Wow! Finally a good brutalmoose vid again. Lets goo. I thought you were just gonna phone in your content forever. Good to see you making an effort again
The greatest reminder that people are just people no matter the time period is someone recording a random beauty pageant on their tape and writing "this sucks dick" on it
I'm the older sibling of the person who sent this box of tapes and its honestly so cool to see this pop up in my feed!!! I'm pretty sure those tapes sat around for a few years after they dug em out of the trash but its great to finally see whats on them. We saw the stream where it was unboxed but never thought it would get its own video. So glad you enjoyed them!
I'm the actual piece of cereal that's been under your fridge for 7 years now,everything is going fine, I have a dead roach to keep me company,please send milk.
Bob Papa is the current Voice of the NY Giants in the NFL. Ive been listening to his football calls throughout my whole entire life. Crazy to see him on a Brutal Tapes episode.
The video programs tape is most likely a practice tape given to a student to experiment and learn the tools, and it probably didn't hurt to use educational content as the base footage to hammer things while they were toying around. I'm sure the audio portion was originally fine, but that was the relevant part where the student was learning about audio tools and they added the music, experimented with levels, etc themselves. It could even have been homework for all we know.
Also imagine not feeling special enough for RAISIN BRAN. Like, I've had trouble with my self-esteem, but I don't think I've ever been so low as to refuse *cereal* for being out of my league.
@@darkninjafirefox No human has ever been worthy of a cereal that good, and yet we are allowed to exist in the same world as it regardless, truly a marvel
I once ate some cinnamon toast crunch without checking with the appropriate parties that I was deserving. Hopefuly the statute of limitations has expired... But then again, maybe what I was really deserving of was punishment.
The wrapper fooling you is about big colorful packaging with small cheap things inside. The idea was that companies try to trick you into buying junk by making the packaging look nice, and often much bigger than the actual product inside. This is much less common now, for instance toy and video game boxes used to be huge, but now they're very minimal.
Yeah, even now you still see ridiculous packaging for like… an SD card now and then. But it’s gotten a lot more sensible. Partly down to regs as mentioned above, partly due to transport costs and shoving more into a shipping container leading to more profit for online stores (versus physical stores that cared less to prevent fuel wastage than shoplifting, and consequently pushed for giant packaging).
@@kaitlyn__L I think SD card packaging has remained so big purely to prevent somebody pocketing a bunch of them and walking out of a store. Plus they have to put all that legal stuff and instructions on there.
@@Joe90h I’m sure some locales have super big versions for shelf retail. Most I see are now smaller than a pocket paperback book. Though of course that’s still quite an inflation on the size of a card (I think once I worked out you could get 10-20 in the area?) Also important is even though they’re wide, they’re also quite thin; a key difference from giant 90s boxes. Even in the 00s, a USB stick came in a box thicker than (insert large novel here). Now they’re packaged more like how I always remember batteries being, on a thin paperboard backing.
Your expertise really shines through here. Some random youtuber watching these tapes wouldn't have known what was going on with the Miss America pageant with the shapes and text but you immediately knew what kind of device was being used there, super cool.
It's always great to see a youtuber go "hey I know this" and be able to talk about what was their "normal" career path knowledge from before youtube sucked them in.
Love how much PBS content is featured. PBS will go down as one of the most legendary education projects ever produced by a publicly funded program. Still follow multiple PBS channels on UA-cam to this day.
I think they’ve learned a lot about how to make subjects more engaging since then! From back then I love NOVA, but the rest can drag more than a BBC Open University programme from the same era 😅
How many other significant education projects produced by a publicly funded program are there? Honestly asking. Didn’t know what sort of competition PBS was facing in this category.
As someone whose degree is in Electrical Engineering, I think (read:hope) I can explain Superconductors in a more intuitive way than that special did: When electrons flow through a normal wire, they lose some of their energy as they travel along, because the electrons keep bumping into things inside the wire. Mostly, the electrons are bumping into the rest of the atoms of the wire (the electrons flowing through the wire come from the atoms already in the wire) because they're all jiggling around. The atoms are jiggling around basically because they're hot, and the hotter they are, the more they jiggle around. In a superconductor, the atoms stop their jiggling and the electrons can peacefully move through the material without bumping into anything. Of course, it's a little (read: a LOT) more complicated than that, but the simplest explanation I can offer is this: When the atoms stop their jiggling from heat, they actually start to clump up a little around the electrons cause the two are attracted to each other (and they stay clumped up cause they're not jiggling around). When other electrons see all these positive charges in one spot, they want in on the action and are attracted to that spot. Because of some quantum mechanics black magic, this causes the electrons to start to buddy up together in pairs and keep a healthy distance from each other. Now, neither the atoms nor the electrons are bouncing around all willy-nilly, and the electrons can flow between the atoms without any resistance. This has a lot of cool applications and consequences, like allowing magnets to float or being able to hold onto a moving current forever without any source of power driving it. The downside to superconductors is that all the ones we know of only work when they're *stupid* cold. Like, instantly-freeze-your-fingers-off cold. This means that for a superconductor to keep superconducting, you have to spend a lot of effort keeping it that cold, otherwise it goes back to being a normal conductor or even an insulator. That said, on smaller scales, that's not too bad, and there are things nowadays that use superconductors just fine. But for something like a loss-less power line? We're not there yet.
Neat! I really did always wonder what made superconductors so special. So a practical superconductor would be one with atoms that stop jiggling and clump together at room temperature? Can't wait to see who invents that lol. XD
I like that these specials also likely said "Room temperature super conductors are right around the corner!" and yet we've constantly failed to find one or they've been non-reproducible. It's funny, a "self-driving cars are only 5 years down the road!" since the 00s scenario.
@@Wandergirl108 I’m not an electrical engineer but I did do physics in uni, the “quantum black magic” they discuss where electrons pair up (called a quasi-particle, they can essentially act like protons in that state even though they’re electrons) are theoretically more important than the temperature. The temperature is just the only way we can reliably get that to occur. But theoretically a material may exist with the perfect structure to allow for that peaceful electron behaviour at other temps. (I don’t think we’ll see it though, personally. Thermodynamics is too cruel a mistress.) All that said, we have made some advances in “high temperature superconductors”. (Probably what the tapes were excited about.) That’s only a relative term of course, the first ones had to run at like 5-50 kelvin (AKA degrees celsius above absolute zero, -273°C), now we have ones more in the 100-150K range. Which is to say, still far below freezing and will hurt you, and still consumes a lot of cooling energy, but much less difficult to control. The main use so far has been to get much stronger electromagnets for particle accelerators (like the Large Hadron Collider which discovered the Higgs boson about 15 years ago) and experimental fusion reactors. We basically use the extra “headroom” from the higher temperature tolerance to just get a much bigger magnetic field, rather than getting the same field for less energy. (Edit: oh yeah, some maglev trains use superconductors as well. That’s a huge part of why they’re so much more costly than even regular high speed rail.)
@@adamsjoh2 that was more the journalists at the time. The researchers usually said “we’ve found materials that can withstand 50-100K higher temps in the last 10 years, so maybe by the 2000s or 2010s we’ll have increased it by another 50-100K!”, but that’s still a ways off from room temp. Science journalism (like those futurism mags for kids) picked up with that and insisted we’d have worldwide lossless power grids in 2012.
Hiii im the one who sent these in (all the fish in the world) I'd like to say my trash habits have faded, but they definitely haven't(i'm a janitor. i find cool things daily now). It's so cool to finally see what's on these tapes. Thank you!! Edit: Some more details: There was more tapes in the trash, but I could only carry so much in my backpack and the computer science teacher was watching and I didn't want to push my luck. I'll forever regret that I'm hoping to see 'Back to the future special effects' in a future video, I was curious about that one! Also the 'this sucks dick' editing MUST have been from a teacher because a student wouldn't turn that in as a project, and wouldn't have been saved lmao. And Giant Don's is still open. I think they have multiple locations, even.
Lol If people say your handwriting is bad I guess mine is too cause we have similar handwriting. YOUR TRASH HABITS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOT ENDED YOU KEEP BRINGING STUFF HOME
That Colgate Jr commercial unlocked a deep childhood memory. I remember the gel coming out of the tube in the shape of a star. That stuff was kind of gross, but that is how I learned that you weren't supposed to swallow toothpaste after brushing.
We never really had stuff like that in my house… So the time i had a sleepover at a friends house and was like yo wtf kind of toothpaste is this…. HEY WAIT! THIS IS GONNA BE DOPE. It was watermelon lol
I remember we had banana flavoured toothpaste as a kid, and it was weird but kinda tasty so might have eaten some of it... And my mother definitely realised it was going down faster than was normal, because we went back to the plain mint stuff right after.
Man, I really never enter the comments section of UA-cam but damnit, your deadpan humor got me chuckling. Well done. "... but the criminals just refuse to break into song..." Maybe if the superconductors had just broken into song...
I'm not an expert so I might be wrong, but from my understanding, a time base corrector works by synchronizing the VCR with the TV. On VHS, as with most analog video, the video is an encoded series of lines and fields of color that are then decoded to be drawn top to bottom, since that's how CRTs drew an image. Because the VCR reads and writes the tape through mechanical action, a lot of VHS errors take the form of lines or field being drawn at the wrong time, and coming out at the wrong place. The proper video is still there, but it's just being played a the wrong time or on the part of the image. A time base corrector fixes this by using precise electronic clocks to output the video at specific times in specific intervals, so as long as the tape still has the video, it should be forced to be drawn where it's supposed to.
I'm not going to lie, that Peter Pan segment SENT ME. I grew up with that version of Peter Pan (my parents still have the original VHS) and never actually saw Disney's version. FOR YEARS, I never understood why people enjoyed Peter Pan as much as they did...thanks for the memories/nightmares!
As a huge hockey fan, I love the inclusion of the NHL playoff games in the one tape. It's so fascinating going back and re-watching highlights of what it was like in the 90s, and how different the game was. Plus how funny the broadcasts looked with the graphics and everything. It's always a fun blast from the past to see how much TV shows and commercials have evolved.
Your commentary is golden. Love the sas and sarcasm. Stylistically too, I like how you kept it visually consistent. It feels really visually nice. I'm on minute 33 right now; but I'm loving it!
@@yungtown I'm glad Ian doesn't miss a chance to make funny edits, especially when they're baked into a (seemingly) normal commercial. I hope you make more YTP's too, Luke!
Everyone always suggests launching trash into the sun, but it's actually way easier to launch stuff out of the solar system than into the sun. The Earth is orbiting the sun so fast, and everything launched from Earth inherits that orbital velocity, so they're way closer to exit velocity for the solar system than the much slower orbital velocity needed to "fall" into the sun. You have to decelerate a lot to fall towards the sun.
The "Double Coating" and "High Output" is because the tape is intended to last longer. That tape box was for a tape that was specifically designed to be watched many, many times, such as something re-played over and over on a loop, or watched daily. This never worked very well, the tapes still wore out quickly, and the image quality went from "poor" to "glaucoma" within a few dozen watches. If you haven't run a VHS machine with the top off, do so. The amount of heat and speed of tape movement and head movement is astounding. It's no wonder these tapes disintegrated rapidly.
Ian you have no idea how much of a confort watch the Mystery Tapes videos are for me. I enjoy all of your content, but I have the Mystery Tapes videos downloaded on my UA-cam to watch on the plane when I travel because I am terrified of flying. And I have a long distance relationship lol xd The things we do for love! Thank you for these! Awesome work as always! Can't wait to rewatch it a hundred times later!
OMG hearing you talk about Peter Pan made my entire day!! I have the entire production on VHS and it is genuinely of my most treasured childhood items. I was obsessed as a kid and it’s what inspired me to do musical theater as a teen. I just love how silly it is!
I had the exact opposite reaction to that. It’s the one Christmas gift I ever remember being angry about. I was obsessed with becoming a Disney animator at that age and spent all my time pausing cartoons and drawing what I saw.
21:31 the edit of that football player get DESTROYED and exploding KILLED ME, like I'm CRYING laughing writing this OMG that guy got absolutely OBLITERATED! XD
Holy crap, my parents had a VHS copy of that weird Peter Pan movie and I had completely forgotten about its existence until you randomly stumbled upon it here. What a weird nostalgia trip you just sent me down. Cheers!
I remember that specific episode of 3-2-1 Contact. In the 80s, manufacturers would needlessly add packaging to products to make it seem like you were getting more than you really were. Because of the landfill-scare around that time (which also inspired this episode), this largely fell out of style.
I thought I was going to have to deal with my insomnia when Moose stopped dropping this series! Now I can just watch this video to fall asleep for at least another week!
Watching this tape brings back so many memories from when I was in high school. 4:34 A stripy prep-shirt sporting the LaCoste logo. 9:37 A science program, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, the essential go-to man for anything technology or future-based. And 7:50 Those bright sunny days…which sadly have become quite rare, with Miami’s dramatic increase in precipitation due to climate change. Wait a second. I don’t remember sunshine being that overwhelmingly bright. So brilliant, in fact, that mastering a video-course was essential before taking any satisfactory photo.
Found a bunch of VHS tapes in the fallout shelter at my college. So far they're all cheesy police training videos, dashcam/CCTV footage of high speed chases and shootings. And the latter half of Titanic.
WOW! When I was a kid, several years before I discovered GreenDay, that Colgate Kids song was peak Rock & Roll. Haven't heard or thought about that in like 35 years. Thanks for the nostalgia trip Mr. Moose.❤
My dad would let me watch as much TV as I wanted as long as it was PBS. Some kids grew up on Nickelodeon or Disney or MTV. That boring PBS video really brought back some memories! 👍 Thanks!
I'm so excited to see Mystery Tapes return! Fun fact: the guy in that car rust commercial that played during the hockey game is Mike Ditka, coach of the 1985 Chicago Bears.
I grew up watching the 1960s televised production of Peter Pan!! Millenial, raised by my grandmother, she gifted me the tape as a kiddo and I super loved it! Built a strong appreciation for practical effects in me and helped spark my creativity a lot as well. Always loved Peter Pan, so added a cherry on top. TL;DR Huge hit of nostalgia for me seeing that on here, makes me wanna share it with others now, tysm for taking me back to my childhood! ♥
You found a real life analog horror tape istg, if I saw the tape cut to blood red after saying " so i shot him-- " I would have felt so scared to be alone lmao
Bob Papa who is covering the stanley cup is the radio voice of the New York Giants. He is a great sportscaster and that is a cool early clip of his work!
When I saw this on my feed I audibly gasped. I thought the era of the mystery tape had gone, even though it quickly became my favorite form of UA-cam entertainment. My day instantly got better because of this. Muchas gracias señor
My Autism made me spend a full year watching nothing but 80's/90's commercials on repeat until I knew them all word for word. It cool to see someone who appreciates them too lol🤣
Same lmao, from age 12 to 14. “Hey coke-ologists! M-Max Headroom here! Have you heard about the new taste of New Coke?” Or those adverts for credit cards that don’t exist anymore. “’ello Access” “Oh hello Money, what’s got you down?”
As a Neurodivergent person myself, I’m beyond glad that Ian Brutalmoose introduced me to Drive In Theater ads that he has playing for five minutes before his Twitch streams (which he has a dedicated channel for). Now I have my own playlist of them that I watch-listen to while working when the mood strikes 😅
Finding out that Ian MacMystery got his degree is radio, tv, and film makes so much sense. It explains the reason that his filming style is the way it is! It's true craftsmanship and skill mixed with a bunch of situational and verbal irony..... Masterful.
Pittsburgh mentioned!! Absolutely love mystery tapes! So excited to see another one. One of my favorites to put on as I drift off to sleep! Also, I don't blame Ian for not being too interested in the documentary but I absolutely adore Leonard Nimoy's voice. I used to watch a Bigfoot documentary of his years and years ago. Also, fun fact... he was the narrator for Caution Seaman on the dreamcast! Hope someone gets a kick out of that fact lol! Thanks for the upload : )
Heck yeah, mystery tapes! Also, as an occasional superconductor understander, think about it like this, a normal wire is kinda like a water hose for electricity that has occasional bits of crud in it that the "water" resists moving around, while a supercobductor is like one of those fancy pipes that makes the water flow Just So, perfectly smooth. A majority of the superconductors we've found so far only work at liquid nitrogen or lower temperatures, so finding ones that work even small amounts of degrees warmer is a pretty big deal! If we found a true "room temperature" superconductor, it'd change the face of a LOT of electronics, not the least of which being how power stations work, since they have to actively work against the resistance of the wires, as is! I like the nova presentation, it's actually pretty entertaining if you know what they're carrying on about!
@@gesi7072 if we had a room temp superconductor (BIG IF) then your phone wouldn’t get hot while doing stuff anymore. Heat losses are still the biggest obstacle to battery life for phones and laptops.
Finally! It’s crazy to think I discovered this channel during the pandemic from the mystery VHS videos. Modern sports commercials are mostly for very specific business technologies and pharmaceuticals. It’s like the ads are targeting only a handful of specific people in the country that are C-suite executives of large corporations. I often find myself during commercial breaks wondering who this ad is for. It’s such a different landscape than sporting event commercial breaks of the 90s. And I had that Peter Pan thing recorded on a VHS tape when I was a kid in the late 80s that my parents recorded off the TV. I was obsessed with it as a kid. It used to be available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. It might still be. The Peter Pan peanut butter guy is Mark Linn-Baker from the sitcom “Perfect Strangers” with Bronson Pinchot (the art dealer from Beverly Hills Cop), famously of ABC’s TGIF block and the show that spawned “Family Matters” with Steve Urkel. That’s right, Family Matters was a spin-off.
38:59 I also still don't understand superconductivity but I DO understand that the narrator for that last tape sure sounds like Hank Hill's voice actor and now I wanna know if I'm right
YAYYYY! these VHS tape reviews are one of my fav series on UA-cam and I have been hoping we would get another Mystery Tapes video soon! Thank you Mr. MacMystery
I was so excited to see a new episode of mystery tapes I ran to the store late in the evening to grab some chips. Amazing episode as always, this is my favorite format of yours, would love to see more of these
18:02 This was a great recommendation! Just started listening to KPM 1000 Series, and holy hell they have a massive catalog of TV & film music spanning back to the 60s. Thanks!!
Give some of the European library music from the 70s/80s a go. I would recommend Plantlife by Claude Larson, Lady Robot by Laszlo Bencker ( both are synth stuff) and La Dame a Licorne by Dominique Guiot (medieval sorta stuff).
@@vancefurd NGL there are some solid tunes in Synthesis, Alto Glide and Mermaid coming to mind. I'm especially a sucker for synth leads, with the light portamento accompanied by a funky bass/rhythm!
@@Cybomayne Hey thanks for suggesting those!! I'll add it to my never-ending que of filler tunes. Listening to Plantlife atm and working my way down. Dominique Guiot is great, I've listened to some experimental space synth playlists prior (i.e., L'Univers De La Mer).
I must’ve been a very observant kid when I was younger because these sorts of science documentaries generally interested me as a kid. I remember really enjoying shows like “Nova” and “Nature” on PBS in the late evenings. I guess most other kids were too ADHD to pay attention to this sort of thing.
The elusive, fantastic Mystery Tapes series returns! I’m always delighted to see these-they evoke a nostalgia in me for a time I don’t know, nor would want to visit if given the chance. Very fun!
Cant wait to watch this one with my GF Always exciting when there's a new brutalmoose Since i know you're reading these- Hey Ian! hope you're having a decent day today
A NEW MYSTERY TAPES!!!!! It feels like forever since the last one! I'm so excited to see this!!!! Thank you, Ian MacMystery!!! I'm officially binging the entire playlist now lol.
haven't posted it yet, but i'll upload the extended Video Programs segment without commentary over at www.youtube.com/@mysterytapesarchive
Bold of you to assume I'll click that.
I can't wait for the one about filming 80s home videos.
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Wow! Finally a good brutalmoose vid again. Lets goo. I thought you were just gonna phone in your content forever. Good to see you making an effort again
The greatest reminder that people are just people no matter the time period is someone recording a random beauty pageant on their tape and writing "this sucks dick" on it
Right? I was literally thinking, "this is something someone today would do" as I watched it. People are people, even in a time I can't imagine!
they carved dicks into the walls of rome. we've always been trash specials. :)
@splendidcyan the Roman's drew dick graffiti on walls and buildings. People have really never changed much
I assumed Moose edited that in.
@@mrsqrrl Didn't he though? I'm pretty sure that wasn't the original person. Lol
I'm the older sibling of the person who sent this box of tapes and its honestly so cool to see this pop up in my feed!!! I'm pretty sure those tapes sat around for a few years after they dug em out of the trash but its great to finally see whats on them. We saw the stream where it was unboxed but never thought it would get its own video. So glad you enjoyed them!
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oh that is an actual thermodynamic miracle lmao thats incredible hell yeah. within a couple of hours of the video going up, too!
I'm the actual piece of cereal that's been under your fridge for 7 years now,everything is going fine, I have a dead roach to keep me company,please send milk.
Source: Trust me bro
Son, please stop lying, give more details or get out, this ain't Reddit
Bob Papa is the current Voice of the NY Giants in the NFL. Ive been listening to his football calls throughout my whole entire life. Crazy to see him on a Brutal Tapes episode.
that's awesome! glad Bob is still getting work!
Crazy how they were throwing away their plastic vhs tapes into the garbage, and one of the tapes was about how we should stop making excess waste.
Irony
It's like they're saying we should improve society somewhat, but then WHAM you roast them for participating in it. Curious!
To be fair, if it was trashed recently, it has been around a lot longer before going in the trash than most plastic products.
The real failure was that the tapes weren't sent to the sun in a rocket.
The video programs tape is most likely a practice tape given to a student to experiment and learn the tools, and it probably didn't hurt to use educational content as the base footage to hammer things while they were toying around.
I'm sure the audio portion was originally fine, but that was the relevant part where the student was learning about audio tools and they added the music, experimented with levels, etc themselves.
It could even have been homework for all we know.
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I've had no internet for a week due to the hurricane, and watching this at 144p on a hotspot really added to the aesthetic. love your videos bro.
Hang in there!
Stay strong!! ❤
so true king
Also imagine not feeling special enough for RAISIN BRAN. Like, I've had trouble with my self-esteem, but I don't think I've ever been so low as to refuse *cereal* for being out of my league.
But what about raising bran crunch?
@@darkninjafirefox No human has ever been worthy of a cereal that good, and yet we are allowed to exist in the same world as it regardless, truly a marvel
That guys low self esteem makes my depression seem like sheer ecstasy in comparison
@@hyperaijeI’m more than happy to settle for Honey Bunches of Oats (with Almonds, preferably)
I once ate some cinnamon toast crunch without checking with the appropriate parties that I was deserving. Hopefuly the statute of limitations has expired... But then again, maybe what I was really deserving of was punishment.
The wrapper fooling you is about big colorful packaging with small cheap things inside. The idea was that companies try to trick you into buying junk by making the packaging look nice, and often much bigger than the actual product inside. This is much less common now, for instance toy and video game boxes used to be huge, but now they're very minimal.
There's regulations against that for a lot of goods now
Yeah, even now you still see ridiculous packaging for like… an SD card now and then. But it’s gotten a lot more sensible. Partly down to regs as mentioned above, partly due to transport costs and shoving more into a shipping container leading to more profit for online stores (versus physical stores that cared less to prevent fuel wastage than shoplifting, and consequently pushed for giant packaging).
Those blind boxes are kind of bringing this back, aren't they? It's just layers of packaging with tiny toys inside.
@@kaitlyn__L I think SD card packaging has remained so big purely to prevent somebody pocketing a bunch of them and walking out of a store. Plus they have to put all that legal stuff and instructions on there.
@@Joe90h I’m sure some locales have super big versions for shelf retail. Most I see are now smaller than a pocket paperback book. Though of course that’s still quite an inflation on the size of a card (I think once I worked out you could get 10-20 in the area?)
Also important is even though they’re wide, they’re also quite thin; a key difference from giant 90s boxes. Even in the 00s, a USB stick came in a box thicker than (insert large novel here). Now they’re packaged more like how I always remember batteries being, on a thin paperboard backing.
Your expertise really shines through here. Some random youtuber watching these tapes wouldn't have known what was going on with the Miss America pageant with the shapes and text but you immediately knew what kind of device was being used there, super cool.
It's always great to see a youtuber go "hey I know this" and be able to talk about what was their "normal" career path knowledge from before youtube sucked them in.
Not only did he KNOW the device, but he OWNED ITTTT.
God that WGBH identifier at 14:31 is so nostalgic. Love this series, thanks for brightening my day
You have no idea how many times I rewinded to listen to it again…
Love how much PBS content is featured. PBS will go down as one of the most legendary education projects ever produced by a publicly funded program. Still follow multiple PBS channels on UA-cam to this day.
I watched PBS a lot as a child and I still remember some of the shows on there. I watch the PBS channels on UA-cam myself.
I think they’ve learned a lot about how to make subjects more engaging since then! From back then I love NOVA, but the rest can drag more than a BBC Open University programme from the same era 😅
How many other significant education projects produced by a publicly funded program are there? Honestly asking. Didn’t know what sort of competition PBS was facing in this category.
Well don't let the Republicans get ahold of things then. If you care - seriously.
Fund PBS!
Please more mystery tape episodes. They're always golden.
As someone whose degree is in Electrical Engineering, I think (read:hope) I can explain Superconductors in a more intuitive way than that special did:
When electrons flow through a normal wire, they lose some of their energy as they travel along, because the electrons keep bumping into things inside the wire. Mostly, the electrons are bumping into the rest of the atoms of the wire (the electrons flowing through the wire come from the atoms already in the wire) because they're all jiggling around. The atoms are jiggling around basically because they're hot, and the hotter they are, the more they jiggle around.
In a superconductor, the atoms stop their jiggling and the electrons can peacefully move through the material without bumping into anything. Of course, it's a little (read: a LOT) more complicated than that, but the simplest explanation I can offer is this:
When the atoms stop their jiggling from heat, they actually start to clump up a little around the electrons cause the two are attracted to each other (and they stay clumped up cause they're not jiggling around). When other electrons see all these positive charges in one spot, they want in on the action and are attracted to that spot. Because of some quantum mechanics black magic, this causes the electrons to start to buddy up together in pairs and keep a healthy distance from each other. Now, neither the atoms nor the electrons are bouncing around all willy-nilly, and the electrons can flow between the atoms without any resistance.
This has a lot of cool applications and consequences, like allowing magnets to float or being able to hold onto a moving current forever without any source of power driving it. The downside to superconductors is that all the ones we know of only work when they're *stupid* cold. Like, instantly-freeze-your-fingers-off cold. This means that for a superconductor to keep superconducting, you have to spend a lot of effort keeping it that cold, otherwise it goes back to being a normal conductor or even an insulator. That said, on smaller scales, that's not too bad, and there are things nowadays that use superconductors just fine. But for something like a loss-less power line? We're not there yet.
legit wanted to know more about superconductors. thanks for the writeup
Neat! I really did always wonder what made superconductors so special. So a practical superconductor would be one with atoms that stop jiggling and clump together at room temperature? Can't wait to see who invents that lol. XD
I like that these specials also likely said "Room temperature super conductors are right around the corner!" and yet we've constantly failed to find one or they've been non-reproducible. It's funny, a "self-driving cars are only 5 years down the road!" since the 00s scenario.
@@Wandergirl108 I’m not an electrical engineer but I did do physics in uni, the “quantum black magic” they discuss where electrons pair up (called a quasi-particle, they can essentially act like protons in that state even though they’re electrons) are theoretically more important than the temperature. The temperature is just the only way we can reliably get that to occur.
But theoretically a material may exist with the perfect structure to allow for that peaceful electron behaviour at other temps. (I don’t think we’ll see it though, personally. Thermodynamics is too cruel a mistress.)
All that said, we have made some advances in “high temperature superconductors”. (Probably what the tapes were excited about.) That’s only a relative term of course, the first ones had to run at like 5-50 kelvin (AKA degrees celsius above absolute zero, -273°C), now we have ones more in the 100-150K range. Which is to say, still far below freezing and will hurt you, and still consumes a lot of cooling energy, but much less difficult to control.
The main use so far has been to get much stronger electromagnets for particle accelerators (like the Large Hadron Collider which discovered the Higgs boson about 15 years ago) and experimental fusion reactors. We basically use the extra “headroom” from the higher temperature tolerance to just get a much bigger magnetic field, rather than getting the same field for less energy.
(Edit: oh yeah, some maglev trains use superconductors as well. That’s a huge part of why they’re so much more costly than even regular high speed rail.)
@@adamsjoh2 that was more the journalists at the time. The researchers usually said “we’ve found materials that can withstand 50-100K higher temps in the last 10 years, so maybe by the 2000s or 2010s we’ll have increased it by another 50-100K!”, but that’s still a ways off from room temp. Science journalism (like those futurism mags for kids) picked up with that and insisted we’d have worldwide lossless power grids in 2012.
"Next time you're taping your best girl buffing her buggy" make sure you have a signed consent form.
PEAK RETURNS
My other favorite series he's done! Plus, looking at different commercials from the era is nostalgic
Hiii im the one who sent these in (all the fish in the world)
I'd like to say my trash habits have faded, but they definitely haven't(i'm a janitor. i find cool things daily now). It's so cool to finally see what's on these tapes. Thank you!!
Edit: Some more details: There was more tapes in the trash, but I could only carry so much in my backpack and the computer science teacher was watching and I didn't want to push my luck. I'll forever regret that
I'm hoping to see 'Back to the future special effects' in a future video, I was curious about that one! Also the 'this sucks dick' editing MUST have been from a teacher because a student wouldn't turn that in as a project, and wouldn't have been saved lmao.
And Giant Don's is still open. I think they have multiple locations, even.
If you really are the person that sent these in I have to ask, what is xeing? I read the note and that word has been bugging me, lol.
@@Sharauni It's "seeing" but the s and e are shallow and nearly touching so it looks like an x
@@Sharauni its the word "seeing" but the first two letters are a little scrunched up
Lol If people say your handwriting is bad I guess mine is too cause we have similar handwriting. YOUR TRASH HABITS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOT ENDED YOU KEEP BRINGING STUFF HOME
INCLUDING ONCE A DOG
That Colgate Jr commercial unlocked a deep childhood memory. I remember the gel coming out of the tube in the shape of a star. That stuff was kind of gross, but that is how I learned that you weren't supposed to swallow toothpaste after brushing.
Maybe it was gross on purpose?
I could immediately smell and taste the bubblegum toothpaste when that commercial came on. Crazy!
We never really had stuff like that in my house…
So the time i had a sleepover at a friends house and was like yo wtf kind of toothpaste is this…. HEY WAIT! THIS IS GONNA BE DOPE.
It was watermelon lol
@@sleepyote I remember there being some really sweet and tasty (flavored) tooth pastes... yeah... may've swallowed some of that...
I remember we had banana flavoured toothpaste as a kid, and it was weird but kinda tasty so might have eaten some of it... And my mother definitely realised it was going down faster than was normal, because we went back to the plain mint stuff right after.
Hi. I'm a scientist here to explain superconductivity.
It's magic. Activated by cold.
Aaaah, ice magic!
Woo! The return of my favorite series by you. Time to grab a snack and relax.
hope you enjoy it!
@@brutalmooseI never found any tapes in the trash but i did find a bunch of tapes i recorded in the 90s
Nice profile pic @norweeg
@@brutalmoose please adopt me
Grab yourself a snack and a glass of orange juice. Try not to reach through the screen cuz here WE GOOOOOOO!
Man, I really never enter the comments section of UA-cam but damnit, your deadpan humor got me chuckling. Well done.
"... but the criminals just refuse to break into song..."
Maybe if the superconductors had just broken into song...
The superconductors broke into interpretive dance and it didn't help
I'm not an expert so I might be wrong, but from my understanding, a time base corrector works by synchronizing the VCR with the TV. On VHS, as with most analog video, the video is an encoded series of lines and fields of color that are then decoded to be drawn top to bottom, since that's how CRTs drew an image. Because the VCR reads and writes the tape through mechanical action, a lot of VHS errors take the form of lines or field being drawn at the wrong time, and coming out at the wrong place. The proper video is still there, but it's just being played a the wrong time or on the part of the image. A time base corrector fixes this by using precise electronic clocks to output the video at specific times in specific intervals, so as long as the tape still has the video, it should be forced to be drawn where it's supposed to.
fascinating! thanks for the info!
That Kellog's commercial was definitely the best. Basically this:
"I don't deserve this cereal with two scoops of raisins."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. 😐"
"please, ma'am, I spit on a hobo earlier today. Bring me generic poop enhancement cereal"
I'm not going to lie, that Peter Pan segment SENT ME. I grew up with that version of Peter Pan (my parents still have the original VHS) and never actually saw Disney's version. FOR YEARS, I never understood why people enjoyed Peter Pan as much as they did...thanks for the memories/nightmares!
Did you get the peanut butter too?
@@darkninjafirefox Sounds like they weren't a Peter Pan nut.
@@Joe90h you right, I was a Jif guy. Legit was one time in college when I woke up covered in peanut butter, but that’s a story for another day…
As a huge hockey fan, I love the inclusion of the NHL playoff games in the one tape. It's so fascinating going back and re-watching highlights of what it was like in the 90s, and how different the game was. Plus how funny the broadcasts looked with the graphics and everything. It's always a fun blast from the past to see how much TV shows and commercials have evolved.
No way, so glad to see you're continuing the series!
Nice pfp
Me too
@@TOASTERBOI_2004Thank you!
@@LezlieLizard You’re welcome
Your commentary is golden. Love the sas and sarcasm. Stylistically too, I like how you kept it visually consistent. It feels really visually nice. I'm on minute 33 right now; but I'm loving it!
LOL also love the YTP snickers ad
@@yungtown I'm glad Ian doesn't miss a chance to make funny edits, especially when they're baked into a (seemingly) normal commercial. I hope you make more YTP's too, Luke!
Mystery Tapes was my favorite series of yours, so glad to see it return after so long!
Shooting trash into space was a Futurama episode.
Everyone always suggests launching trash into the sun, but it's actually way easier to launch stuff out of the solar system than into the sun. The Earth is orbiting the sun so fast, and everything launched from Earth inherits that orbital velocity, so they're way closer to exit velocity for the solar system than the much slower orbital velocity needed to "fall" into the sun. You have to decelerate a lot to fall towards the sun.
(gravliest voice I've ever heard)
wrap wrap wrap
dont let da wrapper fool you
uh uh
(this will never leave my head daaamn youuuu MacMystery!)
Are we talking about P Diddy here?
This was my favorite version of Peter Pan growing up. Thank you for acknowledging how much it rules lol
Hey! That Peter Pan peanut butter commercial guy is Cousin Larry from Perfect Strangers!
He's also the asshole dad in that one early episode of Full House. Mark Linn-Baker
I forgot his character’s name but was like, he’s the one that isn’t Balki.
He’s Mark Linn-Baker and here I was thinking it was Howie Mandel
@feeder12 my comment got deleted earlier. but yeah, i remember him as the jerk dad with a snotty daughter in one of the early Full House episodes
Of course it is don't be ridiculous! =)
The "Double Coating" and "High Output" is because the tape is intended to last longer. That tape box was for a tape that was specifically designed to be watched many, many times, such as something re-played over and over on a loop, or watched daily. This never worked very well, the tapes still wore out quickly, and the image quality went from "poor" to "glaucoma" within a few dozen watches.
If you haven't run a VHS machine with the top off, do so. The amount of heat and speed of tape movement and head movement is astounding. It's no wonder these tapes disintegrated rapidly.
While that toothpaste ad might have kicked ass, it tasted like it too
you're not the first to reflect on that paste in such a fashion... must have been a pretty nasty toothpaste!
@@brutalmooseIt also didn't lather. Felt like brushing your teeth with slightly slimy water.
@@brutalmoose I beg to differ. Maybe (definitely) I was a weird kid, but it tasted pretty good.
Ian you have no idea how much of a confort watch the Mystery Tapes videos are for me. I enjoy all of your content, but I have the Mystery Tapes videos downloaded on my UA-cam to watch on the plane when I travel because I am terrified of flying. And I have a long distance relationship lol xd The things we do for love! Thank you for these! Awesome work as always! Can't wait to rewatch it a hundred times later!
OMG hearing you talk about Peter Pan made my entire day!! I have the entire production on VHS and it is genuinely of my most treasured childhood items. I was obsessed as a kid and it’s what inspired me to do musical theater as a teen. I just love how silly it is!
I had the exact opposite reaction to that. It’s the one Christmas gift I ever remember being angry about. I was obsessed with becoming a Disney animator at that age and spent all my time pausing cartoons and drawing what I saw.
21:31 the edit of that football player get DESTROYED and exploding KILLED ME, like I'm CRYING laughing writing this OMG that guy got absolutely OBLITERATED! XD
P sure he just straight up went to heaven after that tackle, good lord.
Holy crap, my parents had a VHS copy of that weird Peter Pan movie and I had completely forgotten about its existence until you randomly stumbled upon it here. What a weird nostalgia trip you just sent me down. Cheers!
I remember that specific episode of 3-2-1 Contact. In the 80s, manufacturers would needlessly add packaging to products to make it seem like you were getting more than you really were. Because of the landfill-scare around that time (which also inspired this episode), this largely fell out of style.
I LOVE iAN's VHS era. So much nostalgia. Keep this up!
If you were my son, I'd be disappointed
*pause for laughter* 🤣
23:46 HOLY COW, I remember this! My family had it on VHS when I was a kid. I love this production, huge blast of nostalgia seeing that opening.
I thought I was going to have to deal with my insomnia when Moose stopped dropping this series! Now I can just watch this video to fall asleep for at least another week!
i hear peter pan nut might help
Watching this tape brings back so many memories from when I was in high school. 4:34 A stripy prep-shirt sporting the LaCoste logo. 9:37 A science program, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, the essential go-to man for anything technology or future-based. And 7:50 Those bright sunny days…which sadly have become quite rare, with Miami’s dramatic increase in precipitation due to climate change. Wait a second. I don’t remember sunshine being that overwhelmingly bright. So brilliant, in fact, that mastering a video-course was essential before taking any satisfactory photo.
Found a bunch of VHS tapes in the fallout shelter at my college. So far they're all cheesy police training videos, dashcam/CCTV footage of high speed chases and shootings. And the latter half of Titanic.
that sounds pretty rad!
WOW! When I was a kid, several years before I discovered GreenDay, that Colgate Kids song was peak Rock & Roll. Haven't heard or thought about that in like 35 years. Thanks for the nostalgia trip Mr. Moose.❤
Dead Meat being the first patron name listed makes this video even better, because he's been BEGGING for another of these videos!
My dad would let me watch as much TV as I wanted as long as it was PBS. Some kids grew up on Nickelodeon or Disney or MTV. That boring PBS video really brought back some memories! 👍 Thanks!
Imagine how different the last two generations would be if they did that.
Can’t express how happy I am that a new mystery tape has finally come out, these are both extremely entertaining and sneaky good sleep aids!
I'm so excited to see Mystery Tapes return! Fun fact: the guy in that car rust commercial that played during the hockey game is Mike Ditka, coach of the 1985 Chicago Bears.
I grew up watching the 1960s televised production of Peter Pan!!
Millenial, raised by my grandmother, she gifted me the tape as a kiddo and I super loved it! Built a strong appreciation for practical effects in me and helped spark my creativity a lot as well. Always loved Peter Pan, so added a cherry on top.
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Huge hit of nostalgia for me seeing that on here, makes me wanna share it with others now, tysm for taking me back to my childhood! ♥
The gender ambiguity of that Peter Pan made me feel weird.
I love the little fish the sender drew on the note
The return of my favorite series! Keep em coming!
You found a real life analog horror tape istg, if I saw the tape cut to blood red after saying " so i shot him-- " I would have felt so scared to be alone lmao
Which time stamp is that at?? I seemed to have missed that somehow
It didn't say "him." It cut off at "shot."
@@joshitricara3407 It starts at 4:14.
This series convinced me to get a VCR for my box tv and start buying nearly every sold as blank tape at Goodwill Outlets I go to
Bob Papa who is covering the stanley cup is the radio voice of the New York Giants. He is a great sportscaster and that is a cool early clip of his work!
When I saw this on my feed I audibly gasped. I thought the era of the mystery tape had gone, even though it quickly became my favorite form of UA-cam entertainment. My day instantly got better because of this.
Muchas gracias señor
My Autism made me spend a full year watching nothing but 80's/90's commercials on repeat until I knew them all word for word. It cool to see someone who appreciates them too lol🤣
Yo recite a random commercial for me
Same lmao, from age 12 to 14. “Hey coke-ologists! M-Max Headroom here! Have you heard about the new taste of New Coke?”
Or those adverts for credit cards that don’t exist anymore. “’ello Access” “Oh hello Money, what’s got you down?”
As a Neurodivergent person myself, I’m beyond glad that Ian Brutalmoose introduced me to Drive In Theater ads that he has playing for five minutes before his Twitch streams (which he has a dedicated channel for). Now I have my own playlist of them that I watch-listen to while working when the mood strikes 😅
@@rachel_sj you wanna link me to that other channel?….
Ads seem so much more pleasant then. It seems like from the mid 90's, and onwards, media became more obnoxious.
Finding out that Ian MacMystery got his degree is radio, tv, and film makes so much sense. It explains the reason that his filming style is the way it is! It's true craftsmanship and skill mixed with a bunch of situational and verbal irony..... Masterful.
Most of Japan burns their trash in incinerators that also generate electricity. They also like to put wrappers inside of wrappers on products.
They let the wrapper foooool them. Uh-huh.
Pittsburgh mentioned!! Absolutely love mystery tapes! So excited to see another one. One of my favorites to put on as I drift off to sleep!
Also, I don't blame Ian for not being too interested in the documentary but I absolutely adore Leonard Nimoy's voice. I used to watch a Bigfoot documentary of his years and years ago. Also, fun fact... he was the narrator for Caution Seaman on the dreamcast! Hope someone gets a kick out of that fact lol!
Thanks for the upload : )
There's still beauty in this world. Thanks Ian!
There's something satisfying about having a 4:3 screen to watch this on. The video perfectly fits with no black bars.
The fact that you don’t have 7 digit follower count is today’s actual greatest mystery. You my friend are a gem of the UA-cam creator scene 🤙🏼
Honestly those lighting and framing tips are still fire 😅
Heck yeah, mystery tapes! Also, as an occasional superconductor understander, think about it like this, a normal wire is kinda like a water hose for electricity that has occasional bits of crud in it that the "water" resists moving around, while a supercobductor is like one of those fancy pipes that makes the water flow Just So, perfectly smooth. A majority of the superconductors we've found so far only work at liquid nitrogen or lower temperatures, so finding ones that work even small amounts of degrees warmer is a pretty big deal! If we found a true "room temperature" superconductor, it'd change the face of a LOT of electronics, not the least of which being how power stations work, since they have to actively work against the resistance of the wires, as is! I like the nova presentation, it's actually pretty entertaining if you know what they're carrying on about!
supercobductor
So would electronics work smoother or work "cleaner" because of superconductors?
@@gesi7072 if we had a room temp superconductor (BIG IF) then your phone wouldn’t get hot while doing stuff anymore. Heat losses are still the biggest obstacle to battery life for phones and laptops.
what's your opinion on that bit with all the dancers? Holy f... I can't imagine anyone understanding that
@@colinstu the dancers bit reads pretty well, imho, it's a good metaphor
26:35 YOOOOO local ads from Anchorage, AK! Made my day!!!
lets fucking go my favorite series on youtube mystery tapes is back
A hockey game with multiple fights and a guy that pours his drink on the coach sounds like a DAMN FUN game imo
LEONARD NIMOY SAID ILLINOIS!! EVANSTON ILLINOIS!!! THAT'S WHERE I LIVED!!!
What a legend man.
Finally! It’s crazy to think I discovered this channel during the pandemic from the mystery VHS videos.
Modern sports commercials are mostly for very specific business technologies and pharmaceuticals. It’s like the ads are targeting only a handful of specific people in the country that are C-suite executives of large corporations. I often find myself during commercial breaks wondering who this ad is for. It’s such a different landscape than sporting event commercial breaks of the 90s.
And I had that Peter Pan thing recorded on a VHS tape when I was a kid in the late 80s that my parents recorded off the TV. I was obsessed with it as a kid. It used to be available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. It might still be.
The Peter Pan peanut butter guy is Mark Linn-Baker from the sitcom “Perfect Strangers” with Bronson Pinchot (the art dealer from Beverly Hills Cop), famously of ABC’s TGIF block and the show that spawned “Family Matters” with Steve Urkel. That’s right, Family Matters was a spin-off.
38:59 I also still don't understand superconductivity but I DO understand that the narrator for that last tape sure sounds like Hank Hill's voice actor and now I wanna know if I'm right
Sounded like Brent Spiner to us lmao
I thought it was Harold Ramis
I love all of your videos but Mystery Tapes are my absolute favorite. Glad to see a new one!
YAYYYY! these VHS tape reviews are one of my fav series on UA-cam and I have been hoping we would get another Mystery Tapes video soon! Thank you Mr. MacMystery
I think, BY FAR, my favorite series on youtube is you watching old vhs's!!! Thank you so much for having this series!!! I LOVE!!!!
The Peter Pan Nut was Cousin Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) from Perfect Strangers.
I had no idea that a young Miranda Priestly was so passionate about refuse and recycling. Snaps sis
Yessss i love this series!!! Ty for bringing it back!!
I love this series Mr. MacMystery, thank you for sharing your special interest with the world
Yay new moose! Thanks so much cant wait to watch!
I was so excited to see a new episode of mystery tapes I ran to the store late in the evening to grab some chips. Amazing episode as always, this is my favorite format of yours, would love to see more of these
these videos are so cozy, they feel like a hug
18:02 This was a great recommendation! Just started listening to KPM 1000 Series, and holy hell they have a massive catalog of TV & film music spanning back to the 60s. Thanks!!
I know of them because Turner Broadcasting used them a lot back then lmao
Synthesis is the best one
Give some of the European library music from the 70s/80s a go. I would recommend Plantlife by Claude Larson, Lady Robot by Laszlo Bencker ( both are synth stuff) and La Dame a Licorne by Dominique Guiot (medieval sorta stuff).
@@vancefurd NGL there are some solid tunes in Synthesis, Alto Glide and Mermaid coming to mind. I'm especially a sucker for synth leads, with the light portamento accompanied by a funky bass/rhythm!
@@Cybomayne Hey thanks for suggesting those!! I'll add it to my never-ending que of filler tunes. Listening to Plantlife atm and working my way down. Dominique Guiot is great, I've listened to some experimental space synth playlists prior (i.e., L'Univers De La Mer).
I’m glad I’m not alone in finding entertainment in old tapes, especially ones without labels just to see what was recorded.
Oh yeah new mystery tapes video it’s a great day. This is one of my favorite series on UA-cam man I love stuff like this
I must’ve been a very observant kid when I was younger because these sorts of science documentaries generally interested me as a kid. I remember really enjoying shows like “Nova” and “Nature” on PBS in the late evenings. I guess most other kids were too ADHD to pay attention to this sort of thing.
my faveourite series of your by far - love me some random tape deep dives
At last, more mystery VHS tape gold from Brutalmoose! I cant remember the last time you did one of these. This was so much fun to watch!
What’s this? A new mystery tapes on the same day Sparking zero is released? It’s a dream come true
yet another dragonball game?
Stoked to see a new upload of this series! Brutalmoose vids in general hit on a different level than anything else on YT.
These are my favorite videos of yours please keep them coming!
I would be EXTREMELY hesitant to watch mostly unmarked tapes found in a public receptacle for anonymously getting rid of things.
Why? Do you think people are just throwing away their murder tapes and sinister porn in public trash cans at schools?
Loved the video! The mystery tape series is just perfect
The elusive, fantastic Mystery Tapes series returns! I’m always delighted to see these-they evoke a nostalgia in me for a time I don’t know, nor would want to visit if given the chance. Very fun!
Cant wait to watch this one with my GF
Always exciting when there's a new brutalmoose
Since i know you're reading these- Hey Ian! hope you're having a decent day today
i havent been recommended a video from brutalmoose in 3 months and it comes back with this absolute banger lmao
Yes new mystery tapes!
A NEW MYSTERY TAPES!!!!! It feels like forever since the last one! I'm so excited to see this!!!!
Thank you, Ian MacMystery!!!
I'm officially binging the entire playlist now lol.
It's been so long, and this dropped right before I work. 😢
I can't wait to watch this later!
My parents taped this exact Peter Pan broadcast on VHS. I can still remember the show and all of the commercials. Good times!
Having a rough past few days and I really needed this