Jack Churchill and a Live Studio Audience: Citation Needed 6x01
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2017
- We're back! And we start Season 6 with a tale of bravery, bagpipes, and big Scottish swords - with a live studio audience.
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Welcome everyone who subscribed to this channel since the end of the last season of Citation Needed! Good luck.
Tom Scott Thank You
I've never understood this. Who are these people who are subscribing and NOT going back to watch your old videos? Are there people who do this?
Ah, now this is a welcome surprise :D
That's more than likely the norm.
Fantastic as always, definitely want to see this live at some point
When your DM says the game is set in world war 2, but you've already prepared a great barbarian character.
not a bard?
@@BeccaMoses multiclass
Bardbarian
When your DM complains about how much stuff you are carrying in combat.
My HM allowed me to use him in my characters backstory as the guy who trained him
The best part was HOW he was captured by the Germans.
"Churchill continued to lead his men in action against the German forces in Yugoslavia, but was eventually captured by the enemy while fighting for Point 622 on the island of Brac in the Adriatic Sea, when every man in his Commando team was killed or wounded and all of his revolver ammunition ran out. Knowing that he was not going to escape, and having no further means of killing Nazis, Jack started playing sad songs on his bagpipes until he was finally knocked unconscious by a frag grenade and taken off to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp."
The fact that a FRAG GRENADE was needed to ONLY make him unconscious, and therefore captured, is just mad in itself XD
"started playing sad songs on his bagpipes" So the LITERAL mournful parp of a bagpipe.
.....whoa. What a badass.
The song being Will Ye Nae Come Back again (according to people who read books)
This guy was just plain epicness incarnate.
somewhere, probably in South-America, there is a retierement home with an old former german soldier, who still gets PTSD-flashbacks when hearing bagpipes...
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, MAD JACK IS COMMING!"
Interesting fact about bagpipes. They were initially designed for psychological warfare. something about the caterwauling shrieks of damned souls
@@KaosFireMaker not technically. the bagpipe is a relatively mundane instrument and has many different forms however the highland bagpipe was designed for psychological warfare. but not all bagpipes are scottish. the scottish ones were very effective though
martin seelig Nazis: Our Stukas scream like Banshees, like devils coming from Hell to destroy your wretched army. Your decadent nation will be reduced to ashes and brought to its knees.
British: Oh ok. You might have a problem with Jack though.
Nazis: None of your soldiers could possibly withstand German - Franz, hörst du etwas?
*Distant screams in not-Scottish*
@@tripleb5197 Tamil or something thereby?
I imagine that’s a big problem in South America
"The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible."
- Mark Twain
"Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." Jack Churchill
I love his quotes
I feel like he's probably the inspiration for Bethesda's FallOut series openings. "War. War never changes." Because Jack wouldn't have any of it and showed the world otherwise.
And I agree with him
He wasn't Scottish, but we'll happily claim him, what a legend
It is usually the other way around, the English claiming Scots.
Wait, is that why their signature sword is called a ClaimMore? Interesting.
@@sourcererseven3858 No, and it's a claymore, which is a word derived from the gaelic for 'great sword'
@@TheDundeeBiscuitLuvU r/WOOOOSH
Honorary Scotsman
Tom Scott in Citation Needed: He's NOT Scottish
Tom Scott in Lateral: He's the Scottsman with a claymore
Not Scottish, but a true Scottsman at heart
That is the true Scottsman fallacy ^^
Part of me wishes Jack Churchill and Seargent Reckless had somehow crossed paths in life. Oh the adventures they could have had...
knightshousegames I can see it already, "The adventures of Churchill and Reckless"
My only concern is giving Jack Churchill access to recoiless rifles and a means of transport faster than walking. He might have toppled the North AND South Korean governments and claimed the entire peninsula for himself in the name of Ceylon.
Why stop at Korea? He'd conquered the world!
Well yeah, but he'd have to build his motherbase somewhere. Where else is he going to keep his recoilless rifles, hand grenades, and extra claymores? Also, Reckless needs her stable to be somewhere.
*basket-hilted sword
"...with the stringy bit of the bow"
That'd be the string, Gary 🤣
Specifically the Drawstring, but yes
8:20 "Might I suggest a pitching wedge, sir? They're awfully dug in." I feel like the others mostly missed it, but Chris absolutely killed me with that line.
And like most situations where you need a lot of clearance in golf, it involves bunkers 🤣
"with a longbow you are quite a way back"
"Norway"
Well blimey that is quite a way back
That's good
By the way the camp that jack Churchill was captured at was one very near Berlin meaning that the nearby town in Chris's massive rant is Berlin
Just thought that was a fact that made the story a lot funnier
Which leads to the amusing thought that in Chris's world, Jack Churchill did Eva
That fact took the story to the next level😂
It's happened.
The Chris scored biscuits so hard that it became a point
THE Chris?
@@AgentTasmania The Chris.
@@AgentTasmania technically there is no other Chris that would make sense in this context, as there is only one Chris in the video. So THE isnt so bad. Would still be better to say Chris.
@@jamesmccann5644 The Chris
@@jamesmccann5644 The Chris.
The "medical evacuations" that Tom mentioned involved coordinating the evacuation of 700 people from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem during the 1948 War for Independence. The road leading into the university is named "Churchill Road" in his honor.
It doesn't matter how many times you increase the length of the hero scale to fit him on it, you'll just hear another fact that pushes him off the end.
@@st0rmforce He's a true madlad
Bet plenty assume it’s named after winston
"MYSTERY BISCUITS!!" (How did that slip by all this time?)
@@GuinessOriginal It is. We actually confirmed from historical sources, and the Jerusalem municipal office, after which the claim was removed from the Wikipedia article (see the article talk page for details). The street was named after Winston Churchill in 1975; his grandson spoke at the event. Winston Churchill was there in 1921 at a tree planting ceremony, which is ultimately why that particular street was named after him.
Jack Churchill, the original Leroy Jenkins.
(Also the most successful.)
The Impish Dullahan I disagree, look up Leo Major
At least he has chicken.
No Leroy Jenkins died and wiped the whole group, Jack never died and hardly ever was not victorious, Jack probably would be able to beat Leeroys character if it was real with all the armor and paladin abilities
Custer IMO
Tom - "What did he qualify as in the Army?" Gary - "Supermarket?"
Gunnery Sergeant Supermarket- he was renowned for his logistical prowess.
Like in Pulp Fiction, where the coffee shop manager said "I'm just a coffee shop-" and got cut off, so he was in the credits as "Coffee Shop"
rossmac33 logistics wins the war. every single time.
@@jesusgonzalez6715 No, *normally* logistics win the war. In this case, Jack Churchill won the war, damned near singlehandedly.
@@rossmac33 Logistics is important - they need to supply arrows & claymore polish
My wife worked for a consulting company that worked on Wang computers and they had a catch phrase of "We'll do wonders with your Wang"
That is amazing
Don't forget the infamous "Wang cares" slogan. Even if this didn't actually happen, it sounds like the sort of thing marketing would come up with.
And that is how you met her, right?
@@havtor007 reminds me of the fact that Siemens UK used to have their head office in Staines, and they literally used to answer the phones with "Hello, Siemens Staines"...
@@richardharrold9736 I unironically had to repeat that like 15 times in a row to get it. Luckily, I am alone in my office now, would be surely a weird thing to observe, lad sitting at his desk, mumbling something on repeat and then bursting into laughter.
This man's a tabletop campaign. The entire thing.
Glen Moody-Elias that man is just the terminator in real life. That giy was just unstoppable. if you would make him a game corrector you would just instantly win the game as soon as you can play as him.
He was a muilti classed Bard and Ranger.
Is this Boxcar Joe, The Magic Hobo?
Glen Moody-Elias
He's a Far Cry Protagonist
I'm going with possible in 5e but only if you do it as a Hexblade Warlock. Which actually makes a scary amount of sense. You'd need to make a pact with some sort of demon to be able to do all that.
‘Hello, I’m Chris Joel, reading references to surfing in the King James Bible’
And not 15 minutes later they’re talking about a madman surfing with a claymore. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
Now I think we have another front runner for "needs to be animated" with this one.
Factoid please yes this would be awesome
No, I want a live action from the studio of Hacksaw Ridge.
Technically, it was a basket-hilted arming sword, which is indeed Scottish and sometimes referred to as a claymore, but it's important to specify that he wasn't charging into battle with a giant two-handed sword.
No, I'm just kind of a pedant when it comes to archaic weaponry.
What is the purpose of a basket-hilted sword, when all of your is armed with mere bayonets?
Well, it's badass, for one
I'm pretty sure that he thought any officer who went into battle without a sword of some kind was improperly dressed.
Which absolutely does not explain the kilt, the longbow or the bagpipes.
Claymore can refer to two different types of swords, one of which is a basket-hilted broadsword.
Chris *started* the episode mentioning surfing, and then we get 13:28
it's like poetry, it rhymes.
"You got three bullets"
"I shoot the bagpipes."
"...3 times."
Churchill probably made his out of kevlar
Chad Falkin he made the bagpipes out of leather and bones from The Enemies he conquered.
after hearing this mans story i am blooody chuffed to be from Ceylon.
With subtitles; now even those speaking English as a secondary language can follow this! Now we just need detailed background pages to understand the UK-only references...
Uhm no... English is my second Language, but I can understand it just fine, no subtitles needed. And even though I am from Africa, I could follow the UK references.
@@MetaalMeerkat Well aren't you a bloody genius then
Um ... Wikipedia?
Even after 6 years I find it one of the most entertaining shows on the internet
Most of this show is engrained in my head
I love the fact that Chris’s intro is about anachronistic surfing and then the article includes anachronistic surfing
Just cremated my dad (funeral day, i didnt just do it for fun) and im not sure anything could have cheered me up more than this other than the possibility of a new series of episodes airing over the next few days/weeks.
Toms Tech *fistbump*
Toms Tech
i must admit i do quite enjoy how you had to label it that you were not doing it as a pastime
I feel sorry for your loss but, is it bad that I read "funeral day, I didn't just do it for fun." in an over the top brummy accent
Kusane Hexaku it's the type of pastime you only get to do once...
🖤
First the Jimmy Carter rabbit incident and now Jack Churchill, it's fairly obvious why Chris has the introduction he does...
The window causes the grey dot optical illusion thats pretty cool
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Exactly what I was going to comment
Gazelle Samyueru Dammit I didn't notice that til now
Yup, Still my favorite Gary Brannon
He's everyone's favourite Gary Brannon.
He's my second favourite Gary Brannon. Don't know who's my favourite but there's always room for improvement
HERESY!
I tried to explain what this was to my friend... it wasn't easy. "These four men on the internet try to guess a Wikipedia thing and get points and mystery biscuits."
Emily Eve Newton Tell them it's a panel show. If they've never heard of panel shows at all before, they're in for a whole new world of pleasure.
Timothy Green I never made the connection between my love for panel shows and my love for this. Of course this is a panel show!
I just used Tom's usual explanation. Works for me!
I am now of the opinion that we won the war because of Claymores, Longbows, and Umbrellas and I shall not be swayed, this is fantastic
Your mention of umbrellas reminds me of the equally batshit/badass Colonel A. D. Wintle, who was always equipped with a furled umbrella, in which was stitched the message "This umbrella has been stolen from Col. A. D. Wintle Esq.", as, even when it was pouring rain, he NEVER unfurled it. A great English eccentric.
@@richardharrold9736 The true englishman is immune to rain and carries the umbrella only because it fit's to his lounge suit.
I feel personally offended you guys never mentioned the fact that he wore a kilt at war.
Libby Bollinger To be honest, I kind of just assumed it, given everything else. XD
pft, the entire newfoundland regiment wore kilts in wwi
Despite not being Scottish?
North Americans are weird like that. Have you seen St-Patricks day here?
He wasn't North American; he was from Ceylon. Unless you meant the Newfoundland regiment.
Found out this one was close to a million. Came back for another view and laughed myself silly … again
There will now be a brief delay while every single soul who has ever watched this episode steps aside to search for the footage of the guy trying to play bagpipes while he parachutes to the ground.
He used a basket-hilt sword, which is also know as a claymore, and should not be confused with the two handed claymores of medieval times. This basket-hilted swords are the officer's swords for many scottish regiments.
oke so i've seen this episode many times now and it always gets to me but at the moment i am in absolute STITCHES over Gary's face a 03:40, just watching the realization of Tom telling him that Jack Churchil did, in fact, bring his long bow into WW2 materialize on his face is priceless
I'm back to watch this from the lateral episode
Gary: Well with the longbow, you are quite a way back...
Tom: Norway.
Me: Well not necessarily that far.
I glad I'm not the only one who thought that
15:04 Soundboard snippet, Tom: "The what?"
we need a Tech Dif soundboard now
Oh gosh, Chris' surfing reference at the beginning...foreshadowing?
Charli Y God you sound like my English teacher
The little question stuck on the end...
I didn't catch that till just now and I rewatch all of citation needed at least like twice a month.
Rewatching after Jack turned up in Lateral...
If that was a Norwegian accent Chris was going for, I must say that I like that the most prominent feature of said accent was a part of phonology that we don't have in Norwegian
There was also Digby Tatham-Warter, a British soldier during WWII who disabled a German armored car ... with an umbrella. I am not making this up.
EDIT: Did not realize the bonus clip was about him.
The new warmovie: The Unbelievable Adventures of Mad Jack, Sergeant & Digby.
Digby, get the Stuart!
There's also A.D. Wintle.....
Came here to get it to a mil but stayed for the story
When I saw the title I immediately thought: "wasn't that the guy with the claymore?"
And terrified the Germans?
That sergeant must have been pissed off WTF iz this ?
There are 2 types of grenades offensive and defensive(some more but not that important here)
offensive have small blast radius around 20m and might only do blast damage
defensive, frag(mentation) grenades, having large blast radius with small fragments that are lethal projectiles, hard cover like a trench or wall required
and for love of god, somebody make a movie of this guy
In addition, the line often drawn between them is that defensive grenades often have a larger explosive radius than you can throw it, whereas offensive grenades don't.
Both of these feels offensive in purpose to me and the supposedly 'defensive' one is the far more destructive of the two so I have no idea how that works.
@@BioYuGi The idea is that the defensive grenade is thrown from a trench into an open area, where the thrower can duck back down. The offensive grenade is thrown a long distance into a trench, and thus doesn't have to have such a high explosive radius
@@BioYuGi conflict is never nice - but sadly it happens and tools in war need to have names
ones are mainly usable in defending way while other is more fit attacking/offensive acts
defensive one can be more destructive because it's used from position that has protection - like from a tranche
Natalie Portmanteau is so simple yet so unbelievably clever
With such a topic, hard not to, but my favorite citation needed episode. Chris's description of the breakout, 11/10
Brilliant! Made me think a good bit of Lindybeige's video about "Don't duck, it doesn't do any good and the men don't like it."
Who else had to come back and watch this after the Lateral clip
I must say, love the production value! don't get me wrong, the episodes in the kitchen have their charm, and the material is still funny, but this looks so polished and professional. It could be on TV!
I think a kitchen version with a 360 camera in a fifth chair could be good. Watch in VR as if you are sitting with them. (I suggested this before when Tom asked for 360 ideas, but it was probably lost in the many, many comments.)
Or maybe in the middle.
Well see I though an extra seat because then you'd feel like you were part of the conversation. You could do it in the middle, but you'd pretty much have to be on a spinney chair to look at who's speaking, but with an extra seat you get a good view of the whole table.
Yes good idea, although it wouldn't work on the two long tables set up used in series 3 and the other live show!
But a live audience could still be done in the round, like in Alan Davis' As Yet Untitled :)
As an American who needs to google half the references you guys make in every episode, I'm so excited to see more!
Biscuit = cookie. You're welcome :p
Biscuit =/= Cookie. They are different.
I'm getting mixed signals from this comment chain and have no idea what to believe anymore.
Yes, I know. But that's not the case. A cookie is soft & doughy, like a chocolate chip cookie. Biscuits are hard & crumbly, like an Oreo.
American biscuits are savoury scones.
I just realized, at 8:05, when Chris mentions a batman, he's talking in cricket terms, not an orphan in a bat costume. 10 rewatches
No, a batman was a soldier who acted as a personal servant (like a valet) for an officer. Another term for a valet, in civilian life, was gentleman's gentleman, which Chris says. Think of Jeeves.
They do quickly move on to talking about cricket batsmen, but the original reference is to a military officer's servant.
Why hasn't a developer made a video game about Jack Churchill yet?
gsurfer04 Call Ubisoft
Too overpowered.
Someone make a dark souls version of this
Hold my adderal
@@ragnkja Then make an amine
I've always wondered if Chris's introduction is "He reads books, y'know?" or "He reads books you know."
according to the subtitles, it’s y’know
I always heard it as "he reads books, you know it's Chris Joel."
Or "He reads books, you know it's Chris Joel"
He reads. Books, you know it's Chris Joel.
Hello to all the fellas who come from the Lateral clip or podcast episode!!
1M LES GO!
Another great thing about that Norway portion of the story; the name of the operation was Operation Archery. You couldn't make it up.
Imagine Churchill riding Sergeant Reckless
Can we please have this in a movie?
On what may be my fiftieth viewing, I still somehow completely cracked up on Gary's confused "supermarket?"
Hello to everyone arriving here after the latest Lateral highlight video 👋
Run into battle, bag piping, and throwing a grenade should be a movie.
STILL my favorite Citation Needed four years later. This was so much fun!
Congratulations on 1M views!!! Love you Techdiff 🎉🎉🎉
I've been waiting 6 series for this episode. The best article on wikipedia.
I can't believe it's been so long since this series
I feel more impressed when i get an answer right on this show than I do when I watch Jeopardy
10:20 the precursor to Henricus
1 MILLION!!!!! 🎉🎉
This is hands down THE BEST episode. Cried laughing every time.
I'm so glad you did something about Jack Churchill, I have thought he was the manliest man for years.
Tom needs to do a video from the Didcot Railway Museum, who have a working lineside TPO mechanism.
ruclips.net/video/0EGQWAZghaM/видео.html
Better, the Great Central, where he can see it working at speed.
YUSSSSS.
So fancy, but please be more than 5 episodes though...
You're in luck! There are six.
do thirty seven
I remember ye olden days when we had 7-9 episodes per series.
Oh well. Better than 5.
Drunken Christmas special?....Pretty please!
This is great news for my entertainment and bad news for my finals
Churchill - a real badass - he could feature in borderlands 3 and would not look out of place.
Unless he forgets to trade in the longbow for a rifle.
ABaumstumpf omg this has to happen now
Hell yea, 1 mil! 🎉
1 million!🎉
This is still my favorite episode. I just can't stop laughing through it.
Who's here after Lateral?
aye
henlo
This is the most British thing I've ever seen.
Let's go to 1,000,000!
YES!!! It's back :D
Against all the evil that hell can conjure, all the wickedness that mankind can produce, we will send unto them...only you, Jack Churchill. Rip and tear, until it is done.
1:34 "Is it that nutter who fought World War 2 with a Claymore?"
FTFY
That was it, the best Citation Needed episode ever. We can go home now
Revisited this 2 years later, now I know that the "claymore" mentioned here is the one-handed Scottish basket-hilted sword, and not the huge two-handed sword most people nowadays commonly attribute the name to, which the casts seem to think here as well.
I mean, that would make it even better if it was.
This is my favourite episode of Citation Needed ever
I love how Chris made a prescient comment about surfing in his intro.
I really do love our British cousins, as an American; I do. But I'll be completely honest with you on this one. . . . .even we don't have anything big enough to haul around the massive tungsten balls of "Mad Jack" Churchill.
Also, if you want to have a go at WWII historical icons with kick-a$s names, just pull up "Bazooka" Charlie for one of your future episodes. He's another nutter who took matters into his own hands.
Oddly enough, there actually was a Gentleman's Gentleman playing the bagpipes at some landing during WW2, some Scottish Lord had his Batman with him, playing the pipes.
So oddly enough, that's a free point for whoever said it, for next season.
I've only just discovered this wonderful show, and never in my life had I laughed so hard for such a long stretch of time. Thank you.
one of the best tech dif episodes
I'ce never cried laughing so hard before holy hell that was an amazing roller-coaster from start to finish
While he was in prison in Germany, he encountered another astonishing WW2 hero of a very different type, Johnny Jebsen. Jebsen's story is well worth reading: less funny, much less of a happy ending, but no less courage.
This is the good corner of RUclips. Weird but friendly and informative. Now more people need to realize that.
Why the bloody hell has there not been a movie about this person? I'd watch it.
Which actor could possibly portray him?
We'd have to combine David Niven & Audie Murphy
Can Chris act?
@@ThePixel1983he playing Jack Churchill would be awesome, and would surely make him happy as well
@@meetaverma8372 And Gary as Winston Churchill? 😂 ("And some cheweweweweweees!")
Everyone in this video is such a huge nerd. This is awesome.
There's a good saying in there, to pull the pin and drop the bagpipe.
this will always be the greatest episode of CN