Apple Fest!
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
All aboard, we're off to the 2023 Apple Festival at the University of British Columbia, to taste some apples and, most importantly, enjoy some apple names. And before that, we return to the classic Sporklusionist applesode to refresh our memory about how apple names are chosen - eponyms, portmanteaus, geography, or corporate R&D, just like how our ancestors named apples.
Dan Pashman hosts The Sporkful podcast - head to the Sporkful podfeed or sporkful.com to listen to the companion episode where we learn about how new varietals of apples are made. Kate Evans, Kathryn Grandy and Joanna Crosby explain the history of apple names and the current process for coining new ones.
My companions at the apple festival are Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast, and Martin Austwick of Neutrino Watch and Song By Song podcasts. Martin also provides the Allusionist music.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, ask language, how do you like their |
| 0:08.9 | apples and language replies, those apples. You want to know how I like those apples. And |
| 0:15.5 | I say, not anymore, I don't. Today we return to an autumnal classic illusionist, the one |
| 0:22.7 | where we learn all about how apples get named. It's a really fun time. I am happy to hear |
| 0:27.9 | it again. But stick around to the end because there is an extra new adventure. Last weekend, |
| 0:33.2 | I went to an apple festival. And you're all coming with me. Just two points of information |
| 0:39.6 | before we begin point one. Patreon now offers a free tier, so if you want to keep track of |
| 0:45.2 | what's happening in the illusion of us, new episodes arriving and such like, then you can sign |
| 0:49.1 | up there at patreon.com slash illusionist to receive occasional updates. Then if you want |
| 0:55.0 | to level up to paid membership, you also get loads of extra stuff. Livestreams with me and |
| 0:59.4 | my dictionaries. Watch alongs. At the moment, we're watching the current season of Great British |
| 1:03.5 | Bake Off. You get the company of your fellow illusion arts in the illusionverse discord community, |
| 1:08.3 | which is a genuinely pleasant corner of the internet. And you get behind the scenes missives about |
| 1:14.5 | each episode. Last time, patrons received some real deep cuts about audio production. That |
| 1:20.3 | stuff is for the paying patrons, but sign up for free and you get an email once or twice a month. |
| 1:25.4 | No more inbox cutter than that, I promise. Patreon.com slash illusionist. Point of information |
| 1:31.5 | too is for you if you listen to the show using Apple podcasts. Apparently a new update will unsubscribe |
| 1:38.1 | you if you don't listen to the show promptly enough and I don't want to pressure you or add more |
| 1:42.2 | deadlines to your life. So may I suggest you set the show to download because I gather this means |
| 1:48.1 | you do not get automatically unsubscribed or at least not as soon. I got a message from someone |
| 1:53.3 | the other day who thought the show had finished three years ago. Didn't I've been here this whole time? |
| 2:01.4 | And now, the Apple illusionist, which was a collaboration with the sportful podcast, |
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