"Digital Fortress Mail Bag!" Susan gasped.
Added 2020-06-04 15:02:30 +0000 UTCMike and Conor run down a fine selection of emails from listeners.
Mike's "Real or FanFic" failures are discussed at length, as are Dan Brown's failures at writing, making up Armenian names, and getting accurate information from NSA employees.
Comments
Finally caught up to this. Yes, Brown gets so much wrong, it's not even funny. Best of all, calling Enigma a "12 tonne monster". Imagine trying to carry one of those beasts in the field to be able to read decipher encoded messages. Of course it weight only 12 kilos, which is 11988kg lighter than 12 tonnes.
Jan
2023-08-01 08:25:13 +0000 UTCI'm finally catching up on this and I'm delighted to see you finally taking on some Dan Brown. A la Cline, I think his second non-Langdon book, Deception Point, gets even stupider than this one was: The main character, another jaw-droppingly hot woman-object, is literally given the last name "Sexton" (even better, her father is "Senator Sedgewick Sexton", and the way they are described in the opening scene I can't not picture them as Donald and Ivanka Trump). The book begins with an author note that contains the sentence: "All technologies described in this novel exist." Spoiler alert: No, they don't (one in particular was even debunked by Mythbusters).
Scott Johnson
2020-09-05 16:57:55 +0000 UTCAs soon as Mike said “Aram”, my immediate thought was: “Oh, sure, like Aram Fingal, right...”
Taylor Conner
2020-06-05 05:17:54 +0000 UTC[hides AOL address behind back] That's ca-a-azy...
andrew
2020-06-05 02:36:42 +0000 UTCMike had BETTER know how to pronounce the name 'Aram'. It was the name of the unforgettable main character in the seminal masterpiece of the New York public broadcasting station, "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank".
Chaos Shadow
2020-06-05 00:40:54 +0000 UTCOgden and Aram walk into a bar...
Christopher Dazey
2020-06-04 23:33:02 +0000 UTC**Me still using a hotmail email address** >_>
Emma Schroeder
2020-06-04 16:39:38 +0000 UTCthanks for this!!! love mailbag eps ^-^
amolove
2020-06-04 15:39:19 +0000 UTC
