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And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. G. Welles.

Greetings pod people and welcome to chapter 27 of the dead authors podcast with me your host H.U. Wells. Now I do hope you don't take offense in my little nickname for you all I meant it of

course as reference to your appreciation of podcasts and not to imply that you all

belong to a race of outer space parasites that drift from planet to planet embodying and ultimately

replacing that planet's life forms with soullis replicas that feed ravenously off the

planet's natural resources, leaving behind little more than a brittle husk of a once thriving society

before floating on to their next conquest.

But if you do happen to be that variety of pod person, well who am I to judge?

Live and let live, that's what I say, even though, strictly speaking,

you lot don't tend to let anyone live. I could condemn your activities and who could blame me,

but why run the risk of offending potential audience members?

If you tell a friend about the podcast write us a nice review on iTunes and support 826 LA,

I suppose I can look the other way on a bit of interplanatory havoc reeking here and there,

but write that review, you murderous aliens, or run the risk of being sternly rebuked in the introduction

to a future chapter of this podcast.

Sorry, just let me be perfectly clear here. I've had a word with my solicitors and I want to make it clear that in no way do I sanction

or endorse invasion by space aliens, be they in part form or otherwise.

I believe my record on this one speaks for itself.

Perhaps you're familiar with a little yarn called War of the Worlds.

All right, technically the Martian invasion in that story is successful, but only for a brief

while.

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