Acceptance of Death - Red Letter Media Edition
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2018
- Even though life can sometimes feel like the Wheel of the Worst, remember, there is always a Best of the Worst.
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RLM's Star Trek Discovery mid-season re:View : • Star Trek Discovery mi...
inspired by: • Alan Watts - Acceptanc...
lecture by Alan Watts, music by Max Richter - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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@@kinnikuboneman what?
One day when the RLM crew have all passed away, this will be the most heartbreaking video.
i'll come back to this comment 20 or 30 years later to cry like a bitch
20 or 30 years? You're awfully optimistic.
Next year is gonna be rough.
This was supposed to be kind of a joke. Like satire. You didn't have to make it so serious.
Stop being part of the culture that makes death a terrible thing man didn’t you watch the vid?
Someday the Wheel of the Worst is going to stop spinning for one final time.
Brodie Yake it's like that meme. That you and your friends all played outside together not knowing it was the last time it would happen.
I'm sad now, I need my trash to be endless
That's already happened a few times
that's fucking sad.
That is until it gains more popularity through syndication and is revived by another generation of enthusiasts who'll call it "Wheel of the Worst: The Next Generation" and then it'll slowly plummet to "Wheel of the Worst: Discovery" where they just beat the snot out of each other instead of telling 9/11 jokes :P
"...Mike Stoklasa then turned his phaser on himself"
A few more years and his Max Headroom looking 25th Century friend is gonna come to Milwaukee...
Pew pew
Mike Stoklaser
And set it to overload.
"How does it feel to have lived to see all your favorite franchises die?"
"It feels great Jay, it feels great..."
Mike didn't mention Jay because it was Rich who asked him that.
Bro I took that line and some of the lines around it and changed em around and put em in a fuckin sci-fi horror project I'm working on
Considering that Alan Watts drank himself to death, this is an oddly fitting collab.
Just making room for someone else.
My grandfather also drowned.
@@klystron2010 Mine lost his leg during WWII. Not IN the war, mind you - but concurrently.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 lmao
@@fuzzydunlop7928 so what happened?
This feels like the purest distillation of RLM fandom.
Did you watch the Laverne and Shirley RLM parody? Polar opposite of this.
Happy to be alive, sad corporations are making it miserable.
The fleeting hope of friends and family, in this short existence on Earth, and the hope and joy we might all share.
Its a match in the wind. It won't survive, but we hope it burns just a little brighter, just for us, before it extinguishes for eternity.
[Insert annoying pop culture reference with terrible over used music]
I came for the meme
I left with an existential crisis
At least you got something
Hahaha
same
"Even though life can sometimes feel like the Wheel of the Worst, remember, there is always a Best of the Worst"
I want this quote on my grave in solid gold letters
Same.
Hell yeah dude
Solid _Nukie_ letters
What a magnificent time to be alive.
Or to be dead.
Andy Brice best response
A lot can change in a couple years. Or not, and you realize it's always been shit.
When you fear death but also crave it
Me_irl
Crash into me!
Living on the edge, just waiting to be pushed over. A coward's life. A millennial's life. Good god, if the next generation gets even more pathetic, we deserve everything that will be coming our way. Too bad for the children.
Persona 3 in eight words
I never realized how much I relate to this comment until I read it.
RIP Rich Evans
He was the birthday boy
*Is and always will be the birthday boy. Nothing will ever take that away.
Dicked until the final moments.
Don't mind if I do!
"Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
What a thrillll
Every night I can feel my AAAIIIDDDSSS
I give my life, not for honor, but for Rem Lazaaaaaaaar
Pizza roll eater
Such a lust for revenge...
WHOOO?!
This broke new ground.
It repaired old skies.
It took 12 years to make!
With a shovel... to dig... the grave... of Mike... and Richter...
This broke my heart.
It subverted my expectations
Never thought I would cry looking at Rich Evans's face
I know he certainly does.
I did the first time I saw it
I do every time I see it
Such a lovely face
So as dozens and dozens of children
I’m willing to end my life and allow the remains to be utilized as a means to ensure God Emperor Rich Evans continued existence.
SuperHero1234123 Thank you for your sacrifice and the joy you will bring to future generations who will be blessed with his magical laughter.
When I see Rich Evans float overhead in his bounce house, catatonic and drooling upon his subjects to slate our thirst, I will thank you for making it possible.
ALL HAIL THE EVANS
He needs nothing, for he has the power of Folding Chable.
Prove it.
Take a poop in front of us.
& then turn that poop into wine.
This audio is going to be sealed away in the back of my mind and then reawaken when I’m on my death bed, and the last thing I will remember will be Mike and Rich complaining about Star Trek
Don't worry about it, guys: No one's ever REALLY gone...
Oh God. It's a year later and I'm that old man rewatching my old stuff, complaing, and waiting to die.
Amen
And I'm only 19!
@@friendlybanana4960 check out the Redgum song, "I was only 19."
@@andrewlaco1776 Just did, thx for the recommendation
@@friendlybanana4960 Got it from the book World War Z, before they made that heaping pile of a movie. It's a great band. Straya! 🇦🇺
RLM and Alan Watts, now I know our world is a simulation
This video brings together two different aspects of my life i never even imagined could come together. My peas are in my mashed taters and it is breaking my heart.
love RLM and love alan watts, this is amazing!
This is blowing my mind, in a synchronicity kinda way.
Yes.
We should all go out drinking to celebrate.
I don't want to feel this feel anymore.
As someone who continues to struggle with suicide, I think I have a choice. I’m looking forward to death. However, there is still some good work to be done here. If I would have killed my self a few years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to help someone get sober. The species will endure and the soul will keep on whether we kill our selves or not. But I really don’t want to take this class over again. And I know it will hurt others if I do kill my self. For now, that’s reason enough not to
@@alexandernagel8205 Hope you're doing alright Alexander, during this difficult time in history.
ReallyRedPanda thanks brother. I am feeling better these days due to some hard work
Yo, are you still alive or did you find the courage to kick it, yet?
Just leaving this comment for me or my children to find in 2065 to say: RIP RLM you were a font of reality and frank discussion in a time of great curtailing of individual thought. You stood against the industrialization of art, you were honest about your flaws, you were sad when I was sad, you were happy when I was happy. I thank you now and tomorrow too.
Agreed.
This made me realize that funerals in the future will probably be like zoom meetings because no one will travel anymore. Instead of talking in person about how much you loved a person, it’ll just be a text chat. I hate that so much, but as long as we don’t get nuked it’s inevitable I think.
I'm leaving this comment here for your children too cuz I'm not gonna have any: Hope you guys still haven't run out of helium.
well put alex
Outstandingly poet
You know, I could die happy doing nothing more than rewatching Star Trek episodes with Mike and Rich for the remainder of my life, comforted knowing that my life force is being used to keep Jay young and handsome and watching Twin Peaks.
LMAOOOOO
Who couldn't?
Expected to laugh, but this made me more depressed than all the horrible mistakes I've made in my pathetic little life combined.
Dan Slash Same here
Depressed? You weren't listening
How on earth did this make you depressed? This was the most optimistic outlook on death Ive ever heard
You lived your life, experienced so many wonders and did what only you could do. Be happy for what you have, not sad for what might have been.
Really? An introspectively optimistic outlook on death, followed by "I'm alright" and comic celebration depresses you?
Alan Watts and Rich Evans is not a combination I thought I'd ever see
Mr Plinkett I don’t feel so good...
I recently transitioned into the GET OFF MY LAWN guy... and I feel much better now.
Me too, as far as Star Trek is concerned. I'm perfectly content watching my TOS-DS9 era and then dying off.
Also, I feel like if Red Letter Media ever came to an end (and I hope it's not in my lifetime), I'd want this video to close out their final episode, but with even more happy clips during the Third Eye Blind song.
Scatter my ashes on a folding chable, beside a fart bag. And speak the sacred words: “That’s staying in.”
I'll request for someone to take a dump on my casket wearing only a Pac-Man shirt.
The Dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that.
Dwayne Eutsey Our children will be watching RLM's children continue the legacy.
You said it man!
My grandfather died today and this actually helped a lot. Thanks man.
Lee Van Over it's late but I'm sorry man. My grandfather died years ago and it's still not easy thinking about him without getting emotional. Best wishes to you.
I never met mine. I glad you met yours
I still think about my grandparents, all of them dead now. Sometimes I find myself dreading the deaths of other people, even though I have no control over that. All that's left is the love.
Jack's kid will be the new Rich Evans.
We did it. This is the peak of artistic expression. We can all go home now.
This is way more moving than it has any right to be.
I just realized that, with the way I've dealt with my diabetes in my youth, there is a good chance I might die before my parents. At the time I didn't care, but now I do. And frankly, I'm scared.
Stay strong my friend.
How are you?
Yes I'd like to know as well
Thanks for the comments. Doing well. Focusing on my health, living well.
@@matthewjensen8681 Great to see you answering after over a year. Hopefully you stay healthy!
This video gives me hope in humanity cause is about family
Drinkwithclass I know right, this video really broke new ground
Thank you for the laugh, good one.
It made me realize that no one's every really gone.
and that's what so powerful about it
May the memory of Rich Evans live on in the hearts and minds of every man woman and child on this earth, now and always.
R.I.P
RIP Birthday Boy
Half in the Bag is 10 years old today. Just reminded me of this video. As sad as it is, it's still beautiful that it reminds us of where we are all going and to enjoy things. Even if they never see it, I'm sure the RLM crew would appreciate the message and tone.
During these troubling times, I come back to this video to remind myself of the eternal truth *Death is bad, but working for CBS is even worse*
I now finally understand our whole life's purpose. It is and always has been... Rich Evans.
this is the true art i crave
It's got electrolytes
When i go gentle into that good night i will hear one thing - My little one, My little one. Come on my little one. My little one, don't you shed a tear. If you leave with me i will take away your fear.
My eyes will open and i will see one man, Rem Lezar.
Life is so dense, every single moment has so many things going on.
The smashcut to Jackson on the word "Children" is oddly heartwarming. At least I think that's Jackson. I don't remember the other kid's name or if that kid is actually Jackson. It's a dumb name, however, so I remember it.
that hit me hard, too.
The other kid is named Parker I think, Jackson Packard and Parker Packard, Jack is not very creative but at least those are real names unlike others I have heard.
FeelsFuckingBadMan
As soon as Alan Watts said "Now," I started laughing hysterically
'Misfortune, good night: drink once more; turn thy wheel!'
- 'King Mike' Act-2, Scene-2, Shakespeare
Kinda wish I didn’t watch this alone on Christmas.
I'm so sorry. I made the mistake of listening to a sad Christmas related song 7 Christmases ago and it still haunts me to this very day. Even when it's not Christmas.
I think Alan Watts speech is very fitting when it comes to modern media, attempting prolong a franchises profitable lifespan for as long as they can before it collapse under its own weight and age.
I think its preferable to let these franchises "die" and let the next generation take the ideas of their predecessors and do something new with it. So that the old franchises don't have to struggle an age they really don't need to be in.
Though I'm not really the best person to listen to, I don't even like watching movies...
You don’t like watching any movie? What genre do you prefer
No One's ever really gone.
I l
0:36 that's why I downloaded all the good stuff I loved. Them whippersnappers can't take it away from me now.
Eventually it'll happen, RLM will end and there won't be anything we can do about it. But we shouldn't be sad about that, we shouldn't be dreading that point in time, we should be happy that it happened at all, and as long as it is still there, we also should be grateful!
Need to remind myself to watch this when all the RLM cast passes away. This is poetic.
Jay: Remember the 90’s?
Jack: DO DO DO! DO DO DO DOOO
Legitimately one of the most beautiful pieces of RLM-related media ever made.
this really is quite beautiful
Sarah Low Like a burning plane slowly plummeting to earth miles and miles away from you in the fore of a colorful sunset.
Me before: "Oh haha an RLM video how fun."
Me now: (ಠ_ಠ)
Plumwax, please never leave us.
I second this good doggo's motion
They're gone, Rags
RLM has alt-right fans? I think I'm going to throw up.
@@SuperTonyony Feel free to see yourself out bro. The internet really isn't the place for you.
This is borderline experimental.
This is the greatest RLM fan video of all time
Sadly, I feel like I'm where Rich is when it comes to Star Trek. At this point I'd rather just keep watching the TOS-DS9 era and call it good. Discovery finally pushed Star Trek to a point of stupidity that it's just not Trek anymore. Say what you want about the Abrams Universe but that still felt like Star Trek to me. More action packed and juvenile Trek, sure, but Trek nonetheless. I don't know what this new Trek feels like, but it doesn't feel like Trek to me.
Like star wars?
@@TheLakabanzaichrg Star Wars doesn’t even feel like Star Wars anymore. It’s all just generic sci-fi action schlock with a $300m budget
One year later and it just keeps getting more relevant.
"We'll just watch our old stuff and complain about them kids and their new things" is probably where I am ATM.
This video is supposed to be comedic. I get that. But it's also surprisingly beautiful. And I love it.
This video is an amazing combination of unlikely things that I love. As soon as the voice over began I knew it was going to be Alan Watts, and then it was Alan Watts, and I didn't stop smiling, becauase humanity and universe are still capable of surprising me.
I know how you feel. What an unlikely combination.
The Wheel of the Worst turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. Mike and Rich sit down to discuss Trek adventures of ages past and sort them into a scale of quality. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of the Worst. But it was a beginning.
Alan Watts quotes edited in this fashion will always make me laugh... y'know, before the existential nightmare resumes again.
Never thought I'd see the day when Alan Watts and RLM would collide
I lost it when they started playing the “Arrival” music
You mean the original composition by max richter
@@teehundeart Future Max Richter stole the music, and travelled back in time for MONEY. Obviously.
One day, whenever the last episode of best of the worst airs, can we all agree they should just put this video at the end of it to close out the series?
ths thought of it makes me want to off myself
Back again in 2020 to try and find meaning in existence again.
Queue Third Eye Blind.
If I'm still alive when one of them dies I will be devastated. This video is preparing me for these life changes but I'm not prepared. I grew up with them from the first prequel review on their site. It's shit. I hate it. I've never even met them.
From the sublime to the ridiculous and back again and then back again.
i come back to this video from time to time. It's so hauntingly beautiful. Even if you don't watch RLM. You can add Alan Watts to anything and make it so profound!
Having had cancer in my twenties, nature can be cruel. Best to not take it personally and make the most of the time you have.
“We’ll just rewatch our old stuff and complain about them kids and their new thing. And then we’ll just die.”
This will be all of us someday but with RLM.
This legitimately depressed me for a solid minute and a half.
I know it was said again and again but I feel it's important to remind ourselves that we don't deserve RLM...
This thing was much more affecting than I was expecting
its been 4 years
and theyre still going
these poor souls
You may have just saved some lives there by adding that upbeat ending
Jesus dude, this made me cry. I'm not even joking
Red Letter Media will probably be one of the most influencial for me or for the whole filmmaking dreamers. they are so great, those hackfrauds
I love Alan watts voice, an rich's laugh, they're comforting in two crazy pants different ways
that ending, i clapped
For a few minutes there, plumwax forgot they were making comedy videos and got everyone thinking about death. Had to outtro on break dancing and 90's pop to lift up the mood again.
WELL HI THERE! :D
never knew i needed Alan Watts + Redlettermedia.
I laughed. I cried. I laughed again and then cried.
Rest in peace Mike. I'm actually depressed that you had to go. Actually cried when I heard the news, always loved your videos.
I've never been a religious nor spiritual person. I rejected things like reading the bible and going to church from a young age, I still did them because I was a kid, but I wasn't happy about it. However the one thing that always fascinated me was that everything living wanted to keep on living. There was a driving force of the universe. Something happened so that every living thing in the universe strives to keep on going, no matter what. And I found that fascinating.
Flash forward to me bringing this up to my more scientific friends (I'm an acting student, they do physics, engineering, maths, etc...) and they laughed at me. They laughed at me for having this notion and called it silly. And they then said that the reason everything wants to keep on living is because the things that didn't have a will to live died off. And that's the only reason. So my entire reason for holding onto a spirituality in my life was taken away and it was taken away with laughter.
Now I'm not going to argue on who was right or wrong because they were obviously right, but what does it say about people when they don't take any people's emotions into account? I then thought about all the times I used to be a toxic atheist who would debunk religious arguments with snarky laughter or aggression, the same way my friends did, and I felt terrible.
Look out for one another in this terrible, terrible world. Everyone needs some compassion in their lives.
I Do Monologues personally the whole battle between science and religion is ridiculous. Religion is a philosophy like any it seeks to provide people with some meaning in there life. And personally I can see your nearly nihilistic view but here's what I think. Even if you believe nothing in the world matters that no one has any purpose and anything you do in the grand scheme is meaningless then all that means is it's up to you to find that purpose. Through religion child birth making a name for yourself. I'm not exactly sure what I'm trying to say no I am sure your friends were foolish and did not really understand the root of the issue. Why does anything want to keep on living? There is of course the animalistic side but that only explains biologically it doesn't actually answer any questions as to why that's the way and those are the questions no one can answer. Science can't tell you how to live your life science can't tell you your purpose or what the point of living is why you should really have a child. Science merely explains why these things happen not why they should or shouldn't. I'm rambling here but I hope you see something of value here.
That was a very pretty story, I Do Monologues.
It inspired me to actually finish script for the video about this topic.
Thank you.
I was much the same way I Do Monologues, but I eventually came to the conclusion that religion is simply a way to find meaning, and not a bad way to do so. I may not be religious, but as time goes on I developed a spirituality, the fascination with the same thing you had, that of the will to live. That infinitely primordial urge is like a great river, flowing through our evolutionary tree of life, and each new trait in ourselves is simply an offshoot of that glowing tide of creation. In ourselves, we find several other urges, like that of sex, of helping others, of hurting others, but if one traces these urges back far enough, they come back to the will to life, and the will of creation deep within us, as present in humanity as in the most minute of bacteria.
That's almost exactly how it happened to me as well. Once I understood that the "will to survive" ( that's what I called the desire for all life to keep living) had a completely naturalistic explanation, it was one of the last shreds of spirituality/theism I still had left.
Thank you for sharing this.
This is art
a flawless video
When I die, Rich Evans laugh shall play at my funeral for exactly ten minutes.
This is borderline experimental
Something relaxing about death is that it's fairness. Death didn't choose, all of us will experience it someday sometimes
RLM is the greatest ever
Now I get it... Mr. Plinkett and his Night Court tape comes full circle 😮
I come back to this too much..
wasn't expecting the alan watts feels.
This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen.
This is truly beautiful.