several bits of news! (nothing bad)
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Hello! It's me, your real imaginary friend, Helen Zaltzman.
Someone wrote to me recently saying, “I haven't seen a new episode, are you OK?” I'm OK, thank you! I took a break for some work things such as the return of my other podcast Answer Me This, and also to have a vacation. Hadn't had one of those for a bit. It was very nice. Strongly recommend vacation.
But the show will be back on the 9th May with a season about… four letter words! That's right: some of your favourite category A swears - and some not swears. If you have some favourite four letter words you want me to investigate, let me know.
There will be some behind-the-scenes podfeed shenanigans happening before then.So if you don't see more Allusionist appearing in your pod feed by 10th of May, then you're going to have to search for it in your podcast app and resubscribe because your subscription will have been kicked off by the behind the scenes shenanigans. And always the show is up to date at theallusionist.org.
Other news: live Allusionist shows are coming to Toronto on the 1st of June and Montréal on the 9th of June. We will be performing our very entertaining live show Souvenirs, which features some ancient swearing history that messes up our technology nearly a thousand years later, as well as the incredible story of a friendship torn asunder by a typeface. Plus, I'll be selling my hand-drawn tea towels, and anyone who comes along gets a free bookmark illustrated by me also.
Get your tickets now at theallusionist.org/events and I'll be back in your ears on May the 9th. Farewell! - HZ
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's me, your real imaginary friend, Helen Zaltzman. |
| 0:03.9 | Someone wrote to me recently saying, I haven't seen a new episode, are you okay? |
| 0:07.9 | I'm okay, thank you. |
| 0:09.3 | I took a break for some work things, such as the return of my other podcast, answer me this. |
| 0:14.4 | And also, to have a vacation, hadn't had one of those for a bit, it's very nice, strongly |
| 0:19.8 | recommend vacation. |
| 0:28.2 | But the show will be back on the 9th of May with a season about four-letter words. |
| 0:33.6 | That's right. Some of your favourite category A swears and some not swears. |
| 0:37.0 | If you have some favourite four-letter words, you want me to investigate, let me know. |
| 0:43.6 | There will be some behind-the-scenes pod feed shenanigans happening before then. |
| 0:49.6 | So, if you don't see more illusionist appearing in your pod feed by 10th of May, |
| 0:53.2 | then you're going to have to search for it in your podcast app and resubscribe because your |
| 0:54.2 | subscription will have been kicked off by the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. |
| 0:58.2 | And always the show is up to date at the illusionist.org. |
| 1:01.4 | Other news, live illusionist shows are coming to Toronto on the 1st of June and Montreal on |
| 1:06.9 | the 9th of June. |
| 1:07.9 | We will be performing our very entertaining live show, Souvenirs, |
| 1:11.7 | which features some ancient swearing history that messes up our technology nearly a thousand |
| 1:16.3 | years later, as well as the incredible story of a friendship torn asunder by a typeface. |
| 1:24.5 | Plus, I'll be selling my hand-drawn teetails, and anyone who comes along gets a free |
| 1:30.3 | bookmark illustrated by me also. |
| 1:33.1 | Get your tickets now at theelusionist.org slash events. |
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