199. 199 ideas that I hadn't made into podcasts yet
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Next episode is the 200th, therefore this is the 199th. I raid the 66 pages of ideas for episodes I have been keeping for nearly a decade, and present to you 199 that I have not yet made into podcasts (except for this one).
Find the episode's transcript, plus more information about the topics therein, at theallusionist.org/199ideas.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzmann, mould language into a |
| 0:09.1 | golem and try to order it around but it just shouted, |
| 0:11.8 | You're not the boss of me? |
| 0:13.7 | And went next door to live with my neighbors |
| 0:15.5 | who took it to the water park and the model village |
| 0:18.0 | and gave it ice cream for breakfast. |
| 0:20.7 | And I can't offer it that kind of life. |
| 0:23.0 | Although sometimes I think it feels a bit nauseous and then it misses me. |
| 0:27.0 | This is the 199th episode of the show, |
| 0:32.0 | and since before the illusionist began for nearly a decade |
| 0:35.4 | I have been jotting down ideas for the show in two documents one is for short ideas |
| 0:41.0 | one is for long ideas there are always more ideas than they have time and |
| 0:45.4 | ability to make podcasts about so now the documents are altogether 66 pages |
| 0:51.5 | long and growing every day. So in this episode you are going to hear |
| 0:56.0 | 199 ideas that I would like to put in the podcast and I just haven't yet. |
| 1:03.4 | And there's still far more lurking in the documents. |
| 1:07.2 | And if you want to be in the 200th episode, |
| 1:10.1 | I want you to be in the 200th episode. |
| 1:12.2 | Write a quiz question that has something to do with |
| 1:15.0 | language. It's pretty loose. The format can be multiple choice or of your own devising and submit |
| 1:20.9 | your question in written or voice form via the illusionist.org |
| 1:25.0 | slash quiz. Your deadline is the 6th of September 2024 so get on with it. I like our annual |
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