This is the Allusionist in which I, Helen Zaltzman, have been stashing away special Allusia bits all year.
When the people who appeared on the show said interesting things that I couldn't fit into their episode because there wasn't room or it wasn't about language.
But I was waiting, just waiting for this, the annual bonus episode where we get to hear all those bits.
This year we hear about something called the universal blank, which actually does not refer refer to my emotions.
We've got tricorn hats, poets with migraines, and the reason why Boston Cream Pie isn't a pie, and so much more content.
Note in the latter half of the show we talk a bit about cancer, but I'll let you know when that particular section is about to come up.
And in case you need to skip, I'll tell you how long you need to skip.
If you're seeking a gift for somebody asap, then let me help you.
How about tickets to the illusionist's 10th birthday live extravaganza on 12th of January 2025 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, one of my favourite venues to perform in.
Also, excitingly, you can now give the gift of patronizing the illusionist.
Go to patreon.com illusionist gift to treat the podfan in your life and they'll get what every supporter of the show gets in return for their donation.
Regular livestreams where I read from my collection of reference books behind the scenes info about the making of every episode, which is some of my most eccentric work.
Membership of the charming Illusiverse Discord community where members have been recently translating recipes for each other, showing their newest coloured inks and getting across at portmanteaus like barndominium, ecolution and scoon.
And we watch films and TV together.
Soon we'll do Cold Comfort Farm and there'll be a new season of Great Pottery Throwdown to sustain us through January.
Join us yourself theelusionist.org donate I've also been live streaming me reading the whole of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens with musical and visual accompaniment by Martin Austwick.
You can find those videos@YouTube.com allusionistshow thanks so much to you for listening to the Allusionist this year and recommending it to people and telling me your thoughts about past and potential future topics.
You lot really are the best.
On with the 2024 bonus bits in the episode about medieval Scottish flighting, a sort of slam poetry or battle rap, historical linguist Johanna Kopatschik talked about one of Its most high profile practitioners, William.
Dunbar, he has quite a range.