September 11, 2024 • 37 mins
The belated Christmas present for Bass is delivered. Our heroes gather to hear everything Bass' old Marshal, Charlie sent to him in the encrypted thumb drive.
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I don't know if it is hold on like at all.
Try that. Don't try that connection.
How about now? Come on, Chris.
It can't be too. Don't move.
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Don't move. Don't move.
Patrick sold on right there. That connection line.
Are we good? Is it holding?
We are cleared for take off their El Capitan.
All right, please turn off all your electronics, make sure your
seats are upright and all that jazz.
We're good. Excellent, that is exactly what
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I wanted to hear. The heater is maintaining
constant temperature of 22 Celsius and the carbon monoxide
sensors are deployed. Lighting in all the right
places, both rooms tested and fully insulated.
Even got a fully working bathroom plumbed in.
Nothing fancy but it'll do its job.
Tested it myself. Oh, we're aware.
I wish there was a window to open up in here.
(01:49):
OK, what about the audio? It starts anytime the main room
light comes on. It's audio recording only and it
downloads to an external five terabyte recorder.
So unless we have marathon sessions in here, we won't have
to change it 40 years and swap it out.
Zeke Zeke, enough with the perfection selection and
correction. This place is like a fully
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functional Speakeasy type getaway Oasis.
It's ready for all types of recreational activities, right,
Cousin Jimmy? Wait, Just to be clear, audio
recordings aren't admissible evidence in court.
Right. Hey, No, no, no, no, no,
Patrick. No, no.
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None of that better be taking place in here, OK?
This space is sacred. All for the law, man.
Well, I mean mostly for best, but for us 2 so we have some
place we can meet. We can talk about Atlas plan on
what to do what the next news would be see when he said a few
weeks back that we had to be careful and we talked about, you
(02:53):
know, ongoing Atlas hunting, that got me thinking.
I mean bad guys got that secret bunker in mad science place.
The good guys need one too safe place.
This, this boys, this here is holy ground do.
You mean like Graceland? Graceland.
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Dear Lord, please help me not goupside nobody's head today.
You call me here, chief, here I am.
Isaiah 58, nine. That was a good one.
Lord, you got me good. No, sorry about that.
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Jesus, Thomas to hit the button or something.
I'm all good. Thank you, though.
You know, you just occurred to me.
We should christen this place with a name.
Oh, what about the Bass Cave? Why don't we show on the present
first? Put the naming rights on the
back burner for now. Besides, given what we're going
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doing down here, should be calling this place the
Watchtower. All right, P Jimmy.
Jimmy's not dead. What are you talking about?
I talked to him last week. If he was dead, he would have
texted me about that. How about Chateau de Relaxo?
Come on. Yeah, OK, Ready for tomorrow
(04:16):
morning. And since it's Sunday, everybody
has a day off. So after we grab breakfast,
after I'm out of church, we grabthe lawmen and the others, and
we show off all our work. Oh, wait a minute, wait a
minute. I know.
I know it. Rivendell, the Heaven Sanctuary
where the Fellowship of the Ringwas born.
You. We.
We. We know you.
Isn't that that Archie TV show that's perverted?
(04:37):
The comic series No. No, no, that's Riverdale, not
Rivendale. And I mean, you're not wrong.
All the scripts are all over theplace, storylines convoluted,
it's Gen. Z garbage deal.
The back of my hand getting anxious over here.
They just took tropes of every single writing and bashed them
all together to see what would stick.
Seriously, are you a teen drama?A gothic horror?
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Supernatural thriller? True crime?
What are you doing? All right, just a few more steps
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and then open your eyes. OK, guys, you really didn't have
to go to this extreme, you know?All right, all right.
I think we're all good here. Open them.
OK. I don't, I don't recognize this.
We're not in the elevated station or any of the science.
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Where are we guys? It's your present from all of
us. Remember a month or so back when
we were in the galley talking about needing a place to gather
outside of prying years? Firefighter Fred had the idea.
I did, Damn I'm good. Must have been looking for an
escape from having to listen to Catherine go on about them.
Danielle steal books. Again I get she.
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Loves somebody, I don't need to hear about it.
And don't get me started on her trying to get me to watch that
Sex and the City show. Who wants to watch Broads try to
fuck New York? NY's not even a pretty city.
How about Boston? I'll watch those girls get it on
with Boston, but New York? Fuck that.
OK, anyway, this, this we're in the old station, like the old
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pole, because this looks all brand new.
Yeah, well, that's because we reconnect the power, the heat,
everything. We're currently in the old
lounge. Most of the old pole was torn
down the late 2000s. Hell, only a few Dewalt's know
this thing is even still here, and most of them are in this
room right now. The other room we got power
going to is a sleeping area and bathroom.
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I think it was an old storage room or something.
Oh, it brought in monitors, a television, computers, an old
Xbox system that was collecting dust and all hooked up and ready
for use. And we carefully selected some
furniture from storage in the cargo huts that weren't being
used. We've got chairs, a couch, a
table, and a bed in the back in in case there's long neck.
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So this is like a like a, like aclubhouse, like the Honeycomb
Hideout. No, no, no, no, no.
Don't want to use that. Somebody already claimed that
name, man. Oh, we didn't pick a name yet,
but yes, this is the place we can all go when we need to meet,
discuss, plan, or otherwise review what's going on without
having to worry about eavesdroppers Since, well, since
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you brought us all together on this, that seat is yours at the
head of the conference table. Everybody.
I can't. This is so cool.
Glad you like it, sweetie. Oh, we even took a page from
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your book. Deputy Marshall, we have the
entire place wired to audio record.
We figured if this is your sanctuary, at least it should be
the one place where you don't have to remember to record.
It's recording like right now. Oh, anytime the main lights are
switched on, recording starts depending on what happens.
Best have recorded logs on meetings here too, right?
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And the only thing that's missing is 6 pack of beer and
pretzels. Hey, who's your buddy?
Check out the cool over there bythe couch.
Damn everybody. Thank you.
Thank you so very, very much. So, honey, didn't you tell me
about something big you wanted to share with everyone?
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Yeah, something in the data downloaded from your old boss.
OK, yeah, files that he had leftfor me after he had passed.
I only just received them a few months ago and have been I've
been putting off looking at themjust too many.
Is that a full size pin board with sticky notes and a red
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string? Well I mean I figure if I want
to break the case why not do it in style?
After the holiday party last week I, well I I had a good
buddy convince me that listeningto it was a good thing.
You are welcome. Lol man this may take a while to
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get through. Anybody need to be anywhere
today? It's Sunday, Deputy Marshall,
the station's only day off. Everybody is getting ready for
New Year's Eve tomorrow night. Nothing pressing.
I have my radio with me in the event of any station IT
emergencies, but like Tommy justsaid, nobody should be working
today. I'm OK.
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Nothing planned for today. Boss Catherine is off reading a
throbbing Manhood Danielle steelbook, so let's get it all.
OK, all right. There was a personal message
from Chuck, my old Marshall and father-in-law.
To me. The content isn't important for
this conversation. We, Chuck and I, became aware
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shortly after I arrived that thenumber of official and
unofficial eyes on this station were unusual, to say the least.
More than just the experiments, the projects, the unusual nature
of things down here, many peoplein departments of power had a
vested interest. Some are obvious.
Others, the worrisome ones, are extremely clandestine.
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What's that, boss? Secretive.
Oh God, you're on board all right.
So I'm assuming the main character is Beauregard Lowen,
the Defense Intelligence Agency,and the NSF?
The public ones, yes, but there are others.
One very big one in particular. It wasn't until Chuck's
information was given to me that, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm
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skipping ahead for everything that makes sense.
It really needs to be described chronologically.
Hey, what's that pose? In the order things happened.
You know, not for nothing guys, but it would help if we just use
some regular people words from time to time, you know what I'm
saying? I'm sorry, Fred.
Well, it begins in the 1930s. Oh hey, that's usually my
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shtick. Let's add gimmick infringement
to the list of crimes to investigate.
OK, now I know I can sometimes get like distracted or my mind
tends to go on tangents. I get that.
Are you telling us the guy who runs the electric car company
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frickin Elon Musk is behind likeeverything down here at the
pole? What?
No, Tesla the guy, not the car company.
Nikolai Tesla, Croatian inventor, scientist and doctor.
Actually, honey, he he never graduated.
He studied physics and engineering, yes, but he dropped
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out, which makes everything he accomplished afterward even more
impressive. Oh, now who's the class clown
there, boss? How you doing Doc Jennings?
EW, Nikki T, Nikki T OK, OK, OK,I'm back on the gravy bone.
OK, go ahead, Deputy Marshall all.
Right. In 1884, he immigrated to the
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United States and started his embedding career.
At first, although he was very popular, he was also very
appreciated, and he was an immigrant worker, employed by
the Westinghouse Company and more famously at Continental
Edison. The light bulb inventor.
Amongst other things, yes, one of the same for their entire
professional lives. Some said they had quite the
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rivalry. They despised one another.
Edison profited off two dozen ideas Tesla came up with.
He submitted the patents and then he didn't pay Tesla what he
promised. Smart dudes profiting off the
works of immigrants and taking all the credit.
Yeah, it's a good thing we've come a long way since then, huh?
So what happened after Nikolai stopped working for Edison?
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He was there for nine months before Tesla got his own
investors backers. It was during this time 2
important things happened. He made a lot of money from his
inventions, which funded his personal projects.
Yeah. What's that?
I'm well, Chuck, and his sourcesaren't sure.
However, he started keeping a journal with ideas, mathematical
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formulas and his designs. Oh wait, then Nikolai Tesla.
Oh dude, my man invented the AC induction motor.
He experimented with the first oscillators, electric discharge
tubes, medical X-ray technology,He even made the first wireless
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remote controlled boat by two. Right, Nikolai Tesla, We, we, we
established that already. Right, OK, OK.
Sorry, I'm back on the graver boat.
Go ahead. Yeah, hard to keep some of the
group's attention low, man. It's probably best to just tell
your story well, privately. He had quite a number of
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projects he was working on, which would require an
incredible amount of funding to truly pursue, so he needed
something he could publicly established to help garner
interest and get no shortage of investors and partners.
Wireless power and communication.
He doubled down on this idea, took out many loans and upended
his entire life. Moving to Colorado to work on
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his brainstorm. The magnifying transmitter which
would be the linchpin of his ultimate public goal, building
the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, Long Island in 19 O
one. Yeah, Needless to say, that was
a disaster. His funding started to run out
and he couldn't get his main partner, JP Morgan to give him
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any additional funding. And Tesla defaulted on the
contract and by 1910, the project was abandoned.
Nikolai Tesla went for about thenext 20 years, barely
economical. He had no home any longer on a
multiple year long hotel bills simply moving to another hotel
sticking the owner's bill. Boss, Well, I'm sitting over
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here simply loving this A&E biography on ye olden timey
Nikolai the Science Guy. But what has this got to do with
us here and now? Getting to that exact spot,
Tesla continued to keep his private journal and funding what
little experiments he could get interest in any interest.
After being blackballed by JP Morgan Financial Investment
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Service, he bounced around New York and New Jersey in his final
years. Who wasn't tell?
He was well into his late 70s and during his visit to friends
in Princeton, NJ, at the local university where he met.
Oh, no way. Yes, way where he first met
Albert Einstein in person. The two had known of one another
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for some time. In fact, the story goes that the
two, while not having fond personal opinions of one
another, did respect each other on a professional level.
Einstein was part of what later be called the Great Class 38,
and by this point he too was getting on in age and decided to
remain in the United States, especially with the political
atmosphere in Europe which wouldlead to World War 2 just one
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year later. According to his journal, it was
the late 30s that Tesla truly recognized that his name no
longer carried the weight that he needed to get funding for any
of his projects. While his biggest fear was that
his research would never be put into practical application, even
more worrisome was that his workwould fall into the hands of one
of his rivals. Edison was already dead by this
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point, but the only people he would trust despite their public
disputes were his fellow Europeans, specifically
scientists. Edison and two of the European
scientists, Kurt Goddell and Leos Lazard, met with Tesla and
began to work together in private.
So what happened? What took place that started up
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the research that led to, well, whatever Atlas is?
That's where I come into the film.
God Bless America every damn time.
Somebody want to tell me why Super Rover got invited this
thing? It was as I was going through
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the files that I saw a referencein Tesla's journal about a
scientist hiring a private detective over in New York to
help them send a private letter and papers to the US government.
Somebody who the German agents in the US wouldn't suspect
delivering sensitive communiques.
R Johnson of Johnson and Mason, Detective Engines and the sweet
old lady Miss Kaufman walk into the office.
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Midtown W 48th and 6:00, said anemployer.
Some propellerhead over across the Hudson had some papers he
was having this Park Ave. fatcapbanker Alexander Sacks delivered
to the president. Wanted Louis.
Louis, he was my partner. Wanted Louis to provide
security, make sure Mr. Moneymags didn't get stopped by
the Jerrys on the same day. I was going to be security for
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her boss and his egghead partner.
They were going to get some books to this dandy swell named
Van Busch at the Carnegie Institute.
So would I know? I thought it was a music
institute like the one back homeon 7th Ave.
Wait, wait, we're still talking about 5 cent test test, right?
You were taking this research tolike the feds.
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Reefer Ralph, All right over there.
I'd say be the redness in his peeper.
She's as high as old Frank's kite.
Yes, hop head. I soft shoot it to the Hoover's
goons with the science script. Dude OK please someone tell me
it is not just Jimmy stuff or does anybody else see the
talking puppets? It was October 39.
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The old Jane gives us each doughenough to cover 10 days pay plus
expenses. Louie's running the track.
It hit a snake eyes and he was given the old hee hole by his
girl Marla. Man did he need a fix.
OK, now the puppet is doing my thing.
I'm the guy that recounts the stories people.
Seriously. So with him about to take up
residence as a bindle stiff and me behind the 8 ball and keeping
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the lights on the office, 10 C notes apiece was Jake with us
while Louie was playing trigger man and got two duckets to ride
the Rattler down to DC with the butter and egg man, Jane's
employee and I took my flipper to split up, make sure we didn't
run any news Hawks, thugs or even worse, the Jerry.
You had Tesla's journal and we're driving to hand it over to
Vannevar Bush, not just one of the most brilliant engineers of
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his time, but the creator of theOffices of Scientific Research
and Development and the NSF. So.
The other gumshoe is on a rattler.
That's a train, kid. Right.
A train you're on, a flavor. That's a Ford auto, son.
You want me to get you a Playbill for this production?
Well, who was the person you were escorting?
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Professor working at Princeton had to give the cold shoulder
the Bobby socks girls on campus and pick up some moldy old
Dings. Hardly ever shut up like a damn
asking about baseball. That guy was always in the fish
wraps. Al Stein or something?
You drove with Professor Albert Einstein at the brink of the
Second World War to Oh my God, you're talking about the
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Einstein Szilard letter to the president, to FDR.
On the money dollface I drove with Al and Louis, took the
rattler with Leo and Alex. Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein
drafted a secret memo to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
telling him of the German scientist works toward
establishing a weaponized nuclear program and urging the
US to start their own research. While they were meeting with the
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piano playing president, we got the journals down to the other
Konig Institute. Got the old codger inside where
he met with the Vanhooser slit for highbrow for a few hours,
then I drove him back to Joyce. Come to think of it, Al still
owes me 4 bits for the diner voucher.
Still be for dinner at the Outrider's Diner, route one in
lower Maryland. From accounts thereafter, it
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sounds as if Einstein convinced Vanover Bush that it would be
worth the US Science Commission and government to look in the
Journal of Tesla to see what, ifany, of his theories could be
put into application. Given the war in Europe had just
started, it was thought to be only a matter of months until
the US would be dragged in and they were looking for any
advantages. The first application of Tesla's
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theories and works were initiated just four years later,
in October of 1943. The Philadelphia Experiment.
Project Rainbow. It was 1943. the United States
was firmly entrenched. Precisely.
This is Dodd. Yes, the first military
application we know of. Tesla's works have been tied to
the US Office of Naval Research.And Mr. Todd, you're the
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resident expert here. You do the honor.
Yeah. Still saw about my 4 bits from
that out guy. Austrian Chisela
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still engaged in World War 2. the US was looking for any
scientific technology which would give them the edge over
the Axis powers. One such project named Project
Rainbow, later be known as the Philadelphia Experiment, was
conducted on the naval destroyerUSS Eldridge.
She was docked in the Philadelphia shipyards at that
time, supposedly for a minor refit.
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However, at the same time scientists with the Naval
research and newly Roosevelt formed Office of Strategic
Services was equipping the ship with specifically designed
electrical generators. As the story goes, they were
trying to harness the forces of electromagnetism and gravity and
blend them into a single field, or as Detective Johnson's
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employer coined it, a unified field.
The goal using this experimentalproject, which I guess now came
from Tesla's writings, was to bend light around the destroyer,
making it invisible. I wouldn't say the experiment
was a success. Sort of.
Only sort of. Now what does that mean?
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Well, the ship, it disappeared from sight all right, only
leaving a swirling green and purple fog in its place.
But unexpectedly, it was suddenly seen off the coast of
Norfolk Naval yards in Virginia,250 miles away of the Navy.
And Norfolk were getting ready to dispatch a crew to
investigate. But then they said the ship
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began to blur, leaving the same sort of mist on the horizon.
It was then it reappeared back in Philadelphia.
Feel better now? No, that should tie me over.
Oh, gosh. And we have one of those tools
from that experiment on station,the pry bar.
It was on the boat, the one thatwent invisible and along the
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Atlantic Coast in seconds. Wait, how did they get all the
sailors on board not to talk about what they saw?
Oh, there was only a skeleton crew on board during the
experiment as they were in dock,but it was pretty easy as the
sailors who were there either went mad shortly after the
experiment or were found fused on the walls and the deck plates
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after the ship showed back up. Damn, so they died doing
whatever this experiment was trying to do?
Well, they did die an hour or solater.
Damn it, what did you have to say?
That part, man, I'm going to have nightmares for a week.
Come on now. OK, although not the outcome I'm
sure they wanted, I trust everybody here took note about
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the swirling colored mist report, right?
So perhaps Project Rainbow, the Philadelphia Experiment, was an
early version of Project Atlas. Not sure it's entirely possible,
but for now all we know is that Philadelphia is where the
government started putting Tesla's work into research and
development projects. Rainbow Overcast.
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Montauk Safeguard all had connections to Tesla's journal,
per the sections given to Chuck in DC by his contact, who he
only ever called Mr. Gable. Gable gave Chuck a thick binder
with defense intelligence reports, documents, cabinet
level briefings, and TS files all showing Tesla's works being
refined and improved in the decades after the Philadelphia
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Experiment. And it's not until the early
1980s and the project labeled Safeguard that things get, well,
let's just say, more in focus. In 1982, a physicist named
Doctor Steven Lukasik left his cabinet level position in
Washington, DC to return to the West Coast and become VP for
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Beauregard Lowing Research and Technology Center.
While in this position, he oversaw the development of some
very revolutionary applications,including stealth tech for US
bombers, software adaptations for the US Air Force Systems
Command with NORAD. He'd go on to include enhancing
work he already did with ARPANETexpansion and Internet
protocols, precision and autonomous systems, and theater
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missile defenses. Now, by all accounts, Doctor
Luke Kasich was a very honest man, loyal to his country and a
true patriot. His research assistants and some
who work under him were less dedicated. 2 specific names were
referenced in Chuck's files. One was a young physics graduate
student named Madeleine Dantes, who worked with Doctor Luke
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Kasich at BOLO Research and Technology Center.
Madeleine Dantes as in. The current head of Beauregard
Lowen's R&D division for Scienceand Military Applications.
The other person, Avery Maddox, also worked for Doctor Luke
Kasich. But back in the 60s and 70s at
his old government offices, the two moved around with Luke
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Kasich and would follow him as he went from 1 civilian Defense
Contract Agency to the next RandTRW, Syak and various others
over the years. The three split ways Y is still
understood, but it's suspected to be a falling out.
About 30 years ago there was an internal schism in the
overarching defense community onthe direction these projects
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were heading, what they should be used for, and if the sole
beneficiary of these project being in the United States only
is still a valid policy. The three scientists I mentioned
parted ways. Madeline Dante's remain with her
team at Beauregard Lowing, climbing a ladder and where she
still is today. Avery Maddox.
Whoever returned to the same government level office and took
up a deputy director position with the Defense Advanced
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Research Project Agency, or DARPA.
When you say DARPA, you mean HAARP, Alaska Research Station.
DARPA created the Internet. DARPA operates separate and
apart from the Defense Department oversight.
DARPA, that's not. So like one of these two cats is
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the big bad evil that is runningthe project in the ice caves.
That's just it. We're not sure Mr. Gable was
able to establish a chain of custody for the Journal as it
passed hands from Tesla to Einstein, Einstein to Hanover,
Bush to Luke Kasich. But after that, the trail
stopped. There isn't evidence that either
of his proteges, Maddox or Dante's, were entrusted with
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Luke Kasich. Semi retired in 1992.
We would go on to several advisory positions up until
January 12th, 2008. Wait a minute, why is that date
so familiar? Because this is where he spent
the last days of his career before going into retirement at
the age of 79. He's the one in the center next
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to the head of the NSF. The time Arden Bennett and the
two rather stern looking military officers, Major General
Robert Noff and Colonel Ronald Smith.
That's us they have they have Mudson Scott opening in 2008.
OK, All right, hold up a second.So grandpa there, same guy that
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had your electric car Dude, science, diarrhea, whatever.
Was here for the ribbon cutting back in 2008.
Also, on the last times he was seen publicly and before it was
known his help was failing, Gable suspects that by this
point he had already passed on the journal to somebody else.
So if you've got files and documents on all this, why not
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just go to the cops? I am the cop, see?
I mean, you know what I mean, man.
High level authorities or even the media.
Sounds like Maddox and Dante's got wind that somebody found the
journal like the G Max had Honcho so they rubbed them off.
As much as I want to blame Johnson for that, it doesn't
sound like it was her after all.I also don't want to put any of
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us in those same crosshairs. Chuck had the partial story the
lead up to the project taking place here.
I want to finish that story, putting the end on it from Tesla
to now. Then with that full story we can
talk about going public. I mean we don't know how far
this goals given were. Basically talking about DoD, the
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DIA, DARPA, it's all national security related stuff.
Oh. Gosh, I don't want any of us to
get into trouble. Did the files you were sent, did
any of them include pages from the journal?
No, just references to it for now.
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This, all of this stays amongst us, OK?
Don't talk about anything said here about Atlas in general
unless, well, we're in this roomfor everyone's safety.
I'm looking to where the Journalmay have gone.
Chuck had a way of getting in contact, Mr. Gable.
Last anybody knew, it was still in the Kasich's position when
Safeguard was shut down in 1992 in Nevada and before the design
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of the station began. Finding the Journal would be
huge. That and getting everything we
can on Atlas should still be ouroverall goal.
OK, well, not for nothing, but Itold Catherine that I'd meet up
for lunch today, get in some chow and a little bit of
extracurricular credit, you knowwhat I'm saying?
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So long as you don't explain what you mean.
Yes, Fred, we know what you're saying.
I just hope I don't have to hearany more about Danny Steele
books or whatever that right abroad's name is.
So sick of. Oh man, Nikolai says.
What if it's Nikolai Tesla? What if it's him?
We we know it's him, Patrick. We've been talking about this
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journal for the last three hours.
Yeah, no, no, no. OK, I'm not on.
I only saved Jimmy stuff for thebig occasions.
I'm not that out of it right now.
Listen, listen. What if the big bad evil guy is
Nikolai Tesla? You sure you didn't get in your
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cousin's stash there, Davis? Tesla would be around 200 years
old man. Ain't no way.
Uh huh, right my guy, There is aliving puppet standing over
there. We have a literal demon in the
basement. Sandra's from another dimension.
We have ice. Feet bumbles.
Let's not backtrack. On this and a 48 second time
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machine, a 200 year old guy is not the weirdest part of that
sentence. Well, I can't invalidate
anything you just said, Mr. Davers.
I'm going to recommend we shell that theory for the time being.
Oh, oh, wait a minute, everybody.
We forgot the most important thing.
Yeah. What's that?
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What we are naming this place ordress of solitude?
Every tool big big time gumshoe with an office has to have an
agency named G Man A Monica thatfits the bill.
Since, well, since we all built this for you bass, it's only
right you get to name it. What does this all do?
Yeah, we need a swell name so wecan refer to it without letting
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everybody know what or where it is.
Yeah, something hip, something cool.
I'm just tossing the name in thehead that, you know, just
pulling the strings here. What about the the kennel of the
doghouse? What?
Do you think about it? Lol man, I can see smoke on that
swell cowboy head of yours. I know you're cooking up
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something in there. Oh, how about the purchase of
Solitude? All good suggestions, but you
know when I was a kid growing upin Emporia, KS, anytime I was
upset. Anytime I need to get away from
everything or just have time to deal with whatever was going on.
We had this old barn out back ofour house and my dad and uncles
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built a new barn when I was 8A. Real modern structure.
They retired the old. I mean, he always said he was
going to get around to tearing it down.
He's driving my mom nuts becauseit took him 20 years to do it.
But whenever I needed a place, I'd go to the barn.
The barn. The Barn.
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Hey guys, meet up with you at the barn later.
I'll be 10 minutes late getting to the barn.
Gosh, I think it's a swell name.And how?
Not the first thing I would haveconsidered, but Barn, yeah, I'll
go with that. It's definitely you, sweetie.
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Well, it is not as cool as a superhero getaway fortress name,
but it works. OK, then the barn.
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Dudes, dudes, we got it all wrong.
It is not Elon Musk, it's Nikolai Tesla.
Dudes, dudes, what the hell is everybody?
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Wait, Oh, so not cool, guys. Make a dude her up before you
all leave. Come on.
Well, guess there's only one thing left to do.
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Thank you, Jimmy. This has.
Been a BMB production.
I don't know if it is hold on like at all.
Try that. Don't try that connection.
How about now? Come on, Chris.
It can't be too. Don't move.
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Don't move. Don't move.
Patrick sold on right there. That connection line.
Are we good? Is it holding?
We are cleared for take off their El Capitan.
All right, please turn off all your electronics, make sure your
seats are upright and all that jazz.
We're good. Excellent, that is exactly what
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I wanted to hear. The heater is maintaining
constant temperature of 22 Celsius and the carbon monoxide
sensors are deployed. Lighting in all the right
places, both rooms tested and fully insulated.
Even got a fully working bathroom plumbed in.
Nothing fancy but it'll do its job.
Tested it myself. Oh, we're aware.
I wish there was a window to open up in here.
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OK, what about the audio? It starts anytime the main room
light comes on. It's audio recording only and it
downloads to an external five terabyte recorder.
So unless we have marathon sessions in here, we won't have
to change it 40 years and swap it out.
Zeke Zeke, enough with the perfection selection and
correction. This place is like a fully
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functional Speakeasy type getaway Oasis.
It's ready for all types of recreational activities, right,
Cousin Jimmy? Wait, Just to be clear, audio
recordings aren't admissible evidence in court.
Right. Hey, No, no, no, no, no,
Patrick. No, no.
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None of that better be taking place in here, OK?
This space is sacred. All for the law, man.
Well, I mean mostly for best, but for us 2 so we have some
place we can meet. We can talk about Atlas plan on
what to do what the next news would be see when he said a few
weeks back that we had to be careful and we talked about, you
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know, ongoing Atlas hunting, that got me thinking.
I mean bad guys got that secret bunker in mad science place.
The good guys need one too safe place.
This, this boys, this here is holy ground do.
You mean like Graceland? Graceland.
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Dear Lord, please help me not goupside nobody's head today.
You call me here, chief, here I am.
Isaiah 58, nine. That was a good one.
Lord, you got me good. No, sorry about that.
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Jesus, Thomas to hit the button or something.
I'm all good. Thank you, though.
You know, you just occurred to me.
We should christen this place with a name.
Oh, what about the Bass Cave? Why don't we show on the present
first? Put the naming rights on the
back burner for now. Besides, given what we're going
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doing down here, should be calling this place the
Watchtower. All right, P Jimmy.
Jimmy's not dead. What are you talking about?
I talked to him last week. If he was dead, he would have
texted me about that. How about Chateau de Relaxo?
Come on. Yeah, OK, Ready for tomorrow
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morning. And since it's Sunday, everybody
has a day off. So after we grab breakfast,
after I'm out of church, we grabthe lawmen and the others, and
we show off all our work. Oh, wait a minute, wait a
minute. I know.
I know it. Rivendell, the Heaven Sanctuary
where the Fellowship of the Ringwas born.
You. We.
We. We know you.
Isn't that that Archie TV show that's perverted?
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The comic series No. No, no, that's Riverdale, not
Rivendale. And I mean, you're not wrong.
All the scripts are all over theplace, storylines convoluted,
it's Gen. Z garbage deal.
The back of my hand getting anxious over here.
They just took tropes of every single writing and bashed them
all together to see what would stick.
Seriously, are you a teen drama?A gothic horror?
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Supernatural thriller? True crime?
What are you doing? All right, just a few more steps
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and then open your eyes. OK, guys, you really didn't have
to go to this extreme, you know?All right, all right.
I think we're all good here. Open them.
OK. I don't, I don't recognize this.
We're not in the elevated station or any of the science.
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Where are we guys? It's your present from all of
us. Remember a month or so back when
we were in the galley talking about needing a place to gather
outside of prying years? Firefighter Fred had the idea.
I did, Damn I'm good. Must have been looking for an
escape from having to listen to Catherine go on about them.
Danielle steal books. Again I get she.
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Loves somebody, I don't need to hear about it.
And don't get me started on her trying to get me to watch that
Sex and the City show. Who wants to watch Broads try to
fuck New York? NY's not even a pretty city.
How about Boston? I'll watch those girls get it on
with Boston, but New York? Fuck that.
OK, anyway, this, this we're in the old station, like the old
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pole, because this looks all brand new.
Yeah, well, that's because we reconnect the power, the heat,
everything. We're currently in the old
lounge. Most of the old pole was torn
down the late 2000s. Hell, only a few Dewalt's know
this thing is even still here, and most of them are in this
room right now. The other room we got power
going to is a sleeping area and bathroom.
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I think it was an old storage room or something.
Oh, it brought in monitors, a television, computers, an old
Xbox system that was collecting dust and all hooked up and ready
for use. And we carefully selected some
furniture from storage in the cargo huts that weren't being
used. We've got chairs, a couch, a
table, and a bed in the back in in case there's long neck.
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So this is like a like a, like aclubhouse, like the Honeycomb
Hideout. No, no, no, no, no.
Don't want to use that. Somebody already claimed that
name, man. Oh, we didn't pick a name yet,
but yes, this is the place we can all go when we need to meet,
discuss, plan, or otherwise review what's going on without
having to worry about eavesdroppers Since, well, since
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you brought us all together on this, that seat is yours at the
head of the conference table. Everybody.
I can't. This is so cool.
Glad you like it, sweetie. Oh, we even took a page from
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your book. Deputy Marshall, we have the
entire place wired to audio record.
We figured if this is your sanctuary, at least it should be
the one place where you don't have to remember to record.
It's recording like right now. Oh, anytime the main lights are
switched on, recording starts depending on what happens.
Best have recorded logs on meetings here too, right?
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And the only thing that's missing is 6 pack of beer and
pretzels. Hey, who's your buddy?
Check out the cool over there bythe couch.
Damn everybody. Thank you.
Thank you so very, very much. So, honey, didn't you tell me
about something big you wanted to share with everyone?
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Yeah, something in the data downloaded from your old boss.
OK, yeah, files that he had leftfor me after he had passed.
I only just received them a few months ago and have been I've
been putting off looking at themjust too many.
Is that a full size pin board with sticky notes and a red
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string? Well I mean I figure if I want
to break the case why not do it in style?
After the holiday party last week I, well I I had a good
buddy convince me that listeningto it was a good thing.
You are welcome. Lol man this may take a while to
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get through. Anybody need to be anywhere
today? It's Sunday, Deputy Marshall,
the station's only day off. Everybody is getting ready for
New Year's Eve tomorrow night. Nothing pressing.
I have my radio with me in the event of any station IT
emergencies, but like Tommy justsaid, nobody should be working
today. I'm OK.
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Nothing planned for today. Boss Catherine is off reading a
throbbing Manhood Danielle steelbook, so let's get it all.
OK, all right. There was a personal message
from Chuck, my old Marshall and father-in-law.
To me. The content isn't important for
this conversation. We, Chuck and I, became aware
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shortly after I arrived that thenumber of official and
unofficial eyes on this station were unusual, to say the least.
More than just the experiments, the projects, the unusual nature
of things down here, many peoplein departments of power had a
vested interest. Some are obvious.
Others, the worrisome ones, are extremely clandestine.
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What's that, boss? Secretive.
Oh God, you're on board all right.
So I'm assuming the main character is Beauregard Lowen,
the Defense Intelligence Agency,and the NSF?
The public ones, yes, but there are others.
One very big one in particular. It wasn't until Chuck's
information was given to me that, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm
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skipping ahead for everything that makes sense.
It really needs to be described chronologically.
Hey, what's that pose? In the order things happened.
You know, not for nothing guys, but it would help if we just use
some regular people words from time to time, you know what I'm
saying? I'm sorry, Fred.
Well, it begins in the 1930s. Oh hey, that's usually my
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shtick. Let's add gimmick infringement
to the list of crimes to investigate.
OK, now I know I can sometimes get like distracted or my mind
tends to go on tangents. I get that.
Are you telling us the guy who runs the electric car company
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frickin Elon Musk is behind likeeverything down here at the
pole? What?
No, Tesla the guy, not the car company.
Nikolai Tesla, Croatian inventor, scientist and doctor.
Actually, honey, he he never graduated.
He studied physics and engineering, yes, but he dropped
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out, which makes everything he accomplished afterward even more
impressive. Oh, now who's the class clown
there, boss? How you doing Doc Jennings?
EW, Nikki T, Nikki T OK, OK, OK,I'm back on the gravy bone.
OK, go ahead, Deputy Marshall all.
Right. In 1884, he immigrated to the
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United States and started his embedding career.
At first, although he was very popular, he was also very
appreciated, and he was an immigrant worker, employed by
the Westinghouse Company and more famously at Continental
Edison. The light bulb inventor.
Amongst other things, yes, one of the same for their entire
professional lives. Some said they had quite the
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rivalry. They despised one another.
Edison profited off two dozen ideas Tesla came up with.
He submitted the patents and then he didn't pay Tesla what he
promised. Smart dudes profiting off the
works of immigrants and taking all the credit.
Yeah, it's a good thing we've come a long way since then, huh?
So what happened after Nikolai stopped working for Edison?
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He was there for nine months before Tesla got his own
investors backers. It was during this time 2
important things happened. He made a lot of money from his
inventions, which funded his personal projects.
Yeah. What's that?
I'm well, Chuck, and his sourcesaren't sure.
However, he started keeping a journal with ideas, mathematical
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formulas and his designs. Oh wait, then Nikolai Tesla.
Oh dude, my man invented the AC induction motor.
He experimented with the first oscillators, electric discharge
tubes, medical X-ray technology,He even made the first wireless
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remote controlled boat by two. Right, Nikolai Tesla, We, we, we
established that already. Right, OK, OK.
Sorry, I'm back on the graver boat.
Go ahead. Yeah, hard to keep some of the
group's attention low, man. It's probably best to just tell
your story well, privately. He had quite a number of
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projects he was working on, which would require an
incredible amount of funding to truly pursue, so he needed
something he could publicly established to help garner
interest and get no shortage of investors and partners.
Wireless power and communication.
He doubled down on this idea, took out many loans and upended
his entire life. Moving to Colorado to work on
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his brainstorm. The magnifying transmitter which
would be the linchpin of his ultimate public goal, building
the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, Long Island in 19 O
one. Yeah, Needless to say, that was
a disaster. His funding started to run out
and he couldn't get his main partner, JP Morgan to give him
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any additional funding. And Tesla defaulted on the
contract and by 1910, the project was abandoned.
Nikolai Tesla went for about thenext 20 years, barely
economical. He had no home any longer on a
multiple year long hotel bills simply moving to another hotel
sticking the owner's bill. Boss, Well, I'm sitting over
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here simply loving this A&E biography on ye olden timey
Nikolai the Science Guy. But what has this got to do with
us here and now? Getting to that exact spot,
Tesla continued to keep his private journal and funding what
little experiments he could get interest in any interest.
After being blackballed by JP Morgan Financial Investment
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Service, he bounced around New York and New Jersey in his final
years. Who wasn't tell?
He was well into his late 70s and during his visit to friends
in Princeton, NJ, at the local university where he met.
Oh, no way. Yes, way where he first met
Albert Einstein in person. The two had known of one another
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for some time. In fact, the story goes that the
two, while not having fond personal opinions of one
another, did respect each other on a professional level.
Einstein was part of what later be called the Great Class 38,
and by this point he too was getting on in age and decided to
remain in the United States, especially with the political
atmosphere in Europe which wouldlead to World War 2 just one
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year later. According to his journal, it was
the late 30s that Tesla truly recognized that his name no
longer carried the weight that he needed to get funding for any
of his projects. While his biggest fear was that
his research would never be put into practical application, even
more worrisome was that his workwould fall into the hands of one
of his rivals. Edison was already dead by this
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point, but the only people he would trust despite their public
disputes were his fellow Europeans, specifically
scientists. Edison and two of the European
scientists, Kurt Goddell and Leos Lazard, met with Tesla and
began to work together in private.
So what happened? What took place that started up
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the research that led to, well, whatever Atlas is?
That's where I come into the film.
God Bless America every damn time.
Somebody want to tell me why Super Rover got invited this
thing? It was as I was going through
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the files that I saw a referencein Tesla's journal about a
scientist hiring a private detective over in New York to
help them send a private letter and papers to the US government.
Somebody who the German agents in the US wouldn't suspect
delivering sensitive communiques.
R Johnson of Johnson and Mason, Detective Engines and the sweet
old lady Miss Kaufman walk into the office.
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Midtown W 48th and 6:00, said anemployer.
Some propellerhead over across the Hudson had some papers he
was having this Park Ave. fatcapbanker Alexander Sacks delivered
to the president. Wanted Louis.
Louis, he was my partner. Wanted Louis to provide
security, make sure Mr. Moneymags didn't get stopped by
the Jerrys on the same day. I was going to be security for
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her boss and his egghead partner.
They were going to get some books to this dandy swell named
Van Busch at the Carnegie Institute.
So would I know? I thought it was a music
institute like the one back homeon 7th Ave.
Wait, wait, we're still talking about 5 cent test test, right?
You were taking this research tolike the feds.
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Reefer Ralph, All right over there.
I'd say be the redness in his peeper.
She's as high as old Frank's kite.
Yes, hop head. I soft shoot it to the Hoover's
goons with the science script. Dude OK please someone tell me
it is not just Jimmy stuff or does anybody else see the
talking puppets? It was October 39.
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The old Jane gives us each doughenough to cover 10 days pay plus
expenses. Louie's running the track.
It hit a snake eyes and he was given the old hee hole by his
girl Marla. Man did he need a fix.
OK, now the puppet is doing my thing.
I'm the guy that recounts the stories people.
Seriously. So with him about to take up
residence as a bindle stiff and me behind the 8 ball and keeping
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the lights on the office, 10 C notes apiece was Jake with us
while Louie was playing trigger man and got two duckets to ride
the Rattler down to DC with the butter and egg man, Jane's
employee and I took my flipper to split up, make sure we didn't
run any news Hawks, thugs or even worse, the Jerry.
You had Tesla's journal and we're driving to hand it over to
Vannevar Bush, not just one of the most brilliant engineers of
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his time, but the creator of theOffices of Scientific Research
and Development and the NSF. So.
The other gumshoe is on a rattler.
That's a train, kid. Right.
A train you're on, a flavor. That's a Ford auto, son.
You want me to get you a Playbill for this production?
Well, who was the person you were escorting?
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Professor working at Princeton had to give the cold shoulder
the Bobby socks girls on campus and pick up some moldy old
Dings. Hardly ever shut up like a damn
asking about baseball. That guy was always in the fish
wraps. Al Stein or something?
You drove with Professor Albert Einstein at the brink of the
Second World War to Oh my God, you're talking about the
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Einstein Szilard letter to the president, to FDR.
On the money dollface I drove with Al and Louis, took the
rattler with Leo and Alex. Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein
drafted a secret memo to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
telling him of the German scientist works toward
establishing a weaponized nuclear program and urging the
US to start their own research. While they were meeting with the
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piano playing president, we got the journals down to the other
Konig Institute. Got the old codger inside where
he met with the Vanhooser slit for highbrow for a few hours,
then I drove him back to Joyce. Come to think of it, Al still
owes me 4 bits for the diner voucher.
Still be for dinner at the Outrider's Diner, route one in
lower Maryland. From accounts thereafter, it
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sounds as if Einstein convinced Vanover Bush that it would be
worth the US Science Commission and government to look in the
Journal of Tesla to see what, ifany, of his theories could be
put into application. Given the war in Europe had just
started, it was thought to be only a matter of months until
the US would be dragged in and they were looking for any
advantages. The first application of Tesla's
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theories and works were initiated just four years later,
in October of 1943. The Philadelphia Experiment.
Project Rainbow. It was 1943. the United States
was firmly entrenched. Precisely.
This is Dodd. Yes, the first military
application we know of. Tesla's works have been tied to
the US Office of Naval Research.And Mr. Todd, you're the
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resident expert here. You do the honor.
Yeah. Still saw about my 4 bits from
that out guy. Austrian Chisela
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still engaged in World War 2. the US was looking for any
scientific technology which would give them the edge over
the Axis powers. One such project named Project
Rainbow, later be known as the Philadelphia Experiment, was
conducted on the naval destroyerUSS Eldridge.
She was docked in the Philadelphia shipyards at that
time, supposedly for a minor refit.
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However, at the same time scientists with the Naval
research and newly Roosevelt formed Office of Strategic
Services was equipping the ship with specifically designed
electrical generators. As the story goes, they were
trying to harness the forces of electromagnetism and gravity and
blend them into a single field, or as Detective Johnson's
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employer coined it, a unified field.
The goal using this experimentalproject, which I guess now came
from Tesla's writings, was to bend light around the destroyer,
making it invisible. I wouldn't say the experiment
was a success. Sort of.
Only sort of. Now what does that mean?
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Well, the ship, it disappeared from sight all right, only
leaving a swirling green and purple fog in its place.
But unexpectedly, it was suddenly seen off the coast of
Norfolk Naval yards in Virginia,250 miles away of the Navy.
And Norfolk were getting ready to dispatch a crew to
investigate. But then they said the ship
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began to blur, leaving the same sort of mist on the horizon.
It was then it reappeared back in Philadelphia.
Feel better now? No, that should tie me over.
Oh, gosh. And we have one of those tools
from that experiment on station,the pry bar.
It was on the boat, the one thatwent invisible and along the
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Atlantic Coast in seconds. Wait, how did they get all the
sailors on board not to talk about what they saw?
Oh, there was only a skeleton crew on board during the
experiment as they were in dock,but it was pretty easy as the
sailors who were there either went mad shortly after the
experiment or were found fused on the walls and the deck plates
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after the ship showed back up. Damn, so they died doing
whatever this experiment was trying to do?
Well, they did die an hour or solater.
Damn it, what did you have to say?
That part, man, I'm going to have nightmares for a week.
Come on now. OK, although not the outcome I'm
sure they wanted, I trust everybody here took note about
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the swirling colored mist report, right?
So perhaps Project Rainbow, the Philadelphia Experiment, was an
early version of Project Atlas. Not sure it's entirely possible,
but for now all we know is that Philadelphia is where the
government started putting Tesla's work into research and
development projects. Rainbow Overcast.
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Montauk Safeguard all had connections to Tesla's journal,
per the sections given to Chuck in DC by his contact, who he
only ever called Mr. Gable. Gable gave Chuck a thick binder
with defense intelligence reports, documents, cabinet
level briefings, and TS files all showing Tesla's works being
refined and improved in the decades after the Philadelphia
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Experiment. And it's not until the early
1980s and the project labeled Safeguard that things get, well,
let's just say, more in focus. In 1982, a physicist named
Doctor Steven Lukasik left his cabinet level position in
Washington, DC to return to the West Coast and become VP for
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Beauregard Lowing Research and Technology Center.
While in this position, he oversaw the development of some
very revolutionary applications,including stealth tech for US
bombers, software adaptations for the US Air Force Systems
Command with NORAD. He'd go on to include enhancing
work he already did with ARPANETexpansion and Internet
protocols, precision and autonomous systems, and theater
(26:17):
missile defenses. Now, by all accounts, Doctor
Luke Kasich was a very honest man, loyal to his country and a
true patriot. His research assistants and some
who work under him were less dedicated. 2 specific names were
referenced in Chuck's files. One was a young physics graduate
student named Madeleine Dantes, who worked with Doctor Luke
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Kasich at BOLO Research and Technology Center.
Madeleine Dantes as in. The current head of Beauregard
Lowen's R&D division for Scienceand Military Applications.
The other person, Avery Maddox, also worked for Doctor Luke
Kasich. But back in the 60s and 70s at
his old government offices, the two moved around with Luke
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Kasich and would follow him as he went from 1 civilian Defense
Contract Agency to the next RandTRW, Syak and various others
over the years. The three split ways Y is still
understood, but it's suspected to be a falling out.
About 30 years ago there was an internal schism in the
overarching defense community onthe direction these projects
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were heading, what they should be used for, and if the sole
beneficiary of these project being in the United States only
is still a valid policy. The three scientists I mentioned
parted ways. Madeline Dante's remain with her
team at Beauregard Lowing, climbing a ladder and where she
still is today. Avery Maddox.
Whoever returned to the same government level office and took
up a deputy director position with the Defense Advanced
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Research Project Agency, or DARPA.
When you say DARPA, you mean HAARP, Alaska Research Station.
DARPA created the Internet. DARPA operates separate and
apart from the Defense Department oversight.
DARPA, that's not. So like one of these two cats is
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the big bad evil that is runningthe project in the ice caves.
That's just it. We're not sure Mr. Gable was
able to establish a chain of custody for the Journal as it
passed hands from Tesla to Einstein, Einstein to Hanover,
Bush to Luke Kasich. But after that, the trail
stopped. There isn't evidence that either
of his proteges, Maddox or Dante's, were entrusted with
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Luke Kasich. Semi retired in 1992.
We would go on to several advisory positions up until
January 12th, 2008. Wait a minute, why is that date
so familiar? Because this is where he spent
the last days of his career before going into retirement at
the age of 79. He's the one in the center next
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to the head of the NSF. The time Arden Bennett and the
two rather stern looking military officers, Major General
Robert Noff and Colonel Ronald Smith.
That's us they have they have Mudson Scott opening in 2008.
OK, All right, hold up a second.So grandpa there, same guy that
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had your electric car Dude, science, diarrhea, whatever.
Was here for the ribbon cutting back in 2008.
Also, on the last times he was seen publicly and before it was
known his help was failing, Gable suspects that by this
point he had already passed on the journal to somebody else.
So if you've got files and documents on all this, why not
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just go to the cops? I am the cop, see?
I mean, you know what I mean, man.
High level authorities or even the media.
Sounds like Maddox and Dante's got wind that somebody found the
journal like the G Max had Honcho so they rubbed them off.
As much as I want to blame Johnson for that, it doesn't
sound like it was her after all.I also don't want to put any of
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us in those same crosshairs. Chuck had the partial story the
lead up to the project taking place here.
I want to finish that story, putting the end on it from Tesla
to now. Then with that full story we can
talk about going public. I mean we don't know how far
this goals given were. Basically talking about DoD, the
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DIA, DARPA, it's all national security related stuff.
Oh. Gosh, I don't want any of us to
get into trouble. Did the files you were sent, did
any of them include pages from the journal?
No, just references to it for now.
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This, all of this stays amongst us, OK?
Don't talk about anything said here about Atlas in general
unless, well, we're in this roomfor everyone's safety.
I'm looking to where the Journalmay have gone.
Chuck had a way of getting in contact, Mr. Gable.
Last anybody knew, it was still in the Kasich's position when
Safeguard was shut down in 1992 in Nevada and before the design
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of the station began. Finding the Journal would be
huge. That and getting everything we
can on Atlas should still be ouroverall goal.
OK, well, not for nothing, but Itold Catherine that I'd meet up
for lunch today, get in some chow and a little bit of
extracurricular credit, you knowwhat I'm saying?
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So long as you don't explain what you mean.
Yes, Fred, we know what you're saying.
I just hope I don't have to hearany more about Danny Steele
books or whatever that right abroad's name is.
So sick of. Oh man, Nikolai says.
What if it's Nikolai Tesla? What if it's him?
We we know it's him, Patrick. We've been talking about this
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journal for the last three hours.
Yeah, no, no, no. OK, I'm not on.
I only saved Jimmy stuff for thebig occasions.
I'm not that out of it right now.
Listen, listen. What if the big bad evil guy is
Nikolai Tesla? You sure you didn't get in your
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cousin's stash there, Davis? Tesla would be around 200 years
old man. Ain't no way.
Uh huh, right my guy, There is aliving puppet standing over
there. We have a literal demon in the
basement. Sandra's from another dimension.
We have ice. Feet bumbles.
Let's not backtrack. On this and a 48 second time
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machine, a 200 year old guy is not the weirdest part of that
sentence. Well, I can't invalidate
anything you just said, Mr. Davers.
I'm going to recommend we shell that theory for the time being.
Oh, oh, wait a minute, everybody.
We forgot the most important thing.
Yeah. What's that?
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What we are naming this place ordress of solitude?
Every tool big big time gumshoe with an office has to have an
agency named G Man A Monica thatfits the bill.
Since, well, since we all built this for you bass, it's only
right you get to name it. What does this all do?
Yeah, we need a swell name so wecan refer to it without letting
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everybody know what or where it is.
Yeah, something hip, something cool.
I'm just tossing the name in thehead that, you know, just
pulling the strings here. What about the the kennel of the
doghouse? What?
Do you think about it? Lol man, I can see smoke on that
swell cowboy head of yours. I know you're cooking up
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something in there. Oh, how about the purchase of
Solitude? All good suggestions, but you
know when I was a kid growing upin Emporia, KS, anytime I was
upset. Anytime I need to get away from
everything or just have time to deal with whatever was going on.
We had this old barn out back ofour house and my dad and uncles
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built a new barn when I was 8A. Real modern structure.
They retired the old. I mean, he always said he was
going to get around to tearing it down.
He's driving my mom nuts becauseit took him 20 years to do it.
But whenever I needed a place, I'd go to the barn.
The barn. The Barn.
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Hey guys, meet up with you at the barn later.
I'll be 10 minutes late getting to the barn.
Gosh, I think it's a swell name.And how?
Not the first thing I would haveconsidered, but Barn, yeah, I'll
go with that. It's definitely you, sweetie.
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Well, it is not as cool as a superhero getaway fortress name,
but it works. OK, then the barn.
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Dudes, dudes, we got it all wrong.
It is not Elon Musk, it's Nikolai Tesla.
Dudes, dudes, what the hell is everybody?
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Wait, Oh, so not cool, guys. Make a dude her up before you
all leave. Come on.
Well, guess there's only one thing left to do.
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