Indiana Jones is a Terrible Archaeologist

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

An archaeologist shares memories of drinking champagne at a dig site and what’s so exciting about uncovering a two-inch piece of ancient stone tablet. She also discusses the history of colonial looting and the complicated nature of looting today. Then, Gethard and our caller break down what makes Indiana Jones–the most famous archaeologist–so bad at his job.

In this week’s introduction, Gethard recommends the Uncanny X-Men-focused podcast, CEREBRO.

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0:00.0	Hello to everybody just realizing that Indiana Jones is not good at what he does.
0:09.2	It's beautiful anonymous, one hour, one phone call, no names, no holds book.
0:15.9	I'd rather no one on one, I think it'll be more fun than I'll get to know you and you'll
0:25.8	get to know me.
0:27.9	Hi everybody, Chris Gathered here and we got another long intro this week.
0:31.8	We're playing with some new intro styles in our new independent era.
0:35.3	So if you're someone who just wants the phone call, I totally get that.
0:38.6	I'm going to want to skip about 14 minutes.
0:40.9	The intro is about 14 minutes, but it's good stuff.
0:43.5	It's good 14 minutes.
0:44.9	Enjoy everybody.
0:51.4	Hi everybody, Chris Gathered here and welcome to another episode of beautiful
0:55.6	anonymous.
0:56.5	This is episode two of our new independent era where we are on our own, making good out
1:02.4	here in the world, continuing the process of bringing you real unfiltered conversations
1:08.0	with actual human beings.
1:09.8	We barely produce this thing.
1:11.8	We throw people on the line, it's legit.
1:14.0	We check mostly for sound quality when people call.
1:17.2	We barely edit these things.
1:19.8	Why would we?
1:20.8	The raw real conversation is when it's at its best and I take it seriously.
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