This is the tranquillusionist, in which I.
Helen Zaltzman, soothe your brain by saying.
A load of words that don't really mean very much, to give you an emotional break by temporarily supplanting your interior monologue with something that you can benignly ignore.
This isn't like the usual episodes of the illusionist.
There'll be no learning, no journey.
You don't have to feel or think anything, and you'll find previous editions of the Tranquillusionist@theillusionist.org.
tranquillusionist they feature champion dogs, gay animals, punchlines with no setups, and more.
Todays theme was requested by Lachlan so long ago that Lachlan will perhaps have forgotten, but at some point in the past they wanted a tranquillusionist featuring the characters from films that dont have names.
So in the credits theyre listed as things like man in shop, lady with Pram, angry customer number two, etcetera.
Well, you remember alumnus Jez Burroughs, who appeared on the Ulapo episode of the show, talking about his book Dictionary stories, which was short stories, all composed from the example sentences from dictionaries.
After making that book, Jez spent years collecting thousands of this kind of film credit and turned them into a book called and introducing and he's very kindly let me read to you from his book today with music from Martin Austwick.
Content note some of the words used in the credits are not descriptors I would choose.
Also, there are some swears.
There's one category b swear and four category a swears on with the tranquillusionist.
A spaniard above it all journalist, abused stewardess, abused woman, accomplice.
Acid kid.
Acrobat thug one.
Actor playing man with nosebleed, additional ducks, additional football player.
Additional knight additional posse girl additional shape adjacent mechanic, adorable boy, adorable old man, advocate Bob, afghan ambassador.
Afghan bureaucrat.