Ruth Belville and Time Balls: Citation Needed LIVE, Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2016
- Here it is! The first half of Citation Needed Live, from Conway Hall in London, where we take some time to talk about time. And balls. Want free tickets to future live recordings? Sign up at techdif.co.uk/live !
Thanks to all the team at Conway Hall, to our folks on the door and behind the scenes, to our warmup act Jay Foreman, and -- of course -- to our wonderful live audience!
BONUS MATERIAL: • The First Few Minutes ...
FULL PLAYLIST: • Citation Needed, from ...
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TOM is at tomscott.com or @tomscott on Twitter
MATT is at mattg.co.uk or @unnamedculprit
GARY is @garybrannan on Twitter
and CHRIS doesn't do this social media nonsense.
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You can actually see Gary’s brain short circuit when Matt starts talking about the sheep sundial.
True
8:07
I just want to point out that at 11:57, just before Matt launched into his amazing “untimely” pun, Gary sounded like he was about to say “till her watch ended”. He only got as far as “till her w-”, but I think we should still appreciate the pun, it’s almost as good as Matt’s :)
NewGalaktos For the Watch
and now her watch has ended.
Met her untimely demise at the hands of a clock, I'd say.
Best part about the herb garden joke is that there *actually is a herb garden in Greenwich* (a Titanic memorial). Although they only grow rosemary and sage there, not thyme.
So they only have one half of a crime solving duo?
They need parsley at least
Somebody should file an official complaint, that is frankly a massive oversight
@@coryman125 nobody has the "thyme" to
@@Halocon720That's where my mind went as well. The setup was almost _too_ perfect.
"Send 'em yesterday's time, it's only slightly stale" is actually a good description of the seventh Discworld book's plot.
Ghastmask Zombie pyramids? Or Eric? One of them, both actually work.
Pyramids, right?
Pyramids, gotta be. The latter one, time being filled from the great machine of chronology, is very much the crux of another book, Thief of Time.
He does read books, y'know.
"Here we have parsley, sage, and rosemary."
"Pardon me, but do you have the thyme?"
Are you going to Scarborough fair?
@@arachnenet2244 Yes, I am. By train.
I fell like I shouldn't give this a like
Thank you, I now get the herb garden pun.
OHHHHHHH! Ergh, Matt >
Next time Gary should do "goose getting hit _on_ by a train"
"Well, choo choo, Missy~."
cutaside: pantograph extends and oh God it's turned into a scene from Airplane
I will sign the petition. This has to happen
'You're a lovely goose--' *CRASH*
I don't wanna know how that sounds tbh
And now, 6 years later, Chris has a Twitter account.
"She's a guerilla time setter!"
"You can't set time on a _gorilla!"_
Children under 13 aren't allowed on RUclips
"they don't wear watches!"
I dream of one day making 400 people groan at my puns.
Moritz Durtschi Gonna be honest - this time last year, me too....
@@Brannersatlarge Hey, it's everybody's favourite Gary Brannan!
Oh there’s way more than 4 hundred people in that crowd
@@copperrose4376 Groan is groan. Just need to have low standards
Can we just appreciate Tom's Queen voice?
"Test air raid sirens just to annoy tourists."
Nope, annoys us too.
Scares the tourists though, which is fun.
Luckily it's not monthly anymore in Vienna, but they still have them in the rest of the country.
On that note, thanks for making me look this up, now I can expect the yearly test in a month.
Try living here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the spring and summer it's every Wednesday at noon. But we also use air raid sirens as tornado sirens and it's vital to make sure they're working.
Oh, really? Louisville does its weekly test on Fridays, Elizabethtown does its weekly test on Tuesday, and in my town, we hear the siren tests of both counties. You could say... It's a *timely* occurrence. :)
My childhood home town tests its sirens every month. The sirens are situated on top of the local primary school, so about once a month, you could just forget about class for about half an hour :D
We still have them here in Stockholm, although it is only once every 3 months rather than every month.
For those who weren't keeping score:
Chris: 4
Gary: 7
Matt: 4
Winner: Chris
Biscuits: Matt (twice)
Racing Stripe A/V Interestingly, every point made the edit.
I'll add this to the spreadsheet.
How did Chris end up winning this if Gary had 3 more points?
@@AjeetSingh-xq4yb because it isn't scored by points
@@lawrencecalablaster568 .. spreadsheet?
Congratulations, you win a ruined, dirty rug owned by one of the men at this table.
It's Matt Gray's tattered, matted gray mat.
wooooo
"Sheep work like sundials don't they?"
I just can't.... This is too funny...
I mean, they do. Their shadow points away from the Sun
@oz_jones so sundials work like sheep then
Matt really killed it this time.
I still think he's the weakest link of the four of them
WHY?? Why do you need to make worse puns than the people on stage
@@aurelia8028 he’s very strong and very funny, when he’s not sleep deprived.
TIME
This THYME!
Aww watching this back makes me so so happy, such a brilliant thing to be a part of. My sister, who had never seen Tech Diff before I took her along to this, is visible in every shot of the audience looking totally lost and confused and it's wonderful. Makes up a little for the fact that I'm totally blocked out by the person in front of me, never mind!
oH MY GOD I just got "I want a helmet and to be able to run" "why are those both unachievable for you?"
@@regular-joe Big head and out of shape?
Ahem. Regarding the herb garden: Originally, the vegetable garden and the herb garden were adjacent, but they had to move the vegetable garden to a different location, too many times the person sowing the seeds got careless and they wound up with peas in their thyme.
Came to the comments to find the explanation. Thank you.
May I suggest some biscuits here?
thyme... thank you! I was looking for an explanation of the pun... I sure hate missing a good one!
(or a bad one, for that matter)
Glad that they fixed this. Wouldn't wanna open my pocket watch to find a bunch of peas.
Welcome new subscribers. Brace yourselves. (And we're probably doing live shows again, this time a bit like TV recordings - there's a link in the description if you want to know first when they're announced!)
hi Tom!!
YES THANK YOU TOM THIS IS MY FAVOURITE!
Well done Tom and friends, this is brilliant!
Live Citation Needed worked! I, (random subscriber) had no idea this was going to happen.
I'm a new subscriber since your artic expedition when Ben Brown's vlogs led me here, but I'm now a big fan of everything Tom and Matt related :)
I was in the third row, and provided the Mystery Biscuits sitting on stage in the wide shots!!!!! :D I'm so glad to finally see this up online
Timestamp?
I'm proud of you
I nodded off while listening to this and woke up with a start hearing Tom say "you've won a hermit, who was horribly disfigured in steam engine accident... that's right it's a blistery mystic (sound of mystery biscuits plays as a confetti cannon goes off)"
It's the femnininnmninmnimity that killed me, and the way that Tom stared into his computer 🤣
The blue thing at the front of the stage? Those are the mystery biscuits!
This was a great show live, loved it to bits! The guys were really great to meet too. If anyone was there then I was one of the people in the TechDif T-shirts!
I loved your tech dif shirts!
Thank you for acknowledging my Biscuits! I was sitting the row in front of you one from the edge :P
they never took them though :(
Matt took them after we yelled at him before he made it off stage, doing the giant creeping to the door thing he did in the bonus scene!
Someone start a petition to get this put on TV! I reckon I could sit through a half hour long show of Citation Needed.
It's great on RUclips. If they put it on telly it'd be scripted and have C list celebrities shoved in.
Part of its charm is that isn't on TV. My moto is "Big things are not like small things, only bigger; Different rules apply." And that would be true for scaling up a RUclips series to a TV series.
I was thinking as long as they could get a contract which prevents producers messing around with the show, it would bring something new and unique to potentially millions of people. Then again we know _someone_ who will complain about some of the jokes, so maybe it's not a good idea to make it a TV show. Nonetheless it deserves to be seen on a wider scale than just a few thousand (and 400 in a small venue).
RUclips red anyone?
It would basically be QI.
I think Ruth Belville needs to be a Dr. Who character.
She's already known as a time lady. This needs to happen!
That'd be perfect XD
I'm very happy to have been the hundreth like of that.
Because base 101 is definately a thing. :)
@@frankharr9466 I'll take 200th :)
9:51 If only Tom could Biscuit himself...wait, could he?
I think he has been biscuited once at least.
Quintinohthree the one time that Matt was the GM.
Josh Adams When was that? If it's in the audio episodes, can you please tell me which one it is?
Chris actually gave Tom biscuits once in the modern era
12:00...... got to be one of my favorites from the whole series! His uncontrollable hilarity is just too much for me!!
"you can't set time on a gorilla!" is the best gag in the whole series
Now I have to binge watch the entire series again
You say it like thats bad
Silver binge Watch or Gold binge Watch?
It'll start as a gold binge watch, and end as a silver one. Hopefully it does so in a timely manner.
Great show!
Tiny correction: sirens go off all over Austria every Saturday at 12.
I tend to explain it to tourists the following: it is the signal for people who got pissed on Friday night to know it is already midday. So they can grasp the concept of time again. Additionally they gonna know it is the weekend and they can stay in bed and have not completely overslept and are late for work. :D
I'm a simple guy. I see citation needed, I hit like
For me Tom Scott suffices.
0:14 'Twas a time, when he didn't do this social media nonsense.
I'm sorry, but as an Austrian who's proud of our national security sirens: We only test them once a year, and they are not for bombs, but for all kinds of alarms, including modern ones like... well, remember chernobyl? Yeah...
Oh and of course its also fun to watch scared tourists ;)
Our small city in Germany does that too. Once a year.
The dutch still test them monthly though...
@@arachnenet2244 Same in Sweden, every month. I lovingly call them the zombie apocalypse sirens.
Growing up in the US, the tornado sirens (which are the same sirens used to warn against bombing, as far as I can tell) were tested once every week at the same hour. I always wondered what would happen if there were a tornado at exactly that time, but fortunately they always seemed to happen at a different time of day. I often slept through them as a child and adolescent when they were activated at night.
MathematicsStudent I can tell you what happens when there is a tornado watch going on at the same time as a test is scheduled. It happened here a few years back. All the tv and radio stations put out a message that the test is canceled for that day, and if it does go off, it is for real and you should take measures to be safe.
It took me a couple of seconds to figure out that it's a real audience and not some stock footage placed there for an intro joke.
Oh it was most definitely real- I brought the tin of biscuits seen at the bottom of every wide shot of the 4 boys!
Oh yes! I was wondering where the tin of biscuits has come from!
The absolute hollowness of Gary's expression at 8:09 gets me everytime
The best culmination of British nerds that I've ever seen. This is perfect!
Shepherd gate clock because it was made by Charles Shepherd and displayed on the gate post. It was in fact a slave dial.
Well I can definitely say this was a success. Many because you had me in stitches and rolling out of my chair for the entire show, PLUS the Bonus Material preshow. I woke my son up laughing so loud and hard. Thank You
I have a colleague who makes the same type of jokes Matt does. He's on everyone's kill list
I was in Edinburgh once when that happened, but as I was on shore leave during a deployment with the Navy, the sudden boom didn't surprise me enough to make me jump. The locals I'd been talking to at the time were somewhat impressed by my lack of reaction, as I remember it.
Ruth Belleville was just mentioned in No such thing as a fish WITH TOM SCOTT AND THEY DIDN'T MENTION THIS EPISODE!
Tom doing Gary doing "Donngg!" needs to be giffed.
Tom(to Matt): you are getting close there
Matt *leans closer to Gary*
How have I never realized this joke?
14:11 for anyone coming back to watch the lovely "Goose noises" section.
My favorite section of any orchestra
More of this please! This is awesome!
That is a surprising number of people.
He has 611 518 subscribers and this video already has over a thousand views. 400 people is not that surprising.
Plus Citation Needed is pretty much proper old school entertainment.
its more surprising how few people there are
anion cation I assume 400 was the limit of the room. They would have had way more there if they had a bigger venue.
I think they sold out within hours of tickets being available.
This show is such a gift to comedy...
In Tampere Finland the air raid siren is tested every monday at 12
I saw this in my feed "citation needed" oh I've seen all those "live" oh god!
then I had an earth shattering nerdgasm
and now I'm here
I now know what to call it. A nerdgasm!
Late 2019 and they still test the air raid/tornado sirens in Chicago once a month. Vienna is not alone.
Matt is a hero in front of a crowd
This now my new favourite episode. Jack Churchill and Sargent Reckless has moved down a peg.
That's the fastest I've ever seen a crowd get quiet.
That's the magic of editing!
S. John Trombley We tried our best!
I loved the bit in Corgius where they went "it's corgi sh****ng time" and corged all over the place
reported for promoting terrorism
@@wspann1967 I deserved that
This episode contains the greatest biscuits moment ever
In vienna the sirens only happen every once in forever, but in rural areas it's every saturday at 12 o'clock. They also go off when there's a fire somewhere
Somebody needs to do a Citation Needed prize compilation
Did she work 'round the clock?
this is the last canonical mention of toast
Never happened.
Matt's CST joke goes unheard, even though it's one of the best jokes of the show. I heard it, I laughed way harder than I should have.
Vel0city When is that?
And with this, I can now officially say that on the Internet, Matt Gray from the UK is a better pun-master than Barbara Dunkelman of Rooster Teeth from the US.
And cue the pun competition between the two in the near future. (I mean come on, who wouldn't want to see that?)
As a RT fan, ABSOLUTELY
Rewatching the series usually brings up my mood, especially the live audience episodes.
Even being compelled to use subtitles (in English, to catch the jokes) and sometimes forced to rewind, I just can't stop laughing. Go on this way, boys.
I'm so glad to see more Citation Needed!! I know it takes a ton(ne) of editing, and is a genuine labo(u)r of love, but I've been pining for more. The Technical Difficulties are *always* hilarious!
Most of the midwest US still tests air raid sirens once a month. We just call them tornado sirens.
This is officially my favourite thing on youtube.
As an audience member, this was one of the most fun things to be a part of.. Really happy to see it online!
I Vienna/Austria in general, they don't just test the sirens every month, they do it every saturday between 12:00 and 12:15.
I did not know that anyone was getting scared of this :D
Greetings from an Austrian fan!
In the Netherlands, we still test the air siren once a month. In the whole country.
OMG, thank you so much for uploading this
My Dad grew up in a town called Bellville.
Yes! I was hoping that those of us unable to attend the live show would be able to see it too. Thanks!
They do BOTH one o'clock gun (Edinburgh Castle) and time ball (Calton Hill) in Edinburgh. I have been there last year, trying to observe both from the top of Arthur's Seat, but turned out that I was too far away from the gun.
This is my favorite episode!
This is great. Love that you keep these going.
17:14 - You talking about the Vienna air raid sirens tests... Same happens in many parts of rural Germany as well, once a month, where they are tested, however the signal is the one minute Fire-alert tone (1 minute steady, interrupted twice) tone in many places. And this is something, you might not have known.
Looking forward to more of this. The format lends itself to a live show really well :)
Haven't even started watching, already know this will be epic.
loved it as always! thx guys
Yeeeees!
I was looking forward to this, gonna enjoy it I think!
Perfect thing to come home to school to!!
Tom, could you please provide subtitles? I can't understand all Matt's puns.
This.
the subtitles are made by the community you may wait a bit and then they should be there - hopefully
YES!!!!
Oh, I thought Tom does the english transcript and the community handles the translations.
Our regular subtitle author had a broken computer, so it was handed over to the community: I'm happy to say that in just a few hours, we have a full and accurate set of subtitles! RUclips handles all that pretty much automatically now, which is fantastic.
I love it! I enjoyed every single episode of Citation Needed so far but this is even better ^^
Lots of fun, thanks guys^_^
Loved this! Wish i could like it repeatedly
The whole event was amazing guys I loved being there in person and please do another!
The town I live in tests the air raid sirens every Friday at twelve o'clock, but we have no tourists to scare...
Jut found this series, i bloody love it.
So sad to have missed this!! Great work as ever :)
I was one of the lucky sods to watch this live with my girlfriend. This needs to be done more often, it was an absolute blast.
Loved it live, love it now...
God, I needed this video this week. A good bit of fun, and full of time puns at that. One might even say it was timely.
Well done! Very funny and entertaining as always. Listened to the audio episodes again last week, so this was unexpected and timed perfectly! Cheers from Buffalo NY
Citation Needed done the way it should be done. Fantastic.
Brilliant! Laughed so much!
NEW CITATION NEEDED YEAHBOYYYY
ABSOLUTE GOLD! I love you guys so much. The most unfortunate thing is I'm too freaking young to come see the live show. Also, Australia. Dangit.
It’s not mystery biscuits! There is a pack of Rich Tea’s on the floor 😉🙃
They could be shortcake in a rich tea package. Pull a sneaky on em
Im currently binge watching all of the citation needed at 2 am and its cracking me up
It's the 3 second gap between Matt saying herb garden and the rest getting it...