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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @mattandtom
    @mattandtom  5 лет назад +2194

    And yes, this time we remembered to close the curtains. -- Tom

    • @GG-dt5hh
      @GG-dt5hh 5 лет назад +85

      Matt and Tom Obligatory reply commenting on the difference between the time since the video’s been posted, and the time since this comment was posted.

    • @NorbiPeti
      @NorbiPeti 5 лет назад +4

      Ayy it's back!

    • @KusaneHexaku
      @KusaneHexaku 5 лет назад +1

      Yay! Hooray for more TechDif!

    • @gristCollector
      @gristCollector 5 лет назад +1

      You won! Hooray!

    • @Taaaamas
      @Taaaamas 5 лет назад +2

      Thank you matt

  • @Twistedcrescendo
    @Twistedcrescendo 5 лет назад +1464

    I think that Tom's reaction to realizing that he has, in fact, won a thing is absolutely charming.

    • @kasbt
      @kasbt 3 года назад +11

      And... there are no replies to a hearted comment.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 3 года назад +15

      I think they should total the points for the entire season instead of just per episode. Maybe that's just me.

    • @simeondermaats
      @simeondermaats 3 года назад +11

      @@timothymclean To be honest, I think the points system should be: the one whose article gets guessed gets a point, but if Tom guesses correctly he gets the point instead, that way random chance is (more or less) eliminated

    • @zJoriz
      @zJoriz 3 года назад +7

      And the reaction from his friends was hilarious.
      But still, congrats, Tom. Asking the right questions got you far.

    • @TlalocTemporal
      @TlalocTemporal 3 года назад +7

      @@simeondermaats -- That would mean whoever has the real article cannot get a point, so it would sometimes be advantageous to lie poorly to sabotage the guesser if they had a lead.

  • @CalebDennis1
    @CalebDennis1 4 года назад +1373

    An addendum to Gary's lie about the North Lancashire election: this week, a North Dakota state legislature candidate won a seat despite having died of Covid-19 a month earlier. Life imitates art, I guess.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 года назад +202

      So it did happen in the future!

    • @Krisztian1941
      @Krisztian1941 2 года назад +165

      In a small town in Hungary, a mayor candidate died a few weeks before the election, but late enough that there was no way to get another candidate stepping in. And there were only 2 of them anyway. So election looked like this: 2 names on the ballot, one of them crossed out, you either vote for the other guy or make an invalid ballot. Now, the guy who died was the candidate of the largest Hungarian party and obviously would have had the best chance of winning. Results? Other guy got 100% of the _valid_ votes, but only around 20% of all votes. 80% were invalid. He didn't even last a year.

    • @ReverendBishop
      @ReverendBishop 2 года назад +9

      Never did find out what happened with that debacle, and I live here...

    • @otakunightcorers8158
      @otakunightcorers8158 2 года назад +14

      The same thing happened in Romania in a small town when the mayor running for re-election died of covid before the voting and still won:))

    • @abridge2
      @abridge2 2 года назад +22

      Mel Carnahan, former governor of Missouri, died in a plane crash 38 days prior to winning his election for senate in 2002. His wife Jean held his senate seat for 2 years before the special election to replace him.

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 5 лет назад +1232

    "I like minor vehicular events."
    -Tom Scott, 2019

    • @lucase.2546
      @lucase.2546 5 лет назад +40

      nitehawk86 “Poor choice of words by the Defendant Mr. Scott..... we call the second witness to the stand.”

    • @tleilaxu42
      @tleilaxu42 5 лет назад +14

      Foreshadowing for "The Self-Driving Race Car" over on Tom's main channel.

    • @stumbling
      @stumbling 5 лет назад +2

      They're a good band.

    • @eoghanmyers2330
      @eoghanmyers2330 4 года назад +3

      And I cannot lie

    • @rebeccagarner1212
      @rebeccagarner1212 3 года назад +4

      I want that on a red t-shirt

  • @krakenmetzger
    @krakenmetzger 5 лет назад +2350

    You can tell Chris is telling the truth when his story isn't someone else's story or a rant about geology.

    • @TFHKzone
      @TFHKzone 5 лет назад +303

      Chris is always so smooth and confident when lying and when his was picked it was the only time that he hesitated and stammered haha

    • @krakenmetzger
      @krakenmetzger 5 лет назад +26

      @@TFHKzone You must be his ex girlfriend

    • @bootmii98
      @bootmii98 5 лет назад +6

      he isn't, ghost riding is from California.

    • @GryphLane
      @GryphLane 4 года назад +45

      Or doesn't feature Nebraska - which has happened three times already so far...

    • @poizonparfait
      @poizonparfait 3 года назад

      And isn't Hurcon

  • @indelibleink5577
    @indelibleink5577 5 лет назад +1496

    13:23 When Gary said that the dead guy was called Stanley, you can see he panicked a second later and looked at Chris because he unconsciously stole the name from him. That was a *dead* giveaway.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 5 лет назад +153

      Then again, the are tons of Stanleys in British history.

    • @JohnDangcilGeekWere
      @JohnDangcilGeekWere 5 лет назад +67

      “And here is a man named Stanley.”

    • @PY5RA
      @PY5RA 5 лет назад +50

      "With a K... It's silent."

    • @freefallintoflames
      @freefallintoflames 5 лет назад +86

      What put me off was him saying it was a heart attack, then hastily correcting it to collapsing when he probably thought that the cause of death wouldn't be determined exactly at that time period

    • @ozan1813
      @ozan1813 5 лет назад +3

      Alecstilleyedye haha dead

  • @tempestaspraefert
    @tempestaspraefert 5 лет назад +1198

    "Tractors everywhere"
    Actually, yesterday there was a large protest from the Dutch farmers, which meant that there were indeed tractors (almost) everywhere.

    • @majorfallacy5926
      @majorfallacy5926 5 лет назад +64

      I'm pretty sure that was the inspiration for the story, because I doubt there were that many tractors around at that time

    • @7211_
      @7211_ 5 лет назад +52

      Major Fallacy if the protests happened yesterday, probably not. I don’t think these are filmed and edited within a day.

    • @gevmage
      @gevmage 5 лет назад +106

      @@majorfallacy5926 Yeah; Tom seemed to have missed the "tractors in 1878" anachronism.

    • @yojasmagic
      @yojasmagic 5 лет назад +20

      They were literally everywhere. I couldn't get to work because of it.
      Proper cause though.

    • @JLPicard1648
      @JLPicard1648 5 лет назад +20

      And how does one farm the Dutch?

  • @Huntracony
    @Huntracony 5 лет назад +994

    I think we've learned this: there's no technical difficulties without obscure badly sourced wikipedia articles.

    • @vegigun
      @vegigun 5 лет назад +189

      I'm convinced the entire show is based on the idea that the best parts of [Citation Needed] came from them making something up and running with it while Tom tries to keep them on track. And I say this vividly remembering a juggling cow seated in an office chair.

    • @ellinoorakoivula2333
      @ellinoorakoivula2333 5 лет назад +8

      @@vegigun pretty sure you're correct. That episode is got to be my favorite

    • @Azeria
      @Azeria 5 лет назад +12

      Lies. Reverse Trivia is still the best thing they've ever done!

    • @ImDelphox
      @ImDelphox 4 года назад +38

      The thing that sets this and citation needed apart is the fact that it still works even with somewhat boring articles. With citation needed, the articles either had to be really really interesting or be neckarwestheim nuclear power plant to work well.

    • @josephrigby3112
      @josephrigby3112 4 года назад +9

      @@vegigun just necroing a year old comment to point out it was actually a judge at one point

  • @adjectiveollie
    @adjectiveollie Год назад +42

    gary’s frequent commitment to affirming that the incumbent was, in fact, dead, over and over again has me in stitches every time i watch this episode

  • @ChefDynamic
    @ChefDynamic 5 лет назад +412

    I knew matt was lying during the second one when he said tractors were everywhere in 1878. Practical tractors were definitely not invented almost a decade before cars

    • @ZeldaTheSwordsman
      @ZeldaTheSwordsman 3 года назад +66

      Didn't immediately put me off, just because it could have been a case of saying "tractors" out of habit when what he meant was "traction engines", which were originally developed in the 1860s.

    • @AgentTasmania
      @AgentTasmania 3 года назад +13

      or even just treating it as a joke

    • @cfor8129
      @cfor8129 3 года назад +14

      I was put off bc it seemed like the wrong thing for a protest to be about in Victorian north west, I would've believed something more industrial or mill-related.

  • @aoarashi3025
    @aoarashi3025 5 лет назад +433

    Tom even has a red notebook. That's dedicated.

    • @hnyii
      @hnyii 5 лет назад +36

      you mean his heliograph

    • @aoarashi3025
      @aoarashi3025 5 лет назад +4

      hani
      What now?

    • @thelastcube.
      @thelastcube. 5 лет назад +23

      He changed the shade of his Tshirt now though
      I guess that's mainly because he bought another box of tshirts in wholesale whose shade of red wasn't the same as his previous ones

    • @ThePixel1983
      @ThePixel1983 4 года назад +14

      @@hnyii To signal planes passing overhead. I have never heard that word! "Planes"!

    • @jeffgoldblunt
      @jeffgoldblunt 4 года назад +2

      That's branding!

  • @7211_
    @7211_ 5 лет назад +217

    “Clifford the clifftop mansion” is the best thing I’ve heard today

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 5 лет назад +15

      All the kids want to play in Clifford?

    • @7211_
      @7211_ 5 лет назад +3

      TRiG (Ireland) a close second, of course

  • @GG-dt5hh
    @GG-dt5hh 5 лет назад +405

    It’s official! We’re getting a season of this! Hell yeah!

  • @jocax188723
    @jocax188723 5 лет назад +685

    Quick note from a Chinese viewer in China: It is sort of like the Day of the Dead, about paying respect, mostly.
    There are several films about this festival. They are all horror, and they all freak me out.
    The Ghost Festival - technically the Hungry Ghost Festival - 餓鬼節 - actually took place in August this year - it is the seventh month, but of the old Chinese Lunar calendar, not the one most of us go on (the lunar calendar lagged behind by a month this time around.)
    There are large, colorful flags erected along major streets to guide these wayward spirits (and stop them meandering into people's houses, presumably) that are put up for the entire month as well - makes for a peculiar sight; and on the day there are gatherings of people leaving food out, spreading rice, burning incense and grave money and stuff.
    Pretty cool.
    Also, lads, it's Star-Lord, not Space-Lord. Marvel might grumble, but they'll be okay with it.

    • @heshuimu
      @heshuimu 5 лет назад +32

      Hello there, fellow cultured Chinese TechDif reader!

    • @mukrifachri
      @mukrifachri 5 лет назад +15

      I know chinese new year is usually around february / march, so the 7th month sounds right in autumn (and as such makes sense).

    • @violetnhz
      @violetnhz 5 лет назад +25

      From Singapore and I just wanted to say hi _Hehe_
      I didn't know there's the Hungry Ghost Festival in China too!! cool!

    • @adamsbja
      @adamsbja 5 лет назад +1

      I learned about it from Sleeping Dogs.

    • @LasVegar
      @LasVegar 5 лет назад +1

      You need some tegridy, it joust happens so that I have some

  • @TheFlyingBusman
    @TheFlyingBusman 5 лет назад +296

    “Due to the winning candidate being dead”. Finally a politician you can rely upon not to lie to you!

    • @andymcl92
      @andymcl92 5 лет назад +76

      Well, he did lie, just horizontally...

    • @georgelloydgonzalez
      @georgelloydgonzalez 2 года назад +15

      What does a liar do when he's dead?
      He lies still.

  • @cinquine1
    @cinquine1 5 лет назад +332

    Matt's pronunciation gamble was bold considering what Tom did in university.

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 4 года назад +152

      Be a pirate?

    • @Near_Void
      @Near_Void 3 года назад +111

      Buy some ducks?

    • @acookie7548
      @acookie7548 3 года назад +45

      throw two drums and a cymbal off a cliff?

    • @Near_Void
      @Near_Void 3 года назад +120

      Fly a kite in a public place?

    • @mirjanbouma
      @mirjanbouma 3 года назад +50

      He studied linguistics and made a website on what to do in case of a zombie apocalypse.

  • @infrabread
    @infrabread 5 лет назад +375

    I think I've figured out the format for the intro:
    Chris: "Hello", Gary: *says something weird/ makes a bad joke*, Matt: *React to whatever Gary said and explain the premise*.

    • @TheElaborinth8993
      @TheElaborinth8993 5 лет назад +34

      That's been the format throughout Citation Needed

    • @macoud12
      @macoud12 5 лет назад +29

      ​@@TheElaborinth8993 No, it wasn't. This was the intro format for Citation Needed.
      Every episode begins with Tom introducing the panel, leaving gaps after their names for them to improvise. What they say is different each episode, but they usually use this template:
      Chris says a short variant of "hello."
      Gary ad-libs a silly sentence.
      Matt usually ends it with a variant of "Hello, RUclips!"
      Often in different languages, such as Swedish ("Hej hej"), French ("Bienvenue"), German ("Guten abend") and Arabic ("Marhaba").

    • @MrFrostburner
      @MrFrostburner 5 лет назад +24

      @@macoud12 Except the one season when Chris did amazing Alliterative sentences of awesome

    • @sponge1234ify
      @sponge1234ify 4 года назад +20

      @@MrFrostburner also "NEPO SLIAN"

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 2 года назад +2

      Now we need the format for the outro. Tricky, as they don't have one.

  • @VagueHandWaving
    @VagueHandWaving 3 года назад +167

    Congratulations, Tom. You have won an expedient trip to the galaxy's most famous taverns on a sci-fi spaceship.
    A breakneck Star-Trek bar trek

  • @EvelynnEleonore
    @EvelynnEleonore 5 лет назад +134

    THEY HAVE RETURNED

  • @Viniter
    @Viniter 5 лет назад +111

    I know this wasn't what were you going for with the format, but this makes for a really good pub game! I had great time playing this with my friends, with a slight modification: the person guessing changes every round (for the person who's article was guessed).

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 5 лет назад +37

      According to Gary, Tom just isn't a good enough liar to convince any of them.

  • @ohay12
    @ohay12 5 лет назад +176

    SPOILER FOR ROUND 2:
    After looking on Wikipedia, something i found is that the Frederick Stanley in the story later became the Governor General of Canada, and the NHL's Stanley Cup is named after him! Even the most barren WIkipedia articles link to something interesting in just a click or two...

    • @ciaranward3559
      @ciaranward3559 4 года назад +10

      I havent read your comment but bless you doing spoilers unlike SOME PEOPLE in this comment section

  • @PascalSommerMovies
    @PascalSommerMovies 5 лет назад +162

    "Tractors everywhere" seems odd, considering they had only just been invented right around that time..

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 5 лет назад +19

      And didn't become commonplace until around WW1.

    • @Dysan72
      @Dysan72 5 лет назад +13

      I was going to say that was a little early for the protest to be tractors everywhere.

    • @obliviousotterI
      @obliviousotterI 4 года назад

      More like Clydesdales everywhere

  • @cuteswan
    @cuteswan 5 лет назад +66

    BTW "The War Chief" was actually an underutilized _Doctor Who_ villain, despite being the most psychotically evil-looking renegade Time Lord ever. ;) Thanks for another fun game.

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 5 лет назад +58

    1:20: As a Midwesterner, that sounds far more plausible than Gary _and_ Matt's answer put together. Even before Chris explained it.
    2:12: That geography also sounds about right.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 4 года назад +8

      Do you have a lot of minor vehicular events?

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 3 года назад +10

      @@qwertyTRiG Not personally, but for a while my brother would total his car every time he drove back to college. (His girlfriend started driving back after a couple cars.) Does that count as minor?

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 3 года назад +7

      @@timothymclean That's major in my book.

  • @sebastisn3709
    @sebastisn3709 5 лет назад +57

    When I saw this in my reccomended list my heart skipped a beat

  • @matthewdavies6470
    @matthewdavies6470 5 лет назад +55

    Merch idea - red T-shirt with “I like minor vehicular events” in 8bit font

  • @OlanKenny
    @OlanKenny 5 лет назад +272

    Can I just say Chris' beard is magnificent

    • @DavidAndrewsPEC
      @DavidAndrewsPEC 5 лет назад +8

      It should have its own Twitter feed!

    • @aaronhankey4857
      @aaronhankey4857 5 лет назад +17

      The Beard that's Feared

    • @JohnDCrafton
      @JohnDCrafton 5 лет назад +6

      Yes, you can say that.

    • @JohnDangcilGeekWere
      @JohnDangcilGeekWere 5 лет назад +1

      Right?!

    • @DaHitch
      @DaHitch 5 лет назад +6

      The way it bobs back and forth as he talks and turns his head, it’s absolutely mesmerising.

  • @TankR
    @TankR 5 лет назад +31

    That pillow in the back is friggin creepy... Looks like someone partially phased through the sofa

  • @raf42
    @raf42 5 лет назад +32

    13:21 Gary swiped the name "Stanley" from Chris's story.

  • @noahmay7708
    @noahmay7708 4 года назад +6

    The "I stress again, he was dead" part really got me. Haven't giggled like that in a long while.

  • @NoahW
    @NoahW 5 лет назад +185

    “It’s a Croatian festival”
    *uvular fricative*

    • @Embattled5211
      @Embattled5211 5 лет назад +37

      Tom as a linguist should have caught that! He was onto it as well right at the end but never called him outright.

    • @NoahW
      @NoahW 5 лет назад +10

      rate eightx I’m aware that Croatian has the velar fricative, but I’m not sure that it would be too obvious to an Englishman who can’t read IPA that /x/ is one of those sounds.

    • @gudetamak4420
      @gudetamak4420 5 лет назад +5

      It's a spiritual festival for commemorating the dead in China, source : am Chinese

    • @PascalSommerMovies
      @PascalSommerMovies 5 лет назад +28

      “It's a Croatian festival”
      *contains spelling “gh”*

    • @NoahW
      @NoahW 5 лет назад +3

      Pascal Sommer Yeah, I thought about that tio.

  • @loolloll5236
    @loolloll5236 5 лет назад +54

    The camera that is pointed directly at Tom does seem to really dislike the color of his T-Shirt.

    • @bachaddict
      @bachaddict 5 лет назад +21

      It's a 360 camera that they clip out each person from

  • @kaboomer13
    @kaboomer13 5 лет назад +26

    Matt and Tom: "We're going irregular". If I told my doctor I was irregular and that meant I have a movement once or twice a year, he'd probably be concerned. Love your stuff! Wish there was more!

  • @Halosty45
    @Halosty45 5 лет назад +40

    I figured out it wasn't Gary when he said it was Stanley after that name had already been used- though it could have been a coincidence.

  • @DavidRosstheawesome
    @DavidRosstheawesome 5 лет назад +25

    Missed opportunity for Matt to explain the game with "In front of us, we have an almost randomly selected article..."

  • @gaspodeneil
    @gaspodeneil 5 лет назад +36

    I want "Minor Vehicular Events" merch

  • @GigglingChinchilla
    @GigglingChinchilla 5 лет назад +86

    A creative festival in Croatia? Surely that has to be called Creatia.

    • @Laurabeck329
      @Laurabeck329 5 лет назад +16

      As a croatian I can tell you we're not smart enough to make that pun.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 5 лет назад +11

      @@Laurabeck329
      You're probably better at coming up with Croatian puns than English ones.

    • @minty5221
      @minty5221 4 года назад +1

      @@ragnkja nah, we rarely use puns. We mostly rely on words with double meanings, not words that sound like other words

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 4 года назад +1

      Minty
      Those are also puns.

  • @BoraCM
    @BoraCM 3 года назад +20

    As soon as Gary mentioned Lord Stanley, which Chris had already mentioned, I knew he was lying.

  • @heidizetzsche8930
    @heidizetzsche8930 4 года назад +7

    After just binge watching the whole playlist I have to say I'm deeply impressed by the guys talent to just come up with the most creative plausible answers on the fly and not even flinching when telling the stories. Especially Matt, I salute you for your skills.

  • @ragnkja
    @ragnkja 5 лет назад +93

    “Tractors everywhere” wouldn’t have been in 1878, because tractors didn’t become commonplace until the 20th century.

    • @MrCrackedKMan
      @MrCrackedKMan 5 лет назад +2

      I thought that too

    • @SlyPearTree
      @SlyPearTree 5 лет назад +37

      Protests are much more effective when time travel is involved.

    • @OriginalPiMan
      @OriginalPiMan 5 лет назад +25

      Unions were mentioned too, and unions were very rare until the tail end of the 19th century. Not something that would instantly rule it out, but something that would make me suspicious; 1878 is barely late enough.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 3 года назад

      ​@@SlyPearTree "Thanks for providing support to our protest, Mr. Future, but why did you bring this giant hunk of metal?"
      "It's a farming tool, to symbolize that you're farmers!"
      "...we already have our own farming tools to use as symbols."
      "Oh yeah!"

    • @tommydoez
      @tommydoez 3 года назад +1

      @@timothymclean A red banner is slowly raised

  • @AbbeyB77
    @AbbeyB77 5 лет назад +7

    The Wikipedia stub for the 1878 North Lancashire By-Election was just edited to reflect that it's noteworthy for being mentioned in this show. It extended the article from one sentence to two.

  • @vtario5
    @vtario5 5 лет назад +50

    "Croatia, Matt."
    I fully expected the reply to be a simple description of what Croatia is rather than any useful information.

  • @robburgess4556
    @robburgess4556 5 лет назад +29

    "That's the noise your mother made last night" Oh gawd, I can't stop laughing!

  • @TheThomasites
    @TheThomasites 5 лет назад +19

    "I've won a thing!" -Tom Scott.

  • @kinsnuf
    @kinsnuf 5 лет назад +21

    Welcome back, TechDiff! I'm so hyped for this new season and I'm so hyped for this new format. Thank you for brightening up my Thursdays! :D

  • @DukeBG
    @DukeBG 5 лет назад +16

    It felt to me that in the second round Chris barely told anything. And it's funny, but that article (1878 North Lancashire by-election) is actually a stub, consisting only from two sentences. And most entertainingly, that incumbent person - Frederick Stanley - is the namesake of NHL Stanley Cup, but that didn't turn up to be brought up in the show in any way.

  • @kamikazegargoyle
    @kamikazegargoyle 5 лет назад +11

    there's almost the same thing in japan so as soon as gary said "seventh month" i knew it was his

  • @tibsie
    @tibsie 5 лет назад +121

    “Stanley with a K”
    Stankley?

    • @justwobert9850
      @justwobert9850 5 лет назад +12

      No, Kstanley

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 5 лет назад +6

      @@justwobert9850 And the K is silent.

    • @U014B
      @U014B 5 лет назад +5

      "Stinkoman", but it's pronounced "Stanley"

    • @Ian_Wallace.
      @Ian_Wallace. 5 лет назад

      Maybe it's the new Stanley Tools logo seen from a distance?

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 5 лет назад +1

      Ktanley

  • @elkudos1
    @elkudos1 5 лет назад +24

    It's 1878, and there are TRACTORS EVERYWHERE?! How far in the future had Britain lived back then?!

    • @brianna6377
      @brianna6377 3 года назад +1

      There is actually a British novel about a man who time traveled to the past and 'modernized' the country only to have it revert back the instant he stopped paying attention. Dominic Noble did a review of it.
      .....Naturally it was a work of fiction. I assume.

    • @elkudos1
      @elkudos1 3 года назад

      @@brianna6377 Oh, Russia has a lot of those Les Visiteurs-style alternative history titles. About rejuvenation of the Greatest Generation of WWII vets in a secret lab and their exploits with the Demigod Stalin in outer space. Sometimes it is about defeating Japan with mechas in 1905.
      People usually frown on sci-fi nowadays, because most of it is so popular with alt-right nuts.

  • @Epinardscaramel
    @Epinardscaramel 5 лет назад +6

    2:10 Oh god, for a second I thought someone was lying down on the couch behind you!

  • @frankxie7846
    @frankxie7846 5 лет назад +60

    ...
    Seems like the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus has gone out of fashion...

    • @arnaudmenard5114
      @arnaudmenard5114 5 лет назад

      I never was one for fashion.

    • @hotscottrulz
      @hotscottrulz 5 лет назад +2

      “What is the name of Matt Grey’s penis?”

  • @meatballg8655
    @meatballg8655 3 года назад +4

    “For all the young’uns out there ghost riding?”
    It was at this moment I knew, at 20 years old, I’m no longer young

  • @Liggliluff
    @Liggliluff 8 месяцев назад +1

    (14:30) Even events that doesn't happen still have articles:
    1940 Summer Olympics
    1944 Summer Olympics
    Eurovision Song Contest 2020
    1934 Estonian State Elder election
    ... and more

  • @chasm9557
    @chasm9557 5 лет назад +5

    This is definitely my favorite thing you guys have come up with. Random information, improv, and hilarious lies.

  • @daviddechamplain5718
    @daviddechamplain5718 5 лет назад +19

    In my town's last mayoral campaign one of the candidates died and got about 30% of the vote. I have no clue what would have happened had she won.

    • @DavidRosstheawesome
      @DavidRosstheawesome 5 лет назад +4

      They would have got a necromancer

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 3 года назад

      In some countries, it's normal to allow someone who died shortly before an election to stay on the ballot. If they're elected, there's an immediate bye-election. It's fairer than just leaving them off the ballot, because it allows the party time to put a new candidate forward.

  • @GospelOfIHM
    @GospelOfIHM 4 месяца назад +1

    one small note about the hell bank notes: they're more commonly used for funerals/visiting the graves of family members. you burn it as like a symbolic "giving money" to the deceased

  • @joshthenesnerd
    @joshthenesnerd 5 лет назад +23

    i love this game. i'm so glad we've got another series of it.

  • @entropiCCycles
    @entropiCCycles 5 лет назад +2

    0:15 No, Matt, it's made by Scotland Yard.

  • @Dugiedugdug
    @Dugiedugdug 5 лет назад +32

    Hook this up to live voting and itd make an amazing interactive stream

  • @RegebroRepairs
    @RegebroRepairs 3 года назад +1

    It's a version of Balderdash, which is one of my favorite games, where you pick a random unusual word and people have to make up definitions for it.

  • @Adowrath
    @Adowrath 5 лет назад +3

    This is already the 2nd time I'm watching it and I'm not expecting to watch it less than a dozen times this month. And it still is, and will be everytime, extremely funny.

  • @andrineslife
    @andrineslife 5 лет назад +14

    I'm not even two minutes into this and it is already perfect 😍😂

  • @kaziiqbal7257
    @kaziiqbal7257 Месяц назад +1

    I need to see a compilation of Brannan bullying Tom

  • @imnonene
    @imnonene 5 лет назад +12

    “International Phonetic Alphabets”
    “Aww”
    “Not Indian Pale Ale, Gary”
    God I love Gary

  • @JoeBleasdaleReal
    @JoeBleasdaleReal 5 лет назад +7

    Chris miming IPA was me 😂😂😂🍺

  • @catfish552
    @catfish552 5 лет назад +9

    Now I just need to know where Gary's story about the election is actually from, because it definitely sounds like a real thing.

  • @erinpeterson3202
    @erinpeterson3202 5 лет назад +4

    i was just rewatching the old episodes last night and thinking how i was hoping you'd release more!

  • @yondie491
    @yondie491 5 лет назад +92

    But it *IS* pronounced Host-Festival!
    There isn't a time this isn't entertaining.

  • @curiousfirely
    @curiousfirely 5 лет назад +4

    Nice to see Matt and housemates tidied up for this run of episodes!

  • @petrbroz7145
    @petrbroz7145 5 лет назад +1

    YAY, it's back! I really hope this format stays fun for you guys for a long time, because I love it!

  • @Incognitus30
    @Incognitus30 5 лет назад +5

    yeet another episode, this is my second favourite series right after citation needed

  • @UseZapCannon
    @UseZapCannon 2 года назад +3

    Hooray for similes. Chris says "a series of minor vehicular events," which he meant as "obscure recurring festivals that involve vehicles," but which sounded like "a mysterious trail of automobile incidents"

  • @gayahithwen
    @gayahithwen 3 года назад +4

    I really like this concept, and I hope you do more of them once you can all be in a room together again (and/or film on zoom)

  • @insect_1066
    @insect_1066 4 месяца назад +1

    Happy Ghost Festival 2024!

  • @woodrobin
    @woodrobin 9 месяцев назад +2

    Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds but with cars -- yeah, Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive. A world where machines self-animate and start attacking people. The main action is around a group of survivors held hostage at a gas station/convenience store by vehicles that are keeping the humans alive to operate the fuel pumps.

  • @Pikachu0071000CS
    @Pikachu0071000CS Год назад +1

    I like how Matt managed to come up with something for the 1878 North Lancashire By-Election, yet not the Plot of the Rue Saint Nicaise

  • @TrondBørgeKrokli
    @TrondBørgeKrokli 5 лет назад +3

    Thank you for still making me grin and enjoy myself every time you make a new episode. This is definitely one of the highlights of the week for me. Thank you again! 😎👍

  • @NorbiPeti
    @NorbiPeti 5 лет назад +8

    This was the first series I discovered from y'all thanks to the "two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff" video lol

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 3 года назад +1

      That was a bit of a jump from Two Drums and a Cymbal till Two of These People Are Lying. Tom did a lot of other excellent stuff between those two.

    • @NorbiPeti
      @NorbiPeti 2 года назад +2

      @@qwertyTRiG Well I definitely didn't see that video when it came out, just found it randomly somewhere and was surprised that they were still making videos. Popular ones, too.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 2 года назад +3

      @@NorbiPeti Tom's output is wonderfully varied, and now that there are four (!) channels to choose from, even more so.

  • @sam08g16
    @sam08g16 5 лет назад +3

    Holy cow, yesterday I thought to myself "when is another 2 are lying episode being released... "! Thanks for capturing my thoughts 2000km away

  • @GrubbyZebra
    @GrubbyZebra 4 года назад +2

    Bloody hell, I keep googling the lies because they are such good stories!

  • @iNinBreak
    @iNinBreak 3 года назад +1

    as someone from the netherlands in the year 2021 where farmers are mass protesting alot of the time with their tractor (and yea they were everywhere) this is amazing to hear

  • @HugoBDesigner
    @HugoBDesigner 5 лет назад +1

    So glad to see this series back! It's my favorite from The Technical Difficulties!

  • @GryphLane
    @GryphLane 5 лет назад +6

    New TechDif‽ Cracking!

  • @bjrn-oskarrnning2740
    @bjrn-oskarrnning2740 5 лет назад +1

    Yes! More Technical Difficulties! I was getting withdrawals after binging all of Citation Needed! Can't get enough of you guys, keep it up!

  • @Wouter10123
    @Wouter10123 5 лет назад +44

    Can I make a suggestion about this format? How about making everybody guess one time, instead of having one person guess all the time. That would however require more rounds per episode, or alternating between episodes.

    • @d2factotum
      @d2factotum 5 лет назад +1

      Hey, more is better!

    • @wierdalien1
      @wierdalien1 5 лет назад +14

      @lovely brain toaster and therefore the perfect host for this

    • @Theraot
      @Theraot 5 лет назад +1

      What happens when the person guessing picks his own article?

    • @Wouter10123
      @Wouter10123 5 лет назад

      @@Theraot Throw it back in and pick another?

    • @internetionals
      @internetionals 5 лет назад +1

      Each round another person would turn a card and they all tell their version. Each person chooses a person that they believe. You get points for guessing right and for being rightly guessed.

  • @peterpeter5214
    @peterpeter5214 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much for bringing this back

  • @maxresdefault_
    @maxresdefault_ 5 лет назад +1

    It’s so great seeing the Technical Dificulties after all this time. Always up for watching these.

  • @skytek7081
    @skytek7081 3 года назад +1

    I would love to see more of this from the TechDiff gang, but I also like the format and would dig seeing other peoples takes on it.

  • @gandalfsmom
    @gandalfsmom 5 лет назад

    THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS BACK!!!!!!!! I really missed Citation Needed, but this is a wonderful replacement

  • @RoyCostaCycles
    @RoyCostaCycles 5 лет назад +3

    Here in Singapore some people even burn entire paper 'banks', 'sportscars' and even 'credit cards' so that their ancestors can use them in the afterlife (during the Ghost Festival)

  • @AmazingJellyfish
    @AmazingJellyfish 5 лет назад +2

    This is a great series. Thank you for sharing your fun with us all to enjoy

  • @Kingsly9802
    @Kingsly9802 5 лет назад +5

    Clearly TechDiff is at their best when their doing improv comedy fueled on by wikipedia.

  • @kyleclark6997
    @kyleclark6997 5 лет назад +12

    Spoilers...
    Huh, the Stanley guy in Chris' article is who the Stanley Cup is named after. TIL

  • @Cyortonic
    @Cyortonic 5 лет назад +2

    I literally watched all of the previous episodes yesterday and wondered when y'all were going to make a new one. My prayers have been answered!

  • @coryman125
    @coryman125 5 лет назад +1

    Ooh, very happy to see this game back! It's a brilliant idea for a format :D

  • @cjkitty3603
    @cjkitty3603 5 лет назад +1

    I was so glad to see this in my feed today... I'm so glad you guys are making a second season!

  • @tagnarth
    @tagnarth 5 лет назад +1

    I hope the Technical Difficulties never stop. I want to see you guys still bantering about in 30 years time

  • @thelastcube.
    @thelastcube. 5 лет назад +3

    Chris "minor vehicular events" Joe
    Gary "i don't want to convince Tom" Brannan
    Matt "Tractors everywhere" Gray

  • @MoeGamingLPS
    @MoeGamingLPS 5 лет назад +1

    It’s always fun to watch one of these pre-looking up and knowing which one is correct

  • @mathbookhero
    @mathbookhero 5 лет назад +2

    Oh hell yes this is gonna be a blast! Thanks yall for great times with these games.