It looks like Google forgot about the pinned comment I left here, so: there are several jokes in here about the 1973 Chilean coup. Those jokes crossed a line, and were offensive to Chilean folks. If we'd have known the full context of the coup, which we didn't in the rush of filming, we wouldn't have made them. The fault lies solely with me as the editor: I should have fact-checked and understood the context before publishing. I try to make sure the series is suitable for all, and in this case it's fair to say I got the balance wrong. I'm sorry.
No, that's not a problem at all. I would have said you seemed aware as it was being filmed that they were dark jokes and when Chris says "jokes about coups and South America and coups in that era? Seems dubious" it is all handled perfectly. You've done the right thing with this comment, but you didn't need to, if that makes sense.
Just wanted to say that I've been rewatching your videos over this boring summer and have noticed pinned corrections on a lot of them from about a month ago. I really admire you for going back through all of these and admitting to and sourcing errors and percieved wrongs. I wish more people had the integrity to do that sort of thing, myself included.
"Basically a tech startup" - I think that's unfair. With most tech startups, it's their own fault that they fail, while this project got killed by external forces.
The problem with socialist governments is that they have a lot of unhappy people. And unhappy people are very likely to rebel. Maybe they should have focused on general welfare instead of ideological purity.
@@brainletmong6302 allende was elected democratically but was kileld by the CIA. maybe look into stuff before you speak. the chilean coup was a tragedy for Chile
@@brainletmong6302 in truth it was a military coup, they did do a lot for the workers as well keep that in mind. Pinochet wasn't some rural fellow dissatisfied with the government, he was a major part of the Chilean military and coordinated with the CIA to undermine their own government. Most of these coups in SA were held up by US support and supplies.
@@PermadeathHD also, one of the key developments that kickstarted the coup was the fact that the socialist coalition that backed the government got even more seats at the 1973 legislative elections than in 1969, even with an inflationary crisis. For the coup planners, this was interpreted as that any chances to end the Allende government by electoral means were futile.
Coincidence. In fact in Chile (and in Perú and Bolivia from what I know) we call that plant "Ají". In fact I think there's an specific chilean variety of Ají, called "cacho de cabra" = Goats horns . From What I know Chile comes from the aymara word Chilli which means "the farthest place of the world"
SuneEnough in the german wikipedia it says: Pinochet war am 11. September 1973 maßgeblich an dem von den USA geförderten Militärputsch gegen den demokratisch gewählten marxistisch-sozialistischen Präsidenten Salvador Allende beteiligt. You don't have to understand everything, but gefördert means supported and putsch means coup. Seeing the date, one might consider the writing of some new verses, that change the coup for the airplane. That would be very rude, but the original was too.
I wonder what a subtitle translator would do with the minute long detour into pigeon armies via the "coup/coo" homophone. It's a good example of that difficulty for your future video about subtitles Tom.
There are like 8 or so foreign language translation subtitles submitted now, it's actually kind of interesting to keep winding back with a different set selected and looking at the differences when they run into difficult things like that.
As a translator I can tell you that you either get a flash of inspiration to work around the problem and still make it funny, in which case you feel like a divine being... Or (more likely in my case) go and cry in a corner.
This is at least some education on that bit of it, and how a bastard like Augusto Pinochet ended up being helped into power in the supposed name of democracy... simply because the US had it in for any socialist country, regardless of whether they were tinpot dictatorships or actually well run.
@@MattieSheldonTheUA-camr Classic reactionary double-think. It's okay to use brutal suppression towards commies to counter their supposed nrutal suppression.
I've finally realisef why Chris reminds me of Bill Bailey, and it's not the looks. It's how he remembers those tiny little facts your geography teacher might have once told you
I mean even with the US using economic embargoes to strangle Chile into submission and internal sabotage from the Chilean elite, saying Allende was awesome is a bit stretching it, Pinochet sucked tho.
I can do some AMAZING Tony Christie songs on kareoke. Seriously, check out 'The Avenues and Alleyways', I can totally belt that out after a few stouts.
Dude, your kitchen is the shit. Got the four-way toaster, the heavy duty vents, the stovetop espresso maker, the gas range, the.... is that some kind of marble countertop? Shitdamn, Tom. Shitdamn.
Compliment rescinded. I must now assume Tom's kitchen is a shameful, greasy pit of rust and decay, as this is the only possible explanation for his obvious desperate attempt to convince us otherwise. Honestly, Tom. Why can't you be more like Chris?
I know this is 2 years old, but as an American, I get about 60% of the jokes bc the way they pronounce certain words is way different and changes the joke to be meaningless in my head.
Took me a while, but I finally realized that "for those of you just tuning in" is just a long-standing habit from his radio days instead of some random phrase to get back on topic.
I just want to know what could've been, both for Chile and the world if this project hadn't been unjustly shutdown in the coup. There was so much promise here in the few years it operated, and with modern computing power and decades to streamline the actual system Chile and South America could very well have become a truly independent economy. Of course instead they got bombed, had leaders and civilians killed, and years of the brutal government of Pinochet. All because they were becoming too independent.
So, last Citation Needed, it was France. This time, it was Chile. Next time, I am making the prediction that it will be either Germany or Russia, and something from the communist era at that.
Alright, so subtitles are pretty dang helpful for this series after all! I have a hard time admitting it because I thought I understood English well enough, but it turns out I'd have missed a third of the jokes if not for them. ._.
+mebamme Hell, I'm a native English speaker, ok, USian, and I often have problems understanding their jokes in previous shows. Between the accents, talking over each other and slang, it gets very confusing.
To be honest I'm British and I still find the odd bit hard to follow, when they're making obscure references and talking over each other, it gets very difficult to understand even for me.
I'm British and my fiancé is American and we spent so much time having to translate what we were saying to each other in the beginning. It wasn't until then that I realised how nuanced the 'dialects' are.
You asked for positive comments - here's a positive comment. I *love* citation needed. It reminds me of hanging out with my own friends back home - like the kind of thing we might very well do, except that we've never actually done it (at all), let alone with professional-level cameras and a highly-watched UA-cam account and all that. But, it's seriously fun. Thanks for making them!!
My jaw dropped when Matt came out with the "you're better off with a coup" joke. The thing is that's exactly the sort of off-the-cuff joke I'd have come out with before realising afterwards. I still laughed afterwards though.
+spaghetti Yep, I'm like It's Gary... Then Chris says something and I think, nope it's Chris. Then Tom makes me laugh and I change my mind. Then Matt says something in a weird accent and then I realised I was wrong, right up until Gary says...
The fact that this is the most viewed video by far when you search 'Cybersyn' on UA-cam is extremely disappointing, considering how fundamentally transformative the program would have been for both the social and material sciences if it weren't literally murdered in its infancy.
I hate that this is the only episode of this series I have to skip over every single time because learning how America literally killed off any hopes for Chile ever advancing as a country makes me so infuriated...
Damn... in the 70s. Now there's a bit of history that you could point to when talking with an anti-socialist. Although... they'd need to be willing to listen to arguments, so...
To be fair to (at least American) anti-socialists, I think a lot of this is thanks to the amount of ideological propaganda baked into our history classes. I'm 29 and have considered myself a socialist for ~4 years, but if you asked me as recently as a year or two ago who Salvador Allende was, I'd probably have no idea. We just don't learn anything at all about socialist historical figures unless they were revolutionaries or so-called "dictators;" or, if a historically significant figure was primarily famous for something else and just happened to be a socialist (e.g. people like Albert Einstein or Hellen Keller), then their socialism gets swept under the rug.
The word Tom uses at 1:03 is Portmanteau. I knew it's meaning once but I had to look it up again. It's a word made up of the parts and/or sounds of two separate words, e.g. SMOG = Smoke + Fog. I included the definition because although I hear it time to time on British TV, I'll never heard an American use that word in conversation.
2:52 "is that when they took over and killed everyone" if by they you mean the fascists, then yes, quite also i dont quite get the "Just one problem: people." in the description? i think the problem was... the fascist coup...
My entire life comes to an hour passing every second on a Thursday, it seems I'll never get to the sweet nectar of British hometown comedy. Thank you Tom. Thank you all.
+Draktand01 I...I never knew I needed the Technical Difficulties to play Cards Against Humanity on camera...but now I do! Can you imagine their commentary and discussion about every round's answers? :'D
The first Citation needed that I managed to listen to the end. Previously I always stopped after a few minutes (if I even bothered at all) because for non native speakers its quite hard to understand everything (especially when talking over each other). The subtitles help with this a lot, and I am very grateful to whoever made them.. (Yes I know not every detail is important, but after missing something that then goes on for a minute, spoils the fun a bit...)
4:00 I think Dr. Who did a scene something like what Gary described. No, wait - it was Cybermen in a cemetery........... But if pigeons ever did move in unison in Trafalgar Square: 😲😲😲
At around 10:10 anyone else think Gary was going to slip into the beetles song? If you get it without the hint below I love YT comments. But so I don't have to explain when someone comments and I forget later... Crudités, coup d'etat, life goes on.
I really enjoy these videos and the fun you and your mates seem to be having. A serious question, do you go to the pub before or after filming these episodes or is it as I suspect both?
Hate to disappoint you but we're pretty much a dry team. We're usually on a selection of fruit juice and coffee and nothing stronger all day. At the end of a recording day we usually have a curry and an early night.
Great episode, as always. Thanks, TechDiff team! And thank you, anonymous subtitle person! I dunno who you are, but you're cool! Speaking of subtitles, a question to the translators: do you even attempt to keep alliteration in the joke at the end of the video? That seems like a translator's hell.
Hey Tom, I know you probably get tons of different ideas from people about things to do a Citation Needed on, but if you haven't heard of it, I think there's an article you would have fun filming an episode about, called "The Great Emu War." It's quite fun :P
Sorry for the necro-comment, it's been how many years but just in case: ~ Do a falsetto "oooh" sound ~ Roll your r's as you do the falsetto "ooh" sound ~ And add a breathy sound as you do it like "hrooooo"
At least at the end they did seem to know about Pinochet, and as a Chilean myself it's quite satisfying that people in other countries know even a little bit about our horrible and violent history, and to watch them learn about the ambitious efforts of Salvador Allende's government.
Chorifly Yeah. I know some thing about Salvador Allende but I did not know about this. A very impressive and progressive plan for a time when computers where something most people had not even seen.
+Cythil While not being from Chile, (but rather from a tiny nation in Europe) I came across this article a few years ago, and was really impressed by the scope and vision of the project. Yours is a beautiful country, and I wish you all peace and prosperity. Do you know of a good book or documentary about Chilean history or culture? (on an unrelated note, I hope, although I'm pacifist by nature, that your nation's military traditions will also be cherished, for it's the last nation on earth that displays those customs of noble Prussia, and It's my sincere hope that the nation won't be forgotten, neither its virtues nor its flaws.) A good book about Prussia would be 'The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner, look it up if you want to read some good history non-fiction.
maglorian Note that I am my self not from Chile. But Chorifly might be able to help you. I just have a general interest in history as well as different cultures. The world is such a wonderful place to explore.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any history books on the topic of the coup of 73' and those times, but if you're interested in some 16th century history, I recommend some of the best historical literature of chilean lore, from the time of the conquista and the war between the spaniards and the native Mapuche. If you're interested in that, you might dig "La Araucana" by Alonso de Ercilla and "El Cautiverio Feliz" by Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán.
It looks like Google forgot about the pinned comment I left here, so: there are several jokes in here about the 1973 Chilean coup. Those jokes crossed a line, and were offensive to Chilean folks. If we'd have known the full context of the coup, which we didn't in the rush of filming, we wouldn't have made them. The fault lies solely with me as the editor: I should have fact-checked and understood the context before publishing. I try to make sure the series is suitable for all, and in this case it's fair to say I got the balance wrong. I'm sorry.
Might want to mention it was a CIA-backed coup real quick as well.
@@Epsomgwtfbbq well yes, but everything was backed in those days. Allende won with Soviet and Cuban backing.
The other problem is that Scants are just underwear
No, that's not a problem at all. I would have said you seemed aware as it was being filmed that they were dark jokes and when Chris says "jokes about coups and South America and coups in that era? Seems dubious" it is all handled perfectly. You've done the right thing with this comment, but you didn't need to, if that makes sense.
Just wanted to say that I've been rewatching your videos over this boring summer and have noticed pinned corrections on a lot of them from about a month ago.
I really admire you for going back through all of these and admitting to and sourcing errors and percieved wrongs. I wish more people had the integrity to do that sort of thing, myself included.
"It just says 'Death', whatever I press"
I see it's running Windows 8
*laughing too much to hit the like button*
no it's running a terminal-only install of CentOS Linux
*L I N U X J O K E S*
Windows XP right now
I wonder what Microsoft Bob would have said.
Vista*
I swear, "Chile is far left of bottom America" is my absolute favourite phrase on this channel
*Panthers*
Those moments when Tom has clearly lost control of the situation and is just like "Project Cybersyn, gentlemen" make my day every time
Well I guess you can cross Chile off the list of countries to offend, and return to bagging the French again next time.
At least for a couple of weeks...
The wheel spins…
...and lands on France.
@@harryscorah2091 it is not a wheel. Its an arrow
@@PiCkUpdkWE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THIS! It is NOT a wheel, it is just a piece of cardboard with "FRANCE" written on it1
"Basically a tech startup" - I think that's unfair. With most tech startups, it's their own fault that they fail, while this project got killed by external forces.
Quite literally sadly.
The problem with socialist governments is that they have a lot of unhappy people. And unhappy people are very likely to rebel. Maybe they should have focused on general welfare instead of ideological purity.
@@brainletmong6302 allende was elected democratically but was kileld by the CIA. maybe look into stuff before you speak. the chilean coup was a tragedy for Chile
@@brainletmong6302 in truth it was a military coup, they did do a lot for the workers as well keep that in mind. Pinochet wasn't some rural fellow dissatisfied with the government, he was a major part of the Chilean military and coordinated with the CIA to undermine their own government. Most of these coups in SA were held up by US support and supplies.
@@PermadeathHD also, one of the key developments that kickstarted the coup was the fact that the socialist coalition that backed the government got even more seats at the 1973 legislative elections than in 1969, even with an inflationary crisis. For the coup planners, this was interpreted as that any chances to end the Allende government by electoral means were futile.
How dare you, Tom, claim that us Chileans don't actually have robotics death pigeons controlled by the government!
Mical wasn't la dictadura militar matandonos en la epoca de los 70's
Ah, that's the nationality they picked to offend this episode
"Coo" D'etat
controlling* the government
We had, but when the DINA was instaurated
damn, chile was working on a star trek future and the US was like "we prefer star wars : )"
I'm from Chile! can't believe my little country showed up in your conversation!
Question is the name a coincidence or was it named after the food it looks like
Coincidence. In fact in Chile (and in Perú and Bolivia from what I know) we call that plant "Ají". In fact I think there's an specific chilean variety of Ají, called "cacho de cabra" = Goats horns . From What I know Chile comes from the aymara word Chilli which means "the farthest place of the world"
Luis Salas Lastra THE MORE YOU KNOW
I can't believe the king of Chile watches Tom Scott
@@kimgkomg oh! Sorry!, it does sounds like I'm saying that XD. I'm from Chile, I do not own it. But I think you must be joking though 😆
Happy birthday to you
Here's a military coup
You've 5 minutes to leave
And your family too
SuneEnough
in the german wikipedia it says: Pinochet war am 11. September 1973 maßgeblich an dem von den USA geförderten Militärputsch gegen den demokratisch gewählten marxistisch-sozialistischen Präsidenten Salvador Allende beteiligt. You don't have to understand everything, but gefördert means supported and putsch means coup. Seeing the date, one might consider the writing of some new verses, that change the coup for the airplane. That would be very rude, but the original was too.
Always love a good Gary Brannan rhyme.
Laura Ireson he is everyone’s favorite one
This is an okay haicoo
@@christopherbrooke2142 not a haiku. a haiku's 5-7-5 syllables
1:11 6:10 8:45 Matt Gray says "America" x3 - all using different voices! Found it interesting.
I wonder what a subtitle translator would do with the minute long detour into pigeon armies via the "coup/coo" homophone. It's a good example of that difficulty for your future video about subtitles Tom.
There are like 8 or so foreign language translation subtitles submitted now, it's actually kind of interesting to keep winding back with a different set selected and looking at the differences when they run into difficult things like that.
As a translator I can tell you that you either get a flash of inspiration to work around the problem and still make it funny, in which case you feel like a divine being... Or (more likely in my case) go and cry in a corner.
In Turkish they just gave an explanation on how those two words sound similar
In the Portuguese, there are translation notes like what one would see in fansubbed anime.
@@mustafamendeleev6461 they do the same in the Portuguese
knowing the history of chile this episode is super dark, but fairly understandable to not know
This is at least some education on that bit of it, and how a bastard like Augusto Pinochet ended up being helped into power in the supposed name of democracy... simply because the US had it in for any socialist country, regardless of whether they were tinpot dictatorships or actually well run.
ChaosSwissroIl said the USA, resulting in the deaths of thousands via hostile right-wing coups.
@@ChaosSwissroIl
Allende wasn't communist
@@MattieSheldonTheUA-camr
Classic reactionary double-think. It's okay to use brutal suppression towards commies to counter their supposed nrutal suppression.
@@MattieSheldonTheUA-camr 2 million in Indonesia alone.
One of the best Citation Neededs ever! Dying of laughter the entire way through!
"The far left of bottom America, right?" just absolutely nailed it.
I've finally realisef why Chris reminds me of Bill Bailey, and it's not the looks. It's how he remembers those tiny little facts your geography teacher might have once told you
As an American from the south, I can confirm him saying "The south" is done in a correct accent
Allende was awesome and so was Cybersyn ;-(
I don’t know if Allende was awesome, but Pinochet certainly sucked a lot.
I mean even with the US using economic embargoes to strangle Chile into submission and internal sabotage from the Chilean elite, saying Allende was awesome is a bit stretching it, Pinochet sucked tho.
@@achubbs8641 Nah, Allende was awesome and that's not a stretch by any means. Saying "Pinochet sucked" is however a big understatement.
@@penepleto1210 Explain yourself.
I'm Chilean and i thought this was hilarious. You get a like for such a lovely topic.
And now that I have seen it, it does seem that there is an excess of pigeons in Santiago 🤔🤔🤔
And today I learned that Gary has a surprisingly lovely singing voice.
I can do some AMAZING Tony Christie songs on kareoke. Seriously, check out 'The Avenues and Alleyways', I can totally belt that out after a few stouts.
Dude, your kitchen is the shit. Got the four-way toaster, the heavy duty vents, the stovetop espresso maker, the gas range, the.... is that some kind of marble countertop? Shitdamn, Tom. Shitdamn.
I'm probably duty-bound to point out that it's actually Chris's kitchen we were in....but yeah, he's got a pretty top kitchen.
Compliment rescinded. I must now assume Tom's kitchen is a shameful, greasy pit of rust and decay, as this is the only possible explanation for his obvious desperate attempt to convince us otherwise.
Honestly, Tom. Why can't you be more like Chris?
@@ColdsideRamrod it probably had no space for 4 people
If English is not your first language, this hard AF to follow
Praised be the subtitle writers!
Filewalkr Those who get it then shpuld rejoice!
I never get the winner's gift though
I know this is 2 years old, but as an American, I get about 60% of the jokes bc the way they pronounce certain words is way different and changes the joke to be meaningless in my head.
@@brucinski94 also a lot of the gags are about very British people and culture.
Nope, it isnt
"Voodoo chile" is what the people in the "Sayouth" cook at their Louisiana barbecues.
+David Buschhorn and what is "Voodoo child (slight return)", then? :-D
+Václav Fejt Them mispronouncing "Voodoo Chile".
+Václav Fejt Voodoo child is a Jimi Hendrix song.
Took me a while, but I finally realized that "for those of you just tuning in" is just a long-standing habit from his radio days instead of some random phrase to get back on topic.
I just want to know what could've been, both for Chile and the world if this project hadn't been unjustly shutdown in the coup. There was so much promise here in the few years it operated, and with modern computing power and decades to streamline the actual system Chile and South America could very well have become a truly independent economy.
Of course instead they got bombed, had leaders and civilians killed, and years of the brutal government of Pinochet. All because they were becoming too independent.
Communist, eh?
@JSSMVCJR2.1 shut the hell up if you dont know what you're talking about lil bro
@@OzeanZonedOut He clearly knows more about it than either of you.
"bottom america" oh dear.
+OrlovKruskayev Or, shorter...Bottomerica. Fits better into our fast-paced, short attention...
What's that SHINY thing?
Butterica
@@gwenynorisu6883 That's just Texas
I didn't know the Hispanics were gay
When the roads get slippery in top america, you risk falling off into bottom america
I had planned to add German subtitles before watching this. I revised my plans after about 8 seconds.
So, last Citation Needed, it was France. This time, it was Chile. Next time, I am making the prediction that it will be either Germany or Russia, and something from the communist era at that.
"And the wheel spins, and lands on East Germany!"
Oh gosh, I laughed so hard at the crudité coup d'etat thing that I was actually lightheaded for a few moments.
Alright, so subtitles are pretty dang helpful for this series after all!
I have a hard time admitting it because I thought I understood English well enough, but it turns out I'd have missed a third of the jokes if not for them. ._.
***** Same felling here
+mebamme Hell, I'm a native English speaker, ok, USian, and I often have problems understanding their jokes in previous shows. Between the accents, talking over each other and slang, it gets very confusing.
i'm also from the us, but my exposure to british media makes it much easier for me than most
To be honest I'm British and I still find the odd bit hard to follow, when they're making obscure references and talking over each other, it gets very difficult to understand even for me.
I'm British and my fiancé is American and we spent so much time having to translate what we were saying to each other in the beginning. It wasn't until then that I realised how nuanced the 'dialects' are.
You asked for positive comments - here's a positive comment. I *love* citation needed. It reminds me of hanging out with my own friends back home - like the kind of thing we might very well do, except that we've never actually done it (at all), let alone with professional-level cameras and a highly-watched UA-cam account and all that. But, it's seriously fun. Thanks for making them!!
"Far left of Bottom America"
Advanced geographical illiteracy.
My jaw dropped when Matt came out with the "you're better off with a coup" joke. The thing is that's exactly the sort of off-the-cuff joke I'd have come out with before realising afterwards. I still laughed afterwards though.
+TheIrezasRise ...And the military coup song
I can't.
I love you guys.
I'm trying to think of who's my favourite but every time I do it's just like
"Chris is my favourite, also Matt, and Tom, and Gary..."
+spaghetti Yep, I'm like It's Gary... Then Chris says something and I think, nope it's Chris. Then Tom makes me laugh and I change my mind. Then Matt says something in a weird accent and then I realised I was wrong, right up until Gary says...
As long as your favourite Gary Brannan is Gary Brannan, you should be fine
I just take the sixth option and pick Will Seward due to all the gags involving his amazing voice.
@@isaacbailey3681 *P A N T H E R S ?*
had the realization while watching this that this will be the fourth time i've rewatched this series so thats fun
The fact that this is the most viewed video by far when you search 'Cybersyn' on UA-cam is extremely disappointing, considering how fundamentally transformative the program would have been for both the social and material sciences if it weren't literally murdered in its infancy.
your fault for watching Citation Needed hoping to watch high quality education
HOW?!"
@@elsanicceleste4753 Well you'll say at the end of it, 'that thought me a lesson'.
'Voodoo Gilet' and 'Crudités Coup D'etat' both nearly killed me.
Puffy and warm and BRAAAAINS
I'm surprised that they never picked on any other South American country (in videos, at least). Greetings from the exact centre of South America!
I hate that this is the only episode of this series I have to skip over every single time because learning how America literally killed off any hopes for Chile ever advancing as a country makes me so infuriated...
It's a shame I can only like this once, one of the best so far Tom and Crew. keep up the side splitting work!
You could say that those early Star Trek NG characters were SCANTily clad 8:11
*MYSTERY BISCUITS!*
Damn... in the 70s. Now there's a bit of history that you could point to when talking with an anti-socialist. Although... they'd need to be willing to listen to arguments, so...
To be fair to (at least American) anti-socialists, I think a lot of this is thanks to the amount of ideological propaganda baked into our history classes. I'm 29 and have considered myself a socialist for ~4 years, but if you asked me as recently as a year or two ago who Salvador Allende was, I'd probably have no idea.
We just don't learn anything at all about socialist historical figures unless they were revolutionaries or so-called "dictators;" or, if a historically significant figure was primarily famous for something else and just happened to be a socialist (e.g. people like Albert Einstein or Hellen Keller), then their socialism gets swept under the rug.
The word Tom uses at 1:03 is Portmanteau. I knew it's meaning once but I had to look it up again. It's a word made up of the parts and/or sounds of two separate words, e.g. SMOG = Smoke + Fog. I included the definition because although I hear it time to time on British TV, I'll never heard an American use that word in conversation.
0:15 ah the good old days, when you could shove your finger up your friends nose without fear of the plague.
This was just everyone trolling Tom for 15 minutes
Props to whoever translated the Happy Birthday song into German. They clearly tried to make it work as a poem in German.
love citation needed, thanks for making it :)
The robots are pigeons, Sir!
-removes sun glasses-
God damn
+NonsensicalSpudz Frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
+Václav Fejt That's not too much to ask for.
[Looks into the camera like they're on the office]
Not every day that a Tom Scott video gives me existential dread, so there's that.
This is so much better to watch with subtitles for a not fully english person omg THANK YOU
4:00 "For those of you just tuning in, this is a UA-cam video, so why are you just tuning in?"
‘Cause it’s a podcast too.
...you don't "just tune in" to Podcasts either
When you watch this video in the background while doing something else
@@gwenynorisu6883 I think it was a radio broadcast aswell
1:49 Tom didn’t sound pretensious; he just sounded like the only person on that curséd island who knows how to pronounce Spanish words.
Robot pigeons - now that's a Doctor Who episode just waiting to happen!
Well, Kate Stewart mentioned the ones at the Tower of London needed their batteries changed...
So I checked the wiki article. The image of the operations room is fabulous.
the long standing tradition of chris reaching over tom to press mystery biscuits is my favorite
2:52 "is that when they took over and killed everyone"
if by they you mean the fascists, then yes, quite
also i dont quite get the "Just one problem: people." in the description? i think the problem was... the fascist coup...
Another one who cataloges anything beyond their political viewpoint as fascist...
funniest episode so far, I was practically laughing non stop
yo im from chile bro, love ur videos
Otro Chileno acá jhasdjh
+Chorifly chilenos en todos lados! ajajaj
Que onda cabros?
Hooolap!
Hooolap!
My entire life comes to an hour passing every second on a Thursday, it seems I'll never get to the sweet nectar of British hometown comedy. Thank you Tom. Thank you all.
"Captain's Log"... Matt gets a special award for that one.
This is like cards against humanity.
+Draktand01 I...I never knew I needed the Technical Difficulties to play Cards Against Humanity on camera...but now I do! Can you imagine their commentary and discussion about every round's answers? :'D
+IceMetalPunk Fund it.
+Draktand01 Except better.
*****
But...but...I have no money :(
+IceMetalPunk Especially if they used custom cards they wrote...
Anyone else here to see the "Failed Bomb Plot Pigeon" that an AI generated in Tom's latest video?
That article is from the one about the acoustic cat
The photos of this on wikipedia are fantastic
Who woulda thought gary would be good at singing
The first Citation needed that I managed to listen to the end.
Previously I always stopped after a few minutes (if I even bothered at all) because for non native speakers its quite hard to understand everything (especially when talking over each other). The subtitles help with this a lot, and I am very grateful to whoever made them..
(Yes I know not every detail is important, but after missing something that then goes on for a minute, spoils the fun a bit...)
Not sure if you guys are just insanely brilliant or just awesome totally awesome at post production.
Either way - I love this show!
Do you guys actually get biscuits or are they really that mysterious you can't even find them?
"For those just tuning in" Tom who tunes into a youtube video half way through?
4:00 I think Dr. Who did a scene something like what Gary described. No, wait - it was Cybermen in a cemetery........... But if pigeons ever did move in unison in Trafalgar Square: 😲😲😲
Tom why in the hell are you not here in Chile :(! We'd like to travel through our country and show you a lot of things :(
He did eventually get around to visiting at least part of Chile several years later.
First time I've seen this type of discussion you have, very funny and informative. :)
At around 10:10 anyone else think Gary was going to slip into the beetles song?
If you get it without the hint below I love YT comments. But so I don't have to explain when someone comments and I forget later...
Crudités, coup d'etat, life goes on.
I really enjoy these videos and the fun you and your mates seem to be having. A serious question, do you go to the pub before or after filming these episodes or is it as I suspect both?
Hate to disappoint you but we're pretty much a dry team. We're usually on a selection of fruit juice and coffee and nothing stronger all day. At the end of a recording day we usually have a curry and an early night.
is the a mystery biscuits sound file somewhere that i can use as a text notification
i watched all of the other ones last week, with this one, i have now watched every tom scott video... i have no life.
Great episode, as always. Thanks, TechDiff team!
And thank you, anonymous subtitle person! I dunno who you are, but you're cool!
Speaking of subtitles, a question to the translators: do you even attempt to keep alliteration in the joke at the end of the video? That seems like a translator's hell.
I like the fact that Gary seems to be wearing a hoodie that just says "DON'T" on it.
I'm also amused by Tom slapping matt's hand away because he looks like a really angry cat
i would love it if you got hold of a 360 camera and did one of these with it
+Inzsec Excellent idea!
They need the cuts to hide the editing. Also, you'd miss out on so much from looking the wrong way.
+Mitigate Keeps its more for the gimmick than anything else
Just as a bit of a joke, all the goods got sent to Null Island. Latitude 0 Longitude 0.
This is a very good show to watch whilst drunk
Omg, I somehow missed this episode and it might be my favorite. Bless the Tech Diff gods!!
Project Cybersyn is very similar to what became TOPS a few years later to run the British Rail internal rail and shipping system.
Actually, it was roughly at the same time, and BR developed it from Southern Pacific, I think.
I'm very pleased with the new subtitles. I was completely lost at the crudité bit until I went back and read what they were saying.
I bet a Friday evening in the pub with you guys is a blast!
Hey Tom, I know you probably get tons of different ideas from people about things to do a Citation Needed on, but if you haven't heard of it, I think there's an article you would have fun filming an episode about, called "The Great Emu War." It's quite fun :P
Possibly too well known
I thought Stafford Beer was a company
ITS A PERSON
WHAT!?
4:00
that's an E4 ident waiting to happen
As always, hilarious!
6:26 "Computer, what is our solution?"
"Have you tried killing the poor?"
(That Mitchell & Webb look reference)
If SYNCO turned it's metaphorical back to Nixon.
Just wondering, how do you make a pigeon coo sound?
Sorry for the necro-comment, it's been how many years but just in case:
~ Do a falsetto "oooh" sound
~ Roll your r's as you do the falsetto "ooh" sound
~ And add a breathy sound as you do it like "hrooooo"
came for the cybersyn, stayed for robot pigeons
Wow, I thought the first few coup jokes were getting insensitive, but then it just kept going and going. In any case, I still enjoyed it, but damn.
Oh no 😢
Truly is the far left bit of bottom America *insert posh Gary guffaw*
A bunch of robot pigeons in the square moving simultaneously is in the plot of my movie script for "The Birds II: Electric Boogaloo."
This episode is awesome, espacially the happy birthday theme!
Very interesting topic. Got to check out the wiki article.
Also I am a bit surprised that they seem not to have heard of the chillian coup.
At least at the end they did seem to know about Pinochet, and as a Chilean myself it's quite satisfying that people in other countries know even a little bit about our horrible and violent history, and to watch them learn about the ambitious efforts of Salvador Allende's government.
Chorifly
Yeah. I know some thing about Salvador Allende but I did not know about this. A very impressive and progressive plan for a time when computers where something most people had not even seen.
+Cythil While not being from Chile, (but rather from a tiny nation in Europe) I came across this article a few years ago, and was really impressed by the scope and vision of the project.
Yours is a beautiful country, and I wish you all peace and prosperity.
Do you know of a good book or documentary about Chilean history or culture?
(on an unrelated note, I hope, although I'm pacifist by nature, that your nation's military traditions will also be cherished, for it's the last nation on earth that displays those customs of noble Prussia, and It's my sincere hope that the nation won't be forgotten, neither its virtues nor its flaws.)
A good book about Prussia would be 'The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner, look it up if you want to read some good history non-fiction.
maglorian
Note that I am my self not from Chile. But Chorifly might be able to help you.
I just have a general interest in history as well as different cultures. The world is such a wonderful place to explore.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any history books on the topic of the coup of 73' and those times, but if you're interested in some 16th century history, I recommend some of the best historical literature of chilean lore, from the time of the conquista and the war between the spaniards and the native Mapuche. If you're interested in that, you might dig "La Araucana" by Alonso de Ercilla and "El Cautiverio Feliz" by Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán.
This is brilliant, the best one yet!
Just what I was waiting for!
I haven't watched this in years, but I can't believe I missed it- did Tom actually question whether there were telephones in the '70s???
This is my favorite citation needed episode. Gary especially is firing on all cylinders here.
I love this show so much xD