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BY HELEN ZALTZMAN

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Allusionist 219. Making Trouble transcript

October 26, 2025 The Allusionist

MOLLY NAYLOR: I don't like to compliment my guests or talk about how brilliant they are.

HZ: That's fine. That means I don't have to rebuff your compliments in that kind of, “Oh no, praise! I feed on it, but also, I don't know how to handle it!” We won't have to do that.

MOLLY NAYLOR: Yeah, I hate to receive it. And if I didn't receive it, I would die.

HZ: Who are we? We're uninflated balloons. Not just uninflated, balloons that had been previously inflated and had deflated.

MOLLY NAYLOR: Left over at the kids party. Shrivelled. That's what we are. Great.

Allusionist 131 Podlingual transcript

February 25, 2021 The Allusionist

JAMES KIM: I wanted that experience for everybody to be in the character's shoes, and understand how it's like for somebody that you love to talk to you, but you can't understand a word that they're saying.

Allusionist special: Podcast Podcast transcript

December 16, 2019 The Allusionist

I’m here to talk about a word that a lot of people hate: podcast.

Allusionist 37: Brand It - transcript

May 29, 2016 The Allusionist

There are a few things to consider when naming a podcast:

Is someone using the name already? That’s important: do your research; at the very least, go to the iTunes store and check.
Is the name such a common word or phrase that your show will not appear in the first thousand pages of Google results?
Is the name a riff on a pre-existing title, like That American Life, so no matter how successful your show gets, it will never completely be your own, and always a bit of a parasite on someone else's thing?
Is it a riff on ‘pod’ or ‘cast’? That was already stale when I was starting my first podcast nearly ten years ago. Resist the pod puns!