Why Jack threw his briefcase from a train

[@rebuntile]

Citation Needed fans are shouting in excitement at this

[@TypicallyThomas]

I literally refrained from submitting this to the show

[@joshridderhoff2050]

Bristol, you’re mine!!!

[@qwertyTRiG]

Mystery Biscuits!

[@MrKolaros]

@@joshridderhoff2050 he was once a IT technician. And operator of a mildly successful nailbar xD

[@marcusmyge]

We are

[@FellowElite]

"Is it that nutter who tried to fight in World War II with a Claymore?"

[@michaelocyoung]

MYSTERY BISCUITS

[@cosmicjenny4508]

@@michaelocyoung(OH YEAH!)

[@panda4247]

OH YEAH

[@simpleperson98]

Episode over.

[@ulespico]

I love the moment at 1:29 of Bill joking hat "You know Jack Churchill, he's a character, of course he'd throw out his briefcase!" while Tom silently and furiously nods in agreement because he knows just how much of a character he really was. Brilliant episode for the old viewers

[@pikekeke]

I was just surprised when Bill asked "is there an expectation that we know who Jack Churchill is?". It's one of those things that I assume everyone who has had access to the internet for a while knows. He's the psychopath with the bow and arrow in WW2, there are so many posts and stories about him on the internet it seems difficult to avoid them.

[@sirBrouwer]

wait it wasn't a way to raise a wartime prime minister?

[@NoxCaelis]

I'm glad you use that variation of the verb.

[@WyvernYT]

Yeah, briefcase throwing is not even one of the top ten Jack Churchill stories. He was a character.

[@saber1epee0]

I love you folks so much

[@TotoDG]

Tom's old subscribers: "Hey, I've seen this one! It's a classic!"

[@patrickstar236]

What do you mean you’ve seem this it’s brand new!

[@ulespico]

Absolutely!! I was just about to comment this. All my neurons lit up when I saw the title, this is a TechDif classic!

[@connorculshaw6066]

@@patrickstar236jack Churchill was talked about on a tech diff episode

[@retroforager]

@@connorculshaw6066 homie was just completing the meme

[@cosmicjenny4508]

@@connorculshaw6066 The original comment is a line from Back To The Future, and the comment you responded to was the next line in the scene

[@Ellithas1]

"Once again, HE WASN'T SCOTTISH" tom scott 2017

[@CBG232x5]

Tech diff crew here screaming the answer before it even starts.

[@Koushakur]

Tom Scott, 2017: "He wasn't scottish! I'm going to point this out. He wasn't scottish." Tom Scott, 2023 : "He's the scotsman with a claymore?"

[@qwertyTRiG]

He was from Ceylon.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

In fairness, Scott Manley did declare him an honorary Scotsman

[@cosmicjenny4508]

“Again… _not_ Scottish!”

[@panda4247]

@@bosstowndynamics5488 so there were three Scotts in the video. One was Tom, one was Manley, and one was honorary

[@ChaimS]

Tom is a very different person without a laptop in front of him.

[@retroforager]

the absolute massive smile i have on my face right now that sprang up the second i heard the name "Jack Churchill". One of my favourite Citation Needed episodes!

[@hariseldon02]

Watching multiple times a year to the point that KZbin recommended this Lateral clip to me one year later

[@2tri749]

I love the fact that almost everyone in the comments knew this story almost immediately thanks to Citation Needed

[@losthor1zon]

"Jack jumps out the window after the briefcase." Indeed, if he had a reason to, he would be just the sort of person who would do this!

[@GryphLane]

Like landing in his back garden?

[@losthor1zon]

@@GryphLane - If he could have done it safely, I bet he would have. Urgency which might have impelled him to take the risk was lacking.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

I am actually somewhat surprised he didn't throw it out and then pulled the emergency brake, because he had lost his important luggage and therefore needed to get off the train immediately.

[@emdivine]

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo I'm quite sure he had the wits about him to know the train service would have gotten really tired of his nonsense after very few repetitions of that scheme. He wanted to be able to continue using the train

[@MarylandFarmer.]

It would have saved him the trouble of walking home

[@adammullarkey4996]

He's not a well-known figure, but he absolutely should be.

[@Finat0]

Agreed

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

If you watch any history-themed youtube channels you very likely have heard of him. I think I saw atleast three videos about him by now, not including this one.

[@adammullarkey4996]

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Indeed, but that requires the kind of person who looks for history videos on KZbin. Jack Churchill should be public knowledge.

[@dilbert719]

That there hasn't been a major Hollywood movie about this guy is a crime..

[@literallyjustgrass]

@@adammullarkey4996it's that kind of underground common knowledge where millions of people will have heard of it but it's not considered to be mainstream, because of the specific channels of information it travels trough (word of mouth and amateur video)

[@anttibjorklund1869]

""If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"" - Jack "Mad Jack" Churchill

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

He probably would have been executed by then. Because of his last name he wasn't treated like any other British POW after he got captured, but instead he was imprisoned with other prominent prisoners (the Nazis suspected him of being a relative of Winston Churchill). In April of 1945 he was part of a group of 141 prominent prisoners (imprisoned high-ranking military from other nations, high-ranking German political enemies of the Nazis, high-ranking policians from occupied countries, families of the Stauffenberg-assassination attempt...) that the SS transported to tyrol under orders to make sure that they wouldn't be taken by allied soldiers alive, so the SS basically had orders to execute the prisoners (including women and children). One of the prisoners managed to escape temporarily and make a phone call to the Wehrmacht, who then swooped in and freed the prisoners from the SS and basically let them go. Mad Jack then walked for 150 kilometers into Italy, until he reached the US troops.

[@francisboyle1739]

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo He'd already escaped once at that point. I don't doubt he would have done it again.

[@korganrocks3995]

As someone who grew up next to train tracks, I didn't even need to think about this one, the answer just immediately popped into my head. Probably because when I was a kid it would drive me crazy to see my house through the train window and know I wouldn't actually get home for another half hour! 😄

[@francisboyle1739]

As someone who loves trains and knew about Jack Churchill I didn't even need to watch the video.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

As Scott reads this out, you can hear the faint sound of the cogs in Tom’s brain whirring into overdrive at the thought of all his fans who’ve seen Citation Needed skipping to the next question 😂😂😂

[@sirBrouwer]

o I was not skipping at all. I think it is funny to be in the knowhow. (for the second time even)

[@ongunkanat]

Or the sound "the mournful parp of an emptying bagpipe"

[@justmerc1642]

@@ongunkanat "They shot me pipes. Now I'm angry."

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

@@justmerc1642 BRISTOL! YOU’RE MINE!!! 🏄‍♂️🗡️

[@metropod]

I think you will find brain gears whirring into overdrive is a registered trademark of Everybody’s Favorite Gary Brannon, every time something he knows because of work comes up.

[@GoErikTheRed]

This guy killed a Not-see with a british longbow. The last recorded use of a bow in wartime. He stormed the beaches at Normandy with a sword. Dude was insane in all the right ways

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

stormed Normandy with a sword and bagpipes!

[@domy6827]

He was not inane at all :P

[@sirBrouwer]

yeah he killed the man with the stringy bid.

[@avirajsinghmehta1857]

​@@TheInternetHelpdeskPlaysthat was Italy he was unfortunately not at Normandy but he did took his sword , bagpipes and grenade at Norway

[@THEAJ109]

Not-see? Like he killed a blind person?

[@ulespico]

BRISTOLLL YOURE MINEEE

[@stephenmstanley]

“And (in this case) briefcase, and claymore, and angry man from Ceylon” - everyone’s favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan

[@Fedacking]

Built for leisure not for speed

[@Elated_Llama]

Half of Tom's audience is like: i'm gonna sit this one out.

[@NorthernNewEnglandDashcam]

Citation Needed prepared me for this moment!

[@kaziiqbal7257]

“Your life is less for not knowing who he is” yup very true

[@antispeedrun]

It took me half a second to remember that 'bore' is a word and to realize that Scott was *probably* not talking about this guy surfing with a literal boar as his surfboard. Not sure how that'd even work (the hydrodynamics are probably terrible), but after hearing that he's such a character, that's where my mind went.

[@cosmicjenny4508]

Give us a “WA-HEY” if you knew this one just from the title. And yes Bill you *should* know who Jack Churchill is, every TRUE Tom Scott fan knows who he is 😤😤

[@Pilchard123]

WA-HEY

[@AnimeSunglasses]

WA-HEY!!

[@qwertyTRiG]

A definite WA-HEY from me, too.

[@RadeticDaniel]

Wa-hey fellows!!!

[@seraphina985]

Wait who dropped the glass?

[@abigailcooling6604]

Having watched many, many episodes of Citation Needed far too many times to count, I was able to guess this answer from the title alone, which was then confirmed when I actually heard the question. Probably the first time I've ever been so certain so early on the answer to one of these questions.

[@GamePlague]

I was surprised that I got the right answer as he was still reading the question out even though I haven't seen that particular citation needed. It's really just the most logical answer, I think maybe it was a mistake to say "regularly" in the question. Leaving open the possibility that it was a one time event would have made the answer less obvious.

[@hii-people2245]

I remember this from citation needed

[@retroforager]

THE LEGEND OF JACK CHURCHILL LIVES ON!

[@ta-theoadonis465]

I'm just gonna join the crew and scream: CITATION NEEDED FAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!!! REJOICEEEEEEEEEEE!!

[@glenmorganshaw5869]

BRISTOLLL YOUR MIIIINE

[@DerMarkus1982]

0:20 Didn't we have that in Citation Needed, Tom? 😁😉

[@red5_skywalker]

Indeed we did

[@panda4247]

1:47 of course, as a human being you should know who Jack Churchill is. You are expected to watch Citation Needed as a human being and an acquaintance of Tom Watch it! Edit: ah, Scott summed it up perfectly a few seconds after

[@roocase2180]

I was wondering if questions from Citation Needed would come up!

[@MrKolaros]

Now we know

[@nitehawk86]

Bill: "You know Jack Churchill, he's a character." Tom: Nods furiously.

[@ConsciousAtoms]

Before video starts: This is about Mad Jack Churchill, isn't it?

[@telotawa]

yup lol

[@Renault_75-34MX]

No, it how you raise a British war time Prime Minister

[@sirBrouwer]

@@Renault_75-34MX wait so no Stalin on a cherry picker?

[@Renault_75-34MX]

@@sirBrouwer of course Stalin comes with a cherry picker, how else are they supposed to be on the same level of authority

[@qwertyTRiG]

​@@Renault_75-34MXDoes Stalin know the three sisters with a cherry orchard, and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya?

[@auroran0]

I like that Scott Manley pronunced him an honorary Scotsman.

[@OwlRTA]

I was laughing so hard when this came up. Love that Citation Needed episode!

[@SheldonBird]

This makes me miss Citation Needed, but at least they have a whole channel that they still upload to!

[@robertk1701]

Saw this in my notifications and immediately knew what it was.

[@merilahna]

having JUST rewatched the jack churchill episode of citation needed, this one was very easy (and a funny coincidence!)

[@Mother_boards]

I don't THINK I've heard this story before, but my first instinct on hearing the question was basically the right answer.

[@jocax188723]

Scott showing up in random KZbin collabs makes me extremely happy. The series Tom used this question on was Citation Needed, and frankly if you haven't seen it you really really should.

[@JRCP144]

To the captioner who inserted (rhubarbs) into the captions, you are a hero and I laughed like a drain.

[@lateralcast]

We have the best captions team!

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I love just how many things that are vaguely related to the Technical Difficulties are coming up in the show.

[@edgarleft]

My guess, before having listened to this: I think the train passes the place he works, and he can trow his briefcase right next to the place he has to go, so he doesn't have to walk to his work with his briefcase. I was close.

[@lilyfox313]

You were so close! Great job

[@quintuscrinis]

I was guessing something to do with MI5/6 and so there was a hidden door into the tunnel somewhere near Westminster perhaps?

[@sirBrouwer]

@@quintuscrinis no if you do that in the tube it will just bounce back like Chris said before.

[@quintuscrinis]

@sirBrouwer depends where you do it. There are various nooks and crannies all over the tube tunnels for workmen to hide if a train comes past while they are working. (Although modern safety rules mean this almost never happens now). And there are various non-station access points around as well.

[@sirBrouwer]

@@quintuscrinis you are missing the tech diff gag.

[@theguyinthefunnyhat]

"Playing the hits, ladies and gentlemen!"

[@cameronsteel6147]

BRISTOL! YOU'RE MINE!

[@TheRacoonGhost]

Knew the answer before even clicking the video, thank you Citation needed, might have to rewatch it again just for the nostalgia!

[@davidshi451]

Fantastic character work by Bill there!

[@DarkSparkNova182]

They have him on a checkout at Sainsbury's, pulling bottles of wine from under the kilt he's not wearing

[@mindblow4248]

Thanks for the colored subtitles!

[@dnielbloqg]

Literally JUST saw that episode of Citation Needed 😊

[@walker1054]

Such an easy one I kinda assumed they knew it was either him throwing it at his workplace or home from the start but let it go on for a bit for the show lol. It's pretty much the same energy as walking along the train to where you know the exit is at your home station, mines third set of doors from the end :p

[@knghtbrd]

0:00 YES! I DON'T EVEN NEED TO PLAY THIS to know this is the BEST! Considering I have an actual bookmark to the Citation Needed episode to give to friends who don't know.

[@ckirkwalsh]

I got it right immediately. I couldn’t believe it when it was revealed!

[@grfboro81]

Get these people some mystery biscuits

[@saber1epee0]

AAAANNND now im off to go rewatch the Jack Churchill episode of Citation Needed

One of the few questions I could immediately figure out without hearing about it before.

[@thomaswhite3059]

Least wacky thing about Jack Churchill

[@EmYiKay1995]

Citiation Needed fans be like: LITERAAALL, YOURE MINEEE

[@misterrhombus]

I love Bill Sunderland so much in this show

[@sannekimenai639]

feels like there should be an endcard to a specific Citation Needed video here

[@dryued6874]

I had the exact same reaction when they brought up the claymore and bagpipes.

[@cyberpigeon]

My favorite part of this episode comes from the "Citation Needed" connection here, specifically that in both shows it is brought up that he was the first person to surf the Severn Bore, and in both shows, one of the guests made a joke about Jack surfing and doing the aspect that they discussed of him at the same time.

[@KintchD]

Now I kinda wanna see a bit where someone says "Scott" and both Tom and Mr. Manly say "Yes?". :D Even better if they can get Ross Scott of Accursed Farms in there too...!

[@dswcartoons]

I miss mystery biscuits...

[@wilb0-]

I feel like Bill could feasibly substitute for Matt, Chris, or Gary, and the group dynamic would not change whatsoever.

[@sirBrouwer]

Sorry but Bill is not from Yorkshire. the last person to do so had to eat Matt the be allowed.

[@RadeticDaniel]

​@@sirBrouweroh yes, Will Seaward, the mouth of the south 😂

[@fonkbadonk5370]

I find him rather insufferable and wouldn't watch any of such videos ever. Let's keep the original cast, please.

[@beth12svist]

​@@sirBrouwer Actually the last person to do that was the Australian Replacematt who did no such thing.

[@sirBrouwer]

@@beth12svist yeah but he is busy touring with the juggling cow.

[@hotelmario510]

Citation Needed fans: "Hey, I've seen this one!"

[@glorytotheussr667]

You’ve got three bullets what do you shoot the bagpipes three times-Tom Scott

[@libsifywriter2471]

Citation Needed fans, like myself, are so happy right now ❤❤

[@56independent]

I thought he was a track maintainer and was throwing his heavy briefcase in his place of work

[@JulianDanzerHAL9001]

you are listening to the technical difficulties, we are playing citation needed, in front of me i have a randomly selected articel fro meveryones favorite reliable source of knowledge wikipedia and these folks can't see it...

[@iainmcculloch5807]

I knew the answer to this one as well. Jack Churchill really was a fascinating character!

[@Saturnium_]

More please!

[@martinlaak]

I had a similar situation. The Tallinn-Stockholm ship went past my house. Jumping in and swimming would have saved me about 1.5h commute time. However that would have been too shocking.

[@Universecentral1]

In the early 1900s, farmers onboard Salt Lake and Utah Interurban trains regularly took chairs from the observation platforms and threw them into their fields. I guess that means jack wasn't first.

[@fireproofman]

As soon as I heard the name Jack Churchill I knew Tom would bow out of this one 😂 Also I found it funny that Tom said Churchill was Scottish when he was very adamant during citation needed that he was not Scottish

[@sonnytapman]

He’d absolutely an honorary Scottsman, to be fair.

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

i remember why i knew about mad jack. tom did something about him before, and i heard it from there!

[@Aima952]

I didn't remember the technical difficulties episode with this in it, but I did consider it a pretty obvious answer as I'd do something similar as a kid and chuck my school bag into a neighbor's garden, walk half a mile to my street and then fetch my school bag. It meant only carrying a heavy school bag about 300yds so definitely worth the extra 1 min of walking.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Well done ! I knew the answer, but I enjoyed it anyway.

[@asterozoan]

Imagine my surprise hearing the legendary Scott Manley on a Tom Scott video

[@TheHorseOutside]

MYSTERY BISCUIIIIITS!

[@adriansrealm]

I saw the technical difficulties, I knew this just from the video description.

[@akuthia]

Hullo, Scott Manly fan here, Fly safe

[@PianoKwanMan]

Haven't started this video yet, but it's Mad Jack Churchill, isn't it? And, surely, this is a Citation needed video. If Tom doesn't get this.... if he's not the one reading it out...

[@Civilian08]

I thought he was a briefcase salesman and this was part of his sales pitch.

[@dawfydd]

why didn't they get to "the train went past his house" much much quicker?

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

As an archery guy myself, the moment I saw the title I knew. 🤣

[@toastinghost5198]

They really need to stop getting topics, which Tom has covered before😂

[@michaelocyoung]

There are no topics left on this earth that Tom has not covered before. Unless they're about Finnish airports or kebabs.

[@asina6352]

Wouldn't that be a damn small pool?

[@toastinghost5198]

@@michaelocyoung I mean surely there are some weird monorails in Finish airports where you can order a Kebap while riding them

[@toastinghost5198]

@@asina6352 Well yeah, but I suppose he might not remember everything, I mean almost ten years worth of weekly videos, some things will be lost

[@pinguini4141]

Technical Difficulties/Lateral crossover episode?

[@route2070]

From Citation Needed, I remember this. And I wish I could have done this, since I have road on a train, past where I work. Later, I would drive to this same place, amd park....within 100 feet (30osh meters) of the train tracks. I remember asking the conductor if they could slow the train to walking speed so I could tuck, roll, and be at work.

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

So he wouldn't have to walk with it back to that point on his way home?

[@bigsarge2085]

I knew this one!

[@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that there is a 1938 stock train in the thumbnail.

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

Imagine how chaotic it is if there is The Technical Difficulties special episode.

[@HarmGeerts]

Jack Churchill is actually a hitman with a special briefcase that follows its target wherever it goes.

[@C_B_Hubbs]

I was unaware that last name Scott knew first name Scott 😂

[@sirBrouwer]

it was in the name all alonge. all Scott people know each other.

[@dappergander]

My guess was way off. I was thinking along the lines of the plot of The Ladykillers (1955).

[@psilorder86]

Guessing at the start: The train passed right by his work or his house and he was throwing it out so it landed where he could pick it up.

[@dennislawther1414]

Well now Tom knows which of his guests haven't watched Citation Needed, and therefore can't expect to be invited back.

[@kamikazefireball]

The more excited Bill gets, the more he sounds like Stewie from Family Guy

[@hughjass1976]

Jack Churchill is up there in the top 5 people ever to have lived. Dude was an absolute legend

[@panda4247]

Question - why does the producer not give those questions to Tom, where it's known that Tom had done an episode of something in the past on that subject?

[@NickJerrison]

I haven't listened to the full episode yet, so this might not be the case, but it could be that Scott prepared this question himself, and it was not given to him by a producer.

[@RFC3514]

Maybe the producer doesn't know every single subject mentioned in every single episode of every single show that Tom has done.

[@losthor1zon]

I don't think the questions are centrally sourced. There was one (don't remember which) where it was pointed out that the person wrote the question himself, and another where the viewer who sent in the question was cited.

[@panda4247]

@@losthor1zon yes, but I think the questions submitted by viewers are reviewed/picked by the same person who makes the rest of the questions. AFAIK David Bodycombe is the one. The fact that some of the guests were able to use their own questions, kind of supports my theory that the questions are not picked at random by participants, but assigned by the producer

[@losthor1zon]

@@panda4247 - I don't see that it supports that, though it also doesn't disprove it. But the fact that Tom referenced that a question was generated by the participant means he knew it would be, and therefore the producer at least must have known that also. The question might be whether they also vetted the question in advance. Which does seem likely, now that I think about it. For legal and KZbin reasons, at least, to make sure there isn't some rule violation in it. So perhaps not always "assigned", but at least vetted for content.