I do love the smug condescension of HG Wells and the bizarre way we Americans cheer it, however it's rather well accepted that the majority of 'hysteria' over Welles' WotW broadcast was manufactured for publicity. It's also quite worth noting, as Wells does, that a nation on the brink of war would have less time for folly than one not.
@brainiacgames Remember that H G Wells grew up in what was at the time the world's biggest super power. Is his attitude towards other nations any different to that of many modern day Americans?
Don't forget the "e". It's Orson Welles, 2 "e"s. H.G.Wells, 1 "e". On October 28, 1940, Orson Welles met H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas; KTSA, a local radio station, recorded this conversation. ~ e
I was also sent here by Kate Beaton's comment, but - wow. I'm very glad to have heard that. As for the Citizen Kane plug at the end... bloody hell. Epic is not the word.
@AlexShrugged why not read more of his work, and applaud him for that, instead of rehashing what you've probably read in some article, on wiki, or in some nasty book... HG Wells was one of the best early sci fi writers (read his 'selected works' and I think you might agree)
I just found out that The Invisible Man was actually by Jules Verne. wow, I'm fucking retarded! XD but still I've heard from dozens of people say that The Invisible Man was by Wells, so it seems difficult at this point to really figure out which is correct because of these different opinions. either way, Wells is still awsome.
a sci-fi genius at his best...while in my opinion I believe War of the Worlds was probably his greatest book, he has written many astounding books altogether: The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau...and from what I heard, the 1932 film The Island of Lost Souls, based on Wells' 'Doctor Moreau' book, Wells was very dissatisfied with how innacurately they portrayed the doctor in the movie.
Love the fact that, even back then, old HG knew and fully applauded the tactic of 'the plug'. He was known to be a very mild mannered man in his conversation but extremely amenable and articulate with it. In fact in a histroy of mr polly he actually spoofs this side of himself quite well. He actually delivers somewhat better than Orson Welles in this, which is rare in itself, although I suppose Welles was not that old at the time and was also probably in awe of the great man.
....wow, just wow., a meeting of the two great men. Linked by ''War of the Worlds''. I was interested to discover that they called it a ''plug'' all the way back in 1940 ! Thanks for this, it was great......
H G Wells' voice is a surprise. I always imagined him having a deep commanding powerful voice but I think that's because of Richard Burton's voiceover on Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album.
@AlexShrugged Well, he was one of the earliest science fiction writers. He may not have been the best, but he was there first. Or, well, there shortly after Mary Shelley.
@myco578 This type of speech and accent was very common for well-educated British people of his generation and you can even hear some elderly people speak like this today in Britain.
"Although he explained at numerous times in the program that it was fictitious, the country of Mars was scared out of it's wits." They got it in Mars, too?
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No, I actually READ what he has to say. I don't guess at it. I don't go into wishful thinking.
And yes, Wells laid down his program for the world, it IS totalitarian and genocidalist, and it would make the Soviets and the Nazis seem like choirboys. Plus, that program is PUBLIC.
Also, he was the one who described himself as an 'enlightened nazi', and a 'liberal fascist', in his Oxford talk, to his peers.
People can go into these things, and check the *facts* for themselves.
No, he's not wrong, though it's wrong to give Glenn Beck as a source for anything at all. Wells advocated peace with the Nazis and the Fascists because, as he said, they had the same purposes of internacional socialism, the difference being these movements were nationalistic.
He also described himself as a 'liberal fascist'.
And go into his own political writings. You have it all there, from world totalitarianism to mandatory sterilization and poverty for the general public.
Wells himself advocated peace with the nazis and with the fascists since, he said, they had the same purposes of international socialism. The main difference was those movements were nationalistic.
Go into his *actual* political works, like "The New World Order" or "A Modern Utopia" and you'll find this nice man using his usual sickly cynicism to advocate mass sterilization/extermination of the "unfit", mandatory poverty for the masses, a prison-like society, and all-out elitism.
You should go into Wells' political books, where he advocated that a prison-like society should be built under a world government, to control people like you. He had a serious hatred for the 'commoners', the 'unruly peasants'. He'd have most of them sterilized, and euthanized once their "economic usefulness" had ended, as he advocated.
But, like all psychopaths, he was a charming, good-talking fella. That's how he attracted so many suckers (their term) to support Fabian socialism.
Calm down, mister. I don't mean to say I agree with his political views at all. I just mean to say that he comes off as a sweet old man, and he has written some pretty decent novels. I think you're being a tad extreme. Let some people enjoy their little moments.
Blah!, Wells was nothing more than a progressivist ACORN-NAZI, just like that fascists, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, thank you Glenn Beck for telling us the truth!
WOW! bloody fantastic - thanks so much to the poster - prob the best bit of entertainment I have had this year - the awesomeness of H.G. meeting up with a great artist like Orsen W. I would never have believed this video existed - If there is a God - let him bless those two - they both deserve it!
Wells was essentially what he himself termed, 'a liberal fascist' or an 'enlightened Nazi'.
He was a criminal, who played a pivotal role in setting up Fabian socialism throughout the western world. Who advocated eugenics sterilization, death camps for the unfit, a totalitarian world state modeled after the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
It's amazing to me, after having read his ideological and political works to see so many left-wing do-gooders embrace this monster, who'd have them ALL killed.
Eh I didn't know that about him, but even if I don't agree with his political views (Left-wings liberal right?) But his stories where fantastic, so I guess you could say for me I don't embrace H.G.Wells the Politician, but H.G.Wells the novelist.
No, actually Wells was a totalitarian elitist. He believed there was a class who should have the power to rule with totalitarian means over the rest. Read his works, like "The New World Order", "A Modern Utopia" or "The Open Conspiracy".
There he lays out a very definite road map to achieve world totalitarianism.
He uses cynical, sweetened, legalese to propose stuff like totalitarian rule, mass sterilization, death camps, mandatory poverty, extermination of certain races, etc.
That's slightly wrong. He was a radical socialist. He believed in eugenics for the unfit and criminals (not death camps), but his World State was NOT based off the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, because he disagreed with and had a contentious relationship with both.
He was just a really radical socialist, and his views were more about completely ending class stratification than just killing everybody. Also left-wing liberal is pretty socialist. Wells was a liberal in a sense.
Look, i don't care what he said for PR purposes in 'good-ol' Middle Britain about the Nazis and the Soviets. Read his own works and sift through the sweetened nonsense. You'll find this 'liberal' to be a genocidal elitist, who advocated a prison-like society for the 'unruly peasants', one that would make the Soviets and Nazis seem humanitarians. He, of course, saw himself as one of the precursors to the 'enlightened elite' that would rule over it.
And he did advocate death camps, in "A Modern Utopia", in his usual cynical manner, by describing them as resort islands, to where the "unfit" would be shipped out in cruises.
GB Shaw, his colleague, was actually a lot more honest, openly advocating that the "unfit" should be left to die without food or killed with a 'painless gas' (ZyklonB...).
Fabian socialism was NEVER to help the people. It was always a form of elitism, a totalitarian system under which to rule the 'peasants'.
@TheLibertyChannel H.G. Wells was a man of a different era and the political challenges were very different. Consider how it is possible to embrace the framers of U.S. Constitution without necessarily embracing the fact that many of them were slave owners or religious bigots.
Well, what can not be tolerated is that Wells has such a good press, to this day. From his ideological descendants, of course. This man helped set up Fabian socialism all over the world. With his bigotry, cynicism, genocidal desires.
It's like Trotsky, another monster, who was himself responsible for the mass murder of millions of Russians, and for the post-revolution campaigns of 'terror'.
These monsters' images are sanitized and I, personally, will not settle for that.
@TheLibertyChannel It's particularly ridiculous to compare Wells to a Nazi considering "War of the Worlds" was clearly an allegory of about the racism of European imperial ambitions in Africa, with the Martians standing in for Europe, and the English standing in for Africa-- after all, racism and imperialism were the defining features of Nazism.
@IanThal Well, I don't really mind about War of the Worlds. I mind about his real political work, like "A Modern Utopia", "The New World Order" or "The Open Conspiracy".
There, he told you what he was: a self-serving elitist and genocidalist, who wanted to set up a system of universal totalitarianism under socialism, to control the 'unruly peasants', in the name of the ruling establishment. He does so in his usual sickly sweetened manner. The Fabian technique of advocating totalitarianism.
And, speaking of imperialism and racism, he advocated a world government under which all peoples that wouldn't adapt to its 'reasonable constraints' (all-out totalitarianism) would have to be mass exterminated. He also pointed out some peoples that would have to go that way, under gradual techniques of mass murder and sterilization (e.g., the Australian Aborigenes and most indigenous peoples - "A Modern Utopia").
By the way, the Nazism bit was his own, as I said. *Internacional socialism* has the same objectives, though a slightly different modus operandi, as *national socialism*.
Here are his own words, from an Oxford talk, entitled "Liberal Fascism":
"I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti (...) we outsiders, that is, the young people with foresight for enlightened Nazis; I am proposing that you consider the formation for a greater Communist Party; a western response to Russia".
I love the way Orson says "Mr. Hitler", like he was just some foreign guy that said something in the news. It's funny to think he was just another european leader nobody cared about, before everyone knew him as a genocidal maniac.
@NekolasM It was just customary at the time to refer to anyone with whom one was not not on first name basis by their title-- even if one found them despicable. Also keep in mind that the word "genocide" hadn't been invented yet.
So that some viewers understand, H.G. Wells must be fairly old here, seeing as they're talking about The Shape of Things to Come, and his fairly wheezy voice is likely the product of his age.
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H.G. Wells kind of sounds like Marlon Brando from the Godfather lol
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Rare moment in history.
TheEUCYONCompany 2 weeks ago
It is Orson Welles, not Wells.
MurpCamEy 3 weeks ago
Two Brilliant minds who gave our world so much..great New Years Resolution! thanks
wildernick28 4 weeks ago
Holy crap! HG Wells' voice is so CUTE! He sounds like Droopy!
cy4nide23 2 months ago 4
jolly good noises indeed
apduvall 2 months ago
Well, well....
berkeleybrett 2 months ago
WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS. WHY DID KATE BEATON HAVE TO DO IT. WHY.
Friscalating 3 months ago
It's okay, they names had offspring and produced Orwell
Tomwithnonumbers 3 months ago
I do love the smug condescension of HG Wells and the bizarre way we Americans cheer it, however it's rather well accepted that the majority of 'hysteria' over Welles' WotW broadcast was manufactured for publicity. It's also quite worth noting, as Wells does, that a nation on the brink of war would have less time for folly than one not.
brainiacgames 3 months ago
@brainiacgames MMM, INDEED, VERILY, FORSOOTH! EGADS! A SPOT OF TEA WHILE I DON MY TOP HAT AND MONOCLE?
Supermassively 2 months ago
@brainiacgames Remember that H G Wells grew up in what was at the time the world's biggest super power. Is his attitude towards other nations any different to that of many modern day Americans?
UlsterGroundhopper 2 months ago
This interview is legendary. 2 Amazing writers speaking in the same room..
Thank you for posting!
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love HG.
monstersarelikethat 3 months ago
HG Wells' voice is SO CUTE!!!
1blatherblather 3 months ago
Don't forget the "e". It's Orson Welles, 2 "e"s. H.G.Wells, 1 "e". On October 28, 1940, Orson Welles met H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas; KTSA, a local radio station, recorded this conversation. ~ e
ellisonhorne 3 months ago
HG is just the cutest thing.
CoverMeWithStars 3 months ago
It's funny seeing how many people listened to this after being referred to it by Kate Beaton from Hark, A Vagrant!.
I clicked the link from her comic too.
CommanderOrion732 3 months ago
Thank you, Kate Beaton.
"Have you never heard of Halloween in America, where everyone pretends to see ghosts?"
ChemicalSovereign 4 months ago 5
I like thinking that if I go to all of the links Hark, A Vagrant! Posts I'll get smart. Anyway great video.
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True America never new real terror until Sept 11th.2001And that was self imposed.As in perpetrated by the Bush regime.
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MrAzdaz 4 months ago
What a great slice of history! Thanks so much for posting this.
londonscot1 4 months ago
Hark, a vagrant is where i learn my history from
hobowright 6 months ago 64
@strangerinwhite well it was a mistake SORRY!! --.--.
SpeedDemon3870 6 months ago
@SpeedDemon3870 What was ?
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andiejanefisher 6 months ago
I was also sent here by Kate Beaton's comment, but - wow. I'm very glad to have heard that. As for the Citizen Kane plug at the end... bloody hell. Epic is not the word.
MrBuch169169 6 months ago 2
@AlexShrugged why not read more of his work, and applaud him for that, instead of rehashing what you've probably read in some article, on wiki, or in some nasty book... HG Wells was one of the best early sci fi writers (read his 'selected works' and I think you might agree)
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dchris1990 7 months ago
@strangerinwhite from one of the other comments on this vid and my sis said the same thing.
SpeedDemon3870 7 months ago
@SpeedDemon3870 that is crazy and google-able.
mmimbletonia 6 months ago
My goodness, Kate Beaton was right! HG Wells sounds completely adorable! D'awwwh....
FuulieQ 7 months ago 25
I just found out that The Invisible Man was actually by Jules Verne. wow, I'm fucking retarded! XD but still I've heard from dozens of people say that The Invisible Man was by Wells, so it seems difficult at this point to really figure out which is correct because of these different opinions. either way, Wells is still awsome.
SpeedDemon3870 7 months ago
@SpeedDemon3870 Nonesense Jules Verne didn't write The Invisible Man where the heck did you hear that.
strangerinwhite 7 months ago
@strangerinwhite The man's ignorant fool if he thinks that.
Professor6871 5 months ago
The families of 2 people fell for the broadcast!
Mysour 8 months ago
@LukeBaines756 I love how smelling of honey and lady killer apparently go hand in hand in that statement, and I love it
AidanMatthewable 8 months ago
a sci-fi genius at his best...while in my opinion I believe War of the Worlds was probably his greatest book, he has written many astounding books altogether: The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau...and from what I heard, the 1932 film The Island of Lost Souls, based on Wells' 'Doctor Moreau' book, Wells was very dissatisfied with how innacurately they portrayed the doctor in the movie.
SpeedDemon3870 8 months ago
According to Wells, the uglier a guy's legs were, the better golfer he was. Hey Golfers: how true's that?
666caimbirdofhell 8 months ago
war of the world 2 movie by spielberg ??? naahhh the martians are dead !!!!!
christianfcn74 8 months ago
Love the fact that, even back then, old HG knew and fully applauded the tactic of 'the plug'. He was known to be a very mild mannered man in his conversation but extremely amenable and articulate with it. In fact in a histroy of mr polly he actually spoofs this side of himself quite well. He actually delivers somewhat better than Orson Welles in this, which is rare in itself, although I suppose Welles was not that old at the time and was also probably in awe of the great man.
BelatedCommiseration 8 months ago
@LukeBaines756 Amazing.
TheDefiantBadger 8 months ago
HG wells is so CUTE i want to pinch his cheeks.
sophietina 8 months ago
K. Beaton is right, he's such an adorable guy.
Broodling1 9 months ago 6
That was fantastic.I was ofcourse aware that the two great men did meet,but I had no idea that it was recorded.As well it should be.
MyMREDDIE 9 months ago
Wow!!!! How awesome it is to be able to listen to these two equally intriguing minds... This is why YouTube is my kind of tube! lol
Gina in NYC
gina4jps 9 months ago
God, how modestly he talks about Citizen Kane. It is so muh more than "a few new technical methods."
iamhollywood545 9 months ago
2 people didn't enjoy the jolly-good noises coming out of their speakers.
5h4n3u2b 9 months ago
"Tell me about this wine commercial you're doing."
"AAAAH! The French Champagne..."
Seriously though, this is mindblowing.
MacJaxonManOfAction 9 months ago
Orson W-E-L-L-E-S.
YiMikamuneu 9 months ago 2
the brain out of pinky and the brain sounds EXACTLY like orson wells :D
EedDeryi 9 months ago
@EedDeryi Well, obviously, it supposed to be.
Carthsting 9 months ago
....wow, just wow., a meeting of the two great men. Linked by ''War of the Worlds''. I was interested to discover that they called it a ''plug'' all the way back in 1940 ! Thanks for this, it was great......
midnitemover123 9 months ago
H G Wells' voice is a surprise. I always imagined him having a deep commanding powerful voice but I think that's because of Richard Burton's voiceover on Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album.
Cool2BCeltic 9 months ago
Both are so, so adorable!
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TheSunmanho 10 months ago
This is sweet.
WeylandYutaniInc91 10 months ago
What year was this, please?
paulmurphy42 10 months ago
@paulmurphy42 1940, the year before Citizen Kane.
WeylandYutaniInc91 10 months ago
Thank you for uploading this.
RainbowDemonBG 10 months ago
@AlexShrugged Well, he was one of the earliest science fiction writers. He may not have been the best, but he was there first. Or, well, there shortly after Mary Shelley.
Hexiva 10 months ago
does anyone else think that H.G. wells sounds like a british droopy?
myco578 10 months ago 2
@myco578 This type of speech and accent was very common for well-educated British people of his generation and you can even hear some elderly people speak like this today in Britain.
Paul Murphy,
London, UK.
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TheSunmanho 10 months ago
Daaaaaaaaaayamn, Kate Beaton was right, he is rather.... cute.
Hysteria98 11 months ago 4
Citizen...Kane?
Well, I guess not everything Welles did became popular.
(Hint: The above is meant to be sarcastic. Sorry, I can't show the proper inflection, it's just text.)
RatOnAnEvilStar 11 months ago
Hah. I'm strangely stunned that HG Wells doesn't sound like Richard Burton.
napalmnacey 11 months ago
"Although he explained at numerous times in the program that it was fictitious, the country of Mars was scared out of it's wits." They got it in Mars, too?
ATrueCanadianBrit 11 months ago 3
@ATrueCanadianBrit
No its "the country at LARGE..." You're right though, sounds like Mars. Hee hee.
PGF59 11 months ago
It's wierd for people nowadays, to be listening to these guys talking about Citizen Kane like it's a movie coming out soon.
Maximillionaire666 1 year ago 5
godwin's law is OLD
JackieChan173 1 year ago
"the less I have to say, the better you'll like it". I wish radio announcers and commentators thought like that nowadays
sjpc33 1 year ago 7
PRICELESS and now for everyone - forever, thanks to YouTube! H.G. Wells:" You aren't quite serious in America yet" - now THAT's prophetic!
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Wells:" You aren't quite serious in America yet" - now THAT's prophetic!
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Wells:" You arten't quite serious in America yet" - now THAT's prophetic!
pylgrym 1 year ago
This is brilliant-never knew they met,let alone had it recorded
thenowuk 1 year ago
great video:PxD
deanmullen10 1 year ago
the universe just got ripped apart by awesome.
zprodigy 1 year ago 66
A fool of a man who had the finest of wive's, yet still wasnt satisfied, a sexual glutton, nothing more.
Utopian? Well you need to have faith and believe in God for that. It will happen but not the way he saw it.
OurManInMarrakessh 1 year ago
As a woman, I feel quite jealous of Orson Welles's hands.
Also, what a frightening time to be alive. I think a lot of people genuinely thought it was the end of the world.
thevintagerose 1 year ago
"Jolly good new noises." That was just an adorable expression.
And Orson Welles has an amazing voice as well.
radiohippie 1 year ago 3
HG Wells is Droopy
Gight77 1 year ago 4
Best quote "tell me about this film youve been producing" "Its called citizen Kane"
datkinson50439 1 year ago 6
hey ! they met in San Antonio! That's where I'm from! San Antonio represent!
Don't go there though, it's really shitty.
Stantzs 1 year ago 5
What a bunch of cool fucking characters. Wells sounds exactly like I pictured him in my head.
mandolinroad 1 year ago 3
It's Orson Welles. They even spell it out in the video!
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TheFellTurtle 1 year ago
Happy Birhtday to the Father & greatest Science Fiction Writer ever!
Your books opened up visions that weren't comprehensible to the human mind & made us thinkers of what's possible in a fantasy world.
You opened the door for many other great authors & dreamers to venture into there own unknown.
And for this, we are all grateful.
The first Water cooler conversations had to start with you.
"Did you read that latest chapter Mr. Wells posted about the evil Martians?"
RadioCannedMusic 1 year ago 2
Dang, I keep forgetting that just because someone was FAMOUS in the 19th century, doesn't mean they weren't alive in the 20th.
TheDSil 1 year ago 3
Two famous examples , who've met each other through an Opus which is printed in all brains...Fantastic, under every single angle.
980graziella 1 year ago
HG Wells' voice sounds so cool.
whowantsabighug 1 year ago 2
WHOA! Gold! Thanks a million.
cyberlarry7 1 year ago
Did he say the country of Mars was frightened almost out of its wits? lol
5amTremain 1 year ago
HG Wells sounds exactly like you would expect, which is coincidentally the exact opposite of Orson Welles.
Mrlzman 1 year ago
Orson's voice is just so..
Orson.
ThePhilosophicalDoc 1 year ago
the title is incorrect, the names are spell wrong as the news caster says in 0:57
HG is great, but it feels he's becoming old. (he feels so like a 19th century man, they are worlds apart,
Orson is very intelligent, younger by many years from him.
LtDanw 1 year ago
"jolly good new noises" lol.
wow i can't believe this interview is real.
oliviaisgod 1 year ago
SCIENCE!
HaoWenXiang 1 year ago
its all crazy people are stupid huh
atmas7 1 year ago
Hark! A vagrant brought me here too :) Have always loved HG Wells though.
Arcticfox210 1 year ago 2
Orson Welles! Extra E! He even says!
Saktoth 1 year ago 2
2 DISLIKES?!?!?!?!?!?! HOW CAN YO DISLIKE THE COMBO OF THESE TWO BRILLIANT HUMAN BEINGS?!?!?!
vids721 1 year ago
Way to misspell Welles' name in the title after the host explicitly spells it out.
Munkeymon 1 year ago
H.G. Wells would have been 73 in this interview, if Orson Welles' broadcast reading of War of the Worlds had been two years before.
Eladas334 1 year ago
HG Wells sounds like Droopy Dog
MFAtlas 1 year ago 3
@MFAtlas oh so true!
ninjac8 1 year ago
@MFAtlas I thought so too.
strangerinwhite 1 year ago
I like how the dude spells out the name in the broadcast, but it's spelled wrong on the video title anyway.
faithm 1 year ago 85
it's Orson "Welles"
4MaryAnna 1 year ago
HG WELLS is almost as good Jules verne.
Dreamsex101 1 year ago
@Dreamsex101 i thing wells i better
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petros9229 1 year ago
wow he was still alive to interview orson. wow.
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Artilleryman2009 1 year ago
Citizen...Kane? Never heard of it.
xelnagahomie 1 year ago
@dds31991
No, I actually READ what he has to say. I don't guess at it. I don't go into wishful thinking.
And yes, Wells laid down his program for the world, it IS totalitarian and genocidalist, and it would make the Soviets and the Nazis seem like choirboys. Plus, that program is PUBLIC.
Also, he was the one who described himself as an 'enlightened nazi', and a 'liberal fascist', in his Oxford talk, to his peers.
People can go into these things, and check the *facts* for themselves.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@dds31991
No, he's not wrong, though it's wrong to give Glenn Beck as a source for anything at all. Wells advocated peace with the Nazis and the Fascists because, as he said, they had the same purposes of internacional socialism, the difference being these movements were nationalistic.
He also described himself as a 'liberal fascist'.
And go into his own political writings. You have it all there, from world totalitarianism to mandatory sterilization and poverty for the general public.
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@dds31991
Wells himself advocated peace with the nazis and with the fascists since, he said, they had the same purposes of international socialism. The main difference was those movements were nationalistic.
Go into his *actual* political works, like "The New World Order" or "A Modern Utopia" and you'll find this nice man using his usual sickly cynicism to advocate mass sterilization/extermination of the "unfit", mandatory poverty for the masses, a prison-like society, and all-out elitism.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
This is so amazing ♥, thank you very much for uploading it!
ReiNohara 1 year ago
Cool. I'd never heard Wells speak before.
ancalites 1 year ago
Oh, thank goshness for Hark! a Vagrant. HG Wells is adorabs.
PopetteTube 1 year ago
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You should go into Wells' political books, where he advocated that a prison-like society should be built under a world government, to control people like you. He had a serious hatred for the 'commoners', the 'unruly peasants'. He'd have most of them sterilized, and euthanized once their "economic usefulness" had ended, as he advocated.
But, like all psychopaths, he was a charming, good-talking fella. That's how he attracted so many suckers (their term) to support Fabian socialism.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@TheLibertyChannel
Calm down, mister. I don't mean to say I agree with his political views at all. I just mean to say that he comes off as a sweet old man, and he has written some pretty decent novels. I think you're being a tad extreme. Let some people enjoy their little moments.
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sorrensen9 1 year ago
Blah!, Wells was nothing more than a progressivist ACORN-NAZI, just like that fascists, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, thank you Glenn Beck for telling us the truth!
JackRackem 1 year ago
A plug for Citizen Kane, wow!
mistacramer 1 year ago
HG Wells! my hero!
Dominic99776 1 year ago
Orson Welles, not Wells. They spell it in the tape! Great find though, this was outstanding.
Unddfitr 1 year ago
WOW! bloody fantastic - thanks so much to the poster - prob the best bit of entertainment I have had this year - the awesomeness of H.G. meeting up with a great artist like Orsen W. I would never have believed this video existed - If there is a God - let him bless those two - they both deserve it!
garwento 1 year ago
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Wells was essentially what he himself termed, 'a liberal fascist' or an 'enlightened Nazi'.
He was a criminal, who played a pivotal role in setting up Fabian socialism throughout the western world. Who advocated eugenics sterilization, death camps for the unfit, a totalitarian world state modeled after the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
It's amazing to me, after having read his ideological and political works to see so many left-wing do-gooders embrace this monster, who'd have them ALL killed.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@TheLibertyChannel
Eh I didn't know that about him, but even if I don't agree with his political views (Left-wings liberal right?) But his stories where fantastic, so I guess you could say for me I don't embrace H.G.Wells the Politician, but H.G.Wells the novelist.
HiyruuAzuretiem 1 year ago
No, actually Wells was a totalitarian elitist. He believed there was a class who should have the power to rule with totalitarian means over the rest. Read his works, like "The New World Order", "A Modern Utopia" or "The Open Conspiracy".
There he lays out a very definite road map to achieve world totalitarianism.
He uses cynical, sweetened, legalese to propose stuff like totalitarian rule, mass sterilization, death camps, mandatory poverty, extermination of certain races, etc.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@TheLibertyChannel
That's slightly wrong. He was a radical socialist. He believed in eugenics for the unfit and criminals (not death camps), but his World State was NOT based off the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, because he disagreed with and had a contentious relationship with both.
He was just a really radical socialist, and his views were more about completely ending class stratification than just killing everybody. Also left-wing liberal is pretty socialist. Wells was a liberal in a sense.
mishydishy 1 year ago
@mishydishy
Look, i don't care what he said for PR purposes in 'good-ol' Middle Britain about the Nazis and the Soviets. Read his own works and sift through the sweetened nonsense. You'll find this 'liberal' to be a genocidal elitist, who advocated a prison-like society for the 'unruly peasants', one that would make the Soviets and Nazis seem humanitarians. He, of course, saw himself as one of the precursors to the 'enlightened elite' that would rule over it.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@mishydishy
And he did advocate death camps, in "A Modern Utopia", in his usual cynical manner, by describing them as resort islands, to where the "unfit" would be shipped out in cruises.
GB Shaw, his colleague, was actually a lot more honest, openly advocating that the "unfit" should be left to die without food or killed with a 'painless gas' (ZyklonB...).
Fabian socialism was NEVER to help the people. It was always a form of elitism, a totalitarian system under which to rule the 'peasants'.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@TheLibertyChannel H.G. Wells was a man of a different era and the political challenges were very different. Consider how it is possible to embrace the framers of U.S. Constitution without necessarily embracing the fact that many of them were slave owners or religious bigots.
IanThal 1 year ago
@IanThal
Well, what can not be tolerated is that Wells has such a good press, to this day. From his ideological descendants, of course. This man helped set up Fabian socialism all over the world. With his bigotry, cynicism, genocidal desires.
It's like Trotsky, another monster, who was himself responsible for the mass murder of millions of Russians, and for the post-revolution campaigns of 'terror'.
These monsters' images are sanitized and I, personally, will not settle for that.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@TheLibertyChannel It's particularly ridiculous to compare Wells to a Nazi considering "War of the Worlds" was clearly an allegory of about the racism of European imperial ambitions in Africa, with the Martians standing in for Europe, and the English standing in for Africa-- after all, racism and imperialism were the defining features of Nazism.
IanThal 1 year ago
@IanThal Well, I don't really mind about War of the Worlds. I mind about his real political work, like "A Modern Utopia", "The New World Order" or "The Open Conspiracy".
There, he told you what he was: a self-serving elitist and genocidalist, who wanted to set up a system of universal totalitarianism under socialism, to control the 'unruly peasants', in the name of the ruling establishment. He does so in his usual sickly sweetened manner. The Fabian technique of advocating totalitarianism.
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@IanThal
And, speaking of imperialism and racism, he advocated a world government under which all peoples that wouldn't adapt to its 'reasonable constraints' (all-out totalitarianism) would have to be mass exterminated. He also pointed out some peoples that would have to go that way, under gradual techniques of mass murder and sterilization (e.g., the Australian Aborigenes and most indigenous peoples - "A Modern Utopia").
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
@IanThal
By the way, the Nazism bit was his own, as I said. *Internacional socialism* has the same objectives, though a slightly different modus operandi, as *national socialism*.
Here are his own words, from an Oxford talk, entitled "Liberal Fascism":
"I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti (...) we outsiders, that is, the young people with foresight for enlightened Nazis; I am proposing that you consider the formation for a greater Communist Party; a western response to Russia".
TheLibertyChannel 1 year ago
I love the way Orson says "Mr. Hitler", like he was just some foreign guy that said something in the news. It's funny to think he was just another european leader nobody cared about, before everyone knew him as a genocidal maniac.
NekolasM 1 year ago 2
@NekolasM It was just customary at the time to refer to anyone with whom one was not not on first name basis by their title-- even if one found them despicable. Also keep in mind that the word "genocide" hadn't been invented yet.
IanThal 1 year ago
this needed to go on all day my god, wut a great post!
betterthansex123 1 year ago
WDF
Gow2Lova4Life 1 year ago
I am so happy that i listened to his. thank you so much
drevyek 1 year ago
Little did he know, those methods and experiments would be used (and not be topped) to this day.
Wow. Great clip, there.
LionheartMachinima 1 year ago
So that some viewers understand, H.G. Wells must be fairly old here, seeing as they're talking about The Shape of Things to Come, and his fairly wheezy voice is likely the product of his age.
BlueVane 1 year ago
hg wells is the cutest thing ever!
opheliahasagun 1 year ago 36
It's interesting how the video title misspells Orson Welles's name even though it's spelled out in the recording itself.
BornIn1142 1 year ago 60
@BornIn1142 lol exactly what I was thinking
hellojace 1 year ago
@BornIn1142 "He carries an extra E that i hope he'll drop soon" Prehaps the poster deliberatly left out the E?
hughpower123 1 year ago
by the way, my idea of cultural ascendency was the Dean Martin Show.
dancingdiplodocus 2 years ago
oh, and HG Wells is such a sweet man, too
dancingdiplodocus 2 years ago 2
Welles was supernaturally cool
dancingdiplodocus 2 years ago
could not possibly agree more with you. amazing!!!
janinesalamida 2 years ago
Epic meeting!
mandolinroad 2 years ago
That's funny, H.G Wells voice is very similar to Truman Capote's.
Ze0do0Gas 2 years ago
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oops mr.Wells was a sleazy NWO guy by that time a mislead genius
But mostly i'am shocked that Mr.Welles
was working for NWO too.
wwwtwcom 2 years ago
Well if it's two years after the broadcast of Welles adaption of WotW (which was in 1938), it's 1940.
LikeOopsDamn 2 years ago
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misztrini9 2 years ago
It's actually spelled "Orson Welles". Look it up.
d00jolta 2 years ago 2
@d00jolta Seeing as how HG Wells calls him his "namesake" it can't be helped that such a mistake be made.
NorseIronKIng 2 years ago
@NorseIronKIng Yeah but the radio guy also goes on at length at the start about how the names are spelled differently, so it's kinda hard to miss.
d00jolta 2 years ago
@NorseIronKIng It's not a mistake. Wells was making a joke. He knew full well that Welles spelt his name differently.
IanThal 1 year ago
they don't have to look it up. it spells it in the actually video. lol.
KingPiccoloDaimao 2 years ago
kopjjjj
HARRYBALONEYTITS 2 years ago
Is Droopy the dog (the Lieberman lookalike so to speak) based on HG Wells speaking patterns?
Njald 2 years ago 3
Hark! A Vagrant
what what.
magentablue 2 years ago 102
What year was this interview?
pod0boq 2 years ago
@pod0boq Sounds like it's during the war, but before U.S. involvment.
d00jolta 2 years ago
Well well well
arthurascii 2 years ago
all's wells that ends wells
ImKiij 2 years ago 5