Christmas with The Allusionist

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

For the holidays this year, we're presenting a two-part Radiotopia feature with friend of the show (and host of The Allusionist podcast) Helen Zaltzman, each tackling a different aspect of this festive season.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I am Roman Mars.
0:04.0	Hello, you there, boy!
0:06.0	Me, sir?
0:07.0	Yes, you, good fellow.
0:09.0	What days is today?
0:10.0	Today?
0:11.0	Why, it's Christmas Christmas Day of course.
0:13.0	Christmas Day.
0:15.0	No, you haven't missed it.
0:16.4	It's Christmas Day and we're celebrating with two fun stories from The Illusionist,
0:20.4	a show about language from Helen's Altman.
0:23.0	The Illusionist is one of my all-time favorite podcasts,
0:25.8	and I'm not just saying that because Helen's Altman
0:27.9	is one of my all-time favorite people.
0:29.8	It is a show about language,
0:31.2	but it is absolutely not just for word nerds. It is 99 p.I style
0:35.1	storytelling using language as the lens to be a culture rather than design and if you haven't
0:39.6	discovered it yet you are going to love it. With two festive seasonal favorites from the
0:44.7	illusionist here's Helen's Altman. The war on Christmas. When did that start?
0:50.8	Upon the birth of Jesus Christ himself when King Herod ordered all the baby boys in and around Bethlehem be killed?
0:57.6	In 1644, when Oliver Cromwell's Puritans passed an ordinance prohibiting Christmas celebrations in England.
1:04.0	In 1659, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans managed to get Christmas banned for 22 years
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