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13 Calorie-Rich Bits Of Trivia We Found Caught In Our Gillnet
Alyson Lewis
June 29, 2023
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This issue is about ‘Last Crusade,’ trivia, sports cheating scandals, ‘Daria,’ and much more.
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On Friday, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny hits theaters, the first film in the franchise in 15 years — and 34 years since the last good one. Way back in 1989, the original trilogy signed off with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which after all this time still holds an odd place in the series. It’s one of the great action-comedies, which is why some people love the movie. But it’s also why others consider it a real step-down from the first two installments.
You can’t spell “living well off of the kindness of my Patreon subscribers and the suffering of strangers” without “serial killers,” as long as you’re into light anagrams like the Zodiac stans.
Caroline and Meg Baniewicz are two of the absolute best parodists on TikTok, and, to them, the many insufferable genres of podcasting are what a child abduction case in rural Arkansas is to a true-crime podcaster — an absolute goldmine. Typically, they’ve gone after the finance bros and Andrew Tate imitators who clog up the podcasting scene with variations on the “hustle, grind, lift” brand of aspirational “alpha male” messaging, but one of their most recent parody podcasting videos puts the aforementioned Spotify sleuths in the spotlight.
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