Filmed in a big empty hall, in that brief period where we were all able to meet up safely: the Christmas special is here! And if you want more from us in the future, there's a new place to look... -- Tom
I like how Gary is annoyed when Tom correctly guesses it was his, even though he's supposed to be trying to convince him. Gary has decided that the game is "make Tom look like a fool"
@@twojuiceman that would be embarrassing, also imagine if that when he ran he had to add his last name to the persona of said 'Mad Captain' because he legally was required to so he could run
I know that's not the rules they're playing by, but I personally think the game is a lot more interesting if the goal of the person whose article got picked is also to fool Tom (though in the opposite direction).
It would be golden if for one of these videos, Tom slipped his own option in (whether fictional or nonfictional) and the others all try to convince him that it’s their one.
Chris should've said "Badalisc is the name of a town in Romania, that's actually famous for nothing but being on the one side of Romania's longest railway tunnel" and Tom would've had a REALLY hard time.
Just for the record, as a Slovenian: WE HAVE ALPS. Not all the alps, obviously, but we have a part of the Alps The Julian Alps to be specific. We have the second (?) largest ski jump in the world there. Triglav, tallest mountain in Slovenia, named after an old Slavic god... so yeah. Alpine Slovenia. It's a thing.
And Sápmi in general. It used to be more common before the snowmobile, just like horse-drawn carriages were more common before the automobile, but both still exist.
So when is someone gonna paint Matt's idea in the first one? Like, fully seriously, no jokes, a genuine renaissance era painting of the Animal's perspective of Nativity.
I'm working with, like, practically zero knowledge of art history, but wasn't there a time when the art movement was about decoupling art from the divine and just painting normal mundane everyday life? This might just be me completely fooling myself into believing Matt's explanation, but I think there was such a time, and if there was I'd be surprised if no one's done such a painting of the Nativity -- just the unglamorous image of childbirth in a stable.
@@twotothehalf3725 yes, the interest in the everyday was a reformation thing, so if this were a real painting it'd be a dutch/flemish baroque painting probably. i don't think this was applied to religious themes, though, but i could be wrong. i'm not a specialist, just an art enthusiast :p
I figured out what Chris' tell is: when he starts with excessievely situating something in macro historical developments, he's lying. If he's speaking the truth he gets straight to the point. See also Henricus
Gary is correct, in Italian "confetto" is singular, "confetti" is plural, although they are not the paper things you throw at parties, (those are called "coriandoli") they are almond-based sweets, usually handed out at weddings and other celebrations.
The TechDif crew is back, and with them comes the chaos! Also, props to Tom for not only subtitling a 4-person conversation, but also for colour-coding the subtitles
Honestly, I'd love to see the 'fake' Feast of the Ass painting, which genuinely sounds like if well-drawn and presented like it could be a pretty meaningful work of art.
I'm very annoyed that I didn't think of the joke until somebody said it. Especially since there's a "hauling ass" donkey joke in Qwerpline (that I recently listened to again).
I laughed so much, at that intermission. I really can't picture how everybody's favorite Gary Brannan has a quiet home life, if he's this chaotic on camera.
If I don't see “It was Obviously Gary” on a T shirt the next time you guys get together , preferably being worn by Gary, I shall immediately write a strongly worded letter to a random person.
I feel robbed that we didn’t get the classic “He reads books you know it’s Chris Joel” “Everybody’s favorite Garry Brannan, Garry Brannan” “And the bounciest man on the internet Matt Gray!”
Have to say, it's very peak Tom Scott to have nailed the "educational British TV" style so well that this podcast format is essentially a BBC comedy panel show. Get the 8 out of 10 Cats crew on this.
I was so terrified that after so long waiting for more Tech Diff, the new episodes would be anti-climatic. And then the phrase "Feast of the Ass" came up. I was dying of laughter all the way through. Thank you all for that
I can imagine that oil painting Matt described so vividly. That'll probably be the one I erroneously commit to memory as fact. Maybe some Italian painter whose name starts with G will paint it into reality and there'll end up being two articles for Feast of the Ass on Wikipedia.
“I’ve never been funny before, I don’t know why I should start” au contraire, your bit from the Jack Churchill episode of Citation Needed had me in tears!
The subtitle colours match up with the tinsels in front of everyone, now that's attention to detail! (Well except Tom because BBC subtitle guidelines specify white rather than red, but still, close enough)
Oh, it didn't occur to me that that was for specific guidelines! Why is that the case? Are red subtitles, like, exclusively for some sort of emergency/important use or something?
@@anttibjorklund1869 Ahhh, that does make sense. I even had a similar problem recently trying to read a promotional thing in my school's colors (maroon and black).
I'm surprised Tom's superior Finland knowledge hasn't equated him with reindeer drawn sleighs. I've been in one - when on holiday up near the arctic circle in the very north of Finland. I went to pet one and instead it had a very good go at eating one of my glove (while I was wearing it) and even after multiple attempts the reindeer spit never came off - they should use it as superglue.
I wonder if it was more of Tom forgetting that reindeer are classified as deer. Big, powerful creatures perfectly capable of pulling sleighs, where the does have antlers and don't shed them in the winter, might not seem very similar to the skittish, spindly-legged deer found further south where only the bucks have antlers. Especially since most artwork of Santa's sleigh shows it being pulled by a team of whitetail bucks.
Oh I missed this! The episodes always fly by with laughter. Just a group of friends taking the piss out of each other lightheartedly. Probably one of the most entertaining shows I've watched, so glad it's back!
Fun fact: "confetti" in italian is a kind of sweets that are usually handed out at christenings, marriages, and other personal religious stuff (not funarals though). The bits of paper thrown around are called "coriandoli". The word "coriandolo" is both the singular for coriandoli and the name of a spice.
Please tell me that the rest of the team (besides Gary) has read up on the Catalan Christmas tradition of the Caga Tió (crap log) or Tió de Nadal (Christmas Log) as well as the infamous Catalan specific nativity scene piece of El Caganer ("the pooper" or pooping figurine).
Hooray, I'm so happy to see the team playing one of the most epic games on the internet. I've started playing this and citation needed with my friends during lockdown and they love it.
I really missed this a lot. Watching old Techdif episodes has quite literally kept me sane during these last two years of not being able to see my friends regularly. Thank you, and I hope that being Techdif is still fun for y'all for quite a while!
The statement of "Longest railway tunnel in Romania built in the 1960s by the soviets" automatically caught me off guard since Romania was ruled by a man who was not pro or strongly anti-soviet and was better aligned with the Chinese CCP...
maybe it's because i'm romanian but all of the details given hit me as red (haha communist red) flags • name that doesn't follow romanian convention • tunnel that is named after one point of it • obviously 'built by the soviets' • costly vanity project in a country that *did* have vanity projects but was also looking to throw their limited budget at ones they perceive as efficient, like the metro or total railway kms • long tunnels through mountains for diesel trains are a dangerous thing because trains break down; we love to bash on dictatorships but you ideally don't want to create such problems for the future these are not the most immediate tells, there's also the lack of details and chris's attitude, but just by looking at the details i feel like his story could be easily ruled out
@@aiocafea as someone from the actual former Soviet Union - exact same points, except the "named after one point of it" (I can see that happening), and also "death rate" in 1960's, especially for a "vanity project".
19:10 Once again, Tom makes an incorrect statement involving the Sami people. They have used and sometimes still use reindeer to pull “sleighs”. (In modern times, snowmobiling has become more common) (To my knowledge as a Norwegian person)
Yup. My favourite book as a child mentioned that the main character’s uncle was one of the few who still tamed driving reindeer regularly because he didn’t like the noise and maintenance of snowmobiles.
Ever since I stumbled across Tom's channel in March last year, I've played the various Tech Dif media on a pretty much constant loop. Y'all honestly inspired me to get back into Twitch streaming with some folks I know. I am so happy that there's finally new content I can enjoy along with everyone else. Have a great 2022, all of you.
Unrelated to the main content of the show, I noticed and appreciate the fact that if you turn on captions, the text is colored depending on speaker. Thanks for the accessibility boost lads!
Oh good lord, I finally cracked at Hauling Ass and laughed out loud. I have so missed you guys together doing this, making me laugh whilst you're all having a laugh.
I just want to thank you guys. I've rewatched every Tech Dif episode like 16 times at this point and I've really been hyped for this, and it couldn't have come on a better day. I spent the last week with my girlfriend after spending over 2 years apart because of Covid. Tomorrow morning, she's off to the airport to fly back to Malaysia. I won't see her for another 6 months or so. I cried so much today, and yet the sight of this video in my sub box put a great big smile on my face. That smile turned into laughter the moment I heard the words "The Feast of the Ass". From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you Tom, thank you Chris, thank you Gary, and thank you Matt. You've brought so much joy into my life and have really made the last two years more bearable. Can't wait to see what you've got on store for the new channel.
I discovered TecDif in the period between the last episode and now, and have watched probably every episode of Citation Needed and Two of these people about 5 times over. So happy to see you guys back!
A note about the feast of the ass: Part of the whole "jiggery-pokery" with priest's impressions involved explicit anti-semitic liturgy and practices. Not sure if Gary knew that and wanted to skip over it for the purposes of creating fun content, or didn't know it, but either way, I kinda think it's an important thing to note.
Anti semitic or anti jewish? Because those shouldn't be the same thing. Isaac and Ishmael are brothers so Islam is as Semitic as Judaism. If it's anti jewish, both Christianity and Islam are anti semitic by their nature, in the same way that both Christianity and Judaism are fundamentally anti Islam
@@zyaicob "Antisemitism" was coined as a euphemism by German eugenicists in the 19th century to make anti-Jewish prejudice sound more scientific. Know your history.
@zyaicob Antisemetic refers to hostility towards, prejudice towards and discrimination against Jewish people, and comes from 1870's German (Antisemitismus) as a more scientific sounding term for Judenhauss (Jew-hate). The root word Semite does include Arabs, Assyrians, and Arameans. Jewish is both a description of an ethnic group(s) and a religion, while Islam/Muslim is only a religion and doesn't refer to an ethnic group.
So glad that you guys were able to get together and record again if only briefly. Looking forward to hopefully seeing a lot more from you on the new channel in the future.
Caught COVID 3 days before xmas and this is exactly what I needed to get through the holidays in quarantine. So great to have new Matt and Tom content!
3:41 I KNEW that would headed toward syphilis! I guess that kind of sense of humor is something I share with Gary (just like syphilis) 21:47 a bit of an old gag but, that's getting GIF'ed
If I’m being honest, this has always been funnier than Citation Needed. But yeah, this is just what I needed this Christmas after binging about half of Citation Needed
It took me a minute to realize that this was in fact a new episode. I thought somehow there was one that I had forgotten about, even though I've watched all of them multiple times. Super exciting to see you guys back in action. Now all I need is some Matt and Tom on a park bench, and my dreams will be fully realized.
The reindeer DO very much draw sleighs! The Sami people of Lapland used reindeer for that - now it's snowmobiles mostly, but it's still done for sports. For tourists they have brought huskys etc. for sleigh dogs there too nowadays.
I just binched the playlist "Everything the technical difficulties have ever done". I am so delighted to see that they are active again and will presumably continue to produce quality content "in HD" :))
Welcome back, Tech Diffs! I'm definitely subbing to the new channel, and I look forward to the one annual video upload there 😁 Damn, I really wanted Matt's "Feast of the Ass" painting to be real! It sounds like a very cool perspective on something we've all seen so many times that it's boring. Were I an artist, I would make this real! Also, I knew about the badelisc because of "Um, Actually", so thank you to Mike Trapp and the College Humor crew for edumacating me and useless festivity trivia 😁
Filmed in a big empty hall, in that brief period where we were all able to meet up safely: the Christmas special is here! And if you want more from us in the future, there's a new place to look... -- Tom
wooh
Yay!!! I guess 2021 isnt all bad now
Tom and friends, still taking that darn pandemic serious. Unlike some ...
The new channel has 2k already
Why is the camera quality suffering so much in the video? It looks really weird...
I like how Gary is annoyed when Tom correctly guesses it was his, even though he's supposed to be trying to convince him. Gary has decided that the game is "make Tom look like a fool"
I bet that's the real reason the series is ending. Tom can't let himself look like a fool.
Yeah, imagine if he'd done something embarrassing like run for parliament as a pirate
@@twojuiceman that would be embarrassing, also imagine if that when he ran he had to add his last name to the persona of said 'Mad Captain' because he legally was required to so he could run
I know that's not the rules they're playing by, but I personally think the game is a lot more interesting if the goal of the person whose article got picked is also to fool Tom (though in the opposite direction).
@@Kafaldsbylur that's how it works on Would I Lie To You, maybe they didn't want it to be too similar
It would be golden if for one of these videos, Tom slipped his own option in (whether fictional or nonfictional) and the others all try to convince him that it’s their one.
And Tom picks tge one that's closest?
Oh that'd be brilliant. Especially with the bamboozle in the most recent episode!
@@Quintinohthree if the three guys can determine they all are lying they all get a point.
They would be competitive Citation Needed
@@tristenarctician6910 Nah, in Citation Needed Tom tells the others when they're on some bullshit. (Exhibit A: the Turra Coo episode.)
“It’s Christmassss!!!!”
“It’s Novemberrrrr!!!!”
Hope we see more of this in the near future!
Tom announced one more for New Years and then they're dropping the format, sadly. But you have one to look forward to swiftly!
@@dragyduck as long as I get more content with the quad, I'm good, I just want more of this quad
@@dragyduck Did he explain why?
@@thepoetoffall7820 can't find the video, but far as I can remember, they're done with the format and are already looking for something else
@Jorn Hertsig we shall hunt them down and force them in to a room till they make us more content.
Chris should've said "Badalisc is the name of a town in Romania, that's actually famous for nothing but being on the one side of Romania's longest railway tunnel" and Tom would've had a REALLY hard time.
yeah
Just for the record, as a Slovenian: WE HAVE ALPS. Not all the alps, obviously, but we have a part of the Alps The Julian Alps to be specific. We have the second (?) largest ski jump in the world there. Triglav, tallest mountain in Slovenia, named after an old Slavic god... so yeah. Alpine Slovenia. It's a thing.
Brits knowing any European geography challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) (DANTE MUST DIE)
Do you actually think British people care about geography?
Drawing borders without respect for geography and ethnicities is their national pastime.
What about the Andrews Sisters?
Also, "alpine" is a pretty common English term for "things involving mountains" at least in the US.
Any long tunnels?
"Reindeer do not generally draw sleighs."
Tom yet again demonstrating his lacking knowledge about Finland.
And Sápmi in general. It used to be more common before the snowmobile, just like horse-drawn carriages were more common before the automobile, but both still exist.
In fact, they prefer to carve them out of wood
@@alanholck7995 take my upvote.
That took an alarmingly long time for the penny to drop.
That one confused me. I don't know much about reindeer, but...rein is right there in the word!
Well of course not, how would they hold the pencil?
So when is someone gonna paint Matt's idea in the first one? Like, fully seriously, no jokes, a genuine renaissance era painting of the Animal's perspective of Nativity.
I'm working with, like, practically zero knowledge of art history, but wasn't there a time when the art movement was about decoupling art from the divine and just painting normal mundane everyday life? This might just be me completely fooling myself into believing Matt's explanation, but I think there was such a time, and if there was I'd be surprised if no one's done such a painting of the Nativity -- just the unglamorous image of childbirth in a stable.
I swear it's a real painting.
Sure, but whoever paints it has to have a name that starts with G.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 And must be Italian. I think Italian on one of the parents side would count to improve the pool of candidates.
@@twotothehalf3725 yes, the interest in the everyday was a reformation thing, so if this were a real painting it'd be a dutch/flemish baroque painting probably. i don't think this was applied to religious themes, though, but i could be wrong. i'm not a specialist, just an art enthusiast :p
I'm genuinely disappointed that Feast of the Ass isn't a painting, it sounds like it would be a fascinating piece
Sounds like a great commission
you can still make it real
I actually feel like I've heard about such a painting before and I'm sad it's not mentioned here.
Oh, it certainly will be several paintings now. And a fanfic.
Still 99% sur I saw this painting at school.
I’ve missed this show so much, this is the best Christmas Eve ever
Me too.
It's Christmas Morning here. I don't normally care for Christmas, but if Technical Difficulties becomes a Christmas tradition, I will. 🙂
@@jackl9065 I wonder if he's really the Christmas monster. 🤭
I am so excited
Same here
I figured out what Chris' tell is: when he starts with excessievely situating something in macro historical developments, he's lying. If he's speaking the truth he gets straight to the point. See also Henricus
Chris is an expert in tall tales, which are good and entertaining, but from the get-go you realise that they're not worthy of a Wikipedia article.
@@georgelloydgonzalez I mean, where there is an will there is an article.
@@JonatasAdoM How many people named Will are there in the world? Do they match the number of articles on wikipedia?
unless, of course, if he talks about a paper town in Wales
@@unexpected2475 actually no, wikipedia articles trump the number of wills by a large margin
Gary is correct, in Italian "confetto" is singular, "confetti" is plural, although they are not the paper things you throw at parties, (those are called "coriandoli") they are almond-based sweets, usually handed out at weddings and other celebrations.
So, close enough to a Cornetto.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 only in name
Don't M&Ms count as confetti?
We call them koufeta in Corfu, hehe.
@@tomasxfranco confetti are usually almond shaped and sized as they contain an actual almond, although different variants exist
FYI: Gary was talking about the "caga tió", and it's traditional only in Catalonia
Doesn't Catalonia also have little statues of a guy shitting?
@@GumSkyloard Yes, that's the caganer (the pooper). There's also the pixaner (the pisser). They are placed in nativity scenes.
@mcanals it's not. Those are two different things
The TechDif crew is back, and with them comes the chaos! Also, props to Tom for not only subtitling a 4-person conversation, but also for colour-coding the subtitles
Hang on. No way. I didn't know youtube did that.
That new?
And occasionally having them be positionally located!
And even at one moment, they change **sizes!**
@@nowionlywantatriumph Random question, but I never understood How to make bold text on YT comments
@@SPCoste asterisks either side of your excerpt like *this* (*this*)
Honestly, I'd love to see the 'fake' Feast of the Ass painting, which genuinely sounds like if well-drawn and presented like it could be a pretty meaningful work of art.
I could totally see some painter do something like that. And not in a modern satirical way but as genuine renaissance oil painting.
Shouting “HAULING ASS” at a screen and cheering with them when one of them finally calls it out is not what I was expecting to do at 12am on Christmas
That, I think, is the real meaning of Christmas.
Say the line bart
“Hauling ass”
MYSTERY BISCUITS
😂
I'm very annoyed that I didn't think of the joke until somebody said it. Especially since there's a "hauling ass" donkey joke in Qwerpline (that I recently listened to again).
16:53 the three beats of silence with the reaction cuts here are comedy gold
I laughed so much, at that intermission. I really can't picture how everybody's favorite Gary Brannan has a quiet home life, if he's this chaotic on camera.
Perhaps his wife can control his chaos more than his 3 friends.
UndeadNotKyle I feel like his 3 friends encourage the chaos
He's very reserved at home, perhaps. All his chaos is saved for on-camera.
If I don't see “It was Obviously Gary” on a T shirt the next time you guys get together , preferably being worn by Gary, I shall immediately write a strongly worded letter to a random person.
Write it to me, I'm so lonely :(
I volunteer as tribute.
I feel robbed that we didn’t get the classic
“He reads books you know it’s Chris Joel”
“Everybody’s favorite Garry Brannan, Garry Brannan”
“And the bounciest man on the internet Matt Gray!”
I think you'll find that the *true* classic is that Gary is "built for leisure, not for speed"
Fair point, although I feel that those descriptions were specific to the "Citation Needed" series.
And Matt should've just said "Hello!"
@@ThomasWinget I do love that one
True legends knew Garry when he was "built for leisure not for speed"... The reverse trivia podcast is still so great to re-listen to.
"The go-karts didn't!" got me way more than it should!
I now desperately want a “It was Obviously Gary” tshirt.
It has to happen now that they've said it.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Doesn't someone have to say it three times in front of a mirror for the magic to work?
10/10 would buy
I second this
Have to say, it's very peak Tom Scott to have nailed the "educational British TV" style so well that this podcast format is essentially a BBC comedy panel show. Get the 8 out of 10 Cats crew on this.
I mean, it’s basically _Would I Lie to You_ but with Wikipedia.
I was so terrified that after so long waiting for more Tech Diff, the new episodes would be anti-climatic. And then the phrase "Feast of the Ass" came up. I was dying of laughter all the way through. Thank you all for that
"Feast of the Ass" is the best Christmas present we could receive.
Tech diff returns! When Tom said "badalisc" I really wanted to hear "giant snake with a speech impediment" 😂
ah yes brother of the badalisp
@@aiocafea I think you'll find it's thpelled badalithp
Pro tip: If Matt is describing a picture, he's lying.
Why? How?
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Pro tip: If Matt says he doesn't remember the exact name, he's buying time
Feast of the Ass as a reverse nativity scene was so good
Ah yes, just like his fictional Batlow where he described a picture.
When they mentioned the Weird Spanish tradition I laughed so much bc I had just literally finished beating a log with a stick MYSELF
I can imagine that oil painting Matt described so vividly. That'll probably be the one I erroneously commit to memory as fact. Maybe some Italian painter whose name starts with G will paint it into reality and there'll end up being two articles for Feast of the Ass on Wikipedia.
I'm pretty sure that painting exists, but it's a relatively modern one.
It honestly sounds like the kind of subversion Dali would engage in, like his Christ of Saint John of the Cross.
Feast of the Ass (disambiguation)
Matt's painting is very believable.
Was fully listening to that and just assumed it was real and gennescheli.
“I’ve never been funny before, I don’t know why I should start” au contraire, your bit from the Jack Churchill episode of Citation Needed had me in tears!
The subtitle colours match up with the tinsels in front of everyone, now that's attention to detail!
(Well except Tom because BBC subtitle guidelines specify white rather than red, but still, close enough)
I have very much enjoyed the multicolor subtitles as of late. Very nice.
@@StrokeMahEgo yup caption plus are excellent
Oh, it didn't occur to me that that was for specific guidelines! Why is that the case? Are red subtitles, like, exclusively for some sort of emergency/important use or something?
@@LeopardMask12 I would assume it's because red on a black background would be hard to read for the vision impaired.
@@anttibjorklund1869 Ahhh, that does make sense. I even had a similar problem recently trying to read a promotional thing in my school's colors (maroon and black).
I'm surprised Tom's superior Finland knowledge hasn't equated him with reindeer drawn sleighs. I've been in one - when on holiday up near the arctic circle in the very north of Finland. I went to pet one and instead it had a very good go at eating one of my glove (while I was wearing it) and even after multiple attempts the reindeer spit never came off - they should use it as superglue.
i think he's just wildly overestimating his own finland knowledge
I wonder if it was more of Tom forgetting that reindeer are classified as deer. Big, powerful creatures perfectly capable of pulling sleighs, where the does have antlers and don't shed them in the winter, might not seem very similar to the skittish, spindly-legged deer found further south where only the bucks have antlers. Especially since most artwork of Santa's sleigh shows it being pulled by a team of whitetail bucks.
Ironically, Matt was correct when he said "Alpine Slovenia" as the Julian Alps meet with 3 other geographic regions of Europe within Slovene borders.
Matt's "Hauling ass" pun is absolutely top tier
This has that friends who haven't been together for a long time finally getting to enjoy each other's company vibe. I love it.
"Don't give away the magic!"
Impossible, the magic was inside us all along. Or, two of us, at least.
Oh I missed this! The episodes always fly by with laughter. Just a group of friends taking the piss out of each other lightheartedly. Probably one of the most entertaining shows I've watched, so glad it's back!
God I needed this, rewatching your old episodes kept me sane in quarantine
Right!?
Seriously!
Same
I was so confused, because I've been rewatching this for 3 weeks again now, and then a new one pops up, even though Tom announced it!
@@dragyduck brains are weird, coincidences weirder. Enjoy your ride on Experience Earth™️
"isn't that what someone who wanted to make you think it would me would do?" has such a lovely rhythm to it 9:35
Fun fact: "confetti" in italian is a kind of sweets that are usually handed out at christenings, marriages, and other personal religious stuff (not funarals though). The bits of paper thrown around are called "coriandoli". The word "coriandolo" is both the singular for coriandoli and the name of a spice.
Would "confetto" have the same root, if not be the root, for "confection", which is another term for sweets?
@@Juli414 i honestly have no idea
@@Juli414
Correct. It’s also got the same etymology as “comfit”.
I've really missed this, just the friendly banter between people who know each other so well and the perfect humour. Just *chef's kiss*
YES! I really hope this is returning, and staying for a good while
Edit: the new channel has 2k already
Tom announced one more for New Years and then they're dropping the format, sadly. But you have one to look forward to swiftly!
The channel had a few subscribers already because Tom revealed it in his email newsletter two weeks ago
It's over 20k now.
How we have missed the full Technical Difficulties and all of their odd British humor glory! Tis a wonderful Novemb...Christmas miracle!
Isolating with COVID on Christmas Eve, this could not have come at a better time...
I wish you a speedy recovery and recommend rebinge~ing citation needed. Merry Christmas
Hope you’ll feel better soon and don’t get to many or too bad lingering aftereffects.
Same here, hope you recover soon! Mine is now down to common cold level.
Get well soon!
Tom Scott doing a Kermit impression is exactly what I needed this holiday season. Merry Christmas, TechDif!
Timestamp, now
A new technical difficulties episode? It's a Christmas miracle!
I cannot overstate how INCREDIBLY EXCITED my household got when we saw this. Whooping with laughter, my gosh! Cheers, lads!
Please tell me that the rest of the team (besides Gary) has read up on the Catalan Christmas tradition of the Caga Tió (crap log) or Tió de Nadal (Christmas Log) as well as the infamous Catalan specific nativity scene piece of El Caganer ("the pooper" or pooping figurine).
I choose to believe that Chris got a not-Tom’s-audience-friendly wrist tattoo
This is the best christmas gift i could’ve asked for other than rent money.
The closed captioning is amazingly done! The different colors for the speakers is an amazing touch.
Love the fact that the colour-coded captions (apart from tom who got white) are the same colour as the tinsel in front of them, lovely little touch
Yeah red on black would be a little straining to read. Props to whoever did the subtitles.
Hooray, I'm so happy to see the team playing one of the most epic games on the internet.
I've started playing this and citation needed with my friends during lockdown and they love it.
the chemistry is always there even in an empty room, always a pleasure to watch, merry Christmas Matt and Tom
I really missed this a lot. Watching old Techdif episodes has quite literally kept me sane during these last two years of not being able to see my friends regularly. Thank you, and I hope that being Techdif is still fun for y'all for quite a while!
How delightful for TOTPAL to return right after I rewatch the lot of then. And for Christmas and all. This is gonna be good
Wait, you only rewatched them once?!
One of many rewatches
@@disgruntledwelsh3817 There we go!
One of the most wholesome parts of this is Tom ensures that the TH-cam description cites the license for the Badalisc photo Gary showed on his phone.
The statement of "Longest railway tunnel in Romania built in the 1960s by the soviets" automatically caught me off guard since Romania was ruled by a man who was not pro or strongly anti-soviet and was better aligned with the Chinese CCP...
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering if Tom would bring up Ceausescu.
maybe it's because i'm romanian but all of the details given hit me as red (haha communist red) flags
• name that doesn't follow romanian convention
• tunnel that is named after one point of it
• obviously 'built by the soviets'
• costly vanity project in a country that *did* have vanity projects but was also looking to throw their limited budget at ones they perceive as efficient, like the metro or total railway kms
• long tunnels through mountains for diesel trains are a dangerous thing because trains break down; we love to bash on dictatorships but you ideally don't want to create such problems for the future
these are not the most immediate tells, there's also the lack of details and chris's attitude, but just by looking at the details i feel like his story could be easily ruled out
@@aiocafea as someone from the actual former Soviet Union - exact same points, except the "named after one point of it" (I can see that happening), and also "death rate" in 1960's, especially for a "vanity project".
19:10 Once again, Tom makes an incorrect statement involving the Sami people.
They have used and sometimes still use reindeer to pull “sleighs”.
(In modern times, snowmobiling has become more common)
(To my knowledge as a Norwegian person)
Yup. My favourite book as a child mentioned that the main character’s uncle was one of the few who still tamed driving reindeer regularly because he didn’t like the noise and maintenance of snowmobiles.
Ever since I stumbled across Tom's channel in March last year, I've played the various Tech Dif media on a pretty much constant loop. Y'all honestly inspired me to get back into Twitch streaming with some folks I know. I am so happy that there's finally new content I can enjoy along with everyone else. Have a great 2022, all of you.
15:07 In fairness, plenty of Western engineering projects have death tolls like that too.
Unrelated to the main content of the show, I noticed and appreciate the fact that if you turn on captions, the text is colored depending on speaker. Thanks for the accessibility boost lads!
The colour also matches the tinsel on their mics (with the exception of Tom)
Greetings from Norway! just gotta say, this is the best this that could've happened right before christmas dinner, thank you so much
17:10 - what Gary is referring to is called the Tió de Nadal. It's a Christmas tradition in Catalonia - northeastern Spain.
Oh good lord, I finally cracked at Hauling Ass and laughed out loud. I have so missed you guys together doing this, making me laugh whilst you're all having a laugh.
heh, "cracked"
Thank you, everyone.
Thank you for making this possible.
"We are playing to of these People are lying, because to will be" the best present I could have asked for
I just want to thank you guys. I've rewatched every Tech Dif episode like 16 times at this point and I've really been hyped for this, and it couldn't have come on a better day.
I spent the last week with my girlfriend after spending over 2 years apart because of Covid. Tomorrow morning, she's off to the airport to fly back to Malaysia. I won't see her for another 6 months or so. I cried so much today, and yet the sight of this video in my sub box put a great big smile on my face. That smile turned into laughter the moment I heard the words "The Feast of the Ass".
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you Tom, thank you Chris, thank you Gary, and thank you Matt. You've brought so much joy into my life and have really made the last two years more bearable. Can't wait to see what you've got on store for the new channel.
There’s nothing better than a good laugh after you’ve cried.
I discovered TecDif in the period between the last episode and now, and have watched probably every episode of Citation Needed and Two of these people about 5 times over. So happy to see you guys back!
A note about the feast of the ass: Part of the whole "jiggery-pokery" with priest's impressions involved explicit anti-semitic liturgy and practices. Not sure if Gary knew that and wanted to skip over it for the purposes of creating fun content, or didn't know it, but either way, I kinda think it's an important thing to note.
Anti semitic or anti jewish? Because those shouldn't be the same thing. Isaac and Ishmael are brothers so Islam is as Semitic as Judaism. If it's anti jewish, both Christianity and Islam are anti semitic by their nature, in the same way that both Christianity and Judaism are fundamentally anti Islam
@@zyaicob "Antisemitism" was coined as a euphemism by German eugenicists in the 19th century to make anti-Jewish prejudice sound more scientific. Know your history.
@zyaicob Antisemetic refers to hostility towards, prejudice towards and discrimination against Jewish people, and comes from 1870's German (Antisemitismus) as a more scientific sounding term for Judenhauss (Jew-hate).
The root word Semite does include Arabs, Assyrians, and Arameans. Jewish is both a description of an ethnic group(s) and a religion, while Islam/Muslim is only a religion and doesn't refer to an ethnic group.
@@zyaicobDon't be pedantic. Anti-Semitism refers exclusively to the hatred of Jews, and trying to negotiate your way out of that is clearly tactical.
@@willch.2259 The point being made is that it _shouldn't_ since Hebrew isn't the only Semitic language.
So glad that you guys were able to get together and record again if only briefly. Looking forward to hopefully seeing a lot more from you on the new channel in the future.
That new techdif channel makes me super happy, because it means they're planning to make more stuff. :)
a techdif video? sickest Christmas present ever
Ikr
It is really hard to put into words how much I need more of this series
Love the color-coded captions! Very nice touch.
Caught COVID 3 days before xmas and this is exactly what I needed to get through the holidays in quarantine. So great to have new Matt and Tom content!
Gary’s line about the tractor company is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard!
I love that you matched the closed captions colour to the colour of the tinsel on each person’s microphone!
I've been going back over old Citation Needed episodes lately, and this was the perfect gift to hit my subscription page today!
the dead silence after gary talks at 16:58 is killing me
The best section of any TH-cam video ever
3:41 I KNEW that would headed toward syphilis! I guess that kind of sense of humor is something I share with Gary (just like syphilis)
21:47 a bit of an old gag but, that's getting GIF'ed
If I’m being honest, this has always been funnier than Citation Needed. But yeah, this is just what I needed this Christmas after binging about half of Citation Needed
It took me a minute to realize that this was in fact a new episode. I thought somehow there was one that I had forgotten about, even though I've watched all of them multiple times. Super exciting to see you guys back in action. Now all I need is some Matt and Tom on a park bench, and my dreams will be fully realized.
Dear Matt, can we get an impulse response of the room? Sounds rather lovely. Sincerely, an audio engineer
I've missed you guys so much! Also I appreciate the coloured soobtitlays!
As a gearhead, the Goodwood Feast of Speed made me laugh very much.
Happy Christmas Matt, Tom, Gary and Chris!
I've listened to that part multiple times 🤣
@@smokingspitfire1197 Same
nice to have a new show to watch after rewatching everything else about one hundred times🤣
Yes, the log that shits presents, we do that in Catalonia! Always a pleasure to see foreigners unable to believe we do that hahha
"Two of These People are Lying" is quickly becoming the best British entertainment export since Doctor Who went downhill
They weren't even making the show in the 60's, so that's impressive
Have you seen Taskmaster?
Lmao, i only liked Eccleston( best imo) and Capaldi, mayybe Tennant? Other than that, nope .
Doctor Who's been going downhill ever since it stopped being a medical drama
Oh my god I'm so glad to see this back, even if only for one episode.
Happy to see you all back again
The reindeer DO very much draw sleighs!
The Sami people of Lapland used reindeer for that - now it's snowmobiles mostly, but it's still done for sports. For tourists they have brought huskys etc. for sleigh dogs there too nowadays.
This is the best Christmas present I could've possibly imagined
I missed this.
But also, I love how the wheel, out of use, seemed like it was gonna stop on Sri Lanka but just edged over onto Italy!
Happy to see more of this series!
I just binched the playlist "Everything the technical difficulties have ever done". I am so delighted to see that they are active again and will presumably continue to produce quality content "in HD" :))
Have you listened to the podcast as well? It’s timeless and hilarious.
@@ragnkja of course I have, though not as often as I have seen their videos
i really want more of this, even if its over the internet via zoom or similar! its too good to die!
I sooo glad for this. its been almost 2 years since the last technical difficulties video
This was the Christmas Special I didn't know I needed until I saw it recommended! Thank you guys so much for the new episode!
Singular form of confetti is confetto. Accidentally right.
Welcome back, Tech Diffs! I'm definitely subbing to the new channel, and I look forward to the one annual video upload there 😁
Damn, I really wanted Matt's "Feast of the Ass" painting to be real! It sounds like a very cool perspective on something we've all seen so many times that it's boring. Were I an artist, I would make this real!
Also, I knew about the badelisc because of "Um, Actually", so thank you to Mike Trapp and the College Humor crew for edumacating me and useless festivity trivia 😁
That was wonderful. I'd love to see more of you guys in the future.