Tom becomes the Mayor of Hell
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2023
- A little piece of Americana. ■ With thanks to Hell, Michigan: www.gotohellmi.com/
The Technical Difficulties are:
🟥 TOM SCOTT: tomscott.com - / tomscott - / tomscottgo
🟨 GARY BRANNAN: / garybrannan - / brannersatlarge
🟩 CHRIS JOEL: / christhewrongun - / christhewrongun
🟦 MATT GRAY: mattg.co.uk - / mattgrayyes - / mattgrayyes
Editor: Elliot Gough
Location producer: Jacob Trueman
Audio mix: Standard Studios
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Hell was lovely, and Tom is sorry for being such a pedant.
Well this video must have been ready for a while. The pinned comment is two months old while the video was published today; and the date he was mayor is almost a year ago.
"Tom is sorry for being such a pedant." I find this hard to believe.
@@wildonemeister which is very on brand for Tom Scott
imagine still making antivaxer comments (around 8:00) after all this time when the jig is up. its malice at this point. whoever that guy is i hope he does hard time, and that is me being NICE.
@@norwegiansmores811 what jig?
With absolutely no legal reasoning of any sort, I am choosing to believe that I was Deputy Mayor of the day!
And you weren't impeached. So as far as anyone here can tell, you still are
Hi former Deputy Mayor Alec!
Sounds about right to me.
And you got the dirt, Alec. Has to mean something!
I do hope you did a video from your perspective.
Tom is going into politics again, huh?
The Mad Cap’n has returned!
@@yoooranium9293 beats me to it.
he's now the pirate mayor of hell, which is one hell of a sentence
Went so well last time
@@yoooranium9293 with his jar of dirt, mind ye
Tom being friends with the technology connections guy is both completely unsurprising and somewhat unexpected.
Alec was on Disconnected, too.
Somehow it makes sense.
@@qwertyTRiG Also been on the lateral podcast once or twice
@@MaximusChivusi dont remember him being on lateral though, and I've listened to every episode and I'm also a huge TC fan so I would've noticed
Alec going to road trips with fellow RUclipsrs. Robert from Aging Wheels, then Tom, who's next?
I wanted to make a joke riffing on the "I've got a jar of dirt!" line from _Pirates of the Caribbean,_ but the fact that Tom couldn't actually bring the dirt into the UK because it's legally an agricultural product is funnier than any reference I could write.
Dirt is full of nematodes and nematodes are full of crop diseases
Tom: I got a jar of dirt! And guess what's inside it!
UK border officials: we'd rather not, thank you.
What's funny is that Tom used to be a pirate... kinda
Judge: why are you here?
Tom: I tried smuggling a jar of dirt into the UK.
Judge: get the hell out here
Tom: that's where I came from.
@@aleisterlavey9716 since its literally dirt from hell, there's a much more obvious joke here
I'm genuinely surprised when Tom said they all had to refer to him as Mayor Tom not one of them went "hello Mayor Tom, this is Ground Control"
This is Ground Control to Mayor Tom. You've really made the grade, and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear. Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.
that was my instant reaction too!
@@timothymclean The same red shirts since forever.
stepping through the door of a spacecraft and describing how it feels to be in space does sound like a future tom scott video
@@keysmash_roa
The doctor said no to that dream 🙁
As someone who lives somewhat near Hell, I was genuinely surprised to see this.
And for those who are asking: Its Michigan: Hell freezes over multiple times a year.
Ahh, but how do the snowballs fair?
same here
So, if both Michigan Hell and Norwegian Hell freezes, it is not really that uncommon with freezing Hells.
@@Divig
It even likely that they were both frozen simultaneously several times last winter!
@@Divig There's also a Helvetti (which translates to hell) in Finland which also freezes over pretty damn often
"Did you at least manage a proper scandal?"
Well presumably they found out that hes British at some point
Eh, you can hardly tell
It must have been quite the debate over fonts on that certificate. "We have to go with Hell-vetica!" "But... Comic Sans exists!" "...well, hell, you're right!"
They needed something that'll give you a bad time for your sins
Props to the people doing the subtitles 🤣 0:57 had me rolling
Also *wheezing profusely*
"Oh, look at me! I've bought some subtitles!"
@@ArifRWinandar "BUY SOME DAMN LAMBORGHINIS"
"deathly wheezing" as Gary turns different colours.
That is amazing! Props to Tom's team
Tom Scott pointing out the inaccuracies of Hell is funnier than any joke anyone else could’ve made, and is the reason why going to Hell is for Tom Scott
He doesn't have to bother making jokes. He's Tom Scott, that's all he needs to be entertaining.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 And the only thing he needs to do in order to be entertaining is to be Tom Scott.
This is the second time in TechDiff history where Tom has bragged about visiting the world's shortest river
He's now at 4 videos mentioning the topic I think. 1. The video. 2 The Two of these people video. 3. The Matt & Tom background video, and 4. This one
And btw, that's AMERICA'S shortest. I can't be bothered to check if the one Tom's been to was in America.
@@ailaG in Montana, yeah. Actually there's like 3 in that video the one near Missoula and the one in Finland
I prefer Tom bragging about visiting Finland 😁
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
"I like that you've made it your mission to fact-check Hell"
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO! IT'S JUST WHAT I DO NATURALLY!"
I wasn't able to bring the jar of dirt but I have got the SOIL ANALYSIS!!!
I like how he said that as if doing it naturally is better and not worse
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the efforts that Tom and his team went through to give us this video. They literally went to Hell and back.
And also to Chicago!
@@20storiesunder That's even worse. :)
I bet he had one hell of a time
Hell, Yeah!
"Signed, sealed, and _singed_ by our former mayor..."
I appreciated that detail. 😈
She was a hoot
"Hell is a small town in Michigan..." as a native of a small town in Michigan, I can confirm this to be true.
As a native of Ohio, I'm surprised it's not the whole state.
But also pasties in the lower are kindof terrible compared to UP ones so I'm glad he didn't get one because the review would not have been fair (They're not terrible, just, not as good as they are in Negaunee or Houghton or one of the mining communities)
@@doublej1076 as an outsider, it is funny to see someone from ohio arguing with someone from michigan about this, people don't seem to hold either of them in the highest regard but the local are always very proud of their home state mentioning where there from alot, y'all don't seem that different from here
@@munjee2 Michigan lost the "Toledo war" and we haven't forgiven them for it.
@@doublej1076 nobody likes a sore winner 😂😂😂
I think the most important part of this video is that we now know that Tom owns a t-shirt that isn’t red
That's also part of his personal Hell.
0:57 Bloody hell the captions team is amazing as always
I do love that Tom has the decency of doing about what he was complaining about. It's not expensive, but it gives access to so many more people
that and "wheezes profusely" 😂
@@acasccseea4434 It's a professional captioning service and they do an amazing job. But Tom is always spending money to do things right. Remember that video on his main channel where he hired a professional researcher to find evidence for fire brigades purportedly letting houses burn down if they are not insured, because he cited that "fact" in a video two years earlier. Or him letting go "a lot of money" because he didn't want to take part in false advertising for VPN services. He is a very diligent person.
I was gonna comment that
From the video, Hell seems rather bloodless actually! 😂
"I'll never defer to your title" is quite possibly the most British possible way of saying "go f*** yourself"!!! Absolutely killer line and so happy to have the Technical Difficulties back :)
It's a cute touch that Alec's captions were in brown, he'd definitely approve!
We've been through this, it's Orange With Context.
~BrOwN~
@@Nadia1989 Aging Wheels: "taste the ~BrOwN~"
it should be in bright blue LED, that's so bright that it needs a sticker to cover up
Thanks to Tom, Alec is about to get a thousand requests to "show us the dirt!"
...Does that mean Alec has dirt on Tom Scott? 🙃
And more seriously, I love how ridiculously and _consciously_ tacky this Hell MI/Mayor of Hell thing is! It reminds me of how Wall Drug (in Wall, South Dakota) has put in _so_ much effort at being the ultimate roadside tourist trap.
@@AaronOfMpls ah, yes, Wall Drug, the place that is best known for giving you free ice with your water!
Tom Scott and Alec of Technical Connections is a powerhouse in pedantry and nit-picking that the world was not expecting.
Pedantry, it's Alec not Alex...
@@gordonrichardson2972 correct, amended original comment
I'm looking forward to seeing the two of them nitpicking something together.
It's also Technology Connections not Technical, but I feel like I'm being mean asking for another correction
@@JamesScholesUK title for a collab project?? 👀
And yes, our captioner had the exact same deathly wheezing that Gary did reacting to that moment!
There were tears, and a lot of cough drops. It was a lot.
I'm now expecting a jar of dirt to suddenly appear hidden in the background of the Technology Connections set
I am going to start looking through every one of his videos since July 19 to see if it's there. 😀
@@MichaelMoore99 I am fairly certain that the indescript jar in the purple box next to the telephone and below the hanging lightbulb which only appeared in his most recent video is in fact the jar of dirt
I’m now wondering how far in advance the rest of the technical difficulties record their trips seeing this was almost a year ago
they were all done summer last year
That ‘OoOoOoo!’ in the subs at 0:57 is a piece of modern art.
It's almost adorable how Tom's adventures seem to be on the underwhelming side at this point.
I suppose he's been looking at all the cool stuff for years and now there's none left for this.
There's got to be more left well at least there is a lot of different circus skills, dance styles. More caves? Dancing on fire?
There's plenty left, but most of it is out of budget for this series. He can't use the crazy, expensive stuff that he gets invited to do for free...
I don't think learning a new dance style is out of budget, improv course?
The trip to Hell was filmed 11 months ago. The time these gents put into these projects is huge. Thanks. This is only 1.5 hours from me, and yet I have never driven here.
The drive from Hell to Gregory is very pretty.
"World's Worst Boss", I bought it at a roadside attraction in Michigan.
Also, it's kind of comforting that there seem to be hardly any people in Hell.
That's just Michigan
Not many people are in Hell, because they mostly commute from Detroit.
There's a few more Hells, most famously the Hell in Norway, plus another village called Hell in France. You might find a few zombies in the Hell in Haiti, but my guess is you'll probably find the most eternally damned people in the Hell in the Caymen islands (or at least they'll have bank accounts there).
@@stevehorne5536 😁😁
The color coded OooOoo is the best thing of the whole video 😂
7:56 Making Alec's subtitles brown was an excellent detail
Remember, it's only brown because there are other colors around it.
You mean orange?
"Wheezes profusely" is a great caption
followed by "Deathly wheezing"
This is the dumbest thing but the moment we cut to Tom in the car my brain went "I recognise those seats, is he in an IONIC 5?" to then be followed by ... "Alec from Technology Connections". Ah, that'll do it :D
Way to connect those technologies!
I see many people mentioning the colorful OooOOoo, but "deathly weezing" of Gary, caused by the soil analysis card is the funniest part of the video for me. RIP Gary, we hardly knew ye...
There's been a few changes since I was there 9 years ago. Hope you enjoyed it. I got an exit visa allowing me to leave Hell, and a t-shirt that says "I've been to Hell (Michigan) and back." I grew up in Michigan, not to far from there.
It was nice to hear Alec From Technology Connections' voice through this!
famous camera operator 😂
Adding a pun a minute
Through the magic of buying two of them!
@@Nadia1989 Tom took that advice to heart with his shirts. "If buying two of them is good, what about buying two *dozen?*"
With brown subtitles, obviously!
I think the funniet part of this is how the lady didnt even bother to learn her speeches.
Edit: I take it back, that soil analysis sheet is the funniest thing here
It is EXACTLY the sort of cavalier attitude towards authority that I would expect from the denizens of Hell.
As a New Yorker, hearing the British guys talk about exotic Chicago greatly amused me.
Chicago isn't exotic, it just costs a lot to get there.
Rog Bennett of Men In Blazers also talks about having a fascination with Chicago as a kid, so maybe it's just a thing where there's just enough information about Chicago to lend it mystique, but not enough for people to get an understanding of it at distance?
it’s a nice city, but not the lost city of atlantis…
as a midwesterner, it also amused me! chicago is fantastic though
@@cdw2468 you misspelled atlanta
Even though he went to Hell and back, that's ironically not the worst trip he's made compared to a certain volcano in Iceland.
Which one are you talking about? The one with food poisoning or the one without?
I'm just mad that Alec and Tom didn't take the Nissan Figaro, just so Alec could say it's been through Hell and back. And yes, I know it's a city cruiser, but still.
I really love the "oooo" in the Subtitles at 0:57
I like how Chris and Gary had different ideas about how Tom could use his mayoral powers to make the "shortest river walk" sign more accurate, Gary was "change the sign" and Chris was "shorten the river"
I'm disappointed the town didn't dig a random hole and name it hell hole instead of a bar.
"My personal hell" was the best pun I've heard in years
🎶Ground control, to Mayor Tom🎶
Glad I'm not the only one who now has some music stuck in their had
Jefferson's expression on the 2-dollar bill screams 'I wrote the Declaration of Independence for this?!'
The place should have built a "maze" with nine circles.
It’s not too late.
Wow, Tom has been sitting on this footage for almost a year?
Also, if they dig a well, they could sell the collected water as 'holey water'.
We need a proper collab between Tom and Alec! Presumably rambling about old tech from their childhoods and how it's evolved over the years.
For next season I want Tom to have 3 cream pies hidden underneath the table. Whenever someone interrupts him doing the intro he just furiously throws it at their face.
I highly doubt it'll get them to stop, I just think it'd be funny.
I think it would _encourage_ them, until he ran out of pies
I assume that would just encourage them to find out exactly how many pies he has.
I think Gary would perfectly catch the entire pie in his mouth.
I also adore the fact that the residents refer to themselves as "Hellions"
Tom’s a stickler for details, and the devil is in the details. Being the mayor of Hell seems like a good fit.
Dammit, guys at Caption+, you definitely rock. I love, adore the trickery you use on your video captions.
And Techdif, I'm just so happy you're back!
First the Archbishop of Banterbury, now the Mayor of Hell
Add to that President Mad Cap'n Tom Scott
*edit*
His wikipedia article updates fast to include this.
Nice of Tom to fit his clothing to the occasion.
That red shirt really complements the horns.
Less than 7 seconds in and Matt hits us with THAT pun... Big appreciation to the subtitler because they made that work on text!
Edit: there's more cool captioning stuffs as the video goes on!
The more they hire(?) Those people to caption their videos, the more fun they seem to have doing it
@@flyinhigh7681 I miss translating Tom Scott's vids' captions back when community captions were a thing... but these professional ones are so well thought out, and I have no complaints!
The subtitlers did a really good job with this one, they deserve all the praise
0:58
Very creative use of subtitles there.
If your final resting place is hell, cremation is the right type of funeral. However I do think it would have more appeal if the crematorium actually were in hell.
If I was Mayor, I'd decree that the point with the smallest elevation in the the town becomes the official meeting place - Hell low
I'd try to establish a second, neighbouring town called High Water
I suppose then you could say you had dipped your toes in Hell.
@@MiseFreisin To account for the difference in water level between the two towns, hell would have to become a region which, for the rest of time, has to have a large barrier holding back the water. I guess the residents of hell will just have to live in eternal dam - nation.
I always appreciate seeing folks from outside the country enjoying the great american tradition of Taking Road Trips To Goofy Tourist Traps
Considering that an American actor played Lucifer with a British accent I find it perfectly that a British citizen was mayor of an American city for a day.
15:02 Tom having a years worth of videos is not something I expected.
It makes me happy to no end to see Tom doing Tom things like correcting them about rivers and signs.
If I Recall Correctly, the signs have been wrong for a long time. I couldn't read them in the video, but was surprised to hear that there was now a sign for "Heaven", but not for "Paradise", which is another Michigan place. (And more of an actual town, instead of just a tourist location.)
This whole episode has a sort of Citation Needed energy to it.
Could be a TOTPAL episode. Tom incredulously pulls out a card that says "HELL" and they're like, "Oh, it's a town in Michigan!"
Sadly, the actual Wikipedia article for Hell, Michigan doesn't mention anything about being the mayor for a day.
This is perfect, I get to hear Gary, Chris and Matt take Tom apart for being a hoity-toity!
I'm surprised he didn't bring up that its technically not even a town, its an unincorporated community. If I remember and understand correctly the US government determined it was too small to be given its own post office so its technically part of the nearby town of Pinckney for all purposes.
You are correct that Hell isn't a town, but a place doesn't have to have a post office to be a town. Eureka, North Carolina, is a town, but it's served by the Fremont post office.
Holt Michigan has a post office, even though it is also an unincorporated community. There is now a "downtown Holt", but mostly Holt refers to the school district (which crosses county boundaries), then to Delhi Township (which obviously doesn't), then to the area served by the post office (which matches neither of the above) ...
Also, the State of Michigan (as opposed to the Federal government) has laws determining what is a town vs village vs city vs whatever, and what could become one. Not legally consistent or enforced laws or anything, of course, so it is largely historical.
Even though Technology Connections doesn't do anything exciting or dangerous- I'm hoping this means there might be a Tom Scott+ TC video in the pipeline!
Tom Scott shops for a heat pump
@@HailHydra27 While charging an EV 😂 ... yeah actually your joke was good on its own and I've added nothing to it 🙃
@@HailHydra27 "why the lights on Tom's car are all wrong"
This was an unexpected crossover, and I'm here for more of it.
Nothing exciting or dangerous? You clearly didn't see his videos on incendiary lighting.
I think it was the Deitz lamp video that wound up with a tray full of burning kerosene in his studio.
Oh Tom. Tom. This needed to be sponsored by Established Titles. This is both more worthwhile, AND more legit
Tom Scott and Alec from Technology Connections being friends makes perfect sense, they're basically the British and American counterparts of one another.
More to the point, in TC's latest video he mentions Techmoan in such a way that I suspect there is a TC/TM collab video in the pipeline.
I appreciate that Alec's subtitles are brown. Or should I say dark orange?
I’m genuinely confused, slightly, but it’s nice to see the Mad Captain making another ploy stateside.
The subtitles are fabulous, look at 0:55 for example. So much effort goes in them, and it's very much appreciated! I always turn them on, because it just adds to the watching experience, even though I also hear the audio
I just had a thought, either one of them would be absolutely brilliant on the Taskmaster New Year's Treat. Maybe even a regular season
YES
Tom, it must be hell to have such friends...and you're a very lucky person to have them as your friends.
Congratu- aaaaaand he's impeached. Pity, he did a hell of a job.
Will you go back in the summer again Tom, or not until Hell freezes over?
He could go to Trøndelag next winter, but I think Hell near Trondheim is less consistently frozen in the winter.
There's nothing much for him left to do there, he's seen the whole town. But he should still go, for the hell of it
gary's laugh at matt's butt joke is hilarious, beautiful
As a teen, I lived close enough that some of my high school classmates had Hell, MI addresses. One of my favorite memories from then is attending a Halloween party at a friend’s house on Half-Moon Lake, in Hell.
Well, technically Hell, Michigan is legally an unincorporated community, not a town, so the "mayor" can't have any official powers.
Now I wonder if Hell, Michigan is named after the town in Norway
Not impossible.
Looked it up, and apparently there are a few possible origin stories, but none of them involve anyone from Trøndelag.
My first thought when I saw this was "I didn't know there was a mayor of Cheshire".
Whereas mine was that Hell (in Norway) isn’t a municipality, it’s just a little village. And becoming mayor of Stjørdal for a day doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?
"Not everything is a pun, believe it or not" lmao
Everything can be a pun whether it should be is another matter.
Tom's face when he realizes there's a small place called Hell in Norway too and he didn't have to travel all the way to the US. He absolutely did deserve to get roasted for this.
Bigger and older then the US one! (Hell Norway population 1598 (2018) )(Hell Michigan population 266 (2000))
Michigan also has Paradise and Christmas, but those might have seemed too far for a day trip from Chicago. Note that Christmas is different from Frankenmuth, which has billboards around the state advertising Christmas 365 days a year. Christmas is a small town in the UP, with (at least in the past) a shop for buying things made by ... err, not elves, exactly, but prisoners.
17:13 that soil analysis is so extra
I need to do this one day. 😂 My late Scout Master, Mark Young, had a job delivering ice in Hell MI in his youth. Love the lengths some of these towns go to for humor!
This feels like it should have been included in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
The road to Hell is presumably narrated with a 4 hour rant about software controlled brake lights
The captioning work on Matts opening joke is marvelous.
When I first learned about Hell, it had a population of 200. It’s sad that it’s down to 70.
Also, $2 bills aren’t rare. People just don’t use them that often and THINK they’re rare so they collect them. However, you absolutely can’t use them in vending machines.
$2 bills were not printed for a few decades, so they became uncommon. However, they started printing them again in the 2000s, I think. So they are not really rare anymore.
When I was a child, though, they were rare, and I was given a few as novelty items along with silver and half dollar coins.
I actually visited Hell last fall while on the way to the hiking trails in Pinckney. It’s a nice place. I had no idea Tom was there just a few months earlier! There really isn’t much to do but the nature around there is beautiful.
i appreciate the colin robinson gag, and gary’s stellar impression once again
Tom sure had a hell of a day in Hell
Hahaha, for $100, that really doesn't seem all that bad, tbh. Like, they didn't NEED to singe all that paperwork, or go through the effort of writing with little spaded tails on the manilla envelope... but they did. It's the little touches that makes it seem genuinely wholesome.
The Devil is in the details.
Not sorry.
I for one look forward to the upcoming yearly series "TomScotts Day Out"
Being from Michigan I was 90% sure of what this was going to be from the thumbnail, and then when it switched to the dashcam showing road construction the remaining 10% was confirmed.
"Good intentions" certainly describes MDOT's annual efforts.
I used to be able be able to bike there, and have on multiple occasions, I never actually went in or became the mayor of hell.
I fr thought he was boutta start with ✨Hey! It’s the technical difficulties and we’re all going to hel-💀
well, only Tom did
if tom scott doesn't go on um, actually i'm going to riot
Tom will now be infernally grateful for the memories.
The sheer show of willpower and restrain on their part to not immediately when the opportunity presented itself make a "ground control" joke.
Or, did they simply not make the connection?
Tom seemingly expected it, but I can't tell if the thought occurred to them or not.
0:57 10/10 captioning, that's amazing and I want it for everytime everyone goes "oooOOOoooOOOoo" at once.