Why Jack threw his briefcase from a train 

I literally refrained from submitting this to the show

Bristol, you’re mine!!!

Mystery Biscuits!

@@joshridderhoff2050 he was once a IT technician. And operator of a mildly successful nailbar xD

We are

He was from Ceylon.

In fairness, Scott Manley did declare him an honorary Scotsman

“Again… _not_ Scottish!”

@@bosstowndynamics5488 so there were three Scotts in the video. One was Tom, one was Manley, and one was honorary

Tom is a very different person without a laptop in front of him.

MYSTERY BISCUITS

@@michaelocyoung(OH YEAH!)

OH YEAH

Episode over.

I was just surprised when Bill asked "is there an expectation that we know who Jack Churchill is?". It's one of those things that I assume everyone who has had access to the internet for a while knows. He's the psychopath with the bow and arrow in WW2, there are so many posts and stories about him on the internet it seems difficult to avoid them.

wait it wasn't a way to raise a wartime prime minister?

I'm glad you use that variation of the verb.

Yeah, briefcase throwing is not even one of the top ten Jack Churchill stories. He was a character.

I love you folks so much

What do you mean you’ve seem this it’s brand new!

Absolutely!! I was just about to comment this. All my neurons lit up when I saw the title, this is a TechDif classic!

@@patrickstar236jack Churchill was talked about on a tech diff episode

@@connorculshaw6066 homie was just completing the meme

@@connorculshaw6066 The original comment is a line from Back To The Future, and the comment you responded to was the next line in the scene

Well, it HAS been six years since that episode.

@@Darkkrebs True, but with that amount of repetition, I guess I expected him to remember Ceylon.😅

@@MichaelBerthelsen As Gary promptly corrected, "Sri Lanka"

@@georgedoty-williams2085 Gary didn't correct, merely note the current name. When Jack was born, it was British Ceylon. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

@@georgedoty-williams2085 well no it is correct that at that moment Jack Churchill was from Ceylon. As you can argue that Sri Lanka technically did not yet exist.

He probably would have been executed by then. Because of his last name he wasn't treated like any other British POW after he got captured, but instead he was imprisoned with other prominent prisoners (the Nazis suspected him of being a relative of Winston Churchill). In April of 1945 he was part of a group of 141 prominent prisoners (imprisoned high-ranking military from other nations, high-ranking German political enemies of the Nazis, high-ranking policians from occupied countries, families of the Stauffenberg-assassination attempt...) that the SS transported to tyrol under orders to make sure that they wouldn't be taken by allied soldiers alive, so the SS basically had orders to execute the prisoners (including women and children). One of the prisoners managed to escape temporarily and make a phone call to the Wehrmacht, who then swooped in and freed the prisoners from the SS and basically let them go. Mad Jack then walked for 150 kilometers into Italy, until he reached the US troops.

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo He'd already escaped once at that point. I don't doubt he would have done it again.

Agreed

If you watch any history-themed youtube channels you very likely have heard of him. I think I saw atleast three videos about him by now, not including this one.

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Indeed, but that requires the kind of person who looks for history videos on RU-vid. Jack Churchill should be public knowledge.

That there hasn't been a major Hollywood movie about this guy is a crime..

@@adammullarkey4996it's that kind of underground common knowledge where millions of people will have heard of it but it's not considered to be mainstream, because of the specific channels of information it travels trough (word of mouth and amateur video)

Like landing in his back garden?

@@GryphLane - If he could have done it safely, I bet he would have. Urgency which might have impelled him to take the risk was lacking.

I am actually somewhat surprised he didn't throw it out and then pulled the emergency brake, because he had lost his important luggage and therefore needed to get off the train immediately.

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo I'm quite sure he had the wits about him to know the train service would have gotten really tired of his nonsense after very few repetitions of that scheme. He wanted to be able to continue using the train

It would have saved him the trouble of walking home

o I was not skipping at all. I think it is funny to be in the knowhow. (for the second time even)

Or the sound "the mournful parp of an emptying bagpipe"

@@ongunkanat "They shot me pipes. Now I'm angry."

@@justmerc1642 BRISTOL! YOU’RE MINE!!! 🏄‍♂️🗡️

I think you will find brain gears whirring into overdrive is a registered trademark of Everybody’s Favorite Gary Brannon, every time something he knows because of work comes up.

stormed Normandy with a sword and bagpipes!

He was not inane at all :P

yeah he killed the man with the stringy bid.

​@@TheInternetHelpdeskPlaysthat was Italy he was unfortunately not at Normandy but he did took his sword , bagpipes and grenade at Norway

Not-see? Like he killed a blind person?

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WA-HEY!!

A definite WA-HEY from me, too.

Wa-hey fellows!!!

Wait who dropped the glass?

yup lol

No, it how you raise a British war time Prime Minister

@@Renault_75-34MX wait so no Stalin on a cherry picker?

@@sirBrouwer of course Stalin comes with a cherry picker, how else are they supposed to be on the same level of authority

​@@Renault_75-34MXDoes Stalin know the three sisters with a cherry orchard, and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya?

As someone who loves trains and knew about Jack Churchill I didn't even need to watch the video.

Built for leisure not for speed

I was surprised that I got the right answer as he was still reading the question out even though I haven't seen that particular citation needed. It's really just the most logical answer, I think maybe it was a mistake to say "regularly" in the question. Leaving open the possibility that it was a one time event would have made the answer less obvious.

Now we know

You were so close! Great job

I was guessing something to do with MI5/6 and so there was a hidden door into the tunnel somewhere near Westminster perhaps?

@@quintuscrinis8032 no if you do that in the tube it will just bounce back like Chris said before.

@sirBrouwer depends where you do it. There are various nooks and crannies all over the tube tunnels for workmen to hide if a train comes past while they are working. (Although modern safety rules mean this almost never happens now). And there are various non-station access points around as well.

@@quintuscrinis8032 you are missing the tech diff gag.

We have the best captions team!

Sorry but Bill is not from Yorkshire. the last person to do so had to eat Matt the be allowed.

​@@sirBrouweroh yes, Will Seaward, the mouth of the south 😂

I find him rather insufferable and wouldn't watch any of such videos ever. Let's keep the original cast, please.

​@@sirBrouwer Actually the last person to do that was the Australian Replacematt who did no such thing.

@@beth12svist yeah but he is busy touring with the juggling cow.

There are no topics left on this earth that Tom has not covered before. Unless they're about Finnish airports or kebabs.

Wouldn't that be a damn small pool?

@@michaelocyoung I mean surely there are some weird monorails in Finish airports where you can order a Kebap while riding them

@@asina6352 Well yeah, but I suppose he might not remember everything, I mean almost ten years worth of weekly videos, some things will be lost

it was in the name all alonge. all Scott people know each other.

I haven't listened to the full episode yet, so this might not be the case, but it could be that Scott prepared this question himself, and it was not given to him by a producer.

Maybe the producer doesn't know every single subject mentioned in every single episode of every single show that Tom has done.

I don't think the questions are centrally sourced. There was one (don't remember which) where it was pointed out that the person wrote the question himself, and another where the viewer who sent in the question was cited.

@@losthor1zon yes, but I think the questions submitted by viewers are reviewed/picked by the same person who makes the rest of the questions. AFAIK David Bodycombe is the one. The fact that some of the guests were able to use their own questions, kind of supports my theory that the questions are not picked at random by participants, but assigned by the producer

@@panda4247 - I don't see that it supports that, though it also doesn't disprove it. But the fact that Tom referenced that a question was generated by the participant means he knew it would be, and therefore the producer at least must have known that also. The question might be whether they also vetted the question in advance. Which does seem likely, now that I think about it. For legal and RU-vid reasons, at least, to make sure there isn't some rule violation in it. So perhaps not always "assigned", but at least vetted for content.

He’d absolutely an honorary Scottsman, to be fair.

o wait it was season 6. I was off in my head with 5. But that was only party at the theater.