Best of the Worst: The Black Spine Edition 

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

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.

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

58:19 Rich, be sure to tell Alec Baldwin this lol

After years of not letting Jack drop the plinketto ball they give him the first black spine pull. That seems fair.

what makes the reveal even better is Mike being able to see it before the person taking out the tape

I think it's great what Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular can be acronymed into. Do you think they knew?

For some reason I didn't think they were gonna talk about ice sculpting for 30 minutes

I have now shown Don Beveridge to daughter in girl scouts she needs to know to PUSH THE COOKIE BUTTON!!! WE'VE GOT COOKIES!!!. Don works for all sales occassions.

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 :-)

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

“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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Wow guys, great video as always! Unsubscribed.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

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

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

"This is, like, embarrassing" - Jay Bauman

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

This truly is Mike’s 9/11

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

Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular They literally called their thing PISS.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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 😬

Mike chasing the guys trying to escape was so hilarious.

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

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

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.

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

He's called don beveridge because he loves coke

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

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

Mike has now truly gone mad with power

Someone should send them an unlabeled tape of Nukie.

"PARTNERS" - only one guy on the cover.

Don Bevridge is _genuinely_ incoherent.......It's not just how RLM have edited it, not ONE sentence makes any coherent sense! ....I really want to see Don Bevridge have a late night drunken argument with Know-Your-Slot-Machines guy

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

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

Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular ...PISS

We need a crossover - Don Beveridge and Jimmy "The Scot" present Top Slots Seminar: Press the Whopper Button Live at the Showboat Casino

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

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

Don Beveridge watched Glengarry Glen Ross one too many times.

The African american community does does not condone the actions or career of the blackstreet boyz Don Beveridge is cool tho

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

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.

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!"

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

I would consider buying a "Push the Whopper Button" t-shirt.

Mike stoklasa is the same age as Oscar Issac

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

"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...

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.

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

I'll never forget uhhhhhhh Don Beveridge. RIP

"YA GOTTA PUSH THE WHOPPER BUTTON..." - Don Beverage 1998

Plymouth Ice Sculpture Spectacular P.I.S.S.

The Whopper Button is for Closers.

Holy shit. I've watched this several times, but I just realized that "push the Whopper button" isn't just nonsense. I worked at Burger King in high school, and in the kitchen they have microwaves for heating up burger patties. The microwaves only have like, four buttons. And the buttons don't have times. It just says what you're microwaving. So, there's a "Whopper" button to microwave a Whopper for the correct time. So, Don is saying that if you're microwaving a Whopper patty, push the "Whopper" button. The crew was pushing the button for a smaller burger, so it would get done faster, so they could get the Whopper out faster. Which obviously meant the Whopper would be cold. I just blew my own mind.

I love how nobody realized that Rich mispronounced 'customerization' as 'customization.' The word is talking about turning people into customers, not customizing something.

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".

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.

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

The risk of being killed by a blank is surprisingly real, there was a young guy killed the same way just a few weeks ago doing a music video in Australia. It can also be so easily avoided without detracting from the film by filming from a profile shot, and having the gun fire close to the actors head but not actually aiming at it. Every time I see real guns firing blanks directly toward actors in a low production film like Partners, I wince... uninformed actors, irresponsible directors

Don Beveridge should make a video about slot machines

I have a feeling there will be many Don Beveridge references on RedLetterMedia going forward.