August 12, 2025 • 43 mins
Step into the shocking and brilliant world of Nikola Tesla in this deep-dive episode of The Days Grimm! Join hosts Brian Day and Thomas Grimm as they uncover the electrifying life of the man who arguably invented the modern world, from his fierce rivalry with Thomas Edison to the wild conspiracy theories that surround his work today.
We explore Tesla's incredible mind, capable of visualizing complex inventions and running simulations entirely in his head. Discover the truth behind the "War of the Currents," where Tesla’s Alternating Current (AC) battled Edison's Direct Current (DC) , a conflict that led Edison to publicly electrocute animals, including an elephant named Topsy, to "prove" AC was dangerous.
Was Tesla's genius too much for the world? We discuss his partnership with J.P. Morgan , the ambitious Wardenclyffe Tower meant to provide free wireless energy to the world , and why it was ultimately abandoned. Plus, we delve into his other groundbreaking inventions, including the Tesla Coil, remote controls , and his successful attempt to wirelessly light 200 light bulbs from 25 miles away.
Finally, we unpack the bizarre and fascinating aspects of Tesla's later life, from his peculiar romantic relationship with a pigeon to the persistent conspiracy theories involving a "death ray" and how his papers allegedly ended up in the hands of John G. Trump, Donald Trump's ancestor.
What do you think is Tesla's most underrated invention? Drop your thoughts and any obscure Tesla facts in the comments below!
Key Topics & Timestamps:
- 0:00 - Introduction: Why are we talking about Nikola Tesla?
- 1:15 - The Mind of a Genius: Visualizing Inventions in His Head
- 3:30 - Tesla's Gambling Addiction & Early Life
- 5:00 - The War of the Currents: Tesla's AC vs. Edison's DC
- 7:10 - Edison's Dark Campaign & The Electrocuted Elephant
- 9:45 - Backed by J.P. Morgan & Lighting the World's Fair
- 12:00 - Incredible Inventions: The Tesla Coil, X-Rays, and Remote Control
- 14:30 - The Wardenclyffe Tower & The Dream of Free Wireless Power
- 17:00 - Lighting 200 Bulbs Wirelessly from 25 Miles Away
- 20:15 - Tesla's Later Years: Hotel Hopping & Unpaid Bills
- 21:30 - A Love Story: Did Tesla Fall in Love with a Pigeon?
- 23:45 - Conspiracy Corner: The "Death Ray" and the Trump Connection
- 28:00 - What if Tesla Were Alive Today?
- 31:15 - Final Thoughts: Did Tesla Invent the Pigeon?
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Hello,
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hello, hello everyone.
And welcome.
Welcome to another thrillingepisode of The Days Grimm.
My name is Brian Michael Day.
My name is Thomas Grimm.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
What are we doing today?
What are we doing?
We're taking it back to like,you know, we did that episode a
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few weeks ago where we did itwas just us, right?
Like we did it as like athrowback.
Yeah, it was nice.
Let's take it back to July andAI.
Yeah, it was really, reallyenjoyable.
And then like kind of along thesame lines, AI came out with
this new thing called Notebook.
And we were like exploring likehow you can load in sources and
do like deep dives.
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And we were like, what are wedoing?
We went back to just us, butmaybe some topic-based episodes.
Agreed, brother.
One of my favorite things isjust how we started the podcast.
It's like bettering yourselfevery day.
Yeah, but not only that.
Today's topic, for instance,Nikolai Tesla.
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Is it Nikolai or Nikola?
Nikola Tesla, but everybody...
I don't know.
Nikola Tesla.
So then the only reason thiscame up is because I watched
that movie The Prestige that Itold you about a while back of
these two magicians and they'regoing back and forth, right?
But then...
in it you know have you watchedit yet it sounds fucking sick
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but in it um in it there'snikola nikola tesla's in like
the movie or whatever and it'sgot nice like he's in there as a
part of like the story and i waslike yeah not the real right so
then i started going off on likea side tangent of like trying to
learn more about tesla okay andnow here we are today yeah
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Basically.
Yeah, so today we're going totalk a little bit about Nikola,
or Nikolai Tesla, born 1856,died January 1943.
And he was born in Croatia, sobasically one of those Russian
annexes.
The Serbs, which is strange.
The USSR annexes, not Russia.
Yeah, because it's weird that hewound up being kind of nerdy and
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into science and stuff the waythat he was, because typically
the Serbs, they're just like afighting...
They just kill people reallywell and efficiently.
And for him to just be like ascience guy, which that's pretty
sick, dude.
You know what I mean?
So, well, they were saying too.
So like when I was looking it upthat like, well, at a young age,
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he was known for being able todo like crazy math in his head.
Like, he was going to, like,say, we were doing, like,
physics or something.
Yeah.
And they would, like, have aquestion.
He'd do the entire equation,like, the three-page problem in
his head and then give them theanswer.
And they're like, there's noway.
Have you taken physics ever?
Yeah.
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It's rough.
Yeah.
But then, like, they were alsosaying that, like, you know, if
he were to come up with a designin his head, right?
So, say, like, he was going tocome up with, like...
I mean, he eventually comes upwith the Tesla coil, but like
say he comes up with thesethings in his head and then he
like builds them in his head andhe runs these like trials on
them.
And then, like, in his head, hecomes back, like, six hours
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later, and he's like, oh, yeah,like, I could see how this,
like, wheel would, like, causethis other wheel to tear down
over time.
Let's replace it with something.
It's wild to have that amountof, like, mental, like, not real
proprioception.
Like, he can just, like, closehis eyes and see a complex piece
of machinery from, like, startto finish.
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Like, how the cogs turn andwhere the wiring is and what
wiring does what.
Right.
It's like Tony Stark.
designing with jarvis andexploding everything out and
like going in but in his headare we allowed to google things
during these episodes can yougoogle is there will you google
is there was tony stark's basedon nikola tesla because they
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have an odd amount ofsimilarities because literally
like you just said tony starkthat character in the comic
books is a lot like that like hejust had it like he could
fabricate things and see them sohere ai is I don't know.
Is that what I should read?
Yeah, that's what...
Okay.
So the inspiration for TonyStark character in the Marvel
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Universe has been a blend ofreal world figures and the
creativity of multipleindividuals.
The individuals are HowardHughes, Elon Musk.
It is worth noting that whilesome sources highlight
similar...
similarities between Tony Starkand Nikola Tesla's genius and
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work in technology, Tesla wasnot a direct inspiration cited
by the creators.
Howard Hughes was the primarydriver for the creation of Tony
Stark, so I don't know whoHoward Hughes is, but shout out
to that guy.
Damn, but that's funny you saythat, because I kind of low-key
always thought that Tony Starkwas a character built off of
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Tesla.
Right, but basically, so Teslagoes to college, right?
Well, I guess we need to rewind.
When Tesla was like...
When did he come to America?
Can we start there?
No, no, no.
You got to get a little bit ofbackstory before he comes to
America.
Backstory is he's Serbian.
He had an older brother.
And his older brother died in ahorse riding incident where he
fell off the horse and the horsetrampled him.
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Like right in front of him whenhe was a kid.
And his brother was like anexceptional student.
Like A plus student.
Probably smarter than him.
Yeah.
Like crazy smart.
So then...
like tesla grows up all thisstuff and then like when he goes
to college he like starts likehe's like oh i got i'm smart
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yeah so he's like i'm gonnagamble against these other
people because i'm smart teslabecause i can count cards dude
tesla had a huge gamblingaddiction did he really yeah and
like he like gambled away allhis school money oh and then now
he comes home and he's like momI'm poor.
Mom.
I'm out of ramen.
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You know what I mean?
Like, I wasn't there in the,like, potato famine or some
shit.
Like, Ma, I'm out of potatoes,you know?
I'm going to soup kitchens.
Yeah, this is Russia.
Like, I don't even have anyvodka.
Like, I don't even havepotatoes, and I have no vodka,
Mom.
Yeah, you need one to have theother.
And I'm trying to go to college,and I need potatoes and vodka.
And his mom gives him, like,this little bit of money that,
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like, she can scrounge up.
And he gambles it away.
Oh.
If he's so goddamn smart, youknow what I mean?
He was on a heater, dog.
He was up.
You never walk away from aheater.
Right.
So then he's kind of ashamed togo home because that was his
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mom's little bit of money andeverything like that.
Is this how he winds up inAmerica?
So he starts working for EdisonCompany.
who thomas edison had foundedbut had it all like made its way
over to europe where tesla wasgoing to university and
everything like that yeah and ifi'm not mistaken i think thomas
edison was kind of a cunt so ifi remember right so like he goes
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to work for edison he goes towork for edison and then edison
over here in like europe is likeyo we got this dude that's like
Bussing.
Yeah, he's bussing.
So Thomas Edison was like, let'sget him to the States.
Yeah, get him over here, daddy.
So he came to the States in Juneof 1884.
Was Thomas Edison alive in 1884?
Yeah.
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Are you sure?
Yeah.
Wasn't Thomas Edison also partof, like, the 1776 revolution,
dude?
I don't know.
Thomas Edison's company, whichwas the Thomas Edison Electric
1931.
God damn, that dude was 213years old when he died.
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And Tesla came in 1884.
So, yeah.
I thought Thomas Edison was,like, around for the creation of
the United States, I guess.
No, Thomas Edison would havebeen, like, in his 40s around
this time.
Oh, okay.
sick dude nice so anyways hegoes to work for edison as right
finds out we got this whiz kidso then you were like well you
thought ben franklin had beefwith tesla and then we found out
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benjamin franklin was long deadyeah long long long dead before
tesla but thomas edison fairenough and tesla had beef mainly
because they differed in powerlike the way power was delivered
to people So like AC versus DCcurrency.
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Yeah.
Yeah, current.
It's direct current andalternating current, if I'm not
mistaken.
Right.
So like direct current,basically everything we have now
runs on AC.
Yes, alternating current.
Yeah, and it's way cheaper andsafer to push power longer.
Basically with DC, like yourpower would go one way...
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And it took a lot to force itthat way.
Also, fun note, just becauseI've worked around heavy
electric in previous jobs when Iwas in college, just a fun note
about AC versus DC.
The reason why alternatingcurrent is so much more
dangerous than direct current isbecause direct current is a
certain amount of amperageconstantly flowing to that,
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let's say, an outlet.
And then you can plug somethingin and it'll work.
But it's a constant flow.
alternating current is moredangerous because it'll like it
shoots the same amount ofamperage but then shuts it off
and then shoots the same amountof amperage and shuts it off so
like when you get shocked by ACit like vibrates you and that's
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why you can't let go with DCnormally you're supposed to like
if it's a possible live wireyou're supposed to touch it with
the back of your hand Becausethat instinct, because then you
can't close on the wire.
Yeah, alternating current iswhat makes you close.
Right.
Yeah, whereas DC will just blowyour fucking hand off.
But like, so then Edison goes onthis crazy campaign of like.
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Anti-Tesla.
No, anti-AC current.
Oh, here we go.
I like this.
Edison helps invent the.
Edison, the light bulb.
Not only the light bulb, Edisonhelped invent the electric
chair.
I think he had a hand in BellPhone Company as well, if I'm
not mistaken.
I don't know, but he had a handin a lot.
Basically, he was trying to showthe public, like you were
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talking about, AC current isdangerous.
Yeah, it is.
But it's more efficient.
Right.
And if you're going to light inNew York City, where they're at
with power.
You want efficiency.
Right.
Yeah.
But he was literally paradingcows through the town and then
electrocuting them with ACcurrent at the end.
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Are you shitting me?
Edison flew in an elephant andexecuted an elephant with AC
current.
Edison kills elephants.
Where was fucking PETA in 1887?
He made a movie out of it.
It's a documentary horror filmcalled Electrocuting an
Elephant.
Jesus.
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Black and white.
silent, actually shot, how doyou say that?
Depicting.
Depicting the killing of anelephant by electrocution at an
amusement park.
And his name was Topsy?
Produced by Edison Film Company.
Topsy is such a cute name.
Why would you fucking do this?
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Where the fuck was PETA, dude?
Where was PETA at to be like,maybe don't Kill that elephant.
Right.
Isn't that crazy?
In the fucking street.
Isn't that crazy?
So then, like, while they'rehaving this beef, right?
I guess, like, there's a littleprelude that I missed out on in
this little trick here.
Prelude.
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So, like, right before Edisonstarts parading elephants to
their execution in the streetsof New York City, right?
Starting an elephant holocaust.
They have their falling out, andJ.P.
Morgan actually backs Edison.
Or not backs Edison, backsTesla.
And that was the game changer.
So Tesla is making AC current,and J.P.
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Morgan's like, hey, let's dothis electrical whatever.
We're with you.
Right.
And J.P.
Morgan being one of the primaryfinancial powerhouses in
America.
So then Edison goes on this tourof like, let's try to paint AC
bad, DC good.
Let's start schwacking elephantsin the streets.
Right.
And then on top of that, let'sinvent an electric chair,
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because even killing anelephant's not enough.
We've got to kill people first.
And do it effectively andefficiently.
But also, isn't it low-key likean argument against Edison that
he's out here like showingpeople how gnarly and how
efficient this power is?
It's like, dude...
Maybe you should have found away to promote DC and not demote
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AC.
What did they do with thiselephant body afterwards?
Are you frying it up?
Are you eating it?
You have to, right?
Yeah, you have to eat it.
Is there a good oriental...
Yeah, like a Nim Young soup.
Right.
Is this why we went to Vietnam?
Okay, moving on.
Yeah, that's dark.
So then basically they have thiswhole AC versus DC power, and
then the World Fair comes to NewYork.
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Or Chicago.
One of the two, right?
Was it...
One of the two, but there's likea big bid war going on between
Edison Company and this TeslaCompany.
It was Chicago in the 1800s, I'mpretty sure.
World Fair was 1800s in Chicago.
So then Edison made his bid, theTesla Company made their bid,
Tesla Company won, and they litup this entire fair with AC
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current, and then from then on,basically, AC took the...
And Edison had to perpetuallysuck Tesla's dick.
Yeah, and this elephant died forno reason.
Damn it, Topsy.
This was the Harambe of the1900s.
Yeah, of the late 1800s, early1900s.
So then on top of that, right,Tesla has all these other crazy
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designs.
Well, we go back to how we firststarted.
So how we started the show andwe started talking about how
Edison, blah, Tesla had thiscrazy brain that he could like,
he was so good at math andmechanics, he could see a
machine just, Right.
...to fruition in his brainbefore anything is ever pieced
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together.
So then, yeah, he goes on thisterror of just...
Well, so, like, he invents this,like, this, like, just new range
of stuff.
So, like, Tesla, they say heinvented the x-ray before the
x-ray was invented because hetook this photo of his own foot
that was basically an x-ray, buthe called it something else, and
it was, like, a slightlydifferent process.
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Yeah.
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Ooh.
But basically he did like thegroundwork, like the very first
like one ever.
But then he also was one of thefirst people to do like remote
controlled stuff.
So like he made a remotecontrolled boat, RC frequencies.
Yeah.
Cause Tesla was the first personto crack frequencies.
So like JP Morgan and some othercompany, they're doing like a
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competition to see who canbroadcast like a signal from the
United States to Europe.
Tower to tower.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they're, like, in thiscompetition, and J.P.
Morgan starts, like, pumpingmoney into Tesla to design this
and get it going.
Tesla's like, I got you.
And he's just buildingremote-controlled boats instead.
Yeah, he's doing, like, buildingremote-controlled boats, and
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then he builds, like...
Have you ever seen this?
Have you ever seen theWardenclyffe Tower?
Have you seen this?
Yeah.
Could you imagine...
Hold on.
Imagine that you work for J.P.
Morgan.
You're, like, a fuckingbillionaire in the 1800s, and
you're like, hey, man...
Have you figured out how to senda radio tower message from
America to England yet?
And he's like, listen, guys,we're getting real close.
But I made this sick-ass fuckingRC speedboat.
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Could you fucking imagine thelook on J.P.
Morgan's face, dude?
Isn't it even funnier if he hadan Alex Jones-style voice?
But you know he didn't.
You know what I'm saying?
You know Tesla.
Oh, I have to look up on aseparate tab here.
What did Tesla sound like?
Did he ever get...
audio recorded?
He had to have if he died in the30s.
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Isn't that what we said?
He made it to the 30s?
Just do Tesla audio recording.
Nikola Tesla sound like?
What did he sound like?
There are no known recordings ofNikola Tesla's actual voice.
That's a real bummer.
So sad.
There's a clip that claims thatWell, when video and audio
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recording was just gettingpopular, like in the early
1900s, I think that was aboutthe time that he fell in love
with that pigeon, which we'llget to before the show's over.
Don't let me forget.
I want to bring that up.
So anyways, so then he's like,yo.
So they build this, like, youknow.
We're back to the tower thing.
JP's like, yo, come on.
Let's get it.
Let's get it going.
Fuck your RC boat.
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It's dope, but also...
Right.
Back to what we were fuckingdoing.
So Tesla buys this, like, landin, like, Long Island, right?
And he starts building thisgiant tower-looking thing.
Yeah, the...
Zoom back in.
Golly, I can't even say that.
The...
The Wardenclyffe Tower.
The Wardenclyffe Tower, yes.
Right, but this is about thesame time where his side project
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of Tesla coils starts takingoff.
And, my God, what a mess thatwas.
Jeez, I mean, sick, right?
Super sick.
And he's putting on these lightshows where he's got these two
Tesla coils that are basicallyzapping lightning above people's
heads in like a room full ofpeople.
Yeah.
And not worried about anyone'swell-being.
Like, hey, are you wearingrubber shoes?
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Take all your keys out of yourpocket.
You know what I mean?
Those massive brass keys you getback in there.
You also have to wear a rubberswimming cap to attend this
event.
Also think about all theradiation levels that those
people just got fucking.
You ever sat in a microwave fora 45-minute experience with no
AC, just AC current?
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Everybody has skin cancer now.
You have AC?
Yeah, I got AC current.
You go back in time.
Can you imagine going in a timemachine, which some people think
Tesla did make?
Yeah.
Could you imagine going back intime and being like, y'all, you
guys don't have AC?
And they're like, no, NikolaTesla, just AC current.
Yeah, they just let the worldfit.
And you're like, no.
No, no, no, but for real though,do you have cold air?
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Do you guys have conditionedair?
Oh, we got this bike rigged upto these fucking fans.
Then Tesla comes in and he'slike, no, but look at my super
sick towers.
I went on like a, there's likepeople that make these like in
their, this is a homemade Teslacoil, like in their fucking dorm
room.
But people are taking these theymentioned it in like one of
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these articles that I clickedout of here that like he made
these like beads they're like aglass tubes almost like a light
bulb but not a light bulb andyou can touch it to the Tesla
coil and it like that energy isin there and it makes like a
cool little design whoa I'venever seen that I have seen the
coils with like the glass bulbover it you can touch it and
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then it will like the lightningcomes to your right those are
pretty sick But yeah, I thinkit's safe to say, how deep are
we right now?
We're 20 minutes deep, and Ithink that it's safe to say that
Nikola Tesla is actually afucking sociopath.
What do you think?
I mean, it's crazy to thinkabout how ahead of his time he
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was.
Yeah, because this is in thesame era...
That we were fighting each otherover slavery with muskets.
You know what I mean?
It's crazy to think that that'swhen this was happening.
Well, when did the Wrightbrothers take off?
In the 1800s.
Right, but there wasn't likea...
He had to take a boat over here,right?
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Yeah, he would have taken asteam engine to America.
Crazy.
Wild.
And he's over here just fuckingmaking Tesla coils.
it's just fucking zapping shitand like dude there there was
like talks about where like withremotely without wires was able
to light light bulbs over like30 miles away did you did you
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hear about that i don't knowabout that i thought there had
to be wiring to light a lightbulb wireless communication
devices was like a thing that hehad came up with but um Tesla
wirelessly...
He's lighting a light bulb milesaway with no wiring.
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It says, yes, Nikola Tesla diddemonstrate the wireless
lighting of light bulbs.
He achieved this using hisinvention, the Tesla coil, which
generates high-frequencyalternating currents...
Yada, yada, yada.
It basically generates anelectrical field.
And he shoots it in thatdirection, and then it hits that
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light bulb, and that light bulbis built to accept the energy
and turn it into power.
Right, but there was one wherehe remotely lit bulbs from crazy
far away.
That's wild.
I do want to know more about,out of pure curiosity, because
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we're going to skip past all hisinventions eventually.
He lit 200 light bulbs from 25miles away.
Colorado Springs.
Holy shit.
And think about, well, like, mycrazy thing is, so, like, then,
like, basically, J.P.
Morgan abandons him after, youknow, he invests all his money
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in Tesla's, like, making sideprojects and all this stuff.
And that Wardenclyffe Tower.
Remote-controlled boats.
Yeah, that Wardenclyffe Towernever gets finished.
I thought it did.
No.
No.
It didn't.
It gets shut down and never getsfinished because he was too busy
focusing.
He was going to turn the wholebuilding, if you looked at the
Wardenclyffe Tower, he was goingto turn the whole building into
basically like a giant Teslacoil.
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And Tesla was working ondelivering, basically via the
Tesla coil, he was thinking youcould get free power, free
electrical power from the earthand transmit it wirelessly
everywhere.
Okay, so then I'm notunderstanding how the...
tesla coil works then because ithought you had to feed power
into it is that not the case toa degree but then you can pull
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power from like the earth if youput rods down and and stuff is
like the his was tesla'sthinking on it okay so then
because like so then also it wasnever proven right okay but then
they so but then you got tothink like jp morgan big money
guy yeah Tesla wanting to createfree electricity and JP Morgan's
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basically paying him to transmita radio signal and Tesla's
working on cracking free energy.
Also, I love how we're talkingabout JP Morgan like that's one
person.
We're like, yeah, this JP Morganguy.
Back then it was.
No, I think JP is multiplepeople.
I don't know.
I think back then it was oneperson.
JP.
Everybody called him JP on thestreets.
Yeah, all JP.
Yeah, but he backs out.
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So then, but also at the sametime, Tesla built the Hoover
Dam, was involved in the designand harnessing the power of the
Hoover Dam.
He's got several like quotestalking about like, you know, if
you give up or something, blah,blah, blah.
But basically after all hisfunding's done, JP Morgan backs
out, the Hoover Dam's done.
He starts basically like livingin hotels off his brain.
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Like, hey, you know me, like tothe manager, you know, and
they're like, yeah, you know,he's like, put me up in the
suite for a month.
And he's like up there.
JP Morgan's tab.
And then like the month comesand they're like, yo, dude, you
got to pay.
And he's like, no, I'm good.
You know who I am.
You know, like we're straight.
And they're like, no, hey, like.
So then he like basically getskicked out of a hotel and goes
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to another hotel.
Same thing.
Like he never, like he justdoesn't have a fortune.
He has all these patents.
But, like, no money, no, like,just basically hotel bouncing,
getting kicked out, kicked out,kicked out.
Now, what era are we talkingabout here?
Is this, like, are we...
This is when he's older.
This is, like, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
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I mean, this is 1920s is whenthat, like, is, like, kicked
out.
And so you got to think aroundthat time, like, having spent
most of his money on theseinventions, he lived in a series
of New York hotels, leavingbehind unpaid bills, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So in this time, you were like,oh, Tesla married a pigeon.
Well, okay.
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Thanks for exposing me to theinternet.
He definitely had sexualrelations with a pigeon.
I don't think he fucked thispigeon.
He had a romantic relationship,and he wrote about it.
But they were talking about howhe would often be seen- I can't
believe you would put me onblast like that.
He would often be seen going toNew York parks feeding the
pigeons.
Yeah.
And then he found this injuredpigeon- and brought it back to
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one of these hotels that he washotel hopping in.
Which, could you imagine alreadybeing on shady terms with the
hotel?
You're already two monthsbehind, and they haven't kicked
you out.
They know you've been kicked outof two other hotels.
But also, I'm bringing a pigeon.
You're sneaking in this pigeon.
Is he magicianing it, putting itin an inside coat pocket?
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Is he keistering this pigeon?
Right.
You know what I mean?
No, and for whatever reason, youmight be able to look up the
actual location about the pigeonthat we're referencing,
because...
I don't know that it was in ahotel.
It was in a hotel.
In my head, for some reason, Iremember him being in a tower or
in a tall building.
I don't know why I'm thinking hestayed in a lighthouse for a
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while.
Did he not live in a lighthousefor a while?
No.
Okay, but anyways, he nursesthis pigeon back to health and
writes about it in his...
He has a journal that was lateracquired by...
federal agents, I believe, ifI'm not mistaken, which we're
going to get to, right?
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The what?
We're going to get to...
Some of his other ideas?
Lock in, Tommy.
No, we're going to...
No, like I was saying, he wroteabout this pigeon that he nursed
back to health in his journal.
Yeah, in his journal.
He did write about the pigeon.
And he related, he said, I'venever been more attached to a
living thing even more than mymother.
Yeah, he loved that pigeon.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Fully, yeah.
Love that pigeon, but I don'tthink he had sexual relations
with that pigeon.
It was romantic to say theleast.
Yes.
So he romanticizes this pigeonin his journals.
Right.
Which go into the tough boxes orthe lockers or whatever you
called it earlier, the tote.
Well, so basically when Tesladies alone in his hotel room and
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people find him, then the FBIand the alien affairs people
come in.
Yeah.
And, like, take everything.
Yeah, take everything.
Everything.
Some people say that he had apatent for, like, a death ray,
which some people say, like,fully exists.
Oh, is there anything about thatin here?
I want to know.
Can you just Command-F deathray?
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Oh, damn.
I was going to say do it in theWikipedia.
We did talk about this.
Tesla's death ray or theteleforce was a hypothetical
weapon...
concept based on particle beamtechnology he envisioned it as a
defensive weapon capable ofshooting down airplanes and
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destroying any approaching forcehe basically described it as
like a wireless great wall ofchina it's not like you could
turn it on and basically it's aan energy force field yeah it's
an iron dome before the irondome yeah Essentially, that's
what he's thinking in his head,which is just another testament
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to how fucking ahead of his timehe was.
He came up with a bladelessturbine?
Just by air suction, maybe, orsomething.
Bladeless turbine during 1910 to1911 at the Waterside Power
Station.
Oh, he did it with water?
I guess.
I guess.
Turbine engines were tested at100 to 5,000 RPMs.
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Tesla worked with severalcompanies, including from 1919
to 1922, Milwaukee, AliceChalmers, Tesla licensed the
prototype.
It doesn't really say what itis.
Right.
It found its form in luxuryspeedometers and other
instruments.
Okay.
Okay.
Pop off, daddy.
So then there's that conspiracytheory about the Trumps?
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Yeah, so we also talked aboutthat pre-show.
So like Don Trump, which is likeDonald Trump's grandfather, I
think.
Like Donald Trump the president.
I think it's his grandfather,Don Trump.
There's a conspiracy theorysaying it's true that Don Trump
acquired some of Tesla's some ofTesla's materials after he was
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pronounced deceased.
From those...
Trunks.
or whatever you call it, thetrunks or the chest.
I can't remember what you calledit.
Basically where all thisinformation would have been
held.
Yeah, they were just like hislittle dressers or whatever.
Anyway, so Trump gets one.
John, I thought it was Don, it'sJohn.
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John G.
Trump to determine if any of thebelongings in the investor's
estate, which included purportedweapons of mass destruction
Tesla called the Death Ray,would be dangerous if they fell
into enemy hands.
Right, and then basically he waslike, no.
No, there's no risk at all righthere, right?
And he's like, actually, can Ibuy some of this stuff?
Yeah.
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And so they sell him some of thestuff.
And then people believe thatthere was, like, a time machine
that Tesla had came up with.
Oh, yeah.
Now you're down my alley.
And, like, don't some peoplebelieve that, like, Barron Trump
is, like, this dude's...
John Trump?
Yeah, or something...
I don't know.
I do know that Barron Trump istall as shit.
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He's like 6'3".
No, but yeah, I think there'ssomething out there about
like...
And you'd have to do a dive onGoogle, and I'm sure maybe...
I don't read into that stuff,but yeah, there's something with
the time machine and the Trumpsinvolved, yes.
But the fact of the matter is,Homeboy got his hands on Tesla's
trunks with the knowledge andthe workbooks and all that
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stuff.
Some of this stuff, it's crazy.
He became a millionaire.
Why does it still not exist incertain aspects?
This wireless lighting thing.
Or like trying to crack freepower.
Like how some people have seen,like, have you seen those like
theories on like how thepyramids go down into the earth
and how basically they're justessentially like Tesla coils to
a degree?
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Yeah.
So they found that with likeadvanced LIDAR technology from
space.
And I forget, they've done nodigging yet, but there is proof
that there are these giantcolumns.
It's speculation that they'repower related or, But they could
also, there's been theoriesflown around about them being
stairwells, spiral stairwellsthat go down into a further den
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or whatever.
There's all kinds of crazyconcepts.
But the fact is that they'rethere.
Yeah.
Which is insane because they golike 200 meters into the earth.
Right.
Which is insane.
It's like 800 feet or something.
But yeah, I don't know, dude.
Do you think he invented a timemachine?
I don't know about that, but,like, this, this, the movie I
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watched, The Prestige, wasbasically talking about, like,
it was, like, a joke that, like,Tesla had made, like, a cloning
machine or, like, a, like, aparticle moving, like,
teleportation moving thing.
But, like, you know, there's allkinds of, like, conspiracy
theories behind, like, Tesla andwhat he invented, what he knew,
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what You could tell me he made atime machine and I would believe
it because he was just thatintelligent.
You know what I mean?
He was wicked smart.
To be able to figure outfrequencies to the point to
where you can turn a light bulbon from 25 miles away, let alone
200.
200 light bulbs?
Yeah.
Not just one, but 200.
Yeah, like just crazy.
Wirelessly.
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But they were talking about likesome of those experiments like
he had to do in Colorado Springswhere like nobody was around at
all.
Just so like...
Didn't freak anybody out.
Nor, like, I mean, how are yougoing to tell the health
benefit, like, health risk of...
Yeah, whatever's flying throughthe air towards this light bulb
in the 1800s.
People are like, that'switchcraft.
You know what I mean?
Right.
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I have cancer now.
Like, oh, fuck.
Right.
Yeah, that'd be absolutelyterrifying.
I don't know, dude.
So we definitely talked aboutthe pigeon, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What are some things that Teslainvented that we still use
today?
Well, AC current, which we canthank him for.
The Hoover Dam.
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The Hoover Dam, which werecently sold to Brazil or
whoever.
I don't fucking remember.
Panama.
Yeah, we sold it back to Panama.
That was the Panama Canal.
Oh, is that not the same thing?
Oh, Hoover Dam's in America.
You're right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm retarded.
But then, like, I mean, like,you could say, like, the Tesla
card's like an ode to him.
in a way.
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Like, he has several inventionsthat, like, that turbine stuff,
like, I mean, RC, remotecontrol, anything.
Yeah.
Yeah, just to be able to controlsomething.
Radio, like, 5G.
Like, essentially, I assume...
Cell phones in general, yeah.
Yeah, cell phones.
Just tower communications ingeneral.
It's wild that, like, we use allthese things every day and we're
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just like, hmm, yeah, whatever.
We don't even think about it.
We just forget about, you know,whatever.
We're, like, entitled to it.
We just buy a light bulb for adollar and screw it in and not
even think that Edison wentthrough, like, 3,000 different
renditions before he got to...
I don't know why YouTube's notfucking loading so I can show
you one of these Tesla coilsthat's on Homeboy's apps with a
light bulb.
While you're waiting onYouTube...
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to respond.
Did Tesla have children?
No.
He didn't have any kids.
He was a bachelor and nochildren.
Yeah, like his whole life.
Wow.
Man, even Elon can find time tosqueeze a couple out.
You know what I mean?
But Elon, I think, views it asleaving on a legacy.
A part of my genetics will goon.
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Yeah, and the more kids youhave, the more it spreads.
Other than his training kid.
What is spreading?
Don't say it like that.
His trainee son's dick spreadinto a new pussy.
Shout out to Elon.
I love you.
You made it sound like adisease.
You're like, yeah, the more kidshe has, the more it spreads.
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I don't know about that.
Jesus Christ.
I'm pro Elon spreading.
Yeah, I'm a big fan, dude.
He's a genius.
I don't know, dude.
Maybe try Google.
Try Google Chrome for YouTube.
Do you think that maybe...
What were you going to show me?
This is not going to be on thescreen recording, but yeah.
Oh, dadgummit.
It's like something's wrongwith...
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Oh, is our Wi-Fi down?
Sheesh.
I don't know.
It says it's up and running.
Dadgummit.
Well, I guess we're not going towatch this video.
I encourage people to look itup.
It's pretty cool to see the...
I wonder if we could do Teslacoil lighting bulbs.
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Let me see this bad boy.
Essentially, people take thesebulbs and remotely wirelessly
light them.
See, there's the Tesla coil andthese aren't touching.
Somebody's holding them in theirhand.
same thing as like kind of likethat where they're holding see
the light bulb kind of close tothe one that everybody used to
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play with as a toy but thenthese one people are taking it
like this they're taking likeglass like beakers or glass
cylinders and they're lightinglike bulbs What was that science
experiment we all did as a kid?
Like, see this lady?
She made a Tesla coil, and then,like, she's holding the ball boy
out here.
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Yeah, what is that experiment weall did in grade school where
you take the potato, you puttoothpicks in it, and then you,
like...
I don't know about that, but youcan do it to, like, if you took,
like, Gatorade and, like, anorange, and you plugged a phone
charger into the orange.
The, like, the, um...
Electrolytes and the acidic ofthe orange have a reaction that
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causes some form of power.
Yeah, you can do the same thingwith a potato, too.
Maybe potatoes and vodka?
I think it's the starch thatcarries the current, and then...
Tesla dropped a potato in hisvodka.
Yeah, and then he was like,fuck, I figured out free power.
Hell yeah.
Dude, Tesla...
He's like, have I buriedpotatoes here?
Now, if you think...
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Okay, so...
There's got to be a funcontemporary question in here.
Because we're going to do theserandom deep dives.
Do you think the death ray is alegit thing?
There's conspiracy theories thatthey've seen it been used.
No, the military has one now.
And I don't know that it'selectronically fed.
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I know it shoots down missiles.
I don't know if it has enoughpower to kill a human being.
But it's like a big satellitedish.
You can Google it.
Military, wireless...
electronic ray gun, somethinglike that.
I think it's like a ray gun.
But essentially, there's noprojectile.
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What it is is energy, and it'san energy weapon, and it will
shoot down missiles.
It will blow up buildings.
Yeah, a directed energy weapon.
Yeah, a direct energy weapon, aDW, often dubbed Death Rays.
um is it is ongoing but i'veseen it on there's tons of
youtube videos you can look themup they'll like shoot down like
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a like a propeller drone you seechina's new drone things uh the
one dropping mosquitoes no notdropping the mosquitoes but the
ones that hover in the sky andthen they drop their missiles oh
fuck yeah i've seen a swarm orsomething i've seen the mother
drone that drops like hundredsof little drones yeah that's
fucking terrifying wow JesusChrist.
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Imagine if Tesla was around now.
That's what I was going to say.
Like, what would be a funthought to have about Tesla
alive today?
Could you imagine, like, thembuilding, like, a Tesla bot?
Like, loaded, like, Trump'sgrandpa.
Like, Barron Trump finds thesefiles, uploads it to, like, AI,
and just starts pumping out newinventions, right?
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Yeah.
Based on these old schematicsand all of Tesla's, like,
teachings and, like, all theinformation on them.
Yeah.
Dude.
Could you imagine, like...
tesla's around and like somebodyinvents the cell phone and
tesla's like could have beendone this way yeah i could have
embedded that in your forearmright like i like they're like
oh look we got the iron dome andit's this one thing that reads
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the rocket coming in that relaysa message to another one that
shoots a rocket that then tracksthe missile and tesla's like
could have just been an energywave like you know it Could have
just been a force field.
Yeah, you could have just throwna billion frequencies.
Dude, if Tesla was alive, wewould have those suits from
Dune.
Where, like, stuff...
Like, if I shot a bullet at you,it would, like, stop the bullet.
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And you could, like, grab it andmove it.
But, like, if I were to stab youwith a knife, the knife would go
through because it moves slowenough.
What the fuck?
But it would be, like, a forcefield of, like...
That's fucking terrifying.
But yeah, I think that's a funthought experiment.
What would Tesla thinkimmediately if he was alive
today and he saw ChatGPT?
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I think he would just comeimmediately.
Think about what he could createwith ChatGPT.
Or microphones.
I just think about energywasted.
How much less energy would bewasted with...
Like in this energy crisis era.
I think he would have figuredout the solar panels by now.
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He would have made them go fromlike, what is it, 13%
efficiency?
They're higher now, but yeah.
Yeah, 20% efficient.
He would have made it like 100%efficient.
I think how efficient are solarpanels?
I think it's like 23% now.
Yeah, it's 15% to 22%.
Which is still crazy low.
For commercially availablepanels.
But that's not recreational.
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Recreational panels are muchlower than that.
Right, but they got prototypesup to 45%, but still.
Dude, if he was in that game,100% in a week.
He would have it in a week, andthen he would have a pigeon.
like fucking deliver it to yourhouse yeah and it would be they
would be pigeons yeah exactlyTesla invented pigeons dude
low-key pigeons are Teslainventions have you seen that
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where pigeons are fake yeah theyrecharge on the power lines I
believe it I believe it Teslainventions maybe Tesla created
the pigeon yep jury's out Ithink so.
Jury's out, dude.
Tune in next week for, no, I'mjoking.
Yeah, that's why I think weended there.
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Tesla invented the pigeon.
Where are we at?
God made man, man made Tesla,Tesla made the pigeon.
And now birds aren't real.
Um, I don't know.
It's a fun, fun little deep diveon, we probably could have done
better.
We'll have it.
We'll have it.
We'll get this little formatdown.
Cause we want to do, we do wantto get back to these, right?
Yeah.
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We want to go back.
Yeah.
I think it's a good time.
We get to talk some shit, uh,and learn some factual things
off of the interweb.
Semi-factual.
Yeah.
Semi-factual.
Uh, I don't, we can't prove hecreated pigeons.
Um, can't prove it, but alsocannot disprove it.
Um, Final wrap-up thoughts onNikola or Nikolai Tesla.
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Dope.
Can't wait to meet him.
I think I...
I think Tesla and I are related,and I'll just leave it on that.
Dude, they got that batteriesplace I drive by on the way
home, and they got, like, Teslapainted on the side.
Like, batteries plus orsomething.
Hell, yeah, dude.
They're on Morgan.
Fire.
They got, like, the dope outsidestructure.
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Yeah, they're sick, dude.
They're sick.
Shout-out to them, dude.
Short of that...
Thanks for tuning in.
Let us know what you think aboutthese.
And if you got anything oranybody we should look into for
one of these.
Oh, and if you have some obscureTesla facts or knowledge, drop
it in the comments.
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What are we doing?
What are we doing?
What are we doing today?
What are we doing?
We're taking it back to like,you know, we did that episode a
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few weeks ago where we did itwas just us, right?
Like we did it as like athrowback.
Yeah, it was nice.
Let's take it back to July andAI.
Yeah, it was really, reallyenjoyable.
And then like kind of along thesame lines, AI came out with
this new thing called Notebook.
And we were like exploring likehow you can load in sources and
do like deep dives.
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And we were like, what are wedoing?
We went back to just us, butmaybe some topic-based episodes.
Agreed, brother.
One of my favorite things isjust how we started the podcast.
It's like bettering yourselfevery day.
Yeah, but not only that.
Today's topic, for instance,Nikolai Tesla.
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Is it Nikolai or Nikola?
Nikola Tesla, but everybody...
I don't know.
Nikola Tesla.
So then the only reason thiscame up is because I watched
that movie The Prestige that Itold you about a while back of
these two magicians and they'regoing back and forth, right?
But then...
in it you know have you watchedit yet it sounds fucking sick
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but in it um in it there'snikola nikola tesla's in like
the movie or whatever and it'sgot nice like he's in there as a
part of like the story and i waslike yeah not the real right so
then i started going off on likea side tangent of like trying to
learn more about tesla okay andnow here we are today yeah
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Basically.
Yeah, so today we're going totalk a little bit about Nikola,
or Nikolai Tesla, born 1856,died January 1943.
And he was born in Croatia, sobasically one of those Russian
annexes.
The Serbs, which is strange.
The USSR annexes, not Russia.
Yeah, because it's weird that hewound up being kind of nerdy and
(03:02):
into science and stuff the waythat he was, because typically
the Serbs, they're just like afighting...
They just kill people reallywell and efficiently.
And for him to just be like ascience guy, which that's pretty
sick, dude.
You know what I mean?
So, well, they were saying too.
So like when I was looking it upthat like, well, at a young age,
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he was known for being able todo like crazy math in his head.
Like, he was going to, like,say, we were doing, like,
physics or something.
Yeah.
And they would, like, have aquestion.
He'd do the entire equation,like, the three-page problem in
his head and then give them theanswer.
And they're like, there's noway.
Have you taken physics ever?
Yeah.
(03:43):
It's rough.
Yeah.
But then, like, they were alsosaying that, like, you know, if
he were to come up with a designin his head, right?
So, say, like, he was going tocome up with, like...
I mean, he eventually comes upwith the Tesla coil, but like
say he comes up with thesethings in his head and then he
like builds them in his head andhe runs these like trials on
them.
And then, like, in his head, hecomes back, like, six hours
(04:04):
later, and he's like, oh, yeah,like, I could see how this,
like, wheel would, like, causethis other wheel to tear down
over time.
Let's replace it with something.
It's wild to have that amountof, like, mental, like, not real
proprioception.
Like, he can just, like, closehis eyes and see a complex piece
of machinery from, like, startto finish.
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Like, how the cogs turn andwhere the wiring is and what
wiring does what.
Right.
It's like Tony Stark.
designing with jarvis andexploding everything out and
like going in but in his headare we allowed to google things
during these episodes can yougoogle is there will you google
is there was tony stark's basedon nikola tesla because they
(04:46):
have an odd amount ofsimilarities because literally
like you just said tony starkthat character in the comic
books is a lot like that like hejust had it like he could
fabricate things and see them sohere ai is I don't know.
Is that what I should read?
Yeah, that's what...
Okay.
So the inspiration for TonyStark character in the Marvel
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Universe has been a blend ofreal world figures and the
creativity of multipleindividuals.
The individuals are HowardHughes, Elon Musk.
It is worth noting that whilesome sources highlight
similar...
similarities between Tony Starkand Nikola Tesla's genius and
(05:29):
work in technology, Tesla wasnot a direct inspiration cited
by the creators.
Howard Hughes was the primarydriver for the creation of Tony
Stark, so I don't know whoHoward Hughes is, but shout out
to that guy.
Damn, but that's funny you saythat, because I kind of low-key
always thought that Tony Starkwas a character built off of
(05:50):
Tesla.
Right, but basically, so Teslagoes to college, right?
Well, I guess we need to rewind.
When Tesla was like...
When did he come to America?
Can we start there?
No, no, no.
You got to get a little bit ofbackstory before he comes to
America.
Backstory is he's Serbian.
He had an older brother.
And his older brother died in ahorse riding incident where he
fell off the horse and the horsetrampled him.
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Like right in front of him whenhe was a kid.
And his brother was like anexceptional student.
Like A plus student.
Probably smarter than him.
Yeah.
Like crazy smart.
So then...
like tesla grows up all thisstuff and then like when he goes
to college he like starts likehe's like oh i got i'm smart
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yeah so he's like i'm gonnagamble against these other
people because i'm smart teslabecause i can count cards dude
tesla had a huge gamblingaddiction did he really yeah and
like he like gambled away allhis school money oh and then now
he comes home and he's like momI'm poor.
Mom.
I'm out of ramen.
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You know what I mean?
Like, I wasn't there in the,like, potato famine or some
shit.
Like, Ma, I'm out of potatoes,you know?
I'm going to soup kitchens.
Yeah, this is Russia.
Like, I don't even have anyvodka.
Like, I don't even havepotatoes, and I have no vodka,
Mom.
Yeah, you need one to have theother.
And I'm trying to go to college,and I need potatoes and vodka.
And his mom gives him, like,this little bit of money that,
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like, she can scrounge up.
And he gambles it away.
Oh.
If he's so goddamn smart, youknow what I mean?
He was on a heater, dog.
He was up.
You never walk away from aheater.
Right.
So then he's kind of ashamed togo home because that was his
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mom's little bit of money andeverything like that.
Is this how he winds up inAmerica?
So he starts working for EdisonCompany.
who thomas edison had foundedbut had it all like made its way
over to europe where tesla wasgoing to university and
everything like that yeah and ifi'm not mistaken i think thomas
edison was kind of a cunt so ifi remember right so like he goes
(07:59):
to work for edison he goes towork for edison and then edison
over here in like europe is likeyo we got this dude that's like
Bussing.
Yeah, he's bussing.
So Thomas Edison was like, let'sget him to the States.
Yeah, get him over here, daddy.
So he came to the States in Juneof 1884.
Was Thomas Edison alive in 1884?
Yeah.
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Are you sure?
Yeah.
Wasn't Thomas Edison also partof, like, the 1776 revolution,
dude?
I don't know.
Thomas Edison's company, whichwas the Thomas Edison Electric
1931.
God damn, that dude was 213years old when he died.
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And Tesla came in 1884.
So, yeah.
I thought Thomas Edison was,like, around for the creation of
the United States, I guess.
No, Thomas Edison would havebeen, like, in his 40s around
this time.
Oh, okay.
sick dude nice so anyways hegoes to work for edison as right
finds out we got this whiz kidso then you were like well you
thought ben franklin had beefwith tesla and then we found out
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benjamin franklin was long deadyeah long long long dead before
tesla but thomas edison fairenough and tesla had beef mainly
because they differed in powerlike the way power was delivered
to people So like AC versus DCcurrency.
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Yeah.
Yeah, current.
It's direct current andalternating current, if I'm not
mistaken.
Right.
So like direct current,basically everything we have now
runs on AC.
Yes, alternating current.
Yeah, and it's way cheaper andsafer to push power longer.
Basically with DC, like yourpower would go one way...
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And it took a lot to force itthat way.
Also, fun note, just becauseI've worked around heavy
electric in previous jobs when Iwas in college, just a fun note
about AC versus DC.
The reason why alternatingcurrent is so much more
dangerous than direct current isbecause direct current is a
certain amount of amperageconstantly flowing to that,
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let's say, an outlet.
And then you can plug somethingin and it'll work.
But it's a constant flow.
alternating current is moredangerous because it'll like it
shoots the same amount ofamperage but then shuts it off
and then shoots the same amountof amperage and shuts it off so
like when you get shocked by ACit like vibrates you and that's
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why you can't let go with DCnormally you're supposed to like
if it's a possible live wireyou're supposed to touch it with
the back of your hand Becausethat instinct, because then you
can't close on the wire.
Yeah, alternating current iswhat makes you close.
Right.
Yeah, whereas DC will just blowyour fucking hand off.
But like, so then Edison goes onthis crazy campaign of like.
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Anti-Tesla.
No, anti-AC current.
Oh, here we go.
I like this.
Edison helps invent the.
Edison, the light bulb.
Not only the light bulb, Edisonhelped invent the electric
chair.
I think he had a hand in BellPhone Company as well, if I'm
not mistaken.
I don't know, but he had a handin a lot.
Basically, he was trying to showthe public, like you were
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talking about, AC current isdangerous.
Yeah, it is.
But it's more efficient.
Right.
And if you're going to light inNew York City, where they're at
with power.
You want efficiency.
Right.
Yeah.
But he was literally paradingcows through the town and then
electrocuting them with ACcurrent at the end.
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Are you shitting me?
Edison flew in an elephant andexecuted an elephant with AC
current.
Edison kills elephants.
Where was fucking PETA in 1887?
He made a movie out of it.
It's a documentary horror filmcalled Electrocuting an
Elephant.
Jesus.
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Black and white.
silent, actually shot, how doyou say that?
Depicting.
Depicting the killing of anelephant by electrocution at an
amusement park.
And his name was Topsy?
Produced by Edison Film Company.
Topsy is such a cute name.
Why would you fucking do this?
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Where the fuck was PETA, dude?
Where was PETA at to be like,maybe don't Kill that elephant.
Right.
Isn't that crazy?
In the fucking street.
Isn't that crazy?
So then, like, while they'rehaving this beef, right?
I guess, like, there's a littleprelude that I missed out on in
this little trick here.
Prelude.
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So, like, right before Edisonstarts parading elephants to
their execution in the streetsof New York City, right?
Starting an elephant holocaust.
They have their falling out, andJ.P.
Morgan actually backs Edison.
Or not backs Edison, backsTesla.
And that was the game changer.
So Tesla is making AC current,and J.P.
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Morgan's like, hey, let's dothis electrical whatever.
We're with you.
Right.
And J.P.
Morgan being one of the primaryfinancial powerhouses in
America.
So then Edison goes on this tourof like, let's try to paint AC
bad, DC good.
Let's start schwacking elephantsin the streets.
Right.
And then on top of that, let'sinvent an electric chair,
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because even killing anelephant's not enough.
We've got to kill people first.
And do it effectively andefficiently.
But also, isn't it low-key likean argument against Edison that
he's out here like showingpeople how gnarly and how
efficient this power is?
It's like, dude...
Maybe you should have found away to promote DC and not demote
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AC.
What did they do with thiselephant body afterwards?
Are you frying it up?
Are you eating it?
You have to, right?
Yeah, you have to eat it.
Is there a good oriental...
Yeah, like a Nim Young soup.
Right.
Is this why we went to Vietnam?
Okay, moving on.
Yeah, that's dark.
So then basically they have thiswhole AC versus DC power, and
then the World Fair comes to NewYork.
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Or Chicago.
One of the two, right?
Was it...
One of the two, but there's likea big bid war going on between
Edison Company and this TeslaCompany.
It was Chicago in the 1800s, I'mpretty sure.
World Fair was 1800s in Chicago.
So then Edison made his bid, theTesla Company made their bid,
Tesla Company won, and they litup this entire fair with AC
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current, and then from then on,basically, AC took the...
And Edison had to perpetuallysuck Tesla's dick.
Yeah, and this elephant died forno reason.
Damn it, Topsy.
This was the Harambe of the1900s.
Yeah, of the late 1800s, early1900s.
So then on top of that, right,Tesla has all these other crazy
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designs.
Well, we go back to how we firststarted.
So how we started the show andwe started talking about how
Edison, blah, Tesla had thiscrazy brain that he could like,
he was so good at math andmechanics, he could see a
machine just, Right.
...to fruition in his brainbefore anything is ever pieced
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together.
So then, yeah, he goes on thisterror of just...
Well, so, like, he invents this,like, this, like, just new range
of stuff.
So, like, Tesla, they say heinvented the x-ray before the
x-ray was invented because hetook this photo of his own foot
that was basically an x-ray, buthe called it something else, and
it was, like, a slightlydifferent process.
UNKNOWN (15:27):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (15:28):
Ooh.
But basically he did like thegroundwork, like the very first
like one ever.
But then he also was one of thefirst people to do like remote
controlled stuff.
So like he made a remotecontrolled boat, RC frequencies.
Yeah.
Cause Tesla was the first personto crack frequencies.
So like JP Morgan and some othercompany, they're doing like a
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competition to see who canbroadcast like a signal from the
United States to Europe.
Tower to tower.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they're, like, in thiscompetition, and J.P.
Morgan starts, like, pumpingmoney into Tesla to design this
and get it going.
Tesla's like, I got you.
And he's just buildingremote-controlled boats instead.
Yeah, he's doing, like, buildingremote-controlled boats, and
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then he builds, like...
Have you ever seen this?
Have you ever seen theWardenclyffe Tower?
Have you seen this?
Yeah.
Could you imagine...
Hold on.
Imagine that you work for J.P.
Morgan.
You're, like, a fuckingbillionaire in the 1800s, and
you're like, hey, man...
Have you figured out how to senda radio tower message from
America to England yet?
And he's like, listen, guys,we're getting real close.
But I made this sick-ass fuckingRC speedboat.
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Could you fucking imagine thelook on J.P.
Morgan's face, dude?
Isn't it even funnier if he hadan Alex Jones-style voice?
But you know he didn't.
You know what I'm saying?
You know Tesla.
Oh, I have to look up on aseparate tab here.
What did Tesla sound like?
Did he ever get...
audio recorded?
He had to have if he died in the30s.
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Isn't that what we said?
He made it to the 30s?
Just do Tesla audio recording.
Nikola Tesla sound like?
What did he sound like?
There are no known recordings ofNikola Tesla's actual voice.
That's a real bummer.
So sad.
There's a clip that claims thatWell, when video and audio
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recording was just gettingpopular, like in the early
1900s, I think that was aboutthe time that he fell in love
with that pigeon, which we'llget to before the show's over.
Don't let me forget.
I want to bring that up.
So anyways, so then he's like,yo.
So they build this, like, youknow.
We're back to the tower thing.
JP's like, yo, come on.
Let's get it.
Let's get it going.
Fuck your RC boat.
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It's dope, but also...
Right.
Back to what we were fuckingdoing.
So Tesla buys this, like, landin, like, Long Island, right?
And he starts building thisgiant tower-looking thing.
Yeah, the...
Zoom back in.
Golly, I can't even say that.
The...
The Wardenclyffe Tower.
The Wardenclyffe Tower, yes.
Right, but this is about thesame time where his side project
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of Tesla coils starts takingoff.
And, my God, what a mess thatwas.
Jeez, I mean, sick, right?
Super sick.
And he's putting on these lightshows where he's got these two
Tesla coils that are basicallyzapping lightning above people's
heads in like a room full ofpeople.
Yeah.
And not worried about anyone'swell-being.
Like, hey, are you wearingrubber shoes?
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Take all your keys out of yourpocket.
You know what I mean?
Those massive brass keys you getback in there.
You also have to wear a rubberswimming cap to attend this
event.
Also think about all theradiation levels that those
people just got fucking.
You ever sat in a microwave fora 45-minute experience with no
AC, just AC current?
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Everybody has skin cancer now.
You have AC?
Yeah, I got AC current.
You go back in time.
Can you imagine going in a timemachine, which some people think
Tesla did make?
Yeah.
Could you imagine going back intime and being like, y'all, you
guys don't have AC?
And they're like, no, NikolaTesla, just AC current.
Yeah, they just let the worldfit.
And you're like, no.
No, no, no, but for real though,do you have cold air?
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Do you guys have conditionedair?
Oh, we got this bike rigged upto these fucking fans.
Then Tesla comes in and he'slike, no, but look at my super
sick towers.
I went on like a, there's likepeople that make these like in
their, this is a homemade Teslacoil, like in their fucking dorm
room.
But people are taking these theymentioned it in like one of
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these articles that I clickedout of here that like he made
these like beads they're like aglass tubes almost like a light
bulb but not a light bulb andyou can touch it to the Tesla
coil and it like that energy isin there and it makes like a
cool little design whoa I'venever seen that I have seen the
coils with like the glass bulbover it you can touch it and
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then it will like the lightningcomes to your right those are
pretty sick But yeah, I thinkit's safe to say, how deep are
we right now?
We're 20 minutes deep, and Ithink that it's safe to say that
Nikola Tesla is actually afucking sociopath.
What do you think?
I mean, it's crazy to thinkabout how ahead of his time he
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was.
Yeah, because this is in thesame era...
That we were fighting each otherover slavery with muskets.
You know what I mean?
It's crazy to think that that'swhen this was happening.
Well, when did the Wrightbrothers take off?
In the 1800s.
Right, but there wasn't likea...
He had to take a boat over here,right?
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Yeah, he would have taken asteam engine to America.
Crazy.
Wild.
And he's over here just fuckingmaking Tesla coils.
it's just fucking zapping shitand like dude there there was
like talks about where like withremotely without wires was able
to light light bulbs over like30 miles away did you did you
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hear about that i don't knowabout that i thought there had
to be wiring to light a lightbulb wireless communication
devices was like a thing that hehad came up with but um Tesla
wirelessly...
He's lighting a light bulb milesaway with no wiring.
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It says, yes, Nikola Tesla diddemonstrate the wireless
lighting of light bulbs.
He achieved this using hisinvention, the Tesla coil, which
generates high-frequencyalternating currents...
Yada, yada, yada.
It basically generates anelectrical field.
And he shoots it in thatdirection, and then it hits that
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light bulb, and that light bulbis built to accept the energy
and turn it into power.
Right, but there was one wherehe remotely lit bulbs from crazy
far away.
That's wild.
I do want to know more about,out of pure curiosity, because
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we're going to skip past all hisinventions eventually.
He lit 200 light bulbs from 25miles away.
Colorado Springs.
Holy shit.
And think about, well, like, mycrazy thing is, so, like, then,
like, basically, J.P.
Morgan abandons him after, youknow, he invests all his money
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in Tesla's, like, making sideprojects and all this stuff.
And that Wardenclyffe Tower.
Remote-controlled boats.
Yeah, that Wardenclyffe Towernever gets finished.
I thought it did.
No.
No.
It didn't.
It gets shut down and never getsfinished because he was too busy
focusing.
He was going to turn the wholebuilding, if you looked at the
Wardenclyffe Tower, he was goingto turn the whole building into
basically like a giant Teslacoil.
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And Tesla was working ondelivering, basically via the
Tesla coil, he was thinking youcould get free power, free
electrical power from the earthand transmit it wirelessly
everywhere.
Okay, so then I'm notunderstanding how the...
tesla coil works then because ithought you had to feed power
into it is that not the case toa degree but then you can pull
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power from like the earth if youput rods down and and stuff is
like the his was tesla'sthinking on it okay so then
because like so then also it wasnever proven right okay but then
they so but then you got tothink like jp morgan big money
guy yeah Tesla wanting to createfree electricity and JP Morgan's
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basically paying him to transmita radio signal and Tesla's
working on cracking free energy.
Also, I love how we're talkingabout JP Morgan like that's one
person.
We're like, yeah, this JP Morganguy.
Back then it was.
No, I think JP is multiplepeople.
I don't know.
I think back then it was oneperson.
JP.
Everybody called him JP on thestreets.
Yeah, all JP.
Yeah, but he backs out.
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So then, but also at the sametime, Tesla built the Hoover
Dam, was involved in the designand harnessing the power of the
Hoover Dam.
He's got several like quotestalking about like, you know, if
you give up or something, blah,blah, blah.
But basically after all hisfunding's done, JP Morgan backs
out, the Hoover Dam's done.
He starts basically like livingin hotels off his brain.
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Like, hey, you know me, like tothe manager, you know, and
they're like, yeah, you know,he's like, put me up in the
suite for a month.
And he's like up there.
JP Morgan's tab.
And then like the month comesand they're like, yo, dude, you
got to pay.
And he's like, no, I'm good.
You know who I am.
You know, like we're straight.
And they're like, no, hey, like.
So then he like basically getskicked out of a hotel and goes
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to another hotel.
Same thing.
Like he never, like he justdoesn't have a fortune.
He has all these patents.
But, like, no money, no, like,just basically hotel bouncing,
getting kicked out, kicked out,kicked out.
Now, what era are we talkingabout here?
Is this, like, are we...
This is when he's older.
This is, like, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
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I mean, this is 1920s is whenthat, like, is, like, kicked
out.
And so you got to think aroundthat time, like, having spent
most of his money on theseinventions, he lived in a series
of New York hotels, leavingbehind unpaid bills, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So in this time, you were like,oh, Tesla married a pigeon.
Well, okay.
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Thanks for exposing me to theinternet.
He definitely had sexualrelations with a pigeon.
I don't think he fucked thispigeon.
He had a romantic relationship,and he wrote about it.
But they were talking about howhe would often be seen- I can't
believe you would put me onblast like that.
He would often be seen going toNew York parks feeding the
pigeons.
Yeah.
And then he found this injuredpigeon- and brought it back to
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one of these hotels that he washotel hopping in.
Which, could you imagine alreadybeing on shady terms with the
hotel?
You're already two monthsbehind, and they haven't kicked
you out.
They know you've been kicked outof two other hotels.
But also, I'm bringing a pigeon.
You're sneaking in this pigeon.
Is he magicianing it, putting itin an inside coat pocket?
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Is he keistering this pigeon?
Right.
You know what I mean?
No, and for whatever reason, youmight be able to look up the
actual location about the pigeonthat we're referencing,
because...
I don't know that it was in ahotel.
It was in a hotel.
In my head, for some reason, Iremember him being in a tower or
in a tall building.
I don't know why I'm thinking hestayed in a lighthouse for a
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while.
Did he not live in a lighthousefor a while?
No.
Okay, but anyways, he nursesthis pigeon back to health and
writes about it in his...
He has a journal that was lateracquired by...
federal agents, I believe, ifI'm not mistaken, which we're
going to get to, right?
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The what?
We're going to get to...
Some of his other ideas?
Lock in, Tommy.
No, we're going to...
No, like I was saying, he wroteabout this pigeon that he nursed
back to health in his journal.
Yeah, in his journal.
He did write about the pigeon.
And he related, he said, I'venever been more attached to a
living thing even more than mymother.
Yeah, he loved that pigeon.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Fully, yeah.
Love that pigeon, but I don'tthink he had sexual relations
with that pigeon.
It was romantic to say theleast.
Yes.
So he romanticizes this pigeonin his journals.
Right.
Which go into the tough boxes orthe lockers or whatever you
called it earlier, the tote.
Well, so basically when Tesladies alone in his hotel room and
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people find him, then the FBIand the alien affairs people
come in.
Yeah.
And, like, take everything.
Yeah, take everything.
Everything.
Some people say that he had apatent for, like, a death ray,
which some people say, like,fully exists.
Oh, is there anything about thatin here?
I want to know.
Can you just Command-F deathray?
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Oh, damn.
I was going to say do it in theWikipedia.
We did talk about this.
Tesla's death ray or theteleforce was a hypothetical
weapon...
concept based on particle beamtechnology he envisioned it as a
defensive weapon capable ofshooting down airplanes and
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destroying any approaching forcehe basically described it as
like a wireless great wall ofchina it's not like you could
turn it on and basically it's aan energy force field yeah it's
an iron dome before the irondome yeah Essentially, that's
what he's thinking in his head,which is just another testament
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to how fucking ahead of his timehe was.
He came up with a bladelessturbine?
Just by air suction, maybe, orsomething.
Bladeless turbine during 1910 to1911 at the Waterside Power
Station.
Oh, he did it with water?
I guess.
I guess.
Turbine engines were tested at100 to 5,000 RPMs.
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Tesla worked with severalcompanies, including from 1919
to 1922, Milwaukee, AliceChalmers, Tesla licensed the
prototype.
It doesn't really say what itis.
Right.
It found its form in luxuryspeedometers and other
instruments.
Okay.
Okay.
Pop off, daddy.
So then there's that conspiracytheory about the Trumps?
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Yeah, so we also talked aboutthat pre-show.
So like Don Trump, which is likeDonald Trump's grandfather, I
think.
Like Donald Trump the president.
I think it's his grandfather,Don Trump.
There's a conspiracy theorysaying it's true that Don Trump
acquired some of Tesla's some ofTesla's materials after he was
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pronounced deceased.
From those...
Trunks.
or whatever you call it, thetrunks or the chest.
I can't remember what you calledit.
Basically where all thisinformation would have been
held.
Yeah, they were just like hislittle dressers or whatever.
Anyway, so Trump gets one.
John, I thought it was Don, it'sJohn.
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John G.
Trump to determine if any of thebelongings in the investor's
estate, which included purportedweapons of mass destruction
Tesla called the Death Ray,would be dangerous if they fell
into enemy hands.
Right, and then basically he waslike, no.
No, there's no risk at all righthere, right?
And he's like, actually, can Ibuy some of this stuff?
Yeah.
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And so they sell him some of thestuff.
And then people believe thatthere was, like, a time machine
that Tesla had came up with.
Oh, yeah.
Now you're down my alley.
And, like, don't some peoplebelieve that, like, Barron Trump
is, like, this dude's...
John Trump?
Yeah, or something...
I don't know.
I do know that Barron Trump istall as shit.
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He's like 6'3".
No, but yeah, I think there'ssomething out there about
like...
And you'd have to do a dive onGoogle, and I'm sure maybe...
I don't read into that stuff,but yeah, there's something with
the time machine and the Trumpsinvolved, yes.
But the fact of the matter is,Homeboy got his hands on Tesla's
trunks with the knowledge andthe workbooks and all that
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stuff.
Some of this stuff, it's crazy.
He became a millionaire.
Why does it still not exist incertain aspects?
This wireless lighting thing.
Or like trying to crack freepower.
Like how some people have seen,like, have you seen those like
theories on like how thepyramids go down into the earth
and how basically they're justessentially like Tesla coils to
a degree?
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Yeah.
So they found that with likeadvanced LIDAR technology from
space.
And I forget, they've done nodigging yet, but there is proof
that there are these giantcolumns.
It's speculation that they'repower related or, But they could
also, there's been theoriesflown around about them being
stairwells, spiral stairwellsthat go down into a further den
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or whatever.
There's all kinds of crazyconcepts.
But the fact is that they'rethere.
Yeah.
Which is insane because they golike 200 meters into the earth.
Right.
Which is insane.
It's like 800 feet or something.
But yeah, I don't know, dude.
Do you think he invented a timemachine?
I don't know about that, but,like, this, this, the movie I
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watched, The Prestige, wasbasically talking about, like,
it was, like, a joke that, like,Tesla had made, like, a cloning
machine or, like, a, like, aparticle moving, like,
teleportation moving thing.
But, like, you know, there's allkinds of, like, conspiracy
theories behind, like, Tesla andwhat he invented, what he knew,
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what You could tell me he made atime machine and I would believe
it because he was just thatintelligent.
You know what I mean?
He was wicked smart.
To be able to figure outfrequencies to the point to
where you can turn a light bulbon from 25 miles away, let alone
200.
200 light bulbs?
Yeah.
Not just one, but 200.
Yeah, like just crazy.
Wirelessly.
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But they were talking about likesome of those experiments like
he had to do in Colorado Springswhere like nobody was around at
all.
Just so like...
Didn't freak anybody out.
Nor, like, I mean, how are yougoing to tell the health
benefit, like, health risk of...
Yeah, whatever's flying throughthe air towards this light bulb
in the 1800s.
People are like, that'switchcraft.
You know what I mean?
Right.
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I have cancer now.
Like, oh, fuck.
Right.
Yeah, that'd be absolutelyterrifying.
I don't know, dude.
So we definitely talked aboutthe pigeon, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What are some things that Teslainvented that we still use
today?
Well, AC current, which we canthank him for.
The Hoover Dam.
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The Hoover Dam, which werecently sold to Brazil or
whoever.
I don't fucking remember.
Panama.
Yeah, we sold it back to Panama.
That was the Panama Canal.
Oh, is that not the same thing?
Oh, Hoover Dam's in America.
You're right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm retarded.
But then, like, I mean, like,you could say, like, the Tesla
card's like an ode to him.
in a way.
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Like, he has several inventionsthat, like, that turbine stuff,
like, I mean, RC, remotecontrol, anything.
Yeah.
Yeah, just to be able to controlsomething.
Radio, like, 5G.
Like, essentially, I assume...
Cell phones in general, yeah.
Yeah, cell phones.
Just tower communications ingeneral.
It's wild that, like, we use allthese things every day and we're
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just like, hmm, yeah, whatever.
We don't even think about it.
We just forget about, you know,whatever.
We're, like, entitled to it.
We just buy a light bulb for adollar and screw it in and not
even think that Edison wentthrough, like, 3,000 different
renditions before he got to...
I don't know why YouTube's notfucking loading so I can show
you one of these Tesla coilsthat's on Homeboy's apps with a
light bulb.
While you're waiting onYouTube...
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to respond.
Did Tesla have children?
No.
He didn't have any kids.
He was a bachelor and nochildren.
Yeah, like his whole life.
Wow.
Man, even Elon can find time tosqueeze a couple out.
You know what I mean?
But Elon, I think, views it asleaving on a legacy.
A part of my genetics will goon.
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Yeah, and the more kids youhave, the more it spreads.
Other than his training kid.
What is spreading?
Don't say it like that.
His trainee son's dick spreadinto a new pussy.
Shout out to Elon.
I love you.
You made it sound like adisease.
You're like, yeah, the more kidshe has, the more it spreads.
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I don't know about that.
Jesus Christ.
I'm pro Elon spreading.
Yeah, I'm a big fan, dude.
He's a genius.
I don't know, dude.
Maybe try Google.
Try Google Chrome for YouTube.
Do you think that maybe...
What were you going to show me?
This is not going to be on thescreen recording, but yeah.
Oh, dadgummit.
It's like something's wrongwith...
(35:39):
Oh, is our Wi-Fi down?
Sheesh.
I don't know.
It says it's up and running.
Dadgummit.
Well, I guess we're not going towatch this video.
I encourage people to look itup.
It's pretty cool to see the...
I wonder if we could do Teslacoil lighting bulbs.
(36:04):
Let me see this bad boy.
Essentially, people take thesebulbs and remotely wirelessly
light them.
See, there's the Tesla coil andthese aren't touching.
Somebody's holding them in theirhand.
same thing as like kind of likethat where they're holding see
the light bulb kind of close tothe one that everybody used to
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play with as a toy but thenthese one people are taking it
like this they're taking likeglass like beakers or glass
cylinders and they're lightinglike bulbs What was that science
experiment we all did as a kid?
Like, see this lady?
She made a Tesla coil, and then,like, she's holding the ball boy
out here.
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Yeah, what is that experiment weall did in grade school where
you take the potato, you puttoothpicks in it, and then you,
like...
I don't know about that, but youcan do it to, like, if you took,
like, Gatorade and, like, anorange, and you plugged a phone
charger into the orange.
The, like, the, um...
Electrolytes and the acidic ofthe orange have a reaction that
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causes some form of power.
Yeah, you can do the same thingwith a potato, too.
Maybe potatoes and vodka?
I think it's the starch thatcarries the current, and then...
Tesla dropped a potato in hisvodka.
Yeah, and then he was like,fuck, I figured out free power.
Hell yeah.
Dude, Tesla...
He's like, have I buriedpotatoes here?
Now, if you think...
(37:31):
Okay, so...
There's got to be a funcontemporary question in here.
Because we're going to do theserandom deep dives.
Do you think the death ray is alegit thing?
There's conspiracy theories thatthey've seen it been used.
No, the military has one now.
And I don't know that it'selectronically fed.
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I know it shoots down missiles.
I don't know if it has enoughpower to kill a human being.
But it's like a big satellitedish.
You can Google it.
Military, wireless...
electronic ray gun, somethinglike that.
I think it's like a ray gun.
But essentially, there's noprojectile.
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What it is is energy, and it'san energy weapon, and it will
shoot down missiles.
It will blow up buildings.
Yeah, a directed energy weapon.
Yeah, a direct energy weapon, aDW, often dubbed Death Rays.
um is it is ongoing but i'veseen it on there's tons of
youtube videos you can look themup they'll like shoot down like
(38:35):
a like a propeller drone you seechina's new drone things uh the
one dropping mosquitoes no notdropping the mosquitoes but the
ones that hover in the sky andthen they drop their missiles oh
fuck yeah i've seen a swarm orsomething i've seen the mother
drone that drops like hundredsof little drones yeah that's
fucking terrifying wow JesusChrist.
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Imagine if Tesla was around now.
That's what I was going to say.
Like, what would be a funthought to have about Tesla
alive today?
Could you imagine, like, thembuilding, like, a Tesla bot?
Like, loaded, like, Trump'sgrandpa.
Like, Barron Trump finds thesefiles, uploads it to, like, AI,
and just starts pumping out newinventions, right?
(39:16):
Yeah.
Based on these old schematicsand all of Tesla's, like,
teachings and, like, all theinformation on them.
Yeah.
Dude.
Could you imagine, like...
tesla's around and like somebodyinvents the cell phone and
tesla's like could have beendone this way yeah i could have
embedded that in your forearmright like i like they're like
oh look we got the iron dome andit's this one thing that reads
(39:37):
the rocket coming in that relaysa message to another one that
shoots a rocket that then tracksthe missile and tesla's like
could have just been an energywave like you know it Could have
just been a force field.
Yeah, you could have just throwna billion frequencies.
Dude, if Tesla was alive, wewould have those suits from
Dune.
Where, like, stuff...
Like, if I shot a bullet at you,it would, like, stop the bullet.
(39:59):
And you could, like, grab it andmove it.
But, like, if I were to stab youwith a knife, the knife would go
through because it moves slowenough.
What the fuck?
But it would be, like, a forcefield of, like...
That's fucking terrifying.
But yeah, I think that's a funthought experiment.
What would Tesla thinkimmediately if he was alive
today and he saw ChatGPT?
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I think he would just comeimmediately.
Think about what he could createwith ChatGPT.
Or microphones.
I just think about energywasted.
How much less energy would bewasted with...
Like in this energy crisis era.
I think he would have figuredout the solar panels by now.
(40:42):
He would have made them go fromlike, what is it, 13%
efficiency?
They're higher now, but yeah.
Yeah, 20% efficient.
He would have made it like 100%efficient.
I think how efficient are solarpanels?
I think it's like 23% now.
Yeah, it's 15% to 22%.
Which is still crazy low.
For commercially availablepanels.
But that's not recreational.
(41:03):
Recreational panels are muchlower than that.
Right, but they got prototypesup to 45%, but still.
Dude, if he was in that game,100% in a week.
He would have it in a week, andthen he would have a pigeon.
like fucking deliver it to yourhouse yeah and it would be they
would be pigeons yeah exactlyTesla invented pigeons dude
low-key pigeons are Teslainventions have you seen that
(41:25):
where pigeons are fake yeah theyrecharge on the power lines I
believe it I believe it Teslainventions maybe Tesla created
the pigeon yep jury's out Ithink so.
Jury's out, dude.
Tune in next week for, no, I'mjoking.
Yeah, that's why I think weended there.
(41:45):
Tesla invented the pigeon.
Where are we at?
God made man, man made Tesla,Tesla made the pigeon.
And now birds aren't real.
Um, I don't know.
It's a fun, fun little deep diveon, we probably could have done
better.
We'll have it.
We'll have it.
We'll get this little formatdown.
Cause we want to do, we do wantto get back to these, right?
Yeah.
(42:06):
We want to go back.
Yeah.
I think it's a good time.
We get to talk some shit, uh,and learn some factual things
off of the interweb.
Semi-factual.
Yeah.
Semi-factual.
Uh, I don't, we can't prove hecreated pigeons.
Um, can't prove it, but alsocannot disprove it.
Um, Final wrap-up thoughts onNikola or Nikolai Tesla.
(42:29):
Dope.
Can't wait to meet him.
I think I...
I think Tesla and I are related,and I'll just leave it on that.
Dude, they got that batteriesplace I drive by on the way
home, and they got, like, Teslapainted on the side.
Like, batteries plus orsomething.
Hell, yeah, dude.
They're on Morgan.
Fire.
They got, like, the dope outsidestructure.
(42:50):
Yeah, they're sick, dude.
They're sick.
Shout-out to them, dude.
Short of that...
Thanks for tuning in.
Let us know what you think aboutthese.
And if you got anything oranybody we should look into for
one of these.
Oh, and if you have some obscureTesla facts or knowledge, drop
it in the comments.
Short of that, thank you guysfor tuning in.
Thrilling episode of Days Grimm.
I'm Brian Day.
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I'm Thomas Grimm.
Peace out, homes.
Hope you learned
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