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New York City 1938. In a high rise art deco apartment, America's most intrepid archaeologist

is peering at a mysterious stone tablet found in the mountains north of Ankara.

San Sto, he murmurs, Christian symbol, early Latin text, mid 12th century I should think.

And then almost in disbelief he begins to translate the inscription.

Who drinks the water I shall give him says the Lord will have a spring inside him,

willing up for eternal life. Let them bring me to your holy mountain in the place where you'd well.

Across the desert and through the mountain to the canyon of the crescent moon,

to the temple where the cup that holds the blood of Jesus Christ resides forever.

The Holy Grail, Dr. Jones says his host, the chalice used by Christ during the last supper,

the cup that caught his blood at the crucifixion and was entrusted to Joseph of Arama Thayer.

And so Tom Holland begins a heroes thrilling hunt for the Holy Grail in the film

Indiana Jones and the last crusade. Now you love the Holy Grail, Tom, do you?

I do love the Holy Grail. I love that film. It's my favorite. I know that your favorite is the

one of the first three in Newland Jones, because we're not covering the Temple of Doom.

But I so last crusade was definitely my favorite. And I think the reason for that is that I was

obsessed by the Holy Grail when I was a child. I had I read endlessly about it. So much so that

actually when I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which for those few maybe you haven't

seen it is a comedy mocking the Arthurian legends. I was much more offended by that than I was by

my friend, thought the life of Brian was great, but I was very, very offended. I tend to actually find

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