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118. Aliens!! (War of the Worlds) · The Book-Watchers

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Speaker 1: We are actually going to be doing going back to
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Speaker 1: our roots. We're not because we're going back. We're going
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Speaker 1: to go back and review a book that has been
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Speaker 1: adapted into multiple movies and TV shows. Yeah, this one.
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Speaker 1: So this one is a very old book. It's over
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Speaker 1: one hundred years old. It is called It is the
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Speaker 1: War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
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Speaker 2: It was released in what eighteen ninety eight something like that, yep, eight.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen ninety eight. So, so a little background about HG.
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Speaker 1: Well's book. This is one of the first novels, that
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Speaker 1: first work of literature that depicts aliens and or like
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Speaker 1: alien invasions. I did more research and there was others
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Speaker 1: that also had similar premises. There was one called The
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Speaker 1: Germ Growers that came out that actually came out like
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Speaker 1: about six years before the War of the Worlds. But
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Speaker 1: this one is but yeah, it's called The Germ Growers
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Speaker 1: by Robert Potter. It was an Australia. It was like
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Speaker 1: by an Australian author. And the thing is this book
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Speaker 1: was not very popular and and actually fell out, fell
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Speaker 1: into obscurity. But the War of the World's was what
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Speaker 1: brought aliens and alien invasions into the main into the mainstream.
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Speaker 1: So while there have been plenty of other science fiction novels,
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Speaker 1: the War of the Worlds was what had brought aliens
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Speaker 1: and space the idea of space and other in life
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Speaker 1: and other worlds. Other. Yeah, it brought them into the
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Speaker 1: into the mainstream, all right. But the War of the
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Speaker 1: Worlds itself is it's one of those it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: one of one of those books that I would call
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Speaker 1: like a core book. Is it set the standard for
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Speaker 1: a lot of future novels and movies. You know, you
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Speaker 1: have books like of course, like Frankenstein, Brad Stalker's Dracula.
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Speaker 1: You have Dune, which we've also reviewed with, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings, like a lot of modern
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Speaker 1: books take inspiration from these from those stories because they
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Speaker 1: reinvent and reimagine like that entire genre of literature and
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Speaker 1: and and also movies. Yeah, and War of the World's
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Speaker 1: was one of those was one of those books as well.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't read War of the Worlds, I would
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Speaker 1: definitely encourage you to read it, because by our standards,
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Speaker 1: it's very camp It would be considered pretty campy and
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Speaker 1: very like I don't like I want to say inaccurate,
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Speaker 1: but like definitely yeah, because it's very like, it's not
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Speaker 1: very scientifically accurate.
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Speaker 2: If you think, well, it's I mean it's not. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of not.
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Speaker 1: It's a product of this time, yes, because back then,
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Speaker 1: like in the eighteen nineties, you know, people who had
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Speaker 1: little to no understanding of space beyond like traditional astrology
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Speaker 1: and astronomy, all right, people didn't really fully understand the
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Speaker 1: wide scale scope of like how far away everything is.
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Speaker 1: People back then were still well, probably still believe that
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Speaker 1: the Earth, will still believe the Earth was flat.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know when does it When did the
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Speaker 2: concept of the Earth not being flat became common and
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Speaker 2: when was finally what was rapped?
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Speaker 1: Oh dude, before listen, a lot of people thought the
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Speaker 1: Earth was flat historically, a lot of like it goes
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Speaker 1: back way further than.
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Speaker 2: This modern movement of course, yes, but like.
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Speaker 1: Back then people still thought that the universe revolved around
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Speaker 1: There was probably still a lot of people who believed
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Speaker 1: that the universe revolved around the Earth rather than the
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Speaker 1: Earth revolved around the Sun. Geocentric city versus solar centricity.
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Speaker 1: That's true, and then most people helped Back then, like
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Speaker 1: people were still just discovering dinosaurs, like the existence of dinosaurs,
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Speaker 1: so it was for for them at the time, space aliens.
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Speaker 1: It was still a very new concept. The idea of
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Speaker 1: life coming from another world all right, was still something
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Speaker 1: very new, and H. G. Wells did a good job
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Speaker 1: of bringing that concept to the mainstream. The War of
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Speaker 1: the Worlds was originally published in uh in a magazine,
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Speaker 1: so it was kind of like, uh so, so this
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Speaker 1: novel was kind of like how like you know, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of in that same category as like, uh HP
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Speaker 1: Lovecraft because a lot of his original stories were published
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Speaker 1: in magazine.
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Speaker 2: Publication magazines, weirds, stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but of course you can get your own little copy, uh,
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Speaker 1: at any bookstore, Like I ordered mine off of Amazon.
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Speaker 1: And look how tiny this is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's any bitty. It's a little but if you
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Speaker 2: look at the but if you look at the pages,
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Speaker 2: it's very condensed. As far as the words, it would
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Speaker 2: drive it would drive my eyesight dyslexia crazy. That's why
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Speaker 2: when I read the book, I read on my candle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was definitely it was a little bit. It
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Speaker 1: was tough read because it had a lot. It was
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Speaker 1: very descriptive, but also very like often it often like
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Speaker 1: sidetracked into like certain things like uh like philosophy and
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Speaker 1: uh self reflection and introspection and things like like the who,
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Speaker 1: the hows and the whys of the of the alien invaders. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it also goes into more of like and it
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Speaker 1: also goes into the mystery, like like pondering the mystery
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Speaker 1: of these of these aliens. So there's not really meant,
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Speaker 1: there's not really many named characters, like depending there's not
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Speaker 1: any named characters in this series. It fallows in the story.
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Speaker 1: It fallows the perspective of an unnamed narrator who lives
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Speaker 1: in Walking England. Are Woking England. I'm sorry for our
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Speaker 1: listeners in the UK. So to get started with the
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Speaker 1: War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds is
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Speaker 1: from the perspective of a unnamed narrator who lives in Walking, England,
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Speaker 1: not far outside of London. Now this is in the
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Speaker 1: early twentieth century. So the so we're talking like somewhere
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Speaker 1: in like the nineteen hundreds, the nineteen hundred and nineteen tens,
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Speaker 1: all right, or even like the late the late nineteenth century.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And.
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Speaker 1: The story tells about an invasion of Earth by Martians.
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Speaker 1: So this is like, this is classic alien invasion because
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Speaker 1: there was a time because there was a time where
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Speaker 1: like Martian like Martian invasions was very popular and this
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Speaker 1: was mainly prevalent throughout the you know, the early twentieth
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Speaker 1: century as alien invasions, like you know, alien sci fi
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Speaker 1: movies became more popularized, like oh, Aliens from Mars, Venus Jupiter, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know invading Earth. Whoa well, The World of the
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Speaker 1: World was the very first Martian invasion, was the very
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Speaker 1: first Martian invasion novel. And when the story begins, like
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Speaker 1: it's it's when the story begins, it's actually from the
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Speaker 1: perspective of some astronomers who were observing Mars and noted
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Speaker 1: that there was some strange like flashes of light coming
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Speaker 1: from the planet, and they had noticed that there was
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Speaker 1: like the astronomers using their with their telescope had noticed
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Speaker 1: like a strange structure on the planet and that this
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Speaker 1: structure like once a day would flash and they would
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Speaker 1: notice an object be flung outside out of the planet. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and this happened for ten consecutive days until it finally stopped.
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Speaker 1: And they noted that there was multiple objects heading into
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Speaker 1: the direction of now heading into the direction through to
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Speaker 1: the direction of Earth. And they weren't sure what these
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Speaker 1: objects were, and honestly, they didn't And unfortunately they didn't
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Speaker 1: actually like want, like an like really publicize it to
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Speaker 1: the public. Right they they released their findings, but the
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Speaker 1: public pretty much just ignored it, like okay, whatever woo Mars.
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Speaker 1: Like nobody really back then, nobody really cared. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: not like today, like you have a lot of like
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Speaker 1: astronomy enthusiasts, so like anytime there's like changes in space,
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Speaker 1: so like, oh hey, we found something really important, Like
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Speaker 1: a lot of people really like tune in and listen,
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Speaker 1: Like Devin and I we had we follow several astronomy
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Speaker 1: pages on.
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Speaker 2: TikTok love you, girls love you, girls love you people
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Speaker 2: love love.
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Speaker 1: Them, But back then it wasn't as popular, and back
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Speaker 1: then it wasn't very popular. So the story follows this
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Speaker 1: narrator as his town as like a meteor lands outside
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Speaker 1: of his town and people go to investigate the meteor.
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Speaker 1: The meteor's landing, and they find this big cylindrical object
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Speaker 1: and it's made of like a metal that's not like
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Speaker 1: anything that they've seen here that we've seen here on Earth.
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Speaker 1: And not long after the it's landing, the objects top,
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Speaker 1: like the very and like top part of the object
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Speaker 1: that will stick sticking out of the of the ground
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Speaker 1: begins to like rotate almost like a like a cap
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Speaker 1: being unscrewed, and it rotates for for like a bit,
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Speaker 1: opens only slightly before it stops, and the locals try
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Speaker 1: to like unscrew it the rest of the way to
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Speaker 1: open it, but it won't open it. Whatever they do,
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Speaker 1: they can't seem to get it open. And eventually, like
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Speaker 1: after like a day or so. Because the thing is
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Speaker 1: is that after the landing there was still a lot
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Speaker 1: of fire burning around the crash site, and after the
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Speaker 1: fire goes out, the lid ends up opening the rest
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Speaker 1: of the way, and from it, the locals, the narrator
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Speaker 1: in the locals see this strange like this strange bulbous
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Speaker 1: creature like come out like slither out of the opening
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Speaker 1: and drop down into the ground around the crash site.
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Speaker 1: And uh, this scares the people, and they all and
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Speaker 1: they all flee. Uh this scares the people and they
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Speaker 1: all flee because they never because they were all like speculating, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: is this the life from Mars? Like they figured that
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Speaker 1: this came from Mars, and they they in their minds,
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Speaker 1: they thought it was gonna be like something like them,
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Speaker 1: something humanoid or vaguely humanoid like us. But what came
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Speaker 1: out was this big brain creature with tentacles and bulbous
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Speaker 1: eyes and like a lipless mouth, yeah, like a lipless
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Speaker 1: v shaped mouth. And this terrified everyone because it was
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Speaker 1: so unrecognizable and so alien that they've ended up running
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Speaker 1: away from it. And a lot of people ended up
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Speaker 1: staying away and like keeping their distance, and several more
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Speaker 1: of these creatures came out of the of the cylinder.
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Speaker 1: And the thing is, though, like after the crash, the
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Speaker 1: military had taken note and was dispatched from London to
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Speaker 1: secure the area. Yeah, but when they before they get there,
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Speaker 1: they the glocals noticed that the Martians were doing something
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Speaker 1: around the side of the around the side of the cylinder.
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Speaker 1: They were pulling equipment out of the ship and there
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Speaker 1: was like flashes of light, puffs of this strange green
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Speaker 1: smoke being set up into the sky, and there was
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Speaker 1: just strange activity, like strange sounds, almost like construction was
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Speaker 1: going on. And at one point in this they note
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Speaker 1: that something rose out of the pit and they weren't
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Speaker 1: really sure what it was. It looked like a it
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Speaker 1: looked like a strange weird arm, like pointed arm, almost
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Speaker 1: like a flashlight or a spotlight. And out of nowhere
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Speaker 1: there was a flash of brilliant light, an intense wave
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Speaker 1: of heat, and suddenly and a massive group of people were.
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Speaker 2: Killed the narrator.
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Speaker 1: The narrator witnessed this and managed to run and uh
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Speaker 1: run and hide for safety, but the flash of light
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Speaker 1: and ended up cooking several other groups of people that
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Speaker 1: were gathered around the site. And uh he theorized that
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Speaker 1: this was some form of heat ray. Yeah, and he
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Speaker 1: was not sure how they're able to do it, but
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Speaker 1: somehow they're focusing light and energy in the form of heat,
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Speaker 1: and this heat is just instantly destroying everything in its path.
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Speaker 1: It's set, it would set the fore, it set the
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Speaker 1: forest on fire. It completely incinerated all these people. And
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Speaker 1: it also, uh, it's not really like hit Like it's
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Speaker 1: not really a theory like hinted at or like spoken about.
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Speaker 1: But uh, it's not really like like outwardly said, but
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Speaker 1: it's hinted that they that the Martians did that to
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Speaker 1: like get the people to back off.
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Speaker 2: Of course, people.
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Speaker 1: Were crowding around the crash site and then they were
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Speaker 1: just like.
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Speaker 2: Nope, incinerating, yeah, and cinerat.
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Speaker 1: After that, the heat rate is lowered back down into
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Speaker 1: the pit and like the construction activity continues around it,
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Speaker 1: and UH and the terrified UH, and the narrator terrified
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Speaker 1: decides that maybe it's time to get away from it.
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Speaker 1: So he so he packs up his family and UH,
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Speaker 1: his wife and his UH servants and they leave for
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Speaker 1: a neigh for one of the neighboring communities. U thing
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Speaker 1: is be uh. After like reaching the community, he comes
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Speaker 1: he ends up going back to his home. Like he
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Speaker 1: drops his wife off at his at some relatives house,
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Speaker 1: and uh, he decides to return back to his house,
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Speaker 1: back and walking and attempt to like secure more of
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Speaker 1: their possessions and and take it back to or back
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Speaker 1: to the neighboring community. But when they get there, but
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Speaker 1: when he gets back to his community, he finds out
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Speaker 1: a lot of the houses have been burned, I mean
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Speaker 1: his house surprised surprisingly had survived. So he goes into
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Speaker 1: his house and takes shelter, and it's from his house
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Speaker 1: that he witnesses a tripod rise out of the pit.
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Speaker 1: So this tripod was very like unusual for him because
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Speaker 1: you know, but at this time, like, yeah, humans have
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Speaker 1: begun developing our own machines, like the locomotive train was
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Speaker 1: widely used by that point, where just barely beginning to
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Speaker 1: get things like automotive vehicles and other like. And of
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Speaker 1: course the industrial era of age is like in full
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Speaker 1: swing at that point, so like manufacturing plants are becoming
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Speaker 1: more common, We're getting more and more machinery. But our
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Speaker 1: machinery is based off of like wheels and like heat
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Speaker 1: and steam and like burnable resources internal combustion. But looking
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Speaker 1: at this tripod, it doesn't have any of those aspects
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Speaker 1: that he recognized that you can recognize. It's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it looks like a saucer disk or like some sort
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Speaker 1: of like kettle atop like three legs and the legs
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Speaker 1: are like flexible and they're able to move across different,
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Speaker 1: multiple different terrains and like very quickly, and of course
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Speaker 1: it has the heat ray. So the thing is is
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Speaker 1: that by that point the the London cavalry and the
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Speaker 1: English cavalry and the military had shown up and had
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Speaker 1: all had begun setting up perimeter around the tripod, and
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Speaker 1: also another pod had also touched down in another not
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Speaker 1: far from the first one, and throughout the story, more
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Speaker 1: and more of these meat of these pods began landing
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Speaker 1: on the planet. Yeah now it's not now they're not
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Speaker 1: sure if more of them landed in other parts of
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Speaker 1: the world, but it seems like they're mostly concentrated. They
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Speaker 1: end up all landing around London. So so like in
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Speaker 1: the early parts of the vag In, only three of
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Speaker 1: these pods lands, and the Martians that come out of
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Speaker 1: them end up building putting together three different three different tripods.
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Speaker 1: They all congreg get together and every time they move
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Speaker 1: they kill everything in sight. They incinerate all any military
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Speaker 1: forces that come their way. When the military was setting
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Speaker 1: up around the first one when and the tripod rose up.
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Speaker 1: The tripod immediately wiped out their forces, and the narrator
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Speaker 1: ends up rescuing one of the cavalry men who had
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Speaker 1: run from the attack, and together they decide, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's we better get out of here because the tripod
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Speaker 1: could end up turning our way and turning that and
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Speaker 1: directing that heat ray in their direction. So they decided
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Speaker 1: to leave walking and try to get back to at
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Speaker 1: least go back to the other settlement that the narrator's
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Speaker 1: wife is waiting. So the artillery man and the narrator
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Speaker 1: they ended up leaving. They ended up leaving walking, and
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Speaker 1: they began making their journey back towards the direction of
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Speaker 1: London and UH at one of the settlements along the
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Speaker 1: they UH. There they reached one of the settle another
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Speaker 1: village along the Thames River, and the three UH and
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Speaker 1: three of the tripods end up attacking the village. And
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Speaker 1: the thing is though the military they the English military
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Speaker 1: had set up cavalry men and artillery all along the river,
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Speaker 1: so as soon as the martians come into view, they
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Speaker 1: immediately begin attacking, and things back then. This kind of
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Speaker 1: artillery is not was not very uh uh. It was
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Speaker 1: not designed for attacking like these highly mobile tripods, especially
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Speaker 1: because of all they are they're mainly this type of
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Speaker 1: artillery is mainly used for attacking like infantry and cavalry
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Speaker 1: that are like in a lower, more fixed position. Right.
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Speaker 1: But still they managed to do They managed to put
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Speaker 1: up a good fight, and in the attack they actually
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Speaker 1: managed to destroy one of the tripods, but the tripods still,
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Speaker 1: the remaining two still manage to wipe out the remaining forces.
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Speaker 1: They congregate around the wrecked tripod and retreat with it.
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Speaker 1: They pick it up, and they retreat. The narrator loses
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Speaker 1: uh uh, gets separated from the artillery men and ends
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Speaker 1: up and ends up hiding in a wrecked in a
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Speaker 1: wrecked household. Now, when while he was hiding in this house,
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Speaker 1: another pod ends up landing right there in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the of the settlement and because of the crash,
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Speaker 1: ends up wrecking the house. So while the narrator is
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Speaker 1: hiding in this house, because he spends like a good minute,
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Speaker 1: like several weeks in this house, hidden in this house,
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Speaker 1: the record of the wreckage of this house. Luckily for
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Speaker 1: him the part of the house that had a larder
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Speaker 1: and supplies was still good and he was still able
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Speaker 1: to get water. So him and also the curator of
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Speaker 1: the house were hiding together and they actually witness the
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Speaker 1: the truck the Martians like working around the pod, putting up,
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Speaker 1: putting together another tripod. They even witnessed some strange like
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Speaker 1: automatons that they're using, like kind of like worker drones,
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Speaker 1: and these drones like would scour was like start digging
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Speaker 1: in parts around the surrounding the pod, the landing pod,
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Speaker 1: and they notice that they're digging and they're manufacturing aluminum
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Speaker 1: like how they're like they're extracting aluminum from the ground. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so they're not really sure what their planet of using
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Speaker 1: the aluminum for, but still they have to do their
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Speaker 1: best to keep hidden now while they're hiding the narrow
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Speaker 1: The story does split off at this point and the
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Speaker 1: narrator describes the the escape of his brother who was
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Speaker 1: a medical student living in London. So the things is
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Speaker 1: like by this point, the papers were announcing that we're
23:08
Speaker 1: already beginning to announce the strange appearance of the landing
23:12
Speaker 1: of the pods. The appearance of the tripods and even
23:15
Speaker 1: the destruction that the tripods have been leaving across the
23:19
Speaker 1: English countryside. Now, at first, many of the Londoners don't
23:24
Speaker 1: really like take it seriously. But the thing is is
23:28
Speaker 1: that it becomes they get word that the tripods are
23:32
Speaker 1: heading towards towards London, and there's more than there's more
23:36
Speaker 1: of them now, it's no longer those original three. There's
23:39
Speaker 1: like there's like eight or nine coming up to coming
23:42
Speaker 1: up to the city now. And along the way, the
23:47
Speaker 1: tripods have stopped relying on solely the heat ray. They've
23:52
Speaker 1: also begun deploying a form of chemical weapon. So whenever,
23:57
Speaker 1: so whenever they just deal with like regular like villages
24:00
Speaker 1: that are unarmed and undefended, they just wipe them out
24:04
Speaker 1: quickly with the They just wipe them out quickly with
24:07
Speaker 1: the heat ray. But anytime they come across regiments of
24:10
Speaker 1: like artillery men and like English military, uh, they fire
24:14
Speaker 1: these canisters of this like chemical gas, and when the
24:19
Speaker 1: canisters strike, they release this really thick and corrosive black gas.
24:25
Speaker 1: It's like so thick it's almost it looks solid from afar.
24:28
Speaker 1: And it's heavy too, so it doesn't like it doesn't
24:31
Speaker 1: get dispersed by the wind. It doesn't like, it doesn't
24:36
Speaker 1: like just like spread out very quickly. It's slow, it's
24:38
Speaker 1: creeping and it sticks so like state like when they
24:43
Speaker 1: launch it and it releases the gas, it sticks in
24:45
Speaker 1: that area, and the only thing that seems to be
24:48
Speaker 1: able to counter it is running watery. So a few times,
24:53
Speaker 1: a few times, like they fired the chemicals in like
24:56
Speaker 1: areas with like enough water and one of the chemicals
24:59
Speaker 1: come typ with the water. It immediately, like the gas
25:02
Speaker 1: immediately begins to like dissipate and dissolve. So it's a
25:09
Speaker 1: very brutal method. And they found and the martians figured
25:12
Speaker 1: out how they figured that, Okay, this is definitely like
25:16
Speaker 1: when dealing with artillery forces because now they know that
25:18
Speaker 1: we have weapons that can hurt them. Yeah, they they
25:23
Speaker 1: they adapted and now use a counter weapon to keep
25:26
Speaker 1: to fight them from to fight the artillery from Afar,
25:31
Speaker 1: because they have to be able to get within a
25:33
Speaker 1: certain range to use the the heat ray effectively, and
25:37
Speaker 1: the only way to do that is by like getting
25:40
Speaker 1: lined up properly. But with the gas, they're able to
25:42
Speaker 1: just shoot it and doesn't matter if they hit or not.
25:46
Speaker 1: The gas will still dispert will still spread over a
25:50
Speaker 1: wide area and come and gets a huge majority of
25:53
Speaker 1: the artillery men and kill them. So the narrator's brother uh.
26:01
Speaker 1: The narratives brother ends up having to flee from London
26:03
Speaker 1: because the London police ends up ordering a large scale
26:08
Speaker 1: evacuation of the city because the Tripods are now gonna
26:11
Speaker 1: are now gonna attack London. He manages to escape and
26:16
Speaker 1: he ends up running into a couple of tow a
26:18
Speaker 1: pair of women were being harassed by some by some
26:23
Speaker 1: thug on the side of the road. He chases the
26:26
Speaker 1: thug off and the three women him and the two
26:28
Speaker 1: women end up traveling further. They end up traveling together.
26:32
Speaker 1: The women wanted to try to meet their their husbands
26:36
Speaker 1: in like another village, but they learn but they realized
26:39
Speaker 1: that the that the Tripods have already been through that area,
26:42
Speaker 1: so there's a high possibility that no one survived. So
26:45
Speaker 1: the brother with an idea to instead go east to
26:50
Speaker 1: the coast and try to catch one of the chart
26:52
Speaker 1: one of the ferries to the mainland. So they end
26:57
Speaker 1: up doing that. They narrowly avoid what they avoid large
27:01
Speaker 1: group of people who are also fleeing from London. They
27:05
Speaker 1: they barely avoid getting trampled by other people and also
27:08
Speaker 1: avoid multiple encounters with the tripods, and they do manage
27:12
Speaker 1: to get to the coast and uh and charter a
27:15
Speaker 1: ferry to the mainland, and there as their ferry is
27:19
Speaker 1: slowly is slowly leaving the leaving the English mainland behind
27:26
Speaker 1: the English island behind the truck, several tripods end up
27:31
Speaker 1: coming over the hill and begin to try to pursue
27:34
Speaker 1: the bunch of fleeing vessels across the water. But it's
27:38
Speaker 1: clear from like the the agitated way the tripods are
27:42
Speaker 1: moving is that they're not really sure how to cross
27:46
Speaker 1: the channel, the English Channel, because it it speculates that
27:53
Speaker 1: the Martians, because they come from a desolate world with
27:55
Speaker 1: very limited resources, they've never had to deal with large
27:59
Speaker 1: bodies of water before. In fact, it's hinted that their development,
28:05
Speaker 1: it's hinted that they have never they don't have anything
28:08
Speaker 1: like any kind of concept of boats or water travel. Yeah,
28:14
Speaker 1: and while the ferry was getting away, several the English
28:18
Speaker 1: Navy actually appears they have several like their massive iron
28:24
Speaker 1: like iron vessels because like this was like in the
28:27
Speaker 1: early twentieth century, like late late nineteenth early twentieth century.
28:31
Speaker 1: This was when the military was This was when militaries
28:34
Speaker 1: were beginning to develop larger metal vessels, you know, like
28:40
Speaker 1: all steel and iron. All right, they have big cannons
28:45
Speaker 1: stuck on them, you know, built on them. Like we're
28:48
Speaker 1: talking like like something like the Titanic. Right, maybe not
28:52
Speaker 1: as big, but you know, big vessels. These are like
28:56
Speaker 1: the kind of vessels that were developed leading that were
28:58
Speaker 1: built and eventually used in like World War One and
29:02
Speaker 1: conflicts like in World War One. And when the tripods
29:06
Speaker 1: see these these big armored vessels moving their way that
29:09
Speaker 1: you could tell that they were surprised, Like what is that?
29:13
Speaker 1: Like they've never seen Like the Martians have never encountered
29:16
Speaker 1: vessels like these before. Like they mastered space travel and
29:19
Speaker 1: yet they can't and they have like energy based weapons
29:23
Speaker 1: and deadly chemical weapons, and yet they've never seen a
29:25
Speaker 1: boat before.
29:27
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you would think you would think so.
29:32
Speaker 1: The narrators, the narrator's brother witnesses the conflict between the
29:38
Speaker 1: the iron vessels and the tripods, and the iron vessels
29:42
Speaker 1: actually take down several of the tripods because the guns
29:46
Speaker 1: on the on the on the warships are more maneuverable
29:50
Speaker 1: and more easily able to like aim at like a
29:52
Speaker 1: higher degree, and they're a lot more accurate than like
29:55
Speaker 1: the stoic artillery that you would find lamp. So they
30:00
Speaker 1: end up the vessels ended. This one. It was just
30:04
Speaker 1: this one loan warship, and it takes down two of
30:07
Speaker 1: the tripods, and the third tripod like ends up destroying
30:10
Speaker 1: the vessel, like doing a lot of damage to it.
30:13
Speaker 1: But I guess the captain of the vessel was a
30:15
Speaker 1: real crazy bastard because he ends up ordering the the
30:19
Speaker 1: ship to like full speed ahead and rams into the
30:21
Speaker 1: last tripod.
30:24
Speaker 2: Damn.
30:25
Speaker 1: And there were several more tripods coming up towards the coast.
30:28
Speaker 1: But like even though the one iron the one warship
30:31
Speaker 1: got taken down, there were still like a dozen others
30:34
Speaker 1: in the area. So they all start converging on it,
30:36
Speaker 1: and like we don't actually see the conflict between the
30:39
Speaker 1: tripods and the warships, but it's it's pretty obvious that
30:43
Speaker 1: like in terms of seapower, we had the advantage.
30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the.
30:52
Speaker 1: So the brother the narrator's brothers manage it to escape
30:57
Speaker 1: and flees the country, So good for him. But it
31:00
Speaker 1: goes back to the narrator the narrators spent weeks in
31:04
Speaker 1: that in the trapped in that house. He's rationing him
31:09
Speaker 1: and is Uh in the curator of the house ration
31:12
Speaker 1: the supply are rationing the supplies that that are left over,
31:15
Speaker 1: and they're subtly keeping an eye on the Martians as
31:18
Speaker 1: they're picking their picking their way around the rubble. And
31:22
Speaker 1: at one point they do they do learn a thing
31:25
Speaker 1: or two about the Martians physiology and part of what
31:28
Speaker 1: they eat. So the Martians are vampiric. Oh yeah, yeah,
31:34
Speaker 1: so they so they realized that the Martians had brought
31:38
Speaker 1: like a strange like native species of like humanoid creature
31:42
Speaker 1: from Mars, and they use these creatures as like a
31:45
Speaker 1: food source. Right, mainly the food was like blood. So like,
31:54
Speaker 1: the Martians have like a bunch of like tentacles all
31:57
Speaker 1: over their bodies and they use these technacles. The tentacles
31:59
Speaker 1: are also part of how they feed. And the thing
32:03
Speaker 1: is that they noted that the that the Martians seemed
32:06
Speaker 1: to struggle when moving around in our atmosphere because mainly
32:09
Speaker 1: because since Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, Earth
32:12
Speaker 1: has a very strong gravity compared to compared to Mars.
32:16
Speaker 1: So the Martians aren't able to easily move around like
32:19
Speaker 1: on Earth as they would on Mars. And so they
32:24
Speaker 1: noticed that the Martians seem to struggle, and the Martians
32:28
Speaker 1: have begun capturing humans alive and started feeding on them, which, uh,
32:34
Speaker 1: the narrators already pretty traumatized by this point. And but
32:42
Speaker 1: the thing is, the curate, the Curate, the man that
32:44
Speaker 1: he is surviving with, begins to slowly like devolve into
32:50
Speaker 1: like rambling and like after especially after witnessing the Martians
32:54
Speaker 1: feed on a human, it scares the ship out of them,
32:57
Speaker 1: causing him to ramble more and possibly the to and
33:00
Speaker 1: possibly catch the Martians attention. And and the thing is
33:11
Speaker 1: is that the narrator has to event. The narrator and
33:15
Speaker 1: the curator and the Curate. They end up getting into
33:18
Speaker 1: an argument and the Curate's rambley gets to the point
33:20
Speaker 1: where he's like way too loud and it would easily
33:22
Speaker 1: catch the attention of the Martians. So the so the narrator,
33:26
Speaker 1: in desperation knocks the curate unconscious, but their scuffle actually
33:31
Speaker 1: catches the attention of the Martians and they begin the
33:36
Speaker 1: Martians begin digging into their into their hideout. Now the
33:40
Speaker 1: narrator manages to hide into a cellar like a hide
33:44
Speaker 1: deeper into the rubble in a underground cellar, but the
33:47
Speaker 1: curate is left out there, and unfortunately, the curate ends
33:50
Speaker 1: up getting taken. And while it doesn't really reveal what
33:54
Speaker 1: happened to the curate, it's believed that the Martians ate him.
34:00
Speaker 2: So of course you mean better.
34:05
Speaker 1: The narrator almost gets caught, but he manages to hide
34:10
Speaker 1: and and the Martians leave. And the thing is the
34:13
Speaker 1: curator being the narrator being so terrified he keeps hidden
34:17
Speaker 1: for He stays in the under in the underground cellar
34:20
Speaker 1: for several days, but he notices that it's been quiet.
34:26
Speaker 1: There's nothing but silence coming from outside. So eventually he
34:30
Speaker 1: decides to risk it and leaves the ruined building and
34:32
Speaker 1: finds that the Martians are all gone. There's nothing, there's
34:36
Speaker 1: no trace of them there. They must have left. He
34:39
Speaker 1: figures that they must have left the area and decides
34:41
Speaker 1: that he could it's time to try his luck at
34:45
Speaker 1: getting the getting the huck out of there. Yeah, he
34:53
Speaker 1: even as he leaves, he makes his way to starts
34:55
Speaker 1: making his way to London, and he actually runs into
34:57
Speaker 1: that same artillery man that he was traveling Earlier in
35:00
Speaker 1: the book, the artillery Man seems to have lost it
35:05
Speaker 1: because he thinks that he the artillery Man is like
35:09
Speaker 1: also rambling and try and become like more of like
35:11
Speaker 1: a survival like one of those survivalists parent like paranoid
35:15
Speaker 1: sort of bibleists, like, oh, future humanity is not on
35:18
Speaker 1: the surface anymore, it's underground. Like the Martians take over
35:21
Speaker 1: the surface, then we need to take over the underground,
35:23
Speaker 1: like start and start digging. And basically the the artillery
35:27
Speaker 1: man is trying to like dig a series of tunnels
35:29
Speaker 1: and try to make it connect these tunnels to like
35:32
Speaker 1: underground London, and the narrator like tries to help him
35:37
Speaker 1: for a bit, but the he's but he realized he
35:39
Speaker 1: remembers that his main purpose is trying to find his wife.
35:42
Speaker 1: And the narrator leaves the artillery men behind and enters London.
35:47
Speaker 1: But he sees but he realizes that like despite the
35:50
Speaker 1: fact that he heard reports that the Martians were going
35:53
Speaker 1: to attack London, he doesn't really see much of them
35:56
Speaker 1: in London, Like London is eerily quiet, there's nobody around,
36:01
Speaker 1: there is sign of destruction, like the Martians definitely attacks,
36:05
Speaker 1: but he doesn't see them, and as he goes deeper
36:11
Speaker 1: into London, he starts hearing a strange like siren or
36:14
Speaker 1: like a strange noise that he doesn't recognize, and he
36:16
Speaker 1: follows it and he finds that it is coming from
36:18
Speaker 1: a a derelic tripod. Like the tripod itself is just
36:23
Speaker 1: standing there and it's not moving, but the sound is
36:26
Speaker 1: coming from it, and it sounds like it's like some
36:29
Speaker 1: kind of alarm or some kind of distress call. But
36:33
Speaker 1: after observing it, he realizes it's not moving and it
36:36
Speaker 1: seems like it's dead. And he also notices like flying
36:39
Speaker 1: above circling above the tripod, it's like a is like
36:44
Speaker 1: a crowd of crows and like carry on birds, like
36:48
Speaker 1: scavenger birds.
36:49
Speaker 2: Like something dead over there.
36:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, real quick, I'm curious. Do they have vultures in England.
37:02
Speaker 1: That's a good question, that's a genuine question, because like
37:04
Speaker 1: here here in America we have like our type of
37:07
Speaker 1: like scavenger birds that we see circling like dead animals
37:11
Speaker 1: are vultures. But I noticed, like, like this is this
37:14
Speaker 1: is Hollywood's fault. Anytime I see like movies like of
37:17
Speaker 1: Old England or Old Europe, right, usually it's not vultures
37:20
Speaker 1: we see like circling them. It's like crows or ravens
37:23
Speaker 1: or other like smaller carrion birds. No scavenger birds.
37:29
Speaker 2: No, England does not have a resident wild vulture.
37:33
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's just crows and ravens.
37:35
Speaker 2: I probably actually are they Are they even in Europe?
37:41
Speaker 1: I'm sure they are, And I mean I know there's
37:43
Speaker 1: I've seen like some concept about like there being like
37:47
Speaker 1: they have like local crow population like magpies.
37:49
Speaker 2: And okay, so mostly in France, Portugal, Spain and some
37:55
Speaker 2: of the Baltics and of course yeah Spain, Portugal, France,
38:01
Speaker 2: and the Baltics. Okay, fun fact. Yeah, I know, because
38:06
Speaker 2: I would think vulture zoo need being more warmer climate.
38:14
Speaker 1: Because here in because here in like Texas, we have
38:17
Speaker 1: plenty of vultures.
38:17
Speaker 2: We have the South has a lot of vultures. Yeah, yeah,
38:22
Speaker 2: I don't know that the northern part northern states have them.
38:25
Speaker 2: They get cold in my I'm sure.
38:28
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure, but I'm not sure. I'm not
38:31
Speaker 1: a ornithologist. I don't know this ship, but uh, seeing
38:36
Speaker 1: that there was carry on birds, he ventures the narrative
38:39
Speaker 1: ventures deeper into London, and he finds a whole group
38:42
Speaker 1: of like Martians, like overturned Martians. He even finds a
38:46
Speaker 1: few dead Martians on the ground and really and he
38:50
Speaker 1: realizes that they're all dead. And after like uh like examining,
38:59
Speaker 1: after like invest getting further, he realizes that the that
39:02
Speaker 1: the that the Martians died because of some form of
39:08
Speaker 1: bacteria germs, like simple germs killed the simple germs killed
39:17
Speaker 1: the the Martians. And it's later speculated that the Martians
39:22
Speaker 1: must have, being as advanced as they as they are,
39:25
Speaker 1: they must have eliminated all forms of harmful bacteria and
39:30
Speaker 1: germs and viruses on their on their planet. So like
39:33
Speaker 1: on their planet, they're these kind of things don't exist anymore. Yeah,
39:38
Speaker 1: Like it's completely it's a completely sterile environment. So their
39:42
Speaker 1: bodies don't have an immune system, or at least an
39:45
Speaker 1: immune system that's capable of defending themselves against Earth biology.
39:50
Speaker 1: Because on Earth there's bacteria literally everywhere you go. All right,
39:55
Speaker 1: it's in they're in the ground, they're in the air,
39:57
Speaker 1: they're in the uh, they're in every surface that you see.
40:01
Speaker 1: All right, Now, of course we can sterilize these surfaces
40:03
Speaker 1: and like keep them and keep our like living areas free,
40:06
Speaker 1: like relatively free of harmful bacteria. But you're still going
40:10
Speaker 1: to find bacteria and viruses everywhere. Yeah, it's all over
40:14
Speaker 1: the place. It's inevitable, right, But these but the Martians
40:17
Speaker 1: had no natural defenses against them. So despite all the
40:21
Speaker 1: damage they did across the English countryside, they eventually died
40:27
Speaker 1: because since they started, since they began breathing our air
40:30
Speaker 1: unfiltered without any like filters or breathing breathing apparatuses, and
40:34
Speaker 1: they also began eating our drinking our water and eating
40:38
Speaker 1: our food, mainly eating people. They were taking all of
40:42
Speaker 1: they were consuming all of these harmful substances without realizing it,
40:46
Speaker 1: and it eventually killed them. Eventually, people began to flood
40:51
Speaker 1: back into London, and the narrator who had been like
40:56
Speaker 1: who would become sickly because of how malnourished he was.
40:58
Speaker 1: He was nursed back to help by by this local family.
41:03
Speaker 1: He he learns that the town that his wife had
41:08
Speaker 1: been that he left his wife in, Leatherhead, had been
41:10
Speaker 1: completely destroyed, and any fears that his wife had died,
41:17
Speaker 1: So instead of going back to Leatherhead, he decides to
41:20
Speaker 1: go back to his home and walking to see if
41:22
Speaker 1: there's anything he can salvage from his house and maybe
41:25
Speaker 1: go back to and like try to salvage his life again.
41:28
Speaker 1: But when he gets there, he finds that his wife
41:30
Speaker 1: is there. So his wife survived. They managed to get
41:32
Speaker 1: out of Leatherhead and she after the Martians had died,
41:37
Speaker 1: she managed to make her way back to walking. The
41:44
Speaker 1: narrator ends his story by saying that the Martian attack
41:48
Speaker 1: was actually beneficial because it let humans know that there
41:52
Speaker 1: are other that there are threats out there just outside
41:56
Speaker 1: of our own world. There's threats out there on my ours,
42:00
Speaker 1: possibly other other planets. And the thing is is that, like,
42:06
Speaker 1: of course it's it's heavily hinted that the that the
42:09
Speaker 1: narrator was left with severe trauma from his encounter with
42:14
Speaker 1: the Martians and what he's what he's been through, and
42:17
Speaker 1: it's not really clear. The story is not really clear
42:20
Speaker 1: if the if the invasion had affected any other nations.
42:24
Speaker 1: It's heavily hinted that it's just that they just attacked London,
42:28
Speaker 1: that the attack was mainly on England and London, but
42:33
Speaker 1: so far it was unsuccessful. It wasn't fully successful.
42:36
Speaker 2: I mean, he killed a lot of people, but yeah,
42:38
Speaker 2: they didn't last bacteria mm hmm.
42:43
Speaker 1: And he also like mentions that that tripod the military
42:49
Speaker 1: begun transporting some of the intact tripods to warehouses and
42:53
Speaker 1: began experimenting with the technology. Did noted that there was
42:58
Speaker 1: one failed attempt because they certainly activated the the heat
43:02
Speaker 1: ray by mistake. So that was fun. But that is
43:08
Speaker 1: the end of the War of the World's. It was
43:10
Speaker 1: a pretty short story. It's it's more of a novella. Yeah,
43:13
Speaker 1: this is more of a novella than an actual like
43:15
Speaker 1: novel and natural story. There's no real named characters, just
43:19
Speaker 1: the narrator, the artilleryman. My wife is the narrator's brother.
43:24
Speaker 1: There's no named individuals. It's just you know, just very
43:29
Speaker 1: it's they keep it purposely vague, and like the description,
43:35
Speaker 1: the description of the tripods, it's when you think about it,
43:39
Speaker 1: like these people don't really know what a tripod is
43:42
Speaker 1: or what this kind of advanced technology is like looking
43:45
Speaker 1: at it. To them, it's just like it looks like it.
43:48
Speaker 1: I say, it looks like a very like very fancy
43:51
Speaker 1: tea kettle of three legs.
43:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much so.
43:57
Speaker 1: So I do have to say, though, this is definitely
43:59
Speaker 1: this book is definitely ahead of its time because back
44:02
Speaker 1: then that people weren't really like as in well informed
44:06
Speaker 1: as we are today, Like the idea of aliens from
44:09
Speaker 1: other planets was still very foreign and it wasn't in
44:12
Speaker 1: the mainstream. But War of the World's brought that into
44:15
Speaker 1: the mainstream. It brought that, like that attention to that
44:20
Speaker 1: new genre of storytelling. And since it's since it was made,
44:27
Speaker 1: there have been multiple film adaptations of the War of
44:31
Speaker 1: the World's throughout the twentieth century and even into the
44:34
Speaker 1: twenty first century. Like the very first movie adaptation for
44:38
Speaker 1: the World of the World was same movie of the
44:41
Speaker 1: same movie, the same name, the War of the World's.
44:44
Speaker 1: This was made. This was made here in the US,
44:47
Speaker 1: and it was actually set here in the US. It
44:49
Speaker 1: wasn't set in uh, it wasn't set in England like
44:53
Speaker 1: it was in the book. And there have been multiple
44:56
Speaker 1: other adaptations, like the more prominent ones aside from the
45:01
Speaker 1: original nineteen fifty three adaptations would be the It would
45:07
Speaker 1: be The War would be War of the World's that
45:11
Speaker 1: was released into theaters in two thousand and five. It
45:14
Speaker 1: was directed by Steven Spielberg and yes it did star
45:19
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise. Now, despite what you may feel about Tom Cruise,
45:24
Speaker 1: I will. I do have to say that that adaptation
45:26
Speaker 1: was probably the best adaptation of the World of the World's.
45:31
Speaker 2: Passion.
45:33
Speaker 1: I don't like Tom, I don't like I don't like
45:37
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise either, but that movie was probably the better
45:41
Speaker 1: of all the other adaptations because it production. It comes
45:45
Speaker 1: down to production value, yeah, it does. It had the
45:48
Speaker 1: best effects. It definitely brought the War of the Worlds
45:53
Speaker 1: into the future, and it didn't say it didn't necessarily
45:55
Speaker 1: say they came from Mars, but it was a different
45:59
Speaker 1: take on them. It was terrifying. Like when I saw
46:01
Speaker 1: it back then, I was like eleven, and back then
46:04
Speaker 1: I didn't really like horror movies like this, and it
46:07
Speaker 1: scared me and I ended up walking out of the
46:09
Speaker 1: theater because of how much it scared me and mainly
46:14
Speaker 1: seeing all these people getting disintegrated by the heat ray.
46:18
Speaker 1: And then I went back to watching and like, man,
46:20
Speaker 1: what the hell was I scared of this movie? This
46:21
Speaker 1: kind of sucks. It's not that great. But there have
46:26
Speaker 1: been other adaptations. There was like a like a direct
46:29
Speaker 1: to direct to DVD War of the World's movie, and
46:33
Speaker 1: then there was a sequel for that one. Called like
46:35
Speaker 1: War of the World's Two the next wave. That one
46:38
Speaker 1: was pretty campy. Yeah, and there was also one. There
46:45
Speaker 1: was an animated one called War the World's Goliath that
46:48
Speaker 1: was released in twenty twelve. Now that one was actually
46:51
Speaker 1: pretty cool.
46:52
Speaker 2: I have not s.
46:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I won't say that the animation was
46:58
Speaker 1: really great, but I thought it was cool because it
47:00
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly like UH. So it was technically like a
47:04
Speaker 1: soft sequel to the book, to the novel, because then
47:06
Speaker 1: the novel, like it takes place after the novel and
47:09
Speaker 1: it tells us story and it's centered around a young
47:12
Speaker 1: man who survived the original invasion and he grew up
47:16
Speaker 1: to join the military, and the military had integrated UH
47:20
Speaker 1: the alien technology into their UH, into their UH into
47:25
Speaker 1: like wider circulation, Like they built their own tripods. They
47:29
Speaker 1: they reverse neared the heat rays, and they built other
47:34
Speaker 1: like machines from the advanced technology of the of the Martians,
47:37
Speaker 1: mainly like they built like sky ships, more tripods, stronger armor,
47:44
Speaker 1: like armored vehicles. And it's also it takes place around
47:51
Speaker 1: the stories set around World War One, so like there's
47:55
Speaker 1: a huge like international organization that is preparing for the
48:00
Speaker 1: next invasion from Mars. But like World War One happens
48:03
Speaker 1: and a lot of like the troops from this organization
48:06
Speaker 1: are being recalled by their nations, but the main character
48:09
Speaker 1: is like, I'm not going back to England. I'm not
48:11
Speaker 1: fighting in their damn war. I'm going to fight. I'm
48:14
Speaker 1: staying right here and I'm and I'm preparing for the
48:17
Speaker 1: next Martian invasion. All right, Their their war is not
48:21
Speaker 1: our concern, all right, we should be focused on the
48:24
Speaker 1: real enemy, and that's the enemy coming from outside of
48:27
Speaker 1: our planet. Right, And he was right. The Martians attack again,
48:31
Speaker 1: and despite and while the while World War one is happening,
48:35
Speaker 1: the Martians attack and the rest of the world is
48:38
Speaker 1: completely disorganized except for this world agency that was preparing
48:42
Speaker 1: for the next Martian invasion. So they immediately step in
48:45
Speaker 1: and it's like, all right, we're gonna take them down.
48:47
Speaker 1: And they actually fight on more or less even terms,
48:49
Speaker 1: because the Martians like send more tripods and more advanced
48:54
Speaker 1: ground troops, and then we have our versions of the
48:57
Speaker 1: tripods with our heat with our own reverse engineered heat
49:00
Speaker 1: rays and sky ships too. So I thought that one
49:04
Speaker 1: was interesting war the World's Goliath, And there was a
49:08
Speaker 1: TV show that was released in twenty nineteen. It was
49:11
Speaker 1: a BBC production set in the set in the Edwardian
49:15
Speaker 1: era of England, which was basically the same time period
49:19
Speaker 1: as the original War of the World's novel, so that
49:21
Speaker 1: one was more faithful to the story. I haven't watched
49:25
Speaker 1: that one. It's on Peacock, but I don't currently have Peacock,
49:28
Speaker 1: so I haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
49:29
Speaker 1: I need to borrow someone's login to watch it later.
49:34
Speaker 1: There was another War of the World series that was
49:37
Speaker 1: released in the US, and that one's a modern take
49:41
Speaker 1: as well. I don't think i've seen them when I
49:43
Speaker 1: didn't even realize that one was around. And then there
49:47
Speaker 1: was There were several other TV shoot series that was
49:50
Speaker 1: released last year. In twenty twenty five, they Amazon released
49:56
Speaker 1: a new its own War of the World's movie and
49:59
Speaker 1: it will starting ice Cube now. That one was supposed
50:04
Speaker 1: to be like I guess it was like it was
50:06
Speaker 1: taking on a new take of like found footage, except
50:09
Speaker 1: it's not found footage. It's more of like from the
50:12
Speaker 1: perspective of like a zoom call, so like like it's
50:18
Speaker 1: all like like the movie is taking place like from
50:21
Speaker 1: like the main character ice cube. He's like a he's
50:25
Speaker 1: a security he's a cybersecurity specialist that works for the
50:29
Speaker 1: Pentagon and for like the the DHS, and like he
50:34
Speaker 1: hunts terrorists, like he helps to track down terrorists and
50:40
Speaker 1: other cyber criminals. And when the invasion happens, he's still
50:44
Speaker 1: like he's basically working from his office and he's like
50:48
Speaker 1: he's pulling he's hacking into camp, like into like public
50:51
Speaker 1: cameras and like other and like traffic camps. He's, uh,
50:57
Speaker 1: he's watching the invasion happens. He's working with the defense
51:01
Speaker 1: the DHS to like route like military forces, and like
51:06
Speaker 1: it's all just like from the computer's perspective, like you're
51:09
Speaker 1: just seeing You're just seeing it from like computer cameras
51:11
Speaker 1: drone footage, and it was interesting. But the thing is is,
51:16
Speaker 1: like I don't it wasn't that great because like found
51:19
Speaker 1: footage is great because it's like it's like if you've
51:25
Speaker 1: ever seen like movies like the Blair Witch Projects, the
51:30
Speaker 1: clover Field, you know those are some of the more
51:32
Speaker 1: like famous and well known found footage or even.
51:36
Speaker 2: Quarantine Quarantine Paraativity.
51:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, those movies were good because like found footage is
51:43
Speaker 1: good in like that sense because like you know, you're
51:45
Speaker 1: watching it and it's just like oh wow, it's like
51:47
Speaker 1: like you're trying to see like okay, what happened next?
51:50
Speaker 1: Like you know, it creates that sense of urgency, like
51:53
Speaker 1: you're seeing everything unfold like from the perspective like from
51:56
Speaker 1: this unedited perspective, right, because you you know movies like
52:00
Speaker 1: regular foot like regular recordings, like there's editing, there's all
52:04
Speaker 1: this extra effects, and then you got found footage which
52:07
Speaker 1: is like mostly unedited, right, and it's just like raw footage.
52:14
Speaker 1: So it's exciting and it's more interesting, and it creates
52:17
Speaker 1: this sense of like urgency and like what like gets
52:20
Speaker 1: you really hoped, like oh my god, what's happening next? Right?
52:23
Speaker 1: But then you have like this new twenty twenty five
52:27
Speaker 1: War of the World by Amazon from Amazon, and it's
52:30
Speaker 1: like this is kind of boring because it's like I'm
52:32
Speaker 1: watching of it's like I'm sitting here in a zoom
52:34
Speaker 1: meeting like could this have been an email or something like? Right,
52:38
Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem like there's much urgency. There's not
52:42
Speaker 1: a lot of urgency because he's like he's sitting there
52:44
Speaker 1: in the comfort of his of his office yeah, and
52:48
Speaker 1: he's sacked me into I mean, at one point he
52:50
Speaker 1: hacks into like, oh, like one of the self driving
52:52
Speaker 1: cars to help get his family to safety because he
52:55
Speaker 1: has a daughter who was gonna He had a daughter
52:57
Speaker 1: who was gonna like who's having a baby, and she
53:00
Speaker 1: needed he needed to get her to safety, so he
53:02
Speaker 1: like hacked into a into a self driving car like
53:06
Speaker 1: basically uber her to a safe location. Like it's kind
53:12
Speaker 1: of cool, but at the same time, it's kind of bored.
53:13
Speaker 1: It's not really that great.
53:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what it's trying to do, because it's
53:17
Speaker 2: also kind of it seems like it's kind of referencing
53:19
Speaker 2: the original way that War the World was presented so
53:26
Speaker 2: back because I don't know if you did, you didn't
53:28
Speaker 2: talk about the radio the radio drama that happened that
53:31
Speaker 2: people thought it was legit. I thought there was a
53:33
Speaker 2: legit an alien invasion that did that that caused a
53:37
Speaker 2: scare back in the twenties.
53:40
Speaker 1: Omnes say, I forgot about that one was the scar.
53:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me look that up because I can't remember
53:47
Speaker 2: the date. War of the World's Radio Scare.
53:56
Speaker 1: Uh.
53:56
Speaker 2: That was in nineteen thirty eight. So they did a
54:00
Speaker 2: radio drama of the War of the World's back in
54:06
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty eight, and people did not people were tuning in,
54:10
Speaker 2: but some people tuned in during the middle of it.
54:12
Speaker 2: They had no idea that it was a story being
54:14
Speaker 2: read or being dramatized. So people legit thought there was
54:18
Speaker 2: an actual invasion with aliens. Because people did not realize
54:23
Speaker 2: that they were doing a dramatization of War of the World's,
54:27
Speaker 2: people legit thought it was real. Yeah, and that's how
54:31
Speaker 2: War of the Worlds became pretty popular here in the
54:34
Speaker 2: stage was from that incident. But yeah, yeah, no, I
54:39
Speaker 2: could see what Ice Cubes movie was trying to do
54:41
Speaker 2: because because it seem like they're kind of doing the
54:46
Speaker 2: making it kind of more like that in a sense. Then,
54:53
Speaker 2: well I used to be a modern take on that
54:54
Speaker 2: because its found footage would be more of a modern
54:59
Speaker 2: take on that.
55:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, people, I could see that, Like, that's more of
55:03
Speaker 1: a modern take because like the guy, well, I mean
55:04
Speaker 1: he wasn't really narrating anything. He was just like Ice
55:08
Speaker 1: Cube wasn't really narrating it. He was like he was
55:10
Speaker 1: actively taking part in like Trump in the defense and
55:14
Speaker 1: like directing re like military resources and trying to save
55:20
Speaker 1: his family I mean at one point he has to
55:21
Speaker 1: team up with his own son because it turns out
55:23
Speaker 1: his son was this cyber terrorist that was packing into
55:27
Speaker 1: government servers.
55:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean.
55:30
Speaker 1: His son wasn't really a cybertarist. He was just tacking
55:32
Speaker 1: into like servers to like uncover like a government cover
55:36
Speaker 1: up because like in the end, it turns out that
55:38
Speaker 1: the government knew about the aliens and they had still
55:41
Speaker 1: they had gotten a hold of the aliens technology, and
55:44
Speaker 1: the Aliens were trying to like get it back because
55:49
Speaker 1: they answered that the aliens were actually like some form
55:52
Speaker 1: of like SIMP living technology, like synth synthetic, like like
55:56
Speaker 1: synthesoid type aliens were like they're living technology.
56:02
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
56:03
Speaker 1: So basically like the US government stealing like a piece
56:05
Speaker 1: of their technology was like stealing a piece of themselves.
56:11
Speaker 1: So at least that was like the vibe I was
56:13
Speaker 1: getting it. Yeah, yeah, I mean I would definitely say
56:18
Speaker 1: watch it just so like I would definitely say give
56:22
Speaker 1: it a watch just so you can, guys, give have
56:25
Speaker 1: an idea because I don't think I'll get a better
56:26
Speaker 1: idea of what it's about, because like I don't think
56:28
Speaker 1: i'm explaining it right. You might like it better than
56:32
Speaker 1: I did. Like I appreciate it for what it was
56:36
Speaker 1: and for like the effort that was put into making
56:38
Speaker 1: it and the new take on the story. But I
56:41
Speaker 1: don't think it was a hit.
56:43
Speaker 2: People hated it. People hated it.
56:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people hate it.
56:47
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I never watched it because it looked bad.
56:53
Speaker 2: It looked bad.
56:55
Speaker 1: It's you gotta I don't know, I think like for me,
56:58
Speaker 1: like I like those kind of like to me, it
57:01
Speaker 1: was low production because it wasn't they didn't put a
57:02
Speaker 1: lot of effort into it. I like these kind of
57:05
Speaker 1: like interesting new takes and new like product like like
57:10
Speaker 1: new production methods like that, because you never know, one
57:14
Speaker 1: of the one of these days they can come up
57:15
Speaker 1: with something new and it would be like, oh wow,
57:17
Speaker 1: this is really good.
57:18
Speaker 2: Right.
57:19
Speaker 1: So I watched it just to give it a chance,
57:20
Speaker 1: and also because I was like I need some I
57:22
Speaker 1: liked the War of the Worlds and I wanted like
57:25
Speaker 1: I was wondering, like when are they going to remake
57:27
Speaker 1: War of the Worlds? When are they going to make
57:28
Speaker 1: another one? Right within like with a modern flame to it? Right?
57:32
Speaker 2: No, Tom cruise away from it? Please?
57:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like what like maybe they can do another like
57:39
Speaker 1: modern they could make another modern War of the World's
57:43
Speaker 1: maybe have it like more or maybe like do one
57:45
Speaker 1: where it's like it's actually based off of the source material,
57:50
Speaker 1: like the actual story of like a narrator trying like
57:52
Speaker 1: in London during the Edwardian times and you know, actually
57:59
Speaker 1: like fall the original story.
58:01
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe like yeah, maybe like.
58:04
Speaker 1: Make it like updated for the times or something. But
58:08
Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking about like make like do something
58:10
Speaker 1: new with it and something that's actually good.
58:15
Speaker 2: Yes, please please.
58:17
Speaker 1: I definitely need to watch that that one show, because
58:21
Speaker 1: that one War of the World show, because there was
58:24
Speaker 1: one that was released on HBO on HBO, but I
58:27
Speaker 1: never got around to watching it, and then I decided, okay,
58:30
Speaker 1: I want to watch it, and well HBO no longer
58:33
Speaker 1: has it, Peacock does and I don't currently have Peacock
58:36
Speaker 1: I do to be your password, I just SMI please,
58:45
Speaker 1: I will me too. But anyway, guys, that was the
58:51
Speaker 1: War of the World's. The War of the World is
58:54
Speaker 1: definitely like it's a classic. I would definitely recommend reading
58:57
Speaker 1: it if you like reading these old like classic stories.
59:00
Speaker 1: It's a good it's a good novella to read. You
59:03
Speaker 1: can pick it up on Amazon and pretty much you
59:06
Speaker 1: can pick you up in any bookstore you would have to. Like, definitely,
59:10
Speaker 1: it's definitely in like the classic section. You know, it's
59:14
Speaker 1: an interesting read. It is it is a product of
59:17
Speaker 1: its time. So don't take it too like like to head, like, oh,
59:21
Speaker 1: the science and the you know, reasoning behind the science
59:24
Speaker 1: is not accurate. Like, well, it was written in it
59:27
Speaker 1: was written in the late nineteenth century. What do you expect,
59:30
Speaker 1: all right, it was, so you can't really expect much
59:33
Speaker 1: more from it.
59:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but anyway.
59:43
Speaker 1: That was the ward of the world's it was. It
59:47
Speaker 1: was the joy of reading it, and like, it's definitely
59:51
Speaker 1: one of the books on my bucket list. I wanted
59:53
Speaker 1: to get out of the way. Yeah, at this point,
59:56
Speaker 1: I don't even know what other books I can read,
59:58
Speaker 1: like classic books like that I can read. I've read Frankenstein,
1:00:01
Speaker 1: I've read Dracula. Yeah, I've read I've read The Lord
1:00:07
Speaker 1: of the Rings, I've read The Hobbit, I've read Dune.
1:00:10
Speaker 1: You know, these kind of classics books that you know,
1:00:14
Speaker 1: set the stand that set that scale, set the standard
1:00:17
Speaker 1: for modern uh for modern literature, and that genre itself.
1:00:21
Speaker 2: Oh, I know plenty that you can read. Hold on,
1:00:24
Speaker 2: like what oh, like the one we're gonna talk about
1:00:27
Speaker 2: next week, because it's even though we're recording this out
1:00:29
Speaker 2: of order, next week's episode is gonna be another literary
1:00:33
Speaker 2: pull in the mountain. In the Mountains of Madness Lovecraft,
1:00:40
Speaker 2: you have already read it. Yeah, well, okay, okay, you've
1:00:46
Speaker 2: already read it. It's when we're gonna talk about that
1:00:48
Speaker 2: next week, So tune in the next week for that.
1:00:50
Speaker 2: The other stuff we could do Ecker Allen Poe like
1:00:54
Speaker 2: Invisible Man, the abysmal Man.
1:00:56
Speaker 1: Huh. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not really interested in Poe.
1:01:00
Speaker 1: Like everybody talks about Ed Growlan Pole, but no one
1:01:02
Speaker 1: ever really talks about the stories he's written about. And
1:01:05
Speaker 1: they hint at the stories he's written, but I'm like,
1:01:08
Speaker 1: but what are they about? I have no little to
1:01:11
Speaker 1: know like source material, and like I've tried to like
1:01:14
Speaker 1: pick him up and like like read it, but I'm
1:01:17
Speaker 1: like I don't get it, Like I don't like this
1:01:21
Speaker 1: is the dude that inspired HP Lovecraft.
1:01:23
Speaker 2: Like yes, yes, HP Lovecraft is what he calls himself
1:01:26
Speaker 2: a student of. At Growland, Poe is a.
1:01:32
Speaker 1: Collection here.
1:01:34
Speaker 2: I thought about doing Poe for like Halloween, when gets
1:01:37
Speaker 2: closer to like Halloween, because he's not really horror per se,
1:01:40
Speaker 2: I mean kind of is, but he's more Gothic. He's
1:01:45
Speaker 2: more Gothic and at Growland Poe, Tail, Tale, Heart, let
1:01:51
Speaker 2: me think what else?
1:01:57
Speaker 1: Death and resurrection. These are short, These are all short stories.
1:02:01
Speaker 2: Yes, he does a lot of short stories, but he
1:02:02
Speaker 2: does have a couple of longer tales. Let me the
1:02:07
Speaker 2: Fall of House of Usher is another of his works.
1:02:14
Speaker 2: That's probably one of.
1:02:16
Speaker 1: Fear and obsession tales and murder, adventures of scene, sky,
1:02:21
Speaker 1: humor and satire. I mean, I'll try to get I'll
1:02:24
Speaker 1: get around. I mean, if one stands out, I'll give
1:02:27
Speaker 1: it a read. But I've never really been interested in Poe.
1:02:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, Poe is a Gothic writer. He likes to use
1:02:34
Speaker 2: themes of like madness, family, gothic. He's very much of
1:02:40
Speaker 2: a gothic writer. And of course he did inspire people
1:02:43
Speaker 2: like Lovecraft, especially Lovecraft had a huge as as homophobic
1:02:49
Speaker 2: and rasis that man was that man had a huge
1:02:51
Speaker 2: boner for a Girland Poe for good reason. For good reason,
1:02:56
Speaker 2: because he takes a lot of liberties from Poe and
1:03:00
Speaker 2: his own work, which we will get into when it
1:03:03
Speaker 2: comes to talking about the The Mountains of Madness and
1:03:07
Speaker 2: some of his other works. I'm sure we're not. I have, granted,
1:03:11
Speaker 2: I have the manga of the Liva his works, but
1:03:14
Speaker 2: I also have the physical copies of the actual books.
1:03:17
Speaker 2: But girl, they have a lot of manga nowadays. All
1:03:20
Speaker 2: I'm missing is the color of our space, which I'm
1:03:23
Speaker 2: sure we'll do at some point. We'll do the rest
1:03:25
Speaker 2: of these stories. I have the looks. I know if
1:03:27
Speaker 2: we've done. I've done some stories of Edgar Allan Poe
1:03:32
Speaker 2: on my podcast. I don't know if it was this
1:03:34
Speaker 2: one or if it was one of the others. I
1:03:37
Speaker 2: have to go looking, but I do want to do,
1:03:39
Speaker 2: like when it gets close to the Halloween, do more
1:03:42
Speaker 2: Lovecraft at around Poe with me, which I can forefront
1:03:45
Speaker 2: those I can forefront those episodes, which is perfectly fine,
1:03:49
Speaker 2: because I love these men, even though the fact that
1:03:52
Speaker 2: again HP Lovecraft is a racist, bigot and a piece
1:03:54
Speaker 2: of shit and Caro and Poe was wrongfully murdered. He
1:03:58
Speaker 2: didn't die from alcoholism, he was murdered, and I will
1:04:01
Speaker 2: stand by that. There's a whole murder case about his death.
1:04:05
Speaker 2: There's a whole murdering, murder mystery thing that they just
1:04:11
Speaker 2: ruled as suicide when reality, I really do think he
1:04:15
Speaker 2: was murdered, which again, when we do an episode, if
1:04:18
Speaker 2: we ever do an episode on POE, I will go
1:04:21
Speaker 2: more into that too, because that's it's interesting, but nonetheless
1:04:25
Speaker 2: catch just next time as we talk about HP Lovecrafts
1:04:29
Speaker 2: at the Mountains of Badness. Until then, by wh