70. Bonus 2017
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
It’s the annual bonus episode. Throughout the year, the people who appear on the show tell me a lot of interesting stuff, not all of which is relevant to the episode they initially appeared in, so I stash it away in preparation for this moment. This year, hear about the history of roller skates, zazzification, giant origami, the heat death of the universe and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Canva for sponsoring the illusionist. In the 10 years since Canva began, it has |
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| 0:43.4 | I can just hand over hosting this show to it entirely. Also, if you and your colleagues |
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| 1:24.4 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, help language, spin, straw, and digold, |
| 1:30.4 | but with some very punishing conditions attached. Today's show is the annual bonus episode. |
| 1:35.4 | The people who appear on the illusionist often tell me things that aren't necessarily related |
| 1:39.4 | to that episode's topic, but I think, ah, that was interesting, stash it away for the annual bonus |
| 1:44.4 | episode, which is now, but it's not a typical illusionist episode, so if this is your first time |
| 1:49.4 | listening to the show, hello, do have a go on some of the other episodes as well. We started the |
| 1:54.4 | year at the ripped boddest romance bookstore and ended it at the San Francisco Dickens Fair. |
| 1:59.4 | We went to the Lollapazula Crossword Tournament and the ancient Roman baths at Bath. |
| 2:04.4 | Translisteners talked about the complicated relationship between language and their bodies. |
| 2:08.4 | We learnt what it's like to have no words when Lauren Marx had a stroke and lost all her language |
| 2:13.4 | and we learned about having all the words when lexicographer Corey Stamper let us in on the inner |
| 2:18.4 | workings of dictionaries. And a dozen yoga instructors wrote to me asking, |
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