301. The Real Da Vinci Code

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• DA

  @danilosanches2810 · 3 years ago

  I'm very surprised by how this became one of my absolute favorite episodes 😂

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• KY

  @KYLO_JEN · 4 months ago (edited)

  I read The Davinci Code when I was maybe 12 years old, and it helped me develop a huge interest in art history and history in general. It led me to travel to Rome and Paris in my teen years. I re-read the book over and over when I was younger and I’m grateful it helped me to foster lifelong interests. That being said, I’m 31 now and tried reading Angels & Demons recently…and it’s…a rough time. I had to take a break after I started highlighting the historical inaccuracies when I realized I was doing way too much.

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• ST

  @stevesmith8155 · 1 year ago

  Okay I have to add this: You are already discussing the Holy Grail and you brought up Arthur! When Tom asks Dominic his age (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdkPOG_e8E&amp;t=1170">19:30</a>), I immediately think of &quot;My name is Dennis. I&apos;m 37&quot;. &nbsp; Surely I am not the only one who knows the scene where King Arthur asks the peasants &quot;Who lives in that castle?&quot;<br>I was born in 1960 and grew up as a teen with Monty Python, where it had an inordinate impact on my life and humor. Am I the only one struck by the parallel?!:face-blue-smiling:

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• RO

  @rokka222 · 10 months ago

  It&apos;s a great story, you can&apos;t deny it. Just accept it as a work of fiction and move on. Great episode to enjoy it.

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• GW

  @gwcstudio · 1 year ago

  I spent my summers as a kid near Albi, my father a historian who was always digging through archives. In fact, when I was a kid, a friend of mine and I made a treasure map, in Napoleonic French on period paper, found it, asked a neighbor about it, and were thrilled when the neighbor smashed a hole in a wall we had called out. There was some kerfuffle after that but the neighbor claimed he was just humoring us, and that was how I learned how to lay brick.<br>This whole episode reminds me a lot of Eco&apos;s &quot;Foucault&apos;s Pendulum&quot; how myths and BS combine and grow. Great stuff!!

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• JC

  @JC-KeepSmiling · 3 years ago

  God I love these podcasts! So interesting but never without a smile. Carry on the great work, much needed in these too serious times! 😍

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• OB

  @oberdot · 5 months ago

  The bloodline making a bold move bit is gold!

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• GW

  @gwcstudio · 1 year ago

  DaVinci code is a good book for drunk campfire read-alouds. Or for starting campfires so long as you give it time to dry out after you use it to line your cat box.

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• ER

  @erdngtn9942 · 1 year ago

  David and Winston Churchill are hilarious together. Who knew

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• PR

  @PresidentofIndiana · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdkPOG_e8E&amp;t=536">8:56</a> Clovis wasn&apos;t always right, but he made a lot of good points

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• FL

  @flowermeerkat6827 · 9 months ago

  I already read the Da Vinci code but I would listen to it on audio books if Dominic read it.

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• RE

  @RextheDragon881 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Huge chunks of undigested Wikipedia&quot;

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