The Ice Block Expedition and Chainsaw Licenses: Citation Needed LIVE, Part 2

[@ciangrant3042]

No one seemed to notice that in response to the question "you have a chainsaw license, don't you?", "not since October" is one of the most ominously concerning answers a person could give

[@meme__supreme3373]

The "You're all slightly safer in your beds" is a bit worse tbh. "Not since October" could just mean it expired in October and was never renewed.

[@andywood6376]

As an American, the idea of "chainsaw license" is so ridiculously alien.

[@ChaimS]

I actually looked this up, you only need the license to do work with it commercially. You don't need a license to just own one for yourself.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@andywood6376 it's a commercial license You will also have one in America

[@dannysulyma6273]

@@Alucard-gt1zf no such thing here in Canada, I've made a living with a chainsaw saw in my hands for thirty years, no licence available

[@zednotdead]

6 years later, Tom has found the branch of Iceland in Iceland! The prophecy has been fulfilled!

[@NoxCaelis]

There's Iceland, but no volcano for Tom sadly.

[@hominid3528]

@NoxCaelis just an angry hill

[@sehfisch2350]

I can't find that, in what video was that?

[@NeonCoding]

​@@sehfisch2350 the new tech dif video, when he walks up a hill - it's mentioned and photographed

[@nat3007]

Maybe he will walk up another hill this season.

[@CardCaptorKaren]

Something of note, there were actual mystery biscuits given out on the way out. Then way more given out in the park afterwards because Tom ordered way too many. They were very nice biscuits.

[@zaneabrams7110]

Mystery...

[@nabijaczleweli]

"Very nice", if one is to believe OP.

[@TheBOB235]

You have no idea how jealous i am right now

[@Dafmeister1978]

@@TheBOB235 I can hazard a guess.

[@davidwalter3565]

He's dead now

[@hotelmario510]

It's been six years and the sheer _relish_ with which Gary calls Tom "dickhead" after the pastry-making hands rant still gets me.

[@Laurabeck329]

I love that they're all wearing red shirts, but every one is just slightly wrong shade of red in a different way.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Gary just couldn't manage to find another shade of light red sadly :P

[@kadencalleberg]

From Left to right: too rich, too pale, too dark, too orange

[@gamermanh]

@@kadencalleberg Tom's red shirt can't be "too" anything it's his thing the others are prolly riffing on tho

[@xavieratlantica1011]

Chris - Saturation, Gary - Brightness, Matt - Hue.

[@frimi8593]

665th like. I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess

[@ella-tm1tp]

Tom: What’s 2 + 2? Matt: Llama. Gary: Purple. Chris: Germany. Tom: *close enough*

[@eamesaerospace2805]

_ding_

[@westcheap]

I was talking the cheese, by the way

[@meme__supreme3373]

@@westcheap no. That would be blue, not purple

[@word6344]

5

[@billionai4871]

it is gerMANY, so it is somewhat close, right?

[@RacingStripeAV]

For those who weren't keeping score: Chris: 8 Gary: 8 Matt: 7 Winner: Gary Mystery Biscuits: No-one, but Tom did say the audeince gets them...

[@harrycarter3781]

Is this counting the point Chris gave to himself

[@CraftBasti]

Did you watch the bonus content?

[@TomScottGo]

I'll put the encore up next week, but apart from that -- that was our show! We'll likely do some more low-key live recordings in January and February: if you want to know when tickets go up for that, follow the link in the description!

[@BigStuffedRhino]

Tom Scott how often do you do these?

[@mindmaster_osu]

Please do moar tom!

[@daanwilmer]

I'm going to London in January. I hope the dates line up!

[@bakasheru]

I'm actually considering to take the train, St Pancras International is pretty decent to get to.

[@diamondflaw]

I love live stuff :D I wish I had more than one "Like" to give. 5:06 "...per Kilo that made it to the Arctic." I'm thinking it'd be pretty easy to get the ice to the Arctic unless you're starting from the South Pole.

[@stevieinselby]

When they were invited to drive back to Paris, they should have said "Yes, if you rename it the *Arctic* Triomphe"

[@entropyzero5588]

That's actually what I thought he said there for a moment :D

[@SJohnTrombley]

Liked for Gary's explanation of bread making hands vs pastry making hands

[@TahreyUK]

And, of course, "[long and frantic description], _dickhead"_ :D

[@sokonek1]

Explains his responses when Tom doesn’t pick him on 2 of these people are lying

[@dbseamz]

And Chris's subsequent attempt to melt Tom with his hands after deliberately misunderstanding Gary.

[@diamondflaw]

Upvoted for Pastry Making hands vs. Bread Making Hands PERMANENTLY becoming a part of my personal lexicon.

[@shotgun3628]

@@ragnkja this is difficult as my fingers have been permanently attached to my hands since birth

[@dominateeye]

Gary's explanation starts around 1:11, for reference!

[@gummi666]

Fun fact, there is a branch of Iceland in Iceland. Very meta, wow.

[@GuniMatthiasson]

Andskotinn, ég þarf að læra að skrolla áður en ég kommenta.

[@SomeBritishDud1]

gummi666 Do mums go there?

[@demonking86420]

E x p l a i n

[@gummi666]

@@demonking86420 please explain what you don't understand

[@demonking86420]

@@gummi666 oh wait I rewatched it I got it now, it's about an Iceland supermarket in Iceland the country

[@gwenynorisu6883]

Gary's use of "dickhead" as punctuation is just the best :D

[@danlyle531]

Also, I'm going to take the Gary Brannan approach to mathematics: *consults mathematicians* "Bastard"

[@jamesdyson9502]

honestly i was expecting citation needed to be pretty awkward live but the atmosphere and the format works really well with the live audience. well done lads!

[@blackoak4978]

james dyson I love the look on Tom's face when his jokes got groans 😂😂😂

[@cabe_bedlam]

Only on Citation Needed would anyone argue against getting a point based on a technicality.

[@anttibjorklund1869]

Well they *are* the Technical Difficulties...

[@samaradragonhart5719]

Brennan on game changer would (and I believe has but someone who knows the show better can correct me) (also imagine how wild a game changer and tech diff collab would be)

[@janTesika]

@@samaradragonhart5719 dear gods yes, I'd pay for that. as long as I was paying TechDif and not whatever-the-people-who-own-Game-Changer-are (I can't remember their name).

[@HistoriaEtAl]

@@samaradragonhart5719 Tom Scott and Sam Riech have appeared together on the podcast Lateral

[@unepommeverte17]

watching this in the second half of 2019 means that while they're talking about driving flaming cars and needing to "get out of it with the most panache you can," the *only* thing in my brain is david tennant driving a flaming bentley

[@beth12svist]

I'm watching this in 2022 and also thinking of a flaming Bentley, but I read Good Omens long before that so actually I wasn't thinking of David Tennant specifically...

[@Argusthecat]

@@beth12svist I also read Good Omens long before the show, but somehow, I think I was always thinking of David Tennant?

[@nathanielhill8156]

After I read this, I had a pic David Tennant flying a flaming police box stuck in my head

[@ianhopping105]

Ditto

[@servalspots7133]

Hah, you can feel the energy of the live show in their faster-than-normal intro bits. Also, Chris Joel's impression of a block of ice was just... fantastic

[@iabervon]

Gary: "That rings a bell, but I don't know why." And that's how he won.

[@otakuribo]

"de Gaulle." "Did he fly there?" For the love of God, toss Matt some biscuits

[@hobbitilius]

I still don't understand that one. Is it because of the airport by the same name? Because if so, that's an awful joke.

[@meme__supreme3373]

@@hobbitilius my guess is it might be a pun on "the gull" as in a seagull, but yours is also probably likely.

[@addisonchan3053]

@@meme__supreme3373 I think it is. Tom said "de Gaulle" (referring to "the gull"). Also, it likely wouldn't be as funny...

[@charliehills1005]

eingeoelter Kanalarbeiter The Charles De Gaulle is an airport in Paris

[@dbseamz]

I'm an American watching this, a good percentage of the British jokes and references going right over my head, and even I knew that France has a big international airport named Charles de Gaulle. I didn't until now know who it was named after, though.

[@JonathanChappell]

Today I learned that a chainsaw license is a thing that exists in the UK.

[@Kraigon42]

I know, right? I always expect to learn really obscure stuff from Wikipedia, but I never expected to learn something like that.

[@jsd4574]

Jonathan Chappell As a UK citizen: Neither did I

[@DrLennieSmall]

I know a few unlicensed chainsaw weilders.

[@helloworld4390]

I think that only applies for commercial use and use on public property

[@Taeerom]

It is likely similar to how a chainsaw license work in Norway. You need one if you are getting paid for using it. If you just do some gardening with your own chainsaw on your own time, no license needed.

[@gwest3644]

Tom: "What radio station would put out a challenge like that?' Gary: *puts on posh accent* "The BBC World Service..." Tom: "Very much the opposite." Gary: *posh accent* "The ITV World Service." I love how he barely even skipped a beat for that one.

[@TheTrueRandomness]

I'd pay money (not large amounts of it, but maybe £4.99) for an uncut recording. Really just to see how much "less fun in real life" these really are - the audience generally looked pretty well entertained ;)

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

Oh we were entertained: this is pretty close to the full show- there's a bit that makes reference to where Tom lives that had to be cut out because otherwise he WOULD get letters and who knows what else- but otherwise very little went on the cutting room floor, just the beeps added in, and the perspective not changing unless you move your head. Now having someone record the next live show so you could purchase it to watch in VR.........

[@violetsteele350]

I too would like to pay $7.50. $8.50 seems like a lovely price. $11.00 would be alright

[@daemonCaptrix]

"You have a chainsaw license don't you?" "Not since October." What did you do in September to lose your license?! ._.

[@ItsSharples]

halloween?

[@gwenynorisu6883]

[@stoutyyyy]

Nillie what kind of dystopia issues licenses for power tools?

[@gmh3]

@@stoutyyyy i don't remember the exact rules but you only need a "licence" to use them in a professional capacity, so if you're charging for a service which includes the use of a chainsaw and/or you're using it on public land then you need a licence but if you just want a chainsaw to do some work on your own land you can just buy one and use it without issue

[@imakevideos5377]

Gastón Miguel Hutt oh ok then

[@j.k.wheeler4899]

every time I explain to someone what pastry-making hands are (which is quite often as I do it every time I get compliments on my pie crust) I have to stop myself from doing it in Gary's Yorkshire accent

[@shotgun3628]

I have to stop myself from saying "dickhead" at the end

[@wesmatron]

Just so everyone knows... you DO NOT need a license to operate a chainsaw in the UK. Not even professionally. However, if you were smart you'd go on a training course and get a certificate of competency that will mean people will feel more inclined to choose you and your public liability insurance will be cheaper.

[@nat3007]

I still want to go on the course though.

[@samreid6010]

It’s kinda like how technically you don’t need a forklift operator license to use one professionally, but most businesses won’t let you unless you get one because of liability

[@OrigamiMarie]

"of course there are mathematicians in"

[@johnbeauvais3159]

Look, it's a stage full of Tom Scotts!

[@helloworld4390]

We must learn to judge people not by the colour of their t-shirt but by the content of their character

[@stichomythia3435]

The bread-making hands bit is just making me wish Gary was in the running to host the new Bake Off

[@alistairwall5470]

I still remember the fact that it took them roughly 5 minutes to guess the radio station. Conveniently edited out, of course.

[@hamishwoodland7424]

Almost nailed the same shades of red. So close.

[@Tarantio1983]

Hamish Woodland I'm sure the red shirts are left-overs of Tom's birthday where Tim and a barman at UoY union bar thought it'd be a good idea for everyone to show up dressed as Tom...

[@Tarantio1983]

Nillie Quite possibly, my memory can and often is a tad patchy - but yeah, still left overs from that escapade!

[@Tarantio1983]

I remember it, haven't watched it in a while... might have to binge on Tom Scott videos tonight, oh wait... bad idea, I got work tomorrow!

[@Tarantio1983]

Nillie yup, doesn't work... I just get addicted and totally just go for it!

[@nopetwo5929]

Hamish Woodland someone missed the memo 🤣🤣

[@SeraphimKnight]

Citation Needed is one of my favorite things on youtube.

[@datdabdoe1417]

whoever did the Subtitles Chris' intro should Clearly be Spelled "ey'oop" rather than "Hiyo"

[@Azeria]

datdabdoe ey up

[@elhasmusic]

Ay up

[@kalebbruwer]

I hope someone said "It all goes south from here" after they got the ice loaded.

[@xmlthegreat]

Wahey!

[@krystofdayne]

Since they were Norwegian, I doubt it.

[@beth12svist]

​@@ragnkja Good to know. Not sure I'll ever have any use of that, but good to know. :D (In Czech it's only downhill. We have no cardinal directions equivalent.)

[@hopper1]

Matt should get Mystery Biscuits for the "Ministry of Silly Walks" stage exit.

[@aronsztojka6034]

Why is nobody as amazed as me by Matt's wacky-radio-challenge- voice?

[@Arcturus5]

I mean, you say that Bread Making Hands Man would be the shittiest superhero, but "Yakitate!! Ja-pan", a show about literally that, went on for 69 episodes.

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

6 years late to reply but yes, and they have a villain with pastry hands!!

[@Nastyswimmer]

0:10: The subtitles can't handle Yorkshire - that's " 'ey up", not "hiyo".

[@H3nryum]

I could 100% see a live version like this being VERY popular

[@somecunninglinguist]

With hands warm enough that it's regularly commented on, and as a hobbyist bread maker, I appreciate the start on a personal level

[@wrlrdqueek]

You need a license to use a chainsaw in the UK?

[@TomScottGo]

Not legally! But if you're using one for any sort of company, they'll want proof that you've been properly trained and aren't about to damage property or hurt people.

[@tobygeorgeharribo]

Very much so

[@Cadwaladr]

That's what I was thinking. What happens when your license expires, do they come and take your chainsaw away?

[@Ezzell_]

and his expired? what they afraid he may forget how to be safe?

[@wesmatron]

You don't need a license, but it can help.

[@matthewwalloch6250]

What happens when you ask a wine about a day to give currency to dried grass in the 5th month of the year? chardonnay say nay to hay pay day in may

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

yay!

[@arthurhenriqued.a.ribeiro2078]

Chardonnay say nay to may hay pay day, yay!

[@ThePixel1983]

"You should see me in the freezer! - You SHOULDN'T see me in the freezer!" 😂

[@bl4cksp1d3r]

Still a good one

[@ejewart1450]

0:45 Gary: What have we done..... Created a beloved fixed-cast internet panel show.... seemingly by accident....

[@macalmy6750]

Late pedantry: An Nth implies 1/N where N is a positive integer, which is not the universal answer Gary was trying to sell it as.

[@internetbodhi1009]

For a unit of matter though, it is. 1/96000th melted works just as much as anything

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

i could see this being a BBC show

[@colinbergmann5750]

+NonsensicalVids I could see this being cancelled after two of these fine gentlemen have a scuffle and the show being brought back with 4 humorless oafs.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

Colin Bergmann and the 4 of them being afford a large some of money to do the show on a streaming service, which will be better

[@dawnqwerty]

Its just QI.

[@TheMaximus997]

Fracas*

[@obliviousotterI]

@@dawnqwerty It's QI: Yorkshire Edition

[@scruffyronin9382]

I love how you can tell that they got REALLY side tracked by the fact that Matt lost track of what they were talking about

[@Cinemagic53]

Tom, as a Jungle Cruise Skipper at Disneyland, you have no idea how happy I am to have Albert Schweitzer coming up in conversation here.

[@traisjames2]

I have discovered this entire series and am binging this and ToTPaL. Please resume both of these series!

[@dulcian3230]

Matt: Is 'organist' a subcategory of a physician? Me: Get out!

[@jamesl8640]

Surprised no one seems to have pointed out quite how close Chris was since Google suggests a camel can drink 20 gallons at any one time which is just short of 91 litres (90.922 litres) when the answer was 96

[@geraldhabres]

Seven years and watched 10 times and only now i realised that the 3000 kg of ice are only 3 cubic meters. I always imagined a 40 feet container or something in this scale. Until i watched it today and it comes to me that 1 L = 1 kg and 1000 L are exactly 1 cubic meter...

[@jamesmccann531]

Well, Tom has found a branch of Iceland in Iceland

[@simonro9168]

11:49 Tom, Chris didn't say zero, he said null. Big difference! Maybe there's like a series that explains The Basics of computer science somewhere on KZbin that could tackle that concept.

[@rahonavisostromi9443]

Tom, this is the best thing ever!! Thank you!! :)

[@zyaicob]

Brannan's a damned good singer and we should appreciate that more.

[@paydaygh9388]

Italian Job: no Robot Wars: yes Hotel: Trivago

[@limiNZ]

A CUARR is still my favorite joke from this show ever

[@ciangrant3042]

Matt Gray sits in the freezers and licks everything. That's why mums go to Iceland ;)

[@revelationofapencil]

That just reminded me, the free mystery biscuits are still in my glove box...

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

Are they still there?

[@randomzocker8956]

In austria with our many tunnels u learn in truck driving school that u dont stop in a tunnel if a tire is burning!

[@2thinkcritically]

One can't help but wonder if Radio Luxembourg was inspired by the March 15th 1955 Goon Show episode "The White Box of Great Bardfield", where Neddie Seagoon is given the task of selling snow to Sudan. Makes you think.

[@thetalantonx]

I had to give a little fist pump of victory at guessing the prize correctly. This show's puns were amazing, all the lads were in prime form.

[@JudithOpdebeeck]

like 6 years later: turns out they do have an Iceland in Iceland

[@musabafridi8034]

Tom : Glacier ( Gla see eir) Any Bloke from Manchester : Glashier Chris : Gla see..... Any Bloke from Manchester : Glacier!!

[@bignatehdk3770]

Please do more!!!! I love them so much it’s a comfort Also please put them on podcasts sites

[@futrey9353]

to be fair, chris deserved biscuits for saying that water can't melt

[@MarcelVos]

Ice is just frozen water though, so water can melt.

[@Zichqec]

17:08 you can see there was a cut because Chris reaches for his water, and then in the next shot has clearly just put his water down. What happened during that time, we will never know...

[@cruye9633]

There's an anime about making bread where the protagonist's superpower is having warmer then average hands.

[@kwibloupthesomething]

obviously made by a citation needed fan

[@woodrobin]

14:50 -- a camel can drink up to about 200 liters of water before needing to stop, so 96 liters is actually about 1/2 a camel's worth. That's a lot of water, but then again, it's a long way to the next drink.

[@mindmaster_osu]

Your shirts make a depressing rainbow

[@K321DUB]

6 years later and the iceland in Iceland joke about the uk still hits

[@jeremysmith7176]

And has been confirmed by Tom that there is and iceland in the country of Iceland.

[@korstefan14]

Funny thing: I am currently in Iceland and there is an Iceland supermarket 200m from where I live.

[@killianmontgomery6357]

Fantastic. Wish i had managed to get a ticket in time, both times they were on sale. Looking forward to the next upload.

[@progmetalfan4270]

Extremely late on this, but I’ve just spotted that there are 5 water bottles on stage. I’ve watched through this series at least 3 times, never noticed before. Why are there 5? There’s only 4 of them…

[@sourcererseven3858]

Oh, very nice use of the silly walk there in the end 👍

[@Max_N]

I know I'm really late but were the camels okay? Tom said the water was filled with fiberglass. I'm worried about the Saharan camels that existed decades before I was born! Even the Wikipedia article didn't confirm that the camels were okay. Poor camels 😢 🐫

[@lycandusk7263]

hey look iceland in iceland just like the latest vid from the technical difficulties

[@revelationofapencil]

I was too busy watching this I nearly burnt my beans. I was in the audience anyway!

[@DevilboyScooby]

13:45 Robot Wars reference! Love it 😂

[@tomlofmark8788]

10:08 there is in fact an Iceland In Iceland not too far away from Reykjavík

[@alistpromise648]

There is an Iceland just outside of Reykjavik!

[@Vykk_Draygo]

A chainsaw license? You just blew my mind.

[@Medved290]

I just found this again after passing my driving test last week which made parts of it that bit more funny :-)

[@zeroDOTjon]

Joke after joke for smart people. I love this show.

[@Ischigal]

Since when does YT translate the description and video title? Or did Tom suddenly start posting in german?

[@basmca1]

@Yürüyen Ansiklopedi it's the worst. I skip almost everything on youtube in my native language.

[@ThePixel1983]

It's fan translations I think. Makes it hard to find the video if you know only it's native name.

[@Alexandra-ip2by]

It happens sometimes in danish too

[@beth12svist]

KZbin does that sometimes and it's really the worst because very often the translation is awful; awfully literal so I suspect automatic translation when that happens. Although I guess enthusiastic fans with no translation skills would also explain it; but I've seen different translations of the same video title over time, so I'm still thinking automated. (There is the series "Victorian Way" by English Heritage. The translation into Czech uses the Czech word that means "path", not one that means "the manner of doing something". It's the worst.)

[@henry8777]

Why is Toast now called Chris?

[@tomstech4390]

Henry Phillips that always happens.

[@adamhmobile2911]

never happened

[@derkateramabend]

The thing with Toast never happened

[@twojuiceman]

Never happened

[@1_GigaWaffle]

I don't have enough likes to give this episode XD Laughed all the way, one of the best that I can remember))

[@MianCowell]

highest scoring episode of CN ever

[@disorganizedorg]

Reward for transporting 3 tons of ice to equator? Three tons of water of course.

[@zJoriz]

I swear KZbin has a shortage of like buttons. One simply does not cut it for Technical Difficulties videos.

[@clarkeysam]

Citation Needed is my guilty pleasure!

[@Becky_Cooling]

10:10, i checked on google maps and there are several branches of Iceland in Iceland.

[@MrAntieMatter]

So that's why I like this series.

[@randomguy8107]

To be honest, several presidents went through the step of being the mayor of Paris

[@elhasmusic]

My theory test didn't have the flaming car in a tunnel question on it.

[@klugevil]

I would just like to remind everyone that a show called citation needed does not have citations for where the information comes from well played Tom

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

"Don't Smell it! Don't smell the fish!"

[@noahcalland8316]

A camels worth of water is actually closer to 480 litres. But Chris was still closest.

[@oz_jones]

Price is right -rules, so Chris went over

[@btCharlie_]

I love the live episodes. Is there a way to donate/pay for this serving of pure fun?