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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
  • I thought it might be interesting to discuss the "Making of" the Turbo Encabulator video.
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Komentáře • 166

  • @jamesclark4388
    @jamesclark4388 Před rokem +9

    In the early 80's when I was just learning digital electronics and analog electronics I discovered a few technical manuals that listed every chip that a given company manufactured. It told you every detail you would ever want to know. One of the chips was a WOM, Write Only Memory. The pages referencing the WOM was just as real looking as all the others.

  • @AeroGuy07
    @AeroGuy07 Před rokem +17

    Knowing how much you put into that video made me appreciate the joke even more.

  • @markheil6374
    @markheil6374 Před rokem +2

    I love how deep you went with this joke, so friggen funny. My wife was listening in the background, and caught the statement 'you know this already.

  • @russdavis1960
    @russdavis1960 Před rokem +2

    It (The Turbo Encabulator) is a wonderful video ....well written and presented.
    The 'outro' is a gem in of itself....😂

  • @dexter_gd3478
    @dexter_gd3478 Před rokem +4

    Thanks Steve. Now all I'm getting in my youtube feed are videos about Turbo Encabulators. 😜

  • @thesisypheanjournal1271
    @thesisypheanjournal1271 Před rokem +5

    Somebody asked Bob Haggert, who did the original Turbo Encabulator video, how he kept a straight face and he said that it didn't sound any different to him than anything else he was expected to read for technical videos. BTW, there is an actual Hollywood job of writing technobabble for science fiction shows and movies.

  • @WatchesTrainsAndRockets
    @WatchesTrainsAndRockets Před rokem +12

    It just hit me that you have been both a DJ and a JD.

  • @gold98gtp
    @gold98gtp Před rokem +2

    Back in the 80's an audio magazine had a cover story with picture in their April edition of a new low cost high quality audio amplifier, the Lirpa 1.

  • @ryanfrogz
    @ryanfrogz Před rokem +4

    I love the encabulator ‘joke’ so much and I have to say, your rendition of it was top tier. That radio presenter-lawyer delivery was spot on!

  • @kenkappler9352
    @kenkappler9352 Před rokem +1

    I still have the Hydroretrofurbulator that was given to me, when I was 8 years old, by a old Army guy who was a radio operator in WWII. It still works after I replaced the magnetic diomontrometer delay 2 years ago. Fortunately the manufacturer was still in business and had the part on the shelf. They shipped it to me free as a gracious gesture for being probably the only owner of one of these devices originally produced for only 3 years in the 1920's.

  • @freethebirds3578
    @freethebirds3578 Před rokem +12

    I confess, you got me, Steve. I wasn't 45 seconds into that video before I was completely lost. Usually, you do such a good job of explaining things that I never have a problem understanding you. Yesterday, I scrolled down into the comments to see if someone posted something that would clear it all up. Someone did, by pointing out the date.

    • @aaroneverett296
      @aaroneverett296 Před rokem +1

      I normally listen to Steve in the morning and I listen. Took a few minutes before I really need to pay attention because nothing he's saying is registering in my brain. Then it was until toward the end that it finally dawned on me. I wasn't sure if I lived under a rock or Steve went crazy. But then It dawned on me it was April fools day. Loved it!

  • @rexfaucher9773
    @rexfaucher9773 Před rokem +12

    I love watching your videos. Caught the drift of the joke right away ,and wondered how far it could go before falling apart. Congrats on holding the con together. When working with non car people years ago we often had those folks looking for chrome plated muffler bearings, and frazzle stats,ect. Great story, thanks so much. Cheers,Rex

    • @grwlngbxr27STi
      @grwlngbxr27STi Před rokem +1

      A muffler bearing was an actual part on the Subaru SVX! Don't forget to refill your headlight fluid.

  • @duanebuck193
    @duanebuck193 Před rokem +2

    I was just impressed that you were able to read it and keep a straight face. As I mentioned under the video, I would have been locked up and stuttering about half way through😁

  • @PushingThroughThePain
    @PushingThroughThePain Před rokem +1

    I'd never heard about the turbo encabulator prior to yesterday's video, yet I still found it hilarious.

  • @HankScorpio64
    @HankScorpio64 Před rokem +5

    I knew what it was. My Uncle worked for Army Corp of Engineers and he was telling me stories of the some the pranks he and his friends would play on new recruits. One was finding the plans for the Turbo Encabulator so they could build one for the current project they was working on. He'd always laugh and it was funny to watch the new guy run around and hunt in file cabinet after file cabinet for it eventually after about an hour they let him in on the joke.

    • @KatzenjammerKid61
      @KatzenjammerKid61 Před rokem +2

      Get me a left-hand skyhook stat.

    • @russbell6418
      @russbell6418 Před rokem +1

      Had an apprentice chasing people all over a large jobsite trying to find the tube of replacement level bubble fluid.

    • @grossteilfahrer
      @grossteilfahrer Před 11 měsíci

      They had me run over to the gas station across the street to borrow a can of stretch-e-line, because one of the cables we were installing was too short..

  • @johaquila
    @johaquila Před rokem +1

    Thanks for mentioning the Canadian Robot Lady. I have wondered about her ever since I started watching your channel. After searching for the interview and watching that, things make a lot more sense.

  • @aderek79
    @aderek79 Před rokem +1

    I'm glad I saw this or I would have missed the original video. That was the most original turbo encabulator video I've seen in years.

  • @DJJonPattrsn22
    @DJJonPattrsn22 Před rokem +1

    To me you are the funniest when you're making yourself laugh/cracking yourself up...

  • @gordonshumway7239
    @gordonshumway7239 Před rokem +5

    Ah, the Turbo Encabulator. That was one of those gadgets we’d send the new guys to fetch from the maintenance shack. Can’t fix any precision machine without one! :-) The maintenance foreman used to get ours from Marchant. War surplus you know …
    Loved the video! You and your script co-writer have the gift of Techno-babble! And for a guy who generally giggles a bit in your regular videos, you were an astonishingly good straight man.
    The one question I had was the coat and tie! And now I get it.

    • @loismiller2830
      @loismiller2830 Před rokem +1

      In surgery, you send them looking for the Otis Elevator. Usually they come back empty handed. If they find one in the hospital lobby, it's hard to get it into the OR.

    • @grossteilfahrer
      @grossteilfahrer Před 11 měsíci

      As a school kid doing concrete Casting form carpentry in the summer months they asked me to go get the newly adjusted eye measure from the draftsman office. I went and asked:)

  • @markmiller5606
    @markmiller5606 Před rokem

    For me, the joke flew way over my head. This video definitely helped.

  • @allenphilips7776
    @allenphilips7776 Před rokem +2

    Thanks Steve. I am at your video 'minute 19' where you discuss the Journal of Electro-Mechanical Law. I am a master electrician and electrical engineer and teach electricians and plumbers about, wait for it, the local laws associated with plumbing and electrical practices. I have written 3 books about it and applied to the local BAR to teach lawyers their CLEs with regards to our crazy, twisted knot, electrical legal system. I was turned down. :( Keep up the good work!

  • @fordtruckguy5545
    @fordtruckguy5545 Před rokem +1

    Your distain for the turbo industrial complex obscures the real threat: encabulators as a whole.

  • @OBS_Ford_Diesels_Inc
    @OBS_Ford_Diesels_Inc Před rokem +3

    Steve your laughter is my favorite thing about you, that amongst other things makes you enjoyable to listen to. I never miss a video. This video I found especially entertaining, so thanks for that.

  • @veryhighpower
    @veryhighpower Před rokem +3

    Years ago while having dinner with my ex-father in law, (Senior fracture analysis for the FAA) I asked him if he'd ever worked on the Turbo Encabulator. He went on for twenty minutes about it's importance and complexity. The ladies were in a trance with his story. That is until I asked if it was at Groom Lake when he worked on it. Then he shut up. His wife, my wife nagged him for months about the Turbo Encabulator. I laughed about that for months.

  • @michaelmoorrees3585
    @michaelmoorrees3585 Před rokem

    I've watched several turbo encabulator many years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised to see Steve use this "bogus" topic for his April 1st video.

  • @thundergod97
    @thundergod97 Před rokem +1

    Superbly done. Tricked me into thinking it was generated gibberish by AI. And no, I had never heard of the Turbo Encabulator before. Also, not a car guy. Loved the CRL at the end :)

  • @torque350hp
    @torque350hp Před rokem +2

    The video was great but I appreciate this follow up video too, maybe cause I always liked the DVD extras video of behind the scenes.

  • @TheWoodensong
    @TheWoodensong Před měsícem +1

    Love seeing your KFAT plaque/sticker (??) behind you. I used to be a HUGE Fat-Freak back in the day…
    “Ol’ Scooter” in East Texas…

  • @aaroneverett296
    @aaroneverett296 Před rokem

    I loved the video Saturday morning. Absolutely got me, and it was the video that reminded me what day it was.

  • @billbarker1950
    @billbarker1950 Před rokem +3

    My son and I watched it a Saturday morning 7 min after you posted it. I knew it was April fools, simply because you were in a suit, or at least the top half of a suit. Very fun to watch. Btw my son is 13, and he enjoys your channel and maybe even learns a thing or two as well.

  • @aetch77
    @aetch77 Před rokem

    Thank You. That was more enjoyable than the original video, which I switched off about half-way through.

  • @AcmeRacing
    @AcmeRacing Před rokem +1

    I linked a version from the early 1970s in my comment Saturday. It's rumored that it was made in one take by an experienced announcer who had just done a full day of real training films.

  • @idristaylor5093
    @idristaylor5093 Před rokem +1

    Ben afflicted with multiple personality this episode.

  • @ryanfrogz
    @ryanfrogz Před rokem +1

    No need to worry about next year: encabulation technology now takes on many forms, whether it be the classic turbo-, the updated and more efficient retro-, or the modern and highly experimental hyper-encabulator. Naturally, with these and many other models, there has been plenty of legal turmoil for you to discuss.

    • @grossteilfahrer
      @grossteilfahrer Před 11 měsíci

      Also the us the electro encabulator, and the vacuum encabulator, though the last one pretty much sucks.

  • @StevenEverett7
    @StevenEverett7 Před rokem +1

    Nope, I have never heard of the Turbo Encabulator in my 70 years. I took me about a minute to pause the video and Google it then I sorta got it. I have to admit that I didn't know the date and didn't have a clue until I just listened to this video. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @petermandics1517
    @petermandics1517 Před rokem

    Ragged edge: "Have you been injured by a Turbo Encabulator? Call the law offices of Huey, Dewey, Louie, Screwem & Howe."

  • @Dallen9
    @Dallen9 Před rokem

    It was a great video. I had forgotten about the Turbo Encabulator.

  • @Random2
    @Random2 Před rokem

    Jurisprude(Noun): A lawyer that likes everything prim and proper. The correct clothing, and absolutely nothing of naughty, silly, or out of the ordinary.

  • @DragonwoodDesigns
    @DragonwoodDesigns Před rokem +1

    Yes, you got me. I am retired and did not know it was April fools day. Sent your vid to my gf because it was so strange. She caught on right away. I didn't. It was still a good speal!

  • @jcos55chev19
    @jcos55chev19 Před 4 měsíci

    As an ex-Rockwell Automation employee, I was sold off to another company by our Turbo Encabulator, a calculating rootless machine that was far ahead of the AI curve that is invading the employment labor force of today.

  • @HariSeldon913
    @HariSeldon913 Před rokem +1

    The one thing you left out was the danger of linking the turbo encabulator to a gonchulator, especially if the gonchulator is one of the knock-offs that was designed without the Lutz diagram.

  • @michaelsemanoff7967
    @michaelsemanoff7967 Před rokem +1

    Hey Steve, The first time I saw the Turbo Encabulator was at a Chysler training session. It was funny then. The legalese one was even better!! Knowing you're a car guy I can't imagine you did that without cracking up. Great!!

    • @biastv1234
      @biastv1234 Před rokem +1

      “ does nothing more than to add billable hours “
      Is one of my favourite lines

  • @kennethbowden4129
    @kennethbowden4129 Před rokem

    I knew it was a joke from the title, and went willingly down the rabbit hole. I knew it would be good.

  • @kayleevalli2681
    @kayleevalli2681 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I didn't know about the CanadianRobotLady. I always thought that was your wife doing the intros and closings. The encabulator episode dealing with its legalities was wonderful; something us engineers need to keep in mind with our creations. Kiitos!

  • @garyrandalls853
    @garyrandalls853 Před rokem +2

    Well, You know what they say . . . , if you gotta explain a joke ~ ~ ~
    PS: I enjoyed it!

  • @MegaMarclar
    @MegaMarclar Před 11 měsíci

    The Chrysler guys doing their video were actually trainers and made the monthly master tech videos. After seeing the original version, I couldn't take them seriously anymore. Lol good stuff.

  • @arethouready
    @arethouready Před rokem

    lol steve you had a lot of fun with this video! Didn't know this much work went into it but turned out good

  • @bryanblake8607
    @bryanblake8607 Před rokem +1

    This video is the one I was waiting for. People don’t disappoint me

  • @ram50v8
    @ram50v8 Před rokem

    The "Turbo Encabulator" video was priceless! I knew something was up when you appeared wearing a suit and tie (assuming pants were optional? lol)

  • @mikes1345
    @mikes1345 Před rokem

    I took a little bit before I remembered the date. Then it made sense! But I then googled it anyway. It was a good story. You need to do it again while consuming good bourbon. I love it.

  • @RedKittieKat
    @RedKittieKat Před rokem +2

    I swear some are thick as pea soup LOL .... I loved it 🥰

  • @jmr
    @jmr Před rokem +1

    Never send your significant other into a parts store for blinker fluid. A friend did that and they are no longer together.

  • @kc8ufv
    @kc8ufv Před rokem

    There are some nice updates. I like the one a telephone company did - the SD-WAN Turbo Encabulator

  • @jessicav2031
    @jessicav2031 Před rokem +1

    I figured ChatGPT had to be involved, since this kind of writing is basically its specialty, and it was mentioned at the end. Nice to hear that some people are still doing it the old fashioned way.

  • @gailwatson4927
    @gailwatson4927 Před rokem +1

    I loved yesterday's video. Great joke.

  • @defuller1
    @defuller1 Před rokem

    Huh .. your favorite word is "ubiquity." Mine is "uniquity," which I thought I had made up, but inspired by your frequent admonitions to look things up, I looked it up several months ago and it is indeed a real word!

  • @pantera1125
    @pantera1125 Před rokem

    Please put the video back up. Was bummed when I couldn’t find it. 😢

  • @kristys7172
    @kristys7172 Před rokem

    It was perfect! My flux capacitor is doing amazing!

  • @warlock415
    @warlock415 Před rokem

    I'm reminded of some years back I was the manager of a certain department at work, and I was walking to the subway station with one of my direct reports, who was telling me how much he hated the department director, and in fact he was tempted to, the coming Friday, leave his badge, id, and letter of resignation on his desk and fuck right the fuck off, never to be seen again.
    While I understood why he'd want to do that, and, in fact, wished I could do that too, I asked him as a favor to me not to do it on April 1st...

  • @paulhilfinger4304
    @paulhilfinger4304 Před rokem

    I was particularly interested in your explanation of the greatest mystery to me: how you managed to get through this video with a straight face.

  • @ingemarolson3240
    @ingemarolson3240 Před rokem

    Alas ,I wasn't able to watch the whole thing (just kept wanting to tear my hair out), but I did check out the ending! Thanks for this explanation though. Much appreciated. (And my wife thought "jurisprude" was an appropriate word for some lawyers.)

  • @petersuozzo1227
    @petersuozzo1227 Před rokem

    This is also entertaining. Thank you!

  • @nbrowser
    @nbrowser Před rokem +2

    Steve, you get a new camera? Video has been extra nice n crispy lately.

  • @DJJonPattrsn22
    @DJJonPattrsn22 Před rokem +1

    I'm watching this before watching the video this is about! I'll find out when I watch that one whether it's was a mistake, or (as I suspect) is of little importance.

  • @ap701
    @ap701 Před rokem

    Knew pretty quick especially with the suit but am just now realizing my subconscious must’ve gotten caught a creepy vibe because Steve didn’t laugh! 😂

  • @xXceejaybeeXx
    @xXceejaybeeXx Před rokem +1

    I for one couldn't fathom how you managed to keep track of the nonsense you were saying as well as keeping a straight face.

  • @TomSFlint
    @TomSFlint Před rokem

    Most important item on my CV. 😊

  • @michaelspinks9822
    @michaelspinks9822 Před rokem

    Before I realized the date, I saw the suit and tie and assumed you were annoyed you were going to court on a Friday and was taking it out on us. :-P

  • @patricksanders858
    @patricksanders858 Před rokem +1

    As soon as I saw the suit, I checked the calendar... Yep, April Fool's!

  • @Waterlooplein1
    @Waterlooplein1 Před rokem

    I was half way through the day went it hit me. "It's an April Fools Joke!" The suit should have tipped me off! I'm still waiting for the one about the congculator.

  • @kennethwiggins4396
    @kennethwiggins4396 Před rokem +1

    I found it hysterical. 😂😂😂

  • @dah61789dah
    @dah61789dah Před rokem

    I watched the original video, what a hoot! Dan Ankroyd should have played the part of the mechanic

  • @clmn6712
    @clmn6712 Před rokem

    I have sen the turbo encabulator videos years ago, even sent a link to a boss suggesting he buy one for his shop. That said I was over half way through your video yesterday wondering why you got in on it before I realized what day it was.

  • @alancarnell2747
    @alancarnell2747 Před rokem

    I knew something was up when you appeared in a suit...

  • @keithe2150
    @keithe2150 Před rokem

    This is a timely comment. You are the goat but maybe not for age worthy :-) thank you so much for doing the update, but truly only the hard color will see this video. That should say hard-core. I’m using Siri sorry.

  • @johnnysechrist6313
    @johnnysechrist6313 Před rokem +1

    Arnold warned us. ROFLMAOOOO

  • @m1stertim
    @m1stertim Před rokem

    the funniest part is that the goat story is more ridiculous than the turbo encabulator

  • @groermaik
    @groermaik Před rokem +2

    Double KA-SNICK.

  • @PigglyWigglyDeluxe
    @PigglyWigglyDeluxe Před rokem

    Greatest video on earth

  • @seannash4695
    @seannash4695 Před rokem

    Busted by fish and game warden using an old turbo encrabulator.

  • @douglasrobinson8491
    @douglasrobinson8491 Před rokem

    NEXT YEAR do a SPONSORED AD for a DUAL CLUTCH turbo encabulator!

  • @lordofthemound3890
    @lordofthemound3890 Před rokem

    My favorite case was: U.S. v 17 Ball Bearings (More or Less).

  • @thatjeff7550
    @thatjeff7550 Před rokem +1

    So the legal ramifications of the Turbo Encabulator, is that for the Analog Turbo Encabulator or has the law been updated to include Digitally Controlled Turbo Encabulators? And does it cover non-Turbo Encabulators?

  • @joshentheosparks7492
    @joshentheosparks7492 Před rokem

    The engineering equivalent of "The Aristocrats"

  • @2TMON
    @2TMON Před rokem

    "stirring the pot of absurdities" 😂

  • @LouT1501
    @LouT1501 Před rokem +2

    I have attended many safety or 'team building' seminars that would rival your earlier video.
    I had to look up the latin quote, "Malo Mori Quam Fedora." I figured it had something to do with a hat but, lo and behold, it doesn't. Death rather than dishonor.
    Also, “…long, uncomfortable minutes of socratic suffering…” I attended one law class, for educators, taught but a professor who was not a lawyer and taught the Socratic method. So, I salute Professor Gathercoal, RIP.
    Suggestion for next year - a judge's robe

    • @HariSeldon913
      @HariSeldon913 Před rokem

      Socratic Method? He's one of the leaders featured in Bill and Ted's famous history report!

  • @seannash4695
    @seannash4695 Před rokem

    Beauregard got a new outhouse, the turdbo encrapulator.

  • @DJJonPattrsn22
    @DJJonPattrsn22 Před rokem

    TECHNO BABBLE!
    That is the official, technical terminology used to refer to this style/kind of verbiage in science fiction, particularly the star trek franchise.
    I feel like it was employed most prolifically by the 90s era series.
    The stargate franchise tends to be rather tongue in cheek & playful with its usage, or they just skip/avoid it entirely.

  • @Dallen9
    @Dallen9 Před rokem

    In truth it's actually Technically was real at least in one meeting in the 1960's. The component that exists that was once refereed to as a Turbo Encabulator is still in production and A vital piece in a Mechanical Automation system used in Military Equipment. It's how I was introduced to it when I was 7-8 years old. So you can say it's a joke I know a little too well.

  • @Rick_Foley
    @Rick_Foley Před rokem +2

    Doesn't the Turbo Encabulator owe Heather a lot of back Robot Support?

  • @SharmClucas
    @SharmClucas Před rokem

    I very much enjoyed the joke, but I like the story behind it better.

  • @Insayshabull
    @Insayshabull Před rokem +2

    You want turbo encabulator gibberish? Turn on cc (closed caption) on these videos. Steve has a real potty mouth. Chuckles ... cheers to all

  • @jplum7708
    @jplum7708 Před rokem

    Steve, this was great and timely. Last October I bought my wife a new car and she was disappointed it didn't have a turbo. I'm going to have her watch the video so she can she why I didn't. Maybe she'll come around to my point of view. Thank you! 😂 Also, one observation not a criticism in any way, but you seem to reference Real Housewives a lot. Makes me wonder about your tv viewing habits. 🤣

    • @SteveLehtoVault
      @SteveLehtoVault  Před rokem

      I was unaware that I had ever referenced them before. I do not watch the show. Can you point me to another video where I mentioned them?

    • @jplum7708
      @jplum7708 Před rokem

      @SteveLehtoVault I was just teasing you. I don't know if you ever mentioned them before. My clumsy attempt at a joke.

  • @themoviemaniac8416
    @themoviemaniac8416 Před rokem

    You're going to have trouble topping this next year...

  • @elliottgussow9555
    @elliottgussow9555 Před rokem +1

    Is it fueled by Dihydrogen
    Monoxide?

  • @vawlkus
    @vawlkus Před rokem

    I'm just glad you didn't throw a widget in there for good measure 😋🤣

  • @PickledHam
    @PickledHam Před rokem

    I knew sumping was up the second I saw you wearing a suit an tie. Your were out of character. I enjoyed the Turbo Encabulator techno double talk maybe probably because I'm an electrical engineer. I also translated some of the mobo jumbo latin phrases. They actually change the meaning of the sentence. I'm impressed that you didn't crack up laughing in the middle of it.
    Ummmm .. me mind wonders... Ask ChatGPT to write a techno jargon paper in the voice of Steve Lehto about Turbo Encabulator .... a few seconds later ... Waaa Waa Waa .. total fail. ChatGPT just couldn't do it. You rock Steve !!

  • @Bob-Lob-Law
    @Bob-Lob-Law Před rokem +1

    Will any of this be on the test ?

  • @PhilipHousel
    @PhilipHousel Před rokem +2

    You promised to not mention the turbo encabulator again... lol

  • @seannash4695
    @seannash4695 Před rokem

    Mixing music with tending bar by use of tuba decapulator.