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We challenged you to work out where we watched the eclipse from. Here's how well you did!
MATT: / mattgrayyes | TOM: / tomscottgo
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(The title is serious)

[@frankthetank2550]

I love how Matt can instantaneously convert Fahrenheit to Celsius but keeps calling Southwest "bottom left"

[@RainyFoxUwU]

it's your own ignorance that makes you think that. actual perspective, relative to the uk he is correct.

[@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844]

@@RainyFoxUwU southwest is southwest regardless of where you are though, and it doesn't require you to memorise a conversion that you probably don't use too often.

[@weijuw]

@@RainyFoxUwU I think it's just the fact that he seems to not be able to do compass directions but be very good converting numbers which most people would think is harder

[@NotKyleChicago]

Does he ever fly on "bottom left airlines"?

[@munjee2]

12:14 I was legitimately off guard by him actually using a cardinal direction

[@radagastwiz]

As for why the pigeons showed up - they saw mostly-stationary humans, not being overly loud or obnoxious. The typical behaviour of a human who might toss out some feed....

[@chistinelane]

Poor pigeons

[@ashtonhoward5582]

They were staging a coup. Also, they're in Chile, the source of all pigeons.

[@EmyrDerfel]

A coo?

[@lauraireson6358]

Ashton Howard You’ve five minutes to leave, and your family too.

[@monad_tcp]

@@ashtonhoward5582 pigeons are preparing an air strike, run away as fast as you can

[@vikingsoftomorrow4038]

You know, if Tom ever got kidnapped, he wouldn't have much to worry about.

[@diegosanchez894]

It's because he always knows where he is

[@OrangeC7]

Either that or he would have a lot to worry about, depending on exactly who it is that is kidnapping him

[@TheFartGod69]

@@diegosanchez894 oh ok thanks for the explaining the joke

[@diegosanchez894]

@@TheFartGod69 i didn't actually, i made another, different joke based on the same premise.

[@yitzakIr]

I'm here in a kidnapper's boot

[@ozarkpossum61]

Fun fact: Sparta Missouri's highschool mascot is the......Trojans.

[@grand-dadmiral]

Wait a minute! How did this happen, we're smarter than this!

[@knecht6974]

Our partner school in america is the bowling green highschool, their schoolcolor is purpel...

[@jacobmartin8332]

My school plays against them sometimes (though we are a district lower). I get worked up every time we see them.

[@futureshock382]

America is a strange place, full of contradictions

[@matthewjoines8017]

same with sparta NC

[@kabobawsome]

These people must be the best at Geoguesser.

[@sierra991]

Geoguessr*

[@wyhiobcarlile4879]

woo i got a perfect score on this round of guesser, all it cost was 27 years, my wife's life to the blood god, my sanity, however much a world tour costs, and saying the metric system was worse then the customary system.

[@billywhizz09]

Isn’t there a time limit

[@horseenthusiast1250]

AmberAmbitions I used to sit next to a guy in my accounting class who played Geoguessr almost all the time, and one time he got dropped in the middle of the town next to ours, and we both laughed at that, since it was such a funny coincidence. The whole damn world and Geoguessr picks Arcata lmao

[@jyrgenruut]

@@horseenthusiast1250 Has happened to me as well... well, not next town over but more like... 30 kilometers and a place I would have visited often :P

[@heatheryoung1951]

I can verify that Idaho is a conspiracy, I drove through it once. It was essentially a void with a small pile of potatoes, And the little keychains with names on them that you find in gift shops.

[@vnleao]

hannah young I have relatives who live in Idaho, I can confirm it's a conspiracy

[@heatheryoung1951]

PreposterousWorld I'm sorry but they aren't real

[@vnleao]

hannah young Then is the conspiracy not real as well?! How many lies have I been fed?!?

[@heatheryoung1951]

PreposterousWorld no the conspiracy is real. You were hallucinating your grandparents.

[@nicolacornolti7796]

It's hilarious how America has the same joke Italy has about a part of it that doesn't exist

[@adamkirsopp492]

Despite all this geekyness, Tom still said that the difference between 2.78 and 2.75 meters is 30cm but its 3cm

[@marjavanderwind4251]

I was searching for this comment and hoped it was already there and here you are. Thank you

[@lrizzard]

actually not necessarily correct, he says 2.78 and 2.75 meters away (from the right spot) and since he is measuring this radially from that spot, its possible that they were 30cm apart from each other if thats what he meant

[@lrizzard]

he said 30 again while comparing the distances so you were indeed correct

[@linforcer]

No, he just has a very weird way of pronouncing the word "millimeter"

[@eekee6034]

I make this mistake all the time. I find it really hard to look at decimal meters and pick out the centimeters, and it often goes wrong. I guess it's because I'm used to dividing digits into blocks of 3, not 2.

[@JuxtaposedStars]

...apparently I was not crazy and Tom WAS on my flight back from the eclipse!

[@trucookieq4469]

you legend.

[@kwibloupthesomething]

**jealousy**

[@small_SHOT]

*_N i c e !_*

[@Mollymog]

Wow

[@allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164]

Mashallah tbark Allah alhamudillah inshallah better astgfrallah

[@colaocha1115]

I'd listen to 21 pigeons, they're quite coo

[@davidoh14]

This made my day

[@snekaroo1397]

God you're going places

[@legendarytat8278]

*cool (jk)

[@Corbynyt]

Goel V he... he literally said he was joking.... (r/itswooooshwith4os)

[@raisedheart]

I love their song, Isle of flying birds

[@megs2244]

"they just got scared off by a bigger bird" "oh yeah thats a helicopter"

[@Equa11ysurl]

So you’re implying a helicopter isn’t a bird?

[@fyoozhn]

@@Equa11ysurl neither of them are birds, the so called "birds" are government drones...

[@FlauntyToaster]

@@fyoozhn Helicopters are known as Whirly Birds

[@SlowBrakes]

"That was a tit, but I just didn't get my camera out in time" is the maddest sentence ever

[@michaelacobb1209]

“That was a camera, but I just didn’t get my tit out in time.” -i’m so sorry, it had to be said

[@supremecalamitas342]

@@michaelacobb1209 "Sun Tzu said that!"

[@comrademuds1951]

@@supremecalamitas342 "And I'd say he knows a little more about birds than you do, pal!"

[@supremecalamitas342]

@@comrademuds1951 I am so proud of this community

[@chezcake256]

@@comrademuds1951 “because he invented them!”

[@chistinelane]

Don't tempt the internet. Really, don't, we have nothing better to do with our time and practically infinite resources

[@johnnyfrankenstein0123]

@@perkyelixir2254 *too many* virtual resources

[@howardbaxter2514]

The Internet is both a great and scary thing.

[@Buzumba]

Ok solve world hunger.

[@kidneystones3578]

@@Buzumba The internet won't do anything productive though.

[@Roatsky]

@@Buzumba Uranium has 20 billion calories so just feed people uranium, what could go wrong?

[@Luca-iq4ev]

Now we know why the park bench is gone. They tried to stop you from putting up the tripod and thought that if they remove the bench you will go away.

[@CharlesVanNoland]

Haven't you heard? Parks aren't for enjoying anymore! They're just exhibits for observing while in transit.

[@possessedllama]

Next they'll remove the park ...

[@CharlesVanNoland]

That's right! They'll replace it with a prison!... for babies!

[@jony4real]

Park Overlord: But how can you film a Park Bench... WITHOUT A BENCH?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Matt and Tom decide to sit on a wall instead Park Overlord: Blast, foiled again!

[@johnna1234]

How do you prounonce your last name luca

[@gbm6882]

I have a feeling tom’s favorite red is shirt

[@jerry4747]

What

[@sumairb9978]

Yeah and my favourite Tom Scott is KZbin channel

[@Equa11ysurl]

My favorite video on this comment

[@narhwallord6985]

And your favorite orange is guitar?

[@SirSpiro]

@@jerry4747 yes

[@natalie-1592]

50% documenting their trip. 50% pigeons

[@mattandtom]

For those asking: many public places don't allow professional filming/photography without permission and classify anything with a tripod under this. --Matt

[@Mittau]

For a nation so obsessed with putting CCTV everywhere Brits seem to have a bizarre over-regulation of where one is allowed to film.

[@JSAnstock]

not just the uk. Went to Herculanium and Rome they get stroppy about monopods in historic areas as well

[@littledarkstranger8111]

Mittau Not just the Brits, Ireland has a few places (like the Phoenix Park for example) with the same rules, and I've heard of it in other countries too. Some don't really like any public filming at all....

[@kmca1495]

Matt and Tom thats Tennessee right

[@columbus8myhw]

'Course not. It attracts pigeons.

[@PetriCour]

Idaho is real. Don't come here. Leave us alone.

[@wormswithteeth]

Cour Ah, the state slogan!

[@fex144]

No it isn't, Cour is french, you are in Toulouse!

[@procactus9109]

Australia is fake, Don't come here either.

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

fex144 cour d'alene

[@smokingsamosa]

B-b-but the b-52's said to "get out of that state" in Private Idaho

[@TheAAkins]

I’ve been a fan of Tom’s for years... I’m from Texas, and to realize that we were in the same small town in IL on the same day at the same time proves to me just how small the world really is.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

I can't imagine how fan-girrly you woulda bin if you'd met him.

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

"We're done in 2 minutes" Takes 3 minutes Cheeky

[@trucookieq4469]

2.55492188199548397528785742572458499385835439992288527728266927818185991005492001001010034310210214320400080800530030385004006389093003002238895295759343339999995443922888843753235344 minutes actually. How precise is that again?

[@coachbobbarnes8715]

Tru forgot the "ish"!!!

[@SobrietyandSolace]

Scrolled down for this

[@andymiller1597]

@@trucookieq4469 unfortunately you are in 5th place, there are people a few decimal places closer

[@ryanl8226]

If they are ever kidnapped in the middle of a video, we now know who to call.

[@GregStachowski]

Ghostbusters, obviously.

[@ProtoGhostal1701]

What if they're kidnapped by people who are only *mostly* dead, Greg?

[@GregStachowski]

- Dead: Ghostbusters - Mostly Dead: The Winchesters - Alive: The A-Team

[@emilyparchet3098]

Greg Stachowski What was the joke?

[@RealCadde]

So the kidnappers will edit and upload the video?

[@codedgoat3868]

Get a quad-pod instead of try-pod. they can't get you then.

[@maudrid]

CodedGoat ;3 quad - pods are wobbly

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Uni-pod.

[@ashtonhoward5582]

Or a bipod, but then you need a mercenary to aim the now sniper-like camera.

[@nikolaiblm1255]

qint-pods

[@aka9978]

A stack of books

[@brownishblue]

Parks have taken a dive the past few years it seems. Benches disappearing, pigeons everywhere.. tits laying around...

[@leon_brave_racing898]

😂

[@Emira_75]

What’s wrong with tits and pigeons

[@bzqp2]

And no tripods allowed for some reason.

[@kanchanchaudhary1973]

They're called Chickadees here in the US...

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Benches disappearing is because heartless bastards who hate the homeless

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

I actually do this sort of work for a living and it's surprising to me how people think they can't be found doing this. It's really quite easy once you know how to do it. Honestly, 10 people got close enough for the data to validate a drone strike.

[@clayel1]

tom scott could just pull out a turing test paradox thingy on the drone strike and hed be fine, no worries

[@monhi64]

It’s definitely not easy IMO especially not all locations but there are enough people that can do it with disturbing accuracy. You have to know AN immense amount of information about geography, climate, biology, geology, down to local laws and customs like how a certain place might make signs or line up roads. Except in the cases where you already know you’re searching in a reasonably small area like a state or not huge country then it can get super easy

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

The level of geekery here is astounding and laudable. Thank you for all your participation everyone!

[@Fattingly]

😂

[@improvisedclassicsofficial]

😆

[@theomnipotentcreator1109]

😩

[@surplusvalue3271]

😟

[@talesoftheinlandseas5063]

🤮

[@syarrum6]

Aw darn 5th place. It was a little more than just street view. I started with street view, 33 degrees ment it couldn't be Nebraska. And I figured somewhere around the longest duration of totality. Needed a paved road, east to west, telephone poles to the north and a bend if the road to the north at the front of the car. I found a similar road near Perryville airport that did have street view but the road was dashed and not two solid lines, so looked in that area and was able to narrow it down with satellite view. Fun game, and huge waste of time.

[@GregStachowski]

Well done! TBH any one of the last few could have been the closest, I was just lucky!

[@syarrum6]

Yeah right, congrats to you! I did not expect so many to be so close.

[@SeanNicholsEh]

Good job, Greg!

[@modakshantanu]

Well done if you got to the top 7-8! That's close enough for all practical stalking purposes. Might even be within margin of error for GPS.

[@syarrum6]

It's a little disconcerting what you can do with a little information and google.

[@prim16]

3ː07 "Very few people know anything about Idaho, I'm not entirely sure it exists". Tom, you're more American than you give yourself credit for.

[@jaimeparker2161]

yellowstone is in idaho

[@duffinthemuffin5792]

@@jaimeparker2161 utah.

[@alexwinters9330]

@@duffinthemuffin5792 its shared between states

[@moroni8299]

iv been to idaho

[@bobbobberson5371]

@@jaimeparker2161 only a smidge of it

[@fuumax7969]

"They just got scared off by a bigger bird" "hahaa, that's a helicopter"

[@scrumpeldwarf]

I love how when asked to not use the tripod tom pretty much just said "piss off for a couple minutes I'm just about done"

[@scootergrant8683]

Why would a tripod now be allowed in a park?

[@polarisraven5613]

I'm also wondering why that is. Common tripping hazard or something along those lines?

[@d11palmer]

@@scootergrant8683 They covered it in another Park Bench episode at one point. Tripod is sometimes seen as the grey boundary between amateur recording and professional. Professional production requires permission and payment.

[@mikehunt545]

Where are they filming? Here bums are allowed to defile entire parks

[@stotheh]

@@scootergrant8683 might technically be private land (with public access)?

[@PaulGerarts]

Isn't it 2.78m and 2.75m is 3cm difference

[@dudds6699]

Actually its a 30mm difference ;-)

[@Craydy]

30mm = 3cm...

[@pastrami4406]

Sure let's go with that

[@EcceJack]

Oh god, yes, 3 cm!!!! Matt and Tom need to be made aware of that :D

[@dudds6699]

That is the joke

[@DoovidToonet]

I'm watching from Idaho, just wanted to confirm that the entire state is actually a potato farm. Everyone who says otherwise is wrong.

[@duckrutt]

You say that but I can't think of a lawful reason for one state to need that many potato batteries. Sure it looks legit from orbit but you could be powering one heck of a SEMP field. Dinosaurs? Aliens? A lost Amazonian tribe? Mole people? I'm on to you Idaho....

[@loganpaul2137]

The Normie yes. Even I am a potato.

[@lifedecoded9842]

Idaho doesn't exist

[@diamondflaw]

I'm in north Idaho and Yes Man is correct, Idaho doesn't actually exist. If you're looking for somewhere to relocate to from California, Oregon and Washington are lovely.

[@9HighFlyer9]

diamondflaw having tried to find Idaho once I can confirm only Coeur d'Alene exists.

[@kilikx1x]

I agree this is genuinely disturbing when you really think about it.

[@kaldo8907]

Why's that?

[@Mr_Doogz]

Hmmm, an extremely short video with nothing but a corn field ,a moth and the sky and people were able to trace down to a meters distance yeah, not disturbing at all

[@jamesharding3459]

@@Mr_Doogz I almost said I’m glad there’s no one who wants to track me down, and then I realized I’m getting checked for a clearance. DoD’s probably calling everyone up to my kindergarten teacher with how long it’s taking.

[@CommentCritic]

Georeferencing and determining someone's position using a single photo, with enough clues, is pretty straightforward if you have the knowledge. When you have a video, its even better, as there are many more clues and data points. Remember, people are doing this using tools available to the public and for free. I do it as a gag with friends saying "Betcha I know where this is!" and return with an answer sometime later. Its genuinely scary what we can do with today's technology.

[@Vanda-il9ul]

I was surprised by what I have heard in the news/commentary. Because of the Russian-Ukrainian war, they were discussing the services providing secret information ... somone says that the open sources and commercial too are the best these days because nobody can shield them really successfully (they compared them to some more traditional ones). So social media, commercial satellites, ... and a few sources. Being able to read them successfully is the special knowledge. (Nobody says they do not obtain the info from other ones, just surprisingly a lot of it comes form these ones.)

[@solracer66]

I've done that many times with historical photos, it's great fun when everything in the photo has changed...

[@jameswalker199]

I scared myself finding where a friend lived using only OSINT (Open Source INTelligence, using publicly available data to gather intelligence).

[@oz_jones]

"it's easy if you know the answer"

[@TheDanielCoyle]

As someone who does a lot of night photography in London, I regularly get asked to stop using a tripod, as most places are owned by private companies. Ironically, if I had a professional camera I wouldn't need a tripod, so that rule mainly affects amateurs

[@57thorns]

Digital stabilizing is a thing these days, and many other rigs. But that is not just for pros anymore either. It is an outdated rule, but the idea is that a more typical professional outfit includes teams of people with light rigs and sound technicians etc. You do want to control those.

[@tomkenning5482]

You may still need one if you're doing long exposures

[@alexandramcginnis8872]

Professional photographer with professional camera use tripod. They help stabilize your photo and can make great photo. There this one dude who is a Des monies Iowa photographer and he does great city landscapes with a tripod

[@Knakkerman-]

Why are you not allowed to use a tripod?

[@hornyfuckinturtle]

Because they can charge money for it

[@Ethan-3369]

Wow it was so funny I watched the Eclipse from Chester and someone said two guys from britian came through Chester. When I say the video I thought how interesting it would be if that was you two but i didn't put in a guess because I thought that their was no way it was you two.

[@jesusgonzalez6715]

Ethan3369 what are the odds?

[@GryphLane]

I'll take Things That Didn't Happen for 300 please.

[@Cyortonic]

@@GryphLane Just because your life sucks ass and us boring doesn't mean everyone else's is.

[@GarretRB]

@@Cyortonic honestly I believe this happened because it's so boring that it's believable.

[@EMETRL]

​@@GryphLane Seeing a couple of british geeks in the middle of nowhere in the US would be the most interesting thing to happen to me, if I were there. I'd probably tell someone about it, and given the solar eclipse is happening, it's likely for someone who knows tom to have also been close by. It doesn't matter if Ethan3369 was that guy, or if he made it up. It probably happened to SOMEONE, like it did to the lucky dude at walmart. Sometimes it doesn't matter whether a story is true. Lighten up.

[@BorealBlizzard]

"MO looked like it has the best weather" Me who lives in MO: "This baby can go form 0F to 100F in 2 days!"

[@Nobody-pv9jt]

I'm glad you didn't add "slaps roof of car"

[@abstractassassin8767]

Bro one moment it is storming next moment it is snowing (This was observed in St. Charles)

[@mathewseandre]

How much is that on Celsius?

[@supremecalamitas342]

*slaps the roof of the car*

[@supremecalamitas342]

@@Nobody-pv9jt I'm glad you have a limited lifespan, let me have my goddamn memes!

[@risick7649]

Idaho is real wyoming however is a chunk error

[@StoneWeevil]

Wyoming is actually an exclave of Oregon, similar to how Maine used to be an exclave of Massachusetts.

[@jewishautisticnerd3874]

I wish

[@maxscribner1743]

"nebraska." *zooms into kansas*

[@dumploid]

Max Scribner what’s the difference?

[@therealdave06]

He couldn't otherwise he would've clicked on a marker

[@triple7marc]

@@therealdave06 You zoom in Google Earth by scrolling.

[@therealdave06]

@@triple7marc you can zoom by double clicking to zoom on a certain place. Also he was on a laptop with no mouse so how can he scroll you imbecile

[@triple7marc]

@@therealdave06 Any laptop made in the last 20 years allow you to scroll by dragging two fingers up or down.

[@scaevolaludens679]

This is some "He will not divide us" level precision

[@idkwhattoputhere4695]

Triggering Shia

[@ShroudedWolf51]

Ugh. I'm still annoyed that this is what people decided to attack with their great powers.

[@jameswalker199]

To be fair, it was a pretty great display of unity. Some rich guy stood up and proudly took up opposition against a political leader, that simple act immediately causing division. Conversely an entire planet banded together to tell the rich guy to get off his damn soap box.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Internet Historian?

[@r.mishra6725]

Despite ideologically opposing them,Respect to the btards over at /pol/

[@aidenbagshaw5573]

"... in a big population centre, wi-- THERE ARE MORE PIGEONS!!!"

[@FourOf92000]

_Napoleon Dynamite_ was filmed, and takes place, in Idaho. You now know a thing about Idaho.

[@TheGreatCooLite]

Dang i never knew that

[@samiuddin328]

Liar your probably one of the people who started the conspiracy about the non-existent Idaho

[@kyrab7914]

Thank you, I will now promptly forget it

[@camdenretter3226]

I live in Idaho, its totally a conspiracy dont come here

[@Jojoscotia]

When I did a broadcast production degree one of the things I learned was that in public parks which were owned by the local authority (in Scotland) professional filming was not allowed but amateur filming was. The only way to differentiate was whether there was a tripod involved. I never really believed that (although I never tested it) until now...

[@PhoebeHB]

Jojo Scotia Do you listen to Hello Internet? CGP Grey recently said on an episode that he and his wife wanted to take nice photos of themselves in Traflagar Square, got their v early so there wouldn't be anyone in the background (and specifically so as not to annoy anyone) but even though there was no one holding the camera, the fact that they were using a tripod was apparently enough for a security guard to ask them to leave.

[@Robertising]

Jojo Scotia o

[@peter_smyth]

You should make a quadrapod to get around the rules.

[@CJT3X]

So just use a shoulder rig...

[@simontay4851]

Use a small portable folding table instead.

[@heatheryoung1951]

1200? Damn, that's more people than I am.

[@EcceJack]

xD I don't know why, but but this really cracked me up. Thanks for that :D

[@heatheryoung1951]

EcceJack anytime 😛

[@TheCalmPsycho]

Your joke from years past has achieved the ability to make a future person smile. I am grateful to you, Hunter Young.

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

And to this day, it keeps giving

[@sugreF_YT]

This is probably Rainbolt's origin story.

[@alfredjonathankwak955]

When you looked into the camera and said "ALFRED...", you scared me because it felt like you were speaking directly to me

[@thriceandonce]

Tom getting distracted by birds continues to be my favourite thing ever

[@domy6827]

The collective skills of the internet are terrifying

[@steviejrr]

this guy looks in his early 20's but the gray hair makes him look 60

[@badredraws]

He's like 35 as well

[@EvanAviator]

36*

[@urmaisgay6495]

tom is timeless

[@anbu1325]

@@urmaisgay6495 true

[@vizzy61]

@Urma Isgay tom is eternal

[@omardude39]

"21 Pigeons, that's a band". I knew 😂

[@GLRaema]

Now you know what people do when they're bored and there isn't really a big reward for it. Imagine what they could do if there was an actual incentive behind it.

[@user-zl1fx3lw9c]

They actually do less. Some experiments have shown that volunteers work more and enjoy themselves more at the same task than people who are paid. Once money comes into the equation, they stop thinking of it as a fun way to pass time and start thinking of it more like a job. So then the 'is it worth it?' question comes into the equation.

[@aimelle3]

The fact that Matt lived in Chester at one point has been mentioned in a Citation Needed video. So it wasn't unknown info, but it was pretty obscure.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

I recognise that tree generation, see you soon.

[@ScribblenautMaxwell]

Is this a minecraft reference or have I gone mad?

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@ScribblenautMaxwell yes

[@aladvs]

@@ScribblenautMaxwell yes, specifically 2b2t

[@realzener1918]

@@aladvs 2b2t the 10000 hours queue

[@aladvs]

@@realzener1918 priority queue

[@SteelyEyedMissileDan]

I was born in and currently reside within the boundaries of a space called “Idaho Falls.” I can confirm that it does not exist. Now that I’m actually having a look around, it seems to be a vast and formless void.

[@Joseph125]

"Hi, I'm Matt" "And I'm Tom" "And this is Sparta"

[@Morten_S_Olesen]

So guys if you ever get lost somewhere and for some wierd reason have a connetion to send out a picture. You will be rescued. Congratz.

[@LuxicCardinal]

06:30 Tom and matt: Screams Tom: They just got scared of a bigger bird! Matt: Uh yeah, that's a helicopter. I DIED

[@peermoritz6547]

"We're done in 2 minutes" *3 minutes later* "Not done" "Angry park keeper noises"

[@fitybux4664]

I'd guess he was just looking for a handout. If they said: "Look, we're not professionals, this is amateur video, and we'd appreciate it if you leave us alone for the rest of the day." (Then slipped the guy a 50.) He'd probably leave them alone.

[@namewithay]

I'm starting a 21 Pilots cover band called 21 Pigeons.

[@MissKoalaFace]

"I wouldn't know to look up the weather forecast for the previous day. I think I've tried before... And not got far" Argh, yes. This infuriated me in the UK. I couldn't look up the previous day's weather. In Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology has all weather records for the past how long easily googleable.

[@nano_sweet]

Here we are five years later and this is officially a game: GeoGuessr

[@auxvr]

geoguessr has been around for at least a decade

[@Quasihamster]

"Where's Hitchcock when you need him?" "Dead." "Yeah. He's dead." Let's be honest. Not what you expected from a Tom Scott video.

[@samiuddin328]

Wait is that his full name? He should start his own channel

[@rikuurufu5534]

"Where's Hitchcock when you need him?" "Dead."

[@26CW128Jake]

'Sir, the robots ARE pigeons!'

[@yeoldpepsi]

Both of you getting distracted by pidgeons and Tom calling a helicopter a "bigger bird" is genuinely one of my favorite moments on this channel

[@Lavapurg]

"is that a tit" "yes that's a tit but I couldn't get my phone out quick enough to take a picture" They are talking about... Birds right?

[@TheGrinningViking]

Tripods aren't allowed at the clothing optional park.

[@samiuddin328]

Nah they are filming for xvideos

[@Joeobrown1]

it's amazing how close some of these people came... you all have too much free time

[@oliverhees4076]

let's get a round of geoguessr with youtubers who filmed the eclipse - 10 ppl would get perfect points

[@AzaretTube]

Add least being that close to the correct answer make up a bit for all the time lost... it's less painful at least...

[@Rose-vb4wk]

*not enough free time

[@CJT3X]

I highly doubt this took more than a few hours for the closest guesses. Most people have several hours of free time in a given week.

[@kingjames4886]

ikr... then again if people had something to do they probably wouldn't be watching a couple guys sitting on a bench talking about basically nothing.

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

You were there 3 minutes after the dude told you to go away. *LIARS!!!* seriously though, can't use a tripod, but can still film? What?

[@samramdebest]

you can probably use a tripod for other things... like aiming laser pointers at pilots or stuff.

[@Minecraftrok999]

This is not the U.S. .... It´s more likely that professional filming isnt allowed there and Tripods are associated to professional filming.

[@Zizzily]

I've heard some places allow amateur filming but not professional filming and use the tripod as the standard, for some reason.

[@Romaobb]

And some brainless fart thought that using a tripod to film makes someone a professional?

[@ScarfmonsterWR]

Are they not filming in a public place then?

[@ahuddleofpenguins4842]

0:24 that was such a satisfying pop sound from tom’s hands

[@ichliebebaeumeweilbaum]

I was searching for someone to comment this

[@agoogleuser8219]

Hi Tom, the 2024 eclipse passed really close by where you watched the 2017 eclipse from. We took a lot of inspiration from your video in selecting our spot. Somewhere off a rural road where traffic can easily see and avoid our cars parked off the side of the road. We parked in a shallow ditch next to a corn field where there were no trees. There were no people around so we could easily change location. We got excellent viewing weather. We got to see the change in behavior of the insects, shadow banding, temperature changes etc, and got a 4+ minute totality. It was spectacular. What I wasn't prepared for was the amount of traffic after the eclipse. What would have normally been a 6 hour trip took us nearly 10. Funnily enough, we ended up detouring through Perryville, Chester, and Sparta in a failed attempt to detour around the traffic heading to St. Louis, only to get stuck in traffic heading north to Peoria. Thanks so much for posting your challenge.

[@adammullarkey4996]

Hey, Sparta? Can you please change the "Welcome to" in the sign to "This is"? Thanks.

[@dabelli3818]

I've put the 69th like. Now they must do it

[@CrushersCharisma]

So they said good luck on finding them at this location..... Wanna freak them out again? Tom's bird video clips reveal a bit of the park.

[@bobsaget8791]

CrushersCharisma Judging by the pitch and rate of the pigeon calls...

[@poombie]

We know the gravity of earth on it’s sides are ever so slightly different everywhere. Assuming that the bird fell in exactly 1.10203633 seconds, we can determine that he is either in southern Idaho, or somewhere in Delaware. Next we see how foggy it is and by looking at a hill that is 26 feet away somewhere in between the leaves of the tree, that the fog density confirms that they are just north east of Twin Falls, Idaho.

[@emmahealy4863]

AAA yes Twenty Øne Pigeøns, my favourite band!

[@HugeESmalls]

Wow you guys were an hour away from me when I was looking up at the eclipse. Pretty cool! "Twenty One Pigeons" and "scared off by a bigger bird (when it was a helicopter)" are great tom quotes

[@bell.with.one.e]

Oh, man, I remember the 'Idaho does not exist' site! Never thought I'd hear about it again.

[@AzaretTube]

Well it was fun trying to guess it I guess. You got to learn about caterpillars, corn agriculture in the USA, how to calculate solar angles and stuff or US landscape.

[@mysticccc7101]

this tom guy seems cool he should make his own youtube channel

[@samiuddin328]

Innit

[@floatline]

Man, this is as nerdy as it can get. And I absolutely love it

[@SuperCatman]

I got the right state...

[@MazeFrame]

Got the planet wrong...

[@deaththekid416]

but they said they sectioned it off to a square in the United States (I know youre joking but still)

[@audreyrasmussen540]

Yes, considering the video posted after the eclipse was from Missouri

[@kmca1495]

Super Catman Tennessee

[@5roundsrapid263]

Super Catman I grew up near the Mississippi River and recognized the soil. I thought it was near the river in Missouri or Illinois.

[@limelego]

me: 33 degrees? isn't that a bit cold *mentions conversions* OOOHHHHHHHH WE'RE AMERICA AND THEY AREN'T

[@zyaicob]

We use the Celsius scale because we're not taking measurements of the human body

[@kcasc_hd]

@@zyaicob we use the celsius scale because we know that 37 sounds like a nice number and kelvin is absolute

[@erikasrah5828]

we use celcuis because our heads hurt less for it

[@howardbaxter2514]

@@kcasc_hd Rankine is also absolute. It's like Kelvin except on the Fahrenheit scale.

[@howardbaxter2514]

I did find it a bit weird as well, since the temperature readings would have been taken in America

[@Visroker]

Plot twist: the pigeons took the bench

[@constancestrawn1303]

I was in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky, near the Illinois border. I found the point directly between greatest total eclipse and longest duration. It was incredibly clear and HOT. I got sunstroke. I was so lucky that a person also calculated that point and was there as well. It was so glorious. No crowd. Just us and the sun and the moon.

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

Can we please have a 'Where's Tom' version of Where's Wally? Please Please PLEEEEEASE!!!

[@terimarymags]

L Lock yes Yes YEs YES

[@zyaicob]

Where in the world is Tom Scott?

[@mattb4721]

"You are Tom Scott and I claim my five pounds"

[@petterstavrum4206]

They're onto us

[@kenzieduckmoo]

i lived in the area forever, and couldnt have told you that Perryville had an airport. probably just for crop dusters and such.

[@plasticballs]

I live in lower Canada, can confirm from this high spot that Idaho is just a hole full of bees.

[@xramejin]

Well, something to put in your CV when you send your job application to the CIA.

[@dard1515]

21 pIDGEONS - Nest of Gold

[@HeyItsKora]

More puzzles like this please! I am so gutted I wasn’t aware of this one and didn’t take part

[@sullivandeffinger4970]

As someone born in "Idaho" i can confirm its a massive conspiracy seeing as i remember nothing about being born there.

[@amyhull754]

This was a lovely trip down memory lane for me. I'm originally from Carbondale...and when I was born, my parents lived in Sparta. My friend and I who went to see the eclipse decided against Chester because it was a bit farther south *and* because they had a small town festival...so we were in Waterloo just a bit north of where you were...and we watched the eclipse from a Wal-Mart parking lot where we waited (with many others) as well. When the challenge was issued, I said, "Well, they're standing amidst piles of soy beans, so that's probably my neck of the woods"...and, lo, it was! Welcome, retroactively, to my home state of Illinois, and the nearest city to where I grew up, St. Louis! I've really enjoyed your eclipse coverage...and the creepy stalking people were able to do!

[@fazzitron]

"Nobody know much about Idaho" And we prefer it that way, thank you. ;)

[@landonsmith295]

I mean we want some people to come, don't be rude.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Except potatoes.

[@Tinatortoise]

To work that out, from pictures, is amazing. I'm off to find the video now x

[@shadowgombos1181]

I only just recently started watching your channel and it's crazy how close you were to where I was.

[@RocketRoosterFilms]

Two grown men getting frightened by pigeons. I laughed so much!

[@neilmarshall308]

If you remove the extremes (the silly ones and the ones who were genuinely accurate thanks to more than gut feeling/guesswork) do the guesses average out at approximately the correct location? Could a crowdsourced intelligent guess have given reasonable results?

[@YPOC]

Interesting idea, averaging the best, say, 95%. Please Tom or Matt, could you calculate that?

[@user_romanport]

That could be really cool. I hope Matt and Tom release the statistics.

[@bobsaget8791]

Yeah, that reminds me of that talk Tom did. Due to the fact that many people had the same wrong answers, it would probably be in the middle of the country, on the path of totality.

[@DanTheStripe]

This is known as the Wisdom of Crowds effect and it's very disputed. I'd love to see if it was close or not!

[@nomad_geek]

Tom should look at this more closely in a video.

[@funkkyno8058]

Pov: Two people from the UK are baffled by pigeons while blabbering about the Missouri Weather.

[@bigkitkat]

used to live in york, so everytime I get recommended this video I forget Tom briefly mentions it and feel happy for the most inconsequential shoutout

[@kenj0418]

I wish I'd solved it. I live in St. Louis and have relatives in Perryville. I would have stopped by and taken a picture. FYI: Belgique is pronounced "Bell Gee Queue" because people in SE Missouri and southern Illinois don't seem to care what languages their words came from. (You probably don't want to know how Cairo, Illinois is pronounced : Kay-Roe)

[@amyhull754]

And don't forget Vienna: Vy-ANN-uh. :-) And I *taught* in New Athens (AY-thuns).

[@RhodokTribesman]

@@amyhull754 Miami: MiamUH Oklahoma. Nevada: Nuh-VAY-duh Missouri

[@howardbaxter2514]

Then you got Nacogdoches, TX and Natchitoches, LA. Very similar spellings, but distinctly different pronunciations.

[@indygon]

Don't forget Prairie du Rocher ("Prairie duh Roacher" or just "Roacher" if people can't be bothered). Home of the historic French military encampment Fort de Chartres ("Fort Charters"). I made the mistake of taking French in high school and I have since lost count of the number of St. Louis streets I've been corrected on mispronouncing because I naively assume that people may have kept the original pronunciation. I still mess up Gravois ("Grav-oy") Avenue and I don't even know how many times that's come up in conversation at this point.

[@honeycombfromheaven]

Still waiting for the Park Bench episode explaining the comment thread shred.

[@dylgamesh2848]

I love watching this video. I travel from st louis to carbondale frequently (my wife's from there) we travel through Chester and Sparta. This makes me happy. I do wish I could have seen this when it was aired.

[@deeeznuuuts]

weird to hear people talk about my hometown area, i actually moved away a year before the eclipse. This makes me happy to see and be reminded of where i grew up. thank you!