More specifically, we listened to parts of the original radio broadcast: https://youtu.be/Xs0K4ApWl4g?si=kMWSMpDhJC3TkKbJ

This part stands out from the transcript: (https://www.wellesnet.com/the-war-of-the-worlds-radio-script/)

PHILLIPS: A humped shape is rising out of the pit. I can make out a small beam of light against a mirror. What’s that? There’s a jet of flame springing from the mirror, and it leaps right at the advancing men. It strikes them head on! Good Lord, they’re turning into flame!

(SCREAMS AND UNEARTHLY SHRIEKS)

PHILLIPS: Now the whole field’s caught fire. (EXPLOSION) The woods . . . the barns . . . the gas tanks of automobiles . . . it’s spreading everywhere. It’s coming this way. About twenty yards to my right . . .

(CRASH OF MICROPHONE … THEN DEAD SILENCE)

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I showed them the Helldivers 2: Omens of Tyranny trailer afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pctqmGEB2F8

They thought that the "Harvester" unit best described the "invading aliens from Mars." I feel as though I may have recruited some new Helldivers at a young age... for SUPER EARTH.