On this Very Special Episode of the Dan Brown Code, Forrest and Lina are joined by longtime listener (and friend) Chris to discuss chapters 33-42 of The Lost Symbol. Robert Langdon revisits his Batman Origin story, the true finance bro-nature of our villain is revealed, and innuendos abound even in the Year of the Monk. Also, Chris absolutely schools Dan Brown (and us) on the various preservative liquids used in lab settings. Take that, Dan! Finally, we've created a new Instagram account intended to act as a companion to your listening experience. Follow the pod! @danbrowncodepod on Twitter/X@danbrowncode on InstagramFollow the hosts!Forrest: @wishboneulysses on BlueSkyLina: @lina.jem on BlueSky and Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(Recorded April 2020) We're back, baby! In this ancient episode from early pandemic days, Forrest and Lina explore the (pretty dull) rising action of The Lost Symbol. In this section, Robert Langdon is lost in the flashback sauce (as well as the Sub Basement Basement), Mal'Akh takes advantage of the fact that Katherine does not know her brother, and Dan Brown is bae and on fleek. Also, Forrest and Lina presciently complain about Elon Musk. Follow us on Twitter(?) @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina on BlueSky and IG @LinaJem and Forrest on Twitter(?) and BlueSky at @WishboneUlysses. You can also email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society, so that someday ExpressVPN will notice us. This episode is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for “Fair Use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.All rights and credit go directly to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement is intended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a long (unplanned) hiatus, the Dan Brown Code is back! Look out for a new episode in your feed next week. Thank you so much for the continued support! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gone is Hot Girl Summer, and here to stay is Monk Girl Fall. In this rerecording of a Lost Episode of the Lost Symbol pick up just as things are getting exciting. In this section, Robert Langdon meets Edna Mode’s tether, our villain continues to allude vaguely to his motivations while being objectively attractive, and DB slips comfortably into his zone of tenuous historical connections. Also, we are treated to some of the best Sapphic tension of the 21st century. Stay safe out there, we love you. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society, so that we eventually can get paid to advertise tasteful hair loss pills.

CW: Transphobia and racial slurs It’s summertime* let’s party**!!! Gone is the curse of Digital Fortress. In this episode, Forrest and Lina jump into The Lost Symbol. This book has everything: men in robes, secret societies, and sexy sexy villains. We’re back to describing women skin and running after our father figures. We’re making cryptic phone calls and dunking on college kids. Life is good. Also, we establish that this book is almost a frame-by-frame ripoff of National Treasure. *January **listen to an inconsistent podcast Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society, so that we eventually can get paid to advertise tasteful hair loss pills.

CW: Sexual assault, workplace sexual violence. This upload goes out to @chrisispoopin, an angel who deserves the return of his *favorite* podcast. In this episode, Forrest and Lina discuss the film Disclosure (1994), a film as old and as timeless as Lina herself. In a film that orbits wokeness without ever touching it, we find ourselves asking the difficult questions in this era of #MeToo; namely, what about the men? Also the VR sequence is the stuff of nightmares. Finally, we promise we recorded this episode before both Big Mouth and How Did This Get Made covered it. We’re back, baby. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Art by @omarjemili on IG. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. Please make us famous enough to pay an editor so Forrest doesn’t have to do this shit.

After yet another instance of technical sabotage from the NSA, who will stop at nothing to prevent us from revealing their secrets. Forrest and Lina return to the inescapable purgatory that is Digital Fortress. I wish I could tell you what happens in this episode, but unfortunately I read this section maybe 3 months ago and we recorded the episode maybe 1 month ago, so my brain has been hard at work at blocking out any memory of this godforsaken book. Just know that everyone of these supposed geniuses is a massive idiot, and Dan doesn’t really know what it means when a phrase or acronym is “short for” something else. Also good news: Despite Strathmore’s unbelievable creepiness, the NSA is still definitely good and privacy rights activists are definitely bad. Please enjoy the death rattle of Digital FARTress. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Art by @omarjemili on IG. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. Please make us famous enough to do ads for electric toothbrushes.

By absolutely no demand, here is a mini episode in which Forrest and Lina watch the very bizarre and very cinephilic music video for “Don’t Lose My Number” by Phil Collins. The last episode of Digifort will be on its way shortly. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Art by @omarjemili on IG. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. Please make us famous enough to do ads for postage websites.

In this episode, Forrest and Lina get back to the action in Chapters 91-105 of The Book That Never Ends. Things are moving quickly, like how a person is technically moving quickly whey they’re frantically skidding down a steep hill with little to no traction. Dan brown leans heavily on the bait-and-switch gunshot, Susan doesn’t even try to be the protagonist, and Strathmore’s disgusting fantasy comes crashing down around him. Also, where is all this steam coming from? What? Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Art by @omarjemili on IG. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. Please make us famous enough to do ads for postage websites.

Remember when we said the last episode was delayed? Lol. While the intro says that this is Chapters 81-100, Forrest and Lina have had mercy on you and cut it in half. Strathmore is caught in his own web of lies, Greg Hale predicts our current political crisis, and Lina is frustrated to the point of throwing objects by wordplay, Also, we get a behind the scenes look into the origin story of Suspense Master Dan Brown. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Art by @omarjemili on IG. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. Please make us famous enough to do ads for mattresses.

Lina is in ~*~Law School Finals~*~ so this episode is very much delayed, but in her defense Dan Brown doesn’t pay her bills (yet ;) ). In this episode, Forrest and Lina parachute down into Chapters 61-80 of Digital Fortress. Susan is the sidekick and bargaining chip in her own story; Dan Brown “doesn’t see color”; and sexual violence its threatened but like, just for fun. Also, David Becker is criminally incompetent and probably should be assassinated after all. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Art by @omarjemili on Instagram. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. Please make us famous enough to do ads for postage websites.

In this episode, Forrest and Lina strap into Chapters 41-60 of Digital Fortress. This section is much like a carnival ride in that it’s grotesque, it’s shoddily constructed, and while it may have seemed exciting when we were younger, it’s just nauseating now. We are graced by the presence of an actual Chad; Dan Brown’s avatar lectures a child punk on property law; and frankly there is too much fat phobia, ableism, gratuitous sex, and gross food stuff to even list in my snarky little recap. Also, this poor pastry chef is in for a hell of a yeast infection. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. You can email us at [email protected] Thank you for rating and reviewing us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. If you listen through the very end, you’ll be exposed to perhaps the greatest pearl of wisdom.

In this episode, Forrest and Lina get back to the action in Chapters 21-40 of Digital Fortress. Dan Brown has finished his heavy exposition dump, and we made the mistake of walking into the bathroom after him. Susan lets a sexy eugenicist down easy, Becker is on a mad dash to show off how many languages he can speak, and a sex workers is (almost) humanized. Also, we have the pleasure of reading the best line DB has ever written and will ever write, and it’s delivered by a gay stereotype living his best life. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. You can email us at [email protected] Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. We both love you but Lina loves you more.

In this episode, Forrest and Lina bust into Digital Fortress, Dan Brown’s first experiment in putting a lot of sentences together in a row. The latent Mary Sue misogyny is wilding, but the plot so far is very, very tame. Unbounded by his promise to stick to the facts, the Brownster treats us to garbage cryptography that can’t possibly make any sense, a picture of the NSA that is nothing less than heroic, and a lot of misappropriations of Japanese religion. Also, Dan Brown REALLY hates people with disabilities. Sorry for the unplanned hiatus. Lina just started law school. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. You can email us at [email protected] Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. We love you.

This week (or more like last week because I was a full week late) Forrest and Lina watch the Major Motion Picture, The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, all of whom can catch these hands. In fact, they watch the Director’s Cut, which is an extra 27 minutes of absolutely nothing. For that, Forrest can catch these hands. In this film, Robert Langdon is a psychic superhero, Sophie has the power to telepathically heal phobias, and Alfred Molina is impeccably cast. Also, this podcast is a BIG fan of self-flagellating religious zealots with albinism, so long as they’re sexy. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. You can email us at [email protected] Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes! It helps us reach more people and grow our secret society. We love you.

In this episode, Forrest and Lina are finally free from the tyranny of the best-selling novel of all time as the plot is (disappointingly) revealed and then quickly wrapped up. Robert Langdon gets to play house with another pretty-but-not-too-pretty, smart-but-not-too-smart European woman, Dan Brown Dan-splains all the wrong things, and Silas finally wins our hearts in the end. Also, I hope you like the word "burgeon" because we get a LOT of this in this section. Our next book is Digital Fortress! None of us know what to expect. You can follow the podcast @DanBrownCodePod or find us on Facebook! Forrest can be found @WishboneUlysses and Lina can be found @LinaJemili. You can also email us at [email protected] To the one person who dm'd me (Lina) a sword, I love you. To everyone else, dm me a sword or chalice emoji so I know it's real and you will also earn my love. I'm that cheap.

In this penultimate dive into the best-selling novel of all time (again, wow), Forrest and Lina read chapters 61-80 of The Da Vinci Code. Robert Langdon has gone full red string-on-cork board bananas, Silas is losing his religion in the corner, and we are treated to some incredible badassery on Leigh Teabing's part despite how creepy he is. Also, Sophie finally reveals the apparently inexcusable thing she saw her grandfather doing, and it is VERY disappointing. Follow us on Twitter @danbrowncodepod. Lina can be found @LinaJemili, and Forrest can be found at @WishboneUlysses. You can also email us at [email protected]. If you're reading the show notes, I (Lina) love you. Drop me a sword or chalice emoji in the DMs so I know it's real.

This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 41-60 of the Da Vinci Code. After just about half of the book, we’re finally getting to the meat of the plot, and by meat we mean lies upon lies upon conjecture upon lies. Robert and Sophie are apparently in a series of escape rooms, Dan Brown has apparently eloped with his thesaurus, and apparently bio-essentialism is very feminist. Also, we’re treated to the extremely gross stylings of an ancient aristocrat, followed by a mind numbing lecture of lies. Cool book, Dan. Real glad it’s the best seller of all time. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes!

In this hot mess of a podcast, Forrest and Lina delve into Chapters 21-40 of the best selling novel of all time (!!!). Robert and Vitt-- I mean, Sophie are on a mad dash through the seedier parts of Paris to decode the meaning of a mysterious symbol, we get treated to an incredible backstory build-up, and Sister Sandrine does what she came here to do. Also, Dan Brown marks Pride month with an extremely insensitive discussion of androgyny, intersex people, and trans sex workers. Nice, Dan. You can follow us on twitter @DanBrownCodePod, or find us on Facebook! Forrest can be found @WishboneUlysses, and Lina is @LinaJemili. Email us at [email protected]

After much anticipation, Forrest and Lina dive into the bestselling book of all time (maybe), The Da Vinci Code. Robert Langdon is whisked away on yet another symbol-based crime adventure with a plot eerily similar to his last symbol-based crime adventure. Art is destroyed, more police officers are compared to animals, and Langdon breaks the greatest promise he's ever made. Also, apparently Dan Brown thinks late-mid-century Spain was downright Dickensian. The New York Times article that shares our name: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/the-dan-brown-code.html Follow us on Twitter at @DanBrownCodePod or find us on Facebook! Follow Lina @LinaJemili and follow Forrest @WishboneUlysses.

This episode, Lina and Forrest unpack the Major Motion Picture, Angels and Demons (starring the inimitable Thomas Hanks). Some movies are so bad they're good; this is not the case with Angels and Demons. This movie is full of Nordic people for no reason, and director Ron Howard has successfully scrubbed any trace of daddy issues from the plot. However, if you were worried about losing Robert Langdon's signature pedantic demeanor, you won't be disappointed (although his signature Harris Tweed is nowhere to be found). Follow us on Twitter @DanBrownCodePod. Lina can be found @LinaJemili, and Forrest can be found @WishboneUlysses.

At long last, Angels and Demons comes to a painful close. Robert Langdon can finally tell us if it hurt when he fell from heaven, the Hassassin has his claim to the title of "Drama Queen" challenged by none other than the Camerlengo, and Mortati is truly too old for this shit. Also, Forrest and Lina are forced to read the worst words ever written in fiction, so now you have to hear them too.

CW for this episode: Sexual Violence, Ableism This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 101-120 of Angels and Demons. Robert Langdon is on his own now, and is the definition of failing upward as he bungles every one of his attempted rescues. The Hassassin is gross beyond all reason, Dan Brown apparently despises people with disabilities, and Fake News is invented by our friend Gunther Glick. Also, we’re fresh out of cardinals. Follow us @DanBrownCodePod. Follow Lina at @LinaJemili and Forrest at @WishboneUlysses. Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes!

CW for this episode: Sexual Violence This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 81-100 of Angels and Demons. We’re still in a race against the clock, as our heroes zip through rome to save the third cardinal from certain doom. Sylvie and the Hassassin are back in a big way, a good man is lost too soon, and Forrest is personally attacked through time by Dan(ielle) Brown. Also, the Camerlengo gets his groove back and it’s the best thing to ever happen. Links: 3D model of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa: https://sketchfab.com/models/a2c95c1afe2c494a948c1a08785e1057 The blog post from “The Ardent Agnostic” tearing into this book: http://ardentagnostic.blogspot.com/2008/03/un-straniero-crudo.html Information on Lojban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban Alice In Wonderland in Lojban: http://alis.lojban.org/ “Dunkin’ On Dan” T-Shirts are now available at https://teespring.com/dunkinondan ! Thanks for supporting us and helping us make the show. Don’t forget to DM us your order confirmation so we can give you a shout out in the next pod! You can follow us at @DanBrownCodePod on Twitter or find us on Facebook! Lina can be found at @LinaJemili and Forrest can be found at @WishboneUlysses.

This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 61-80 of Angels and Demons. The book has gotten very fast-paced, very fun, and very, very gross. Vittoria and Robert manage to flirt in front of corpses, a lot of smart things are flatteringly misattributed to Winston Churchill, and Lina is forced to put down the book several times because of gore. Also, Dan Brown continues to really deliver on the “exposure” he promised his ambigramist instead of payment. “Dunkin’ On Dan” T-Shirts are now available at https://teespring.com/dunkinondan ! Thanks for supporting us and helping us make the show. Don’t forget to tweet or DM your order confirmation at us so we can give you a shout out in the next pod! You can follow us at @DanBrownCodePod on Twitter or find us on Facebook! Lina can be found at @LinaJemili and Forrest can be found at @WishboneUlysses.

This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 41-60 of Angels and Demons. This time, we're treated to some heart-stopping actions scenes in... a glorified library. As our heroes flirt in thinning oxygen and explain very basic scientific concepts to one another, the clock is ticking for the assassin to finish being as extra as possible. Also, Dan Brown has an opportunity to prove to us how "woke" he is and falls on his face. You can follow us at @DanBrownCodePod on Twitter or find us on Facebook! Lina can be found at @LinaJemili and Forrest can be found at @WishboneUlysses. Email us at [email protected]

This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 21-40 of Angels and Demons. We're whisked away on a whirlwind trip to the Vatican, where more symbol-based crime and plenty of suspicious clergymen await. Robert Langdon continues to be clueless, Vittoria is single and ready to mingle (despite having recently suffered a tragedy), and we get introduced to the world's hottest priest. You can follow The Dan Brown Code at @danbrowncodepod on Twitter. Lina can be found at @linajemili.

This week, Forrest and Lina read chapters 1-20 of Angels and Demons we meet our hero, the erudite, hyper-relatable, approachably sexy Robert Langdon, who happens to be the dumbest Harvard professor on earth. Join us as we’re whisked away to a world of intrigue, symbol-based crime, and casual sexism. You can follow The Dan Brown Code at @danbrowncodepod on Twitter. Lina can be found at @linajemili.

Join us for the first episode of The Dan Brown Code next Tuesday, January 30th.