Hilariously stolen from Eaton Rapids Joe. https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/

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The backstory on this video is that the “professor” is a professional actor who specialized in commercials. He was hired by Chrysler to act in the production of a “promotional” film. The cameraman was twiddling with his camera setting up focus, sound and brightness when the actor ripped off this masterpiece of bullshit to warm up and get in-character.
The cameraman kept recording and the rest is history.

22 thoughts on “Hilariously stolen from Eaton Rapids Joe. https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/”

  1. When it was first shown, I wonder how many “geniuses” bought the drivel.

    Inquiring idiots want to know.

    • He is a sad loss to politics in general and as a White House spokesman (or spokesperson, nowadays) in particular.

    • He wasn’t “winging” it.

      This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70’s at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn’t be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as “the ear”. He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the “ear” was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud’s innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat’s off to Bud a true talent.

  5. I think that was my Physics professor in college.
    He,and the whole college, were assssholes.
    Go Beavers!
    There’s 8 inches of snow here on the bay near Newport, OR
    And it’s snowing again!

  6. as i learned thru navy training; if you cant impress them with knowledge; baffle them with bullsh*t!

    • ‘Beat me to it… That was in the Coast Guard curriculum as well… Way back when ships were of wood and men were of steel!

  12. Rockwell (Now Rockwell Automation) did a take on this as well years after this expanding on the techno babble as I think they are somehow the spiritual successor to the original anyway. As a lark many years ago, I signed up to them as a contractor interested in their products and service channels then used that account to ask by inquiring where i could find some replacement Sperving Bearings…

    Got a notice they would get back to me, never did, but they gleefully added me to their mailing list, and i still to this day get occasional emails from them every so often with gobblety gook information on technical stuff they are doing.

  13. Seen it before but the backstory makes it even funnier thanks GS. I will still laugh every time I see it as I did this time and that is the most supreme baffling I have ever seen.

  14. For years I sat in morning meetings where I swear I heard long drawn out descriptions that sounded just like this.

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