This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman give language the ride of its life.

This time last year, radio, topia and PRX were holding what turned out to be the biggest

ever journalism campaign in Kickstarter history.

And thanks to the incredible generosity of ULISTNERS, they raised enough money to add more

shows to the collective, including this one, and I could not be more grateful.

To be able to make this show and to have you people choosing to listen to it, that has

been the greatest joy of my whole career.

And soon we're going to be asking you to get involved again to help us make radio topper

stronger and better and bigger than ever.

You can find out everything on the 19th of October at radiotopia.fm, a month of radio topin

fun is about to commence.

And throughout, the illusionist is going to be coming out every week.

And in each episode, I'll be teaming up with another radio topin.

The stop to the plate is this guy.

This is the illusionist.

I'm Roman Mars.

The man without whom there would be no radio topper at all.

A while ago, Roman tweeted the following, I would totally listen to an ongoing radio

series comprised solely of the stories behind eponyms.

Firstly, I thought, what's an eponym?

Now, a word or name derived from the name of a person.

Or a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc. is named.

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