Travel Thursday has been delayed until tomorrow, because this is also my happy Guy Fawkes Day post for all my homies in the United Kingdom. This is also going up earlier than usual because UKOGBNI time differences. (Two! Two! Two posts in one! Because I’m a lazy blogger.)
So: Happy Guy Fawkes Day, people! I’ve been waiting probably about six months to use this one.
Richard “Hamster” Hammond from 2005: “The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend”. In which Hammond not only talks about the gunpowder plot, but builds a replica of the House of Lords…and then blows it up.
I know this is kind of long, so for the convenience of my readers who may not have a holiday today: here’s the timestamp for the big event.
Spoiler:
I kind of enjoy seeing Sidney Alford: he used to show up regularly on “Nova” episodes that involved blowing stuff up. I thought about suggesting that he is the Boyd Crowder of the United Kingdom, but then I went down this whole weird path of trying to map Crowder and Givens equivalents onto people in the United Kingdom, and down that way lies madness.
Bonus: if you haven’t had enough Gunpowder Plot (and is there ever really enough Gunpowder Plot?), another documentary from 2001.
Bonus #2 and #3: shorter videos directly from the UK Parliament. Part 1:
Part 2: