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Hey guys, it's Dave and the following is a special bonus episode of mortified,

featuring an episode of The Illusionist, where that shows hosteleons Altsman, takes listeners behind

the scenes of mortified. It's a conversation about diaries, embarrassment, and quite honestly all

things awkward. If you don't know what The Illusionist is, your infertile treat, it's a great show,

it's about language and words and all kinds of nerdy stuff like that. It's also really, really funny,

something you probably wouldn't expect for a show with that topic. I'm a big, big fan, and it is

not hosted in any way by an uptight librarian type. So I hope you enjoy Helen's Altsman's not so

hostile takeover of mortified. This is The Illusionist in which I, Helen's Altsman

asked language, did it hurt when you fell from heaven? Coming up in today's show,

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Altsman's Altsman's Altsman. Thanks to passionhouse coffee roasters, you'd get

adult caffeine and debtemology, because to set you up for today's episode here's the history

of embarrassment. The word, not the emotional state, which I imagine, is the exact same

as consciousness. The word is relatively recent. The first recorded usage of embarrassed,

conveying awkwardness and shame is only from 1828. Although it had been around a while before that,

its first known appearance in English was in Samuel P.S. Diary of 1664,

when embarrassed meant that there was some kind of hindrance or blockage or confusion.

English got it from French, which got it from Spanish, in which it now means pregnant.

Perhaps because you're blocked by a baby. But if you keep going, then it gets tricky.

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