Thin Necks and Terrifying Tractors | Two Of These People Are Lying 2x01 | The Technical Difficulties 

And yes, this time we remembered to close the curtains. -- Tom

An addendum to Gary's lie about the North Lancashire election: this week, a North Dakota state legislature candidate won a seat despite having died of Covid-19 a month earlier. Life imitates art, I guess.

13:23 When Gary said that the dead guy was called Stanley, you can see he panicked a second later and looked at Chris because he unconsciously stole the name from him. That was a *dead* giveaway.

"I like minor vehicular events." -Tom Scott, 2019

I think that Tom's reaction to realizing that he has, in fact, won a thing is absolutely charming.

You can tell Chris is telling the truth when his story isn't someone else's story or a rant about geology.

"Tractors everywhere" Actually, yesterday there was a large protest from the Dutch farmers, which meant that there were indeed tractors (almost) everywhere.

I think we've learned this: there's no technical difficulties without obscure badly sourced wikipedia articles.

I knew matt was lying during the second one when he said tractors were everywhere in 1878. Practical tractors were definitely not invented almost a decade before cars

Quick note from a Chinese viewer in China: It is sort of like the Day of the Dead, about paying respect, mostly. There are several films about this festival. They are all horror, and they all freak me out. The Ghost Festival - technically the Hungry Ghost Festival - 餓鬼節 - actually took place in August this year - it is the seventh month, but of the old Chinese Lunar calendar, not the one most of us go on (the lunar calendar lagged behind by a month this time around.) There are large, colorful flags erected along major streets to guide these wayward spirits (and stop them meandering into people's houses, presumably) that are put up for the entire month as well - makes for a peculiar sight; and on the day there are gatherings of people leaving food out, spreading rice, burning incense and grave money and stuff. Pretty cool. Also, lads, it's Star-Lord, not Space-Lord. Marvel might grumble, but they'll be okay with it.

Tom even has a red notebook. That's dedicated.

It’s official! We’re getting a season of this! Hell yeah!

“Clifford the clifftop mansion” is the best thing I’ve heard today

Matt's pronunciation gamble was bold considering what Tom did in university.

“Due to the winning candidate being dead”. Finally a politician you can rely upon not to lie to you!

I think I've figured out the format for the intro: Chris: "Hello", Gary: *says something weird/ makes a bad joke*, Matt: *React to whatever Gary said and explain the premise*.

"Tractors everywhere" seems odd, considering they had only just been invented right around that time..

THEY HAVE RETURNED

gary’s frequent commitment to affirming that the incumbent was, in fact, dead, over and over again has me in stitches every time i watch this episode

Congratulations, Tom. You have won an expedient trip to the galaxy's most famous taverns on a sci-fi spaceship. A breakneck Star-Trek bar trek

BTW "The War Chief" was actually an underutilized _Doctor Who_ villain, despite being the most psychotically evil-looking renegade Time Lord ever. ;) Thanks for another fun game.

SPOILER FOR ROUND 2: After looking on Wikipedia, something i found is that the Frederick Stanley in the story later became the Governor General of Canada, and the NHL's Stanley Cup is named after him! Even the most barren WIkipedia articles link to something interesting in just a click or two...

I know this wasn't what were you going for with the format, but this makes for a really good pub game! I had great time playing this with my friends, with a slight modification: the person guessing changes every round (for the person who's article was guessed).

Merch idea - red T-shirt with “I like minor vehicular events” in 8bit font

That pillow in the back is friggin creepy... Looks like someone partially phased through the sofa

When I saw this in my reccomended list my heart skipped a beat

The camera that is pointed directly at Tom does seem to really dislike the color of his T-Shirt.

Can I just say Chris' beard is magnificent

13:21 Gary swiped the name "Stanley" from Chris's story.

1:20: As a Midwesterner, that sounds far more plausible than Gary _and_ Matt's answer put together. Even before Chris explained it. 2:12: That geography also sounds about right.

I figured out it wasn't Gary when he said it was Stanley after that name had already been used- though it could have been a coincidence.

“Stanley with a K” Stankley?

I want "Minor Vehicular Events" merch

"Croatia, Matt." I fully expected the reply to be a simple description of what Croatia is rather than any useful information.

“It’s a Croatian festival” *uvular fricative*

It felt to me that in the second round Chris barely told anything. And it's funny, but that article (1878 North Lancashire by-election) is actually a stub, consisting only from two sentences. And most entertainingly, that incumbent person - Frederick Stanley - is the namesake of NHL Stanley Cup, but that didn't turn up to be brought up in the show in any way.

As soon as Gary mentioned Lord Stanley, which Chris had already mentioned, I knew he was lying.

A creative festival in Croatia? Surely that has to be called Creatia.

The Wikipedia stub for the 1878 North Lancashire By-Election was just edited to reflect that it's noteworthy for being mentioned in this show. It extended the article from one sentence to two.

The "I stress again, he was dead" part really got me. Haven't giggled like that in a long while.

“Tractors everywhere” wouldn’t have been in 1878, because tractors didn’t become commonplace until the 20th century.

"I've won a thing!" -Tom Scott.

It's 1878, and there are TRACTORS EVERYWHERE?! How far in the future had Britain lived back then?!

Missed opportunity for Matt to explain the game with "In front of us, we have an almost randomly selected article..."

Matt and Tom: "We're going irregular". If I told my doctor I was irregular and that meant I have a movement once or twice a year, he'd probably be concerned. Love your stuff! Wish there was more!

"That's the noise your mother made last night" Oh gawd, I can't stop laughing!

“For all the young’uns out there ghost riding?” It was at this moment I knew, at 20 years old, I’m no longer young

In my town's last mayoral campaign one of the candidates died and got about 30% of the vote. I have no clue what would have happened had she won.

Hook this up to live voting and itd make an amazing interactive stream

there's almost the same thing in japan so as soon as gary said "seventh month" i knew it was his

After just binge watching the whole playlist I have to say I'm deeply impressed by the guys talent to just come up with the most creative plausible answers on the fly and not even flinching when telling the stories. Especially Matt, I salute you for your skills.

... Seems like the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus has gone out of fashion...

Welcome back, TechDiff! I'm so hyped for this new season and I'm so hyped for this new format. Thank you for brightening up my Thursdays! :D

2:10 Oh god, for a second I thought someone was lying down on the couch behind you!

Now I just need to know where Gary's story about the election is actually from, because it definitely sounds like a real thing.

But it *IS* pronounced Host-Festival! There isn't a time this isn't entertaining.

This is definitely my favorite thing you guys have come up with. Random information, improv, and hilarious lies.

I like how Matt managed to come up with something for the 1878 North Lancashire By-Election, yet not the Plot of the Rue Saint Nicaise

I'm not even two minutes into this and it is already perfect 😍😂

"Tractors everywhere" in 1878 might be a bit of a stretch, as they were fairly new and presumably quite costly.

Won again, he Won the "Toms not in charge anymore" Episode (Yes, I'm a pedant, sue me :P )

i love this game. i'm so glad we've got another series of it.

Spoilers... Huh, the Stanley guy in Chris' article is who the Stanley Cup is named after. TIL

Chris miming IPA was me 😂😂😂🍺

This is already the 2nd time I'm watching it and I'm not expecting to watch it less than a dozen times this month. And it still is, and will be everytime, extremely funny.

It's a version of Balderdash, which is one of my favorite games, where you pick a random unusual word and people have to make up definitions for it.

i was just rewatching the old episodes last night and thinking how i was hoping you'd release more!

YAY, it's back! I really hope this format stays fun for you guys for a long time, because I love it!

Can I make a suggestion about this format? How about making everybody guess one time, instead of having one person guess all the time. That would however require more rounds per episode, or alternating between episodes.

I literally watched all of the previous episodes yesterday and wondered when y'all were going to make a new one. My prayers have been answered!

Very glad you have done more of this format, it's great!

I was so glad to see this in my feed today... I'm so glad you guys are making a second season!

as someone from the netherlands in the year 2021 where farmers are mass protesting alot of the time with their tractor (and yea they were everywhere) this is amazing to hear

So glad to see this series back! It's my favorite from The Technical Difficulties!

Thank you so much for bringing this back

yeet another episode, this is my second favourite series right after citation needed

It’s so great seeing the Technical Dificulties after all this time. Always up for watching these.

Chris "minor vehicular events" Joe Gary "i don't want to convince Tom" Brannan Matt "Tractors everywhere" Gray

Clearly TechDiff is at their best when their doing improv comedy fueled on by wikipedia.

Nice to see Matt and housemates tidied up for this run of episodes!

Hooray for similes. Chris says "a series of minor vehicular events," which he meant as "obscure recurring festivals that involve vehicles," but which sounded like "a mysterious trail of automobile incidents"

I really like this concept, and I hope you do more of them once you can all be in a room together again (and/or film on zoom)

Here in Singapore some people even burn entire paper 'banks', 'sportscars' and even 'credit cards' so that their ancestors can use them in the afterlife (during the Ghost Festival)

Holy cow, yesterday I thought to myself "when is another 2 are lying episode being released... "! Thanks for capturing my thoughts 2000km away

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS BACK!!!!!!!! I really missed Citation Needed, but this is a wonderful replacement

Ooh, very happy to see this game back! It's a brilliant idea for a format :D

Isn’t Peter Quill Star Lord not Space Lord?

Bloody hell, I keep googling the lies because they are such good stories!

How wonderful to see the four of you back together!

This was the first series I discovered from y'all thanks to the "two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff" video lol

Yes! More Technical Difficulties! I was getting withdrawals after binging all of Citation Needed! Can't get enough of you guys, keep it up!

New TechDif‽ Cracking!

This is a great series. Thank you for sharing your fun with us all to enjoy

I'll be honest I believed Gary pretty quickly about thin-necked ghosts, I don't know why but that's the kind of story that sounds extremely plausible for a culture like China

YES! I was just starting to get the need for more TechDiff

I would love to see more of this from the TechDiff gang, but I also like the format and would dig seeing other peoples takes on it.

Love this quiz format. Hoping you keep em coming.

So glad this is back for another season!

It’s always fun to watch one of these pre-looking up and knowing which one is correct

Oh hell yes this is gonna be a blast! Thanks yall for great times with these games.