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Allusionist 128. Bonus 2020

December 24, 2020 The Allusionist
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Some choice cuts from the Allusionist vault of interesting things that guests said that there wasn't room for in the original episodes

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To round off the year, here are some choice cuts from the Allusionist vault of interesting things that guests said that there wasn’t room for in the original episodes. Brace yourself for a vivid name for dust bunnies, the scary side of glamour, another reason to be grateful for bears, and Schrödinger’s Fart.

You hear from, in order:

  • Kate Lister, historian and author, who appeared on the episode My Dad Excavated A Porno.

  • MiMi Aye, food writer and cohost of MSG Podcast, who talked about the challenges of writing recipes in Food Into Words.

  • Joanna Crosby, apple historian whom you can hear in the Apples episode.

  • Greg Jenner, historian, podcaster, and author of the book Dead Famous, who talks about the history of celebrity in the Celebrity episode.

  • Rudi Bremer, broadcaster who talked about Indigenous Australian languages in Survival: Custodians of the Languages.

  • Gretchen McCulloch, linguist, author of the book Because Internet, and cohost of Lingthusiasm podcast, who you can hear more from in New Rules.

  • Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, Arun Viswanath and Jonah Boyarin, who talked about their work translating ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Blood Is Not Water.

YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
patulous

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CREDITS:

  • This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. You can listen to my other podcasts Veronica Mars Investigations and Answer Me This in the usual podplaces.

  • The original Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and hear more of his composition on the new science podcast for kids Maddie’s Sound Explorers.

  • Find the show at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, twitter.com/helenzaltzman and instagram.com/allusionistshow.

  • The Allusionist has left the Radiotopia network, and if you’re able and inclined to support the show, head over to patreon.com/allusionist.

Thank you so much for listening in 2020! The show will be back towards the end of January 2021. BTW: the show’s feed is about to change, and hopefully it’ll go smoothly and you’ll not notice a thing and shouldn’t have to do anything, either. But if it gets to, say, mid-February, and you don’t have new Allusionist episodes in your podfeed, then try unsubscribing and resubscribing, or searching for the show in whatever app you use to listen to podcasts, or coming back to this site and checking I’m still around and not trapped in the aforementioned hibernation box.

- HZ

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