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- I went to a place called Coober Pedy to tell a story about water. • Sponsored by Audible: Go to audible.com/trustme or text ‘trustme’ to 500 500 to get started today.
CORRECTIONS: www.tomscott.com/corrections/
Thanks to everyone in Coober Pedy; I had a wonderful time there. I'm sorry this isn't the video you all hoped for!
Sources for this video:
Smerdon, B.; Ransley, T.; Radke, B.; Kellett, J. (2012) Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. Australia: CSIRO. doi.org/10.4225/08/584c45a39e1b5
Martin, P. (2019). Opal capital Coober Pedy 'on knife-edge' as desert town faces water problem. Retrieved from www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-0...
Coober Pedy weather: www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/201...
Great Artesian Basin boundaries: Great Artesian Basin boundary: data.gov.au/data/dataset/241d...
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., (c) Commonwealth of Australia (Bioregional Assessment Programme www.bioregionalassessments.gov.au), (c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2013
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Thanks to everyone in Coober Pedy; I had a wonderful time there. I'm sorry this isn't the video you hoped for!
I do trust you though!
I dont
This. The bloody days! That’s why I don’t trust you :0
I dont trust you, and I love you
If I can't trust , I guess . .
I'll just unsubscribe
"Why you can't trust me" says Tom Scott, in a brilliant piece of (intentional or unintentional) reverse psychology that will inevitably make us trust him more.
Exactly.
It was all a ploy to trust him even more and It's too late, I trust him as well
dang.
i waited for this comment
Mashallah tbark Allah alhamudillah inshallah better astgfrallah
I can just imagine Tom in his bed at 2am not being able to sleep because of this
he's such a nerd :3
@@mbt66 chill out dude
I am the 1k like.
I can imagine Tom in my bed
@@T65432 No.
Tom scott: why you cant trust me
Me who just watched a video of his called “i promise this story about the microwave is interesting” and had full faith in the title and still clicked:
To be fair that video is heckin’ interesting.
That video helped me in a history lesson
Bro same I just watched that!
dang same here I guess that TH-cam algorithm is working as intended.
it was interesting i will say
"I'm not a journalist, I have never had training in determining the truth when it's murky"
You have more credibility by reporting there were conflicts of opinion than 95% of journalism today that interview the side they want to portray and then assert the most outrage inducing opinion they state as fact to get clicks - for ads.
It's almost like money is supposed to be a tool, not a goal...
Fr
THIS
@@temptemp217 that's how it _should_ be :(
@@temptemp217 ofc its tool tool of control
It's genuinely touching how stressed you were about this.
twobyfour 696 likes
Nice
😏
@@scarlety9109 haha sex number youre so funny and quirky hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
A Creative Username your sarcasm needs work. Also the number is 69, 64 is a rule of the Internet in which we switch sex.
@@wizardx5138 did- did you not read the comment?? "twobyfour 696 likes
Nice" I never mentioned the number 64..? also if the point was conveyed...
@@wizardx5138 yo wat the 64 is in his username its blue see 😂
But Tom, I already emailed you my SSN, bank info, full name, personal information, and my passport! Now you’re telling me I can’t trust you?
Lmao
@Jeremy Braun ... 🤦♂️
✨ i d e n t i t y t h e f t ✨
but why did you send it? (im dumb sorry)
@@nplpo726 it's a joke
Him admitting that I shouldn’t trust him, just makes me trust him all the more.
Nice pfp
Integrity, transparency, and honesty... the fact that you are so committed to educating your viewers about the potential for error in your own work and warning people about the risk of trusting you implicitly MAKES you worthy of trust. You've spelled out your policy, methods, and biases more clearly here than most major news organizations ever take the time to do. Well, done and thank you. I'll never understand why people and organizations have such a difficult time understanding that the ability to admit to and correct mistakes does not damage credibility. It inspires confidence.
You can trust a guy who passed out on a centrifuge just to show you how an average person will react to 4 or 5 Gs.
I though you were talking about radio waves
Then i remembered that vid 🤣
I just watched that vid yesterday! 😂😂🤣🤣
oh
Anyone know what video that was from?
My life is a lie
Imagine if politicians talked like this.
They would get nowhere, hence why it doesn’t happen
Sadly, i have wasted all your tax money on my brand new Mansion.
It will never happen.
@@lowercase_ash Hahaha trippy.
It would risk their career and even, their live. Politic is dangerous and complicated profession.
Don’t know if I can trust you on that one, Tom.
Only 11 likes?
@@dryer1901 Strange...
@@LemmyKoopa18 is it?
@@amoththatthinks depends
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I feel bad how Tom is always a big ball of stress and anxiety about his work. Maybe he works too hard? Well, if you’re reading this Tom, don’t forget to give yourself time to breathe. Cheers, appreciate everything ya do!
This aged well.
Your honesty is admirable so you could never be a politician.
He'd never sell a single used car.
Someone hasn't heard the story of Mad Captain Tom.
@0 0 *no
Maybe a Mayor that has no political power at all!
Or a journalist.
This sounds like an insane RPG quest where you find out the town conspiracy
It smacks of Shadow of Innsmouth levels of "more than meets the eye". There are many fascinating and weird layers to peel back and it wouldn't at all be a stretch to make a story that water supply is short to support the deep underground population of fish people or somesuch.
brb, gonna make this with rpg maker
@@AlphaCore_ tell us when you're done ;)
@@Fenriswaffle ITS RANGO 2 !
@@AlphaCore_ REALLY hope you're not joking
"why you cant trust me"
*video preview shows grave-sized hole in the middle of the desert"
What a brilliant show of self-accountability. Any source which admits they aren't the ultimate, all knowing source of knowledge is a good source to return to.
imagine Tom Scott on a date
Tom:"You should not trust me, i'm not reliable"
Date:" How come? you're a cheater? a player?"
Tom:" I don't always provide citation and don't look at the politics sometime"
"My DNA doesn't comply with morality"
"I wouldve preferred if you were a cheater..."
I don't trust anyone. Perhaps trust happens only when transactions take place. Or I'd have to say, when things involve a give and take of some sort. Fair play.
nevermind
"I love you citation the electrical impulses from my brain the dopamins blah blah blah"
"Dont trust me"
Should i trust you and therefore not trust you, or should i not trust you and therefore trust you?
This is known as the Scott's Dilema
Yes
indeed
Quite
I agree
Affirmative
The fact that you made a TH-cam and a website connection about every mistake you've ever made shows how much we can trust you. It takes a lot of humility, and therefore gives a lot of respect, to be able to admit your mistakes
Now, here’s how being trustworthy works, as far as I’m aware. When you make a statement, and it’s wrong, by admitting it is wrong, it shows you care about being truthful to the best of your ability, making you more reliable of a source
“If anyone on the internet says you can trust them, they’re probably selling something... which reminds me, this video is sponsored by Audible” - great segue!
Best segue to sponsorship ever, metajoking about it
Rajath Pai plus it’s a princess bride reference
So that's how its spelled, you have saved me future embarrassment my friend
@@wolbobus2130 copy that! Linus Tech Tips uses the term constantly and while I deduced what it meant, it being a tech channel I actually thought they used "Segway" metaphorically 🙈😂😅 (EFL speaker)
Started reading this comment exactly when Tom started saying it. Nice
haha jokes on you tom, admitting mistakes increases your credibility
Facts
@@AK-mt2zw that is correct, rufus
@@AK-mt2zw Your statement is valid, Rufus.
@@AK-mt2zw Your statement is not incorrect, Rufus.
Rufus
"Why you can't trust me"
I don't need 10 minutes of explaining, you're too handsome to trust.
This town is more interesting than I would ever imagine.
Yes Tom how can we trust you when most of us can't even guess your age
quite indubitably 🤔
😜😁😂
Hes 36
@@Termodramatisch But how do we know we can trust you???
@@majaaina Use your search engine.
@@Termodramatisch It was a joke...
“Which reminds me this is sponsored by audible” literally iconic
fr!
I actually audibly laughed while riding the bus when I heard this
@@ZiemPawel *no pun intended*
Linus would be proud.
I respect you much more for 2 reasons: You are willing to admit your mistakes and attempt to make right what you may have done wrong, and 2, you made such a smooth transition into your sponsored bit that I wasn't mad about an Audible ad.
Tom is the type of journalist that we actually need, not someone who search for blood and conflict, but someone who seeks answers and makes an effort to inform his audience when he's wrong.
For me, this mainly shows how important “in person” investigation is.
Truly; weird how nobody commented
I read about a book about my own city written by a long term resident and I disagreed with some of the information written about it. That was around the point where I realized how important it is.
@@juliusroman8616 your particular example also prove the importance of multiple point of view!
Yes!
Or people could right and you could be right as well, just depends on your perspective and who you speak to.
"I'm sorry, babe, I didn't correctly put in my citations."
"Why couldn't you have just cheated instead?!"
You have a double space between your you and have.
I also have made a mistake.
I also made a mistake
@@robhiggins7823 Thank you for correcting me.
I was also a mistake
This is the greatest piece of content I’ve ever watched. It’s like seeing the way my brain formulates things put out in front of me in a consumable form. Subbed!!
That has got to be the best ad anyone has ever delivered
"If anyone on the internet says you can trust them, they're, probably selling something."
Cut to sponsor.
That was brilliant.
Sponsor code is "TRUST ME" 😂😂😂
Unintended pun with the last sentence?
No, it was Audible.
@@GreenZapperZ I wanted to comment that :(
Tom Scott : "I'm not the Messiah!"
Everyone : "He's the Messiah!"
He's a very naughty boy!
The Shadowgunner emperor of mankind be like
FOLLOW THE GOURD, TOMS GOURD
EVERYONE!!! .... let us PRAY
He's not a messiah. He's just another fallible human being.
A comment about a messiah that has 666 likes. Sweet!
When you're a kid and you think that every adult knows exactly what's going on, but then you grow up and realize that nobody knows what they're doing.
So true !
"Trust nothing you see on the intranet" - Abraham Washington Adams, 1776
Trust me when I say you shouldn’t trust me
Wait what?
*gives him all my personal data*
“Wait, what?”
Bank account is drained in 2 seconds and I’m now wanted for multiple accounts of identity theft
ＤＯＥＳ ＮＯＴ ＣＯＭＰＵＴＥ
Rewind time
paradox kitties !!
*ERROR 404*
“Trust but verify” is what I think you’re trying to say Tom
'And Americans think they came up with that one."
@@nob2243 Ronald Regan while negotiating with Gorbachev
Trust in god but always tie up your camel.
noob2243 it was the Russians
@@nob2243 is that a foreigner I smell?
Kudos to you sir! Many TH-camrs would just 'go with it as is' and you can't totally fault them due to time and investment.. but being accountable to both your fanbase AND the people you are documenting.. it's a lasting strategy. Reputation means alot, word gets around. You know, besides it just being the proper thing to do.. 🙂
You are probably one of the most honest person I've seen. Thank You.
toms next video
‘The interesting murder I committed’
@darklordster Yellowstone Park, Idaho
Amazing Places: "This is HM Prison Belmarsh" --
Charlie “the murder everyone has committed”
Back in 1999
"I'm not a robot"
"Why you can't trust me"
ok tom
If Tom is the spokesperson of our soon-to-be robot overlords, I'm fairly ok with that. I mean, just look at some of the world leaders we currently have, can't be worse right? ;P
Is it a profound statement about how robots are actually *more* trustworthy than humans?
@@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 you learned nothing from this video
ok tomputer
mad sus
My friend, so far, I know your honest that's what really matters. I love your stuff.
This is my favourite tom Scott video. Its so interestingly edited and done
Proof that Tom Scott doesn't record his videos in a single take.
*not all
Unless you see him celebrating that it was done in one take at the end of the video 😁
The Dasani video says otherwise
i wanna believe this is a joke cuz i laughed hard
@@sourcererseven3858 "wait did i go the right way there"
Tom, tom. You must always remember the golden words of journalism: "Can you clarify this/something for me?"
If you say "Well this says you're wrong", that's confrontational. If you say "Can you clarify this, because this says something different", you sound like you're actually asking the person to correct it.
Journalists often report opinion not facts, they're not qualified to determine fact but just report the fact that someone said X.
Frankly anyone knowledgeable who's been close to a reported story, tends to be disappointed in how inaccurate reports are.
@@RobBCactive
No, that's false.
Same thing when you work in tech support, you dont ask ”have you connected the power cable?”, you ask ”what happens when you connect the power cable?”.
@@RobBCactive Persons knowledgeable are not the intended audience of a news report. Yes, news articles may have errors, that's a given considering the writers are human and more often than not the facts are not as clear cut as one might believe. However, simplifications have to happen for the intended audience to even grasp the basic concepts of thw topic.
Sure I could let a cryptographer write about password security in a newspaper, but how many would understand it?
@@IkeOkerekeNews no it isn't
Earlier this year, I went on a road trip around Australia with my family. We visited Coober Pedy; and I remembering buying opal earrings and necklace and the heavenly loaded fries from the petrol station. If you ever consider coming over to Australia, absolutely do it! You will not regret it.
I recently discovered your channel and really love your delivery. This video just makes me like your stuff more. Love the honesty. Thanks
All of us: Tom Scott's videos are great. Keep 'em comin!
Tom Scott: I am so sorry I disappointed you. I will try harder.
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While this made me laugh, I am getting quite sick of this meme-format... As such I am feeling very conflicted now.
@@feha92 good for you. I guess.
That's a significant part of why we like him.
feha92 It's just a joke format, not tied to the “No one:” meme
Tom: "Don't trust me"
Everyone: *Trusts him even more*
Tom: "Am i a joke to you?"
XD
Kye excellent
XD
eks de
It's a well known bit of confidence lore that one of the best ways to get people to trust you more is to explain why they shouldn't trust you.
Thanks for your honesty.
love your transparency
the title sounds like he’s... breaking up with us
217 likes, and no replies? Here, take this.
and this
and this
and this
and this
I love it when people can actually admit when they don't know something. An "I don't know" is thousands of times better than a wrong answer.
Same
A concept my former boss never understood
except when you're in an exam, it's better to give the question a try
@@1Slamalama1 what times?
@@Swagmittens Not always. In exams with penalisations for wrong answers, no answer is better.
Thank you! THANK YOU! You're real honesty is very much appreciated and the point very well taken!
Love you Tom. Your work is so interesting.
0:05 "This video is going to be a little different to normal."
Tom, none of your videos are normal, they are all so different and interesting and that is phenomenal.
I one hundred percent agree.
Fact
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But isn’t it normal in the fact that it isn’t normal?
yes
Correction: you've made an error in the title, this video displays exactly why we can trust you.
Then we can't trust him
@@desp8161 Dammit!
It's an exercise in reverse psychology ... ;)
This is to control your mind
Literally one of the best channels out there
I thought it was gonna claim all of his single-take videos were multiple takes that were expertly put together
BBC News: "Why you can trust us."
Tom Scott: "Why you can't trust me."
Kurzgesagt: Can you trust us?
Richard Nixon: “Why you can’t trust me.”
@@anawesomepet Does trust actually exist?
@@thepixelkings3491 Trust - in a nutshell
TH-cam political pundits: Don't trust us, but DEFINITELY don't trust them!
Welcome to Australia.
We have No Idea where anything comes from, also our government is a mess.
I completely agree our government is a mess.
How do you lose a prime minster
@@averagejoepro5347 Subs are sneaky things
@@averagejoepro5347 let him go swimming
agreeable
You are so awesome. To show you can do so much research and still not know everything when you get there. You are amazing. Thank you for encouraging me to keep learning!
I really respect your attention to facts and credibility of your sources of information, and willingness to admit when you may have got something wrong, or like in this case, where the facts are conflicting. Too few of us as a society are willing to do that. Keep up the great work.
Tom, I never regarded these videos as 'the absolute truth'. No one in their right mind really expects them to be. What we all trust is that you are going to do your best to present things as true and factual as you have found them.
Thank you for the hard work and the interesting stories and places you share with us.
I can't agree more
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It's just how things work. Everyone can be wrong, everyone can lie. Everyone does. I've never been a huge "GASP, YOU LIED TO ME" person. After all, the world's full of balance, and you can't have a surprise party without a lie. So, point of this comment. Nothing is right, nothing is wrong, just let things sit on that gray line, even science changes periodically, even though "the science" doesn't. We're human, don't expect yourself to know the whole story.
Yup 100% agree. I expect you to do your best at representing the truth as you know it Tom. I know ofcourse its possible some bits are wrong- I can always research more myself if I think there is a need to know in more detail. What I trust 100% is that you would never deliberately lie or make stuff up.
It's the same for even well respected long running shows on bbc or somewhere- they are trusting to their experts and trying to fact check them as best they can, and not present as fact if something is up in the air etc- but they still make mistakes too. They just try to make as few as they can.
I mean we can only ever get close to the truth, we can't ever know absolute truth or at least know for certain that we know the absolute truth because we experience things through our sense perception and our senses aren't 100% accurate nor is our memories nor is how we think about things unfiltered by things like logical fallacies - in other words we can get close enough to truth but we most likely will never be able to know 100% objective truth because we're limited beings.
"Anybody claiming you can trust them on the internet is probably trying to sell you something. You can't trust me. Now here's a thing you should buy--" Smooth moves.
right? same thoughts lmfao
I subscribed because I liked your honesty and that last honk sealed it!
Very good point and lesson taken from the video. Cheers Tom and Crew!
Me: *scrolling TH-cam*
Tom: “Why You Can’t Trust Me*
Me: “Golly gee, I wonder what this is all about”
Tom: *standing behind me, breathing heavy, slowly raising the revolver to the back of my head*
"Peace was never an option"
_truth is, the game was rigged from the start_
“I am no longer asking”
I have summoned our Lord and savior, Todd Howard
@@thenumberfour6455 lazy purple reference?
The twist: Coober Pedy isn't a real place and this whole video is an elaborate April fools joke posted exactly three months late.
@@bruno_kunda but can we trust you?
I’ve also been there
@@VictorianTransportSpotter But can we trust you as well?
@@EduardoEscarez I don't trust us Australians either. The truth is out there.
How could there be an australia?It is upside down and would have fallen of years ago? (Please dont punch me for my taste in humor) XD
This is why i like you and your stories
I respect you alot for genuinely caring about the validity of the information you put into your videos its not something everybody does especially on the internet
Nice try Tom. Heres my SSN, bank account and all passwords
Where?
Relda Here: XXXX XXXX XXXX oh wait I forgot TH-cam detects this stuff and automatically censors it :(
*Shrek* 4829 6282 0182
No it doesn’t
@@jas2800 i hope thats not a real credit number
Tom: This summer they broke their record 118 degrees
Also Tom wearing a jacket
The video is called "why you can't trust me"
It’s the morning and it get gets to just above 0°C
if the temperature is above 36Cº. wearing a lot of clothes would actually help
Jackets dont just keep you warm, they protect you from the heat too. Why do you think people who live in the desert wear lots of layers
this video was uploaded in july which means that is was winter in australia at the time of filming
Bravo for your integrity.
It’s crazy how refreshing honesty and the acceptance of mistakes can be.
How the HELL did you make quoting citations into a riveting story? You have a gift. New subscriber.
Ok
@@Ine04 ok
I gave you your 500th like, congrats 👏 🥳
@@Ine04 ok buddy.
@@Ine04 k
This reminds me of the best graffiti I've ever seen, I think it was in Shoreditch.
In big bold letters someone had written "Question everything". Below it, in clearly different handwriting, was a response - "Why?"
I wish now I'd taken a photo of it, but you'll just have to, err, trust me.
Chris McKenna I've seen a picture of that exact graffiti somewhere on the internet. If it's worth anything, I can "confirm" the story is real.
@@chielwouterscw but why should we trust you? ;)
Omg that's amazing.
Trust me when i say i don't trust any of you... or do i?
Can I even trust myself ?
this is fantastic thank you tom
This was really well done.
That “et al” person must be a super genius alien that never sleeps considering how many scientific papers they’re cited in...
Actually his name is just Al, the 'et' just means 'and'. Nice guy, very knowledgeable - I think it's short for 'Alex' but I have no citation
@@josephbrennan9712 Almost as prolific as Reg Design
are they friends with feat? the singer? hes always collabing with a lot of singers
@@josephbrennan9712 Not to worry, you yourself are now a citation in a paper I'm writing about Al - "short for Alex (Brennan, 2021)"
I recently heard their music alias is "various artists"
Not gonna lie, I'm Australian, have actually stayed in one of the underground hotels showed in the video, still have opals I found there when I was a kid, and until watching this video, fully believed the town was called Cooper Pedy, not Coober
Same, I’m Australian and I’ve stayed at one of the hotels in the video. I broke the white pole in the background at 0:43
I'm here rn and well it's not as it was advertised
I only found out it was coober a few years ago. And im Australian...
Tom is just learning Australians don't give straight answers because most of the time we don't even know ourselves
Wait what, it's not Cooper Pedy? Now that's a red flag for trust at face value if I ever heard one. Can't even trust reality now
This is a good lesson in journalism.
And now we trust you even more. Well done, Tom. Sending love from South Africa 🇿🇦
It’s like that Neil Degrasse Tyson quote from his Masterclass Ad that I keep seeing pop up everywhere: “the problem is knowing enough about a subject to think you are right, but not knowing enough about a subject to know you are wrong”
Ok
@@Ine04 TRUEEEEE
"No one should trust a single source" ... now there is a statement you can trust!
Nobody should trust a single source.
There, now that statement is coming from multiple sources.
I'll say so too, just to make it all the more credible.
No-one should trust a single source. There ya go.
No one should trust a single source. We stand as one.
People should trust a single source.
Now we are in conflict.
@@theapexsurvivor9538 Wait a minute! How did this happen? We're smarter than this!
This is an amazing way to make a point. A solid point.
Admitting actual mistakes when you make them is a huge step forward in increasing credibility. Something not many people are aware of these days.
"You can't trust me, trust me on this one."
Paradox
Error. Error. Error.
Multiple systems have crashed.
Would you like restart Brain.exe?
Y / N
@@Headlock123456789 No I dont think I will
@@omaewamoushindeiru584 ...Postponed to eight hours...
No, Tom, this is why we CAN trust you. Because when you make a mistake, you post a video like this instead of just uploading the original video and hoping we don't notice.
This is one of the best lead-ins to an ad read ever
Respect Tom. Massive respect! 👍
One should always uphold a healthy level of skepticism, even with respect to sources they otherwise trust. I'd say that you're trust _worthy,_ as being honest and truthful doesn't always mean being accurate, or even correct.
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@aviato287 x Thanks captain rude.
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So, Citation Needed is back? 😎
Paul Paulson The whole time I was waiting for a “ Citation Needed” joke.
This would have been a good park bench
It has been a constant Technical Difficulties...
It makes Tom seem questionable
Wow, all those amazing punces
A similar situation is when you have to prove the absence of something. That can get tricky and convoluted.
That was one of the smartest sponsor segments I've ever seen. Hats off.
You can’t tell me what to do. I’m going to trust you implicitly now, out of spite. Take that Tom.
Can confirm complete trustworthiness, 2 out of 3 times.
4/3 tomes
Nobody's perfect. Not everybody has the balls to admit that. Well done, Tom.
Imagine the world where people could admit their mistakes. One day, I hope.
Really well edited video. So well done. Different and cool