progress on my journey to visuals. Why don't you join me? And if you work with people,

you can design and collaborate with Canva for teams. Right now, you can get a free 45 day extended

trial when you go to Canva.me slash illusionist. That's C-A-N-V-A-DOT-ME slash illusionist.

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This is The Illusionist, in which I Helen Salzman squeezed language from the bottom of the tube.

Today's episode is a recording of the live show I'd toured around the world all through 2019.

It's called No Title. That's not a clever, it's what the show's about. And being a live show,

there were visuals, so I'll drop in sometimes to explain them. And I've also put a transcript with

some pictures at Theillusionist.org slash No Title. I'd been thinking about No Title recently because

it's all about gender in language and my self-education of the past few years. And hearing about

the Elder Rodo fire in California caused the other day by a gender reveal parotechnic device

gave me a fresh burst of multifastored vexation. It's not even the only gender reveal fire

this year. It's not even the only gender reveal fire this year. What a sentence.

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