Sergeant Reckless and Terry Google: Citation Needed 3x03

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.
BONUS MATERIAL - Bulkbeard and Accidental Woganing: • Bulkbeard and Accident...
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.

[@aidanbrumsickle]

"Most of the horses I've seen were civilians". That's fantastic.

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

Most. Not all... Tinfoil hat

[@kingjames4886]

you're obviously not canadian.

[@bln35]

Natalie McCarthy household cavalry, blues and royals, royal artillery regiment. All of these regiments and more have horses.

[@schlimmbotg472]

@@nataliemccarthy9140 TINFOIL CAT

[@adammullarkey4996]

"The Marines taught Reckless survival skills" isn't nearly as funny when you remember to capitalise the name.

[@chevtothemax]

Adam Mullarkey this comment needs more likes

[@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai]

That could be a garden sentence

[@joecarter2969]

I will admit, I was wondering where the emphasis was

[@thewingedporpoise]

But it's much funnier when imagining Marines training a horse in survival

[@adammullarkey4996]

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.

[@Steaphany]

All my Horses scratch their itchy ears with a foot and maintain standing while doing so, so a Horse could technically salute

[@jordanjohnson714]

k

[@mojosbigsticks]

But not vomit on the trip back to the USA. They got that bit wrong.

[@57thorns]

@@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).

[@lunalovegood2093]

they could do the nazi ones easier

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

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.

[@bobidou23]

"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!

[@AgentTasmania]

bobidou23 Good thing Reckless wasn’t a stallion

[@GumSkyloard]

@@AgentTasmania Or a chicken.

[@kornsuwin]

finally I'm not the only one who's listened to the podcast

[@JustOneAsbesto]

Damn. I was hoping he was going to say she had 51 confirmed kills in a single day.

[@actua99]

That'd have been epic :) Cause of death: Trampled by Sergeant Reckless.

[@TheLargedwarf]

It's quite common to make army animals a higher rank than their handler, making it a military crime to mistreat them.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

That's extremely cool to learn.

[@Alexandra-ip2by]

Aha!

[@NoNameAtAll2]

so it's not a crime to mistreat subordinates???

[@letsplaypetrus4802]

@@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.

[@andrewmassaro7697]

ALL are

[@robmckennie4203]

Would this imply that the USA let female horses serve in the military before female humans?

[@chillinlikeaphilin]

To be fair, that's true of most militaries.

[@zyaicob]

@@chillinlikeaphilin ah but most militaries didn't give them full honours

[@sidarthur8706]

even honouring a hard working horse can be given a negative spin by these nutters

[@AgentTasmania]

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.

[@SamAronow]

Thre were female humans in the US Marines in World War II.

[@kalashnikovdevil]

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.

[@thequeenofspades]

Gary needs to start a kickstarter for his comic autobiography of Sgt. Reckless.

[@thequeenofspades]

Nillie Or did she? You'll have to buy the comic to find out the startling truth!

[@Brannersatlarge]

Top fact: I can't draw a convincing looking horse. At all. They just look like fat donkeys.

[@actua99]

Nillie Preferrably one who can draw the 'horse in the lift'-scene, that'd be really nice :)

[@SerialElfYT]

@@ragnkja Unless you stylize it as an autobiography, seriously been done.

[@justananonymousperson7011]

I am now imagining "Mad" jack churchill riding sgt reckless into battle

[@myladycasagrande863]

Nah, she'd have ridden him!

[@ODISeth]

I’ve been re-watching every episode of the Technical Difficulties on KZbin, 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

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

You buggers! This shit's really addictive!!!!!

[@superhorse7191]

David Andrews is a moron

[@hammer_ttk]

@@superhorse7191 is just an alias for Sargent Reckless

[@meetaverma8372]

True

[@Nulono]

14:05 Actually, horses are incapable of vomiting.

[@d3xbot]

anarchy with the mystery biscuits

[@mezz09smezzanine]

C'mon Matt! How did you miss the opportunity to say "HORSEpital"

[@mtty1988]

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

[@anter176]

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.

[@GlassCurtain]

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. :)

[@dbseamz]

I was just distracted laughing at the accidental John Mulaney reference of "There's a horse loose in the hospital!"

[@filmgekko]

This show is literally the best thing I've found on KZbin 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!

[@iriscandy6377]

Honestly when Chris said "b a n g" I actually cried.

[@MorRobots]

Hands down one of the best episodes

[@sillydrizzy2985]

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

[@chinangel]

i knew someone who got kicked in the crotch by a horse hard enough to physically pick him up and huck him backwards.

[@patrickscholl2484]

an antipersonelle mine explodes after you let go because then it ties up multiple people trying to save the guy on the mine, and opens them up to sniper fire and ambush.

[@patrickscholl2484]

in addition to what was mentioned

[@Cross31415]

One of the absolute best you've ever done. This was amazing!

[@kicksledkid]

Boston Dynamics are now owned by Hyundai Automation, and I don't know if it's better

[@JudithOpdebeeck]

here's the thing: you asked that kitten question as an archivist question (which makes sense, given you had a professional at the table), but in archives the filing is all based on the collection as it arrives at the archive. so then there may not be any intrinsic connection between the file and what its filed between. like if you have an archive of pets, with a bunch of cats, and then you get the archive of someone who has a bunch of dogs, and one kitten, you're not gonna put that kitten with the cats like you would in a library (where you'd probably not even keep it, if you already had a kitten in the collection), you're gonna keep that group of pets together.

[@DarkYuan]

I think it would be great if the animators that sometimes cover YogPod would do these episodes. That would be hilarious!

[@amber-1481]

I can imagine Reckless setting the explosions off behind it and the person on top is shooting people with a rifle

[@remainingquestions904]

I love this so much it's ridiculous! Also, the bit about filing cats and kittens, I found it interesting...

[@Wifi_Cable]

I could not breathe during half this episode I laughed so much.

[@maxximumb]

***** I just watched this episode with KZbin's automatic subtitles, and hilarious is a severe understatement.

[@Thiefree]

This series really doesn't get the attention it merits, y'know.

[@adrianvenegas1700]

That was the most hilariously tranquil episode so far. Keep 'em coming! Cheers from Mexico! :D

[@thomas89865]

Terry Google and Tim Apple

[@icedragonair]

Has to be 2 monocles, horses have monocular vision.

[@wirelessliquid]

What happened to toms face? like the plaster

[@TomScottGo]

I've been trying to edit round it, but it's getting increasingly visible as the series goes on! We filmed this two weeks after my accident in Italy, and I'd only just had the stitches out :)

[@Ashmelech]

***** How is that anyway? Looking/Feeling any better?

[@novaryx]

+iGeek no, when he was at Ai Pioppi he ran too fast and fell over, hitting his head on a railing that was sharp

[@joshuahadams]

Terrance Google & Sons Long-Distance Library Telegram you a list, then post you your request.

[@frankharr9466]

That is what the Department of Agriculture should have done. It's up to her unit to understand the necessary procedures.

[@crystals-r2551]

There's a horse loose in the ballroom!

[@umgubularslashkilter9272]

exasperated tom scott is the best tom scott

[@Mousy677]

actually you could, very easily, collect a pigeon from trafalgar square. throw a jacket or blanket on it.

[@ArdisMeade]

Chris is an ornithologist. I don't think catching a pigeon would take all that much effort for him.

[@TomJainKing]

This is fucking hilarious !

[@MikeRees]

Surely riding the horse through a minefield isn't much safer than walking through one? First mine takes the horse, you fall off onto another one assuming the first doesn't take you too.

[@wk4958]

Just noticed the marks on Tom's left side of his face, anybody know what happened?

[@chrisneary8538]

I really want my own VTOL horse now

[@em__1]

12:54 Henricus!

[@PsychoticusRex]

MOAR! XD

[@dan_spark9115]

12:24 I will. Be disappointed of this never becomes a movie

[@biocode4478]

Can you actually make a single visor like glass that doesn't look incredibly silly? It still needs to contain two distinct lenses for the two eyes. I don't see how you can seamlessly merge them.

[@bobwebster835]

there are two lenses on glasses because each eye needs it's own prescription (i know someone who's a -1.75, -2.75. i bet they're dizzy there w/o their glasses)

[@Roshkin]

+1 stolen biscuits

[@funkeypigeon]

Hilarious!

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

+DJPigeon dunno about that ... the winner won you!

[@yaboyjmatth]

I would love to be able to listen to this on something like soundcloud or a podcast manager like Overcast or iTunes podcast! Is this possible or is this only a youtube thing at the moment?

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

Joshua Matthews Or you could just download the video...

[@yaboyjmatth]

Jack Evans sure that's an option, but that's not an option that I was asking about.

[@odyseya]

Google podcasts? (Im from future, dont freak out)

[@kwibloupthesomething]

@@odyseya I don’t think they have youtube video podcasts..

[@majorfallacy5926]

Does tom have a black eye in this one?

[@IAmMyOwnApprentice]

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?"

[@actua99]

I'd love to see that one :D Will you send it in?

[@TheAlps36]

+Trenchcoat1Sword Time to rein in this myth

[@DarkYuan]

+Trenchcoat1Sword Although, they did just do hovercrafts over mine fields.

[@sam0fc325]

Well not anyone

[@ourboyroy9398]

rip mythbusters

[@isaacverhelst3983]

Recently found out my grandfather served with Sgt. Reckless. I was so proud

[@katievids6816]

Isaac Verhelst hey my great grandfather trained him

[@EE-sw3uh]

Katie Vids her* but cool!

[@schlimmbotg472]

I'm jealous. More than I should

[@gapetheapegod7976]

@@EE-sw3uh it is a horse it doesn't matter

[@Fruktig_Varukorg]

@@gapetheapegod7976 I think it absolutely does

[@desromic]

1:15 My privates are out-ranked by horses as well. I'll admit it. :P

[@JustAshUwU]

Clever boy this comment needs more likes 😂

[@itspice8737]

classic

[@Jvenoia]

Most people's are

[@martijnvanweele6204]

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.

[@schlimmbotg472]

The problem is: my imagination from the topic mixes reality and their imagination

[@boabuin1151]

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

[@TheHorseOutside]

Jack Churchill, Julie D’aubigny, Sergeant Reckless

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

@@TheHorseOutside And Juan Pujol García, for good measure

[@tommykarrick9130]

Except for Jack Churchill, in which case their imaginations were only able to conjure something about a tenth as badass as the real thing

[@johnbeauvais3159]

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?"

[@tennies]

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.

[@snowfloofcathug]

Joe Tennies to be fair, that sounds more adorable than terrifying

[@imark7777777]

So what's this or was this not cosplay from Cowboy Bebop? Sounded wonderful though.

[@ArdisMeade]

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.

[@ahuddleofpenguins4842]

15:16 you can hear Matt struggle to find the word carousel and not say horse tornado.

[@woodsytheowlscharedcorpse4761]

Rewatching this just makes me disappointed that we never had an episode about Wojtek, The Soldier Bear.

[@kornsuwin]

too well known

[@cheesekingofdenmark6910]

We need someone to animate "The Adventures of Sergent Reckless"

[@schlimmbotg472]

Qxir. Definitely Qxir

[@imark7777777]

And don't forget to take inspiration from Cowboy Bebop

[@impishDullahan]

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.

[@Wesrl]

Jack and this horse in ww2 would have killed every Nazi they could find

[@blaster1185]

YES! GO JACK AND THE HORSE!!! Btw obviously the zip line would be rocket powered!

[@timothymclean]

I'm trying to think of a way Julie D'Aubigny could fit into this...can two swordspeople ride a horse at once?

[@eamesaerospace2805]

Yep

[@acoolerhandle]

I say they come from the top of the funnel. They do have ladders one them.

[@PinkThorn242]

Also Anti-Tank mines are more blast-based, whereas Anti-Personnel mines are more shrapnel heavy.

[@ltericdavis2237]

Alright, somebody get to work on the Sergeant Reckless comic book! Now!

[@DarkYuan]

+Factoid I think it would be great if the animators that sometimes cover YogPod would do these episodes. That would be hilarious!

[@lividsoda]

+DᴀʀᴋYᴜᴀɴ YES.

[@SnowDemonAkuma]

You don't salute Sergeants, Tom! They work for a living! Even if they're horses.

[@geranmcbride138]

SnowDemonAkuma Ground control to major Tom?

[@sesamstraathooligan9587]

A horse in a ballgown with medals in a lift is among the funniest mental images I've ever had

[@JudithOpdebeeck]

also 2:26: Tom explaining glasses to THE ONE PERSON AT THE TABLE CURRENTLY WEARING GLASSES!

[@samreid6010]

Now I want to know if Sgt Reckless received custom dress blues to wear. That would look awesome

[@HayleyJeffs]

I love the amount of time they spent discussing and rationalising glass for a horse! "Formation skydiving" nearly made me spit my drink out.

[@NicklasUlvnas]

"Sergeant Reckless the movie", A blockbuster waiting to happen!

[@harveywatson3018]

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.

[@Luca-jy8ne]

Harvey Watson didn't they use that in the meantime? I kinda got deja vu from reading that :D

[@jamesl8640]

@@Luca-jy8ne kind of a mix of two there. Bert baccarat sack and crack And Jack Black something ass crack.

[@undeniablySomeGuy]

Was Sergeant Reckless ever ridden by Jack Churchill?

[@silvercomic]

How would you even go about horse optometry? You can't ask the horse if its vision gets better.

[@maxximumb]

silvercomic Stomp once for lens one or twice for lens two. How else would they do it?

[@vmrenadi]

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.

[@scasino9358]

Ivan Peterson i can confirm every single word of that, i went through the exact same experience.

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@maxximumb Like Clever Hans?

[@edwinkjellzahn]

The horse was known as originally named "아침해" (Ah Chim Hai, Korean pronunciation: [a tsim hæ]) in Korean, which translates to "Morning Sun"

[@matth1839]

5:44 That was pretty much my reaction when I heard that Google had bought Boston Dynamics.

[@Boggythefroggy]

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.

[@joshyoung1440]

@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.

[@Zelmel]

No alliteration for the prize at the end?!

[@NijosoSefzaps]

Zelmel I know right? I was waiting for it.

[@stepanlutchenkov5894]

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

[@namenamename390]

I do love the fact that this _horse_ technically outranked some humans in the military. Imagine you go through the brutal process of becoming a soldier only to be outranked by a former race horse.

[@kiwigaming09]

Someone said that's common for the handlers so that mistreatment is technically a military crime

[@jan-Sopija]

8:36 one might call them illicit biscuits of illiscuts

[@tripleb5197]

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.

[@jamesmccann531]

Not that they dont mistreat the dogs, but to make it a punishable offence for doing so

[@Fetch26291]

This episode is actually mentioned in the Wikipedia article about Sargeant Reckless.

[@jocax188723]

Every single member of a military or uniformed group: “YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SALUTE SERGEANTS YOU NUMPTIES”

[@michaeltonge1971]

The big question that nobody asked is what did the horse spend its sergeants pay on?

[@rashkavar]

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.

[@xplinux22]

Damn, it's three years later that I watch this episode, and I had no idea that Boston Dynamics were purchased by Google.

[@CBG232x5]

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.

[@lars0me]

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?

[@iriscandy6377]

I can just imagine Julie D'Aubigbyn riding Sgt. Reckless into the night

[@robertwilloughby8050]

What, so you would have Julie add bestiality to her sexual activity?

[@iriscandy6377]

@@robertwilloughby8050 Eeyyyyy don't twist my words you furry peice of sh*t

[@bpery1614]

surely the prize for Matt guessing that a horse had been involved in an amphibious landing should be Mystery Seabiscuits?

[@DevArts]

I love this show :) makes my day

[@Schenkel101]

Funny that they described "If Google Was a Guy"

[@spider5600]

Sergeant Reckless this is Private Browsing. Private Browsing this is Sergeant Reckless, you will both report to General Motors and General Waste at 09 hundred hours.

[@exorikk]

Fun fact: Boston Dynamics was bought by the Japanese based SoftBank Group in 2017.

[@Era1113]

I really want to see a graphic novel detailing your version of the exploits of Sargent Reckless