Tom takes a walk up a hill 

There's always next year!

That’s a shame

next time get tom to cook bacon on lava that will give him food poisoning

Alright, waiting for next year's video of "I missed the volcano by only 24 hours!"

I can only imagine him going "how can I get some German engineering into my food? Oh, I know, Rittersport!"

He's just picking up bits of flavour content after completing all major side quests

@@kala_asiSeriously, feels like this man is on the DLC and we're still in the tutorial.

What make these things "childlike fantasies" to you? Just because boomers gave up on their dreams in their 20s doesn't mean Millenials like Tom have to. If anything, more people should be like Tom.

@@IzzyIkigai "childlike" isn't negative, it's to enhance the dreams/fantasies, which you can take away from the "innocent". It's a testamant to how curious they are in nature, and how honest they are. Most people reign in their fantasies to be more realistic and practical (which happens to every generation while growing up), but Tom fully checked in to his inner wonderous child for the purpose of these goals. The only person who decided to be negative about it was you, and then since clearly this was an excuse to vent frustrations, you had to make it about age groups and stereotypes. -sincerely from someone who is millennial/gen Z edge range.

Attempt to see a volcano

Yeah, I bet half those tourists are geologists.

baaahahaha

I was thinking the same thing!

To answer in a way only Matt would, "Ew just no."

If they have a specialty in igneous rocks, yes

*formerly angery hill

@@munjee2 The Hill formerly known as angry

@@munjee2 *sulking hill

@@stevelknievel4183 Pouting* You could still see its inflated cheek mocking tom

Angry Tom walks down a hill that is no longer angry, it turns out.

Read that shout in Gary's voice

Hand-crank wheel motion commences

He's leaving, turn on number 3.

"Open the volcano a little bit!"

Imagine visiting Iceland and seeing Tom at the airport. "Well, shucks, there goes our plan of seeing a volcano."

Not technically the same, but still this is hilarious

@@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2and by more than a day this time

@@cheetahman79 Still, hilarious. Though if he was there a few hours after the eruption stopped, he could probably still have seen lava.

@@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 We in iceland consider that the same volcano cause the lave is coming from the same source, its just a separate eruption.

They specifically didn't want Tom to mention their name as their work as the volcano valve operator is top secret.

Esp. because when he was presenting it, his speech patterns clearly went into presentation/"video"/work mode. I almost thought that maybe he had shot that, intending to do a Monday video about it someday but decided to use it in TechDif instead. (Although, to be fair, there's no reason he couldn't use it in both. I wonder if that's what next Monday's video will be?)

There's quite a high chance that he once had a plan for a video titled "The museum where they create fresh lava", scrapped the idea, and then remembered it again just now.

"If you can't find free-range lava, store-bought is fine."

They would lack the sublime pathos of Tom at the top of the hill.

Honestly though, Chris is so mysterious that I wouldn’t be surprised if he did do something seemingly mundane.

And there's "Matt grins and giggles for fifteen minutes."

Well that would be a great way to cheer everyone up.

Tonight on Top Gear....

Yes, I need them to do a commentary track for alllllll the videos for the DVD special please

MST3k style? Could be fun!

Mystery Biscuit Theatre 3000

YES

He filmed it in one take, but it's missing the interview with an eccentric expert.

Same for the Aurora.

tinfoil hat

@@advanceringnewholder "Tinfoil cat?"

@@anttibjorklund1869 is this a reference to acoustic kitty

@@advanceringnewholder I think that's the one, yes.

Tom: I know a lot about Finland...

Even better because I could probably count on one hand the number of times Tom has cursed on camera

Tom has found his true calling.

It's like the rain god guy from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

@@gavin5410 yes, but reversed; the reluctant rain god attracted precipitation, while Tom repels volcanic eruptions.

Reminds me of that line in Hercules. "Have you ever stopped a natural disaster?"

Like with a hail cannon, I suspect Tom might have some trouble proving and marketing his services

As they pointed out, most of the things he still hasn’t had a chance to do are pretty mundane.

"Tom sits on his couch and doesn't go on an adventure"

"Tom takes a pleasant nap on his couch."

Tom did go for a drive, as a physical example of the difference between a million and a billion. It was quite soothing

Tom goes grocery shopping, the thrilling sequel

I kin of want to immigrate to Iceland. Then I saw I would have to be able to speak the language. At 70, don’t think I have enough time to.

Time stamp?

@@humblenoob7631 3:40

@@sophierobinson2738 Plenty of time, you could live to 100 if you live healthily!

@@sophierobinson2738 Notable Iceland fact: it has the highest proportion of fluent English speakers of any country in which English is not the dominant language. Something like three quarters of the population speak it.

It's the exact same, except he came by two days before

@@Kafaldsbylur In a helicopter. Partially piloted by Matt.

He should visit the Azores. Rare Earth visited a town there famous for their earth cooked stews

Gary would probably do something involving a goose and a train though

@@Kafaldsbylur That would be so beautiful, I think I would die laughing

I'm waiting for the t-shirt.

@@chrisjohnson7929 Especially if it reads “I did not get wet, nor get dead, but all I got was this stupid t-shirt” for the throwback

I mean he did surprisingly well aside form some of the vowels.

So far only in Iceland. He welcomes invitations elsewhere, I'm sure. :D

They would've had to camp out in the car park and wait, possibly for weeks if Tom hadn't showed up

that's the thing - when they say "angry hill" they don't mean the hill itself is angry, but that the hill makes people angry - the hill embodies anger and ire and installs it in people that get in close proximity...

"And there are shoes! And there are boxes!"

Hope he brought a proper mask, as I heard that the vog is fairly insufferable around the islands recently.

Sicily is closer and Mount Etna is erupting. I don't know if you can get close enough to see the eruption though.

I live on Oahu and you did me a spook until I realized you were talking about the airport being here, not the volcano. 🤣 Like "WTF, they told me this island wasn't the explodey one?!"

@@Phroggster Vog is real? Apparently, I'm an idiot; I thought vog was something they made up for Death Stranding (the word, not the stuff itself.)

@@Phroggster Don't worry, his volcano-stopping superpower works on vog as well

Yes indeed!

The tungsten filament is much hotter than lava and radiative flux is proportional to the fourth power of temperature. In fact, lava is relatively cool, that's why it's red and orange. 900 to 1400 kelvin, not even hot enough to melt iron. The filament in a typical incandescent bulb is about 2500 - 2700 K, two to three times as hot as lava. Up to 81 times as emissive per unit area (plus more of the photons will be visible light as opposed to infra red, so it'll look even more brighter still).

and an LED can do even better too

It was The Ice Block Expedition and Chainsaw Licenses

@@travisscavoni369 OMG Thank you so much for the episode title, I was genuinely planning to re-watch everything (again) to find it (I'll probably do that anyway but now it's already answered 😅)

@@MajorTanya It's always good to have an excuse to rewatch the entirety of Citation Needed.

@@MajorTanya it just so happens that I rewatched that episode a couple of days ago

I once tweeted at Gary that Iceland had two Icelands. He did reply. I guess he forgot in the few years.

That's because he usually has a script with all the proper wording and such beforehand. Here, he doesn't, so you see how he probably talks outside of videos.

Genuinely, is there anywhere that you haven't gone? Love your work BTW

You are welcome back anytime, I also love your work to make streets safer

You know how Tom mentioned he has planned 18 months ahead for videos on his main channel, and was looking for ideas, etc? What are the chances he has just planned a video about it for then... :) Here's the Las Vegas volcano... [pans camera] ...that is no longer here... :)

It’s happened at least once before, when they got their name, according yo how Tom tells the story.

This volcano is experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.

On the bright side, he’s discovered his superpower.

@@ragnkja Anti-Volcano man

@@richardmillhousenixon The Lava-Stopper

For reference, just how common are the lava eruptions there? Like if it's a once a year thing, that's nothing really to be disappointed about...

I kind of feel like I've seen into his soul... I've never seen Tom as out-of-character as on that hike.

Yeah, was thinking listening to them "these are people very comfortable with each other". And they're English.

limited ladies interaction with these lads

@@leonhughes9014 excuse you gary and the wifey are still owed their bacon

@@CDCHexaku stop drinking bruh

​​@@leonhughes9014they're right though. Gary and his wife, intentional phrasing, are due a flitch of bacon.

Or he'll be driven to save up enough for a private jet to be on standby to take him anywhere on the globe at a moments notice, and do so, just as the last volcano goes extinct. :)

as soon as he held it up something in the back of my brain went "is that Ritter Sport?" and before it could register they all said it too

@@Dasyati It's universal, then, as I had the same thought.

Yes, but he has to stick to the same budget as the other guys for this series. He should allow himself a "just drop everything and spend what it takes" next time someone tells him there's an active eruption, though.

I really wanted them to do the gag where the subtitles just say "Oh bother"

Tom is known not to swear ON CAMERA.

"How interesting." 😂

@@Aniaas1 Tom is also known for very detailed and accurate captions, unlikely he'd use them for joke purposes.

@@hugobouma Oh I know, but it's still a good opportunity

Not if you're trying to procastinate.

Is there a landfill nearby or something?

@@lawrencecalablaster568 I don't really know what it is, maybe just industry stuff in the area because there's a fair bit of that. But it is pretty bad

He didn’t have the budget for a contingency plan.

@@ragnkja He could have just gone to the Iceland in Iceland!

Not really the same issit.

I suspect that the lava show may have a _bit_ more impact in-person.

@@hayuseen6683 A domesticated lava zoo isn't that different besides being able to schedule a viewing.

I mean...now that I know it exists, I think I'm more likely to go and see it, if the option ever arises.

​@@Erhannisyeah same!

Different rock chemistry in Hawai'i, maybe? Some mineral combination that makes the cooled strands a little less brittle?

@@HaloInverse Maybe also something to do with it (typically) being warmer in Hawaii, so the strands cool more slowly?

Hawaii's volcanoes haven't been very cooperative about showy eruptions in the last few years either.

Is that the same Chris Hadfield who was on the ISS?

@@Atlessa Yes, Tom and Chris Hadfield, the astronaut, are acquaintances because of a trip to the Arctic Circle on a Russian nuclear icebreaker. He talked about the trip on his other channel with Matt, Matt and Tom.

The phrase "going up that hill" brings to mind a Kate Bush song, "Cloudbuster" IIRC.

@@KamenracerX Yup, they bunked together!

@@CableFlame Shh, that's a spoiler! 🤫🤫🤫

To achieve the same effect with much less personal risk, poke a baked Camembert with a chopstick.

Larry Wall never meant for Perl to be a spoken tongue. You people need to get a real language.

Ah, nevermind, I was definitely there earlier, seeing as the lava was still flowing quite a lot. Sorry you had to miss it, it was a great sight

@@swiftlymurmurs1825 oof, way to rub his face in it 🤣

Well, Tom's walk up a hill in the Lake District is one of his best videos.

Yup, the hill is more sulky than angry.

He’s found his superpower.

That has to be a Tom Scott Plus video with someone like How to Drink or Educated Barfly.

OMG YES PLEASE

I try being a mixologist

Maybe after he goes back to Iceland a third time and STILL DOESN'T SEE A VOLCANO!.

...okay, is the angle he drinks, or is the angle he can do anything to get some kind of shitfaced EXCEPT drink alcohol? (pro mode: no drugs of any kind allowed; must change consciousness with other means) Because the latter I could totally see Tom doing, and it would be interesting as hell. (The former, okay, I'd probably watch that too. :D)

Really?

So far it’s 2-0 to the volcano

Seeing the comment get edited live was amazing

The sea is left I don't think he's done surfing or kayaking yet but it's possible I missed it.

That's actually the correct pronounciation

Which is a much more convenient location to fly to Hawaii from in case they ever need to borrow him for a similar purpose.

That’s a good point