Omg The Manners Club was my tape I sent it in!!! Mike was unbelievably accurate: In the late 90's in Pennsylvania my grandma took me to a manners class at my local library. A middle-aged woman played the tape, had us re-enact the activities, and sold us tapes & T-shirts at the end. Never occurred to me I was probably talking to General Manners himself.
That’s awesome! How long ago did you send it in? I gifted them a copy of God’s Wacky Animals forever ago and I’m still holding hope that it’ll grace the wheel.
Lady was Alison Gertz an AIDS activist who contracted AIDS at age 16 from a single sexual encounter. She told her story in order to spread the message that aids could happen to anyone, not only homosexuals or the poor, and dispel the many misconceptions about the disease. She died at age 26 in 1992 due to AIDS-related pneumonia.
The family was one in which the father, a hemophiliac, got HIV from a transfusion. He infected his wife unknowingly, and their baby son died when a few months old, which is how they all found out they were infected. The father died of AIDS, but the mother is still alive, and is an HIV awareness advocate.
High Impact Hand Safety had a cautionary tale about drinking on the job. It went right over the RLM guys' heads. Wait until Mike loses a finger in a VCR.
As a Scottish guy I'm upset they didn't land on "The Baldy Man". It's a failed TV show for the comedic actor, Gregor Fisher. He was in Scotland's biggest comedy show of the 90's "RAB C. NESBITT" and this was his follow-up. I just wished you'd started watching it only for episode 2 to start and you have the shocking realization its a TV show and you are stuck watching the whole thing
yeah man i was gaggin for the baldy man to get picked - i remember him from the hamlet cigars adverts - never knew he had a whole show ..id imagine it was pish but gonna have to search youtube for it..
As soon as I saw it I recognized the character, it's based on a skit from Naked Video, a scottish skits show from the late 80s. Edit: I think the character also did a hamlet cigar ad in the early 90s, where he tries to get his picture taken in a photobooth and it keeps failing...
You can tell Mike didn't edit this one, because @37:44, Mike says "Sexual Harassment" and Rich licks his lips, and there's no slow motion zoom in with distorted audio.
I'm a Japanese translator and an embarrassing weirdo. So I'm excited to share the info about the Japanese tape. It's made for junior high students and it's called "Messages from the Future: what you need to know about AIDS" I'll reply to this comment as I watch the episode, and provide translations.
The kids get visited by humanity from the future. They bring up Magic Johnson because he's got AIDS. The future kid brings the modern-day kids down to the cellular level to teach them about AIDS and the immune system
The woman in the Japanese video's name is Allison Gertz, she was an activist for AIDS awareness and education. She contracted it after a tryst with a bartender in Studio 54 when she was pretty young (like maybe less than 18), so that might be why they are talking to teens about her. She eventually died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992. Her story was adapted into a TV movie starring Molly Ringwald, Lee Grant, and Martin Landau called Something to Live For.
Thanks you. That is actually kind of important and touching. In all seriousness the AIDS epidemic was serious. We are fortunate that things are better for HIV patients now.
The Allison Gertz story kind of hits differently now. She said that people dismiss AIDS because they think it only affects homosexuals and poor people, but she's proof that even a straight rich girl could get it and should be taken seriously. It kind of supports the accusation that America didn't care about the AIDS epidemic in the beginning because they didn't care about gay people dying.
The way Mike always wussies out and gives the phone to Rich, and Rich suddenly becomes master of the situation and doesn't fumble his words like usual. Love it.
47:59 The writing there says Alison Gertz. According to a quick google: "Alison L. Gertz was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia." By the way, did you know google translate has a handwriting feature? You can just carefully draw the symbols you see whenever need to look up a mystery person in an educational tape about AIDS.
"This house is perfect, what's the catch? Is it haunted?" "No ghosts but I do legally have to inform you that General Manners filmed a educational tape here" "I'll pass"
Red Letter Media is the only serial publication of any sort that I'm still excited to see new episodes of even after years and years of watching. I can't remember the last other thing I genuinely thought "Oh yes! another episode!" to with such glee. Thanks so much for doing what you do guys.
Whoever sent you the Japanese tape definitely gifted it from the heart. It's got AIDs, Wisconsin, and it's a weird Japanese video. Really, it's a culmination of what makes BOTW so special.
I rarely watch videos from this series, so BOTW acronym didn't ring the right bell for me. And so, I was wandering why would AIDs, Wisconsin and a weird Japanese video would make Breath of the Wild so special.
I cannot begin to describe the fucking joy and anticipation I felt in my heart when: 1. I read "A message from the future: what we want you to know about AIDS" in Japanese on the box 2. I realized Rich & gang didn't know that yet but were about to find out sooner or later.
@@faritkamalov6567 As perfect as that would've been, sadly no. At 45:31, the commentator says 2 words in quick succession: 1. the loanword for "virus" - weerusu （ウィルス） 2. the Japanese word for "infected person" - kansensha (感染者） You put those two words together, it becomes "weerusu kansensha", or "the people infected (by AIDS)". Easily mistaken for Wisconsin, but one of the greatest coincidences in BOTW history.
Imagine you're a middle aged man now working for a low rent studio that makes safety films, and you never got your chance to make that crazy slasher movie you always wanted to make, and then the company says "make it gross" and you think "My time has finally come."
"That memory is already in my grave," was great too. It seems to suggest that every minute Mike has spent with their library of horrors has preceded him to hell, where they await to be revisited upon him for the rest of eternity.
They think Mike is just being a troll when he picks Manners Club as BOTW, but I’ll bet Mike just really likes that video. Manners Club is simply steeped in the essence of the elderly, right down to the grandma’s house aesthetic. The elderly do not have to be visible on screen for Mike to laugh at them
Mike does seem to like stuff which is just awfully made. He often votes for videos/movies featuring comically low production values and general complete incompetence.
29:20 worked in a meat refinery for years, one summer worker had the automatic blender machine get stuck from all the meat goop, so he had the bright idea of trying to clean it up by hand from the receiving end of the blender. Lost all his fingers. I chipped a piece off my middle finger by accident too while I was there, disassembling a small skinning machine after a day of work, loosened one of the screws to remove the blade from the inside for metal recycling. The lightweight blade gently fell on my fingers but industrial knives, axes and blades are so sharp it took a piece of my middle finger anyway, peeled the middle finger flesh from the bone. Majority of these accidents happen when you get too used to the work itself and start getting sloppy and inattentive. Have to remember to have certain respect for the heavy machinery.
Similar experiences working in kitchens. Most accidents don’t happen by the newly trained people, those mistakes are made by people who are used to little injuries and forget that the big ones are still possible too
@@JunkCCCP Thats what it is called in my language. "Lihanjalostamo". And its accurate. You turn living pigs into a clean piece of meat in a plastic container, separated from the bone, cleaned from blood, veins and excess fat.
I worked with UPS on their airport tarmac. They told us this -- when you get complacent, careless, or too cocky, that's when accidents happen. The new guys, fresh and bright-eyed, very rarely were the recipients. We had to lug what we called "air cans" on and off of planes, usinghydraulic equipment, ball bearing platforms, and enormous dollies the size of trailers. I'll never forget when someone training me how to hitch a 2 ton metal dolly properly showed me a missing finger, or the time the entire operation paused because someone got their foot sheared apart by a can in an airplane. I'd rather lose any other individual body part (excluding vitals, of course) than a hand. The dolly story sobered me forever, in a way other safety information didn't. It became real. You absolutely must respect industrial equipment, in the same way you respect a natural disaster or a deity (if you believe). They have power you cannot possibly hope to match. Fuck around and you will be crushed like a bug.
Shake Hands With Danger was shown to me when I was in the army as a combat engineer and I had a course about heavy bulldozers and such. Everyone in the room completely lost their shit laughing everytime the folk singer started singing after someone gets horribly injured
The podcast "Well There's Your Problem" uses the folk singer's "Shake Hands With Danger" bit as their musical stinger for their _Safety Third_ segment wherein listeners send in entirely preventable safety incidents caused by morons with more responsibility than brains. Highly recommended!
I had to watch it for shop class back in the late 80's, I was cackling throughout the whole film and got a couple of others to sing along twards the end. I still hum it when I see something dumb about to happen.
They hate doing WOTW, but pound for pound, it has given us the most iconic content RLM has ever done outside of those famous George Lucas space operas.
I'm an aircraft mechanic, and for safety trainings' we've had to listen to several black box recordings of planes crashing or people getting crushed by the flight control surfaces during maintenance. The shock videos can be pretty effective.
That's intense. I think it is a useful practice though. I'm not a pilot, but they do a similar thing for engineering, showing things like helicopters ripping themselves apart because of a bad design, or buildings collapsing because of last minute design changes.
Yeah I had to see some graphic stuff getting my arborist assistant training - chainsaw injuries, electrocution deaths. It does stay in your mind for sure.
As a part time RAF cadet at a British school in the 1990s, we got showed a similar safety video which featured what I believe to be real footage of a man with a severed leg with blood squirting out of the artery. As you can tell, I still remember that.
I can't handle stuff like that. Even in this episode during the hand stuff, I put a napkin over my phone so I wouldn't see anything. And red asphalt, in drivers ed the instructors let me go outside.
One of my in-laws is a farmer that had both hands severed when he fell into a running piece of machinery. One hand was cleanly removed and the other hung on by some skin. He walked about a mile through his field to a road and "waved" down a truck that gave him a trip to the hospital. A friend went back to the field to recover the cleanly removed hand. He had successful surgery to reattach both hands. The surgeon told him that it was the most amazing surgery in his career. The hands are fully functional. He was able to proudly show me pictures of his hands lying on a tray prior to surgery using his smart phone.
One of my in-laws is a Japanese student in an ill-fitting suit that contracted AIDS when he was sucked into the eyeball of an alien that turned giant. He walked about a mile through the blood vessels and "caught" a ride on a white blood cell to the lymph nodes. A friend went back to Wisconsin to get a basketball. He had successful treatment to cure his AIDS. Magic Johnson told him that it was the most amazing recovery he had seen. His immune system is fully functional. He was able to proudly show me pictures of Woody Woodpecker in New York prior to treatment using his smart phone.
I really wish that Mike would do more videos talking about Paranormal TV shows. I would pay money to see him talk about the comedy gold of the "Ghost Adventures: Goldfield Hotel" special from last year.
So you all were so close on the Japanese AIDS video. It is an junior high school educational video about a person from the future coming back to talk about AIDS. And all your "Wisconsins" are just how they pronounce "viral infection" in Japanese. XD The chart is actually talking about the rising amount of AIDS cases in Japan by year. The school uniforms were ill fitting, but that could be explained by production has one size or the fact that they're really expensive. So the uniforms need to last the students the 3 years of their (junior) high school career. Because of that, families buy larger sizes and hope that their children will grow into it. The kids conversation (with the dolls in the background) is even funnier/worse with your commentaries. Boy: "It's fine if it/we/they(?) die, isn't it?" Girl: "Hey, that's a wedding __??__" The woman was Allison Gertz/Gatz(?). It is the story of how she got aids from sleeping with someone for the first time.
@@TheMontross The trailer park stuff (from the bits I could hear) was talking about how the child(ren?) were born with/had been infected with AIDs. They kept clipping the same parts, so I'm guessing that that part of the video was probably along the lines of 'even children/families can have it. It's not just adults who have risky lifestyles. Here is an example of an everyday family who has to deal with their children (don't know if the parents also had it?) AIDS.'
This post is going to be updated with everything I know so far about the Japanese tape: 未来からのメッセージ 知ってほしいエイズのこと (Message from the Future: Things you’ll want to know about AIDS). Consider this an open letter: if anyone has this video or KNOWS where to find it, post it. Hell, if you find a VHS for sale online somewhere, I know how to rip VHS. Gimme the link and I'll buy it and upload it. RLM probably made a rip, but I don't think they will upload it (for obvious reasons). This is for archival, fellas. I love time capsules like this. EDIT 3/19/2022: People have said the mystery woman in the video is Allison Gertz, an AIDS activist in the 80s and 90s. A friend found a listing for it on an education site for the Okinawan audiovisual library. It lists the length as 15 minutes, and gives the tape a teaching material number of v-1684. It looks like these tapes are/were MOSTLY rented out to junior high schools, so one may never have been actually owned outside of the education system.
Uploaded screenshot of cover to Google and the words translate to - Not yet Junior High Is it? AIDS that I want you to know AIDS Virus Supervised by the Japanese Society of School Health / School Health Education Division, Physical Education Bureau, Ministry of Education
I thought I was going a little insane that they glossed over Mike asking "Is that a real ting?". What did he mean? That either Rich just made it up on the spot or that there is a real Pedobear out there?
@@P3t3rminator I think the moment Jay mentioned "internet thing", Mike immediately lost interest. He probably has no faith in modern internet meme culture (even tho it's a fairly old meme in this case).
That second video feels like it stands as a testament to all the crap they have gone through in all these videos. It actually makes me quite happy to think that it means there's so much more great material out there for them to find the series could go on for another decade.
I can tell you that in 1995ish when I was 25, I was beginning a job as a maintenance worker at a turkey kill and processing facility and they made us watch the High Impact Hand Safety video. We are maintenance men, can do any job, the epitome of blue collar, some of us prior service, this video scared the shit out of us.
Worked for my dad from 14-18 during the summers at his construction company. Drove the forklift, daily, in the warehouse moving concrete forms around with only this instructions: this level does this, and don't kill yourself. I've only now realized how completely insane that was.
When I was working in a factory, the safety instructor guy was just touring around with real life photos of actual people who got violently killed by machines that we worked on. It was effective, I will never unsee them.
That was pretty much my Driver's Ed class, as well. "Who needs to learn how to parallel park?! Look at this mangled corpse stuck halfway through the windshield instead!"
@@ThePerfectSeth That is literally all I remember from Driver's Ed, pictures of decapitated heads starting at the camera and a real brain splattered on the street. My teacher then proceeded to tell us two stories about how a mom of a student of his ran over someone and decapitated him, and then another story about how his friend killed himself and a date. Anyway, how long do you wait at a stop sign?
I remember seeing some brutal workplace accidents from LiveLeak and a 30 second clip is way, way more effective than an hour presentation on not sticking your head in a moving machine.
"Woman in photo" at 48:00 was Alison Gertz who was an AIDS activist who passed away in 1992 at the age of 26 because of the disease. She has an IMDb page for being a guest on an episode Good Morning America. (alongside George Lucas, although this is probably unrelated. I have never seen that show and do not know its format)
The family was one in which the father, a hemophiliac, got HIV from a transfusion. He infected his wife unknowingly, and their baby son died when a few months old, which is how they all found out they were infected. The father died of AIDS, but the mother is still alive, and is an HIV awareness advocate.
I've been a machinist for 17 years and I had one job where they had a safety class every month. Never did we get to watch one like that. That would've been too fun.
Bunch of hack frauds have been recycling the same 5 jokes for 27 years, so how's that for "something new" in the comment section! P.S. I still love you guys.
In the Japanese video, they're saying "AIDS uirusu kansensha" which means "people infected with AIDS virus". It's extra funny that they hear "virus infected people" as "Wisconsin".
When they were talking about the other safety videos, I remembered this picture of a sign in a shop somewhere: *This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh, nor does it care* Edit: another thing I remembered were those "There are no accidents" PSA's shown in Canada. The most well-known one is of a chef spilling a giant pot of boiling water on herself
That Canadian PSA felt so real when I saw it for the first time, it was so viscerally disturbing to me. If the goal was to scare me away from ever working in a kitchen, mission accomplished! lol
When Josh is around it's either really violent, gory videos (Surviving Edged Weapons) or absurdly weirdo experimental films (Wicked World). Keep that energy moving Josh!
I thought of your Japanese-cult-"don't go to the supermarket" song when they landed on that. That was probably one of the last foreign film videos they've done.
Baldy Man is a mainly mute character of Scottish comic actor Greggor Fisher (Rab. C. Nesbitt). It's basically Mr. Bean but with a little more slapstick. It first came about following one of the most successful & memorable advert ever to appear on UK tv for Hamlet cigars, back when advertising tobacco products during the ad breaks for a Saturday morning cartoon was a perfectly acceptable practice.
That safety training library also has some options for "confined spaces", that's where you get stories like "Compartment filled with poison gas, and 5 people went in one after the other trying to save them before someone realized what was happening"
That's a regular extrajudicial execution method in mexican jails. Warden send "non-paying" prisioners to clean septic tanks without equipment, someone suffocates, they send another 3-5 to "rescue" the first guy, and end up with up to 6 free beds.
Or a room with an ungrounded electrical current. My dad managed electricians and when he took some time off an incident happened where an electrician walked into a room with a current so strong it immediately cooked the moisture from his body and essentially vaporized him, then his partner followed him and they found them at the end of the day when their trucks never came back to the shop.
As a person who works in industry with heavy machinery, the vast majority of safety training is just management pointing at the machine and saying “don’t touch that”
Not sure if anyone else commented with this yet, but “woman in photo”is… Alison L. Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia.
@@kenknight5983 Alison L. Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia. Google Lens translated the Japanese writings to Allison Gartz so I had to search a bit more.
I feel so proud of myself for managing to catch the Japanese alien man saying "Aids" during the Magic Johnson spot. Even beat the almighty sleuth Rich Evans to the punch by a few seconds. Certainly nothing I do will ever top that achievement.
Out of all the channels I've been subbed to for years and years, RLM videos are the only ones I immediately watch once they're posted every single time. There's really nothing quite like it on RU-vid.
Same for me buddy!! I ended up making fan art animation of them... Speaking of...DID SOMEBODY SAY 20:41 "MANERS ¿WHO NEEDS EM?" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u1QbP3HSaGo.html
Baldy Man is played by Gregor Fisher, he created and starred in Rab C Nesbit, a Glaswegian comedy, he also recently appeared in The Cockfields. He is a pretty respected Scottish comedic actor. Baldy Man is a character he created for several Hamlet Cigar adverts in the 80s 90s and it somehow became a shortlived TV show. Not his magnus opus. Cheers.
My stepmother had to look after Gregor Fisher when he was in hospital many years ago. Funny man on screen, massive pain in the arse in real life, apparently. Baldy Man was, as far as I recall, a mostly wordless comedy, pre-dating Mr Bean by quite a few years.
@@romlemmon I grew up in a tiny village in Scotland, Gregor Fisher moved there when I was a kid, all us local kids attended his wedding, met a lot of famous folk that day, my cousin was his paperboy, never really met Gregor himself but he seemed cool, he used to buy loads of fireworks for the village for Guy Fawkes night.
that quick shot of the dude getting his ring stuck and falling and his finger getting ripped off IMMEDIATELY triggered a flashback from when I was in high school. My senior year I had a history teacher that was missing her ring finger and that’s how that happened!!!!! She said she was up on a little step stool in her closet getting something on the top shelf and her ring got caught, she fell and it straight up ripped her finger off. She had a wonderful attitude about it though, she said the only real downside was it made scooping M&M’s out of the bag a lot more difficult 😂 That was freaking insane, totally forgot about that.
A few years ago, I was working at a fruit market. They used a forklift to unload the truck, and literally EVERYONE drove that forklift. Nobody had a license. The manager would drive it SO fast in short spaces. RLM has taught me through its content, that that is fucking insane.
The guys seem like they're having so much fun in this one and it's an all-time great episode. Mike and all the guys really are ON IT with their jokes, one-liners, and takedowns
With the exception of Mike talking about getting blood all over your Simpsons T-shirt and not one of them went for the low hanging "DOH!" But yeah, this was champagne BotW.
The workplace recreations of confined space accidents could actually be pretty gnarly. Pretty much all the examples they talk about when you take the course involve multiple fatalities.
If anyone should fear death, it's Mike. When the time comes, he'll see ALL those movies again in one giant terrifying clip. So that's one big motivation not to die.
Sitting here in Japan with this episode playing in the background while I'm getting some work done. Then the Japanese AIDS video comes on and I'm not getting anymore work done.
I forgot which episode it was but it's one of my favorite Jack moments. They're all saying stuff like "you moron!", Jay says "You dummy!" and then Jack yells out "YOU C*NT!" and it's bleeped lol
"Japanese Basketball AIDS Video" is the most important phrase of this generation. Also we need to not skip over the sick-ass Jordans the taller boy child was wearing.
I always do this too! If any kid starts talking in something, me and my girlfriend will just groan out of disgust and just mock them the whole time they’re talking. I fucking hate child actors
@@MrDrProfessorPurple even though they we're annoying and cringe they weren't actors though,just roped into an akward situation by people bigger then themselves, we we're all children once and if I had a choice I'd make a run for it
Given The Peter Serafinowicz Show only got one series and wasn't even that well known in the UK, I always feel oddly happy when this bunch of hack frauds in Milwaukee reference it
I’m really upset they didn’t land on Cold Steel since it’s probably a collection of their sword promo videos. They have no idea of the power of the Greatsword, or just how many pig carcasses an out of shape dude in a warehouse can hack apart.
I got so excited when I saw Cold Steel on the wheel, because I OWN that dvd! I picked it up from a bargain store for like 25 cents on a whim cause I thought it looked like wheel material lol. Guess I was right.
This one ranks with the top BOTW episodes. It has it all: cash grab manners bullshit, horrific workplace safety scenes akin to 'Edged Weapons' and indecipherable Japanese nonsense in the vein of 'SOS'. I re-watched it immediately after finishing the first viewing. Haven't done that since the Drunk Tim Christmas episode. Hoodies for Everyone!...and AIDS!
Just as a bit of info from DE: Staplerfahrer Klaus is parody AND to be taken seriously at the same time. They legit still show it in forklift driving classes to this day over here which is great for obvious reasons
Good way to keep folks attention is to mix humor with a real message. It'll stay with you longer too. I remember the funny safety/educational videos I've seen in my life much more than the boring ones, or even the boring+graphic ones.
As someone who works on modern safety training courses, I really REALLY wish we could have more melodramatic gore in our content. In a few months I'm going to be working on our company's Hand Safety training course. Wish I could sneak in clips from this hand safety tape.
