In what is hands-down the most British things I’ve seen in a while, this is a 1974 clip from BBC Nationwide of Michael Barrat interviewing snail aficionado Christopher Hudson and his beer-loving giant African snail, Boozy. Honestly, I thought it was a Monty Python skit at first, and I’m still

In wayback news (my favorite kind, all new news is bad news), this is a video from the Australian Public Broadcast service on August 31st, 1962 asking Sydney residents if they think there’s life on other planets. The answers range from “no” to one guy having seen a UFO. Most

This is a Great Big Story interview with Australian voice actor Karen Jacobsen, jokingly known as “the only woman men will take directions from.” Since 2002, Karen has been the voice of over 1-billion GPS devices and smartphone apps. Ha, I knew I recognized her from somewhere! She lives in

This is a follow up to yesterday’s video of a tornado tossing a truck around with an interview with that driver and a closer look at the truck. Obviously, Chevrolet would be foolish not to buy the rights to the video and design a whole advertising campaign around ‘Built Tornado

Because some news networks aren’t afraid to tackle truly hard-hitting stories, this is a video from Toronto News CP24 featuring an interview with young resident Carter Trozzolo, who’s exhausted from shoveling snow all morning. He says not only did he shovel his own house, but also the homes of neighbors

Because even domesticated animals like to act wild, these are two compilation videos (first cats, then dogs) assembled by Youtube channel Funny Video Compilations featuring pets interrupting people’s at-home work videos and news interviews. There are some SOLID interruptions in there, and I highly recommend watching both videos back-to-back with

This is a March 2nd, 1979 clip from The Late Night Starring Johnny Carson with guest Carl Sagan discussing the original Star Wars movie, it’s scientific inaccuracies, human chauvinism, and incredible whiteness of all the human characters, particularly the ones in charge. Some of the exchange: Sagan: Star Wars starts

Sorry for the short day today folks, somebody decided to crash their truck into a telephone pole by my house and knocked out the power in the neighborhood for the last five hours. Was it an energy conservationist who’s a firm believer in thinking globally and acting locally? I’m not