If there's a high pitched sound in this, I am officially too old to hear it. I will high pass filter that bad boy for future videos. Thanks all!

@bfehderau63

3 жыл бұрын

Lo-pass!!

@elcimohr

3 жыл бұрын

I can only hear it with noise-cancelling headphones and the volume set painfully high anyway, and it's much quieter than the background hum of your PC. Could be an age thing though

@llawrence9485

3 жыл бұрын

You mean low pass

@c7ford

3 жыл бұрын

Hearing it while you were talking about your new mic is priceless! Never gives you a break haha

@llawrence9485

3 жыл бұрын

For me it's quite noticeable in my laptop speakers, but quieter in my other speakers

"do you notice anything missing?" Yeah, the borders! "right, the microphone!" oh

@meganh1603

3 жыл бұрын

haha same thing happened to me

@kentguiller

3 жыл бұрын

Why in the F*CK is this Not Having More *COMMENTS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

@kleo5696

3 жыл бұрын

@@kentguiller REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

New microphone? Does that mean... no more robot Tom? And therefore no more future Tom? He was such a nice guy, I'll miss him 😔

@Mnnvint

3 жыл бұрын

Future Tom is still needed for high concentration efforts like getting on leaderboards.

@Jachael123

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mnnvint true! I'll still miss robot Tom's unique voice but at least we'll still have future Tom then haha

@jk7921

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just a shame we never got to meet future future Tom. I hear he’s also a top lad.

@arryacc

3 жыл бұрын

well he did get the yeti...so... you never know.

@Discoooodiva

3 жыл бұрын

WHYYYYYYYYYY

I’m really going to miss “Future Tom”. He was a great lad and seemed more composed then regular Tom

@NoahDitlefsen

3 жыл бұрын

future tom will still be needed for them leader board attempts ⁉️⁉️

@StamfordBridge

3 жыл бұрын

Is Future Tom in the past now?

@chrisvodicka9406

3 жыл бұрын

Future Tom was the hero we didn't deserve

@StamfordBridge

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisvodicka9406 He tried to warn us of what would come to pass if we didn’t change our ways. No one listened.

@Ohshidohfrick

3 жыл бұрын

Than* (sorry)

RIP Robot Tom. He will forever be missed :(

@troglodyte2624

3 жыл бұрын

Forget Robot Tom...I'm gonna miss Future Tom 😔

@elementalsheep2672

3 жыл бұрын

@@troglodyte2624 Surely Future Tom will feature in the speedrun videos still, won't be the same though

@snooks5607

3 жыл бұрын

he could get a vocoder and do a robot special someday

me when tom gets one wrong: yeah that’s understandable, i couldn’t have even guessed that tom when tom gets one wrong: oh my god i need to reevaluate my life i think

@wloffblizz

3 жыл бұрын

"I need to re-evaluate my life" - Tom when he gets one country wrong "I need to re-evaluate my life" - Me when I'm spending my Friday night watching some bloke from Walsall find Asian countries on a map

@gonefishing6337

3 жыл бұрын

he sets very high standards for himself

audio is good quality but a high-pitched tone in the background is a little painful - shouldn't be hard to filter out though

@Miniclausen1995

3 жыл бұрын

This needs all the attention. The high pitch tone is very annoying

@Feisty123

3 жыл бұрын

Classic blue yeti

@ludocoker

3 жыл бұрын

With good headphones it really makes the vid unwatchable ... Hope he can fix it !

@21Nicky21

3 жыл бұрын

Ill have a headache by the end but its worth it

@RatherEmpty

3 жыл бұрын

@@Feisty123 I don't think this is a blue yeti problem, it's a pretty decent microphone

His microphone will stay in our hearts. Qatar has an epic name btw

@LovelyAngel.

3 жыл бұрын

Qatar literally means "a runny nose" in my country 😂😂😂 And no other country has a double meaning like that

1:05 even after confirming he is recording, he is still in doubt

@felixleon4694

3 жыл бұрын

''We are, I think''

Heyy! I’m from Tajikistan! So happy to see someone mention our such a small country😂

@byron-ih2ge

3 жыл бұрын

what r u guys turkic or iranic i literally am confused

@arstotzka333

3 жыл бұрын

@@byron-ih2ge turkic

@rasachya5340

3 жыл бұрын

@@arstotzka333 no they are iranic

@arstotzka333

3 жыл бұрын

@@rasachya5340 sorry

@Ahmed-pf3lg

3 жыл бұрын

@@byron-ih2ge They are Iranic. But there are many “uzbeks” in Tajikstan and uzbeks are Turkic. You could say Tajikstan is a fusion between Iranic and Turkic culture, even the way people look can be Persian or Turkic(Mongoloid) depending on the person.

At 7:50 he was referring to Tommy Caldwell, climber of the dawn wall. He was kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan and ended up having to kill a dude to escape.

@maddiepilz5711

3 жыл бұрын

What really?! Did not know that

@chrishansen2409

3 жыл бұрын

The guy didn’t actually die

@nzd3742

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Caldwell had to push his kidnapper off a cliff-face to escape. He spent years thinking that he'd killed the guy but later discovered that he was still alive. This is covered in the excellent _Dawn Wall_ film. For anyone that hasn't seen that, go check it out. Right now. The guy that Tom almost named right is Alex Honnold, who is a climbing partner of Caldwell's, and whose film _Free Solo_ won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. Also well worth a watch!

Rip to the microphone :,( he was a real one

I'VE MISSED SPORCLE THANK YOU ^^

Tom: How on Earth do you place Tajikistan 4:25 Also Tom: intuitively pre-places the cursor right where the country is first try before actually thinking himself into mistake next second.

Tip for the future with these website quizzes, if you play the "Minefield" versions then I will end the game if you get one wrong and you won't need to refresh the page like I believe you want, hope this helps!

@ordinaryhand

3 жыл бұрын

i don't understand why he started over every time he got one wrong

@hkrohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@ordinaryhand Because he wanted to get a perfect score.

Tommy Caldwell was the climber in Kyrgyzstan. "The Dawn Wall" great documentary about the ordeal. Thanks for the viddy Tom.

@MitoNoche

3 жыл бұрын

Yess, Tommy Caldwell, was looking for a comment :) It was in Kyrgyzstan though!

@mattmuch1

3 жыл бұрын

@@MitoNoche yes. Thanks. I'll correct

3:20 is golden. I laughed so hard

No more Future Tom then, sad day it is.

You should do 'A Diverse Complete World (Created by sgminer21)'. Everyone's wondering how you would score on a map with every country of the world.

@SGMiner21

3 жыл бұрын

Yooooo that sgminer21 dude seems pretty poggers not going to lie, I hope Tim Davids plays their map

@wloffblizz

3 жыл бұрын

@@SGMiner21 Hey that map is pretty cool, though I've gotta say, no matter how many "random beach on a tropical island" photospheres I get, I don't think I'll ever be able to distinguish one from the other :D

hope you're having a good evening tom! I found you from your Sporcle videos so I'm excited to watch this

6:15 his reaction was just so good

3:17 When you get your grades back:

@willymachmer-walker4849

3 жыл бұрын

haha that really made me chuckle cheers for that

Fellow from Bahrain here. Happy to see you can see us in the map

Been here since the first journey thru Wales episode, great to see you’ve gained more recognition. Well deserved !

"Wow, I thought Kuwait would be closer to Iraq!" Kuwait: borders Iraq

RIP Tom bumping into his mic after leaning forward to see better. ;(

dude this is lowkey highkey hella entertaining. Like laughing-out-loud, having-a-blast-entertaining

10:50 "You've got to unlock the big chunky ones that surround the small tricky ones" Mate you're giving away my methods for picking up women

@bradleymchugh6952

3 жыл бұрын

He said that as i read this comment.

@ordinaryhand

3 жыл бұрын

bet you're an adonis huh

@davidr2421

3 жыл бұрын

@@ordinaryhand idk I always thought of myself more as a Hermes type of guy

3:41 Say what?

The dread in your voice at each new Stan was hilarious

More of these please! was very enjoyable to see you try this

These videos are awesome man. Love the no border guessing stuff. Keep it up :)

I loved seeing you on ludwigs stream! I was so excited 😂

You know you can skip to the biggest countries to establish some sort of scale or grid at least? Like, start with Russia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, all the countries so big you basically can't get wrong by just clicking smack dab in the middle of them, or with a distinct geographical landmark, then go on to the smaller ones and work your way down to the impossible ones

@Lucymai12

3 жыл бұрын

yeah it was clearly a no clicking challenge, he could've and it would have been no problem at all probably.

@robrophside3691

3 жыл бұрын

I think he knows he can skip; not skipping is part of the challenge.

@NiloAhri

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, if not skipping only gave him a 11 minutes video, if he skipped this would become a youtube #shorts

You never fail to impress me Tom. Like I don’t even play these games myself but I saw a clip of you from someone else’s channel once and I searched and found you and have binge watched all your videos since

Quite an entertaining tom. I came around the first straight line mission and I'm glad to see you blowing up and doing collabs with Ludwig, you outta put some of him on your channel, I'm sure folks would enjoy it.

he always says "man im so bad at this huh" even though 99% of everyone watching probably didnt even know Bahrain fkin existed lmao (including myself) ur miles ahead of us still Tom

@NJH01

3 жыл бұрын

Ik pretty all countries although I always forget Timor-Leste exists but I still would struggle a lot with placing them

@gihanprabash

3 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people do know about Bahrain tbf.

@RishaadKhan

3 жыл бұрын

I thought everyone knew Bahrain existed lmao

7:33, if you were wondering the climber was Tommy Caldwell who was abducted, there's a great movie about one of his climbs called "The Dawn Wall" that briefly mentions it. He actually has to push his captor of a cliff in order to escape. He's had a pretty crazy life.

Tom you are the man. Been with ya for a little while now, since about 200k subs I think. I can definitely say you are a top notch guy and the content has been getting more and more entertaining to watch with each video. Cheers from Southeastern Pennsylvania

hell yeah, more sporcle! JSYK you can shut the clock off before you start by clicking "timer" and setting it to stopwatch. Also its the "minefield" quizzes that stop you when you get one wrong. Most of those are in a big playlist so you should be able to find the minefield and/or no skips versions there.

"That's not quite the right shape" yo tom i love you

@seblastin9309

3 жыл бұрын

Hes a legend for that!

@aice7

3 жыл бұрын

what does he mean by that

@dragonwingz1

3 жыл бұрын

@@aice7 he's saying that Palestine includes what is otherwise known as Israel, which is absolutely fuckin hilarious and also respectable of Tom

@drschoegge

3 жыл бұрын

what a genuinely good guy

@ZwaartEntertainment

3 жыл бұрын

I think you are seriously overinterpreting what he meant. If you look at the sporcle map the Gaza Strip looks a lot bigger than in reality and is even touching the West Bank I think. Given that I am 100 % certain that he doesn't deny the existance of Israel as a state.

The quality is way better, but there is a small ringing noise, like a dog whistle when you turn up the volume a bit, and no I don't have tinnitus, and it is not my headset

@EVMjimmy

3 жыл бұрын

I hear it aswell

@Mahoot

3 жыл бұрын

Oh shoot I thought that was just me lol

@EVMjimmy

3 жыл бұрын

@El Dimos Karam I'm 18, I guess that's not old but not super young

@rEAdyOrN

3 жыл бұрын

Yetis do that shit

@NazadYT

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I hear it as well

A great guy called NorthernLion has been doing a lot of geography and sporcle stuff and seeing you go head to head with him would be awesome!

@Kolateak_

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure NL is that knowledgeable with Geography yet

after watching this video, I challenged myself and learned the locations of all the countries in the world with their flags including tiny island countries located in the middle of nowhere. I’m so proud of it and therefore wanna thanks Tom for inspiring me for that. with love from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

"Bahrain is an eager fellow" Well, the Bahrain Grand Prix is tomorrow sooo...

1:04 when you see yourself in the mirror first thing in the morning

Love you Tom from Thessaloniki, Greece. Nice video! You should get back with perfect scores in countries and you can start with Greece.

I thought my ears were getting pretty bad but I instantly noticed the high pitched sound lol. In geoguessr I feel useless because of you but this changed everything.... Thanks, Tom!

I never even heard of Timor-Leste! I think all of the others I would have at least recognized as countries (wouldn't have located all of them in Asia though) but still so many where I had no clue where they were! Lowkey embarrassing haha...

@polarbearsss

3 жыл бұрын

i had no idea lebanon was in asia i thought it was in africa 😭😭😭

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

@@polarbearsss Lebanon, home of the city Byblos (as in Bible) and related places. Timor-Leste = East Timor, somewhat recently freed from Indonesian occupation.

I'll forever miss Tom having to maneuver around the microphone to go point blank with the monitor.

Great job! I like to do these kind of Sporcle quizzes so that I use the Next button a lot and first do the countries I'm sure about - those then usually help me with getting the rest. Doing it the way you did it, without using the Next button - that's the cool thing. I only managed to do Europe and South America this way...

The audio is much better! Well done, Tom

Clicks a millimeter above Cambodia, GeoWizard, "I need to re-evaluate my entire life."

Next off: Countries of the World Sporcle quiz.

@annoyingbroccoli3939

3 жыл бұрын

He already did that a while back

Lmao when you were doing the -istans I was thinking about that Lee Evans bit, cracked me up when you said it

New microphone looks and sounds great man. Keep up the good work

Love the new mic Tom :)

Future tom will never grace us with his presence again

I've really enjoyed the USA version which was a long time ago, so this is just perfect!

love this format!

Man you just really got lucky with getting the big countries first tbh

most people don't mean it when they say miles off, but when GeoWizard says it he does lol

Mate that's actually unreal, well done

Best audio in one of your videos, keep it up

When you have tinnitus so you can't hear the high pitched sound.

"it's a yeti.... Idk what I'm doing" lmaoooo

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

And obviously can't find Himalayan countries with a name like that.

New mic sounds great! 😍 cheers mate

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

Hello from Kyrgyzstan! The place which even geowizard struggles to find.

tom, next time you play one of these make sure you have the "minefield" version, that way the quiz ends when you get one wrong

Still quite impressive for someone who hasn't ventured that much in Asia Tom. I reckon I would have gotten some of the middle-east ones wrong myself. Nicely done!

After saying he needs a new mic for like 2 years, he finally did it!

you know someone is at least mildly interested in geography when they pronounce Laos correctly. (Kiribati is expert mode)

Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan... all your favorites to click on! Especially if you get them first. (OOOOOF)

new mic sounds GREAT 👍👍

I didn’t know a lot of these countries existed, so good job.

You can click next and previous and rule out the easy ones. Builds some borders

@darkfire4047

3 жыл бұрын

He knows but he doesn't like doing it.

@SneakyNuts

3 жыл бұрын

@@darkfire4047 OK.

'Its just a guy named Stan going round in Circles' 'He's-back-istan' LMAO I remember that one.

@OhSweetLlama

3 жыл бұрын

I think stan means land or nation, something like that.

@sprefect

3 жыл бұрын

It is from persian and has proto-indo european root of 'sta' meaning standing basicly which explains the english word 'stand' as well. Briefly it is the place where you stand

Love your sporcle videos

I know I’m not the only one that think s this is easily top 3 KZread’s overall. Could literally have a show. Tom is the man.

why does he make me so happy LOL

7:35 - Tommy Caldwell (a friend of Alex Honnold) and his friends were the ones who got abducted there. Still one of the craziest stories I've ever heard.

@MagiSwag

3 жыл бұрын

FYI- it was in Kyrgyzstan not Tajikistan that they were abducted

You had me laughing heartily today.

The other day I did the Africa no borders one. At first I could only get 2/3 in a row if it was ones I knew but pretty soon it became pattern recognition/spacial awareness and after an hour I was able to complete it so I think Tom wouldn't struggle at all

Tom you should fiddle with the gain on your Blue Yeti, there is a very high pitch whine which apparently is quite common with that mic.

A clue that you can skip countries and come back to mark them later!

@frullo1647

3 жыл бұрын

He knows dw

@salientspoon

3 жыл бұрын

He knows but he prefers not to skip.

@noobita4983

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I see

@tnikoli40

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah thats how i got them. Makes easier finding borders of smaller countries

@sneersh9107

3 жыл бұрын

That makes it too easy you can just pick all the big ones first

Tom who the hell told you to get a Yeti😂😂 loving the vids

I am genuinely learning geography from your videos

Ringing sound in the background of this video.... unwatchable for headphone users... Please fix before next vid pls!! My ears!!! Anyways love the vids brotha

@janbevk9882

3 жыл бұрын

What ringing sound

tom this mic is fine for these vids, but i'd suggest still using the old one for narrating the travel vids because it has a more studio/narrator feel

@billie8156

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd say it's more of downgrade tbh. He went from a sm58 to blue yeti, why not just upgrade to a sm57 or even sm7b. And if he doesn't want the mic in frame he should rather get a shotgun mic. Anything is miles better than the damn yeti..

@arch758

3 жыл бұрын

@@billie8156 yeah I didnt want to say it, the blue yeti is the mic that people who know nothing about mics get

the "i dont know what im doing" at the start killed me lmao

Love these quizzes

Is anything missing? I thought you mean the borders in asia lol RIP to the microphone btw

Me after anything bad at all happens, whether it was my fault or not: 5:17

Since you like Sporcle, you should try Jetpunk, too. There's lots of great geography-related quizzes there as well!

Hey Tom, you're the best keep doing what you're doing. If you didn't already get the yeti up off the desk. Noticed some tippy tappy finger drumming etc I mean I don't mind but could be a bit more polished with that up on a stand. Cheers.

Hello Thomas

شصغرنا البحرين وكل شوي نطلع له😂😂😂

Happy about your new mic!

Greetings from Kyrgyzstan. You have excellent knowledge in geography of Asia.