{"id":305,"date":"2012-03-30T23:12:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2023-11-23T01:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:11:01","slug":"episode-52-alexanderia-the-housewife-houdini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Episode #52 &#8211; Alexanderia, The Housewife Houdini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>EPISODE #53 \u2013 March 31, 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ALEXANDERIA<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 20pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Housewife Houdini<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"style2\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><span class=\"style10\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/ballycast-052-2012-03-31.mp3\">Download standard podcast mp3 file &#8211; Episode 52<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span class=\"style2\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><span class=\"style10\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>(right-click and &#8220;save as&#8221;&#8230;)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5043\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/52-banner-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/52-banner-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/52-banner-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/52-banner-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/52-banner.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Alexanderia (Donna Purnell)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Alexanderia&#8217;s Trademark &#8220;Underwater Leap of Faith&#8221; Escape<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Alexanderia is shackled hands and feet with 4 padlocks. <\/strong><strong>Then a 15 pound lead weight is attached to her waist. <\/strong><strong>Then a 5 foot chain shackles her hands to her feet. <\/strong><strong>20 feet of additional chain is wrapped around her arms twice <\/strong><strong>and each wrap is padlocked. The remaining chain is pulled around her neck, through her legs, around her neck again and padlocked. <\/strong><strong>The shackles, chains, lead weight belt and 9 padlocks weigh over 55 lbs, <\/strong><strong>more than twice what Harry Houdini did in his escapes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/92u6nW7Aad8?si=7dLYrYeCcKk8MZQM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title0\" class=\"long-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\" title=\"The Underwater Cell (UC) Alexanderia the Great Attempts a Full View Houdini Milk Can Escape\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The Underwater Cell<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"style10\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">(Houdini&#8217;s Milk Can &#8211; Outdone!)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Alex enters a specially-built small glass cube filled with water. <\/strong><strong>Her hands are shackled and padlocked.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>A lid is then locked on top of the cube, trapping her underwater. <\/strong><strong>Unlike Houdini&#8217;s famed Milk Can Escape, no curtain is lowered <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>so she can be seen at all times. For this attempt the tank, <\/strong><strong>because of the venue, was filled with bone-chilling 52-degree water.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style8\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhnUXkGssbc?si=tQafGq-lCF8Lh2yp\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title2\" class=\"long-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\" title=\"Airless Escape Artist Alexanderia the Great doing a Chain Strait jacket escape holding her breath\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Chain Escape &#8230; With Plastic-Wrap<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Airless Escape Artist Alexanderia the Great doing a Chain Strait jacket escape holding her breath\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rbZihj2FNcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"style1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong><span class=\"style4\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span class=\"style1\"><span class=\"style3\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">BRILL PLANS<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goodmagic.com\/websales\/brill-pseudohypno\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PSEUDO-HYPNOTIC ACT<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmagic.com\/websales\/brill_pseudohypno\/pseudo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Pseudo Hypnotic Act\" width=\"148\" height=\"151\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"style13\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><span class=\"style1\">A\u00a0sideshow-style hypno act<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">with 4 detailed routines, crowd-pleasers like<br \/>\n&#8220;The Rigid Arm,&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">&#8220;Standing 3 Men<br \/>\non the Subject&#8217;s Chest,&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Stopping the Pulse&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">and<br \/>\n&#8220;Breaking a Stone on the Chest&#8221;.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"style13\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">S<span class=\"style1\">elect\u00a0 your favorite individual effects<br \/>\nor perform\u00a0the entire set of effects<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">as a complete 25-minute act,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">the manuscript is a detailed guide to presentation.<br \/>\nAvailable\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">in pdf format <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">or paper copy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">For a real\u00a0piece of carnival history<br \/>\nor a working act that still plays well today<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"style15\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 24px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">FAIR FOOD RECIPE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style15\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Easy Fresh Pickles<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style16\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">If this isn&#8217;t a fair food, it ought to be. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Here&#8217;s something that ought to go over big in hot weather. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Make a solution of about 50-50 white vinegar and water. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Bring it to a boil,\u00a0d<strong>issolve sugar in it until you like the balance, <\/strong>remove it from the heat and throw in\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">whatever you want pickled, put on a lid, and come back later <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">when it&#8217;s cool enough to refrigerate. That&#8217;s all! <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The vegetable will pick up all the flavor and almost no calories, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">and if you keep it in a plastic tub in the fridge <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">moistened with the pickling liquid, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">your pickle should last for several weeks. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">You can just make it in a half hour and eat it for weeks. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">I love bite-size chunks of peeled raw beets. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">As a sandwich garnish, I use chopped pickled raw onion, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">or carrot, or if I&#8217;m feeling hungry for Vietnamese banh mi <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">sandwiches I use daikon radish peeled and sliced in the <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">food processor, or a mixture of carrot and daikon and onion. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Add more sugar and some drained canned green beans, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">wax beans, kidney beans and chick peas, and you&#8217;ve got <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">three (well, really four) bean salad. 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