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The Well

Eric Zala – “Raiders of the Lost Youth” – TWP060

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9821 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Eric and his buddies decided they would make a shot-for-shot remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".  The only problem?  They were just kids.  But they had a secret weapon at their disposal: they were just kids.

Interested listeners may watch the fan film itself, and see those moments as described, at threaderskids.com

Special thanks to John Hudgens.  Additional music for this episode provided by Audiorezout under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International license.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The As they say, kids don't know what kids can't do, and that's a good thing.

0:30.4

You know, it's only with time and perspective and putting it all together.

0:37.2

No way you could have known, you know. time and perspective and putting it all together.

0:40.1

No way you could have known, you know.

0:43.5

I am so grateful for having grown up this way. I'm so grateful for having grown up this way. When I was a kid, I spent many, many weekends at the home of my friends, Jason and Jeremy,

1:04.4

and we would do this thing. We'd take their mother's video camera upstairs to their room,

1:09.5

and we'd try to make movies.

1:11.7

I was always the director for some reason, and Jason played the starring role of

1:16.5

The Yellow Hornet.

1:20.4

And Jason's little brother, Jeremy, played...

1:22.6

Well, he played everyone else, of course.

1:26.4

I even remember that day that I realized that if I held the camera really steady,

1:31.2

I could stop rolling on Jason after he snapped his fingers,

1:34.5

have Jason leave the frame, then hit record again,

1:37.5

and would appear as if the Yellow Hornet had teleported out of the scene.

1:42.0

It was all very high-concept stuff.

1:46.8

But little did we know that down in Mississippi around the same time, there was a group of kids putting us to shame. Because flash

1:55.2

forward some 30 years later, Brannon calls me out of the blue and says, hey, have you seen this

2:00.2

documentary called Raiders?

2:01.9

It's about these kids in Mississippi who made an entire shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

2:08.0

Well, I had two thoughts when he told me this.

2:10.7

One, I was slightly intimidated, and two, sold!

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