Hey everyone. Leonardo da Vinci was a true Renaissance man in that he was good at everything and he

liked going to those fairs where you pretend to be a medieval knight. Today's book is Leonardo

Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and this book inspired me to

create my own flying machine, which I'll be testing off my roof later today.

And I'm David Vance. I took a drawing class this year, so I feel like I really got Da Vinci.

We both know the secret to good drawing is tracing.

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson studies a man so good at painting, anatomy, invention, zoology, optics,

storytelling, design, and physics that you should probably be embarrassed if you're bad at your

one job.

And this is the book pile.

So a reminder to please rate and review the bookpile.

This week we're doing a Da Vinci special where if you leave a review, we'll paint a portrait

of you that perfectly captures your alluring, ineffable smile. It will involve tracing. I like that. A callback

out of the gate. A reviewer who calls himself Robot Army 347, which is disconcerting,

that that robot army was like, how many numbers do we have to try until we get our unique nahawk? He said, or they say, I've never seen a Harry Potter movie

or read a Harry Potter book, parentheses, please don't ban me, Dave. But this podcast gives me

everything I need to know about

the Harry Potter universe, like how Ron Weasley wrecks the books. That's good. I think it's gotten

a completely accurate picture of... I'm not throwing down because I'm saving it for our next

Harry Potter episode, but I do have strong feelings on this.

Then he ends with Dale Carnegie would be proud of how well these two influence and win podcast fans.

There's no way Dale Carnegie would be happy if he could look at us up from hell, he would not enjoy what we've done.

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