Of all the folks people wud go back in time to murder; i feel this guy wud at least be entirely unaware of why anyone from the future wud want to murder him... But in terms of actual damage done by a single persons actions; his are the probs actually the highest just cuz of how long the ripple effects of his actions were.
Sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a way to log back into an Instagram account? I was stupid lost the login password. I love any assistance you can give me.
"You're letting your psychotic fascination with railroads lead you into a suicidal gamble with the future of the company" -Actual quote from supertrain
All Garry's sound effects in this episode: Coffee saturation alarm: 0:32 Beaver falling of a cliff + trumpet: 1:471:52 The forbidden love of a cruise liner and a oil tanker 4:22 back in the pope mobile 13:36 the old standard (goose, train, gose and train) 13:45
After providing proof at the press conference that lead is perfectly fine, by pouring leaded petrol over his hands, he became very rude when entering rooms that had their doors closed....you know, because lead stops knocking.
My family made a beaver fall off a cliff once. It was when I was reasonably young, I think we were in Canada, we drove up a mountain road that turned out to be a dead end. We got out of the car anyway, and spotted something in the bushes. We tried to slowly approach, but we must have made too much noise or something because we startled it and saw its tail as it ran off, and suddenly heard "thump, thump, thump, thump" - the sound of a beaver falling down a steep hill.
So, as a chemist, I was once doing some research about alkylcobalt compounds. And I stumbled by accident on that paper from the 1920s Where they suggested adding dimethylcadmium to gasoline to prevent engine knocking. (I just tried to find it again, and now realize there are even a couple patents on doing so!) So, in a way, we're lucky they instead went for lead!
Not only cadmium but f***ing DIMETHYLCADMIUM. To quote blogger and chemist Derek Lowe: "The general rule is, if you’re looking for the worst organic derivatives of any metal, you should hop right on down to the methyl compounds. That’s where the most choking vapors, the brightest flames, and the most panicked shouts and heartfelt curses are to be found. Methyl organometallics tend to be small, reactive, volatile, and ready to party. He actually has a full article on this stuff which makes for an interesting, albeit scary read once you consider that they wanted to use that stuff as a gasoline additive. Link: blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/08/things_i_wont_work_with_dimethylcadmium
gustav hl I love his "things I won't work with" series. Reminds me a lot of John D. Clark's "ignition". Except in his case, it's more "things I did work with"...
"Player-ization of the entire orchestra." They already had that, Gary. It's called the Orchestrion. Think player piano on steroids. Also, propane fridges are still a thing today. They're surprisingly popular among the Amish communities of rural Pennsylvania because they keep food cold and preserved, but don't use electricity.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 they like being off grid, and stuff they can repair themselves with simple tools. The age isn't as important. Sone also allow solar cells.
I feel really sad for Thomas Midgley. I might be wrong, but I have the impression that he just wanted to help, and to learn what he had unknowingly and almost single-handedly caused would have devastated him.
I don't know what movie or novel I heard that in, but I remember this quote: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." In this case that kind of fits...
@@maccrazy7335 I think that that's just a common phrase, it could be a phrase that came from a movie or novel originally though. To Google! No, I'mnot going to Google it, I'm just writing a comment for fun
@@maccrazy7335 Older than movies but younger than the bible. It's a fairly common saying which gradually evolved over the last few centuries, with the modern version you quoted dating back at least to the 1850s.
I'm so proud of myself, because I actually knew who this person was at the start of the episode! I spent the entire episode waiting for him to get to the chlorofluorocarbon, and the bit about him building the system of pulleys. Nobody needs to believe me, I just felt like bragging in the comments. I must say, I am surprised Australia never came up, since technically the hole in the ozone over Australia is this mans fault.
I thought the name sounded familiar and then I thought he might be the guy who invented leaded gasoline and then when he mentioned General Motors, I immediately knew.
As a prize for that beaver impersonation (edit: and ALL the rest of the sound effects), Gary wins two conjoined hollow spheres made from the debris of the rockets that launched a famous space telescope. A double Hubble-rubble bubble.
5:55 Considering the state of the United states railway, getting anywhere within 36 hours is a miracle just due to freight trains having all the priority.
Some of the ones used in caravans and so on are hybrid models that can be powered by propane, 12V or 230V depending on what's the most convenient. Called absorption fridges by the way. And there are absorption fridges still being made that only uses 230V that are used when you want a very quiet fridge, such as for the hotel room mini bar. The lack of noise is pretty much the only advantage over a compressor fridge. The absorption fridge gives less cooling, produces more heat outside it and uses more energy than a compressor fridge. Generally speaking.
It's not an episode of Citation Needed without me going down a rabbit hole of obscure psychedelic British children's TV shows. This week: Tugs, 80s Thomas the Tank Engine, and Wizadora.
Someone should write a poem about this guy. I mean, what an interesting thing to have been "responsible" for so many horrible horrible things but without knowing it, not out of ignorance, but out of simply not being able to know
Holy crap, I had to go back and make sure I heard right when you said Beaver Falls, I live about 3 miles from there! Thank you Tech. Diff. for a new season, I look forward to these every week!
Every time I watch these, I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside, because I realise what I see on the screen is pretty much how my brain works. I am not he only mad goofball on this planet. ^^
The reason why nobody knew that CFCs were bad for the atmosphere is because of the density of chlorine gas. The bond in a chlorine molecule can absorb a lot of UV radiation, resulting in it breaking far easier. However, due to the UV, this breaking produces two atoms of chlorine with unpaired electrons, called 'radicals'. These chlorine radicals catalyse the breakdown of ozone into oxygen gas, thus making holes in our ozone layer. The reason why nobody knew this prior to CFCs is because chlorine is a relatively heavy gas, thus preventing it from reaching the upper part of the atmosphere where there is more UV. CFCs on the other hand, containing lighter elements Carbon, Hydrogen, and Fluorine, are light enough to rise to the upper atmosphere, at which point the same UV breakdown occurs forming chlorine radicals, removing our ozone.
For 1979, 80 MPH in the US would have been really fast. I was thinking '80 MPH is extremely fast' when I heard that because in Australia, most trains travel at well below 80, although there are trains that go at 100 MPH here.
@@techmage89 came here to say this! i'd love to live in a US where we invest in mass transit, ppl can take a regular cross-country train, and that train actually reaches a decent speed safely
@@acrspeed That's top speed. Due to issues with track, bridges, and sharp turns, on real routes the average speed is significantly slower. Acela, the "high speed" route run by Amtrak, averages 84mph over its route, even though its top speed is 150mph.
But this is special built rail line, not sharing tracks with regular traffic. Because the supertrain was double wide, it can't run on regular tracks and regular trains can't run on its tracks. It would be extremely stupid to build such an investment to such a slow grade.
I don't know how you guys do it, but Citation Needed is still the thing I have laughed at most (by amount of laughter per unit time(laughter density, perhaps?)) in my whole life (at least, I don't recall anything coming close). Fantastic work, can't wait for next week! :)
The talk about exploding fridges reminds of of the time when my friends fridge decided to launch it's door of it's hinges. The fridge was facing the kitchen window, and after the BOOM! the door of the fridge was in the garden (possibly the neighbor's garden) and the contents of said fridge were quite literally all over the place.
I mean the cruise liner and the oil tanker situation ended up being remarkably similar to whatever the heck it was Hercules had going on with Lily Lightship.
Never thought the French horn would get any coverage on your shows- for better or for worse (I am a proud Grade 8-standard horn-player (Grade 6 in the USA)). Thanks, Gaz!
With as much as you drifted in this episode, I'm frankly surprised there was any bonus material. But I was in tears from laughing so much. God bless you all for bringing me this much joy.
The comments have glitched so I've got the comments section of the Thomas Midgley Jr. episode of Citation Needed on Brian David Gilbert's 'it's time to get good at darts'. I don't have a clue which comment section I'm writing this in. I feel like the universe is collapsing in on itself. Help.
I've been watching Citation Needed for years, I've watched every episode about a hundred times, and the penny has only JUST dropped on the Beaver Falls joke. Wow. I love it.
15:15 A propane powered fridge is a real thing. Absorption refrigerators use a heat source to provide the energy for the cooling process and don't require any moving parts. They are commonly used in RVs with a propane burner.
Fun fact: The German version of Love Boat (Das Traumschiff) is still running to this day, but they only do two or three episodes per year. One on New Year's Day, an optional one during the year, and one on Christmas.
I legitimately thought someone had a siren, not that it was Gary with the noises until the camera went to Gary and I clearly saw that it was his mouth and vocal cords making the siren sound
And now we have R600 for fridges - essentially propane as your refrigerant. The benefit - no CFCs released into the atmosphere (we are now permitted to vent the refrigerant instead of recovering it like with R-134a, R-12, etc). The cost - having a compressed hydrocarbon stuck inside your refrigerator at all times. (In reality it's a tiny amount - usually less than 50 grams, and would require a decently accurate stoichiometric mix with air to make it flammable anyway.)
I knew about this guy when I was 9 from one of the Horrible Science series of books. Still wouldn't have got most of the points later in the episode, but basically smashed the earlier part.
You laugh, but propane (R290), isobutane (R600a) and propylene (R1270) are currently used as "greener" alternatives to CFCs like R22 or R134a. A household fridge can have up to 150g of propane.
Propane powered fridges still exist today. Not sure if you can find them in Europe, but they can often be found in RVs in the US that have a selector to run on electricity or propane
lead is pretty bad for you when ingested, but organometallic compounds like tetraethyl-lead are far more dangerous because they tend to accumulate in the body. Another example of this was the Minamata river in Japan where methyl mercury was being dumped by a factory and accumulated in the fish and shellfish leading to local villagers getting horrible mercury poisoning.
I was listening to this while driving and had to literally pull off to the side of the road cause I was laughing so hard. That pope infestation was so damn funny.
Let's all take a moment to recognize Clair Cameron Patterson (Jun 2, 1922 - Dec 5, 1995) as an absolute legend, a giga-chad among men, a true friend of humanity, an actual hero, a genius, and a madlad - not just to the US - but to the world. Thank you for your service, Dr. Patterson.
Thomas Midgely, Jr. died the way he lived: inadvertently making it impossible to breathe.
👏👏👏👏👏
Of all the folks people wud go back in time to murder; i feel this guy wud at least be entirely unaware of why anyone from the future wud want to murder him...
But in terms of actual damage done by a single persons actions; his are the probs actually the highest just cuz of how long the ripple effects of his actions were.
This legitimately got me out of nowhere and i couldn't stop laughing for 2 minutes.
Sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a way to log back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid lost the login password. I love any assistance you can give me.
@@SylviaRustyFae Good lord was that grammar painful to read.
"You're letting your psychotic fascination with railroads lead you into a suicidal gamble with the future of the company"
-Actual quote from supertrain
that sounds a *wee bit* hypocritical
What company are we talking about?! A three-letter one?!
Okay, but please consider: Train good, car bad
@@observer127 NBC!
@@Altoclarinets Yes.
All Garry's sound effects in this episode:
Coffee saturation alarm: 0:32
Beaver falling of a cliff + trumpet: 1:47 1:52
The forbidden love of a cruise liner and a oil tanker 4:22
back in the pope mobile 13:36
the old standard (goose, train, gose and train) 13:45
You're doing God's work
My girlfriend is now calling her home town "slutdrop" because of you guys. And yes, it is the same town.
as one does
Someone from beaver told me they call the Beaver Valley Mall or BVM the Blessed Virgin Mary.
After providing proof at the press conference that lead is perfectly fine, by pouring leaded petrol over his hands, he became very rude when entering rooms that had their doors closed....you know, because lead stops knocking.
Duuudee...
XD
you should join the next Citation Needed - if they still do those any more.
@@alveolate they stopped 2 years ago
You’ve still made me laugh
“And today, we are talking about Thomas Midgley Jr.”
*thinking*
“Son of Thomas Midgley?”
*high-pitched wheezing*
… ding??
Fun Fact: Thomas Midgley Jr. Had more of an impact on the composition of the Earth's atmosphere than any other living organism in history.
any other individual, i suppose
@@BeccaMoses Ye, that's what I meant. I guess, "any organism" could mean a single species.
cyanobacteria want to say something
@@kanchanchaudhary1973 Single living organism, to be clear.
Attribute the quote to its appropriate source 😑
It's not a fun fact. It's a quote.
My family made a beaver fall off a cliff once. It was when I was reasonably young, I think we were in Canada, we drove up a mountain road that turned out to be a dead end. We got out of the car anyway, and spotted something in the bushes. We tried to slowly approach, but we must have made too much noise or something because we startled it and saw its tail as it ran off, and suddenly heard "thump, thump, thump, thump" - the sound of a beaver falling down a steep hill.
I read this in Gary’s voice.
Did it sound like a trumpet?
so two drums and a beaver fall off a cliff
@@thatoneguy9582 Ba - Dum - *thud*
poor creature :(
'They can only move diagonally'
I died
RIP
I died
Somebody start counting casualties.
i litterally couldnt breathe at that point
+1
I feel like I almost burst a blood vessel laughing
So the pope infeastation made it into the title, but Gary's sound effects didn't?
Well, that'd spoil it too much now wouldn't it?
already another episode titled goose on a train!
Tbf, it had a really good punchline.
They had an episode of the podcast named "the Gary Brannon sound effects special"
Infeastation?
It's called a buffet.
Statistically, the Vatican has two popes per square mile... (The pope infestation reminded me of this)
Actually, the Vatican is only 0.17 sq miles in area meaning its papal density is actually a whopping 11.765 popes/sq mile
So it actually **is** an infestation :P
+Nillie He was I think the 3rd Pope to abdicate so in theory there have been 3.
+Hi Ho Wolverhampton What do they do with the 0.765 of the Pope they have left over?
Meat pie.
I have the full playlist of episodes on shuffle and this is the second episode in a row where matt has made the "bishops move diagonally" joke
A diagonal or horizontal row?
What was the other one
@@rawchicken3463 season 3, episode 4, start around 9:03
Funny thing: info on his father has been added to the article... you can almost guarentee it was a Citation Needed fan.
Fan: I will find the info or so help me.
Can you imagine if they used this episode as a citation?
So, as a chemist, I was once doing some research about alkylcobalt compounds. And I stumbled by accident on that paper from the 1920s Where they suggested adding dimethylcadmium to gasoline to prevent engine knocking. (I just tried to find it again, and now realize there are even a couple patents on doing so!)
So, in a way, we're lucky they instead went for lead!
Cadmium?!
fucking hell....
Cadmium. As in itai-itai disease. Now there's a happy thought.
*shudder*
Not only cadmium but f***ing DIMETHYLCADMIUM. To quote blogger and chemist Derek Lowe: "The general rule is, if you’re looking for the worst organic derivatives of any metal, you should hop right on down to the methyl compounds. That’s where the most choking vapors, the brightest flames, and the most panicked shouts and heartfelt curses are to be found. Methyl organometallics tend to be small, reactive, volatile, and ready to party.
He actually has a full article on this stuff which makes for an interesting, albeit scary read once you consider that they wanted to use that stuff as a gasoline additive. Link: blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/08/things_i_wont_work_with_dimethylcadmium
gustav hl
I love his "things I won't work with" series. Reminds me a lot of John D. Clark's "ignition". Except in his case, it's more "things I did work with"...
blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time
My favourite.
"Player-ization of the entire orchestra." They already had that, Gary. It's called the Orchestrion. Think player piano on steroids.
Also, propane fridges are still a thing today. They're surprisingly popular among the Amish communities of rural Pennsylvania because they keep food cold and preserved, but don't use electricity.
I've always been confused by the weird selectiveness of Amish technology usage. Propane refrigerators and modern steel tools, but no electricity?
Gary Player?
@@clockworkkirlia7475 they like being off grid, and stuff they can repair themselves with simple tools. The age isn't as important. Sone also allow solar cells.
Not content with poisoning pedestrians, Thomas soon moved on to punching holes in the ozone layer. Lovely chap, him.
And not content with that he discredited, ashamed and financially drained a scientist who tried to prove that lead was in fact super toxic. :D
Well, you win some, you lose some; you lose some, you kill some. Such is life!
Great engineer with little regard for biological life.
MUUUURRDEEEER
I feel really sad for Thomas Midgley. I might be wrong, but I have the impression that he just wanted to help, and to learn what he had unknowingly and almost single-handedly caused would have devastated him.
I don't know what movie or novel I heard that in, but I remember this quote: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." In this case that kind of fits...
@@maccrazy7335 I think that that's just a common phrase, it could be a phrase that came from a movie or novel originally though. To Google!
No, I'mnot going to Google it, I'm just writing a comment for fun
@@maccrazy7335 Bible
@@oz_jones Never really read that and what I did read was in German as a kid...
@@maccrazy7335 Older than movies but younger than the bible. It's a fairly common saying which gradually evolved over the last few centuries, with the modern version you quoted dating back at least to the 1850s.
the superb one-two punch of "you don't make lead from plants" and "isn't a prototype plant a seed?"
I'm so proud of myself, because I actually knew who this person was at the start of the episode! I spent the entire episode waiting for him to get to the chlorofluorocarbon, and the bit about him building the system of pulleys. Nobody needs to believe me, I just felt like bragging in the comments. I must say, I am surprised Australia never came up, since technically the hole in the ozone over Australia is this mans fault.
I thought the name sounded familiar and then I thought he might be the guy who invented leaded gasoline and then when he mentioned General Motors, I immediately knew.
He was the subject of vsauce video a couple of years ago
The moment they brought up leaded petrol, I was waiting for the CFCs as well
+Roland Gharfine ooh yes me too
me too lol
As a prize for that beaver impersonation (edit: and ALL the rest of the sound effects), Gary wins two conjoined hollow spheres made from the debris of the rockets that launched a famous space telescope.
A double Hubble-rubble bubble.
and an outdoors multitool, used by a writer who wrote about a world on a turtle. It's a Pratchett hatchet ratchet
15:17 Propane is one of the remaining refrigerants that is surprisingly often found in fridges. The amount used is miniscule.
but still explosive
This episode was probably one of the best Citation Needed ever, gotta say.
It's extremely representative. If I were to pitch this show to a friend, I'd definitely link them this one.
5:55 Considering the state of the United states railway, getting anywhere within 36 hours is a miracle just due to freight trains having all the priority.
Propane-powered fridge... that sounds like a Colin Furze invention.
Coincidentally, today's the day he uploaded his "Iceman" video.
they're actually a thing for places that dont have reliable/any power from what I've heard......
My dad used to have a kerosene powered fridge
Propane fridges are indeed surprisingly common ... a lot of boats and Camper vans in the UK are fitted with them!
Some of the ones used in caravans and so on are hybrid models that can be powered by propane, 12V or 230V depending on what's the most convenient. Called absorption fridges by the way. And there are absorption fridges still being made that only uses 230V that are used when you want a very quiet fridge, such as for the hotel room mini bar. The lack of noise is pretty much the only advantage over a compressor fridge. The absorption fridge gives less cooling, produces more heat outside it and uses more energy than a compressor fridge. Generally speaking.
The Wikipedia article now confirms that he was the son of Thomas Midgley Sr.
The amount of times Tom has to bite his lip in response to one of their answers is amazing! He just looks so done sometimes
"isn't a prototype plant a seed?"
isn't
a prototype plant
a seed
god dammit
Dammit
Let's face it, he's not entirely wrong
Somehow missed that joke the few times I watched this episode. Matt's a genius.
I only got it after reading this… just… wow.
The look of exasperation on Tom's face at that is always a treat :D
It's not an episode of Citation Needed without me going down a rabbit hole of obscure psychedelic British children's TV shows. This week: Tugs, 80s Thomas the Tank Engine, and Wizadora.
Fun Fact: Tom has met Irwin Finkel, played ancient Mesopotamian games with him and even got explained how to write cuneiform into clay.
I couldn't re-find this episode for ages because I thought it was called "The Gary Brannan Sound Effects Special"
“We technically have two popes”
As of yesterday, the 31st of December 2022, we don’t anymore
The pope infestation is over
it depends- I believe there are other varieties of church, beyond catholicism, that also have their own popes...
"He didn't invent the iron lung, did he?"
No, because we don't call it the "lead lung".
Someone should write a poem about this guy. I mean, what an interesting thing to have been "responsible" for so many horrible horrible things but without knowing it, not out of ignorance, but out of simply not being able to know
The CFC yes he didn't know. He doesn't get a pass for the lead though, they knew it was dangerous.
I'm always worried Chris will hit his head on the ceiling/stairs.
I hadn't noticed it before, but the wordless cut to Matt after Chris mentions Indiana Jones is a wonderful piece of editing!
Holy crap, I had to go back and make sure I heard right when you said Beaver Falls, I live about 3 miles from there!
Thank you Tech. Diff. for a new season, I look forward to these every week!
This is what I want my friendships to be like
This.
I litterally almost peed myself laughing during this episode, especially at the return of the goose on a train.
Every time I watch these, I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside, because I realise what I see on the screen is pretty much how my brain works. I am not he only mad goofball on this planet. ^^
I think I just stumbled upon a goldmine, how come I’ve never seen this series before? Absurd Wikipedia articles are my favourite pastime.
I love that this is back! Just binge watched the old stuff a few weeks ago!
The reason why nobody knew that CFCs were bad for the atmosphere is because of the density of chlorine gas. The bond in a chlorine molecule can absorb a lot of UV radiation, resulting in it breaking far easier. However, due to the UV, this breaking produces two atoms of chlorine with unpaired electrons, called 'radicals'. These chlorine radicals catalyse the breakdown of ozone into oxygen gas, thus making holes in our ozone layer.
The reason why nobody knew this prior to CFCs is because chlorine is a relatively heavy gas, thus preventing it from reaching the upper part of the atmosphere where there is more UV. CFCs on the other hand, containing lighter elements Carbon, Hydrogen, and Fluorine, are light enough to rise to the upper atmosphere, at which point the same UV breakdown occurs forming chlorine radicals, removing our ozone.
Huh, interesting! Thanks for explaining!
Far more entertaining than when QI covered the same subject. Thank you
I was having a serious case of déjà vu until I remembered that episode. I couldn't figure out how I knew who he was.
Aidan Williams to be fair, Qi has to get through a lot of topics
For 1979, 80 MPH in the US would have been really fast. I was thinking '80 MPH is extremely fast' when I heard that because in Australia, most trains travel at well below 80, although there are trains that go at 100 MPH here.
Even today, most trains in the US go considerably slower. Averaging 80mph is "high speed" by US standards.
@@techmage89 came here to say this! i'd love to live in a US where we invest in mass transit, ppl can take a regular cross-country train, and that train actually reaches a decent speed safely
@@techmage89 80-95 mph is the standard speed for US and Canadian passenger rail. High speed is generally considered 110 mph and up.
@@acrspeed That's top speed. Due to issues with track, bridges, and sharp turns, on real routes the average speed is significantly slower. Acela, the "high speed" route run by Amtrak, averages 84mph over its route, even though its top speed is 150mph.
But this is special built rail line, not sharing tracks with regular traffic. Because the supertrain was double wide, it can't run on regular tracks and regular trains can't run on its tracks. It would be extremely stupid to build such an investment to such a slow grade.
Industrial freezers used in frozen food manufacture & cold storage still use ammonia.
Camping fridges are still fairly commonly run on propane.
Now Chris, If Anglicanism didn't work, you'll need to go up to Lutheran Protestantism
“Lutheran Protestantism, the glyphosate of religions”.
I'm 3 years late, but my dad works at, and I sorta attend, a college previously known as Beaver college
I absolutely love this series... Makes me wish I could just hang out in the kitchen with you all.. Cheers!
Thomas Midgley is the direct ancestor (maybe great grandad) of one of my best mates. He’s not overly proud.
the Noble House of Freon
If there isnt a drunken two hour live xmas special, with live curry, I am calling a referendum.
At 15.30 you can see Matt die a little on the inside when he remembers watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I was so dubious when I clicked on this video. I now think this may become my favorite of your series. You guys are awesome.
I don't know how you guys do it, but Citation Needed is still the thing I have laughed at most (by amount of laughter per unit time(laughter density, perhaps?)) in my whole life (at least, I don't recall anything coming close). Fantastic work, can't wait for next week! :)
The talk about exploding fridges reminds of of the time when my friends fridge decided to launch it's door of it's hinges. The fridge was facing the kitchen window, and after the BOOM! the door of the fridge was in the garden (possibly the neighbor's garden) and the contents of said fridge were quite literally all over the place.
"was this like tugs?"
never expected that gem to pop up in an episode of citation needed hahaha
I mean the cruise liner and the oil tanker situation ended up being remarkably similar to whatever the heck it was Hercules had going on with Lily Lightship.
Never thought the French horn would get any coverage on your shows- for better or for worse (I am a proud Grade 8-standard horn-player (Grade 6 in the USA)). Thanks, Gaz!
I've heard of "hoist by his own petard" before, but I don't think I know many cases of people who have been hoisted by their own hoist.
I haven't laughed that hard in a good long while! Gary's Popemobile transition SFX utterly *broke* me
2:40 Congratulations, guys: you just invented the teasmade.
why wouldn't you need an automatic french horn?
The problem with that is it assumes you want anything to do with the french.
British jokes!
With as much as you drifted in this episode, I'm frankly surprised there was any bonus material. But I was in tears from laughing so much. God bless you all for bringing me this much joy.
The comments have glitched so I've got the comments section of the Thomas Midgley Jr. episode of Citation Needed on Brian David Gilbert's 'it's time to get good at darts'. I don't have a clue which comment section I'm writing this in. I feel like the universe is collapsing in on itself. Help.
You've hit the Thomas Midgley Jr. one :D
I've been watching Citation Needed for years, I've watched every episode about a hundred times, and the penny has only JUST dropped on the Beaver Falls joke. Wow. I love it.
@@ethanbennett7 Beaver is a slang term for a woman's genitals.
"Superdeathtrain!" No, Gary, that's Snowpiercer.
I live in beaver falls.
15:15 A propane powered fridge is a real thing. Absorption refrigerators use a heat source to provide the energy for the cooling process and don't require any moving parts. They are commonly used in RVs with a propane burner.
Fun fact: The German version of Love Boat (Das Traumschiff) is still running to this day, but they only do two or three episodes per year. One on New Year's Day, an optional one during the year, and one on Christmas.
7:16 that actually made me do a spit take with water going down probably to my lungs from extensive unexpected laughing.
3:22 i hear double decker my mind immediately auto fills couch
Thanks to you I've now watched the pilot episode of Supertrain.
The phrase "what a great age Victoriana was" lives in my head rent-free.
Shalom, Sam! Love your stuff!
I love the cut to matt at 15:31... no words but his expression as we all recall THAT Indiana Jones film speaks volumes :)
I legitimately thought someone had a siren, not that it was Gary with the noises until the camera went to Gary and I clearly saw that it was his mouth and vocal cords making the siren sound
Well this is trippy to see a bunch of British guys mention my hometown.
And now we have R600 for fridges - essentially propane as your refrigerant. The benefit - no CFCs released into the atmosphere (we are now permitted to vent the refrigerant instead of recovering it like with R-134a, R-12, etc). The cost - having a compressed hydrocarbon stuck inside your refrigerator at all times. (In reality it's a tiny amount - usually less than 50 grams, and would require a decently accurate stoichiometric mix with air to make it flammable anyway.)
I knew about this guy when I was 9 from one of the Horrible Science series of books. Still wouldn't have got most of the points later in the episode, but basically smashed the earlier part.
I LOVE citation needed! Thomas Midgley probably would have been buried in a zinc lined coffin, that wasn't uncommon at that time.
Never stop making Citation Needed.
It does not surprise me in the least that Gary loves Tugs!
One of the best needed citations I've seen in a while, and they're all good.
You laugh, but propane (R290), isobutane (R600a) and propylene (R1270) are currently used as "greener" alternatives to CFCs like R22 or R134a. A household fridge can have up to 150g of propane.
This episode is a bloody classic.
Gary should be in the British Edgar Wright remake of Police Academy.
How is it that _nobody_ has commented about Matt's reaction to the word "highbrow"?
Genius
Propane powered fridges still exist today. Not sure if you can find them in Europe, but they can often be found in RVs in the US that have a selector to run on electricity or propane
Can someone pls explain Matt's joke at 1:16. I feel like I should get it but I don't
This is the best thing on YT!
That was by far the funniest episode yet. Keep it up guys.
I think this is my favourite episode of Citation Needed.
Personally my favourite is Sidney Abram Weltmer.
This episode should be held up in the highest echelons of internet entertainment.
We need a video of all of Gary Brannons sound effects from every citation needed video.
lead is pretty bad for you when ingested, but organometallic compounds like tetraethyl-lead are far more dangerous because they tend to accumulate in the body. Another example of this was the Minamata river in Japan where methyl mercury was being dumped by a factory and accumulated in the fish and shellfish leading to local villagers getting horrible mercury poisoning.
1:06 your kettle is boiled
YAAAY episode 2! Perked me up to see this today :)
I've got some friends from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.....
possibly my fav series on the internet!
12:37 To be fair, all you have to do is have the stained glass with a layer of polycarbonate behind it.
I was listening to this while driving and had to literally pull off to the side of the road cause I was laughing so hard. That pope infestation was so damn funny.
Let's all take a moment to recognize Clair Cameron Patterson (Jun 2, 1922 - Dec 5, 1995) as an absolute legend, a giga-chad among men, a true friend of humanity, an actual hero, a genius, and a madlad - not just to the US - but to the world. Thank you for your service, Dr. Patterson.
That pope infestation was the best! I almost died