Tom: “Matter of time before we found a classic style knob” Passengers on the train passing through Walsall seeing Tom double thumbs up in full camo: “Matter of time before we found a classic style knob”
The only bad thing about watching an episode of GeoWizard, is that you'll have to wait another week until the next. Hope you'll keep doing this forever, Tom!
@@tek9520 Me too! I was like: "wait, you made the music??", and then my ADHD brain took over, and now I know all about it, but just seeing the perfect keystrokes was a clear giveaway
Great edit. Tom if you read this, don't ever change the 'theme' music. your 8bit jingles are incredibly comforting and weirdly nostalgic. key part of straight line missions.
Just want to say i watch a lot of youtube and i honestly consider yours to be some of if not the highest quality content ive seen on this site. I love every single one of these missions you do and exploration videos. Incredible ideas and execution while successfully bringing the viewers along the trail. Thank you.
Wizard and Boe are some of the best creators I have seen in terms of story telling. I would absolutely love a collaboration as they both kayak and are outdoorsy.
Tom is the perfect narrator for his adventures. Charming, articulate, sincere, witty, contemplative. He seems uniquely gifted for this specific eccentric genre he mastered. Uplifting.
13:53 Looked it up because our British industrial history interests me a lot. It was a water pumping station built by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company in 1871.
I think I can speak on behalf of the many of us watching who live in the States, Europe and elsewhere, when I say that this obscure English slang and the in-detail exploration of this city is more entertaining than it has any right being lol
I personally feel like I am watching someone running around who is hallucinating and thinks he is in some postapocalyptic scenario where he is being chased by bounty hunters.
24:33 That echo is known as "flutter echo" which occurs when sound energy is trapped and continuously bounces between two parallel surfaces. Happens on stairwells a lot.
Christ, this took me back to my childhood. 15-20 years ago used to walk those same train lines and paths. Definitely relived many years watching this video.
I rewatched How NOT To Travel Europe last weekend and I had forgotten just how enjoyable it is. I know Tom and Greg will be travelling in the US later this year, but I hope there will be many more of those type of travel series to come from them. It's top notch entertainment!
Yes, that was a uniquely enjoyable series. It had the element of the unpredictable journey while also being a fun travel vlog with some interesting characters along the way.
There was a locked fence blocking access to a canal i liked to fish at as a kid. i figured out a trick to open it. months later i heard a neighbour talking about people looking for the person who keeps breaking the lock XD i had no idea i was even doing damage lol.
Sometimes I'm watching a documentary about some undevelopped contries and I'm thinking stuff like "why is there so many trash everywhere" but in fact, it's the exact same in our cities, we are just better at hiding these junk graveyards
Exactly! And to be fair, in underdeveloped countries the waste collection system is usually pretty awful and doesn't reach everywhere, so many folks have no option but to trash them somewhere... where other people do it as well. On developed countries though, not sure if that's really an issue...
To be fair that area with all the white bags will have been travellers that offer junk removal services for cash and then they find unused urban areas to dump it. Not a lot we can do about it. There are big fines, but when they dump it in unused areas like this it will go unseen for years.,
These kind of urban mission raise awareness on litter and platic. Everyone needs to know that landfill trash is also in developed country, just out of sight. Great video as alway, i have to say it made me smile when you played the intro on the piano, and how nice and friendly you were at pub to staff.
At least landfills consolidate it. Having so much waste in general isn't good, but at least there it isn't ending up in the ocean or scattered around the city.
@@Raulxz It's not in the habitat of animals after they bury it (except for any animals that would've gone deep underground I guess. Landfills if done correctly aren't really an environmental problem at all.
@@Raulxz They're talking about landfills, not the flytipping we saw in the video. Two entirely different things. Landfills compact and bury the trash under a thick layer of rock and soil. Flytipping is the illegal act of dumping trash in a public place.
The echo you’re hearing is called flutter echo. It’s where the sound reverberates (bounces) between both concrete (reflective) surfaces until it decays and dies out. Makes for some very interesting sounds - good spot!!
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no RUclipsr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear qsa
I actually reckon this sort of mission is way more fun than the straight line ones. It gives you so many more options to chose some interesting and fun routes, pick some good challenges and obstacles, without being constrained by a straight line. Thoroughly enjoying this series!
I agree. There’s only so many farmer’s fields you can cross before they all blur into one. Some of the weird abandoned places here are much more interesting.
5:47 - I may be wrong, but I think those fellas are the road equivalent of trainspotters. You can see they have notepads and pens, they're logging all the buses or trucks or whatever that pass.
Never thought in my whole life I'd see Geowizard in my home town of Wednesbury, Absolutely insane. I always wondered what was under the bridge at 26:06, but that's so much worse than I thought lmao. I'm glad they're remaking these abandoned train tracks into tram lines as well, since Ill be able to just go down the road if I wanna go basically anywhere in the black country now. Can't wait to see how Tom gets past the tram depot in the next episode!
As someone who lives down the road in Tipton, it's so great to see this sort of content. Him passing through, although on the outskirts is going to be great to see
Im a hgv driver, I travel around the whole of the UK. Somewhere different everyday. I'm pretty lucky as I get to take my dog to work with me. This is the kind of random urban exploring I do, not as extreme I must say haha. But it's always an exciting walkies when you stumble across paths bridges and buildings etc, maybe the occasional scent of weed 🤣 Love these vids, happy adventuring bud.
Tom you don’t miss! I’d watch four 30-min episodes of you doing laundry, as long as you commentated and added in the theme music. Cheers, thanks for making my Friday!
Prett sure the dumpy bags of rubbish at 26:11 isn’t fly tipping. I work for the railway and vaguely recall there was a big litter pick along there to coincide with the tram construction.
Ah I just realised I know that spot! On our biyearly visits to the Lake District, we'd go all the way up the M6 and I'd always wonder what that stadium was, now I know!
I don't even care what Tom finds, his "Look at this" get's me excited anyway. It's just his genuine interest in whatever he comes across that catches me
For anyone outside the west Midlands it's an easy mistake to make when it comes to thinking the Black Country accent is like the Brummie one. I moved to B'ham in 2010 and it took me by surprise.
Did my driving test in Wednesbury. Never met anyone else who had to figure out what to do during their test to let a horse and cart do a turn in the road
Seems to be British Railtrack Appreciation Sunday today. I know it's not even remotely the same neck of the woods, but I'd have been entirely unsurprised to see AtomicShrimp in the distance, packing away his tea mug and propane stove.
I have lived in Birmingham for the past 20 years, (I'm originally from the North West) I have travelled all over the West Midlands in that time, working as a Sales Rep and Sales Manager. I can honestly say that people of the Black Country are all absolutely sound, I have honestly never met or worked with anyone from the Black Country that I didn't like. Great people.
On my bucket list is to ride a horse into the centre of London early on a Sunday morning when there's no traffic. It would be ideal to use asphalt roads as little as possible in order to get to the city centre early enough, because horses get arthritis if ridden fast on tarmac regularly. It would take a lot of organisation: I couldn't do this with a hireling because I'd need to know my horse's capabilities well.
So refreshing to watch real content, nothing fake, no click bait, no lies, just pure passion, rare to find with popular channels these days, thank you :)
Best music in a GeoWizard video ever, 12:26 and the Bob Marley from the fair at 19:50. Had to put headphones on to confirm it was Bob Marley since it was so faint. Anyway love both songs and chill vibes.
@26:00 those trash bags were full of trash that people picked up. They were arranged fairly neatly upright and under the bridge. A real trash dump would be more scattered.
There’s no question about it Tom, you are THE best RUclipsr on the platform. You’re bloody hilarious mate, and your content is just pure gold. Absolute legend mate
agreed, i liked the straight line missions but going through stuff like buildings (abandoned and not) make it a lot more interesting and compelling imo
Solutions to tackle overgrown areas: 1. Employ wooden stilts. 2. Pack a lightweight scythe or machete. 3. Carry a walking stick (to push things aside, to get support). 4. Verity.
@@swfc_clips Chuck it in the bush & deny everything! Even if they find it, just keep denying it was yours. Say it was lying there all along. They can't prove otherwise!
As an American I had to google quite a few expressions you said in this video, keep up the great content! Love this little adventure, we get more detail than the straight line missions.
Tom is the only RUclipsr I see a part 2, 3 etc posted where I’m actually pumped. I get visibly excited to watch the video. Excited to an unreasonable extent. Love your videos Tom. They make my day
There is something about trudging through deep urban bush that makes really good after. Even though it is bad it feels good to get it over with once you've started. That area down in the man-made canyon was like a dark souls area with a gate at the end even.
To think, sitting 6years ago, infront of PC playing GeoGuessr. And now playing Metal Gear Solid in real life. The best and most lovely upgrade to a channel I have ever seen. Much love mate, Keep being you!
Agreed. I actually think this might be slightly *more* entertaining than the straight line missions - and I love those! (ok, ok, equally entertaining). Just top notch content here.
I think that collection of trash you came upon was someones secret metal stash. It can actually be worth some money, if deliverd to a collection company. I'd imagine the person responsible wanted to store it but did not have enough space to do so on his own property. Still litering. but you could scalp that
On second consideration, I think someone tried to sell it as scrap metal, but was denied due to quality issues. And the beer cans lmao. The person probably tried to sell the cans as well.
I am a brazilian that is living in Birmingham for arround 1 year now, been watching your chanel for a while and this series is so good, especialy the accents and slangs... It's already hard for me to proper understand english, when I start talking to someone with black country accent I just got completly lost hahaha
I wanna thank you for making these, I think the way you cut through these environments with little regard for restrictions helps put so much perspective on all the silly things like software terms of service and other things like that, that attempt to control what we do, and I think its important to remember that a lot of the time, its fine to just break rules, as long as you're aware of the consequences, because rules are only as good as whatever awaits you if you break them. On another note, watching these somehow also helps me put my emotions in perspective. I think its just something about cutting through your environment as you do in these videos is just kinda "empowering" if that word hasn't completely lost meaning these days.
wonderful comment, been feeling the same way. Everywhere I tread in my village it's yellow CCTV warning signs, makes you feel like the world is bristling with suspicion towards you, you get timid and anxious. Meanwhile this guy's trespassing and uploading it to youtube.
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12:26 made me chuckle 😂
Lol surprised to see you here. RUclips is a small world sometimes!
Such a cute little edit
man right!! hilarious and a little tidbit for those fans who also like his music
@@TheKingFadez Definitely added in editing. There's no way that keyboard still works
@@TheKingFadez it whre added in i bet ya
Tom: “Matter of time before we found a classic style knob”
Passengers on the train passing through Walsall seeing Tom double thumbs up in full camo: “Matter of time before we found a classic style knob”
Poetry
life imitates art
lmao
Always circumcised
The only bad thing about watching an episode of GeoWizard, is that you'll have to wait another week until the next. Hope you'll keep doing this forever, Tom!
Tom at 70 like “welcome to the mission across Burundi”
This is so true, mate. So true.
Facts
Oh it's not a bad thing, reminds me of the Game of Thrones days :D (the good ones before the ending)
Agreed. This is some of the best entertainment on the internet.
LOL.. The little GeoWizard synth melody on that abandoned keyboard was perfect. :)
bro i was looking for a comment about that lol
@@tek9520 Me too! I was like: "wait, you made the music??", and then my ADHD brain took over, and now I know all about it, but just seeing the perfect keystrokes was a clear giveaway
@@Loukgob I was thinking the same, it was so well done that I thought the keyboard was somehow working for a second!
I know others have said it, but the keyboard in the woods moment really warmed my heart today 🥲
But did it really play or did he dub that sound in later?
@@RDJim of course it's edited in lol. It was funny though
Great edit. Tom if you read this, don't ever change the 'theme' music. your 8bit jingles are incredibly comforting and weirdly nostalgic. key part of straight line missions.
@@RDJim no it's 100% unedited
@@tommangan7 ^^
That's was my son Jake and his mate that you spoke to in the park 😊
Just want to say i watch a lot of youtube and i honestly consider yours to be some of if not the highest quality content ive seen on this site. I love every single one of these missions you do and exploration videos. Incredible ideas and execution while successfully bringing the viewers along the trail. Thank you.
Absolutely agreed👍
we’re blessed with a geo wizard video and then a sidemen sunday later.
Preach.
Wizard and Boe are some of the best creators I have seen in terms of story telling. I would absolutely love a collaboration as they both kayak and are outdoorsy.
I'd add Harry Dwyer to the list
Tom is the perfect narrator for his adventures. Charming, articulate, sincere, witty, contemplative. He seems uniquely gifted for this specific eccentric genre he mastered. Uplifting.
Your comment illustrates superb mastery of the English language.
13:53
Looked it up because our British industrial history interests me a lot.
It was a water pumping station built by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company in 1871.
Sorry to sound like a smart ass. I could see what it was by looking at it
Ah, I can always rely on the comments to answer a question like that. You're doing the lord's work.
"That's quite a tricky [fence] actually."
City planners trying to discourage people from doing stuff like this: "Write that down! Write that down!"
Wasn’t enough to contain Tom…he’s an anomaly. *“Warning! There’s been a containment breach!”*
I think I can speak on behalf of the many of us watching who live in the States, Europe and elsewhere, when I say that this obscure English slang and the in-detail exploration of this city is more entertaining than it has any right being lol
You also got to see a pub which is more than 200 years older than the US!
@@Martin-88 Lol what's the saying, "The Americans think 100 years is a long time, the British think 100 kilometers is a long drive"?
@@AWACS_Snowblind Something like that, although we do use miles like yourselves rather than km.
@@Martin-88 I heard that and I thought I was being shitted. Nope. It's just a really old pub.
I've been living in the black country since I was born and I still get thrown of by some of our slang😂
The progression of pride for the local people to realizing he was on a fox trail to the despair of fly tipping was a full tragedy.
here in Walsall, there are no people. I am the only one left. help.
Can you imagine casually watching a geowizard video on the train, and looking up to see Tom himself giving you a thumbs up out the window!
I would be shocked but also completely unsurprised at the fact that Tom would be at the side of some random railway
34:28 this is really like Frodo and Sam watching the black gate of Mordor close, trying not to get spotted hahaha it has the same exact energy
This is made funnier knowing that the industrial era Black Country was Tolkien's inspiration for Mordor 😆
@@gabrielwalton4097 One does not simply walk along a road in Mordor.
Now in next week's episode I'm expecting Verity to pull him aside and show him secret ways into Dudley nobody else knows
@@alexandergunn5143 they must throw the vhs into mount doom
"Get off the road!"
-- Frodo
Sometimes these videos feel like you're watching a Geography teacher having a breakdown.
If you pulled a Being John Malkovich on a geography teacher, you would find this inside their brain.
I personally feel like I am watching someone running around who is hallucinating and thinks he is in some postapocalyptic scenario where he is being chased by bounty hunters.
24:33
That echo is known as "flutter echo" which occurs when sound energy is trapped and continuously bounces between two parallel surfaces. Happens on stairwells a lot.
I’m literally watching a guy walk across Birmingham yet it’s some of the most entertaining content on RUclips! I love it!
Black country, not Birmingham. That is indeed an important distinction
You’re right, Black Country not Birmingham, my bad
Birmingham?!
You're literally not
didn't once go through Birmingham lol
Christ, this took me back to my childhood. 15-20 years ago used to walk those same train lines and paths. Definitely relived many years watching this video.
I rewatched How NOT To Travel Europe last weekend and I had forgotten just how enjoyable it is. I know Tom and Greg will be travelling in the US later this year, but I hope there will be many more of those type of travel series to come from them. It's top notch entertainment!
How not to travel Europe is definitely my favourite series from Geowizard. Really makes me want to go on a similar trip this summer
That series is the best
@@Felixdaq my favorite is his first mission across wales
Seeing the forest and stuff of wales was amazing plus his adventure
Yes, that was a uniquely enjoyable series. It had the element of the unpredictable journey while also being a fun travel vlog with some interesting characters along the way.
I loved that so much. Looking forward to rewatching it
King 👑
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4 sorry
This mission is just proving how ineffective fences are
Fences are for stupid people
They're effective at keeping out those that can't be bothered but pretty ineffective at keeping out blokes like Tom Davies
A lot of the time, the only point of fences is to mark property lines.
There was a locked fence blocking access to a canal i liked to fish at as a kid.
i figured out a trick to open it.
months later i heard a neighbour talking about people looking for the person who keeps breaking the lock XD
i had no idea i was even doing damage lol.
They become more effective every year in our increasingly obese society
Sometimes I'm watching a documentary about some undevelopped contries and I'm thinking stuff like "why is there so many trash everywhere" but in fact, it's the exact same in our cities, we are just better at hiding these junk graveyards
Well I feel like that’s quite obvious. The reason there’s trash everywhere is because they lack the infrastructure to “hide” it.
Exactly! And to be fair, in underdeveloped countries the waste collection system is usually pretty awful and doesn't reach everywhere, so many folks have no option but to trash them somewhere... where other people do it as well. On developed countries though, not sure if that's really an issue...
To be fair that area with all the white bags will have been travellers that offer junk removal services for cash and then they find unused urban areas to dump it. Not a lot we can do about it. There are big fines, but when they dump it in unused areas like this it will go unseen for years.,
It was nice seeing you in the park. I was the one with the blue shirt!
It was nice seeing a video of you seeing Tom in the park.
Nice to see you here young whippersnapper
Hero
@@chucklebutt4470 Im not sure. I don't really like my own accent if I'm honest
@@Logicotion pretty sure I'm the French equivalent of you guys, you just have to own it
28:40 Imagine the panic in the classroom if there were some weekend activities and some kid spotted you!
These kind of urban mission raise awareness on litter and platic. Everyone needs to know that landfill trash is also in developed country, just out of sight.
Great video as alway, i have to say it made me smile when you played the intro on the piano, and how nice and friendly you were at pub to staff.
Eh?? Landfill trash obviously exists as we have landfill sites. That's what we call flytipping and isn't the same thing. Clue's in the name.
At least landfills consolidate it. Having so much waste in general isn't good, but at least there it isn't ending up in the ocean or scattered around the city.
@@trulyinfamous how is garbage in the habitat of animals ok just because its out of human sight and it isnt in the ocean
@@Raulxz It's not in the habitat of animals after they bury it (except for any animals that would've gone deep underground I guess. Landfills if done correctly aren't really an environmental problem at all.
@@Raulxz They're talking about landfills, not the flytipping we saw in the video. Two entirely different things.
Landfills compact and bury the trash under a thick layer of rock and soil. Flytipping is the illegal act of dumping trash in a public place.
The echo you’re hearing is called flutter echo. It’s where the sound reverberates (bounces) between both concrete (reflective) surfaces until it decays and dies out. Makes for some very interesting sounds - good spot!!
"Much like the white Nile and the blue Nile, except full of shit" laughed out loud omg
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no RUclipsr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear qsa
Funny thing is the Nile is probably more contaminated than that river
Classic Black Country wordsmithery.
Having seen the Nile myself, I can confirm it is also full of shit in places
@@animuslite8809 I'd say with 257 million people living inside the Nile basin that sounds legit.
5:52
'Tom: not sure what those are doing
Those guys looking at Tom in camouflage clothing walking by M6: not sure what this guy is doing
Ok but what were they actually doing ahahah, i wanna know cuz they had their note pads out wirting things down while looking at the M6 traffic pass by
@@toastman6847 those are coppers, or civils working for cops...they radio through when they see someone without seatbelt for example....
@@42adventures79 Nah, look more like the road equivalent of trainspotters, they're logging the trucks that pass.
I actually reckon this sort of mission is way more fun than the straight line ones. It gives you so many more options to chose some interesting and fun routes, pick some good challenges and obstacles, without being constrained by a straight line. Thoroughly enjoying this series!
Definitely, check out his how (not) to travel europe series if you havne't already as it's some of the BEST GEO WIZARD content I have seen
@@beefcake1876 Oh yeah that was a mad adventure as well! Some really great people that he met on that trip.
I agree. There’s only so many farmer’s fields you can cross before they all blur into one. Some of the weird abandoned places here are much more interesting.
His next challenge should be walking 1 kilometer without breathing
The cemetery was quite beautiful! A good ol "I can't believe you've done this" was nicee. What a great adventure, the trash was a shame
5:47 - I may be wrong, but I think those fellas are the road equivalent of trainspotters. You can see they have notepads and pens, they're logging all the buses or trucks or whatever that pass.
Eddie Stobart spotters..I see them everywhere on my travels 😆
pretty much waste of time
@@erfgtdsfsdf6993 just a hobby mate, you and i both have got them too
@@erfgtdsfsdf6993 time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time, as the saying goes.
@@Goldenrod01 completely agree mate
Never thought in my whole life I'd see Geowizard in my home town of Wednesbury, Absolutely insane.
I always wondered what was under the bridge at 26:06, but that's so much worse than I thought lmao. I'm glad they're remaking these abandoned train tracks into tram lines as well, since Ill be able to just go down the road if I wanna go basically anywhere in the black country now. Can't wait to see how Tom gets past the tram depot in the next episode!
As someone who lives down the road in Tipton, it's so great to see this sort of content. Him passing through, although on the outskirts is going to be great to see
These bags are probably filled with trash from the area around and stored there for drying/later pick up.
I love that little keyboard edit so much
Im a hgv driver, I travel around the whole of the UK. Somewhere different everyday.
I'm pretty lucky as I get to take my dog to work with me. This is the kind of random urban exploring I do, not as extreme I must say haha.
But it's always an exciting walkies when you stumble across paths bridges and buildings etc, maybe the occasional scent of weed 🤣
Love these vids, happy adventuring bud.
Tom you don’t miss! I’d watch four 30-min episodes of you doing laundry, as long as you commentated and added in the theme music. Cheers, thanks for making my Friday!
Laundry across the neighbourhood, you can only hang 2 items per property, you can only navigate between gardens.
Prett sure the dumpy bags of rubbish at 26:11 isn’t fly tipping. I work for the railway and vaguely recall there was a big litter pick along there to coincide with the tram construction.
12:27 the best moment
Came here to say this
I agree as well.
Genius positioning @7:36 eating a whole lorry. Marvellous!
12:27 Immediately stood up from my bed and walked in a straight line into the wall and now have a concussion. Thanks Tom for the magic.
Didnt expect a Black Country New Road reference from Tom can’t lie
I didn’t think anyone would ever bring it up!
Don't know if it's a reference to the band or just the actual black country new road which I think he has to cross later on.
@@addsgrabs their name came from a random word generator not the 'real black country new road'
it seems so obvious but this is the first comment i've seen acknowledging it lol
@@leonheathourakov1732 No it came from a a random wikipedia page generator. The wikipedia page was of course about the road.
12:28 was brilliant 😂
The keyboard bit was just perfect, like it just brought an instant smile to my face mate, keep it up!
Mad respect for adding subtitles to these videos!
The whole reason I love this channel is we're getting to see places no other place could show us. Certainly, no tourist would find these places.
12:25 nice touch, Tom
Ah I just realised I know that spot! On our biyearly visits to the Lake District, we'd go all the way up the M6 and I'd always wonder what that stadium was, now I know!
So interesting to see nature taking over all this old infrastructure. Being from western Canada stuff like this just doesn't exist here! Love it.
On the other hand, you have actual nature.
Yes I find it so cool !!!! (unfortunate about all the garbage though)
12:27 that's just an amazing edit 😍
Bro, this series is brilliant. It’s awesome seeing you do this! Also, the part with the broken piano was perfect.
I don't even care what Tom finds, his "Look at this" get's me excited anyway. It's just his genuine interest in whatever he comes across that catches me
I'm from kidderminster and it's great to see someone representing the west Midlands in the way you do.
i'm from Bewdley, and these episodes remind me fondly of the adventures me and my mates have had :)
It's a small world. I used to live in Walsall and now live in Bewdley.
A449 all the way
Wyre forest crew represent
This mission really makes me want to go out and explore my town
Do it. I did in Phoenix
One of my favorite things about this series is Tom talking about how Brummy *other people* are.
It’s a Black Country accent
For anyone outside the west Midlands it's an easy mistake to make when it comes to thinking the Black Country accent is like the Brummie one. I moved to B'ham in 2010 and it took me by surprise.
Did my driving test in Wednesbury. Never met anyone else who had to figure out what to do during their test to let a horse and cart do a turn in the road
12:28 is fucking class. Reminds me of an intro to a Wales video shortly before the “bugger off!” from a farmer.
Are you kidding me!!? I used to live on Handley Street. The Leathern Bottle was my stop-off most nights on the way back from work. This is awesome 😃
Mate, your videos always hit at the right time. You're a massive legend.
Felt your pain through those brambles! Fantastic watch as always, loved the keyboard 😆
Seems to be British Railtrack Appreciation Sunday today. I know it's not even remotely the same neck of the woods, but I'd have been entirely unsurprised to see AtomicShrimp in the distance, packing away his tea mug and propane stove.
Making a soup out of the shrubs Tom's just waded through
OK
Yep I've got AtomicShrimp's video to watch in my subscription list too
Would love to see a cross over. Atomic shrimp running through farmers fields on a straight line mission
@@stevenmawhinney3314 he'd have to get fitter for that
Pretty soon Tom, you're going to be hired as a consultant for urban security fencing
That bridge reverberation is sick! It almost sounds like a spring reverb being excited a bit too much.
I have lived in Birmingham for the past 20 years, (I'm originally from the North West) I have travelled all over the West Midlands in that time, working as a Sales Rep and Sales Manager. I can honestly say that people of the Black Country are all absolutely sound, I have honestly never met or worked with anyone from the Black Country that I didn't like. Great people.
The one thing I don’t like about GeoWizard is that his videos end.
Great content as always Tom!!
The train platform you found was probably Wednesbury Town station. Interesting to see that the platform still remains
That bridge’s delay sounded just like a spring verb. As a fellow sound engineer, that geeked me out!
On my bucket list is to ride a horse into the centre of London early on a Sunday morning when there's no traffic. It would be ideal to use asphalt roads as little as possible in order to get to the city centre early enough, because horses get arthritis if ridden fast on tarmac regularly. It would take a lot of organisation: I couldn't do this with a hireling because I'd need to know my horse's capabilities well.
Getting strong "The Last of Us" vibes from the overgrown railway lines!
So refreshing to watch real content, nothing fake, no click bait, no lies, just pure passion, rare to find with popular channels these days, thank you :)
32:43 Looks to be one of the platforms for the old Wednesdbury Town station?
Another absolutely class series Tom! Cant wait for the next episode!
Best music in a GeoWizard video ever, 12:26 and the Bob Marley from the fair at 19:50. Had to put headphones on to confirm it was Bob Marley since it was so faint. Anyway love both songs and chill vibes.
woah, which Bob Marley song?
@@santoriomaker69 It's Could You Be Loved
@@milaandahiya thx man! :D
Crazy, that bridge literally had a delay with a chorus effect on it
It's nature's synth.
Right? Absolutely mental. I want to start a band which only records right there
I think a resonator guitar or an acoustic would sound nice there.
@@trulyinfamous Oh yeah. Be like something off Animal Collective's Sung Tongs
Loved watching this. I’m from Wednesbury and it’s cool to see all the places I used to explore as a kid
29:35 “why’s that so spiky” Tom says, trespassing
The delivery on the "I can't believe you've done this" was impeccable.
This is nice to watch in these California late-spring evenings.
@26:00 those trash bags were full of trash that people picked up. They were arranged fairly neatly upright and under the bridge. A real trash dump would be more scattered.
There’s no question about it Tom, you are THE best RUclipsr on the platform. You’re bloody hilarious mate, and your content is just pure gold. Absolute legend mate
Late to the content but at least its giving me the chance to binge them all! Love your work lad keep it up
I think this might be Tom's best series yet, could watch these all day
agreed, i liked the straight line missions but going through stuff like buildings (abandoned and not) make it a lot more interesting and compelling imo
Me too. I think we also get a sense of his excitement to be showing us the Black Country so it's just been made with so much love.
29:05 I like how he jumps over the benches even though it's totally unnecessary
Solutions to tackle overgrown areas:
1. Employ wooden stilts.
2. Pack a lightweight scythe or machete.
3. Carry a walking stick (to push things aside, to get support).
4. Verity.
When in doubt, Verity! 🫡
Don't want to be caught with a blade on you while trespassing wearing camo gear!
@@swfc_clips Chuck it in the bush & deny everything! Even if they find it, just keep denying it was yours. Say it was lying there all along. They can't prove otherwise!
22:34 Great burglary tips there from Tom.
22:08 the gate looks awfully unlocked, Tom
It does have a little lock on the right side of the opening.
As an American I had to google quite a few expressions you said in this video, keep up the great content! Love this little adventure, we get more detail than the straight line missions.
Tom is the only RUclipsr I see a part 2, 3 etc posted where I’m actually pumped. I get visibly excited to watch the video. Excited to an unreasonable extent. Love your videos Tom. They make my day
Don't apologise for loving rivers, I fucking love seeing these tunnels and rivers and confluences. Favourite parts of these honestly!
Imagine how cool it would be to come across him while he’s on a mission
Straight line countryside missions are some of the most entertaining videos on RUclips, but somehow this urban mission is just as incredible!
You're an absolute inspiration, thanks so much for these crazy adventures.
There is something about trudging through deep urban bush that makes really good after. Even though it is bad it feels good to get it over with once you've started. That area down in the man-made canyon was like a dark souls area with a gate at the end even.
please never stop doing what you do on this beautiful channel of yours!!
I liked the detail of Tom’s face meandering along the map of the byways. 😊
I'm enjoying this adventure... I think it's more interesting than the straight line missions
To think, sitting 6years ago, infront of PC playing GeoGuessr. And now playing Metal Gear Solid in real life. The best and most lovely upgrade to a channel I have ever seen.
Much love mate, Keep being you!
The irl videos are always so good
Definitely a step up in excitement and adventuring from episode 1
This series is quite entertaining--maybe as much as the straight line expeditions. Do more of these please.
Agreed. I actually think this might be slightly *more* entertaining than the straight line missions - and I love those! (ok, ok, equally entertaining). Just top notch content here.
I think that collection of trash you came upon was someones secret metal stash. It can actually be worth some money, if deliverd to a collection company. I'd imagine the person responsible wanted to store it but did not have enough space to do so on his own property.
Still litering. but you could scalp that
On second consideration, I think someone tried to sell it as scrap metal, but was denied due to quality issues. And the beer cans lmao. The person probably tried to sell the cans as well.
I am a brazilian that is living in Birmingham for arround 1 year now, been watching your chanel for a while and this series is so good, especialy the accents and slangs... It's already hard for me to proper understand english, when I start talking to someone with black country accent I just got completly lost hahaha
O cara saiu do brasil pra ir pra birmingham💀💀💀
@@theogarcez1999 😭 other Brazilians just coming out the woodwork to laugh at him for moving to Birmingham lmao
@@theogarcez1999 queria que fosse pra londres? pagar caríssimo em aluguel pra dividir casa com mais 4 ou 5? Nao obrigado!
@@tiagofernandes8989 Smart move. London is basically unliveable at the moment. Too expensive.
@@AAARREUUUGHHHH Scottish country yokel here. I went to London once. Once was enough.
I wanna thank you for making these, I think the way you cut through these environments with little regard for restrictions helps put so much perspective on all the silly things like software terms of service and other things like that, that attempt to control what we do, and I think its important to remember that a lot of the time, its fine to just break rules, as long as you're aware of the consequences, because rules are only as good as whatever awaits you if you break them.
On another note, watching these somehow also helps me put my emotions in perspective. I think its just something about cutting through your environment as you do in these videos is just kinda "empowering" if that word hasn't completely lost meaning these days.
wonderful comment, been feeling the same way. Everywhere I tread in my village it's yellow CCTV warning signs, makes you feel like the world is bristling with suspicion towards you, you get timid and anxious. Meanwhile this guy's trespassing and uploading it to youtube.