The Ridiculous History Behind My Weirdest Video

Here's the finished Deluxe Photo Encabulator video: https://youtu.be/JEyh4y7BgmU

The crew asked how he was able to read the script with such a straight face and he said, "It sounds like everything else you have me read."

The Rockwell cabinet (yes, with the squeaky door) was an actual product. Mike Kraft did a regular corporate marketing video for it, and then we had extra time and made the Retroincabulator video as an internal “ice-breaker” for meetings. I was the editor on it. Thanks for compiling the history!

Hey Tom! Watching this in Germany today and thought you might like to know that the translation of that book title is “The Paper for Electrotechnical Static Thunder and Lightning”. Now that’s what I call 100% commitment in service of a joke!

This is a SURPRISING amount of history for a joke, thanks for putting this all in context!

I used to do PR for Rockwell Automation. I can confirm, the retro encabulator was a meme before memes.

My great grandfather worked with Tesla (Nikola, not the electric car) on the ORIGINAL Encabulator - the predecessor to the Retro and Turbo Encabulator. He would tell stories of how difficult it was to maintain the flux bearings while ensuring the correct positronic alignment of the scissor switches. In the end, genius triumphed! And now, you proudly carry on the tradition of understanding the true purpose of the Encabulator. May your quasistatic regeneration oscillators ever be aligned with your phase inverters!

It’s the mechanical engineering version of “All your base are belong to us”

Ok one thing you have to understand is that people from the 60's to the 80's didn't have much in the form of cell phones and pocket games so we read the data sheets of everything and most companies had them either in the toilets or lounge areas and everybody would be sitting there reading data sheets. I still recall all the ingredients from air fresheners in bathrooms. Propellants like propane were common 😳

I appreciate the education on this deeply important topic. I’m prepared to wow all my friends at dinner parties. Also, that first dude is highly Trebeck-like, so automatically authoritative.

Had no idea it was a whole universe going back almost 100 years! Everything about the encabulator is awesome!

Im going to watch this video in a little bit, but I just have to say right off the bat, "It takes a lot of work to do dumb stuff" is brilliant...that video was freaking epic! Do more dorky things...I love it!

So , I have been working with Rockwell automation products and we watched this at work back in the 90's. The components he was showing controls electric motors . There were some slick marketing ploys back in the day. Enjoying your videos.

Two additional thoughts: 1) Please sell a small run of official Enthusiasm Project Encabulators. 2) We need a new secret series that is Heather's reaction during your entire Encabulation adventure.

Thank you Tom, my favourite youtube video of 2021 now has some context. This was pure fun, not dumb 😂👍

That video was pure Internet Gold. Loved it and love your dedication to this channel.

I picked up on it right away and immediately loved it. Genius! Love that you showed some outtakes in this video. I also hate obnoxious thumbnails, you don't do them and that was my first hint something was different. Lol. Awesome

Too cool! I knew it was a joke because I like the way you put together your vids and too much just didn’t make sense. Lol. It also demonstrates how to put together a great video and cover mistakes in takes within the editing process. Awesome!

Too cool! I knew it was a joke because I like the way you put together you vids.It also demonstrates how to put together a great video and cover mistakes in takes within the editing process. Awesome!

You have NO IDEA how much I'm learning right now with this video. Workflow-wise, general culture, creation process. I hope you can keep creating this type of content. Thanks.