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YouTube Is A History Tripping Time Machine
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YouTube Is A History Tripping Time Machine

Cat and dog videos. Movie clips and trailers. Pranks and wacky jokes of all kinds. Nice, but is that all there is to enjoy? I love to use YouTube as my time machine to view history as it happened.

YouTube documents and archives our pop culture, essential video history. Browsing it is like hopping into a snazzy time machine. Like Doc Brown’s Back To The Future souped up DeLorean? Me too. There are so many engaging videos - including clips and full shows - it’s hard to choose, but one funny man’s giddy gabfest always keeps me coming back to watch more.

Dick Cavett has talked to everybody on the planet. For years, he had the talk show to prove it. Mr. Cavett hosted rock stars, literary legends, heads of state and movie Kings and Queens. John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Muhammad Ali, Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, Lily Tomlin, Norman Mailer, Janis Joplin, Burt Lancaster, David Bowie and Bette Davis number a small, sparkling sample collection of some of the most interesting and world famous Dick Cavett guests.

You’ll uncover priceless moments which must be seen to be believed, and even after your eyes have fully popped outta your skull, you may not truly believe what you’re seeing.

Watching Cavett tell George Harrison, the quiet or gentleman Beatle, that only a few weeks before, Yoko Ono had been sitting in his chair and to see Harrison jump out as if he was bitten by a poisonous snake, is beyond satisfying indeed. Harrison doesn’t actually confirm the long held fan suspicion that Yoko busted up The Beatles, but we can all do the basic math after watching Harrison’s delightful antic.

Dick Cavett talks with legendary George Harrison one of the famed Beatles.

Bette Davis reveals the facts on Gone With The Wind casting.

So, please clear up and make lots of free space in your busy life schedules. Take a little time off from work, family or school. Ready to go time travelling my tiny terrific time trippers? Let’s fire up our temporal processors and let the fabled YouTube time machine space warp us to places long gone, but never ever forgotten.

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