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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2017
  • We challenged you to work out where we watched the eclipse from. Here's how well you did!
    MATT: / mattgrayyes | TOM: / tomscottgo
    Matt's Photos: flic.kr/s/aHsm23RCB1
    (The title is serious)
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  • @frankthetank2550
    @frankthetank2550 Před rokem +465

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

    • @RainyFoxUwU
      @RainyFoxUwU Před 10 měsíci +3

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

    • @xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844
      @xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844 Před 9 měsíci

      @@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
      @weijuw Před 5 měsíci +4

      @@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
      @NotKyleChicago Před 4 měsíci +4

      Does he ever fly on "bottom left airlines"?

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @kabobawsome
    @kabobawsome Před 6 lety +15031

    These people must be the best at Geoguesser.

    • @sierra991
      @sierra991 Před 5 lety +261

      Geoguessr*

    • @wyhiobcarlile4879
      @wyhiobcarlile4879 Před 5 lety +260

      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
      @billywhizz09 Před 4 lety +14

      Isn’t there a time limit

    • @horseenthusiast1250
      @horseenthusiast1250 Před 4 lety +85

      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
      @jyrgenruut Před 4 lety +17

      @@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

  • @vikingsoftomorrow4038
    @vikingsoftomorrow4038 Před 3 lety +4625

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

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 Před 3 lety +182

      It's because he always knows where he is

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 Před 3 lety +212

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

    • @TheFartGod69
      @TheFartGod69 Před 3 lety +9

      @@diegosanchez894 oh ok thanks for the explaining the joke

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 Před 3 lety +68

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

    • @yitzakIr
      @yitzakIr Před 2 lety +18

      I'm here in a kidnapper's boot

  • @adamkirsopp492
    @adamkirsopp492 Před 3 lety +2539

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

    • @marjavanderwind4251
      @marjavanderwind4251 Před 3 lety +116

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

    • @lrizzard
      @lrizzard Před 3 lety +133

      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
      @lrizzard Před 3 lety +79

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

    • @linforcer
      @linforcer Před 2 lety +94

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

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 Před 2 lety +28

      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
    @JuxtaposedStars Před 6 lety +4504

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

  • @heatheryoung1951
    @heatheryoung1951 Před 6 lety +10856

    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
      @vnleao Před 6 lety +140

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

    • @heatheryoung1951
      @heatheryoung1951 Před 6 lety +82

      PreposterousWorld I'm sorry but they aren't real

    • @vnleao
      @vnleao Před 6 lety +34

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

    • @heatheryoung1951
      @heatheryoung1951 Před 6 lety +68

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

    • @nicolacornolti7796
      @nicolacornolti7796 Před 5 lety +30

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

  • @ozarkpossum61
    @ozarkpossum61 Před 5 lety +6276

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

    • @grand-dadmiral
      @grand-dadmiral Před 5 lety +385

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

    • @knecht6974
      @knecht6974 Před 4 lety +232

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

    • @jacobmartin8332
      @jacobmartin8332 Před 4 lety +60

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

    • @futureshock382
      @futureshock382 Před 4 lety +69

      America is a strange place, full of contradictions

    • @matthewjoines8017
      @matthewjoines8017 Před 4 lety +11

      same with sparta NC

  • @radagastwiz
    @radagastwiz Před 6 lety +6143

    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
      @chistinelane Před 6 lety +88

      Poor pigeons

    • @ashtonhoward5582
      @ashtonhoward5582 Před 5 lety +322

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

    • @EmyrDerfel
      @EmyrDerfel Před 5 lety +195

      A coo?

    • @lauraireson6358
      @lauraireson6358 Před 4 lety +46

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

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 4 lety +19

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

  • @colaocha1115
    @colaocha1115 Před 6 lety +6912

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

    • @davidoh14
      @davidoh14 Před 5 lety +65

      This made my day

    • @snekaroo1397
      @snekaroo1397 Před 5 lety +45

      God you're going places

    • @legendarytat8278
      @legendarytat8278 Před 5 lety +11

      *cool (jk)

    • @Corbynyt
      @Corbynyt Před 4 lety +43

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

    • @raisedheart
      @raisedheart Před 4 lety +47

      I love their song, Isle of flying birds

  • @megs2244
    @megs2244 Před 3 lety +893

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

    • @Equa11ysurl
      @Equa11ysurl Před 3 lety +28

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

    • @fyoozhn
      @fyoozhn Před 3 lety +10

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

    • @FlauntyToaster
      @FlauntyToaster Před 3 lety +8

      @@fyoozhn Helicopters are known as Whirly Birds

  • @SlowBrakes
    @SlowBrakes Před 4 lety +643

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

    • @michaelacobb1209
      @michaelacobb1209 Před 3 lety +79

      “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
      @supremecalamitas342 Před 2 lety +13

      @@michaelacobb1209 "Sun Tzu said that!"

    • @comrademuds1951
      @comrademuds1951 Před 2 lety +9

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

    • @supremecalamitas342
      @supremecalamitas342 Před 2 lety +6

      @@comrademuds1951 I am so proud of this community

    • @chezcake256
      @chezcake256 Před 2 lety +4

      @@comrademuds1951 “because he invented them!”

  • @mattandtom
    @mattandtom  Před 6 lety +7133

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

    • @Mittau
      @Mittau Před 6 lety +1139

      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
      @JSAnstock Před 6 lety +149

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

    • @littledarkstranger8111
      @littledarkstranger8111 Před 6 lety +81

      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
      @kmca1495 Před 6 lety +8

      Matt and Tom thats Tennessee right

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw Před 6 lety +166

      'Course not. It attracts pigeons.

  • @chistinelane
    @chistinelane Před 6 lety +2568

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

    • @johnnyfrankenstein0123
      @johnnyfrankenstein0123 Před 4 lety +62

      @@perkyelixir2254 *too many* virtual resources

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Před 4 lety +42

      The Internet is both a great and scary thing.

    • @Buzumba
      @Buzumba Před 3 lety +16

      Ok solve world hunger.

    • @kidneystones3578
      @kidneystones3578 Před 3 lety +57

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

    • @Roatsky
      @Roatsky Před 3 lety +61

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

  • @natalie-1592
    @natalie-1592 Před 4 lety +323

    50% documenting their trip. 50% pigeons

  • @gbm6882
    @gbm6882 Před 4 lety +1964

    I have a feeling tom’s favorite red is shirt

  • @Luca-iq4ev
    @Luca-iq4ev Před 6 lety +3148

    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
      @CharlesVanNoland Před 6 lety +302

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

    • @possessedllama
      @possessedllama Před 6 lety +178

      Next they'll remove the park ...

    • @CharlesVanNoland
      @CharlesVanNoland Před 6 lety +94

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

    • @jony4real
      @jony4real Před 6 lety +122

      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
      @johnna1234 Před 6 lety +6

      How do you prounonce your last name luca

  • @PaulGerarts
    @PaulGerarts Před 6 lety +5488

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

    • @dudds6699
      @dudds6699 Před 6 lety +782

      Actually its a 30mm difference ;-)

    • @Craydy
      @Craydy Před 6 lety +448

      30mm = 3cm...

    • @pastrami4406
      @pastrami4406 Před 6 lety +39

      Sure let's go with that

    • @EcceJack
      @EcceJack Před 6 lety +155

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

    • @dudds6699
      @dudds6699 Před 6 lety +51

      That is the joke

  • @-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___

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

    • @trucookieq4469
      @trucookieq4469 Před 3 lety +46

      2.55492188199548397528785742572458499385835439992288527728266927818185991005492001001010034310210214320400080800530030385004006389093003002238895295759343339999995443922888843753235344 minutes actually. How precise is that again?

    • @coachbobbarnes8715
      @coachbobbarnes8715 Před 3 lety +37

      Tru forgot the "ish"!!!

    • @SobrietyandSolace
      @SobrietyandSolace Před 3 lety +3

      Scrolled down for this

    • @andymiller1597
      @andymiller1597 Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @TheAAkins
    @TheAAkins Před 3 lety +519

    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
      @ValeriePallaoro Před 3 lety +26

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

  • @ryanl8226
    @ryanl8226 Před 6 lety +1240

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

    • @GregStachowski
      @GregStachowski Před 6 lety +170

      Ghostbusters, obviously.

    • @ProtoGhostal1701
      @ProtoGhostal1701 Před 6 lety +38

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

    • @GregStachowski
      @GregStachowski Před 6 lety +105

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

    • @emilyparchet3098
      @emilyparchet3098 Před 6 lety +5

      Greg Stachowski
      What was the joke?

    • @RealCadde
      @RealCadde Před 6 lety +27

      So the kidnappers will edit and upload the video?

  • @PetriCour
    @PetriCour Před 6 lety +4224

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

    • @wormswithteeth
      @wormswithteeth Před 6 lety +246

      Cour Ah, the state slogan!

    • @fex144
      @fex144 Před 6 lety +31

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

    • @procactus9109
      @procactus9109 Před 6 lety +95

      Australia is fake, Don't come here either.

    • @carolynmmitchell2240
      @carolynmmitchell2240 Před 6 lety +12

      fex144 cour d'alene

    • @smokingsamosa
      @smokingsamosa Před 6 lety +14

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

  • @fuumax7969
    @fuumax7969 Před 5 lety +339

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

  • @brownishblue
    @brownishblue Před 4 lety +466

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

  • @codedgoat3868
    @codedgoat3868 Před 6 lety +2592

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

  • @syarrum6
    @syarrum6 Před 6 lety +3129

    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
      @GregStachowski Před 6 lety +566

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

    • @syarrum6
      @syarrum6 Před 6 lety +194

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

    • @SeanNicholsEh
      @SeanNicholsEh Před 6 lety +54

      Good job, Greg!

    • @modakshantanu
      @modakshantanu Před 6 lety +199

      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
      @syarrum6 Před 6 lety +131

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

  • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM
    @MinistryOfMagic_DoM Před 3 lety +186

    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
      @clayel1 Před rokem +10

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

    • @monhi64
      @monhi64 Před rokem +4

      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

  • @kilikx1x
    @kilikx1x Před 4 lety +236

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

    • @kaldo_kaldo
      @kaldo_kaldo Před 3 lety +1

      Why's that?

    • @Mr_Doogz
      @Mr_Doogz Před 2 lety +29

      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
      @jamesharding3459 Před 2 lety +9

      @@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.

  • @WAYAWAYWithAsh
    @WAYAWAYWithAsh Před 6 lety +4631

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

  • @maxscribner1743
    @maxscribner1743 Před 6 lety +1873

    "nebraska."
    *zooms into kansas*

    • @dumploid
      @dumploid Před 5 lety +71

      Max Scribner what’s the difference?

    • @therealdave06
      @therealdave06 Před 5 lety +9

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

    • @triple7marc
      @triple7marc Před 5 lety +6

      @@therealdave06 You zoom in Google Earth by scrolling.

    • @therealdave06
      @therealdave06 Před 5 lety +4

      @@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
      @triple7marc Před 5 lety +37

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

  • @prim16
    @prim16 Před 4 lety +2562

    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.

  • @scrumpeldwarf
    @scrumpeldwarf Před 4 lety +407

    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
      @scootergrant8683 Před 3 lety +63

      Why would a tripod now be allowed in a park?

    • @polarisraven5613
      @polarisraven5613 Před 3 lety +15

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

    • @d11palmer
      @d11palmer Před 3 lety +139

      @@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
      @mikehunt545 Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @stotheh
      @stotheh Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @risick7649
    @risick7649 Před 4 lety +254

    Idaho is real wyoming however is a chunk error

  • @Ethan-3369
    @Ethan-3369 Před 6 lety +2023

    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
      @jesusgonzalez6715 Před 6 lety +49

      Ethan3369 what are the odds?

    • @GryphLane
      @GryphLane Před 5 lety +87

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

    • @Cyortonic
      @Cyortonic Před 5 lety +252

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

    • @GarretRB
      @GarretRB Před 4 lety +154

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

    • @EMETRL
      @EMETRL Před 4 lety +122

      ​@@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.

  • @TheDanielCoyle
    @TheDanielCoyle Před 6 lety +789

    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
      @57thorns Před 4 lety +52

      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
      @tomkenning5482 Před 4 lety +27

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

    • @alexandramcginnis8872
      @alexandramcginnis8872 Před 4 lety +21

      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-
      @Knakkerman- Před 4 lety +7

      Why are you not allowed to use a tripod?

    • @hornyfuckinturtle
      @hornyfuckinturtle Před 4 lety +8

      Because they can charge money for it

  • @CommentCritic
    @CommentCritic Před 2 lety +127

    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
      @Vanda-il9ul Před 2 lety

      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
      @solracer66 Před rokem +1

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

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 Před rokem +1

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

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 8 měsíci

      "it's easy if you know the answer"

  • @aidenbagshaw5573
    @aidenbagshaw5573 Před 3 lety +80

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

  • @scaevolaludens679
    @scaevolaludens679 Před 6 lety +1179

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

    • @idkwhattoputhere4695
      @idkwhattoputhere4695 Před 4 lety +45

      Triggering Shia

    • @ShroudedWolf51
      @ShroudedWolf51 Před 4 lety +27

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

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 Před 4 lety +110

      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
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Před 4 lety +26

      Internet Historian?

    • @r.mishra6725
      @r.mishra6725 Před 4 lety +40

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

  • @DoovidToonet
    @DoovidToonet Před 6 lety +603

    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
      @duckrutt Před 6 lety +41

      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
      @loganpaul2137 Před 6 lety +12

      The Normie yes. Even I am a potato.

    • @lifedecoded9842
      @lifedecoded9842 Před 6 lety +9

      Idaho doesn't exist

    • @diamondflaw
      @diamondflaw Před 6 lety +16

      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
      @9HighFlyer9 Před 6 lety +2

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

  • @BorealBlizzard
    @BorealBlizzard Před 4 lety +192

    "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
      @Nobody-pv9jt Před 4 lety +13

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

    • @abstractassassin8767
      @abstractassassin8767 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @mathewseandre
      @mathewseandre Před 2 lety +1

      How much is that on Celsius?

    • @supremecalamitas342
      @supremecalamitas342 Před 2 lety +2

      *slaps the roof of the car*

    • @supremecalamitas342
      @supremecalamitas342 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @alfredjonathankwak955
    @alfredjonathankwak955 Před 3 lety +39

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

  • @thriceandonce
    @thriceandonce Před 6 lety +201

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

  • @domy6827
    @domy6827 Před 6 lety +142

    The collective skills of the internet are terrifying

  • @sugreF_YT
    @sugreF_YT Před 9 měsíci +4

    This is probably Rainbolt's origin story.

  • @FourOf92000
    @FourOf92000 Před 3 lety +58

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

    • @TheGreatCooLite
      @TheGreatCooLite Před 2 lety +1

      Dang i never knew that

    • @samiuddin328
      @samiuddin328 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Před 2 lety

      Thank you, I will now promptly forget it

    • @camdenretter3226
      @camdenretter3226 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @heatheryoung1951
    @heatheryoung1951 Před 6 lety +192

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

    • @EcceJack
      @EcceJack Před 6 lety +6

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

    • @heatheryoung1951
      @heatheryoung1951 Před 6 lety

      EcceJack anytime 😛

    • @TheCalmPsycho
      @TheCalmPsycho Před 4 lety +9

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

    • @andresmartinezramos7513
      @andresmartinezramos7513 Před 4 lety

      And to this day, it keeps giving

  • @Jojoscotia
    @Jojoscotia Před 6 lety +505

    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
      @PhoebeHB Před 6 lety +61

      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
      @Robertising Před 6 lety +2

      Jojo Scotia o

    • @peter_smyth
      @peter_smyth Před 6 lety +34

      You should make a quadrapod to get around the rules.

    • @CJT3X
      @CJT3X Před 6 lety +8

      So just use a shoulder rig...

    • @simontay4851
      @simontay4851 Před 6 lety +20

      Use a small portable folding table instead.

  • @steviejrr
    @steviejrr Před 3 lety +202

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

  • @omardude39
    @omardude39 Před 4 lety +27

    "21 Pigeons, that's a band". I knew 😂

  • @Joseph125
    @Joseph125 Před 6 lety +39

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

  • @aimelle3
    @aimelle3 Před 6 lety +156

    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
    @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 4 lety +59

    I recognise that tree generation, see you soon.

  • @SteelyEyedMissileDan
    @SteelyEyedMissileDan Před 2 lety +12

    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.

  • @GLRaema
    @GLRaema Před 6 lety +124

    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
      @user-zl1fx3lw9c Před 3 lety +36

      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.

  • @26CW128Jake
    @26CW128Jake Před 6 lety +75

    'Sir, the robots ARE pigeons!'

  • @nano_sweet
    @nano_sweet Před 9 měsíci +4

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

    • @auxvr
      @auxvr Před 7 měsíci +1

      geoguessr has been around for at least a decade

  • @agoogleuser8219
    @agoogleuser8219 Před měsícem +4

    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.

  • @rikuurufu5534
    @rikuurufu5534 Před 6 lety +91

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

  • @namewithay
    @namewithay Před 6 lety +62

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

  • @peermoritz6547
    @peermoritz6547 Před 4 lety +79

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

    • @fitybux4664
      @fitybux4664 Před 3 lety

      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.

  • @ahuddleofpenguins4842
    @ahuddleofpenguins4842 Před 3 lety +19

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

  • @MissKoalaFace
    @MissKoalaFace Před 6 lety +44

    "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.

  • @adammullarkey4996
    @adammullarkey4996 Před 6 lety +197

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

    • @dabelli3818
      @dabelli3818 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @yeoldpepsi
    @yeoldpepsi Před 4 lety +36

    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

  • @HugeESmalls
    @HugeESmalls Před 2 lety +5

    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

  • @Morten_S_Olesen
    @Morten_S_Olesen Před 6 lety +74

    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.

  • @CrushersCharisma
    @CrushersCharisma Před 6 lety +134

    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
      @bobsaget8791 Před 6 lety +62

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

    • @poombie
      @poombie Před 5 lety +41

      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.

  • @Lavapurg
    @Lavapurg Před 3 lety +119

    "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?

  • @LuxicCardinal
    @LuxicCardinal Před 3 lety +25

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

  • @bell.with.one.e
    @bell.with.one.e Před 6 lety +48

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

  • @Joeobrown1
    @Joeobrown1 Před 6 lety +715

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

    • @oliverhees4076
      @oliverhees4076 Před 6 lety +49

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

    • @AzaretTube
      @AzaretTube Před 6 lety +18

      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
      @Rose-vb4wk Před 6 lety +6

      *not enough free time

    • @CJT3X
      @CJT3X Před 6 lety +7

      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
      @kingjames4886 Před 6 lety +15

      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.

  • @emmahealy4863
    @emmahealy4863 Před 4 lety +15

    AAA yes Twenty Øne Pigeøns, my favourite band!

  • @Visroker
    @Visroker Před 4 lety +14

    Plot twist: the pigeons took the bench

  • @petterstavrum4206
    @petterstavrum4206 Před 6 lety +61

    They're onto us

  • @AzaretTube
    @AzaretTube Před 6 lety +55

    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.

  • @floatline
    @floatline Před 4 lety +16

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

  • @Quasihamster
    @Quasihamster Před 2 lety +16

    "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
      @samiuddin328 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @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
      @samramdebest Před 6 lety +22

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

    • @Minecraftrok999
      @Minecraftrok999 Před 6 lety +70

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

    • @Zizzily
      @Zizzily Před 6 lety +56

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

    • @Romaobb
      @Romaobb Před 6 lety +33

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

    • @ScarfmonsterWR
      @ScarfmonsterWR Před 6 lety

      Are they not filming in a public place then?

  • @jhfdhgvnbjm75
    @jhfdhgvnbjm75 Před 6 lety +119

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

    • @terimarymags
      @terimarymags Před 6 lety +4

      L Lock yes Yes YEs YES

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Před 4 lety +9

      Where in the world is Tom Scott?

    • @mattb4721
      @mattb4721 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @mysticccc7101
    @mysticccc7101 Před 3 lety +81

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

  • @thefatcat2790
    @thefatcat2790 Před 12 dny +2

    06:37 - the twentyfirst pilot took that personally

  • @neilmarshall308
    @neilmarshall308 Před 6 lety +481

    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
      @YPOC Před 6 lety +86

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

    • @user_romanport
      @user_romanport Před 6 lety +16

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

    • @bobsaget8791
      @bobsaget8791 Před 6 lety +47

      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
      @DanTheStripe Před 6 lety +40

      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
      @nomad_geek Před 6 lety +5

      Tom should look at this more closely in a video.

  • @SuperCatman
    @SuperCatman Před 6 lety +464

    I got the right state...

    • @MazeFrame
      @MazeFrame Před 6 lety +146

      Got the planet wrong...

    • @deaththekid416
      @deaththekid416 Před 6 lety +3

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

    • @audreyrasmussen540
      @audreyrasmussen540 Před 6 lety +4

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

    • @kmca1495
      @kmca1495 Před 6 lety

      Super Catman Tennessee

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 Před 6 lety +4

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

  • @constancestrawn1303
    @constancestrawn1303 Před 3 lety +5

    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.

  • @kenzieduckmoo
    @kenzieduckmoo Před 9 měsíci +2

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

  • @amyhull754
    @amyhull754 Před 6 lety +21

    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!

  • @limelego
    @limelego Před 6 lety +168

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

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Před 4 lety +24

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

    • @kcasc_hd
      @kcasc_hd Před 4 lety +16

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

    • @erikasrah5828
      @erikasrah5828 Před 4 lety +23

      we use celcuis because our heads hurt less for it

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @plasticballs
    @plasticballs Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @HeyItsKora
    @HeyItsKora Před 6 lety +5

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

  • @xramejin
    @xramejin Před 6 lety +22

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

  • @RocketRoosterFilms
    @RocketRoosterFilms Před 6 lety +31

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

  • @shadowgombos1181
    @shadowgombos1181 Před 3 lety

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

  • @namensklauer
    @namensklauer Před 3 lety +6

    6:30 in case you want to see 2 grown men being scared by pigeons. youre welcome

  • @dard1515
    @dard1515 Před 6 lety +39

    21 pIDGEONS - Nest of Gold

  • @fazzitron
    @fazzitron Před 6 lety +30

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

  • @deeeznuuuts
    @deeeznuuuts Před 3 lety

    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!

  • @bigkitkat
    @bigkitkat Před 3 lety +1

    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
    @kenj0418 Před 6 lety +37

    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
      @amyhull754 Před 6 lety +7

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

    • @RhodokTribesman
      @RhodokTribesman Před 4 lety

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

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @indygon
      @indygon Před 3 lety +1

      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.

  • @yorktown99
    @yorktown99 Před 6 lety +11

    Matt & Tom getting spooked by a small flock of pigeons is priceless.

  • @Tinatortoise
    @Tinatortoise Před 2 lety

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

  • @sullivandeffinger4970
    @sullivandeffinger4970 Před 2 lety +5

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