Episode 191: Three
Added 2023-02-03 15:01:00 +0000 UTCThe Da Vinci Code, pt. 2
We're back to wrap up our discussion of Dan Brown's novel and we brought cards! We explore the Da Vinci Code Top Trumps deck to refresh our memories on some of the facts of the story before we walk through some of the Facts of the novel, and end up falling down a rabbit hole trying to piece together the game's design through context clues. Come for our delight at the weird card game, stay for my bad explanation of Catharism--Either way, you'll never hear the number 3 the same way again!
(I really gotta draw some new episode art! I'll get on that when I can)
Comments
So this episode slipped trough the cracks and I am just listening now. I am very tickled Sophies World left Scandinavia. I had that thing on audio book (14 cassettes!) that I listened to on repeat. There was a Norwegian movie made that I do not recommend, it's a badly acted mess. In hindsight reading that book in the 90s probably had me work out my worst dirtbag atheist tendencies before the DaVinci Code hit me. I was not very impressed, but wow you could not get away from this book. I might be a bit rude recommending other podcasts on here, but I've enjoyed If Books Could Kill a lot which goes though non fiction books like The Secret and The End Of History which has had similar mind breaking effects on millions of people like The DaVinci Code.
A sudden absence of bees
2023-02-24 19:46:35 +0000 UTCHiya!! I'm new to the patreon and have just recently caught up on all the eps, I'm just wondering what the posting schedule is like/if there is one? Sorry if this has been asked/adressed elsewhere 😵😭
Nat Harris
2023-02-23 22:03:19 +0000 UTCI remember my English teacher in high school ranting about the Da Vinci code. Now I finally understand what made her so frustrated
RebeccaC
2023-02-15 21:52:40 +0000 UTCThis is an interesting point! There's definitely a through-line there (I think we mentioned assassin's creed on one of the episodes) although I'm not sure it can be credited with all of that /specifically/ as a genesis point for all of that, if that makes sense. Similar to the "if the Da Vinci Code made you lose your religion you were already there" thing we posited, I think those ideas were always popular. New Age rhetoric dominated culture for decades before this book, there have been loads of esoteric and scientific (air quotes) Christianity hybrids out there... I think it might be more fair to say that the Da Vinci Code refreshed interest in that sort of thinking rather than primed us for it. We've always been primed to be a bit stupid!
The Shrieking Shack
2023-02-05 23:41:04 +0000 UTCre: Da Vinci code, no cultural impact - it primed the public for a world where Ancient Aliens has 20 seasons. Coincidences, false-factoids, and haphazard amalgamations of cultures mush together to create an alternate history as true-mythology. We don't get the Assassin's Creed franchise without the Da Vinci code.
Lucy Jacobs
2023-02-04 16:42:24 +0000 UTC
