We Finally Watched Nukie: The VHS Grading Video
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- e-Bay listing for Nukie: www.ebay.com/i...
There's been a growing trend in VHS collecting, which has created an entirely new market for professional VHS grading, very similar to what's been happening with video game cartridge grading. As the owner's of 1000s of crappy VHS tapes, we were curious to dig deeper into this trend, as well as examine what makes something valuable and collectible. This all culminated in us taking a deeper look into our collection of Nukie tapes. Everything always leads to Nukie.
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital: www.stjude.org/
Wisconsin Humane Society: www.wihumane.org/
I’m praying the person who wins the final Nukie just sends it back to RLM
THAT WOULD BE AMAZING
A true RLM fan would do just that
Dude, this needs to be top comment
I'm hoping it's Rich who wins the bid!
Please let it be so.
Winning price for Nukie ... $80,600 USD. Back to the Future VHS went for $75,000 USD. And just like that Heritage Action's claim of best selling tape falls to RLM. 💪
HA uses wording to say "Best selling tape on HA" by using fine print abuse. They do this for all of their auctions.
Someone REALLY did it all for the Nukie.
The Wikipedia article for Nukie now features a section entitled "VHS auction" which contains the line: "The graded tape was then auctioned off on eBay with proceeds going to charity, selling for $80,600. The results of the auction made Nukie the *most expensive VHS tape in history*." (emphasis added)
@@Mick_92 sadly I can only give you one like but gotdamn LOL
It's less 'Nukie collectors' and more 'authorized Nukie disposal site'
A real Yuck-a mountain.
Long term nuclear waste warning applies to Nukie, they need a plaque;
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
NNNNUUUKKKKIIIIEEE!!!!!!🤣
The Nukie tape destruction subverted my expectations...and bummed me out a little.
@@playedout148 Just like The Last JEDIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiii
Just think, that 8.5 rating was given to a tape that may have fallen violently to the floor, buried in a rubble of other VHS tapes at least 3 times from rounds of Black Spine Junka.
Being on top I think generally saved the Nukies from the worst of the Junka games.
I love how at least one of the copies of Nukie they threw in was clearly Mac and Me.
25:16 I believe; in case someone was searching
I died
Fun Fact: One of the releases of _Nukie_ actually used _Mac and Me_ art on its box. I am *NOT* even joking. Look it up. It's a French version that goes by the name _"Nukie et Miko."_ That's what they have. It actually is a copy of _Nukie!_ They had so little faith in releasing it, they replaced the art with a different shitty _E.T._ ripoff, hahaha.
@@MaximumMadnessStixon I was confused as to why there were different pressings of Nukie with different cover art. Now I see that there were different pressings for different countries, and am even more confused now.
@@DeflatingAtheism I'm not exactly sure why it'd be confusing. Different companies own distribution rights in different countries, and will sometimes produce their own cover art and whatnot. That's typically how it has always worked. (It's also possible that specific cover art might be copyrighted to certain companies and thus couldn't be reused by everyone else without paying extra.) Additionally, they have to produce versions in other languages, which is why there would be multiple pressings. You're not going to release an English-language tape and case in Germany, for example.
As for the _Nukie et Miko_ case, I'm guessing the same company owned the distribution rights to both _Nukie_ and _Mac and Me_ in that region, realized that the _Mac and Me_ cover art was more appealing... so they recycled the art to deceptively try to make a quick buck.
RLM talking about their genuine love for the things they've collected over the years is a breath of fresh air in the climate of cynical speculation
Optimistic speculation is the only kind of gambling I do. I believe in my investments.
It has a nice tone/feel to it. Id watch an interesting RLM-produced documentary. I bet itd be enjoyable
These dudes have a fuck ton of integrity. They could benefit very easily from this fad of making VHS tapes collectors items and no one would be any the wiser but they chose to talk about it and not only with words but with actions as well.
It turns out they were the Nerd Crew all along.
@@bertbargo7162 lol my friend you just WATCHED an interesting RLM-produced documentary.
Rich Evans - "I'm a certified expert in falling upwards."
Just gold 🤣
Helps to be a living meme
I was literally typing the same quote before seeing this 😆
classic Rich moment
I tried to get that certification myself. It's tough as hell.
Lol, Could of sworn he said "failing upwards" at first.
9 months later, there are plenty of VHS copies of Nukie available on Ebay, the cheapest auction is currently at around $100 and very quickly ramps up to $2k+ asking price. Meanwhile every copy of Back to the Future on VHS caps at about $11 including shipping.
That it equal parts hilarious and super depressing.
You also have to factor in that one of the theories the RLM frauds pointed out was that the Back to the Future VHS tape in particular had specific value; it belonged to Tom Wilson, the guy who played Biff Tannen and all the other guys in the Tannen family tree in the trilogy. Condition helped, but because it was owned by someone who was part of the film also played a role. Meanwhile, people who missed that tangent also missed the point assumed that, suddenly, VHS tapes are now going to be super valuable when; no, it's just that particular VHS copy, and thus are struggling to make any money on sales.
@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 sometimes justice prevails. For all the true fan collectors out there; should you ever need to part with a piece from your collection, I pray that some speculating loser pays you 100x your minimum price, and that their "investment" bites them so badly that you are eventually able to buy it back from them for less than your original asking price.
Impressed they not only didn't fall for the re-shrink but refunded it.
It's one of the only things they bother to look out for because people fuck with them all the time.
If I ran an online VHS Grading company, and some guy called Mike sent me a sealed copy of Nukie, my alarm bells would already be ringing. Probably safer to double check all the other shit he sent
All of Mike's various layers of cynicism and irony instantly evaporated when he saw the first tape go into the woodchipper. In that moment he experienced true wonder.
he was hoppin around like a kid lol warmed my cold...dead heart
Mike's like a glass onion. You can always see him coming
"That... felt... GOOD..."
@@FungleFunTimeI keep returning, in my mind, to the wood chipper
Tbh “ inbreathiate” sounds like a Rich Evans-ism
It’s a real shame too. Not long ago, video game and video tape collectors were buying them because they wanted to have the game/tape, either to play it, or because they had some attachment to it. Speculators are ruining all of that and the older collectors are getting priced out by people who are just buying things to sell them.
It is sad, but just like comics in the 90's the bubble will burst dramatically, and then collectors will be able to find them in bargain bins for 5 bucks again
Yeah, I used to collect Nintendo and Super Nintendo games, so I could actually fucking play them. I got priced out a long time ago. Good thing there are other, less expensive ways to play old games...
@@skystarless EMULATION!
@@frenchfriedbagel7035🤣
@@skystarlessHere to say fuck DK Oldies
I like this version of Mike as narrator. He's like Plinkett's brother whose life never took a bad turn
hasn't taken a bad turn *yet*
Yes this is true@@rachellee8533
@@rachellee8533 But there is a downward slope, and that slope is called dementia.
@sarcasticdude2320 I was gonna suggest Jedediah Plinkett.
I've always thought RLM should have an annual award ceremony called "The Nukies" in which everyone takes home a "Nukie".
Bruh that’s a sick idea!!! Too bad it can’t happen anymore…
I FUCKING LOVE THIS IDEA!!!! AND I LOVE YOU!!!! I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Paul Verhoeven is the first director to accept his Nukie Award in person for Showgirls. Later, Halle Barry would become the first actor/actress to accept hers in person for her performance in Catwoman.
NUKIEEEEEEEEEEEE
They did it all for the nukie
The moment that first Nukie hit the chipper was so much better than I expected. Such a chaotic explosion of plastic and magnetic tape it almost brought a tear in my eye. Glorious.
It was right up there with that knife hand coming through the front door in SEW.
@@johnblack8655 Ah, Surviving Edged Weapons, of course. I thought it was the sequel to SAW for a moment before I realised that's not how that works.
Almost gorey.
@@korganrocks3995 🗡⚔️🪓
"OOOooohh, FUCK ME!!!" I think Mike was thoroughly entertained.
The liberation... it's as if thousands of Star Wars action figures were submerged in acetone, then suddenly cried out in joy.
I gotta start tipping them on patreon, the destruction of pop culture artifacts is one cause I can get behind.
It's official ! NUKIE ($80.600) is better than Back to the future ($75.000)! I have faith in Humanity again!
IT BROKE NEW GROOOOOOUUUND!
Worthington's Law in action!
More Money = Better Than
"better"
So as of this point they've exceeded that Back to the Future tape's sale price, meaning they've broken the record for a videotape sale? Bravo for doing that in a way that underlines how wrong all this videotape speculation stuff is. This actually deserves to make the news.
No, they haven't. The betting activity is almost entirely by people who have either bid on no other items or one other item, meaning the bids aren't going to translate into an actual sale at that price.
@@MegaZetabidders are anonymized, you can’t know that. RLM has friends and followers in the film industry. They have the money and a donation is tax write of as far as I know. You can also see that the bidding slowed down, meaning that it’s not just people trolling the price upwards but actually people thinking about how much they want to spend/donate.
Considering the buzz its generating Mega, it's probably going to sell for a price beyond the BTTF tape, people will cope and say its just for charity though so it "doesn't count".
8:35 that plate set list thing says “negative crepe”
@@MegaZeta lots of people give st. judes more than that every year and don't get a tape. i wouldn't be surprised if its real.
It may actually sell for more than the budget of Nukie
way more than it made
What was the budget, like $2?
@@10191927 cant find the budget for nukie but they sold the tape on ebay for... .... ... $80,600.00..... :D
@@danielwolf6477 - That’s likely more than it got at the Box Office and the actual budget of the film combined.
@@10191927 So making the movie was finally worth it. 👍🏆
I REALLY liked this more documentary style of video!
hi kyle
Yes Kyle, agreed
Kyle Hill, RLM fan. Nice to know. And yes, I'd like to see more like this (as long as it doesn't mean fewer BotW, HitB or R:V episodes).
hello sexy science man
Guys make a 2nd one now it's been sold for over 75k. You have to now.
RLM behind the scenes fact: one of the charities was originally going to be providing care to the ailing elderly but Mike was unable to stop uncontrollably laughing when they tried to film that portion so it was scrapped
Not only have you created scarcity by destroying the tapes but also provenance by creating the video. One of your best. Great job!
I would have liked to have had a near mint VHS of Nukie, but that'll never happen now.
Textbook exploiting a scammy system^^
I get that they’re making a point with this, but I also have to wonder if destroying 100 VHS copies enough if this were for an actual speculative market? Like there have to be thousands of copies still out there right?
@@BradsGonnaPlay Fact is, it's a horrible movie no one's gonna want anyway. I mean, I'm not even interested in seeing it, much less buying a copy (and I have a VCR). There might not be that many copies out there, but the demand must also be really low. The important thing is that even though it may have been a stunt, they raised a lot of money for charity. Well done.
@@sticksmcfly it’s still up on eBay as of right now. It’s up to $80,400 with 222 bids on it. What’s hilarious is other people trying to cash in on the hype with listings of the same movie, that have listing tiles like “another vhs copy of nukie or something”, and “Nukie - a space adventure - rare - portion benefits charity- own something!”😂
My favorite one on eBay right now is a vhs copy of E.T. with the title “E.T. The extra terrestrial - VHS NUKIE RIPOFF SEALED”.🤣🤣
What’s interesting is every listing has active bidders on it.
As someone who fosters kittens for an animal rescue, thank you for donating to the humane society. As someone who lost his 15 year old niece to cancer this past Thanksgiving, thank you for donating to St. Jude's. You guys had a fan. Now you have an admirer.
Suggestion that might warm your heart a bit. If you get the chance name the next kitten you take care of that you can after the red letter media guys.
And given your mentioned family loss, I hope you and yours have a wonderful New Year.
Well, the tape is now going for $75,100
Lots of cat food for 30,000, and probably a good chunk of at least one researchers salary so they can afford to do their job.
@@BladedEdge123 , WE NEED A CAT NAMED RICH EVANS
@@janeeyre1990 Every time it meows, it just goes AAAAAAIIIIIDDDDSSSSS!!!!!!
@@BladedEdge123 Rich isn't a bad name for a cat
hey guys, haven't watched the video yet, but I hope you're still taking care of the copy that I lent you of my favorite movie, nukie!
These guys truly are masters of speculation. Justin Roiland has gone through the roof in popularity ever since they obtained that drawing!
Ha
You simply don’t understand the market Sean, pre-allegation doodles have skyrocketed in value!
Oh the irony of this comment lol
ladies and gentlemen, we see here an example of speculation in action
Doing something terrible and getting "canceled" is quite lucrative for merch sales!
From the e-Bay listing:
On Jan-02-23 at 09:31:54 PST, seller added the following information:
Just a note to those bidding who are NOT in the United States... In order to ship overseas, this item will have to be insured for the value it's sold for. You may have to pay a customs fee on that value depending on your country. Please think long and hard before trying to win this auction now that it is at an astronomical amount of money. Ask yourself... what would Nukie do?
wander aimlessly in the wild while shouting "MIGO!" for 2 hours straight?
Darth Vader’s woodoo hide crotch guard was able to sustain a direct Nukie hit with minimal damage. Impressive.
Turns out he can withstand firepower of that magnitude. Most impressive.
The voodoo hide was just used for polishing 🙄
@@frandor nerd
He took a tactical nukie to his roasted walnuts.
Nukie's cries of pain as he repeatedly entered the shredder brought me to tears. RIP Nukie.
So glad to see RLM donating to St. Jude! It's an absolutely fantastic hospital and the only reason I'm still alive.
So glad that St Jude is receiving a donation from RLM. It's the best channel on TH-cam and the only reason I'm still alive.
Now the ultimate question, would the guys do a make a wish event for a kid at St.Jude?
@@stunner9005 I'm sure they would and the kid would wish they hadn't
@@stunner9005 Dick the Chemotherapy Boy
@@psilobom Fuck you for making me laugh at this
I'm really inquisitive as to how much that one-of-a-kind Rich Evans polaroid would actually fetch at auction. I mean, it's been on the Ellen Show for God's sake!!!
Go look up how much the Nukie fetches... xD
Tens of thousands I'm sure, there got to be some rich crazy RLM fans out there.
@@tubetorpedo Nukie is currently $31,700 3 hours in
Being as that picture is internet famous and been featured on Ellen and other talk shows....prob $100 lol
@@vlamm676 it’s like owning one of Elvis’s hairs
Gotta love the one off RLM videos. It really brings out their chaotic side. Full belly laugh when the first tape hit the chipper. Don’t be sad because the Nukie Shelf is gone, smile because it all got obliterated for a great video
I liked Rich's old man walk
There were probably at least a couple tapes already in the post on the way to them before this vid hit... People aren't going to stop... Plus there's the very real possibility that the winner of the auction just sends it straight back.
@@Lamrett Eventually they'll have to start feeding deliveries of Nukies directly into the woodchipper just to keep the flow from overwhelming the studio.
I am so fucking happy this video cut right to Rich Evans dispelling bullshit. Outstanding fellas
I'm just impressed they got a big celebrity like Rich Evans to appear on a video about Nukie of all things!
My favorite part is how absolutely thrilled Mike is when he sees how well the wood chipper works at 24:15
I'd watch a series of Rich Evans as a detective foiling VHS-related crimes.
Did you just leak the plot of Space Cop 2?
Private Dick the Birthday Boy
If you watch Best of the Worst, you already do.
@@zombbro "VHS Cop"(2023)
@@zombbro , I don't think these middle-aged kids can collectively handle another Space Cop production
There's now a time marker for RLM: BNM (Before Nukie Massacre) and ANM (After Nukie Massacre)
It all began nearly 10 years BNM..
@@eloyvids BSEW and ASEW.
Fact: all those shredded tapes where sent to the NSRC (Nukie Surgical Reconstruction Center) to be polished with woodoo hide after they finished shooting.
75 grand as of now. If someone DOES end up actually buying it for an insane amount, there may just be enough left over for Mike to finally bring back the Dodo
Or enough to buy JJ bittenbinder mustache
I'll be honest, I never thought it would get that kind of money. I have to assume that it's Culkin and hollywood friends who are bidding... and good on them in all honesty (for charity). Even still, it's nuts and probably more than the film cost to make in the first place lol.
@@Kris_A well, bidding and actually buying is a whole different thing.
Wondering how that compares to Nukie's original budget. Or box office.
Should get Elon Musk to buy it and launch it into the Sun
25:45 I love that Mike also throws the heartfelt fanmail into the chipper as well
The bids on your Nukie are insane just two hours after you released this video.
Expect at least a half dozen news article about how the least likely movie managed to hit (at least) $50k in auction.
I expect no articles on the auction, as most of the time those articles are also sponsored by the auction houses.
The corporate press has no interest in real news, what world do you live in?! 🤣
This tape will sell for more than my mortgage.
@silly goose
In what world does a Nukie graded video fit into that description lmao
@@mustangmckraken1150 It doesn't, but it does fit into a wood chipper!
HOLY FUCK. The Ebay listing currently has 133 bids and is going for $31,700!!!
You guys are truly doing it all....for the Nukie.
35K now
The Nukie……So Rich Evans can take that cookie and stick it up his YEAHHHHH. - Fred Durst
yeah!
If it surpasses Back to the Future, I'm done
Over $40k now!
Wow. They really did it all for the Nukie.
It took the geniuses of RLM to truly decipher Limp Bizkits lyrics
Come on
@@willem9182 *cukie
🍫⭐️🐟
@@willem9182 And stuff it up your- YEAH!
The funny thing is, VHS was awful. It was better than nothing, but as soon as alternatives were available the whole world ditched VHS ASAP.
This video has everything. A look into collectibles and the sneaky side of grading companies, a cool interesting look at memorabilia RLM own, a mini Best of the Worst, mass destruction of all Nukie tapes with a woodchipper, and a charity auction. Loved every second of this
I hope they do a follow up with the results of the auction. I hear it's over 50k so far!
This is like a RedLetterMedia version of a Panorama - tackling an issue or talking point. I liked it. They should do more.
Edit: I’d like to add to the record that I noticed AND appreciated Rich Evans combed his hair for his sit down interview.
Agree 100%
here is my best guess on why this video exists. they recorded the nukie botw, didn't get any valuable content and decided to do this video so it wasn't a waste of time and they can stop getting botheredabout watching it.
I love when they do this kind of thing.
Notice that when he combs his hair, he becomes RichARD Evans.
It's almost like video game grading and VHS grading are absolutely low-tier scams that have ruined fun hobbies for the small collective of people who actually enjoyed them!
The same thing happened with video games last year, a mint copy of Mario 64 went for obscene amounts even though that game is far from being rare
Did they stop letting you download ROMs or cracks for games? Cause last I checked you can just pirate anything you need.
Pokemon games got it bad
@@user-account-not-found It's not so much about availability of the games in whatever form, it's that these people are parachuting themselves into niche collectibles markets, wrecking them with these pump and dump schemes and walking off with a sack of cash while a bunch of somewhat less punctual grifters are left carrying the bag. These are artifical distortions of once somewhat stable hobbies through external forces.
The collectors still want to collect, and they find themselves priced out of the market by speculators, maybe for years at a time.
People willing to dish out lots of money for old video games to collect them in graded quality has always been a thing, but the recent trend within the past 5 years is absolutely a bullshit scam caused by insiders wanting to make a quick buck. The (what feels like an internet decade ago) exposure of WATA and the ridiculous bullshit coming from that is a premium example of shit people infiltrating and manipulating things for profit.
I don't own any graded games, but I do collect old video games that I have enjoyed over the decades just to have on the shelf because it makes me happy, and I enjoy re-reading physical manuals and having the old cloth maps to look at and what not (I own all of them on GOG as well). While it doesn't directly affect me, I still think it's bullshit (also the artificial inflation of prices of non-graded games for awhile just made collecting a nightmare because of it).
"It's a hobby like collecting bottle caps, just way more expensive and embarrassing."
My god I felt that so hard.
The death cry of "Nukie" as each copy gets annihilated is marvellous.
I’d honestly pay more for a jar of some of the tape shreddings than I’d pay for a functional copy of Nukie
I second this. Can we get this Merch item?
Tiny dime-jars of Mulched Nukie Tapes
I’m willing to grade the shredded Nukies.
I'd love some shredded Nukie
But would you pay for THE Jar?
I want a Nukie plush toy stuffed with shredded Nukie tape.
I would love to see the person who wins the auction (already at $75,600) come on the show and run it through the chipper.
That would be kewl
I just want to see them put it straight in the mail back where it came from
@@garrethflynn8118 *VEERRY KEEEEWL*
Or send it back for it to be auctioned for charity again.
So fucking ridiculous how high it is already!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 It’ll go over 100K easily. Lolololol.
I guess you could say... they did it all for the Nukie.
So you can take that cukie...
@@drpibisback7680and throw it in the wood chipper (yeah!)
Maybe it was a mistake, and I should buy her a steak
They finally did it. Those maniacs, they finally did it!
MAD LADS
They did it all for the Nukie
They did it all for the Nukie.
Those bunch of hack frauds finally did it all for the nukie.
@@MrKrk221988 😂
Rich's intro about creating hype is spot on and that's exactly what the NFT's scam pumps were about.
The N now stands for Nuuuukkkiiieeee!
And the ones that understand the game make loads of money.
@Baron von Limbourgh the ones backed by venture capital
@@TheIslandDivision NFT stands for Nukie Fucking Tape
I have an original unsealed Space Cop DVD. Holding on to that bad boy.
Only RLM can point out a scam. And end up selling a copy of a VHS they've made fun of, for more than the scammers did for the $75K Back to the Future is a phenomenal feat, as the bid for Nukie is over $75K already. And going to charity, this is why the RLM guys are truly awesome guys.
80k now O.O
You can't out-fraud the original hackfrauds.
Lol I remember when auto tracking came to VHS machines , felt like the biggest baller in the world when friends would come over and we didn’t have to manual fix the pictures
Yeah, you know there's no real penalty for bidding and then not paying, right? I'll be happy if I'm wrong, but I've got a hunch there's some trolling going on. Until it's actually sold and paid for I wouldn't get too excited about the bidding.
And with free shipping! What a deal!!
There's no way someone paid 80k because it's Nukie. They paid that much for Red Letter Media memorabilia
And cuz the proceeds went to charity
Wrong.
someone rich that wanted to join the meme and donate to a good cause
they had a name for this in the video
it's called provenance
@@Pocketrocket-pj1us You think they bought it because it was Nukie??
Love that y’all found a way to turn one of your most anticipated videos (watching Nukie) into a massive charitable donation.
Right! And in turn they talked about their genuine interest and the speculation market. One of their most interesting videos ever
That Nukie tape destroying segment felt like that scene in a political drama where corrupt officials desperately start destroying evidence before the authorities show up.
That was how "The Anderson Tapes" (1971) ended. The various state and federal agencies that had members of the gang under surveillance for various reasons (though none of them could see the big picture and figure out the gang was planning a major heist) independently realized all their recordings had various constitutional issues and erased them all.
It's almost at 12,000 already at the time of this comment. Insane. This tape might sell for more money than Nukie actually made on VHS sales.
Hi I'm from 2 minutes in the future it's now $14,500
It's at over 14k now
Over 15K now. Amazing
Probably more than the production costs too.
If this worthless pile of cinematic trash ends up breaking some sort of record for the price of a VHS at auction I'm going to fart my soul out and snort it.
The fact that it's plausible says something about this market.
Amazing how many articles on this video are missing the satire completely. They think that destroying the Nukie tapes was actually done to increase the value, as opposed to an obvious joke.
That's the cherry on top of all this, the ignorant folks who miss the point.
God bless em.
Any link to some Articels? I tried to google it from here in Germany, but google only searches german News Outletts, which did not write an single articel about RLM :(
The faq? Did they only watch the tape destruction and not the entire video? Does context mean nothing?
@@Pazuzu4All Literally that, yes. Context means nothing to people who want an enemy.
It can't have been that obvious if so many people didn't get it.
The Nukie is currently bidding at $75,700 which broke the record the Back to the Future sale made
Not really, no. Half the bids are from an account that's never bid on anything else, and half the bids are from someone who's only bid on one other item, where 95% of their bids are on this one videotape. Meaning it's extremely unlikely either person is actually going to pay what they're bidding.
Also ebay is now totally geared towards buyers, these guys with 0% feedbacks can just ruin your auctions, not pay and you can't even leave a negative feedback as a seller.
@@MegaZeta Did you buy the BTTF tape? You're posting this exact comment in multiple places.
@@SiriusBigbadda Gotta protect that "investment".
There's a difference between bidding and sale.
I want Rich Evans to be interviewed in every documentary from now on
So Rich, what are your thoughts on Lesotho's external trade balance?
Rich Evans in every Magic Johnson doc film
I have to say, he interviews rather well considering his multifarious health problems.
Name tag in the bottom left of the screen just reads
Rich Evans, 45
Man who was not involved
@@jackdanielsinthelionsden1887 "Star who left the "Ellen" show before it was cancelled, as well as some movies you won't watch because they're too 'artsy' for you."
"75% of this movie has just been them saying each other's names." - Jay, reviewing 'Akira'.
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
KANUKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
KANEDAA
@@progressiveRAMONETTI THATS MR KANEDA TO YOU PUNK!!!
CANADAAAAAAAAAA!!
MILWAUKEEEEEEEEE!!
This isn't the first time Hertiage Auctions has tried to start a speculation bubble. They notably did this to video games. Heritage funded a company which would grade retro video games. That company (WATA Games) would give seemingly arbitrary ratings, suggesting these old games be worth ridiculous amounts. Heritage Auctions would then work exclusively with WATA, not allowing any video game grading companies to give input. When it came out that Heritage bought its own stock to make headlines (such as the NES Super Mario Bros selling for $10,000 years ago), they were hit with a lawsuit.
I feel like RLM has found its calling in niche, humorous documentaries about things they like. I really hope they continue making videos like this.
What shall we call this new 100 episode series?
@@deathblade111 "My Embarrassing Obsession."
@@deathblade111My 600 Tape Life
Holy shit, I think these kind of "random talk and stuff" videos are actually my favorite after BOTW. This channel's educacional value is seriously underrated.
VHS tapes in a wood chipper is something I didn't know I needed.
That was unexpectedly satisfying
Guys, I have great news about the value of that Justin Roiland sketch.
what?
@@huesos_azules Justin will probably have a hard time getting work after the recent news that came out about domestic abuse and other creepy behavior.
So it's probably more expensive now?
@@mrscruffles801 probably cheap now. since justin wont get work you can probably commission him for like 20 bucks for a drawing of a penis and balls creature.
@@nottle9779 charges were dropped.
For a minute I was sure they were about to throw the graded Nukie into the wood chipper.
Me too 😂
You should send the shredded tapes to the grading company.
This is the best comment yet
Take all the pieces of tape usable and make a super extended cut
@@Mr_Fancypants Yes, the 100+ hour director cut of just... "nuuuuuukiiieeeeee"
The last shot of Rich cleaning up needed to be like David Lynch in Twin Peaks the return; He just sweeps for fifteen minutes straight.
You mean like the ending of "Melting Man"?
@@alexeikotov7769It reminded me of the ending of margin call when Kevin spacey was digging a grave for his dead dog
People at Children’s Hospital : Oh, these people at Redlettermedia are so generous. Let's show the children their videos...
Mike originally wanted to donate to a charity that euthanizes the elderly, but when he learned no such thing exists he instead opted to donate to the furthest thing from the elderly he could find.
Plot twist: It was the same nurse that screened Garbage Pail Kids based on a recommendation from Jay in a hospital and got a 2 week unpaid suspension
OOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Hope none of those children are suffering from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA terminal illness.
"Alright, well I hope this is a children's suicide video."
Who ever sent in the last tape is a hero we will never forget!
That wasn’t necessarily the last one.
You were told exactly who sent in that last tape, and you forgot their names before the video had even finished playing.
@@stuuuu3023 Don't try and dox two innocent Nukie donors bro wtf
I cannot believe how heartwarming that ending was. All those VHS tapes, donated to so many Children's Foundations. Truly a Christmas Miracle.
Those poor kids and animals will love watching Nukie.
The insane pile of vhs tape ribbon swirling around by the end of the mayhem is the most surreal thing RLM has done yet. Pure avant garde art.
Reaching heights "Turtle dreams" can only...dream of.
This is borderline experimental
Borderline experimental, one might say.
It was stylistically designed to be that way. But Rich diminished the effect of it.
Borderline experimental
I think my favorite thing about this video is that within the first minute Rich explain the entire premise of how a scummy and scammy person can artificially create a market to get a big headline that whoever sold whatever tape for this much money, you're not going to pick the obscure thing. Meanwhile that's what they did, and literally every single article posted about this, with this video linked, with that exact big headline that they sold it for over 80K after destroying all the copies, but no one watched the video and got outraged. This video is the most perfect analysis of this trend since it was literally proven in the future what they said
The genius of asking "what makes something valuable" then tying that to a good cause. You've literally and metaphorically made the Nukie one of the most valuable VHS tapes ever✌
OH DAMN, I juuust got it thanks to your comment. That's a stronger and deeper theme exploration than 98.2% of today's movies
Exactly!
I was a bit miffed when they started destroying all the tapes, finding it a bit disrespectful for anyone who send them the tapes to be part of the "Nukie Wall".
Now everyone who sent a tape has the warm fuzzy feeling in their stomach to be part of something truely wholesome. True genius indeed.
If I didn't love the RLM guys already, I would now. ❤❤❤
My only qualm is that there's nothing on the Nukie VHS to guarantee it was the version owned (and given a stay of execution) by Red Letter Media, but then, maybe that's the whole point.
@@DeflatingAtheism It'd make sense if there was a certificate included by the grading company that ties the specific item to whoever had the grading commisioned.
I don't know how the process works and if such a certificate exists though.
It's genuinely uncanny hearing RLM talk about charity and the unironic importance of helping children with cancer and homeless animals. This whole doc format and tonal shift was a surprise. This is why I love RLM, always got something special up their sleeves.
I was half expecting them to take out a hammer and smash the shit out of the Nukie tape after they said that! :D
At the time of clicking on this video 26 minutes ago, I think I had covid. When rich Evans pulled out Darth Vader and said you were going to fire nukies at his crotch I started to laugh, then choking and coughing. A ping-pong ball sized wad of grayish dark yellow mucus came out of me, and I can actually breathe again. This video cured my covid. Thank you for your service.
Now don't be gross, darling.
imagine this pfp saying this out loud
Final results on the Nukie auction: 224 bids, $80,600.00 final bid
😆
I rarely comment on videos even though RLM is my favorite channel. But gosh darn it this video is one of the best things I’ve seen all year.
Agreed.
Did you know that I'm gay?
The most shocking thing about this video is finding out the tape room is on the second floor
Fun fact: It has been discovered that a lot of the speculation of the video game cartridges is provably market manipulation by a grading website and an auction house owned by the same people.
That's what I'm thinking. This sounds so much like what Karl Jobst uncovered over the past few years with Wata/Heritage. Back to the Future = Super Mario Bros of VHS tapes.
@shsrpr it's the same company doing it
Yeah, Heritage is seen in this video too. I guess the games grift didn't last too long huh
And it pisses me off because there are some games I want to buy for sentimental reasons but they are outrageously priced.
It’s the same story with so many things in the 2020’s now. Crypto, stocks and shorts manipulation, etc. This is truly the age of unregulated late stage capitalism metastasizing into an economic cancerous growth, figuratively speaking. It’s become too easy to astroturf your own artificial explosion of activity and hype on something with no actual use or need.
Using a dirty scam to donate to charity, RLM you've outdid yourselves again! I love you guys 😌
This video reveals the REAL reason George Lucas wants to track down and destroy as many copies of the Star Wars holiday special as he can
Because he's got a woodchipper and nothing to chip in it?
Underrated comment
Pretty sure the sudden surge of 'Hey, VHS are worth money' is being orchestrated by the same guy who claimed that one copy of Mario 64 was worth a multi-brazillion dollars... Spoilers: It really wasn't. His company was artificially inflating the price and someone with more money than brains paid them for their lie.
The way all the tapes seemed to splatter against the wall was genuinely mesmerizing
It kinda reminded me of the aliens from Arrival. Truly a sight to behold.
They missed the chance to invite the SloMoGuys to record it with their ultra slow motion cams though.
The plan was never to make Nukie more valuable, but to make sure no one was ever exposed to that monstrosity ever again. Proving it was more valuable than Back to the Future and giving back to charity was just a bonus.
This is honestly maybe the best video you’ve made. And the footage of VHS exiting the wood chipper even exceeded expectations. Full marks.
The fact that Rich Evans got stuck cleaning it all up was the icing on the cake.
25:41
"so thank you to Ian and Hanna for this wonderful gift"
*tosses it into the woodchipper*
Happy birthday, Rich! So glad you can finally enjoy the therapy plus boxed set we sent! Love that Mike hid it for almost 4 years for just the right moment. Keep up the good work, gentlemen!
This reminds me of when people were trying to make a CIB copy of Super Mario Bros on the NES be the most expensive game when it's one of the most widely circulated cartridge of all time, and somehow more valuable than games where less than 1 million copies exist (ie: Gimmick, Summer Carnival '92 Recca, Little Samson, etc)
It's the same grading company and auction
To be slightly fair here, the copy you're likely referring to was a sealed copy of an extremely rare variant from the initial test market run.
Also in general CIB copies of NES Mario Bros are relatively uncommon because pretty much every NES sold came with a loose copy of the cartridge. Comparatively few copies that came in a box were sold separately.
Same company too
I'll never understand how a loose NES cart of SMB3 can be $30 considering the millions of copies sold (and all the other ways to play it). And I grew up in that time. I'm not paying no $40 for an SMB3 cart. That price charting says it's $20 not withstanding. Still too much.
@@medes5597 They also ran a coin collector auction scam in basically the same way decades ago.
"Nukie" has just reached $31,700.00 after one hour on eBay.
Will it surpass the $71,000.00 "Back to the Future" eBay auction?
I bet it will! 🤪
We can only hope!
That's deranged.
Current price is $49,700 after 4 hours... glad the money is going to good causes.
@@archbishop718 They did it!
In 14 hours they surpassed the "Back to the Future" auction!
Nukie eBay auction has reached $75,100.00.
We live in an upside down 🤪 world!
@@eliasb8 Thank you for the update... simply incredible!
St. Jude pays a lot of money to the company I work for. This always makes those fundraising adverts feel weird. But now, this donation means part of my paycheck this month could be indirectly from RLM.
Even weirder that its full circle back to Wisconsin.
What company do you work for?
The best part of collecting sealed magnetic media is that the shrink wrap doesn't have to be broken for the media to be completely ruined.
Rich explaining what he does as “falling” not “failing” upwards is either perfect or he’s become self aware. Please Jebus make it the former!
Falling upward of the Folding Chable of fate.
I think it was intentional, because Mike is constantly abusing him by filming him falling on stuff.
It's hard to be sure.
On one hand, it's Rich Evans.
On the other, it's Rich Evans.
The first half of the video ties in pretty well with Karl Jobst's videos on the retro video game speculative bubble
@@soarcheetah i thought he mainly focused on Wata since they were sketch? I do recall him mentioning VGA a few times though. Surprised they actually grade VHS tapes at all tbh
@@talleyman2744 Heritage Auctions is the same auction house that was involved with the WATA controversy too. This looks like the same MO. High profile, heavily publicized sales at unprecedented prices, likely to people closely associated with one or both organizations in order to pump up prices and to drive people to pay to grade their games/tapes thinking they're sitting on a goldmine.
Yea I just watched that also a few days ago. All the same names running this VHS prices up. Or at least making it look like their valuable in their auction.
@@talleyman2744 they're run by the same people both owners are friends with each other while referring back to each other
@@johnsyeats2044 "He can't keep getting away with it!!"
Seriously though, good points. Makes me wonder: how many other mediums they are going to attempt to generate bubbles for before the FTC gives them more than a slap on the wrist? Action figures? Collectible watches? Who knows lol
I'm still convinced that RLM actually filmed Nukie
They went back in time to stop it from being made and accidentally stopped it from getting cancelled
Speaking of collector's items, I recently purchased a copy of a Don Beveridge book in the hopes of someday getting it signed by these guys, only to get it in the mail and realize it's already signed by the man himself.
Rest in peace, Mr. Beveridge. I hope every whopper button was pushed simultaneously in your honor. May you find eternal peace and happiness on a cloud of bagels.
Don Beveridge had strange examples and an overbearing stage presence, but everything he said was valid business advice. RIP Mr. Beveridge.
see I'd have had him sign a beverage container of some kind.
@@patrickmcgever2736 is that the "PUSH THE WHOPPER BUTTON" guy?
@@ao1778 yep
Better get that graded
In all seriousness I would absolutely love more documentary style videos like this one, it was incredible. I laughed, I cried, I destroyed 8 copies of Nukie. Great stuff!
The best RLM videos always turn out to be the investigations into a deeper film industry topic, like the Jack & Jill video, the Bruce Willis breakdown, and this one. More please! :D
I'd agree if the Osteoporosis Dance wasn't the longest and hardest I've laughed in the last decade!
As someone who saw speculators and opportunists come in to the sealed video game market, the same type of folks are attempting to run the same playbook with VHS tapes. It's all just a pump and dump -- hype and "inform" people of what is "rare and important" to try and get fresh money into the market. Oh, and big "legit" sales certainly help, and maybe some articles/coverage from mainstream media. However, the ones who "get in early" will usually be the only ones to turn a profit on their investment, and those who come in later will be stuck holding the bag. I don't follow this VHS market, but the sealed video game market bubble has already crashed after a few years of insane prices. I expect the same to happen here.
And shelf collectors inflated the video game market to an extent long before speculators & opportunists. It's almost a 'make your bed you lie in it' type situation.
I'd say the VHS collectors market is different because it practically didn't exist and if it did it was extremely niche, while video game collecting was a well established "hobby", if you can call collecting anything for the sake of collecting a legitimate hobby.
@@UToobin75 I would argue that "shelf collectors" weren't and aren't involved in coordinated pump and dumps -- they are just collecting. Big, big difference. Any market will get a bump in prices with more interest and people buying, but that's not the same as coordinated scheming, pumping, and then dumping to leave someone holding the proverbial bag.
I've been loosely following the VHS market and it isn't crashing down like the sealed videogame market is, at least yet. What's instead happening is people are pairing VHS copies with DVDs, Blu-Rays, and UBDs together. What's interesting is sometimes the DVD or UBDs are the rarest versions out there. A lot of movies have really weird DVD runs that makes for actual rare finds. I personally have a version of The Warriors on DVD with Korean Subtitles, plus other subs too. This is was a small run DVD that I got for Christmas as a teenager, and I have no intentions of ever selling it. I am just use it as an example.
The VHS market is essentially being used as a tool to prop up the actual rarities of DVD and UBDs. A lot of movies will have limited runs of UBDs, especially versions that come with free digital downloads. I have a friend who collects these rare UBDs and has spent a pretty penny on some movies that he watches. Sealed versions are out of his grasp, but he prefers to watch them.
The collectable movie market is insane and it's funny that VHS tapes are the most common types out there, with DVDs and UBDs competing for rarest.
@@PatTheNESpunkexactly. One could argue about the merit of collecting something just to allow it to get dusty on a shelf, but collectors assembling (relatively) small personal collections is a little different to these schemes, which are just people trying to make a buck.
RLM becoming a video essay channel is not the twist ending I was expecting for 2022.
it’s just going full circle, except mike isn’t in-character
I mean... They started out as a video essay channel...
Dudes influenced the modern long-form video essay with the Plinkett Prequel reviews
It's genuinely heartwarming that after only 12 hours live, the bids are up to almost $70k. Bless this accursed movie and whomever receives it.
I think it's kind of unreal and concerning
How come Karl?
The person who gets it should also just throw it into a wood chipper. Most expensive joke ever.