"It's such a sadness, that Santa thinks he has seen Best of the Worst on his telephone. He thinks he experienced it, but he's been cheated." -David Lynch
As someone who works in the safety field, the takeaways that Mike brought up - especially given that he was probably drunk and mostly trying to make fun of the video - are exactly the correct takeways, making this apparently a very effective forklift safety video.
It's a little known fact that after witnessing the overwhelming tactical advantages of the American forklift, the Nazis created their own forklift military division: the Liftwaffe
It bugs me so much that Tim was clearly and repeatedly trying to get the others to ask him "So, what was the bad thing you did with a forklift that made them show you this kind of video?" and no-one ever took the bait. Of all forklift injuries, forklift accident blue balls are the worst.
I wonder if he had a joke ready on the chamber and was only waiting, or if he was, drunkenly, just being ominous and if someone asked he wouldn’t know what to really say - And which one would’ve been the funniest outcome.
@@Tetragrammaton22 I was going to say that, or his story was just so simple that it wasn't worth including. He mentioned hitting the corner of something with a forklift. Maybe that's all it was. Hopefully it was just mundane and not something that he ended up asking them to cut out or something.
December 22, 1944 Dearest Hilda, I wish I could tell you that things were going better out here on the front, but I must confess that the war is only more and more horrible each day. Yesterday we were hit by the US 420th Forklift Regiment. Though we were quickly reinforced by two battalions of pallet jacks, we couldn't hold the line, and we were slowly lifted and placed on high shelves deeper within the borders of our own Fatherland. Do you remember Klaus, our friend from school? He's gone, Hilda, lost during a desperate counterattack when he foolishly lifted a crate with his back rather than his knees. I can still see his wide terrified eyes as he clutched at me and begged for aspirin and workman's comp. I can still hear the beeping of the Americans' forklifts slowly backing up, only to come at us again and again. What horrors we have brought on ourselves in this destructive and terrible war. I can only pray that one day I make it home safely to you and our daughters. Yours ever, Hans P.S. Oh God, I can hear the squeaky wheels approaching. Lord have mercy, they're coming at us with handtrucks.
It's like when your usually bearded dad suddenly shaves out the blue/1st time you see him like that,...'like who da hell is this fuck?' then you work out who it is but your still slightly cheeped out by them. Thats clean shaven Tim...slightly creepy.
@@twaltThe funny part is that Oregon is actually pronounced closer to what Mike was saying ("or a gun"). Which makes Tim's insistence even funnier. Speaking as a Washingtonian and longtime resident of the Pacific Northwest.
I will always respect Tim’s dedication to getting absolutely sloshed by the time they get to discussing the first video Edit: Tim's hilarious in all of his episodes y'all, didn't mean this as a criticism lol
So apparently a third Feeders movie was released THIS YEAR and I'm almost certain it's in response to the attention RLM's given the series. That being said, it's apparently a 'comedy', and as the great Rich Evans has explained: the worst thing a bad movie can try to do is be intentionally funny.
@@johncole4183at first I completely agreed with you until they started showing clips from the tape. There have been times in my job (in and around forklifts for the better part of fifteen years) where if there is ever an accident or a workman's comp claim, they gather us up like the livestock we are to watch videos exactly like this. This isn't a training video, it's an accident prevention tape. There actually is a difference.
Is he for hire? Drunk Mike would completely change my Christmas season. I would offer min wage, all the alcohol he wants, food, and a place to be unconscious. He will have to provide his own TP.
William Wegman’s Weimaraners were on Sesame Street for at least 30 years. They did 30 second segments with nursery rhymes and counting, they might actually still be airing them occasionally
Got to love how even in their late-late-late 40's, Mike has a childlike fascination with utility vehicles and Jay still laughs uncontrollably at the word "poo".
I feel like it’s probably a rule of thumb with old people to not risk another potential fall helping a fellow senior up. The only youth in the room, Jay, was probably busy planning on his eventual hair growth and didn’t notice.
49:00 The Discussion about Forklifts in WW2 made me as a German who grew up with only Hollywood on West-German TV and after think of the most stupid thing Let's be honest, they would have had built a Mecha-Cyborg-Thule-Black-Sun-Forklift to flip the whole United States of America over. As a German, this is what Hollywood taught me to think like Prost & Merry Christmas from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
3:49 Something about Jay's "They got a little spaceship set and everything" just killed me. It sounded so sincere, like he was judging a grade school science fair project and he was legitimately impressed. Meanwhile, crumbled black bag alien turd growls menacingly.
@@octopiratetv8768 Sort of, that's Rich and Mike's exaggeration of what he said to mock him. He said something like that it's worth noting Feeders was one of the first amateur-but-commercially-available shot-on-video movies.
37:21 I love that they show more concern for the dog than when they watched a man put a gun point blank to his chest and shoot himself to test a protective vest in one of the past videos.
The dog doesn't understand he can hurt its tongue licking the running electric mixer. Meanwhile, the Second Chance guy, Richard Davis, knew full well what kind of potential risks there are with shooting a gun at yourself, even wearing a Kevlar vest, but he had confidence enough in his product that he would take that risk to demonstrate its effectiveness. *tl;dr* below about how Richard Davis is incidentally a crook. With the development of his "Ultima" and "Ultimax" vests, made out of 'Zylon', a kind of polymer material technically stronger than the traditional Kevlar material, he neglected to tell the Department Of Justice, or his other customers, of its fatal flaw: lifespan. All soft body armor degrades over time just from being worn, being exposed to sweat, sunlight, body heat, ambient heat (like living in Florida or sitting in a hot car in the summer), even air, but the Zylon material degraded MUCH faster than the traditional Kevlar material, so people used to wearing body armor for a certain period of time before disposing of and replacing it, were now wearing expired armor, and they didn't even know it, Second Chance certainly wasn't telling people about the short expiration date, and Richard Davis was 100% aware of this. This would come to light in 2003, when two police officers were seriously injured from their Zylon vests failing to stop the bullets they were rated for, and lead to a protracted legal battle between Richard Davis and the Department Of Justice which only was settled a couple of years ago. Second Chance had to recall all of its Zylon armor, and promptly went into bankruptcy as a result, being acquired by another company unrelated to Rich Davis.
@@jamesd4223 Yeah. The Kevlar armor he sold all worked great, but he really just hoped the Zylon wouldn't be a problem, for him. Mind, regular civilians can buy body armor too, he didn't tell them either, and there's something especially screwed up about selling a product that's supposed to save your life but which has a really big flaw like that you don't tell people about.
I'm not saying Jay murders cats all I'm saying is when I roomed with him in med school I returned to my cat, dead in a fridge with the cryptic note "cat dead. Details later"
In this episode, Rich confuses Vore fetish with Cannibalism fetish. Also in this episode, Jay pretends he has heard of, but doesn't really know what a "feeder" is.
Tim got blasted last Christmas also. He asked if they could finish watching the 2nd Chance bulletproof vest video because he couldn't leave until he sobered up lol.
I think the record was set when he asked Jay “remember when you murdered Cats” in one of The Halloween BOTW and then kept on saying “goodnight sweet cats” but may be wrong
@@Scott_Silver I think you’re right. They actually had to come back and film a second day for that episode, because they were all so drunk and it was a trainwreck.
I get it, though, they had to watch miserable dogs dressed up to really, really uncomfortable narration. It's how they avoid psychological trauma. At least, it's how they avoid some of it.
Lol. Of all the weird knee-jerk reactions I've experienced in every day life in Wisconsin.. people immediately correcting one's pronunciation of Oregon (the town) was by far the most baffling. Is this the one hill (or mound) everyone is willing to die on?
That would be historically inaccurate, because the forklifts were primarily used in the European theater, as Rich and Mike were explaining in the video.
@@RandyHawkeye Yeah, they did get deployed early on in the conflict, but the Japanese would hide in the foliage and push over the American forklifts as they passed by, the American losses were so great, that the entire 5th forklift cavalry division was pulled out of the Pacific theater, but they would go on to play an important role in Italy.
William Wegman and his human-dog hybrids used to have a bunch of Sesame Street segments through the 80s and 90s, so weirdly enough, seeing them here is oddly nostalgic.
I’m so glad Tim is on this video and not at my Christmas party because he seems like the type of drunk who will trap you in a conversation that makes no sense and pass out on the floor near the toilet.
@@Mortico88 My long time assumption is that Rich loves booze, recognizes it's negative impact on his life, and smokes weed in between most takes to be a part of the 'party' atmosphere. As everybody who has tried weed can agree, weed is great. But I'm guessing it's something he does while playing with Jack online to enjoy himself, except for BotW episodes. I base this on nothing.
@@michael.devitt yeah, rich is a teetotaler, as in, he uses nothing... some people can actually live without drugs.... and, in response to the "weed is great" line.... I smoked for a close to a decade and then quit. at a certain point it becomes boring and just a fucking brain fogging numbing useless thing.... maybe once in a while at a party, but I wouldnt even pay a dime to use any
Mike failing to point out the guy from _Star Trek: First Contact_ in _Santa With Muscles_ is clearly a sign of how bad the dementia and alcoholism have gotten. It's time for an intervention I think.
For a glorious minute, I thought you had written the phrase, “Star Trek: First Contact with Santa Claus”, and I’m very disappointed that movie doesn’t exist.
Mike has an uncanny ability to spot whenever an actor is drunk during their scenes. But i guess it should come as no surprise considering the amount of personal experience he has on this subject.
As someone who has done years of warehouse work, I like Mike appreciating how dangerous forklifts are. Everytime I see a youtube page watching these type of videos or accident prevention stuff it gives me chills because if you know you know.
I always laugh to think of the relationship between Mike and Rich like certain directors who have their "leading man". Hitchcock and Grant. Scorsese and DeNiro. Kurosawa and Mifune. Stoklasa and Evans.
It's usually sitting on the table in most episodes. They body mic in the discussion and you can tell based on the editing beside them wiping them out for jokes all the time.
Oh my god. Has RLM never seen Forklift Driver Klaus? Given Mike's new enthusiasm for everything fork lifty, he _absolutely_ needs to be sat down to watch this.
I only rewatched it, as I do annually, two days ago. I remember friends in high school talking about it and gifting me the DVD. I still treasure that one highly. Pinnacle of whatever that genre might be. They show that at actual forklift instruction sessions in Germany still, too.
I love seeing Rich's progression as an actor year over year. He's come a long way since Space Cop! I genuinely think he did a great job in this video's epilogue. :) Keep up the great work RLM we're here for you in 2022!!!!!
Honestly seeing the skits and how far they've come is awesome. The lighting and camera work in this one was spectacular and then rich's acting just makes it
"It's such a sadness, that Santa thinks he has seen Best of the Worst on his telephone. He thinks he experienced it, but he's been cheated." -David Lynch
GET REAL!!!
*on his FUCKING TELEphone.
@@CarozQH came here to say this lol. On his FUCKING telephone
A Muppets Christmas Carol is actually the most spiritual Christmas film.
"Elaborate on that."
"No."
Love how Rich "folding chable" Evans becomes Mike's interpreter once in a while.
It's the lack of alcoholism
The one with the diabetic speech impediment interpreting for the one with depraved alcoholic slurring
Rich “fart bag” Evans
Rich "the moopies" Evans
But it causes stress; He’s gonna have a Tums festival.
Without his mustache, Tim looks like the manager of a Best Buy, rather than the manager of a Panera Bread.
Best Buys would typically require forklifts more often than Panera Breads would, right?
With the mustache, Tim was the manager of an artisanal electronics shop.
@@pseudotasuki the last Radioshack in existence perhaps?
He looks like he manages a park from a cartoon
Who the fuck is Tim?
Rich did the ending skit because he was the only one sober enough to actually stand up and walk in the woods.
He's also the de facto protagonist of the RLM extended cinematic universe!
As a lifelong Midwesterner, I have a fair amount of experience walking through woods drunk
I know you're making a joke, but Rich is sober. He doesn't drink alcohol.
this is the most chaotic and unorganized episode they’ve ever done and rich is just along for the drunk ride
Rich saved xmas 😂
It's endearing seeing a drunk Mike talk about what he's learnt about forklifts like he's 10 year old
I see Mike has the Holiday Alcoholic Blush going on.
they're all so drunk about 45 mins in lol I'm dying.
As someone who works in the safety field, the takeaways that Mike brought up - especially given that he was probably drunk and mostly trying to make fun of the video - are exactly the correct takeways, making this apparently a very effective forklift safety video.
@@YummyCummyMan I'm dying for more drunk episodes lol but you know, without the alcoholism. This episode had me dying
My regret is that it wasn't the German Forklift safety video.
It's a little known fact that after witnessing the overwhelming tactical advantages of the American forklift, the Nazis created their own forklift military division: the Liftwaffe
Thank you for sharing the underappreciated history of warklifts.
Argh
It was lead by Lift Kommander Mein Herr Hulk Hogan.
You go to hell, I laughed.
A forklift liberated a concentration camp - it is known as Schindler’s Lift.
Tim w/o mustache: Government agency press agent
Tim w/ mustache: Victorian-era bicycle-powered gyrocopter inventor
Nah he looks like a more middle aged Mario with the mustache imo
@@vincenthalfprice9930 yea ad mustache what th hell
He looks like Ryan Reynold's older alcoholic brother. It's a solid look.
I just thought he looked like a scuffed Maynard James Keenan.
@@themoviedealers Thatsa spicy pork loaf
It bugs me so much that Tim was clearly and repeatedly trying to get the others to ask him "So, what was the bad thing you did with a forklift that made them show you this kind of video?" and no-one ever took the bait. Of all forklift injuries, forklift accident blue balls are the worst.
I wonder if he had a joke ready on the chamber and was only waiting, or if he was, drunkenly, just being ominous and if someone asked he wouldn’t know what to really say - And which one would’ve been the funniest outcome.
OH I assumed that maybe all the forklift drivers had to watch a video because one driver messed up, not necessarily him
You don't know that they didn't have a whole conversation about it and then just cut it out of the video. Editing is a thing they do sometimes.
@@Tetragrammaton22 I was going to say that, or his story was just so simple that it wasn't worth including. He mentioned hitting the corner of something with a forklift. Maybe that's all it was. Hopefully it was just mundane and not something that he ended up asking them to cut out or something.
Tim probably drives a Forklift like how Rich Evens talks
December 22, 1944
Dearest Hilda,
I wish I could tell you that things were going better out here on the front, but I must confess that the war is only more and more horrible each day. Yesterday we were hit by the US 420th Forklift Regiment. Though we were quickly reinforced by two battalions of pallet jacks, we couldn't hold the line, and we were slowly lifted and placed on high shelves deeper within the borders of our own Fatherland. Do you remember Klaus, our friend from school? He's gone, Hilda, lost during a desperate counterattack when he foolishly lifted a crate with his back rather than his knees. I can still see his wide terrified eyes as he clutched at me and begged for aspirin and workman's comp. I can still hear the beeping of the Americans' forklifts slowly backing up, only to come at us again and again. What horrors we have brought on ourselves in this destructive and terrible war. I can only pray that one day I make it home safely to you and our daughters.
Yours ever,
Hans
P.S. Oh God, I can hear the squeaky wheels approaching. Lord have mercy, they're coming at us with handtrucks.
I like the cut of your jib Hans.
lmao
Applauds from the safety of the clearly marked green, pedestrian-only zone.
As a stockworker, I feel this in my soul.
Tim speaking without his moustache feels like he's dubbing himself.
He actually does have his stache it was cgi'd out which is why it looks like that
Oh no. They shot an episode on VHS... imagine one where they ADR all the dialogue.
Tim is the most clean shaven homeless person I've ever seen.
It's like when your usually bearded dad suddenly shaves out the blue/1st time you see him like that,...'like who da hell is this fuck?' then you work out who it is but your still slightly cheeped out by them. Thats clean shaven Tim...slightly creepy.
@@Legion563 Still not as creepy as clean-shaven Josh
He looks like a sober, non-meth-addled version of John Sakars.
That's not Tim, that's his stunt double
I miss the epic mustache
Tim just randomly blurting out "its orygon" because he misunderstood Mike is one of my favorite moments in the episode. Mike was so confused lol
its Oregon - he said the state
@@twaltThe funny part is that Oregon is actually pronounced closer to what Mike was saying ("or a gun"). Which makes Tim's insistence even funnier. Speaking as a Washingtonian and longtime resident of the Pacific Northwest.
Half in the worst is back, I'm so glad we get to see Mike before dementia really sets in.
And Rich before he succumbs to crippling diabetes.
You joke but it’s becoming a genuine concern…
Before?
Do you think Jay recommends any of these turds?
Pretty sure the term's wet brain, as Mike is an alcoholic.
mike falling over then quietly saying "im gonna get another beer" is one of my favourite botw moments
I will always respect Tim’s dedication to getting absolutely sloshed by the time they get to discussing the first video
Edit: Tim's hilarious in all of his episodes y'all, didn't mean this as a criticism lol
At first he and mike were lookin fresh and I was like ‘wonder If they got sober?’. Nnnnope
I think he has a few too many this time. A couple times he was talking, I was wondering if he would be able to finish the sentence.
It is an art form. 🍻
@@rav-7072 Remains one of my favorite episodes
@@rav-7072 your channel is so much better wow you are so talented
After Macaulay Culkin, I can't believe those guys managed to invite Jason Statham for their show.
The drunker mike gets the more Wisconsin his accent gets
I always confuse drunk normal Mike with drunk Mike imitating Rocky.
Really disappointing that ghosts didn't come up in the discussion.
I like the way he says "ghosts" in his drunk sconnie accent
Ghōsts
Sorry to correct your grammar: it isn’t drunker it is more drunker
Sir this is a Wendy's
I love how Mike got so drunk, Rich Evans had to correct him.
Had to help him finish his jokes and everything.
Tim's mustache is what completes him. It's like he forgot to wear it or something
Wait, that's who that guy is?
He is Tim!
Nah. He's lookin p fresh
I don't know. I would say it's his maniac eyes. The mustache is just like a bow on a present.
Hello.. NIN. I could've sworn his name was TIM...
He could at least do us the common courtesy to put a Santa beard on to ease us into this mustache-less Tim world.
So apparently a third Feeders movie was released THIS YEAR and I'm almost certain it's in response to the attention RLM's given the series. That being said, it's apparently a 'comedy', and as the great Rich Evans has explained: the worst thing a bad movie can try to do is be intentionally funny.
-- Rich Evans, star of Space Cop
He's right because I've seen Birdemic 2.
Evil Dead II being the exception
@@toa1311 evil dead 2 isn't anywhere near a bad movie
@@lachlanmclennan2188 exactly, cheap =/= bad at all, and there's plenty of great, cheap comedies
Tim's seen a man crushed by a forklift and it shows.
Explains the thousand-yard stare and the merciless sense of humor. I think you've created cannon-worthy backstory here.
Tim's all "Pfft! Amateurs..." the whole time. He knows the true horrors.
They tried to kill him with a forklift??
Plot twist Tim was the guy driving the forklift
@@johncole4183at first I completely agreed with you until they started showing clips from the tape. There have been times in my job (in and around forklifts for the better part of fifteen years) where if there is ever an accident or a workman's comp claim, they gather us up like the livestock we are to watch videos exactly like this. This isn't a training video, it's an accident prevention tape. There actually is a difference.
This was easily one of the most incoherent Best of the Worsts ever. And I loved every minute of it.
Couldn't've put it better. Probably in my Top 10 BOTWs.
They seemed so mad at each other the entire time, like a drunken angry mess
@@DanDantheMagicMan Ah, the true spirit of X-mass.
It was an extremely special episode, it made my whole Christmas week, and BOTW can never be this unhinged again.
This episode takes the record for most deranged BOTW conversation since armpit fat fold Dom Delouise babies
When mike shouts “he’s not wearing rubbly gloves” at 51:27 after drunkenly falling over I knew this would be a Christmas to remember
Is he for hire?
Drunk Mike would completely change my Christmas season.
I would offer min wage, all the alcohol he wants, food, and a place to be unconscious.
He will have to provide his own TP.
Hey, I'll even toss in an extra $20 if mom gets her "present unwrapped"
@@Kyle-sr6jm Bumbling Mike. For when you need your awkward Christmas dinner to be over.
@@Kyle-sr6jm "all the alcohol he wants"
Look at mr billionaire here
William Wegman’s Weimaraners were on Sesame Street for at least 30 years. They did 30 second segments with nursery rhymes and counting, they might actually still be airing them occasionally
Thank you! Was screaming this at my phone lol.
Oh god I barely remember that but I know what you mean. I remember seeing them on the Elmo's World segment too
Ah yes, another hour+ of Mike talking to his hallucinations.
You say that, as if it were a _bad_ thing... ;)
Half in the bag plottwist.
Are we enablers?
@@PALACIO254 i hope so
Best Indie psychological thriller motion picture of the year
Hearing Mike drunkenly describe everything he learned about forklifts from that training video gives me life
Got to love how even in their late-late-late 40's, Mike has a childlike fascination with utility vehicles and Jay still laughs uncontrollably at the word "poo".
They are 43 and 41 yo...
@@aleale6277 lol I know, just exaggerating to push the perception of their elderliness.
@@aleale6277 Jay's 22 doe
Dude, Jay is like Seth Green. He made a deal with the devil, giving up height in exchange for eternal boyish youth.
@@danielbretall2236 As part of the deal he also had to legally change his middle name to "Susan".
50:57 Honestly sick that not one person stepped up to help an extremely, extremely senile man after he fell
I feel like it’s probably a rule of thumb with old people to not risk another potential fall helping a fellow senior up. The only youth in the room, Jay, was probably busy planning on his eventual hair growth and didn’t notice.
Tim without a moustache is like Jack with hair or Josh without a beard.
Or Mike without Jay
Or Rich without Diabetes
Or Rich without crippling charisma
Or Mike without alcohol or Rich without tums
And we've had both of those so we have a trifecta.
Don't even talk about Jack with hair. That's not right
I really enjoyed this video of a debilitated man gushing about all the cool forklift safety facts he learned.
Bless you and all the evil, evil things you do to Halo and Dark Souls.
No kidding. He was on one. His level of drunkenness was starting to get a little bothersome.
chicks dig certified forklit operators unironically. Look at the data.
49:00 The Discussion about Forklifts in WW2 made me as a German who grew up with only Hollywood on West-German TV and after think of the most stupid thing
Let's be honest, they would have had built a Mecha-Cyborg-Thule-Black-Sun-Forklift to flip the whole United States of America over.
As a German, this is what Hollywood taught me to think like
Prost & Merry Christmas from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
@@chartreux1532 Powered by Vril Energy harvested from the secret hollow moon/Earth base.
I love that Tim was the only one pronouncing Weimaraner correctly and none of them had any idea what he was saying.
1:11:56 Piss drunk Tim is the only person in this entire video to actually pronounce “Weimaraner” correctly.
It's so hard to pick between "wee-mariner" and "wiener-miner" for favorite mispronunciation
@@ahhdang i didnt even process that they were talking about the dog breed at first....
And then they give him shit for it!
It’s been a while since I’ve seen them this drunk. 10/10 Christmas special
I eagerly waited until I got off work this morning when it posted so I could get absolutely Tim-faced and god was it worth it
I still think Tim was brought in so Mike wouldn't look like the biggest Alcoholic.
It all makes sense......
@Death Adder No, he's the bald drunk guy.
@Death Adder you must be a blast at parties
@Death Adder He's not bald he's alternatively hairy.
I think it’s more like Mike makes Tim look like a lightweight
Tim: "The 12 inch rubber toys?"
Jay: "Oh, I had those!"
Well that explains a lot doesn't it
Say the line Bart !
"Im actually a top" - Jay
YAAAAY
Rich Even's "NO" as Feeders2 was pulled is probably the most rewatchable part of this episode.
Jay, fantastic job editing this train-wreck into something that made me laugh out loud.
Next do Tim's intervention.
I'm not even halfway though this and have laughed 3 or 4 times.
Intervention? That would be like pissing on the Mona Lisa.
Just have it go like Chrissy's one in The Sopranos where it goes off the rails almost immediately
3:49 Something about Jay's "They got a little spaceship set and everything" just killed me. It sounded so sincere, like he was judging a grade school science fair project and he was legitimately impressed. Meanwhile, crumbled black bag alien turd growls menacingly.
Wasn't he calling the first one "fascinating and needed to be preserved"?
@@octopiratetv8768 Sort of, that's Rich and Mike's exaggeration of what he said to mock him. He said something like that it's worth noting Feeders was one of the first amateur-but-commercially-available shot-on-video movies.
This is the drunkest I've seen Mike in a while... It truly is a Christmas miracle.
37:21 I love that they show more concern for the dog than when they watched a man put a gun point blank to his chest and shoot himself to test a protective vest in one of the past videos.
Makes sense honestly. The dog isn't putting itself in danger, nor does it even understand the scenario.
The dog doesn't understand he can hurt its tongue licking the running electric mixer. Meanwhile, the Second Chance guy, Richard Davis, knew full well what kind of potential risks there are with shooting a gun at yourself, even wearing a Kevlar vest, but he had confidence enough in his product that he would take that risk to demonstrate its effectiveness.
*tl;dr* below about how Richard Davis is incidentally a crook.
With the development of his "Ultima" and "Ultimax" vests, made out of 'Zylon', a kind of polymer material technically stronger than the traditional Kevlar material, he neglected to tell the Department Of Justice, or his other customers, of its fatal flaw: lifespan.
All soft body armor degrades over time just from being worn, being exposed to sweat, sunlight, body heat, ambient heat (like living in Florida or sitting in a hot car in the summer), even air, but the Zylon material degraded MUCH faster than the traditional Kevlar material, so people used to wearing body armor for a certain period of time before disposing of and replacing it, were now wearing expired armor, and they didn't even know it, Second Chance certainly wasn't telling people about the short expiration date, and Richard Davis was 100% aware of this.
This would come to light in 2003, when two police officers were seriously injured from their Zylon vests failing to stop the bullets they were rated for, and lead to a protracted legal battle between Richard Davis and the Department Of Justice which only was settled a couple of years ago. Second Chance had to recall all of its Zylon armor, and promptly went into bankruptcy as a result, being acquired by another company unrelated to Rich Davis.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Damn. After reading about about it further he really screwed over multiple government agencies and officers.
@@jamesd4223 Yeah. The Kevlar armor he sold all worked great, but he really just hoped the Zylon wouldn't be a problem, for him.
Mind, regular civilians can buy body armor too, he didn't tell them either, and there's something especially screwed up about selling a product that's supposed to save your life but which has a really big flaw like that you don't tell people about.
Easy as pie, folks.
Mike legitimately laughing at the dogs licking the frosting was so wholesome
Yes, it reminded Mike of a trick from his childhood, when he wanted dogs to lick things.
I love any time he kinda breaks at nothing. Like with the Christie movie.
Glad to see that Tim's perfected the "uncle fresh from prison" look
Lol in another video someone went with “Uncle with gambling debts look.”
He has that "oldest cousin of the family look."
Big "stepfather who went to jail" vibes
Avuncular penal freshness
I totally read this as "Uncle Fresh, from prison." which gives me an idea for a sitcom
Tim is right, safety videos/meetings don't show up until the boss loses money.
As the saying goes, "Safety rules have been written in blood."
"Haunted by the ghost of dead cats?" How ironic, Jay.
Good Night, Sweet Cats
I'm not saying Jay murders cats all I'm saying is when I roomed with him in med school I returned to my cat, dead in a fridge with the cryptic note "cat dead. Details later"
Allegedly
In this episode, Rich confuses Vore fetish with Cannibalism fetish. Also in this episode, Jay pretends he has heard of, but doesn't really know what a "feeder" is.
Well, Jay edited the episode, so he definitely knows what it means now.
I hate that I knew Rich actually meant vore...
Jay crying tears of Joy after Mike’s 15-minute Wikipedia search punchline truly put me in the Christmas spirit.
I can safely say “the guys discuss vore” is not what I expected from the rlm Christmas special
But you gotta admit, Jay bringing up drowned cats is 100% on point.
@@AmazingThor I’m pretty sure I muttered “of course” when he said it lmao
Rich Evans can vore me anytime.
(SARCASM)
I was so relieved that none of them actually knew for sure it has become far too common of knowledge
Rite?? .. and guro too
The Rock found out exactly how little his range is.. exactly how many times you can play the same person in a movie before people quit watching.
Damn, this level of drunkenness is usually reserved for the Halloween episodes
Tim got blasted last Christmas also. He asked if they could finish watching the 2nd Chance bulletproof vest video because he couldn't leave until he sobered up lol.
Rich is looking so good. At this rate, I feel like in a couple years we could get a buff shirtless Rich
I was gonna save this for Christmas Eve, but the siren call of Rich's laughter lured me in.
48:50 jay leaving to make a poo goes unacknowledged by the editor, revealing a grave double standard.
Good job on calling him out! Bravo😂
my favourite time of year, rich has to babysit everyone who gets too drunk to focus and fails miserably
There needs to be a live blood-alcohol meter in the corner of the screen for Mike at all times. This might be a new record
I think the record was set when he asked Jay “remember when you murdered Cats” in one of
The Halloween BOTW and then kept on saying “goodnight sweet cats” but may be wrong
@@Scott_Silver I think you’re right. They actually had to come back and film a second day for that episode, because they were all so drunk and it was a trainwreck.
Allegedly
We need a “liver” gauge o meter to show us how destroyed Mike’s liver and kidneys are from his drinking addiction.
I get it, though, they had to watch miserable dogs dressed up to really, really uncomfortable narration. It's how they avoid psychological trauma. At least, it's how they avoid some of it.
Watching RLM is like settling into a magical comfortable world where nothing is pronounced correctly and that's ok
Wee Mariners.
Just think - they’re probably editing this year’s episode now🔥
Very excited
Probably drunk as well
@@A-small-amount-of-peas we can only hope
@@A-small-amount-of-peas to be completely fair that can be said during any time of the year lol
Kind of heartwarming that we all come back to old Christmas episodes while we wait for a new one to be released
Tim’s “it’s OreGON” caught me completely off guard and I lost it
That deserves more appreciation.
Lol. Of all the weird knee-jerk reactions I've experienced in every day life in Wisconsin.. people immediately correcting one's pronunciation of Oregon (the town) was by far the most baffling. Is this the one hill (or mound) everyone is willing to die on?
Tim's "Are you sure this isn't a Tool video?" made me laugh way harder than it made anyone in the room with him laugh.
Same here, because he's so fucking RiGHT, it does totally look like a Tool video XD
Tim wearing NIN shirt for the black spin raffle, mentioning Tool now
man's got taste
I was trying to figure out why the Feeders were so familiar
That shit got me good
Adam Jones’ filmography includes Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, and Feeders 2
Imagine the soldiers raising the flag at iwo jima but instead it's just a single forklift
I’d salute that
Driven by a dog
Before watching the video: What??
After watching the video: Ah okay!
That would be historically inaccurate, because the forklifts were primarily used in the European theater, as Rich and Mike were explaining in the video.
@@RandyHawkeye Yeah, they did get deployed early on in the conflict, but the Japanese would hide in the foliage and push over the American forklifts as they passed by, the American losses were so great, that the entire 5th forklift cavalry division was pulled out of the Pacific theater, but they would go on to play an important role in Italy.
There's some real good cinematography in the ending skit. Sometimes I wonder how you manage to be so talented and still make Space Cop so bad.
They knew what to do wrong.
@@woopsallberries4969 It's stylistically designed to be that way
@@seamusthatsthedog4819 and you're listening to the music
@@seamusthatsthedog4819Just like The Phantom Menace
"Listen, I'm trying to explain the plot to Santa with Muscles..."
- Mike Stoklasa, 2021
I want that in my headstone
3 cheers for a very healthy looking Rich Evans
Hip hip!
@@adamkramer9080 Technically, a cheer is "hip hip hurray", so that's only 2/3 of a cheer.
Family. Family. Family.
Rich stays in Shape by playing with Muscular Rubber Gay Men action figures.
Three cheers for Captain Biggs!
I love the fact that Mike and Tim are completely smashed in this video.
how could you forget famous alcoholic Rich Evans?
@@biggrimace6506 Rich seems to be okay. Mike is a bit drunk. Tim is still passed out and this was probably filmed last week....
@@jasonlederman315 I don't remember where I heard it, but I'm almost certain Rich does not drink at all.
@@AegisRick I meant Mike. You are correct. He used to be a bad drunk and stopped drinking (it was mentioned in earlier BotW episode)
@@jasonlederman315 Ya Jack and Rich both stopped drinking cause it got too much
As a forklift operator for over 10 years, cheers Mike.
47:50 Tim’s *reeeeally* hoping someone will take the hint and ask him what he did that required him to get remedial forklift safety training.
William Wegman and his human-dog hybrids used to have a bunch of Sesame Street segments through the 80s and 90s, so weirdly enough, seeing them here is oddly nostalgic.
Is that why I want to watch this DVD so much? Am I responding to Sesame Street nostalgia?
That’s where I’ve seen those dogs!
Ya I was surprised they seemed to have never seen it before. It wasn't a shock to me because I had definitely seen these before
I had a huge smile on my face while they were talking about the Wegman video. Loved those segments growing up.
I'm surprised that was never brought up. It was like novel to all of them.
Their concern for the dog's tongue was absolutely adorable.
I grew up with a weimaraner dog. They just look naturally miserable.
Man I worked at a puppy store and I love weimaraners! They shouldn't be depressed looking they r very goofy playful lapdogs. Wtf did you do to yours?
@@RaptorRockDrakeJesus that dog has seen some shit..
Of course Jay is the first to start talking about drowning cats.
Good night, sweet cats.
Don't tell anyone he actually has a cat.
*garbled cat sounds*
Like the movie says, "Don't Fuck with cats."
I had a Weimreiner growing up and my parents kept buying me William Wegman's books even though they scared the shit out of me
These are "why mariners" though.
We mariners. Like we three kings, but an unspecified quantity. That video would be incredibly dull AND frightening to a child.
Also: tiny Gortons fishermen.
*Wiener Miner
Weimaraner - German city of Weimar (Thuringia) pronounced WHY-MAAR.
Tim without a mustache looks like when the animators forget to put in a key detail of a character.
This should have more likes
Or when one of the stars of your movie has to come back for reshoots, after cutting or shaving their hair.
@@steveharvey2102 Looking at you, Henry Cavill...although you won't have to worry about *that* ever again.
i'm just here to say in appretiation: Jay's editing is hilarious
I'm waiting for a feature length William Wegman Shining.
@@andyoli75 I was gonna say it seemed Lynchian in his hands :D
Breenius
Couldn't agree more
Both Mike and Jay are great editors!
Here while this episode was still called Half in the Bag
V confused at first
Historical moment.
those frauds cant keep getting away with it!
Best of the Worst now literally replaced HitB.
I thought Rich is finally doing HITB replacing Jay since Rich only reviews superhero movies then im disappointed lol
I’m so glad Tim is on this video and not at my Christmas party because he seems like the type of drunk who will trap you in a conversation that makes no sense and pass out on the floor near the toilet.
Rich Evans didn’t need AA, he just needs to look at Mike and think, “Fuck drinking.”
*indistinguishable gibberish* Chris Pratt.
I'm of the opinion that he doesn't drink because he prefers weed.
@@Mortico88 or he's just able to function like a normal human being.
@@Mortico88 My long time assumption is that Rich loves booze, recognizes it's negative impact on his life, and smokes weed in between most takes to be a part of the 'party' atmosphere. As everybody who has tried weed can agree, weed is great. But I'm guessing it's something he does while playing with Jack online to enjoy himself, except for BotW episodes. I base this on nothing.
@@michael.devitt yeah, rich is a teetotaler, as in, he uses nothing... some people can actually live without drugs....
and, in response to the "weed is great" line.... I smoked for a close to a decade and then quit. at a certain point it becomes boring and just a fucking brain fogging numbing useless thing.... maybe once in a while at a party, but I wouldnt even pay a dime to use any
Mike forgetting "orphan" was funnier than it should be.
Mike failing to point out the guy from _Star Trek: First Contact_ in _Santa With Muscles_ is clearly a sign of how bad the dementia and alcoholism have gotten. It's time for an intervention I think.
For a glorious minute, I thought you had written the phrase, “Star Trek: First Contact with Santa Claus”, and I’m very disappointed that movie doesn’t exist.
I would happily watch that film.
Mike has an uncanny ability to spot whenever an actor is drunk during their scenes. But i guess it should come as no surprise considering the amount of personal experience he has on this subject.
"the weirder the kink, the badder the stink."
-Mike "The Boy" Stoklasa
This was issued by the Institute of misattributed Quotes.
As someone who has done years of warehouse work, I like Mike appreciating how dangerous forklifts are. Everytime I see a youtube page watching these type of videos or accident prevention stuff it gives me chills because if you know you know.
"Mike left to go make a poo" has been the hardest I've laughed in awhile, the music is so dramatic
The way he looks directly into the camera for a second or two right after Mike leaves is the cherry on top. He had made up his mind in that moment.
that's when I 'Stop tape here for discussion'!!
50:56 Getting to watch Mike drunkenly stumble and fall with no provocation makes this whole video worth it.
Honestly that's an instant classic RLM moment to me. The way he falls so slowly too.
I was crying.
Rich's ever-evolving pronunciation of "Weimaraner" made this a Christmas stocking gem for me. "Weederminer" might be the best one.
It was a thing of beauty.
Alternate title: Depressed sober man has his drunk friends remind him why the holidays are dead.
Underrated line of the show early on from Tim... "are you sure this isn't a Tool video? LOL
He knocked it out of the park with that one.
Tim is a man of culture I see.
I always laugh to think of the relationship between Mike and Rich like certain directors who have their "leading man". Hitchcock and Grant. Scorsese and DeNiro. Kurosawa and Mifune. Stoklasa and Evans.
Stoklasa and Evans, when the Wheel fell.
@@TerrenceNowicki Culkin, his arms wide
Burton and Depp too.
@@NoAssemblyRequierd Donald Farmer, his breathing heavy.
@@TerrenceNowicki I literally laughed out loud, well played 😂
Rich's acting is getting really good. He really sells the "creepy weirdo burying stuff in the woods". You can't even tell he's acting...
I love that Tim brings the authentic energy of a friend spending the night during the holiday season
I have literally never seen the microphones in the viewing room until this episode when Mike starts grabbing them
In the Black Spine video Jay is talking directly to the microphone during California Big Hunks.
It's usually sitting on the table in most episodes. They body mic in the discussion and you can tell based on the editing beside them wiping them out for jokes all the time.
butyourbraindid
They do a very good job with audio, its something thats not noted when its done well but noted when its terrible.
The fact that Mike knows who Jake Paul is... That just a whole new layer of evil to this whole enterprise
Oh my god. Has RLM never seen Forklift Driver Klaus? Given Mike's new enthusiasm for everything fork lifty, he _absolutely_ needs to be sat down to watch this.
Dang, you got there first. Seconded, by the way.
When I heard "forklift" I immediatly thought about Klaus and how awesome it would be to watch the guys watch that flick. But hey, can't have it all.
send them a copy. i've never heard of this, but it sounds right for them.
I only rewatched it, as I do annually, two days ago. I remember friends in high school talking about it and gifting me the DVD.
I still treasure that one highly. Pinnacle of whatever that genre might be. They show that at actual forklift instruction sessions in Germany still, too.
This needs to happen! Frohe Weihnachten!
Jay's professionalism and Rich's sobriety really shine in this episode.
Mike freaking out when the dog tried to licking the blender are kinda heartwarming
Dogs and the elderly are his weakness. Except Cop Dogs.
My grandfather served in the 14th Forklift Cavalry and frankly I didn't appreciate the mocking of those brave operators
Yeah it wasn't fun at all. My brother went like that in a random forklift accident and his family had to pay for the ruined warehouse shelves.
13:31 for not being a cat murderer (ALLEGEDLY) jay does a perfect drowning cat noise
The way Rich keeps pronouncing Weimaraner makes me think of a comic book character called the Wee-Mariner, like a little person Sub-Mariner.
The Wiener-Miner! He mines Wieners! No wait, never mind.
"Nobody wins today!"
I won today, Mr. Evans. I won, because I got to watch this video.
Agreed.
Whenever Mike grabs liquor and says "No No No", you know we're in for a rough ride.
I love seeing Rich's progression as an actor year over year. He's come a long way since Space Cop! I genuinely think he did a great job in this video's epilogue. :) Keep up the great work RLM we're here for you in 2022!!!!!
Honestly seeing the skits and how far they've come is awesome. The lighting and camera work in this one was spectacular and then rich's acting just makes it
As a senior citizen he's really come into his own as an actor.
43:00 Michael says, "...or a gun", and Tim picks up on a pun opportunity ,"Oregon" but the whole table is not getting it, and they just move on
It took me way too long to figure out who "Michael" was
So.....just like all his other jokes than? 🤣
I don't think it was a joke. I think Timothy genuinely thought Mike meant the state.
It wasn't a joke, Tim misunderstood what Mike said.