Always wear earplugs around loud noises, folks. That's it for this season! We'll be back in 2023 with another run, including the most unexpected adventure any of us have had yet.

Goose: *Honk* Train: *Honk-honk* Goose on a train: *Honk-ho-HOOOONK* Foghorn: *HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK*

"Just so we're clear, that's called hearing damage." "What?"

"For my sins, I got involved in fixing it." What a line that is.

I’m impressed that Gary managed to beat Tom to something he could have easily covered on his Channel.

Gary, a train, and a honk? Really playing the hits here

Goose: Honk Foghorn: HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK Goose on a foghorn: Honk-HOOOOOOOONK!

That travel montage was excellent. I can totally understand if Gary doesn't want to make his life more public, but I for one would enjoy a Gary Brannan vlog.

When Tom said you can drop one from space it took me a minute to realise that this was something he'd literally done, filming some bloody garlic bread.

Good to know Matt is so good at simply refusing to be successfully interrupted

I really love this series. There is just something about seeing you all genuinely exited about something. I often find it hard to find things I like and it just makes me happy how you can enjoy the world around you like that. It actually gives me a lot of strength to go about and find things I personally enjoy aswell, no matter if it's somthing grand or something mundane.

I love how in the first run of this format, none of you spent money on travel, and in the second series Gary's off to the Shetlands and Tom's off to be disappointed in Iceland again

I'll be honesty, first hearing Aberdeen I thought Gary was going to visit the Tura Coo. This is equally as delightful.

1:46 for those who wish to replay Gary's headbutt

I'm counting that shot of Gary hitting his head on the bedside table as *Tech Diff In Bed*

Even people who CAN'T hear can probably feel the HONK in their chest.

"two to honk and one as backup".. that's a brand new sentence right there..

Get some god damn hearing protection Gary.

I am shocked - *shocked* - that Garry didn't use this opportunity to do a fart joke.

I had a home by train tracks once. Literally across the street from my front door. You get used to the noise and don't even realize that you've stopped your conversation since you're so used it.

“For my sins, I got involved in fixing it.” 😂❤

I love seeing systems like this, where you have a small, experienced group that knows how to run it. Any system that can be accurately described as "tempermental," while obviously less efficient than a system that just works, is much more fun in my opinion.

I still remember the Flamborough Horn switching to a modern, high-pitched beacon. It felt like we lost something when it did.

One thing I love about Tech Dif formats is how they always blend great humour with genuinely interesting information; I always come out of each episode with a grin but also a 'huh, I never knew that' feeling. Looking forward to the next series!

OH MY GOSH!! A FOGHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORN!!!! Thank you SO SO SO SO MUCH! for this season of the TechDif, this was awesome fun!!! Here's to a 2023 full of adventures!!

I think it would be really cool to speak to a scientist about the interesting impacts on air pressure in the area when this thing is going. I can only wonder if Gary ruined a soufflé or someone’s weekly sourdough. All for a good cause IMHO. This was absolutely fascinating and Gary totally made the face we’d all make hearing AND feeling that bloody great beast go off. SO VERY COOL! Also, Matt has gotten so good doing to-camera pieces! I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts being in front of the camera at his day job. Future format idea. Four Guys, Four Days, Four Stops. You all travel together, you each pick a location to stop at with a cool thing to do, and a third party (maybe one of Tom’s producers) puts the itinerary together… including how you’ll get there and in what order you’re going to the stops.

Gary needs to add “Goose on a Foghorn” to his repertoire.

In Gary's defense, at certain dB levels ear protection is not effective as the pressure wave travels not through the ear canal, but *through your bones* instead! Earplugs and overear protectors typically only reduce the decibel level by 10-15 dB (its complicated) which, while good, probably wouldnt be enough to get a foghorn to 'no hearing damage' levels of noise.

Love this series. I think I'd give the "win" (if anyone can be said to have won "spend Tom's money doing random cool things") to Gary this time around

"So you're not going to the town of Twatt" I like that Tom is expecting Gary to go there. It fits with the Feast Of The Ass episode

I think Gary might right about the changes in pressure breaking the camera, falling from orbit makes the gopro experience a gradual change fom low to high pressure, in this case it alternates between rising and lowering pressures(if i didn't missunderstand), shifting everything ever so slightly to each side each time it alternates. The air pretty much went like me wiggling a piece of metal back and forth to brake it.

When I saw the title and thumbnail I thought..... and he's on a boat. But it was a lighthouse and the main sound was not Gary. On lighthouses being obsolete. A friend of mine was with the Swedish Sea Rescue Society and their fancy navigation system stopped working so they used a paper map and the lighthouses to find their way home in semi-rough weather once.

Great episode, full on great lines 2:13 [thud] ow 14:15 For my sins, I got involved in fixing it 15:46 Just so we're clear, that's called hearing damage. - What? 18:20 Those that can hear will hear this

Anyone else notice Gary's "GIVE QUICHE A CHANCE" shirt? Always nice to see another Red Dwarf fan!

And this is how The Technical Difficulties goes out of 2022, not with a bang, but with a honk

Gary, Gary, Gary... Get some god damn..!

Watching these guys for so long it’s so lovely to see them getting the ability to just go out and do a thing they enjoy, they’re all clearly loving it which makes it so much more enjoyable and entertaining to watch. Hats off to you lads

My favourite part of the travel montage is that Gary then had to turn the light back on, get up and turn the gopro off.

If anything comes of the slipped info by Gary, please do put a card up and add it to the desciption Tom!

I once knew a Scotsman from Dundee who used to work in Shetland. He himself was quite the Scottish Nationalist, but was deeply impressed by the locals, who insisted, "We're not Scottish, we're Shetlanders!" Hearing the man describe the nature of the diesel engines brought back those memories of his recollections of Shetland.

I saw the title and was kinda hoping this would be the compilation of every time Gary interrupted Tom’s intro

I love the absolute anti clickbait titles on these videos

alt title: Gary goes to a George Ezra concert

I like that despite Gary's best efforts, Matt was the one to actually finally break Tom and claim the intro.

Completely incidental, but Gary in that getup looks like the dictionary definition of Yorkshire.

This is the best group of geeky guys I have ever seen. They simply enjoy things. Keep it up!

I can hear Gary's tinnitus from here.

I love that this feels like Gary's take on Tom's regular format!

11:04 - What Gary's saying here makes me want to see super slowmotion footage of an inflated balloon next to the forghorn as it goes off.

You know it's a really good idea when even Tom himself regretted not picking up that idea for his video. Mad respect to Gary

Don't worry Tom. As long as Brian Blessed is alive you can make a video with someone much louder.

Thank you wonderful Gents for such an amazing series. Your enthusiasm is infectious and I look forward to each episode. Great work!

This was just as entertaining as the time Gary cooked bacon on a steam locomotive's firebox. Incidentally I knew nothing about the Shetland Islands until now, apart from where they are. I also think Tom should make his own video about that foghorn.

I'm sure Gary is aware of it but the book "The Foghorn's Lament" by Jennifer Lucy Allen is well worth getting. Featuring Brian and the Sumburgh Head lighthouse among others. Also worth checking out is the Whiby Lighthouse "Hawkster Mad Bull" foghorn

"Take that, James Burke!" lol, I got that Connection. Great vid.

I guess the theme of this run is "Dangers" From the danger of crashing a piece of machinery, to the danger of hearing loss near machinery.

I think it's super-interesting that you can see the moisture condensing at the foghorn outlet when it's sounding. When you compress air, you heat it up, but when you decompress it (as you are doing when the sound is made), it cools down (this is why when you are spraying a can of dust-remover or any other product compressed in a can, the can starts to get really freakin' cold). The cold then condenses the moisture in the air (which was fully gaseous at the high pressure of the air tank), and - somewhat ironically - the foghorn actually manufactures...fog.

8:44 interesting or maybe not so interesting anecdote: a while back a friend and me filmed a short video at the laboratories (mainly consisting of several gloveboxes filled with argon, so the researchers could do experiments under the right conditions) of a battery research centre and we after we filmed most of our stuff we thought it’d be a great idea to put the GoPro with its little tripod onto a small tray and and send it through the conveyor belt connecting several gloveboxes. We thought we could get some cool shots for a montage or something. The Go Pro would always stop working as soon as we put it into the glovebox. In the end we used one of our phones, worked fine. We thought it was weird at the time and I hadn’t thought about it in a while. I wonder what’s up with that.

14:38 I like hearing "I dinnae mind" as much as seeing it spelled out

"Take that, James Burke!" I just happened to have been watching that particular clip earlier this morning. 😆

As someone who has been on Kobba Klintar among the Åland Islands some years ago when its roughly similarly aged foghorn was ran this is quite delightful.

I love that the pastry shop is specifically featured during the travel montage.

The sheer glee on Gary’s face when it goes off is magnificent

Today on the Technical Difficulties, Gary crosses a picket line.

Still waiting on Gary's industrial history television series.

The small detail of Gary's rebound off the bed conking his head on the phone shouldn't be as funny as it is.

Is there goose on the train?

Ah, yes - just checked. Gary states "... Britain's last working foghorn". Could have saved himself some train fare and come to Crosby Coastguard station IIRC to hear a fully working and in-service foghorn.

The look of pure joy on your faces in these videos is my favourite thing in the world

Thank you, spent a lot of time as a child in a static caravan been woken up then lulled to sleep by the foghorn at Flamborough head. Had forgotten all about them until now. Great video as usual lads.

Can I just say. We had a video of Gary on a train, talking about honking and we didn’t get Goose on a train

I'm not inherently interested in a lot of the things y'all have done on these, but it's so nice seeing you all so excited for each other. Plus, at this point, I'm pretty sure I'd watch any excuse to get the four of you in a room together; you just play off each other so well!

Gary needs to Get Some God Damn...

This was just amazing to watch, because I've been to Shetland! As you can imagine, it was amazing, even if I didn't get to see, and hear, that foghorn. I'm as amazed as you, Gary, a sunny day? On Shetland? No matter the weather, it was a fantastic place to visit, and most places sounded Scandinavian as well! Lerviken, Laxö, Valön, Tingvalla. So easy to see! They called a shed a "bod", while we in Sweden call a shed a "bod"... Kista = Kist (chest, with or without treasure). And all the people were so friendly! I even met one member of "Pete Stack & the Rayburns", a band and a pun worthy of praise! If you have the chance, get your arses over to Shetland! Beautiful and friendly! I need to visit again...

You guys please keep making more of these. I love how much fun you have, how wholesome it is and how much the rest of the gang enjoys the adventures. Seriously please keep making more.

I can’t wait to see Tom’s follow up video

I'm sure I'm not the only one who saw the thumbnail and immediately wondered if this was going to involve a goose on a train.

"Gary makes a very loud noise"... the travel montage should have had him eating beans. It could have been fun way to play with Chekhov's Gun.

What a wonderful video, my favourite so far. And loved the James Burke reference.

This one is quite literally the Gray Brannan Sound Effects episode

I am at 30,000 feet, I have been up since 3 am, and I have been waiting for this video all morning! I am ready to hear Gary make a loud noise

The best thing about Tom Scott cursing is he does it do well it never feels out of place.

I just realized that Matt was some degree of correct when he said that Gary was going to flip off the shetlands with his trip's goal.

Gary missed his calling as a content creator, travel montage, different takes, interviews, intro and outro.

As a music teacher I use to tell the kids “it’s more felt than heard” and they never knew what that meant. I think Gary know now.

God, the bit about GoPros and Air Pressure was one of those moments where you headscratch so hard, you remember how much humans mess with the natural world around them. Great stuff!

Excited for this Tom Scott video which Gary has hinted at

I absolutely love this series. It's entertaining and interesting and fun all rolled into one. Just love it.

"Take that, James Burke!" ROFL...🤣

We still have fog horns operating here on the Atlantic coast of Canada. I can tell a lot about the weather we're having by which horn I am hearing and how loud it is.

this is the most gary thing ever

The pure joy on Gary's face, this is the mother of all honks

I'm honestly surprised Gary didn't try to make a foghorn censoring a swear word joke (or maybe he did and it never made the cut?)

You could use this sound as a sort of anti-MYSTERY BISCUITS!

It's so good that you are back! The new series is fantastic! Also: can we please get merchandise with the four-coloured-logo?

Really liking the different coloured subtitles

I just noticed that Elliot Gough is listed as the editor in the description, does he edit the individual videos you guys presented here to or only the "final mix" with your reactions? Because I really loved the editing on this one, it does feel like a video Elliot would have edited, the man can really go ham when you give him creative freedom, that travel montage was just *chefs kiss*.

Ah, memories of childhood, listening for the foghorn, I never realized each had a distinct identifiable pattern as just one was near.

5:51 hands down the best thing i've ever heard chris say.

*sees title* Ok yeah but what did he do that was different