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- Surprisingly few tangents this week, because the subject matter is astonishing enough that there's no stopping us. Apart from getting a cat stuck in an index file, of course.
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THE FULL PLAYLIST: • Citation Needed, from ...
TOM is @tomscott and at tomscott.com
GARY is @garybrannan
MATT is @unnamedculprit and at mattg.co.uk
CHRIS doesn't do this social media nonsense.
It's quite common to make army animals a higher rank than their handler, making it a military crime to mistreat them.
That's extremely cool to learn.
Aha!
so it's not a crime to mistreat subordinates???
@@NoNameAtAll2 A) It's easier to hide it, because they're your subordinates and people will listen more to you
B) You can get away with a lot things because you have to maintain order and so, but that doesn't mean you can do anything with them. If it gets too much you could get in trouble.
But it is a bad idea because your subordinates won't be loyal and that is really bad when you are in a combat situation.
ALL are
We should all send that in to Mythbusters.
"Could a rider on a fast horse safely escape the delayed explosion of an anti-personnel landmine?"
I'd love to see that one :D
Will you send it in?
+Trenchcoat1Sword Time to rein in this myth
+Trenchcoat1Sword Although, they did just do hovercrafts over mine fields.
Well not anyone
rip mythbusters
Recently found out my grandfather served with Sgt. Reckless. I was so proud
Isaac Verhelst hey my great grandfather trained him
Katie Vids her* but cool!
I'm jealous. More than I should
@@EE-sw3uh it is a horse it doesn't matter
@@gapetheapegod7976 I think it absolutely does
"Most of the horses I've seen were civilians". That's fantastic.
Most. Not all... Tinfoil hat
you're obviously not canadian.
Natalie McCarthy household cavalry, blues and royals, royal artillery regiment. All of these regiments and more have horses.
@@nataliemccarthy9140 TINFOIL CAT
"The Marines taught Reckless survival skills" isn't nearly as funny when you remember to capitalise the name.
Adam Mullarkey this comment needs more likes
That could be a garden sentence
I will admit, I was wondering where the emphasis was
But it's much funnier when imagining Marines training a horse in survival
Come to think of it, maybe Tom missed a word from the sentence, and the actual sentence was "the Marines taught Reckless reckless survival skills.
I love how, everytime there's a guy (or gal or mare, as the case may be) who's somewhat badass, these guys' imaginations run wild and make them ten times greater.
The problem is: my imagination from the topic mixes reality and their imagination
Exactly. I was talking to my friends about Jack Churchill and I almost told them the story of him getting arrested, beating all the guards at poker and so many other things Chris imagined on chapter 6x01
Jack Churchill, Julie D’aubigny, Sergeant Reckless
@@TheHorseOutside And Juan Pujol García, for good measure
Except for Jack Churchill, in which case their imaginations were only able to conjure something about a tenth as badass as the real thing
I know this is old, but right around 15:45 Gary mentions the lift doors opening. I lived in a college town and they had a gaming and anime con. I brought my daughter that was probably 2 1/2 years old. She decided that she wanted to wear her bear outfit. If ever there was a place you could get away with it, that was the place. At one point we came up the elevator in front of the information desk at the commons. I was in the corner of the elevator, and she was right in front of the door. The look on the face of the people working at the desk as the doors open and all they saw was a little person in a bear outfit... priceless.
Joe Tennies to be fair, that sounds more adorable than terrifying
So what's this or was this not cosplay from Cowboy Bebop? Sounded wonderful though.
I now want to make a steampunk outfit and carry a cat around. "Terry Google of the Wiltshire Googles how may I be of service?"
"Episode 50's just going to be us going, 'Heh heh, cocks'" - Tom, from Episode 24 of the podcast. Turns out civility held out longer than expected... Happy 50th episode!
bobidou23
Good thing Reckless wasn’t a stallion
@@AgentTasmania Or a chicken.
finally I'm not the only one who's listened to the podcast
1:15 My privates are out-ranked by horses as well. I'll admit it. :P
Clever boy this comment needs more likes 😂
classic
Most people's are
Damn. I was hoping he was going to say she had 51 confirmed kills in a single day.
That'd have been epic :)
Cause of death: Trampled by Sergeant Reckless.
Would this imply that the USA let female horses serve in the military before female humans?
To be fair, that's true of most militaries.
@@chillinlikeaphilin ah but most militaries didn't give them full honours
even honouring a hard working horse can be given a negative spin by these nutters
Goes back as far as the distinction of light and heavy cavalry. Light generally favoured mares as being faster, heavy favoured stallions for being stronger and fightier.
Thre were female humans in the US Marines in World War II.
A bit late to the game here, but I just wanted to say how appropriate it is that the prize of a still-needs-to-be-caught pigeon went to the ornithologist.
All my Horses scratch their itchy ears with a foot and maintain standing while doing so, so a Horse could technically salute
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But not vomit on the trip back to the USA. They got that bit wrong.
@@mojosbigsticks That is actually quite serious because as I understand it horses that get seasick can die. Also, the salute is done with a back leg, not a front leg (arm).
they could do the nazi ones easier
Also, I don't know about the US army but in the Australian army saluting a sergeant is a really good way to have a really bad day.
15:16 you can hear Matt struggle to find the word carousel and not say horse tornado.
Poor Reckless, gets promoted to Staff Sergeant (E6) and almost everything referring to her including her biography get her rank wrong. You'd think the Commandant of the Marine Corps hanging a rocker on you with your Purple Heart would make it official enough for people to remember it.
For anyone interested, Boston Dynamics isn’t owned by Google anymore, it’s currently owned by Hyundai Motor Company
How do you zip line en masse to the poop deck? The poop deck is at the very rear of a ship and thus is usually higher than the main deck. You would have to zip line from somewhere up one of the masts and you normally don't get many people climbing the same bit of rigging all at once.
Also, imagine Jack Churchill atop this horse. They'd be unstoppable.
Jack and this horse in ww2 would have killed every Nazi they could find
YES! GO JACK AND THE HORSE!!! Btw obviously the zip line would be rocket powered!
I'm trying to think of a way Julie D'Aubigny could fit into this...can two swordspeople ride a horse at once?
Yep
I say they come from the top of the funnel. They do have ladders one them.
I’ve been re-watching every episode of the Technical Difficulties on TH-cam, I genuinely think this one is my favorite Citation Needed. Absolutely hilarious story, Gary’s impressions of the war-torn horse were brilliant, the visual concept Chris came up with of Reckless just running along a minefield was brilliant. Top tier
A horse in a ballgown with medals in a lift is among the funniest mental images I've ever had
I love the amount of time they spent discussing and rationalising glass for a horse!
"Formation skydiving" nearly made me spit my drink out.
Also Anti-Tank mines are more blast-based, whereas Anti-Personnel mines are more shrapnel heavy.
As an optician apprentice I feel obligated to comment - nowadays mineral glass (Silicat glass) or what we actually call “glass” in day-to-day life is rarely used for spectacles. Almost all of the time the lenses are made of plastic of sort (like polycarbonate) which can have a higher, or at least the same refractive index as silicat glass meanwhile being much lighter and less prone to break. It does scratch more easily, so it requires protective coating, however it does not affect the weight of the spectacles whatsoever.
Although it is quite individual and sometimes it can be beneficial to use flint glass, but again - rarely. About 90-95% of the lenses I have ever handled at work were plastic. 2:30
Rewatching this just makes me disappointed that we never had an episode about Wojtek, The Soldier Bear.
too well known
Gary needs to start a kickstarter for his comic autobiography of Sgt. Reckless.
Nillie Or did she? You'll have to buy the comic to find out the startling truth!
Top fact: I can't draw a convincing looking horse.
At all. They just look like fat donkeys.
Nillie Preferrably one who can draw the 'horse in the lift'-scene, that'd be really nice :)
@@ragnkja Unless you stylize it as an autobiography, seriously been done.
They call them operation theatres because in Victorian times (could be older I can’t remember) they would do surgeries in a big theatre full of spectators and medical students etc so everyone could see. Heroic age of medicine and all.
"Sergeant Reckless the movie", A blockbuster waiting to happen!
I am now imagining "Mad" jack churchill riding sgt reckless into battle
Nah, she'd have ridden him!
We need someone to animate "The Adventures of Sergent Reckless"
Qxir. Definitely Qxir
And don't forget to take inspiration from Cowboy Bebop
Alright, somebody get to work on the Sergeant Reckless comic book! Now!
+Factoid I think it would be great if the animators that sometimes cover YogPod would do these episodes. That would be hilarious!
+DᴀʀᴋYᴜᴀɴ YES.
Now I want to know if Sgt Reckless received custom dress blues to wear. That would look awesome
also 2:26: Tom explaining glasses to THE ONE PERSON AT THE TABLE CURRENTLY WEARING GLASSES!
C'mon Matt! How did you miss the opportunity to say "HORSEpital"
You don't salute Sergeants, Tom! They work for a living!
Even if they're horses.
SnowDemonAkuma Ground control to major Tom?
Six years later. Still hilarious. Yes I am rewatching tech diff starting from season 1. It took me a month on and off to get to here, but it is worth it.
@Tom about the heavy glasses thing: those are heavy glasses for a _human,_ where the visual acuity has to be high so they still need to use a perfectly transparent medium. A horse doesn't need to see as much detail, in fact it would probably benefit from seeing a slightly fuzzy world, so you could use Fresnel lenses for thinness and lightness.
12:50 this is even funnier if you imagine Jack Churchill as the rider, firing arrows at the enemy line
I want an entire comic book series based on the Citation Needed Universe, where Jack Churchill, Julie d'Aubigny and Sgt. Reckless have adventures around the world, occasionally bumping into their spy friend Juan Pujol García, who's always in disguise, and the caver/interior designer Stefania Follini, who's always in an excavator underground
You buggers! This shit's really addictive!!!!!
David Andrews is a moron
@@superhorse7191 is just an alias for Sargent Reckless
True
5:44 That was pretty much my reaction when I heard that Google had bought Boston Dynamics.
I like the Citation Needed videos, but this one was just brilliant. I litterally have tears in my eyes now.
Keep up the good work!
I had a great idea for an end show prize :D
A stylish propulsion machine presented by a famously voiced panda with an all groin waxing: Jack Black's Back Pack Jetpack and Back Sack Crack.
Harvey Watson didn't they use that in the meantime? I kinda got deja vu from reading that :D
@@Luca-jy8ne kind of a mix of two there.
Bert baccarat sack and crack
And
Jack Black something ass crack.
This episode is actually mentioned in the Wikipedia article about Sargeant Reckless.
Made a quick calculation here:
Blast radius of a anti-personal mine:5-10m
Delay of such mines: few seconds to minutes.
Assuming 1s delay and 10m radius, minimal speed for surviving a ride through a minfield: 36kph
Speed of a well trained race horse : 56-64 kph
Conclusion : there is a big enough margin that this would probably work.
Picturing a horse running with explosions going off behind her and a cigarette in her mouth
Does the blast radius include the area where you'd be blown off your feet but not directly harmed, or is it just the radius where your feet would be blown off of you?
@@ezekielmartin4323 I don't know. But just consider it to be extra propulsion - the horse version of the orion drive, if you will
The horse was known as originally named "아침해" (Ah Chim Hai, Korean pronunciation: [a tsim hæ]) in Korean, which translates to "Morning Sun"
I love this show :) makes my day
This show is one of my all time favourites. Hope this will continue a long time.
14:05 Actually, horses are incapable of vomiting.
anarchy with the mystery biscuits
This show is literally the best thing I've found on TH-cam in a long time. I'm going through the older episodes now, and it's great. I wish I had friends like you guys, you're awesome. Can't wait for the next episode! Keep it up guys and thanks for the great entertainment!
How would you even go about horse optometry? You can't ask the horse if its vision gets better.
silvercomic Stomp once for lens one or twice for lens two. How else would they do it?
Last time I went in most of the testing was pretty objective, they stuck my head in this crazy contraption and used cameras to measure my eyes, still asked me to help judge finer adjustments, but if they'd ended with the defaults their machine told them is still would have been an improvement.
Ivan Peterson i can confirm every single word of that, i went through the exact same experience.
@@maxximumb Like Clever Hans?
The old happy valley raccourse on Hong Kong Island (famed for been in a street of sky scrapers) use to have the parade ring on top of a sky scraper and all
Horses would go up and down in a horse lift
Love the new content, Tom! Question though, when Matt asks about the horse's sister having a prosthetic leg, you called it an "Open Modifier". At the same time I called it a "Dangling Modifier". I ask you, the linguist, if there a difference between an Open Modifier and a Dangling Modifier? Is it a culture thing? I'm in the US. My searches were not conclusive. :)
I was just distracted laughing at the accidental John Mulaney reference of "There's a horse loose in the hospital!"
Was Sergeant Reckless ever ridden by Jack Churchill?
One of the absolute best you've ever done. This was amazing!
Damn, it's three years later that I watch this episode, and I had no idea that Boston Dynamics were purchased by Google.
Sgt reckless actually did outrank privates AND gave orders. If a private was eating and sgt reckless came and nudged them, that was to be seen as an order from a superior to give reckless the food. Idk if anyone ever got article 15'd for disobeying reckless the rest of the platoon was sure to violently educate the private not to do that again
Had to look it up because curiosity: Google sold Boston Dynamics to Softbank group from Japan in 2017... and now Hyundai holds the majority stock.
Hands down one of the best episodes
Theoretically, depending on the type of antipersonnel mine, a horse might be able to get clear. Some of them are designed to wound rather than kill, for the reason that a wounded soldier takes the soldier out of combat as well as the medic tending the wounded soldiers and tie up resources, whereas an immediately dead soldier does takes only one soldier out of combat and does not tie up as much resource time and material. They didn't have nearly as large a radius of effect, since a large explosion would be immediately fatal.
Third difference to add to the list of differences between anti-tank and anti-personnel land mines. (Low hanging fruit here). One of them is a much bigger explosion than the other, because one of those targets is way harder to kill.
Just discovered this series and watching in order.
It seems that every time I say, "that's my Favorite episode, I LOLed so much"
I get an ever more amazingly funny one.
Love you guys
Hey Tom, ever heard of aspheric polycarbonate lenses or simply policarbonate, bit less fancy ones or even cr39, glass lenses are getting rearer these days, and most glasses are actually made of plastic and they are much much lighter than glass lenses. Added UV protection and HMC layers reduce amount of light that comes trough but they don't really whey any more.
These videos are great! I love the random trivia and interplay of the "contestants".
about that thing of moving fast enough to not get caught by the explosion of the mines in the minefield.
It was supposedly discovered during The Great Toyota War, the conflict between Chad and Libya 1986-1987, that a Toyota pickup doing over 100km/h could clear the blast of the mines in time and not get hit.
Terry Google & Sons is my favourite folk band
This is my all time favourite episode of citation needed
It was considered that her bumping you while you were eating was an order to share food.
When they talk about the horse outranking the privates in her platoon - I think that's actually true. From what I understand, military dogs, by official U.S. military policy, outrank their human handlers. This is so the handlers don't mistreat or abuse the dogs.
Not that they dont mistreat the dogs, but to make it a punishable offence for doing so
Vomiting did in fact not happen, because horses can't vomit.
I can't figure out why the hell I find Tom so entertaining.
Honestly when Chris said "b a n g" I actually cried.
Fun fact: Boston Dynamics was bought by the Japanese based SoftBank Group in 2017.
No alliteration for the prize at the end?!
Zelmel I know right? I was waiting for it.
It does delight me that if one goes to Sergeant Reckless Wikipedia page, under "In Popular Culture" this episode is referenced.
There's also apparently a horse musical show based on her life, and that intrigues me.
surely the prize for Matt guessing that a horse had been involved in an amphibious landing should be Mystery Seabiscuits?
Discovered that this episode is now mentioned on Sergeant Reckless' article
You guys have way to much fun
You people make me smile. :)
I love this so much it's ridiculous! Also, the bit about filing cats and kittens, I found it interesting...
I really want to see a graphic novel detailing your version of the exploits of Sargent Reckless
Every single member of a military or uniformed group:
“YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SALUTE SERGEANTS YOU NUMPTIES”
Gary's description of Sergeant Reckless makes her sound like an equine Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica
Still the high light of TH-cam for me keep it up guys.
Boston Dynamics are now owned by Hyundai Automation, and I don't know if it's better
Just look at Tom's expression at 10:01 . It almost matches "Flags and water" exasperation.
This irritates me a little every time I rewatch this episode; a recoilless rifle is not a rocket launcher.
It's just a rifle with the breach opened in the back (therefore it needs much more powder for the same effect, cause much of the gass will just vent in the back - upside is it does not push on the non existant breach so no recoil)
The rocket launcher is just a tube; the propelant is part of the projectile and continues to burn in flight. In the recoilless rifle there's just one explosion in the very much prrassure bearing barrel of the rifle and that is all the propultion the projectile gets; ballistic after that.
8:36
one might call them illicit biscuits
of illiscuts
I really want to see that Comic that Gary's writing.
A horse charging through a minefield faster than the mines can activate?
Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito, episode 4
It's more like a mechanical centaur, but that still counts, right?
This may be my new favorite episode.
I'm surprised no one remarked on Tom's "reckless battlefield survival skills"
I could not breathe during half this episode I laughed so much.
***** I just watched this episode with TH-cam's automatic subtitles, and hilarious is a severe understatement.
Funny that they described "If Google Was a Guy"
"If you were giving me cat videos to file ...."
I can just imagine Julie D'Aubigbyn riding Sgt. Reckless into the night
What, so you would have Julie add bestiality to her sexual activity?
@@robertwilloughby8050 Eeyyyyy don't twist my words you furry peice of sh*t
The big question that nobody asked is what did the horse spend its sergeants pay on?
Hey now. Rex Harrison's Doctor Doolittle gave General Bellows' horse a pair of corrective glasses.
Admittedly, they did hang from the neck as well as the bridge of its snout.
Re Glasses:
You can't have a windshield because most people eyes are not the same script, also you need to put the focal point in front of a persons eyeball. So a winshield wouldn't work.
Thinner materials should not be heavier. You want an index 1.67 plastic or a 1.71. They are thinner and lighter than glass or polycarb and used for high scripts. They are more expensive but depending on your script you may need them. Can't speak for how common they are in the UK but here in Australia we use them very commonly. I cut glasses for 4 years at an optometrist.
Glass is still the thinnest material but it isn't commonly used in western countries due to difficulty to cut, weight and potential danger when they break. Most lenses are plastic these days :)
Holy Christ. I don't know the last time I laughed that hard. Great episode