The I'm Amanda. And I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia.

Now, Amanda, I have to assume that most of us here on the show and listening to the show are probably quite familiar with the bisexual classic 1999s, The Mummy.

Oh, of course.

Now, I was fortunate enough to watch this in my adulthood well after knowing that I was bisexual, so I knew it would be a feast and it sure was. But I know for a lot of folks, this is the bisexual awakening or the why choose?

Now, Amanda, I'm actually really excited to talk about this today because I want to talk about movies, I want to talk about archaeology,

and I want to talk about curses.

Hell yes.

But before we get to all of that, Amanda, did you know that 1999's The Mummy is technically

a remake?

I didn't.

So it is based on the Universal Classic Monsters film The Mummy from 1932. No kidding. Now, in this version of the

film, which takes place in 1921, an archaeological expedition led by a guy named Sir Joseph Wemple

finds the mummy of an ancient Egyptian high priest named Emotep. They didn't change that part for

the 1999 version. I was like, that is a little familiar. Emotep. They didn't change that part for the 1999 version.

I was like, that is a little familiar. Emotep, much like in the remake, had been wrapped like a

traditional mummy, but instead of actually going through the mummification process, he was buried alive.

And important to our episode, Emotep was buried with a casket with a curse on it.

Mm-hmm.

Now, in this version of the movie, The Mummy is brought back to life when an assistant reads aloud from the quote-unquote scroll of Thoth, which is nothing.

The time period in which this is set, and also when it was produced is interesting and important for a

couple of reasons. Tell me more. First off, it's 1932, Amanda. What was going on in 1932 in the

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