@@theres1dentevil Love me some Newcastle! Nobody here understands that it's good cool/room temp. Not cold. Which is nice when you're busy around the house and forget about it...
Jim is underrated. I've seen people say he's boring, but I think he's absolutely hilarious. His humor is extremely dry and subtle. He doesn't chime in as often as the others, but when he does it's usually gold.
I showed my cousin Steffan AKA Mr Wiggles your review of his tape, he said "were in the world did y'all find a copy of that" he laughed and said he was that brings back memories
Imagine this: You're a young woman, maybe 16 years old. Your crazy aunt invites you to a two day seminar on Womanhood and Sisterhood. You're not sure, but your mom guilts you into it because your aunt already spent money to reserve you a seat. So you go, and the seminar is held in some older woman's house while her husband is out camping, They start the seminar off with a short movie, which she pulls out of a basket near the tv that's clear has been sitting there for years, and happens to be the Old Croning movie. You watch it, the woman leading the seminar cuts is short, saying she "only likes the first part." Your aunt asks what you thought, you go "eh", and she agrees. YOu don't understand or agree with everything that happens in the seminar, but you come away feeling a little closer to understanding your crazy aunt. That's the only time I can think of anyone watching the Crone movie.
I mean the whole segment on Wiggles was dumb, there's plenty to shit on in his video but his dancing isn't one of them. He is legit a legendary dancer and one of the most famous poppers out there and has contributed a lot to the dance community, he is so good he is still dancing today and flying all over the world. These videos were the real dance videos, shitty instructional videos.
This is the first song I ever learned. Ragnar the Red. Oh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the red Who came riding to Whiterun from o'l Roriksted. The braggart did swagger and brandish his blade As he told of old battles and gold he had made. But then he went quiet did Ragnar the Red When he met the shield maiden Matilda, who said. 'Oh you talk and you lie and you drink all our mead Now I think its high time that you lie down and bleed.' Then came clahsing and slashing of steel As the brave lass Matilda charged in full of zeal. And the braggard named Ragnar was boastful nomore As his ugly red head rolled around on the floor.
I wrote a song: Rich Evans, Rich Evans, Rich Evans sittin' here Rich Evans, Rich Evans, Rich Evans sittin' here Rich Evans, Rich Evans, Rich Evans sittin' here
What I love about Rich Evans is that he is 100% on-board for jokingly making a fool of himself. Like, this is literally the second time he's jokingly breakdanced on camera in order to destroy a tape. He routinely gets hunted for sport by the various VHS tapes and fast food mascots that haunt his life. You gotta be a pretty secure guy to be able to just go "hell yeah I'll act like a doofus on camera, that sounds fun as hell". Rich Evans, absolute hero.
As a Canadian that grew up in the 80s, I remember watching "Hug a Tree to Survive" in elementary school. Thanks for bringing back all those horrible memories of shitting my pants when I was in grade 4.
@@TorinR90turtle dreams is genuinely pretty cool but avant garde shit like that isn't for everyone. Crone ceremony video is like peak useless middle-upper class white feminism. New age BS and appropriation of native culture and alllll
The whole point on the anti-porn video wasn't to warn against porn but for early internet men to learn where to find it when they weren't computer literate while having plausible deniability.
I gotta say that whole "can't close the porno" has a solid basis in reality. Back in the day some sites would change your homepage and other shenanigans. I know this from firsthand wholesome Christian research.
I was looking for this comment... when I was in highschool back in the 90s, I went to a porn site I couldn't close and several windows opened up covering my pc with boobs and I was like "My moms gonna kill me!!!"
I woke up one morning to 4 guys half way through talking about some bad movie , must have fallen asleep watching RU-vid again. Little did I know that I had stumbled upon my favorite RU-vid channel. The last 4 days I have solely watched you guys . Just so good. Loving it.
Bergz17 yeah I thought he sounded just like Obi Wan. His Paul McCartney imitation earlier was pretty good too, and sounded nothing like the the obi wan impression
@@audreyalbritton1435 but in the words of Mike: "Gay Lifestyle.... fuck that guy" at 51:20. Indicating, that Mike is clearly not a red-pilled homophobic bigot.
the Wicker Man is fuckin borderline experimental, I still don't understand that fifteen minute song near the beginning where she's dancing around in the nude and tapping the walls
"It's a star wars movie. Who cares if our current reputation is a joke as far as star wars goes and everybody heard about all the stuff that happened behind the scenes that have proven in other films to cause terrible flops? We don't need to push with marketing because it'll obviously be a hit from positive word of mouth considering that it's probably the second best Star Wars movie we have produced right? Right? .....Guys?" -Kathleen Kennedy (aka: A Disney executive who is super definitely going to still be emplyed this time next year. Spoken at a business meeting leading up to the marketing campaign for "Solo: A Star Wars Story")
@@Eisenwulf666 my last two brain cells when i have something important i’m supposed to be doing: wise woman wise woman, wise woman here, wise woman young woman giving me her best
Mr. Wiggles is actually pretty well respected in the popping community, having been in the legendary pop/lock crew The Electric Boogaloos. That video, in particular, taught a lot of people how to tut, but it definitely shows its age. It's like an early iteration of that dance style and wasn't really well developed, and future dancers would end up doing it much better (Poppin John comes to mind). The footage was not edited well either. I can see how it wouldn't be interesting to people outside the popping community. Also, bonus fact, that second video is early footage of David Elsewhere, who would also become a fairly well respected dancer in the popping community, known for his experimental style. You may also recognize him from his cameo in You Got Served, and as the body double for Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland when he did that dance bit at the end of the movie.
"In the field of psychology, the Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is."-Wikipedia
Thank you! I knew there was a name for this, but all I could remember was it being mentioned in an SFDebris review where he explains one of the reasons Neelix is such an insufferable character.
Hey, pop-ups were REALLY hard to get rid off back in the day. I've experienced moments of panic, trying to get porn pop ups to go away, before my parents showed up.
Smilebit So true. I'm not sure why Mike was all pretending like he'd never been in that situation. Your only escape was quitting your internet browser entirely.
The crone referenced in The Croning Ceremony is one of the three aspects of the goddess in neopaganism. The other two being the maiden and the mother. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure the flower crown thing is supposed to be for the maiden ceremony.
This video legitimately came out during what feels like my lowest point in my life, thanks for making feel a little better and making me smile again Redletter media
10 minutes in and the wheel definitely contains the most debauched collection of tapes it's ever had. On the bright side, I've never seen Mike this jolly. It won't last.
The COVID panic ain't going anywhere for at least 2 more years, and the economic impact of this nonsense ain't going anywhere for at least a decade and half.
"In the field of psychology, the *Dunning-Kruger effect* is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is."
Yeah, and the RLM guys are the ones who more aptly fit that descrition for thinking they pop and lock and not look completely fucking stupid. I'd never heard of Wiggles and, shit video notwithstanding, he wasn't bad and was actually pretty damned good. That Canadian guy probably needs to drink a fifth of whiskey to do the chicken dance at a wedding.
The "incompetent being unaware of their own incompetence" thing is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, where learning a little about something brings you to the top of "Mount Stupid" until you learn enough to recognize how little you know.
In case anyone was interested: I did a quick search on "Croning Ceremony" and that rabbit hole was way deeper than I initially anticipated! From what I've been able to find, the Croning Ceremony (also known as "Saging Ceremony") is a rite of the Unitiarian Universalism Religion, which up until this point I didn't even known it was a thing. Apparently this religion is a Christian derived, kind of "cult-like" (at least it seems that way) religion, that believes in unity among everyone regardless their beliefs, gender and other stuff (apparently they accept everyone there, even if you're an atheist you can be part of that religion -I don't even know how that can work). They also seem to be way more "women focused" than your average religion usually is. They have five ceremonies for women, all of which are related to women's fertility (two are about miscarriages during pregnancy, one's for girls who just had their first period - called "Menarche or Red Tent Party" - , one's for birth and the last is the croning ceremony that basically is a celebration of menopause) but only one for men.They also even have a "coming out celebration" for LGBTQ people. An incredibly weird and new age cult I didn't know about up until this point.
Equalized, that's why I said they were "kind of cult-like (at least it seems that way)" (although to be fair in the end of my comment I did unfairly call them a cult). In my research I went to some websites and that's the type of vibe I got from them, but I know not all religions are cults (and I agree with the description you gave of "cults being led by malicious people") which is why I wasn't sure of call them that.
Yeah, there are a couple UU churches in my area and I wouldn't describe them as cultlike at all. Cults are characterized by being isolationist and following charismatic leaders. UU churches are pretty much for the kind of person who says "I'm spiritual, but I'm not religious", and they really welcome anyone to participate (or not) at any time.
I thought RLM would know but basically the bit about porn sites taking over your computer isn't misinformation. It took a long time before operating systems and browsers started to react to the ways porn sites abused html specification, browsers and their bugs. Didn't help that basically Win95 and Win98 had no OS security. They assumed any executable that websites offered for you to download were safe to run with administrative privileges, so basically the only limiting factor for people wanting to take total control over your computer was their own lack of programming experience. With Windows NT/XP things got a lot better on OS side, and you started to get open source browsers that tried to control the damage going to a random website could cause. But 90's? Things were scary af.
I just had post-traumatic flashbacks Websites could add bookmarks to your desktop without permission, each closing window opened a new one. Javascript had control over mouse and keyboard and could click on buttons. JavaApplets had free access to your system. It was a nightmare
@@NinjaKurosai I don't think they auto downloaded. But they were dangerous to install. And they were SO unusable. Microsoft made some really clunky things.
Hey man, in the 90's unstoppable waves of porn pop-up ads and pop-ups that pretty much hijack your computer were a real thing. Close one and two more would appear.
I should add that those infamous, infinite pop-ups are still out there as a relic of bygone age. Hiding in executable such as "Free Netflix Launcher.exe" or etc. Targeting unsuspecting people who are new to this "World Wide Web" thing. Once you run the .exe, 500 different codes of pop-up will be installed directly into every corner of hard drive. To this day, many tech support personnel can attest for customer who needs help resolving their pop-up problems...
@@TheZigzagman yeah but why? Tone-wise it was very tense. And it was well shot. BUT I didn't feel like any of these very well done elements PAYED OFF for me. I was enjoying it but the last quarter had little payoff. I felt like great there's 10 dollars down the drain. Who what when why and how were not sufficiently answered for me. I can appreciate an open ended film but not to this degree. It had so much potential and f'ed it up IMO and that's why I say it sucked.
@@user-hf9hf6hw8j That's a fair analysis. I guess it just worked for me as a story that was more about the symbolism. Taken as a literal progression of events, I agree that the end has very little payoff.
I’m really glad that “hug a tree and survive Canada” made it on the show ..... I found that little gem in the Army surplus/ Pawn shop in Whitehorse Yukon they used that video for Educational purposes in the early 90’s with scouts Canada 🇨🇦
