Episode 46: Unpacking Indiana Jones (Movie Night!)
We watched Indiana Jones so you don't have to. What can be said about a bizarrely outdated movie series that capitalizes on the treasure hunting of acclaimed archeologists? It belongs in the trash. In this George Lucas creation, Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr—"Indiana" Jones, to all—is a tenured professor who fights Nazis and grades term-papers, traveling the world to collect rare, priceless artifacts to quell his own obsessions and fill his university's museum collection. Men will literally become fluent in the dialect and customs of a remote Himalayan tribe and retrieve sacred stones instead of going to therapy.
Scared of snakes and not much else, join your BYWAP hosts as we get very loosey-goosey and yell about it all.
Find out why "it belongs in a museum!" doesn't always dissuade your enemies; contemplate how a Near-Death Experience can help heal the rift between father and son; listen to Stephanie and Elene yell about the racist and glaring plot-holes that come about watching four movies over one weekend; and, groan in dismay knowing that we're still waiting on the fifth Indian Jones movie to be free from this hell.
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