Oh hey, it's the bobby pin hiding in your hair overnight.

Allie Ward, this episode is coming out in the middle of the night, sometime between April

1st and 2nd.

Friends, it's not a prank.

It's real.

It's really a whole episode about medieval manuscript art with a focus on drawings of snails.

This is why I make the show.

This is why this was my dream job forever.

I love this. And you will too, as we cover, what these golden illuminated Middle Ages manuscripts

were made of and so much more with this expert who did their undergrad at the University of Winchester

in medieval and Renaissance Studies, a master also in medieval and Renaissance studies,

and is working toward a PhD, but is currently a social media executive for a rare book dealer.

Now, you may be familiar with their work.

Hundreds of thousands of art history hungry people follow them online, and they educate the

public about historical texts and arts and snistery, which are medieval snail themes.

Their bio simply explains medieval snail historian.

No, seriously, that's what my thesis was on.

And they seem to go viral whenever they mention Vincent Van Gogh's work.

Okay, the hitch is they're Dutch. viral whenever they mention Vincent van Gogh's work. Vincent Verhoch himself.

Okay, the hitch is they're Dutch.

They speak Dutch.

This is how Vincent Van G., a Dutch, said his name in Dutch, and how everyone who speaks his native tongue of Dutch, says it.

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