The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were destroying the country. People across the nation ran wild with panic in the streets – or did they?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there.
0:46.5	It's just two of us batching it up.
0:50.4	Without you.
0:52.4	Oh man.
0:53.4	I think Jerry's inclusion.
0:56.1	We're still batching it up.
0:57.8	How do you mean?
0:58.8	I mean, does she really ruin the batch scene for us?
1:03.1	Sure.
1:04.1	She's very maternal and...
1:06.1	Judgy.
1:07.1	That's true.
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