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incision
It's somehow fitting that the YouTube user who posted this also has a number of "OUR CATS..." videos.
foxhop
I'm happy they had the decency to disable comments. I've noticed youtube comments are normally distasteful.
techietim
I'm not sure why the article is saying this video is now on YouTube. The video pages says it was uploaded in 2009.
foxhop
I thought the same thing. I guess they were reflecting that the man had survived the times to find himself on a gameshow about 80 years later, and about 60 years after that, the TV show found its way to youtube...
ck2
Apparently Atlantic is now combing Reddit for old news? Like six months ago news?
killwhitey
The video was uploaded Apr 11, 2009, which makes it a bit more than 6 months old.
nilved
Way older than six months. I'm pretty sure I saw this there at least two years ago.
Evbn
The Atlantic is converting itself into an SEO-driven blog spam site in the tradition of HuffPo.
mixmax
Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4

sfall
They really got that really quickly, and it was sponsored by tobacco.
garazy
These crossovers of time are fascinating and interesting to research i.e. people who used the internet before the airplane was invented.
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