meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Overdue

Ep 004 - The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

Overdue

Headgum

Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Here on Overdue, it's definitely not going to be multi-layered critiques of religion and missives on love and cholera every week. Take this book as a case in point—Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has long been a favorite punching bag of Andrew's, but in the interest of trying new things and keeping an open mind, he's giving this decade-old potboiler a try.

His reactions are many and complicated. Join us for a conversation about why pop-lit is, well, popular, whether it's OK to judge a book by its cover, and some of Dan Brown's less successful sentences.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,

0:05.0

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.0

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to Overdo. It is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

0:42.0

My name is Andrew.

0:43.0

And as always, each week we are going to tackle a book that either Andrew or I read,

0:49.0

summarize it as necessary and just kind of gauge our reaction to it.

0:53.0

These are books that we've had on our shelves for a while or that people have been telling us we should read

0:59.0

or in cases probably in the coming weeks that Andrew and I are going to challenge each other to read.

1:05.0

Maybe that's some sort of endurance test, I'm not sure.

1:10.0

So, yeah.

1:13.0

I want to thank everybody who's kind of tuned in over the past couple weeks.

1:17.0

It's been really exciting to get this thing going.

1:20.0

So I just want to say that before we start.

1:22.0

We usually record a couple episodes in advance.

1:25.0

This is the first one we've recorded after we actually posted the first episode.

1:29.0

So we're finally getting reactions even though we've been reading books in a vacuum for like three weeks.

1:37.0

So, yeah, it's cool to see that people seem to dig the permits and they're all liking us on Facebook and all those modern measures of success.

1:47.0

That's how you measure it.

1:49.0

And we'll talk about this more towards the end of the podcast and how's keeping business.

1:55.0

But people have been giving us book recommendations and stuff like that.

1:58.0

Please keep that coming.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Headgum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Headgum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.