Best of the Worst: The Black Spine Edition

[@ApproachMedium]

I can't believe you guys reviewed "Partners." I actually was hired as the original DP on this film and my oh my do I have stories. (Writing this as I watch so it may be a bit disjointed) In a nut shell, I walked off that production and took my crew with me after 3 days of shooting because it was such a shitshow. That's one of the reasons why the director's name appears in the credits for almost every position. With regards to the badge being upside down, Pete did that intentionally because it was a real badge on a fake cop. His logic was that no one would know it was real if it was upside down (because it would be "unreadable"). I shot the opening scene, the bar scene and one other (I believe I still have the raw footage) after that Pete took over and the rest is history. The drive-by scene was when I decided to split for good. There was no safety prep, no permits, no nothing. As a matter of fact a blank did actually fire out of the Uzi and scared the shit out of the crew. We were filming on Staten Island and a Swarm of NYPD rolled up on us after reports of gun shots in the area. Overall your assumptions about how the crew changed constantly is 100% correct. Anyway if you want some more info on the horror that was this production or the joke it became aftward, hit me up. I think I still even have the original script, complete with typos. Hopefully you guys see this :-)

[@spacedoubt15]

I really hope they see this, sounds amazing.

[@CallanLoF]

I hope they get back to you, all of this seems endlessly fascinating.

[@yeenbeanmachine2594]

This is amazing.

[@ListerTunes]

Bumping this. The world needs to know everything that can be known about this film.

[@Nygaard2]

Bump bumpety bump bump bump - pay attention RLM!

[@PenguinDT]

"Superman destroyed businesses! Superman destroyed people!" The Beveridge Man is a prophet! That's the plot of Man of Steel told in 1998!

[@muthesquirrel]

It's all explained in his best selling book, Bagels & Wopper Buttons.

[@plopolp9818]

Penguin DT You predicted my comment two hours before I wanted to make it.

[@conornutt]

I love the fact that RLM are actually probably a more successful business by sitting on a sofa laughing at him than angry beverage man is by being so angry and buisnessy.

[@gregstinkston7634]

I'd argue that that wasn't the plot but thats all the other movies take away from it.

[@Fudz4]

Was Mr Beveridge's point that Superman is getting all the criminals and making the cops lazy? But... If the cops are spending their money on donuts and coffee... And banks are safer to use now because there are less robberies... Isn't Superman pro business?

[@jackwalsh7087]

Being chased by Mike Stoklasa is the scariest thing I can think of...

[@janpawedwa4590]

@@Musicvidsetc no, thats being chased by Rich Evans

[@Lamrett]

Nah. Getting CAUGHT by Mike Stoklasa is scarier...

[@JG_Wentworth]

@@Lamrett And more erotic.

[@mpinnegar]

Don't worry you don't have to run very fast to stay ahead of him.

[@joecool2721]

Just leave some booze behind and he’ll forget he’s chasing you

[@Gage_Brumley]

Wow, Don Beveridge just passed away last Sunday. Pushing the Whopper Button out of respect for an absolute legend!!!

[@davidbelisle7771]

I just saw. The man went to the big phone booth in the sky. Call Clark Kent.

[@harmonysummers]

He’s got all the bagels he can ever want now. RIP, you legend.

[@gyromurphy]

I hope he knew that he was immortalized in rlm history. Not even trying to meme here... the man made an impact on all of us. However smiles are brought to our faces. ... they were brought and that's all that matters. Seriously though that's sad news. I hope his family found peace.

[@DriscolDevil]

Beware Klingon elders, Beveridge is amongst you!

[@FearMonarch]

i was just eating bagels too and wanted to rewatch this, now my bagels taste sad. RIP to the best spokesperson Kurger Bing could ask for

[@tr11251]

I love the idea that Mike just hangs around waiting to spring BOTW episodes on people without their knowledge or consent

[@stupled]

@@_escapegoat touchè

[@jackdawson5490]

Breathe of the Wild

[@charlottecorday8494]

Could you have phrased that any more sinister?

[@FinalGamerJames]

One of these people stood in a fairy ring off the interstate 95 and Mike suddenly appeared without warning to torture his new friends with strange and bizarre depths of recorded media.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I thought Rich from _RedLetterMedia_ and Rich from _Previously Recorded_ were the same person.

[@exceisior3145]

Common mistake. They aren't even related, funnily enough.

[@KIager]

It's really easy to tell them apart actually. One of them has adult-onset diabetes and the other guy has a debilitating Tums addiction.

Sorry I meant white people...

[@AlbertoSantosDumont819]

Dumb

[@DarthAlphaTheGreat]

Actually parallel universe traveller.

[@ImperfectWeapons]

Don Beverage, formerly known as Don Wilson, owner of Iowa's largest wildlife preserve

[@TheTexasDice]

Just imagine how many Burger Kings are in this country, I-I-I've got an idea you see, we're gonna build all these wopper buttons in downtown Manhattan!

[@metal_nick]

I GOT 13 BURGER KINGS IN THE GREATER DES MOINES METROPOLITAN AREA ALONE! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY WHOPPER BUTTONS I NEED?

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

PUSH THE FUCKING WILDLIFE BUTTON!!

[@stovepipe6115]

Mother of god...

[@seanc6170]

Red Letter Media has the deepest lore

[@1chiTheKiller]

I love the moment when Jay says "the first and last Black Spine Edition" and Mike drunkenly interjects with, "We'rE GOnNa dO iT AGaiN." Just cracks me up.

[@StrumstarHammer]

And he MEANT it, god dammit!

[@felixedwardz5459]

And it's become their most enjoyable gimmick

[@1chiTheKiller]

@@felixedwardz5459 Most definitely.

[@NoriMori1992]

And by golly they did 😂

[@TheWalkingEyebrows]

The automated captions for this kept mistaking Rich’s laughter for applause and sometimes as music.

[@vfxninja5503]

"Mistaking?"

[@macsmith2013]

It can be two things.

[@Sum1BetrThanU1]

Rich knows how to push my whopper button

[@leeshang6419]

The applause in my pants

[@zero-fj3pj]

Which it is

[@whitneydouglas4794]

This is Mike's revenge for destroying both copies of Vampire Assassin.

[@RawkL0bster]

HE'S THE DEVIL SON!

[@RockedNet]

I'm afraid that Red Letter Media is now going to be sent a bunch of dirty homemade movies with no label knowing that Rich Evans might have to watch them.

[@johnsmith-mv8hq]

If he picked them up at the Manhole, anything's possible. :/

[@EleventhHourPower]

I have a bunch of sound equipment I can lend if anyone wants to set up a snuff shoot

[@weregretohio7728]

Still beats Simple Plan.

[@weregretohio7728]

I hope some of those videos include bagels.

[@Reptomon]

I'm afraid that Red Letter Media is now going to be sent a bunch of dirty homemade movies with no label knowing that Rich Evans might beg to watch them.

[@Groppler]

I just noticed they changed the name from Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular to Plymouth International Ice Spectacular because the original acronym was PISS lol

[@scino55]

Not that PIIS is much better.

[@drpibisback7680]

​@@scino55 I assume that would be pronounced "pee-ss," like someone saying piss in a bad impression of an Eastern European accent.

[@GoodAvatar-ut5pq]

@@drpibisback7680 Or, Eastern Indian, if you recall Ryan's Babe. For whatever reason, nobody in that movie pronounced piss the same way. And that's not normally a problem, but it comes up a lot in that movie.

[@NoriMori1992]

Right, 'cause PIIS is sooo much better 😂

[@BunnLilah]

@@drpibisback7680 Time to take a pee-ss! (nobody will get this reference)

[@jonathanroberts6978]

"This is, like, embarrassing" - Jay Bauman

[@jasonfenton8250]

I don't think you understand that their whole lives were leading up to this.

[@JaydevRaol]

😬

[@HughMansonMD]

"Tell the crew to push the Whopper button" -Don Beveridge (5/1/98)

[@avalanche3731]

I haven't gotten to part yet but I assume you meant to type "embarrasseen".

[@Kameratyp]

"YOU THINK YOU CAN ESCAPE FROM ME?!?!?" - Mike Stoklasa 2018

[@Vaporvice84]

Seeing him run is hilarious. I need it in GIF form.

[@roetheboat1]

Hey, guys. Stop making fun of him for being clumsy. He's just not used to having to move quickly when he's sober.

[@turkeysamwich00]

YOU FUCKERS YOU FUCKERS

[@gavinmarshall2228]

Amazing... If only Mike would chase me, maniacally screaming "YOU FUCK! YOU FUCK!" "I HAVE YOUR CAR KEYS!!!"

[@toweypat]

That's what Harvey Weinstein said!

[@mikemcgtv]

Don Beveridge: "SUPERMAN DESTROYED BUSINESSES! SUPERMAN DESTROYED PEOPLE!" (Little did he know that a young Zack Snyder was at that seminar furiously taking notes) ;)

[@chipbipple2593]

Fuck off! XD I was thinking the exact same thing

[@oscarsantana9983]

Don Beveridge is a better Lex Luthor than Jesse Eisenberg.

[@SadDragonNoises]

What the superman analogy was about: Superman always has police eating donuts in it and showcasing lazy cops. DUE TO THIS, the IRL police force began avoiding eating at donut places as a way to avoid the stigma. What the dude was trying to say was that you have to be careful how you present yourself or else you will build up stigmas against your business which could drive away potential customers.

[@chipbipple2593]

Equinaught Yeah but, I'm pretty sure Crispy Cream or Duncan Doughnuts never ran an ad campaign about lazy cops eating pastry instead of working. I'm actually not sure where that stereotype came from, unless it came from early Superman comics, as the crazy "WHOO!!!" man seems to suggest. My point is if that's what he means, it falls apart imediately.

[@ShoRyuBarbie]

Is Duncan Doughnuts Mike Beveridge's half brother?

[@Marigoldpyre]

Can we get a kickstarter set up for a survival horror game in which you run around the RLM studio space whilst a drunkenly slurring Mike Stoklasa chases you?

[@DarthFandoro]

And one of the objective is to get your car keys back.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

@@DarthFandoro To escape, you push the whopper button.

[@benjamingrant5970]

RedLetter-dent Evil 3: Stoklasa-sis. And instead of just saying "S*T*A*R*S", he periodically trips over drunkenly and shouts "AH! FUCK!".

[@hulkamania170]

@@DarthFandoro and find some juicy shaq meat 👍🏼

[@firienfeld]

that's called my wet dreams every night

[@marioposada8880]

So this entire episode just exists to establish that there are multiple rich Evans in this redlettermedia multiverse

[@poppers7317]

There are multiple Plinketts, so of course there need to be multiple Rich Evans' .

[@dh_501]

L O R E

[@tHustr4]

Poppers 73 Now I want RLM to make a Rick and Morty satire called Rich and Plinkett.

[@gwardojones]

I love that you guys added Partners, a movie that made sweeping story changes when the director realized the movie was too short, when you realized that your Black Spine Edition was too short. Life is cyclical, my friends. Everything always comes full circle.

[@wesbarnhart4608]

@@kamikazemelon787 poetry... It rhymes

[@AbsentMinded619]

It’s stylistically designed to be that way

[@JavierCandia1992]

Life finds a way.

[@natelax1367]

The world is a flat disc and there might be a turtle holding it all up but it's most likely rich Evans instead

[@ConnorNolanTech]

This is the RLM version of that trope in movies where sex addicts are so bored with normal sex that they resort to extreme kinks.

[@chadsigmarson673]

Trope? You're just describing Jay.

[@willtowers1532]

@@chadsigmarson673 poltergeist 3 is the gateway to pervert sex weirdo movies

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

But to be fair that's normally how that happens

[@Nolan65775]

It's only a matter of time before Mike discovers a VHS type covered in archaic runes that are used to summon the Cinemabites, hellish beings that bestow upon their victims films so terrible that they transcend the concept of 'being so that that it's good' into raw physical pain and pleasure.

[@zs4580]

@@Undcvrhlp It can still be a trope if it's used frequently in movies.

[@DecoySanchez]

This is the closest thing I've seen to a tour of their studio, as they try to flee from Mike as he chases them down like a serial killer. It's amazingly on brand.

[@mrscruffles801]

There must be someone obsessive enough to have mapped out the entire studio by now using clips from the videos. They've done it with the Tourettes Guy's house.

[@mellowyellow6572]

@@mrscruffles801 Someone did do that, for the VR game Super VHS, it’s a game where you explore the RLM studio collecting VHS games

[@Cargo_Bay]

@@mellowyellow6572that person said they made it a point to not do any of the upstairs offices/screening rooms. Just the ground floor warehouse space for the main sets. Even he knew it would be a little over the top to design offices/bathrooms/etc.

[@DeaconPain]

I was able to use their footage to find where their studios at in my city

[@INeedJesus4sure]

"Superman destroys business, Superman destroys people" Amazing! He predicted Man of Steel

[@wwCs49]

don't forget the part of the story where superman is too late to save the bank tellers from being brutally shot to death lmaooo so gritty, so dark

[@MarkLLawrence]

Don Beveridge is Zack Snyder's source of DC Comics knowledge.

[@redtexan7053]

The Don Beverage Cinematic Universe

[@themarkktv]

@@MarkLLawrence Release the Beveridge cut

[@Viceroy_Sundercles_III]

“Save the Whoppers...” “WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?”

[@PeaceandPuzzles]

I think MAYBE the whole Clark Kent analogy was meant to say: "There should never be a Superman in your business that everyone directs their problems to, because then nothing will get done unless Superman is there to do it for them." If I'm correct, that's good advice honestly. But I'm probably just a bagel lacking D.K.

[@gray007nl]

I think the analogy is meant to be that you the manager/business owner should be Clark Kent. You are secretly superman and capable of solving every problem, but none of your employees know about that. Because if they did know they would get lazy and come asking you for help constantly.

[@moisheshucklegruber2982]

I don't think you even know what a bagel is. in the business we have a saying: YDKB and I'm having a hell of a time teaching you about bagels here today

[@gnot_paul]

At first I thought he was trying to say Superman making cops lazy was a good thing because then they could sell more doughnuts.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

That was what I thought too. When we were doing CMM certification I remember academic types going on about how horrible it was to rely upon the "heroic employee", as it would not be repeatable and regular, since you needed great programmers to make it work. You needed a process where an ordinary employee could maintain the process. (I had some problems with CMM's rationale, as in some cases you DO want heroic employees, as truly innovative design does come from heroic employees, and truly innovative development is not repeatable. But CMM seemed to think software development was something like an assembly line where you just plugged in pre-written parts... Fine for making routine web sites, not so good for innovative programming... probably why CMM is most popular in government circles.)

[@Lishadra]

Wow it took us 4 years to finally understand it (and only POSSIBLY at that)

[@aer0kid1088]

“It could be some weird porno” these guys are masters of foreshadowing. Now we know they set up California Big Hunks way back in BSE 1

[@chiefs2pretty4radio]

He speaks the truth, brothers!

[@chandrakantapatil4151]

wdym weird? I got off to that shit

[@conan2096]

big hunks trancends porno

[@MFSeaMen]

It could have been a copy of "I wanna buttfuck your grandma".

[@BernardGarcon]

Take your pants off

[@davidoaklund8786]

I love that rich is very reluctant to pick a random tape, then he unknowingly finds one of the best tapes ever. It’s poetic really.

[@adamschizo]

something something poetry something something rhymes?

[@johnnycoolguy9554]

I come back to this episode regularly, specifically for their commentary on Don Beveridge's Customerization Seminar

[@chadsmith3363]

Rich doing his Don Beveridge impression might be the most fun he's ever had. What a performance!

[@GoodAvatar-ut5pq]

@@johnnycoolguy9554 The one I keep going back to is the Osteoporosis Dance. Colin, the 45 year old Canadian teenager, is laughing so hard that he can't breathe at Mike lobbing joke after joke at the elderly like some disrespectful college quarterback who knows he's in the zone. Watching him dissolve into helpless laughter is, itself, one of the funniest and most wholesome things I've ever seen.

[@NinjaBaka]

Mike chasing the guys trying to escape was so hilarious.

[@hollasteve1]

I've got your car keys you fffFUCK!

[@dannandaeterra]

Where d'ya think you're goin'??????????

[@Mikhavoc]

that short spontaneous sequence was funnier than the entirety of ghostbusters 3

[@davidasylum1870]

If only Mike and The voice of Mr. Plinkett can exist in the same room of half in the bag

[@lookingforvideo9978]

The key to stopping him is to leave a bottle of crystal skull vodka on the road. Mike has priorities.

[@Stammer6]

The irony of Mike saying "Hi, Jack" as he hijacked Jack away from Rich at the start

[@irishmanrants89]

It’s like poetry

[@jessica_jam4386]

Fecxor Fecxor oh no that makes Jack one of the planes

[@wannabecriminalman]

How many Jacks would a Mike hijack if a Mike could hijack Jack?

[@JRSanchez93]

@@wannabecriminalman 6?

[@xdurch0]

That's not irony.

[@master_frown]

I went on a cruise last year, and I am 150% sure Blackstreet Boys were an act on the ship. They're still going...

[@JSK1121]

Joshua Fournier what kind of whacky skits and dancing did they do?

[@kay_keik7842]

are you a french canadian by any chance?

[@neal2399]

Did they do a skit about gay Vietnamese farmers riding tricycles?

[@AFarmerCalledChicken]

Good for them, honestly.

[@jackpijjin4088]

More longevity and relevance than the actual Backstreet Boys.

[@kristophercrane]

I can't quite put my finger on it. These guys have been fucking hilarious for years and I can just watch the same episodes over and over and expressions and gestures and jokes never get old.

[@kristophercrane]

@Samar3n Correct.

[@RicketyRocketyRoo]

great comedic timing/editing and just the fun setup of friends talking to each other about movies the same way your own friend group might, so it feels like you're hanging out with their gang for a while instead of an awkward video of someone talking right at you and trying to pander.

[@CylindricalWhistle]

Great editing aside, the chemistry between the RLM guys is great. They're good friends in real life and it shows by how we'll they play off each other's jokes.

[@Mmmmilo]

This is accurate.

[@vinylsolution2522]

Just like the Honeymooners.

[@wericks3]

5 minutes in: How are you possibly going to stretch this concept to 1hr and 9 minutes? 1 hr and 9 minutes in: You Beautiful Bastards.

[@rmd251]

Mike is the only one having fun and I love it.

[@Xandy743]

"He said he wanted to make us suffer. He wanted to take everyone else down with him. This is Mike's 9/11." My sides are gone.

[@spunkybrewster1972]

I assumed Rich was gonna say "Mike's The Last Jedi".

[@SalTheMehGuy]

Like the Twin Towers.

[@dowmein]

Is this going to replace the real 9/11?

[@TediI47]

The likes spell 911 I wish i could've liked 911

[@harmonysummers]

Went and read Don Beveridge’s obituary. He had 6 kids named Donna, Don, Diane, Dirke, Debbie, and Dawn. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maw9406]

dedication to the bit. i respect it

[@psykomancer4420]

Holy shit, I thought you were kidding. The man truly was a living meme.

[@leminjapan]

There's no way this is real. Right?

[@KalleMagne]

That man was a hero. RIP.

[@brendujames]

What a legend

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

Mike's genuine joy at Rich's "Australian bullets" line is so wholesome

[@ramonoski]

"Tell the crew to push the whopper button" is a perfect trochaic pentameter. Don Beveridge is up there with The Bard.

[@NashaWriter85]

I kinda adore that someone, you, pointed this out. I was wondering why that bit sounded so good to my ears. In the same vein, I hate chatAi create a Haiku based on this sentence. Here's what it came up with : "Whopper button pressed, Crew, hasten with urgent zeal, Tales of taste unfold."

[@charlottecorday8494]

Whut

[@fuckiopussigetti453]

@@NashaWriter85 haikus are just fucking Darmok

[@micalzoncillo249]

you made me google trochaic pentameter and The Bard, screw you for nurturing culture on people

[@weneedaladder8384]

In case anyone wants to know what this comment means, a trochaic pentameter is a sentence made up of five "feet" where each foot is composed of a stressed syllable and then an unstressed syllable. I think it's basically the inverse of iambic pentameter. "The Bard" is Shakespeare, who frequently used iambic pentameter in his writing. The nickname is short for "The Bard of Avon", which is a title he was given (possibly, no one is certain) about 100 years after he died.

[@CreamFraiche]

"Tell the crew to push the whopper button" sounds like something they'd say in a bootleg Star Trek to go to _whop speed_

[@shattermelon496]

Is that a Hitchhiker's Guide reference?

[@trippinsciko]

How fast is Italian slur speed?

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

@@trippinsciko Faster than a meatball on top of spaghetti getting sneezed on.

[@JaydevRaol]

😅

[@EggBastion]

_"Have it so!"_

[@YaRaginAye]

10:21 to 11:07 the most disturbing moment in RLM cinematic history. The evil alcoholic Mike Stoklasa chases his fellow workers who are trying to escape from what can only be described as a hostage situation while cruelly reminding them there is no escape.

[@JaydevRaol]

😂😂

[@NickMichalak]

Jack has the BEST reactions cowering in fear while Mike screams like a homicidal nutjob. LOVE IT!

[@procrastinateALLday]

Did they really see nothing wrong with the sign that reads, Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular

[@antoniowakardo7280]

Dalton Schwarcz lol PISS

[@half-lifer5761]

Dalton Schwarcz naw, I’m just kidding, the word is “POOP.”

[@Oujouj426]

Rich's witch cackle breathes life into this hollow vessel.

[@andremoreau8390]

Don Beveridge says every single word like he's saying "FUCK YOU!" and it's amazing.

[@ryanwhitaker4444]

ICE CREAM!

[@yungdarko7774]

Bagels is the new fuck you

[@leila9024]

Woooooooh 🙌🏼🤑

[@erikhulthen8662]

"I have an army" "We have a Hulk" "WE GOT BAGLES! WOOO!!" And thats how the marvel universe meet its end.

[@miqwerty]

SUPERMAN MADE LAZY AVENGERS!!

[@leila9024]

And I am ... Bagels 🥯👌🏼

[@ViceAdmiralHoratioNeIson]

If I rubbed a lamp and a magic genie gave me one wish, I would wish for a VHS of a conversation between Don Beverage and the coked out gambling instructor from Top Slots: Spotting the Best

[@ThatUselessOne]

Milquetoast Eugenicist TELL JIMMY TO PUSH THE SECRETS BUTTON

[@lemeres2478]

"You got to hit the burger button. You only get a burger if you hit a jack pot."

[@ThatUselessOne]

Wait, if we push the whopper button and hit the jackpot, will we receive edged weapons?

[@Schirad]

Man, these guys must be really good at repairing VCRs to watch all these VHS tapes. They should set up some kind of VCR repair shop.

[@simonchiu7845]

I bet they're lightning fast too

[@AceZachrocks123]

Fast my ass they have been working on mine for 7 years!!!

[@ichael333]

Mike has now truly gone mad with power

[@SultanSamet]

First their car keys, then their lifes.

[@realmatic10]

To be fair…Don Beverage’s “Superman” analogy, while flawed, is still making a great point. He’s saying that employees that do everybody’s work for them leads to dependency, and is ultimately counterproductive to building an all around capable workforce. This is why good employers will only demand that you do your assigned job. Any employer that absolutely expects you to be “Superman”, or to pick up others slack…is poorly managed.

[@LN997-i8x]

The actual correct answer here is that you want to properly utilize your workforce. A critical part of doing that is assessing employee skills and playing to their strengths, rather than vieiwing then through an overly narrow lens or having them hyperfocus on singular duty.

[@LadyWervyn]

You explained that way better and more concisely than Don did 😅

[@KarazolaX]

Yeah, it's actually a good analogy. It's missing the part where he explains exactly what he means, but there are employees who pick up responsibility by habit, or owners / higher-ups who don't trust people enough to offload responsibility properly. When these people leave the company, for whatever reason, it can spell the end of it.

[@benbotka8010]

This truly is Mike’s 9/11

[@gavinmarshall2228]

Guys, guys, guys! It's not a customization seminar! It's a customERization seminar by the late, great Don Beveridge. I had the honor of being customerized by Don himself out behind a Wendy's in Atlanta back in '96... those were the days...

[@chipbipple2593]

... are you "Mahvin Gahvin", or "Mayvin Gayvin"?

[@ls367]

Show us on the doll where he customerized you.

[@joonasvainikainen4537]

Are you the guy who showed Rich Evans his "Wendy's ad"?

[@SequentiallyCompact]

Are you certain it wasn't a Winkie's Diner instead of a Wendy's?

[@TheModerGuy]

rich calling mike "michael" is the most cursed thing i've ever heard

[@iohfr]

timestamp?

[@SirRunk666]

Michael, Richard, and Jason. Our favorite frauds.

[@nizzepower]

Vinicius RDLP around 7-8 minuters in

[@TimMoorsom]

Just watched this again for the first time in years. Got to say, coming back after being in a management role, Don Beveridge makes a lot of sense. The "push the whopper button" bit is saying that most half-decent managers know what they need to do to fix a problem, but waste time talking rather than doing (i.e they think they have deficiency of knowledge DK, but actually are just failing in execution: DE). With the bagel thing, he's saying that building a business based on some flashy new product or ultra-low price isn't sustainable because the competition will eventually catch up, and the businesses that survive build customer loyalty before that happens. Even the superman bit makes a lot of sense: he's saying that if one "super" employee is doing everything, your other employees won't develop any skills (like the lazy cops in the analogy) and the team will collapse if that superman ever leaves. Weird, weird delivery; but the advice is totally on point. Maybe everyone else has also figured this out by now.

[@rurarararagi3394]

Nah sorry dude but the year isn't 1998. The world is now mostly dominated by big corporations, perhaps he was on to something 25 years ago when Amazon wasn't even a thing, but nowadays that is completely irrelevant and outdated advice from someone who was giving a seminar in 1998 about the best business practices of 1978.

[@scipioninja]

@@rurarararagi3394 Except no. None of what you mention makes the advice given by the OP any more irrelevant today than it was back when Don Beverage said it. News flash: In case you haven't notice, small businesses still exist and pop-up with frequency despite the best efforts of big businesses and Don is talking about practices that work in both because *Economic success does not scale with your earnings; if it works in the small scale, it will work in the big one* Maybe next time don't spout some dumb af cringe if you don't understand what you're taking about in the first place. It's like the OP is taking about how to change the oil in your car and you're saying that it's irrelevant because there's places that do that for you now, it's asinine.

[@waakufaaku9554]

@@rurarararagi3394 Even if you're working at a FAANG company, there's still a management structure. Having a rockstar employee (to a degree where other employees aren't getting a chance to take on difficult tasks or projects, thus creating a large knowledge/skill gap) is absolutely still a concern, regardless of the size of the company. If you're still in school I can understand why you might get the impression that large companies are completely impersonal, but most departments (in any company) are broken up into small teams, each with their own team leads/managers.

[@alexthemorgan]

I also think this was a franchisee meeting for Baskin/Dunkin/Togos and Telling the franchisees not to waste time and money pursuing things they dont do. The flashy new thing was all of the different brands available through their parent company. Like if customers know a location as a Baskin Robbins, dont shove Bagels in their face. If you're known as a Dunkin location, dont try to push a bunch of ice cream at 8 am. Dont try to sell a sandwich at all if you're a Dunkin or a Baskin Robbins.

[@zarreff]

That superman analogy happens in many jobs. Evil management types purposefully want a "dumb superman" because they know that most employees quit or dial in their performance when they realize the job is crap and the supervisors are lazy assholes. But if they can get a couple of "dumb supermen", guys who work hard because they feel like they are suppose to in order to be good workers, then it benefits the Evil managers and makes up for the slack caused by the other employees and lazy supervisors. When a "dumb superman" wizes up to how much they are being abused, they leave, and it creates this vacuum of no fucking work getting done on any adequate level which creates a domino effect of people quitting and the business teeters the brink of closing down, or Evil Managers finally getting fired after their laziness is exposed to higher management. Experience has taught me, do not work hard for a company or manager that doesnt reward you fairly for what you do. You gotta dip yourself into the work waters slowly and hold back from working hard until you're sure that the manager or company is worth it. If you do too much too soon, or prove yourself efficient at a task...evil managers suddenly give you that task ALL THE TIME.

[@MiG-21bisFishbedL]

There needs to be a horror movie of Mike chasing stupid high school kids and trying to make them watch terrible VHS tapes. Call it Tuesday the 17th.

[@stumbling]

It is actually the 13th though, which is funny/spoopy.

[@HarrisonReviews]

or better yet: September the 11th

[@tomfoxtrot9609]

And it needs to have the line "WHERE ARE YOU GOING! I HAVE YOUR CAR KEYS YOUUUUUUU F*CK"...

[@111AwesomeMan]

Haha so basically the Plinkett reviews?

[@AbandonedRaven]

This is Don Beverage, I own Iowa’s largest Whopper Button!

[@requiem4ameme2]

And I know the burgers are gettin' served cold So we're gonna bombard every Whopper with *SOLAR RADIATION* I figure that'll create some sorta *_MAGNETRON_*

[@evildracko]

Don Beveridge

[@FuriousGorge]

I also have a Whopper Button, but mine's bigger and it works.

[@Sepulveda91]

I want a collaboration between Don Beverage and Jimmy from the slots video.

[@WatrDragn]

An an an an an an an an an an BAGELS!!

[@Sepulveda91]

Yusuf read your whopper buttons, please!

[@Nick-uo3lp]

Don Beveridge died in 2011, or at least that's what my 15 second search on google gave me.

[@scottjohnson388]

Solid callback.

[@ShoRyuBarbie]

Carlos sets it up and Yusuf dunks the fucking thing! Brilliant

[@KristoffFry]

Mike chasing everyone around is one of RLM’s best moments! “You think you can escape from MEEEEE?!”

[@leminjapan]

"WHERE'D'YA THINK YOU'RE GOIN'?!?!?"

[@Kneefoil]

Someone should send them an unlabeled tape of Nukie.

[@planetschlock]

That would really push their Whopper buttons.

[@Ale-mv3gr]

More like a hundred unlabed copies

[@NodDisciple1]

YES!

[@noctellauwu]

Someone send them three unlabeled tapes of The Phantom Menace, Double Down and Food Fight.

[@a.g.m8790]

Isn’t that a little ET monster thing?

[@harambechungus5531]

Wow guys, great video as always! Unsubscribed.

[@TotesMagee]

Seriously, best video you guys have put out TO DA- 3/10

[@augustolira8133]

Fuck... This made me smile

[@hellgout]

Lmao

[@toweypat]

LOL

[@anthonymcgowan3398]

Great comment

[@omegafro2000]

OMG GUYS: I ACTUALLY MET THE BLACKSTREET BOYZ!!! They had came to the community college I had attended as an entertainment act and I volunteered to record them for the Film & TV group I was part of. Wished they had brought up their time on Round House(loved that show as a kid) but they apparently were the opening act for Ice Cubes tour at the time and were apparently going to do a film project together once the tour was over(...). On the plus side, they had made the upgrade to DVD... still haven't watched it despite having 2 copies somewhere at my parent's house. But still. XD

[@BeeStBowie]

Nick Bryan Send that shit in.

[@V4Now]

Don't just say something like that, tell us you sent it to RLM!?🤯

[@joshhall5172]

Growing up is starting to understand what Don Beverage is saying.

[@V4Now]

I don't want to get old😢

[@zachflag6506]

BAGEEEEELLLS *WOOOOOOOAAAAAAH*

[@mauricio8778]

COLADA WOOOOOOOAAAAAAH

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Time is a flat bagel.

[@xXDaftPunk101Xx]

The Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular is held a 5 minute walk from my house. Every year its freezing for the months leading up to the event, then shoots up to 50 degrees the weekend of and all the ice melts. It makes sense that they call it PISS

[@Thunt9]

Don't skip ahead, people. Endure the first half of the video. You have to EARN that 2nd half.

[@Adagamante]

Skipping ahead? I WANT to watch they suffer.

[@DrInk-se7gs]

i;m gonna be honest, i wanted to see the Black Spine videos

[@ErickOrffs]

I mean, we got the see the two most interesting ones

[@danieltobin4498]

The first two weren’t that bad

[@lookingforvideo9978]

Who the hell skips? The best part is their misery.

[@jesustorres354]

Don Beveridge watched Glengarry Glen Ross one too many times.

[@thomasmitrev6766]

I've probably watched this episode 5 times over the years and the reveal of Partners still surprises me each time lol.

[@thomasmitrev6766]

Holy shit, I did it again. 1 year later.

[@Dragonatrix]

Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular They literally called their thing PISS.

[@JKeltTV]

Thank god someone else noticed.

[@thereisnocontenthere]

The reason nobody else noticed is because it was actually "Plymouth International Ice Spectacular". PIIS.

[@GigaWhitArtandStuff]

Dustin B Yeah "gold"en shower

[@a.g.m8790]

Where is Plymouth?

[@DragonRepairman]

That one is in Michigan.

[@keithberwanger6595]

Wow! What a great surprise! Thank you for stopping!

[@WilliamAmbervein]

So I decided to talk to my general manager about this guy and he said that bagels are some of the cheapest products that you can sell for the highest amount of profit. Just like smoothies

[@WilliamAmbervein]

Erling Hansen I wouldn't know because Panera Bread is shit

[@burdenernie6050]

The cheapest product of all , the bagel smoothie

[@katietuohy7846]

So Peter Iengo taught at my school (Five Towns College wooooo 🙃) and I don’t remember anything about him but I remember this movie and it’s like recovering a deeply traumatic memory or something the way it all just violently came back to me how bad this is and how I had to watch pieces of this in a class. If he’s the professor I’m thinking of, he didn’t even last a full semester 😬

[@KC-zc8ic]

D.K. - Donut Knowledge D.E. - Donut Eating WAAAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOO

[@sirchrissypoo]

Don Beveridge sounded like he was trying out for the part of Lex Luthor with that anti-Superman speech. "Superman is what's wrong with society! He's holding humanity back by doing everything for us!"

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

I would pay good money to see that DC movie.

[@msarek4100]

Year of the Don Beveridge video seminar: 1998 Year Lewis Black's comedy career takes off: 1998

[@pdbedlion]

I know this is 11 months too late, but your comment truly is underrated.

[@basiloregano]

Don’t see the connection

[@eris9659]

OH MY GOD

[@reesaspieces86]

I was only listening to the audio, and I totally thought Don Beveridge was Lewis Black. I actually took my phone out of my pocket to check the video.

[@V4Now]

So that's why I thought I knew this guy!?🤯

[@bf5250]

If you're as old as Don Beveridge, that is, in fact, exactly how it USED to work with Clark Kent and Superman.

[@parkerlewis339]

I can totally see Bryan Cranston as Don beverage in a movie

[@ashb7]

@@danielcropp8553 It's okay, you won't know you needed it until you experience it.

[@eonswan]

@@danielcropp8553 You're👏On👏Your👏Way👏Out👏Of👏Business

[@ultimarx7772]

Jesse, we gotta make bagels

[@mauricio8778]

He played a motivational speaker in a Malcolm in the middle

[@tequilawhiskey]

@@mauricio8778 exactly, i cant believe 2 years went by without this.

[@AnonRanGER01]

"PARTNERS" - only one guy on the cover.

[@TheDarkanai]

Mike's confusion during Blackstreetboys is the most relatable thing I've ever seen

[@schneblen]

I love how violently Mike charges the door to chase after Jay. It's like he damn near destroys the door in terminator like fashion.

[@landonny]

No joke I live in Plymouth, Michigan and the "Ice spectacular" is still very much a thing here minus the international part. No one cares about it.

[@Kevin-qv3ch]

Shit, I live in SE Michigan and have been to Plymouth several times. Never even heard of it.

[@tintomara6209]

Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular eh? It's a bit of a mouthful.Couldnt they they just call it P.I.S.S for short?

[@FriendZone75]

I’ve lived in Plymouth, and the ice sculpture event is definitely not as big now as it used to be.

[@Neptunequeen42]

Ice sculpture festivals are sort of a Small Frozen Town thing for a lot of michigan, actually. Frankenmuth has one but to be fair it's already a tourist trap. Enjoy michigan culture, come see the chainsaw-carved ice sculptures while you freeze to death!

[@MrFin487]

A great movie would be to have that tape fall into the hands of an unscrupulous corporate executive. And it sparks an idea in their cold capitalist heart. The exec begins to sponsor the festival and then takes over the town. The exec brings in Don Beverage who convinces everyone to mortgage their property to the exec. Exec Replaces citizens with actors (cause prettier) and various alarums and excursions (bulldozing peoples houses, stores and monuments and replacing them with market tested images) and proceeds to sell the hell out of the festival. Until the exce meets a wise old child and their single parent. Everyone learns a lesson about how the heart is the real international spectacular when the ice melts in the heart of all the cynical people who stole the town and festival.

[@moviebad109]

"I looked up Don Beveridge, and he's not JUST a fraud..." I hope that all of the remaining Black Spines are different Don Beveridge talks...

[@nuclearheadache]

That audio clip from the cork board scene was so ludicrous and sounded so out of place that my first thought was that the redlettermedia guys had dubbed in a laugh track or something over the footage to simulate how funny they had found the scene the first time they watched it. I didn't realize that it was the actual audio until they started talking about it.

[@jessica_jam4386]

nuclearheadache it sounded like the beginning of the Sgt Pepper album, a couple thousand people in an auditorium waiting for a concert to begin. And they used it for a small police press conference scene 😅

[@chandlerj333]

Mike says “Hi, Jack!” at the beginning in reference to him hijacking the PreRec stream.

[@Sponch1]

So this confirms that movie watching Rich and video-game playing Rich are two different people.

[@impossibleimposter1]

Look, I get this video came out six-ish months ago, BUT GODDAMNIT HIS ANALOGY ABOUT SUPERMAN MADE SENSE. Don is trying to say that you can't have "Superman" employees because they make the other employees (The cops in his analogy) lazy as they know the "Superman" will do all the work for them. You need all your employees to be Supermen, or Clark Kents to prevent your business from being a one-man show.

[@Gryffilion]

Whoa. Man. Have my bagel. I mean, upvote.

[@GamerGamer-ok6wu]

But why are the people calling Clark Kent.

[@NCRLouTenant]

@@GamerGamer-ok6wu Gotham City may never know.

[@Znex2718]

@@GamerGamer-ok6wu Apparently in the earliest Superman serials, people would phone Clark Kent when something happened because Clark Kent was best friends with Superman and got direct interviews with him; Clark Kent would "contact" Superman on their behalf. Kinda like how in Marvel comics, it was Peter Parker who always got the best photos of Spiderman.

[@Trowa71]

@@Znex2718 You think Don Beverage is savvy with the earliest serials? I guess it's not impossible. I now see him as a closet geek and not ICE CREAM.

[@Leroy568]

He's called don beveridge because he loves coke

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

It's because his demeanor is so refreshing.

[@neilisbored2177]

The drug not the drink

[@eltoob99]

And BAGELS!!!!

[@woodcider]

I used to work for The Wiz, an 80/90s electronics store in NY (Nobody beats The Wiz!) and the salesmen called extended warranties “bagels”. I have no idea how many people got ripped off on those bagels. But the FBI came in once to arrest one for credit card fraud. That was an exciting day.

[@zjpeterson]

A Spotlight special wrapped in a Black Spine special wrapped in a PreRec stream. Wow!

[@erikwetbeard]

Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular ...PISS

[@JKeltTV]

I can't believe they didn't notice.

[@starsiegeplayer]

Planet piss! -Murderface

[@katanatsunami]

holy shit piss

[@John.Fielding]

The location of the outdoor performance in the "Black Street Boys" video is in Canada, but it's Halifax not Ottawa. I recognize the boardwalk entrance to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic there, at least how it used to look before they put up new exterior siding a year or two back. They would have been performing at the Halifax International Busker Festival one summer, the festival has set up one of their half-dozen performance "stages" right there behind the museum every year for decades.

[@buckyseto]

I recently stayed a night at the Showboat Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City. It's partially abandoned now, but the ghost of Don Beverage remains in that place. His spirit, his essence, haunts the empty casino floors.

[@gregbauer4433]

Were you asked to be the caretaker?

[@xSnowpeltx]

that place is extremely haunted. last 2 times ive been there, theres a light on the 10th floor that is just... constantly swaying back and forth

[@AspenBrightsoul]

As I walked down the hallowed halls, the sanguine carpet muffling my footsteps like so many screams hidden by these walls with only one muffled cry squirmed into my ears. "Push the Whopper button!"

[@deadturret4049]

Some say the continental breakfast serves bagels to this very day

[@katanatsunami]

Fun Fact: Don Beveridge stars in the movie "Hard Sell" as an elderly cop who starts a revenge campaign against Clark Kent, a mild mannered news reporter. The tagline on the poster is: "70% of the time, revenge is served cold".

[@McShaggswell]

Tell the crew to push the REVENGE BUTTON!

[@e-mancolin1626]

Mike stoklasa is the same age as Oscar Issac

[@0XiDiZE]

and twice as sexy

[@kristinamorss]

No wonder he’s obsessed with Oscar.

[@williamskay109]

Is this a joke?

[@ShoRyuBarbie]

At least Dean Norris and Casper van Diem had a five year age difference.

[@arranboon1]

Lmao

[@CoopCheese]

Canon - There are multiple Rich Evans. He dies a few times over the course of the series. Conclusion - They have multiple clones of Rich Evans.

[@CoopCheese]

oh a few died in half in the bag (usually being shot, including being shot by plinket), and think there was a best of the worst Halloween where he's eaten by something.

[@CoopCheese]

ah yes

[@CoopCheese]

so, which one is the force projection? the one manning the camera or the one ready to do previously recorded?

[@CoopCheese]

you'll have to watch them all again? say it aint so. (on my 4th run of the series lol)

[@atreides213]

Coop Cheese Of course. They need Rich Evans clones to counteract the xenomorph.

[@DarkRonin21]

I love how Jack's just grooving along to the music at 11:45

[@neofoxboi]

46:41 It's so nice seeing Rich give Mike an authentic laugh

[@Brave_SJ]

I get the Clark Kent analogy! If you as a manager (Superman) handle every issue your customers (the bank employees) have, then your employees (the police) will just let you take care of every little problem that comes up. Your employees should be able to handle trouble with customers without having to call you. I think Don Beverage just needs to take a seminar on motivational speaking.

[@stupled]

that's actually, good advice.

[@Taidehaamu]

Wow it's like you've solved the goddamn Zodiac cypher. Now it actually makes sense.

[@MovieManiacTalks]

Holy shit, the Plymouth Ice video is from literally ten minutes down the road from where I live. It takes place in downtown Plymouth, Michigan. They still have it every year to this day.

[@basiloregano]

realmattcooke mike said it was cancelled a year later

[@grohlski8669]

@@basiloregano I think he was just joking because you know, it was funny to hear "it shut down a year later" right after hearing it reached international fame

[@smasher.338]

Oh its in Michigan? So when do they do it? The 4th of July?

[@brunovance8101]

@@smasher.338 You joke but Michigan summers are humid and hot as fuck. We suffer all four seasons in the extreme.

[@smasher.338]

@@brunovance8101 I lived in michigan, and i now live in florida. Please dont talk to me about humid summers. Lol

[@Hyspellman]

I lost it at "Rule #1 in business: how... does the customer... see... you." Don Beveridge is a legend

[@Ohsnapzdawg]

RLM is the best channel on youtube.

[@mikerhoa]

Ohsnapzdawg definitely my favorite too. It's actually kind of astonishing to look at some of the garbage channels that have significantly more subscribers.

[@mintcoffee6030]

mikerhoa tha garbage WE watch is clearly superior. There's so much depth.

[@Jun-bm8ly]

you misspelled *the whole internet*

[@mikerhoa]

John Riders it's so dense...

[@CleanFamilyVideos]

Ive never heard Jack this funny before. He's definitely getting my vote for the Most Improved Award.

[@Rokaize]

CleanFamilyVideos is your profile picture a picture of the BTK killer.

[@neoto111]

@@Rokaize we'll never know.

[@lyleswann6296]

@@Rokaize Most definitely is Dennis Rader.

[@neal2399]

Ohmagaaaawd I’m black agaaaaain

[@brandonarzate6763]

I really really hope they continue "The Black Spine" episodes. It's officially my second favorite type of BOTW episodes. Right after Wheel Of The Worst.

[@steveharvey2102]

Don Beverage may not know his comic books but he does know his 1950s, George Reeves, Superman t.v. show. On the show, people frequently called Clark to "get in touch with Superman". There were even some breaking of the 4th wall where Sups would wink at the camera because we knew his secret but nobody else did :) Christopher Reeve is still the best Superman but George Reeves understood that chatacter very well and is a close 2nd in my book. Cheers from Canada

[@magaidhgordon141]

Mike really went full "Mr.Plinkett" during the chase sequence, didn't he?

[@Usernamewhatever1443]

@Gungey Entertainment one scams the other of thousands of dollars in a classic code 5 vcr repair scam

[@floopsschanoops336]

A new RLM vid always makes my day better

[@24FramesOfNick]

Now this is a beautiful way to start my morning

[@SolidusM]

Beautifull thing is I just came home from work :P

[@rainmulter7117]

One of my favorite things to skip work for.

[@OAlemaozinho]

fapping?

[@timothycreed3452]

24 Frames Of Nick Finding another one of your comments in a random place is a great way to start my morning.

[@MarquisSmith]

Slowly but surely working my way through Best Of The Worst chronologically. It's my new favourite KZbin series, so naturally I'm kicking myself for not finding it sooner. I'd previously watched several of your re:Views too (the David Lynch ones) so I have no excuses.