Welcome to Season Two! We are starting the season off with a bang and talking about everyone’s favorite professor, Indiana Jones, joined by Rhonda’s brother and longtime Indy fan Keith!

We look into the film franchise’s roots in adventure serials from the 1930s, dabble in the history of archaeology, and discuss what the Nazis were really doing all that time, plus try our best to answer the burning question: is Kingdom of the Crystal Skull good?

Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Secret of the Incas

“Premakes:” if Indiana Jones was made in the 1950s

Indy’s influences on TheRaider.net

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A brief history of Archaeology

Why Hitler stole art

Story of the Monuments Men

The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

Is Indiana Jones Science Fiction or Fantasy?

The Story Conference Transcript with Lucas, Spielberg, and Kasdan

Indiana Jones, problematic fave

Just For Fun

Which character are you? Quiz (Erin and Rhonda = Indy; Keith = Sallah)

Indiana Jones Diet Coke ad from 1989

The Raiders of the Lost Ark remake

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