Tales From The Arctic 2: Helicopters, Ice Fjords, and the hunt for Science

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

The bit about Tom's Arctic book was actually the most beautiful thing ever

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

I'm in my "Rewatching Tom's, Matt's, Tech Diff every 2 years phase" and that always leaves me teary-eyed.

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

16:08 That's why, if a crew member of a nuclear submarine has a family death, they don't tell them until their tour is completely over.

[@anya6785]

Sometimes I get these little thoughts watching your videos where I just go "damn, I wanna be Tom Scott when I grow up"

[@Zogerpogger]

Ahh I remeber having those thoughts. Perhaps life is the process of realizing one is not Tom Scott?

[@slickm7]

@@Zogerpogger nah. Life should be the struggle to live a bit more like tom scott each day

[@Zogerpogger]

@@slickm7 An unattainible goal! We can never achieve the magesty of Tom Scott, we can only bask in the glow of his divine perfection and hope we have lived enough without sin so that he may show mercy on us in the afterlife.

[@korganrocks3995]

Me too, and I'm older than him! 😄

[@tommyteapot13]

"because the bears don't understand the regulations" might be one of the best lines I've heard in a while

[@frankharr9466]

"There are always more stories." That is the most Bilbo Baggins line ever. I know people won't agree with me, but I in my mind's eye, Gandalf and Bilbo sitting, talking and Bilbo asking if there are more stories and then Gandalf saying that. And THEN, many years later, a young Frodo asking if there are any more stories and Bilbo saying . . .

[@_tertle3892]

No I agree and there’s another comment further Dow that agrees

[@Robbietoppert]

3:57 Matt: “I’ve seen like one photo of yours, you… the one thing you did show me..” Tom: “Yeah, it’s that big.. It really is that big” Matt: “you just can’t tell, you just can’t tell”

[@ragnkja]

Rob Schoute The only way to tell how big the glacier is is to watch Ben Brown's drone footage from the area.

[@aladanor]

if you don't know the context its sounds SO WRONG

[@AidenMacIver]

This week on Tom Scott: Out of context

[@crimsonstrykr]

PHRASING!!

[@nathangathercole6888]

Innuendo bingo anyone?

[@RJA10001]

I love the look of it being a completely black background with just you two there in front of nothingness.

[@OrigamiMarie]

Kind of gives it a placelessness that fits with the strangeness of the stories, doesn't it? Just enough detail that they are definitely outdoors and not on a sound stage, but little enough that they could be anywhere.

[@57thorns]

@@OrigamiMarie And the occasional jogger.

[@VivienneGucwa]

Death star trench run = literally the best time ever and epic for my first ever helicopter ride (with all of you no less!). :) Nice descriptor!

"There are always more stories, Matt" - sounds like Gandalf talking to Frodo :))

[@panda4247]

23:26 Tom: "There are always more stories, Matt" Matt: "DING DING DING"

[@idlemessiah]

The monologues are fantastic. Tom is such a good story teller I didn't realise the video was nearly 24 minutes long! Send him to all the interesting places!

[@charliesimons6318]

"Like a buffalo, but hairier" is possibly the best description of a musk ox I have ever heard.

[@blinkygonewild]

it must be so confusing telling these stories as I bet nothing ever sounds or feels real when you look back

[@mattandtom]

+JP Broughton It really did feel like I stepped out for a day, had a strange dream, and woke up back in London! - Tom

[@blinkygonewild]

by looking at Matt's unicorn / popcorn tshirt are you sure you've woken up? seems a bit suspect to me. a little bird once told me to try reading it and you'll know

[@martinhill7304]

After replacing swearing with a Ding, just waiting for him to yell Mystery Biscuits, or for that to get edited in on one of these

[@kat369-mine]

I so enjoy the park bench, and I think your "Thomas' adventures at the North Pole" is the best story. How many people get to live a fancy from childhood. In the 70s I was sure Scotty was going to beem me up someday...someday

[@idontremembermylogin]

Since the listening station has been mentioned again, I still can't beleive Tom met the guy my physics teacher taught me about: SVEND!

[@RealLuckless]

The world can be a wonderfully small place.

[@emilcarr7190]

"I saw his speedo" I can't beleive they didn't notice that.

[@IH8YH]

the Bob Cereal Book Story was very sweet!

[@OrigamiMarie]

And I can kind of feel how that feels to realize that. A sort of flash of memory and realization, where an old fantastic drawing in your mind suddenly matches a snapshot of what you're doing right now. Beautiful :-)

[@vexxxiang]

just seeing toms expressions as he recalls the stories is amazing, you can see the awe and it is beautiful to find someone on KZbin with this enthusiasm

[@dnd402]

Yet again, Tom is quite litteraly the protagonist of irl

[@Window_Hero]

Bob stepped out of the Victorian era, he probably said "Oh, the age of exploration and discovery is over? Sounds like a challenge to me."

[@harjacgamimg2526]

He sounds like theat yeah

[@EriqireM]

3:42 "it dosent come across on camera" the grey haze of the mountain in the background can be used for scale. and damn is it huge.

[@infrabread]

I want you to read "Thomas' Adventures At The North Pole". Or atleast show it.

[@flensborg82]

I would actually pay to have him read that.

[@ncc74656m]

That look on your face at 15:35 pretty much sums up how this must have felt. I'm so unbelievably jealous and happy for you, Tom. What an experience.

[@YaboiOpO]

Your alarm notification at 20:18 made me jump and reach for my phone xD In the course of doing this i've knocked my drink over my keyboard.....Luckily it was so powerful it went over the keyboard and 90% missed it. Summary to this story I need unique notification sounds

[@enjoy_free_kill8405]

Did you change it?

[@0LoneTech]

And this is why I got a Mighty Mug. They have a rather neat suction cup mechanism that doesn't like tipping over.

[@spacewarpphotography1667]

19:35 Matt: "I thought narwhals were fictional." Thank you! I only found out in 2015 that narwhals are real, and to this day, four years later, it still blows my mind. It is so obviously a fictional creature! It has no business being real! And then unicorns, utterly tame by comparison, are fake? Reality shouldn't work like this.

[@siggi8893]

Narwahls, platypuses and that odd, cute spider - things that sometimes makes the idea of real dragons not sounding completely ludicrous.

[@zingaman]

you made me cry Tom! A wonderful memory for you and your Mom!

[@RickyMaveety]

These are some of the best Park Benches ever. I could listen to stories like this forever. I especially loved the one about "Bob" and the book. Classic.

[@Charlotte-te8fe]

Tom: ...and you're standing where no one has ever stood before 8:05:

[@BakerHannah]

I just cannot get enough of these videos. These two are such genuine people. I love hearing Tom describe his realization that he is part of a team and how emotional this trip was. So good!

[@danlyle531]

Congratulations to Matt for the use of cardinal directions!

[@Zelmel]

Rewatching this series years later. The British pronunciation of "glacier" will never stop amusing me because it is SO French sounding!

[@catfish552]

Alright, this one's where I'm finally starting to get jealous of Tom.

[@DarkYuan]

4:50 - "I saw his speedo" I assume has a very different meaning on the other side of the pond.

[@PElder78]

No, his swimsuit did indeed have more than 100 knots in it ;P

[@Eric14492]

Its short for speedometer, I think its a commonly used term on aircraft.

[@krashd]

Yeah, over here a speedo is a speedometer, swimming trunks are just swimming trunks however fast they travel.

[@WalnutOne]

This is the Dark Bench!

[@RavenousRobyn]

"The phrase "in the dark," as I'm sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, but also to the shadowy secrets of which one might be unaware. Every day, the sun goes down over all these secrets, and so everyone is in the dark in one way or another. If you are sunbathing in a park, for instance, but you do not know that a locked cabinet is buried fifty feet beneath your blanket, then you are in the dark even though you are not actually in the dark, whereas if you are on a midnight hike, knowing full well that several ballerinas are following close behind you, then you are not in the dark even if you are in fact in the dark. Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, as well as to be not in the dark not in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you are in the dark in the dark or in the dark not in the dark, although the sun can go down so quickly that you may be in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, only to look around and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, but in the dark in the dark nonetheless, not only because of the dark, but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locked cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark, and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not in the dark about being in the dark, and so you may fall into the hole that the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the dark, and in the park."

[@k.a.u.4599]

"There are always more stories, Matt" had me emotional.

[@DanteEsGrande]

Can we just appreciate toms memory at remembering all the stuff he did? im sure he brushed up on notes, but god damn his ability to remember names and place names and who he met when he met where they went good god man, i often walk into rooms and forget wtf why i walked in there! no kidding you here, these videos are like watching asmr vids, engrossing, i can't stop listening and i'm enjoying it immensely.

[@tommykl]

Please. We all know Matt would have said "bottom of London" to describe Croydon.

[@cmckee42]

In which we learn Matt's spirit animal is a musk ox.

[@liulep]

I just love KZbin because I can choose to watch videos like this. Great adventure you had!

[@JudithOpdebeeck]

Now I’m imagining a polar bear going “hiiiiiiiii” the way Tom always goes “byeeeeeee”

[@humblenoob7631]

6:54 can we just appreciate how good that impression is

[@yvesleith123]

Sirs - best translatable comparison for Greenland to Denmark is British Overseas territories like Gibraltar, or Falklands potentially crown dependencies. different scale obviously but in terms of governance.

[@LeoMRogers]

Well I certainly couldn't find anywhere further north on wiki's list of palindromic placenames. The closest second(s) are several places called Å in norway all in the 60-something degrees north, compared to Qaanaaq's 77. And thats only if you want to include single letter names as palindromes.

[@0LoneTech]

Do they even reckon Å as a name? Because it is a word for a creek. Not that that prevents us having names like Ekskogen (oak forest) or Bro (bridge).

[@jocax188723]

Chris Hadfield: Holy crap, that's a polar bear! The polar bear: Holy crap, that's Chris Hadfield!

[@Zelmel]

Upon further thought, that relay station video is not only goddamn amazing, but one of the most cyberpunk type things I have encountered. Megabit+ internet in the arctic... Holy beep.

[@julia.carino]

The look on your face when you were talking about the helicopters is the most pure expression of joy I have ever seen

[@JossieMimo]

This 2 videos have been the best park benches i have ever watched.

[@dbseamz]

2:17 the pareidolia of that helicopter's startled expression

[@andrewwaldrip5108]

I've come to really enjoy the park bench but these last two have been especially superb. My only problem is trying to tamp down my jealousy in order to fully enjoy the stories.

[@dbackscott]

Tom, I really enjoyed the stories. I'm glad you got to experience all of that.

[@ms.antithesis]

"I thought narwalls where fictional.." God bless you matt

[@RosieGamgee]

when you said you looked at the helicopter driver's speedo, that means a completely different thing in the US. love this video, it looks like you're sitting by a campfire describing your adventures.

[@flensborg82]

That was dinging brilliant.

[@ArrowsmithGB]

Thank you so much for sharing this Tom!

[@addityasinghal897]

That tom smile in photos is precious :)

[@etheroar6312]

I am in awe, and more than slightly jealous. Thank you so very much for sharing.

[@Maxoverpower]

6:23 I've never seen a photo more wholesome ◠‿◠

[@DerDosko]

More of that! Fast! I've already binge watched Mr Ben Browns Vlogs, your stories complement his videos perfectly :-) Great stuff!

[@jetteraismabash4186]

A bit Off topic: Tom I really like your voice and your really good at presenting! Is that natural or have you had lessons/coaching??

[@OlanKenny]

I think it's a bit of both. I think he's worked on his presentation a good bit on top of his natural speaking

[@scottsmith4204]

Jettera Ismabash watch the ballad of mad captain Tom.

[@lazygamerz]

"there are quack quacks and there are peep peeps" - My dad (who's Norwegian) says "There are quack quacks, peep peeps and eagles".

[@cabe_bedlam]

Can't beat a bit of organised fun in the arctic!

[@dancingtiger577]

god this is such an amazing series

[@Vivalier]

I just watched Ben's Day 10 video. You were NOT kidding about Bob's RC pronunciation. It was like watching a production of Around the World in 80 Days, or something by Jules Verne.

[@mittfh]

Perhaps an indication of the kind of places Tom would like to go to on future expeditions - no valley too deep, no mountain too high? :)

[@Million_Lights]

The fact that it took me 16 minutes into the video to notice Matt's genius Shirt must indicate you did an awesome job! Its so fascinating to listen to it!

[@bowtieproductions6708]

"Through a crevasse in this glacier" is my new favourite sentence... crevacier.

[@neruneri]

You know, if your people skills are so great that they lead you to an outcome where you eat narwhal sashimi in Greenland, then you most certainly deserve that experience.

[@EscapeMCP]

Keep ''em coming Tom :)

[@xzonia1]

Thank you so much for making this video! I really enjoyed hearing all about your arctic adventure and seeing all the photos! X)

[@BlobVanDam]

Anyone else watch this and think "Damn I've wasted my life"?

[@linkVIII]

not at all

[@gimmecat6251]

Nah, I think that anyway

[@RealCadde]

Not the slightest. There's LOTS of interesting things to see elsewhere too. You just have to look.

[@607]

Certainly not. Well, perhaps someone, but definitely not me.

[@reluctantreviews1596]

Lego doctor who bob van dam

[@sjokkoladehjerte]

"you saw his speedo?" "At a hundred miles an hour?" Now that's just impressive and sounds like it would be incredibly cold😂👍 sorry could not help myself

[@ForestnBlue]

The thumbnail makes it look like the video is part of a playlist and almost made me skip it! Awesome stuff guys, I ca't wait for more.

[@swordablaze9259]

Wow, these are incredible! The most amazing place I've been to is Norway, Flam specifically. The Ffords are gorgeous. I'd love to visit these places, too.

[@beingisbewildering]

I can't believe the only stills camera you took was your iPhone!

[@kamalindsey]

Very cool story.

[@vrdrew63]

Tom: Greatly enjoyed your reports and appearances from your Arctic Expedition. I watched all of Ben Brown's daily stories, and it was always a treat to see your face. Your excitement and enthusiasm is strangely reassuring because I'm sure I would be exactly the same under the circumstances. One thing that struck me watching the various KZbin videos that expedition members have posted: None of you seem to be aware of the fact that the reason there are actually communities of Native Canadian people in places such as Resolute and Grise Fjord is because in the early 1950s the Canadian Government made a somewhat controversial decision to relocate Inuit people from northern Quebec province. While originally portrayed as a humanitarian gesture (since the Inuit were living a subsistence existence in Quebec) - the real motivation was to assert Canadian sovereignty over the uninhabited islands in Canada's polar regions. The relocated Inuit were given supplies of meat and other items to help them sustain themselves, however they suffered great hardships and privations since they found themselves in a totally alien ecosystem. Just an idea: But it would be a fantastic topic for one of your "Things You Might Not Know" videos.

[@ragnkja]

I assume you posted this before part three was posted, as Tom addressed this point in that part.

[@alanreader4815]

Tom you forgot to tell Matt that he looked like Jakob Your translator.

[@NobodyMetal]

Great video! it still sounds like an awesome trip. and just my input, but to all I know, us Danes see Greenland as being a part of Denmark and we love that damn place

[@ragnkja]

It’s worth noting that Danish hasn’t been an official language of Greenland since 2009.

[@tomknight5432]

It seems like Tom had fun then! Amazing stories!

[@TheBassHeavy]

I really enjoyed this. I wish it was double the length.

[@johnallardyce4164]

Thanks for sharing the photo's Tom.

[@TheRealInscrutable]

Has someone (hint hint) created a playlist of all the videos of all the people who participated on the trip?

[@justjoske]

I love that the ad for this is also just a Chris Hadfield Materclass

[@ChallengeTheNarrative]

Amazing times 😊. Also love the bear pun at the end.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Ha, ha, 90s throwback at the end there :-)

[@maxhawkblues1723]

MOAR

[@maneatingspam9069]

3:15 I hope one day I can smile as much as that

[@Baex21]

Was that a 2 Unlimited reference in the end?

[@607]

Awesome!!

[@panda4247]

Can we see the picture of the book with little Thomas and Bob?

[@tibfulv]

Greenland's part of the Glorious Danish Empire. It's the empire on which the sun doesn't set. In the summer.

[@Alucard45000]

9:16 Anyone else noticed the old rifle bullet casing in the bottom left of the pic?

[@NeilBruder]

After having watched all of Ben's vlogs it's great to hear about it from your perspective as well. Is there someplace where you talk about how you applied or were picked for the trip? I'd love to hear that story. Thanks!

[@sallu94]

love this

[@dominichines9996]

1:18 *N U T E L L A*

[@robertwilloughby8050]

You flew in a Hoplite? Wow. I didn't know there was any left!

[@joe4490]

Please tell me there's a part III?

[@peardude8979]

Yes

[@Liliou]

Oh it got dark very quickly!

[@FiXato]

Nice 2 Unlimited reference there at the end 😅

[@thursdday]

You should have said "Welcome to the dark bench"