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The content of the .ram file shows http://www.earthstation1.com/WOTW/War_of_the_World s.ra for those who prefer wget.

If you want to download the stream, convert to mp3, and then play on your iPod/iTunes/whatever, check out this link. And Mac OS X users should look at this.

Oh - and the original 1938 broadcast can be found here.

The movie version is completely Hollywoodized. While it may be easy to say the "War of the Worlds movie is bad, so everything War of the Worlds is horrible", remember that often excellent stories are chopped up, minced and gutted when they are ran through the movie industry. If you wanted to get a taste of the original version, check out the original broadcast here.

For those of us who don't use real... http://www.earthstation1.com/WOTW/War_of_the_World s.wav

Transcript

You can also stream it with RealPlayer from here.

Damn you....beat me by 3 minutes.

Anyways....here's a RealAudio Stream of it.

As far as your other question, I could ask the same thing about Korea, the Japnese duing the "China Incident" or the British during the Sepoy Muntiny. However, this discussion has gottern out of hand and off topic and I'd be just as happy to let it die.

Yeah, if you want to pay for the download

Huh? They have it for free, in both streaming or downloadable real audio.

- Peter

Yeah, if you want to pay for the download

Huh? They have it for free, in both streaming or downloadable real audio.

- Peter

You can get the audio for the show here. Not the best fidelity, but still...

Yeah, the Nazi government of Germany was up to no good back then, but no one realized what was going on til later (Man of the Year! Amazing! OK, I guess it's one of those things that most people here already knew).

No one? Hm... Read (or listen to) some Churchil speeches from that time (like this one). It seems he knew. Also, Polish secret service was reading Enigma-encrypted German communications, so they too knew quite well what was coming. French secret service knew all along although their politicians believed in the Maginot line too much to do anything real (but some like de Gaulle wrote books about what was to happen to awaken the public).

Yeah, the Nazi government of Germany was up to no good back then, but no one realized what was going on til later (Man of the Year! Amazing! OK, I guess it's one of those things that most people here already knew).

No one? Hm... Read (or listen to) some Churchil speeches from that time (like this one). It seems he knew. Also, Polish secret service was reading Enigma-encrypted German communications, so they too knew quite well what was coming. French secret service knew all along although their politicians believed in the Maginot line too much to do anything real (but some like de Gaulle wrote books about what was to happen to awaken the public).

If you ever listen to JFK's speech where he makes a man-on-the-moon-by-the-end-of-the-decade speech, you'll long for such a bold leader.

I agree with you, such a long-term goal that seems impossible at the time, but rallies the heart of the nation behind it would do so much good for progress.

Too bad most people have never heard of the Marx Brothers, or at least they don't *think* that they have ever heard of them. (Think Bugs Bunny for a moment...)

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They have to have the cheesiest theme song of all the cartoons that have ever existed.

Appetiser cheese and Dessert cheese.

They have to have the cheesiest theme song of all the cartoons that have ever existed.

Appetiser cheese and Dessert cheese.