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Ep.226 The Electrifying Truth About Nikola Tesla: Genius, Madman, or Pigeon Lover?

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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, hello everyone. And welcome. Welcome to another thrilling episode 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 few weeks ago where we did it was just us, right? Like we did it as like a throwback. Yeah, it was nice. Let's take it back to July and AI. Yeah, it was really, really enjoyable. And then like kind of along the same lines, AI came out with this new thing called Notebook. And we were like exploring like how you can load in sources and do like deep dives. And we were like, what are we doing? We went back to just us, but maybe some topic-based episodes. Agreed, brother. One of my favorite things is just how we started the podcast. It's like bettering yourself every day. Yeah, but not only that. Today's topic, for instance, Nikolai Tesla. Is it Nikolai or Nikola? Nikola Tesla, but everybody... I don't know. Nikola Tesla. So then the only reason this came up is because I watched that movie The Prestige that I told you about a while back of these two magicians and they're going back and forth, right? But then... in it you know have you watched it yet it sounds fucking sick but in it um in it there's nikola nikola tesla's in like the movie or whatever and it's got nice like he's in there as a part of like the story and i was like yeah not the real right so then i started going off on like a side tangent of like trying to learn more about tesla okay and now here we are today yeah Basically. Yeah, so today we're going to talk a little bit about Nikola, or Nikolai Tesla, born 1856, died January 1943. And he was born in Croatia, so basically one of those Russian annexes. The Serbs, which is strange. The USSR annexes, not Russia. Yeah, because it's weird that he wound up being kind of nerdy and into science and stuff the way that he was, because typically the Serbs, they're just like a fighting... They just kill people really well and efficiently. And for him to just be like a science 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 up that like, well, at a young age, he was known for being able to do 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 a question. He'd do the entire equation, like, the three-page problem in his head and then give them the answer. And they're like, there's no way. Have you taken physics ever? Yeah. It's rough. Yeah. But then, like, they were also saying that, like, you know, if he were to come up with a design in his head, right? So, say, like, he was going to come up with, like... I mean, he eventually comes up with the Tesla coil, but like say he comes up with these things in his head and then he like builds them in his head and he runs these like trials on them. And then, like, in his head, he comes back, like, six hours later, and he's like, oh, yeah, like, I could see how this, like, wheel would, like, cause this other wheel to tear down over time. Let's replace it with something. It's wild to have that amount of, like, mental, like, not real proprioception. Like, he can just, like, close his eyes and see a complex piece of machinery from, like, start to finish. Like, how the cogs turn and where the wiring is and what wiring does what. Right. It's like Tony Stark. designing with jarvis and exploding everything out and like going in but in his head are we allowed to google things during these episodes can you google is there will you google is there was tony stark's based on nikola tesla because they have an odd amount of similarities because literally like you just said tony stark that character in the comic books is a lot like that like he just had it like he could fabricate things and see them so here ai is I don't know. Is that what I should read? Yeah, that's what... Okay. So the inspiration for Tony Stark character in the Marvel Universe has been a blend of real world figures and the creativity of multiple individuals. The individuals are Howard Hughes, Elon Musk. It is worth noting that while some sources highlight similar... similarities between Tony Stark and Nikola Tesla's genius and work in technology, Tesla was not a direct inspiration cited by the creators. Howard Hughes was the primary driver for the creation of Tony Stark, so I don't know who Howard Hughes is, but shout out to that guy. Damn, but that's funny you say that, because I kind of low-key always thought that Tony Stark was a character built off of Tesla. Right, but basically, so Tesla goes 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 of backstory before he comes to America. Backstory is he's Serbian. He had an older brother. And his older brother died in a horse riding incident where he fell off the horse and the horse trampled him. Like right in front of him when he was a kid. And his brother was like an exceptional student. Like A plus student. Probably smarter than him. Yeah. Like crazy smart. So then... like tesla grows up all this stuff and then like when he goes to college he like starts like he's like oh i got i'm smart yeah so he's like i'm gonna gamble against these other people because i'm smart tesla because i can count cards dude tesla had a huge gambling addiction did he really yeah and like he like gambled away all his school money oh and then now he comes home and he's like mom I'm poor. Mom. I'm out of ramen. 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 any vodka. Like, I don't even have potatoes, and I have no vodka, Mom. Yeah, you need one to have the other. 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, like, she can scrounge up. And he gambles it away. Oh. If he's so goddamn smart, you know what I mean? He was on a heater, dog. He was up. You never walk away from a heater. Right. So then he's kind of ashamed to go home because that was his mom's little bit of money and everything like that. Is this how he winds up in America? So he starts working for Edison Company. who thomas edison had founded but had it all like made its way over to europe where tesla was going to university and everything like that yeah and if i'm not mistaken i think thomas edison was kind of a cunt so if i remember right so like he goes to work for edison he goes to work for edison and then edison over here in like europe is like yo we got this dude that's like Bussing. Yeah, he's bussing. So Thomas Edison was like, let's get him to the States. Yeah, get him over here, daddy. So he came to the States in June of 1884. Was Thomas Edison alive in 1884? Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah. Wasn't Thomas Edison also part of, like, the 1776 revolution, dude? I don't know. Thomas Edison's company, which was the Thomas Edison Electric 1931. God damn, that dude was 213 years old when he died. 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 have been, like, in his 40s around this time. Oh, okay. sick dude nice so anyways he goes to work for edison as right finds out we got this whiz kid so then you were like well you thought ben franklin had beef with tesla and then we found out benjamin franklin was long dead yeah long long long dead before tesla but thomas edison fair enough and tesla had beef mainly because they differed in power like the way power was delivered to people So like AC versus DC currency. Yeah. Yeah, current. It's direct current and alternating 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 and safer to push power longer. Basically with DC, like your power would go one way... And it took a lot to force it that way. Also, fun note, just because I've worked around heavy electric in previous jobs when I was in college, just a fun note about AC versus DC. The reason why alternating current is so much more dangerous than direct current is because direct current is a certain amount of amperage constantly flowing to that, let's say, an outlet. And then you can plug something in and it'll work. But it's a constant flow. alternating current is more dangerous because it'll like it shoots the same amount of amperage but then shuts it off and then shoots the same amount of amperage and shuts it off so like when you get shocked by AC it like vibrates you and that's why you can't let go with DC normally you're supposed to like if it's a possible live wire you're supposed to touch it with the back of your hand Because that instinct, because then you can't close on the wire. Yeah, alternating current is what makes you close. Right. Yeah, whereas DC will just blow your fucking hand off. But like, so then Edison goes on this crazy campaign of like. 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, Edison helped invent the electric chair. I think he had a hand in Bell Phone Company as well, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know, but he had a hand in a lot. Basically, he was trying to show the public, like you were talking about, AC current is dangerous. Yeah, it is. But it's more efficient. Right. And if you're going to light in New York City, where they're at with power. You want efficiency. Right. Yeah. But he was literally parading cows through the town and then electrocuting them with AC current at the end. Are you shitting me? Edison flew in an elephant and executed 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 film called Electrocuting an Elephant. Jesus. Black and white. silent, actually shot, how do you say that? Depicting. Depicting the killing of an elephant 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? 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're having this beef, right? I guess, like, there's a little prelude that I missed out on in this little trick here. Prelude. So, like, right before Edison starts parading elephants to their execution in the streets of New York City, right? Starting an elephant holocaust. They have their falling out, and J.P. Morgan actually backs Edison. Or not backs Edison, backs Tesla. And that was the game changer. So Tesla is making AC current, and J.P. Morgan's like, hey, let's do this electrical whatever. We're with you. Right. And J.P. Morgan being one of the primary financial powerhouses in America. So then Edison goes on this tour of like, let's try to paint AC bad, DC good. Let's start schwacking elephants in the streets. Right. And then on top of that, let's invent an electric chair, because even killing an elephant's not enough. We've got to kill people first. And do it effectively and efficiently. But also, isn't it low-key like an argument against Edison that he's out here like showing people how gnarly and how efficient this power is? It's like, dude... Maybe you should have found a way to promote DC and not demote AC. What did they do with this elephant 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 this whole AC versus DC power, and then the World Fair comes to New York. Or Chicago. One of the two, right? Was it... One of the two, but there's like a big bid war going on between Edison Company and this Tesla Company. It was Chicago in the 1800s, I'm pretty sure. World Fair was 1800s in Chicago. So then Edison made his bid, the Tesla Company made their bid, Tesla Company won, and they lit up this entire fair with AC current, and then from then on, basically, AC took the... And Edison had to perpetually suck Tesla's dick. Yeah, and this elephant died for no reason. Damn it, Topsy. This was the Harambe of the 1900s. Yeah, of the late 1800s, early 1900s. So then on top of that, right, Tesla has all these other crazy designs. Well, we go back to how we first started. So how we started the show and we started talking about how Edison, blah, Tesla had this crazy brain that he could like, he was so good at math and mechanics, he could see a machine just, Right....to fruition in his brain before anything is ever pieced together. So then, yeah, he goes on this terror of just... Well, so, like, he invents this, like, this, like, just new range of stuff. So, like, Tesla, they say he invented the x-ray before the x-ray was invented because he took this photo of his own foot that was basically an x-ray, but he called it something else, and it was, like, a slightly different process.

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Ooh. But basically he did like the groundwork, like the very first like one ever. But then he also was one of the first people to do like remote controlled stuff. So like he made a remote controlled boat, RC frequencies. Yeah. Cause Tesla was the first person to crack frequencies. So like JP Morgan and some other company, they're doing like a competition to see who can broadcast like a signal from the United States to Europe. Tower to tower. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're, like, in this competition, and J.P. Morgan starts, like, pumping money into Tesla to design this and get it going. Tesla's like, I got you. And he's just building remote-controlled boats instead. Yeah, he's doing, like, building remote-controlled boats, and then he builds, like... Have you ever seen this? Have you ever seen the Wardenclyffe Tower? Have you seen this? Yeah. Could you imagine... Hold on. Imagine that you work for J.P. Morgan. You're, like, a fucking billionaire in the 1800s, and you're like, hey, man... Have you figured out how to send a 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 fucking RC speedboat. Could you fucking imagine the look on J.P. Morgan's face, dude? Isn't it even funnier if he had an 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 a separate tab here. What did Tesla sound like? Did he ever get... audio recorded? He had to have if he died in the 30s. 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 of Nikola Tesla's actual voice. That's a real bummer. So sad. There's a clip that claims that Well, when video and audio recording was just getting popular, like in the early 1900s, I think that was about the time that he fell in love with that pigeon, which we'll get 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, you know. 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. It's dope, but also... Right. Back to what we were fucking doing. So Tesla buys this, like, land in, like, Long Island, right? And he starts building this giant 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 the same time where his side project of Tesla coils starts taking off. And, my God, what a mess that was. Jeez, I mean, sick, right? Super sick. And he's putting on these light shows where he's got these two Tesla coils that are basically zapping lightning above people's heads in like a room full of people. Yeah. And not worried about anyone's well-being. Like, hey, are you wearing rubber shoes? Take all your keys out of your pocket. You know what I mean? Those massive brass keys you get back in there. You also have to wear a rubber swimming cap to attend this event. Also think about all the radiation levels that those people just got fucking. You ever sat in a microwave for a 45-minute experience with no AC, just AC current? Everybody has skin cancer now. You have AC? Yeah, I got AC current. You go back in time. Can you imagine going in a time machine, which some people think Tesla did make? Yeah. Could you imagine going back in time and being like, y'all, you guys don't have AC? And they're like, no, Nikola Tesla, just AC current. Yeah, they just let the world fit. And you're like, no. No, no, no, but for real though, do you have cold air? Do you guys have conditioned air? Oh, we got this bike rigged up to these fucking fans. Then Tesla comes in and he's like, no, but look at my super sick towers. I went on like a, there's like people that make these like in their, this is a homemade Tesla coil, like in their fucking dorm room. But people are taking these they mentioned it in like one of these articles that I clicked out of here that like he made these like beads they're like a glass tubes almost like a light bulb but not a light bulb and you can touch it to the Tesla coil and it like that energy is in there and it makes like a cool little design whoa I've never seen that I have seen the coils with like the glass bulb over it you can touch it and then it will like the lightning comes to your right those are pretty sick But yeah, I think it's safe to say, how deep are we right now? We're 20 minutes deep, and I think that it's safe to say that Nikola Tesla is actually a fucking sociopath. What do you think? I mean, it's crazy to think about how ahead of his time he was. Yeah, because this is in the same era... That we were fighting each other over slavery with muskets. You know what I mean? It's crazy to think that that's when this was happening. Well, when did the Wright brothers take off? In the 1800s. Right, but there wasn't like a... He had to take a boat over here, right? Yeah, he would have taken a steam engine to America. Crazy. Wild. And he's over here just fucking making Tesla coils. it's just fucking zapping shit and like dude there there was like talks about where like with remotely without wires was able to light light bulbs over like 30 miles away did you did you hear about that i don't know about that i thought there had to be wiring to light a light bulb wireless communication devices was like a thing that he had came up with but um Tesla wirelessly... He's lighting a light bulb miles away with no wiring. It says, yes, Nikola Tesla did demonstrate the wireless lighting of light bulbs. He achieved this using his invention, the Tesla coil, which generates high-frequency alternating currents... Yada, yada, yada. It basically generates an electrical field. And he shoots it in that direction, and then it hits that light bulb, and that light bulb is built to accept the energy and turn it into power. Right, but there was one where he remotely lit bulbs from crazy far away. That's wild. I do want to know more about, out of pure curiosity, because we're going to skip past all his inventions eventually. He lit 200 light bulbs from 25 miles away. Colorado Springs. Holy shit. And think about, well, like, my crazy thing is, so, like, then, like, basically, J.P. Morgan abandons him after, you know, he invests all his money in Tesla's, like, making side projects and all this stuff. And that Wardenclyffe Tower. Remote-controlled boats. Yeah, that Wardenclyffe Tower never gets finished. I thought it did. No. No. It didn't. It gets shut down and never gets finished because he was too busy focusing. He was going to turn the whole building, if you looked at the Wardenclyffe Tower, he was going to turn the whole building into basically like a giant Tesla coil. And Tesla was working on delivering, basically via the Tesla coil, he was thinking you could get free power, free electrical power from the earth and transmit it wirelessly everywhere. Okay, so then I'm not understanding how the... tesla coil works then because i thought you had to feed power into it is that not the case to a degree but then you can pull power from like the earth if you put rods down and and stuff is like the his was tesla's thinking on it okay so then because like so then also it was never proven right okay but then they so but then you got to think like jp morgan big money guy yeah Tesla wanting to create free electricity and JP Morgan's basically paying him to transmit a radio signal and Tesla's working on cracking free energy. Also, I love how we're talking about JP Morgan like that's one person. We're like, yeah, this JP Morgan guy. Back then it was. No, I think JP is multiple people. I don't know. I think back then it was one person. JP. Everybody called him JP on the streets. Yeah, all JP. Yeah, but he backs out. So then, but also at the same time, Tesla built the Hoover Dam, was involved in the design and harnessing the power of the Hoover Dam. He's got several like quotes talking about like, you know, if you give up or something, blah, blah, blah. But basically after all his funding's done, JP Morgan backs out, the Hoover Dam's done. He starts basically like living in hotels off his brain. Like, hey, you know me, like to the 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 comes and 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 gets kicked out of a hotel and goes to another hotel. Same thing. Like he never, like he just doesn'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 talking about here? Is this, like, are we... This is when he's older. This is, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, this is 1920s is when that, like, is, like, kicked out. And so you got to think around that time, like, having spent most of his money on these inventions, he lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills, right? Yeah. Yeah. So in this time, you were like, oh, Tesla married a pigeon. Well, okay. Thanks for exposing me to the internet. He definitely had sexual relations with a pigeon. I don't think he fucked this pigeon. He had a romantic relationship, and he wrote about it. But they were talking about how he would often be seen- I can't believe you would put me on blast like that. He would often be seen going to New York parks feeding the pigeons. Yeah. And then he found this injured pigeon- and brought it back to one of these hotels that he was hotel hopping in. Which, could you imagine already being on shady terms with the hotel? You're already two months behind, and they haven't kicked you out. They know you've been kicked out of two other hotels. But also, I'm bringing a pigeon. You're sneaking in this pigeon. Is he magicianing it, putting it in an inside coat pocket? Is he keistering this pigeon? Right. You know what I mean? No, and for whatever reason, you might be able to look up the actual location about the pigeon that we're referencing, because... I don't know that it was in a hotel. It was in a hotel. In my head, for some reason, I remember him being in a tower or in a tall building. I don't know why I'm thinking he stayed in a lighthouse for a while. Did he not live in a lighthouse for a while? No. Okay, but anyways, he nurses this pigeon back to health and writes about it in his... He has a journal that was later acquired by... federal agents, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, which we're going to get to, right? 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 wrote about 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've never been more attached to a living thing even more than my mother. Yeah, he loved that pigeon. Yeah. Yeah. Fully, yeah. Love that pigeon, but I don't think he had sexual relations with that pigeon. It was romantic to say the least. Yes. So he romanticizes this pigeon in his journals. Right. Which go into the tough boxes or the lockers or whatever you called it earlier, the tote. Well, so basically when Tesla dies alone in his hotel room and people find him, then the FBI and the alien affairs people come in. Yeah. And, like, take everything. Yeah, take everything. Everything. Some people say that he had a patent for, like, a death ray, which some people say, like, fully exists. Oh, is there anything about that in here? I want to know. Can you just Command-F death ray? Oh, damn. I was going to say do it in the Wikipedia. We did talk about this. Tesla's death ray or the teleforce was a hypothetical weapon... concept based on particle beam technology he envisioned it as a defensive weapon capable of shooting down airplanes and destroying any approaching force he basically described it as like a wireless great wall of china it's not like you could turn it on and basically it's a an energy force field yeah it's an iron dome before the iron dome yeah Essentially, that's what he's thinking in his head, which is just another testament to how fucking ahead of his time he was. He came up with a bladeless turbine? Just by air suction, maybe, or something. Bladeless turbine during 1910 to 1911 at the Waterside Power Station. Oh, he did it with water? I guess. I guess. Turbine engines were tested at 100 to 5,000 RPMs. Tesla worked with several companies, including from 1919 to 1922, Milwaukee, Alice Chalmers, Tesla licensed the prototype. It doesn't really say what it is. Right. It found its form in luxury speedometers and other instruments. Okay. Okay. Pop off, daddy. So then there's that conspiracy theory about the Trumps? Yeah, so we also talked about that pre-show. So like Don Trump, which is like Donald Trump's grandfather, I think. Like Donald Trump the president. I think it's his grandfather, Don Trump. There's a conspiracy theory saying it's true that Don Trump acquired some of Tesla's some of Tesla's materials after he was pronounced deceased. From those... Trunks. or whatever you call it, the trunks or the chest. I can't remember what you called it. Basically where all this information would have been held. Yeah, they were just like his little dressers or whatever. Anyway, so Trump gets one. John, I thought it was Don, it's John. John G. Trump to determine if any of the belongings in the investor's estate, which included purported weapons of mass destruction Tesla called the Death Ray, would be dangerous if they fell into enemy hands. Right, and then basically he was like, no. No, there's no risk at all right here, right? And he's like, actually, can I buy some of this stuff? Yeah. And so they sell him some of the stuff. And then people believe that there was, like, a time machine that Tesla had came up with. Oh, yeah. Now you're down my alley. And, like, don't some people believe that, like, Barron Trump is, like, this dude's... John Trump? Yeah, or something... I don't know. I do know that Barron Trump is tall as shit. He's like 6'3". No, but yeah, I think there's something out there about like... And you'd have to do a dive on Google, and I'm sure maybe... I don't read into that stuff, but yeah, there's something with the time machine and the Trumps involved, yes. But the fact of the matter is, Homeboy got his hands on Tesla's trunks with the knowledge and the workbooks and all that stuff. Some of this stuff, it's crazy. He became a millionaire. Why does it still not exist in certain aspects? This wireless lighting thing. Or like trying to crack free power. Like how some people have seen, like, have you seen those like theories on like how the pyramids go down into the earth and how basically they're just essentially like Tesla coils to a degree? Yeah. So they found that with like advanced LIDAR technology from space. And I forget, they've done no digging yet, but there is proof that there are these giant columns. It's speculation that they're power related or, But they could also, there's been theories flown around about them being stairwells, spiral stairwells that go down into a further den or whatever. There's all kinds of crazy concepts. But the fact is that they're there. Yeah. Which is insane because they go like 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 time machine? I don't know about that, but, like, this, this, the movie I watched, The Prestige, was basically talking about, like, it was, like, a joke that, like, Tesla had made, like, a cloning machine or, like, a, like, a particle moving, like, teleportation moving thing. But, like, you know, there's all kinds of, like, conspiracy theories behind, like, Tesla and what he invented, what he knew, what You could tell me he made a time machine and I would believe it because he was just that intelligent. You know what I mean? He was wicked smart. To be able to figure out frequencies to the point to where you can turn a light bulb on from 25 miles away, let alone 200. 200 light bulbs? Yeah. Not just one, but 200. Yeah, like just crazy. Wirelessly. But they were talking about like some of those experiments like he had to do in Colorado Springs where like nobody was around at all. Just so like... Didn't freak anybody out. Nor, like, I mean, how are you going to tell the health benefit, like, health risk of... Yeah, whatever's flying through the air towards this light bulb in the 1800s. People are like, that's witchcraft. You know what I mean? Right. I have cancer now. Like, oh, fuck. Right. Yeah, that'd be absolutely terrifying. I don't know, dude. So we definitely talked about the pigeon, right? Yeah. Yeah. What are some things that Tesla invented that we still use today? Well, AC current, which we can thank him for. The Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam, which we recently 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. Like, he has several inventions that, like, that turbine stuff, like, I mean, RC, remote control, anything. Yeah. Yeah, just to be able to control something. Radio, like, 5G. Like, essentially, I assume... Cell phones in general, yeah. Yeah, cell phones. Just tower communications in general. It's wild that, like, we use all these things every day and we're 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 a dollar and screw it in and not even think that Edison went through, like, 3,000 different renditions before he got to... I don't know why YouTube's not fucking loading so I can show you one of these Tesla coils that's on Homeboy's apps with a light bulb. While you're waiting on YouTube... to respond. Did Tesla have children? No. He didn't have any kids. He was a bachelor and no children. Yeah, like his whole life. Wow. Man, even Elon can find time to squeeze a couple out. You know what I mean? But Elon, I think, views it as leaving on a legacy. A part of my genetics will go on. Yeah, and the more kids you have, the more it spreads. Other than his training kid. What is spreading? Don't say it like that. His trainee son's dick spread into a new pussy. Shout out to Elon. I love you. You made it sound like a disease. You're like, yeah, the more kids he has, the more it spreads. 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 the screen recording, but yeah. Oh, dadgummit. It's like something's wrong with... 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 to watch this video. I encourage people to look it up. It's pretty cool to see the... I wonder if we could do Tesla coil lighting bulbs. Let me see this bad boy. Essentially, people take these bulbs and remotely wirelessly light them. See, there's the Tesla coil and these aren't touching. Somebody's holding them in their hand. same thing as like kind of like that where they're holding see the light bulb kind of close to the one that everybody used to play with as a toy but then these one people are taking it like this they're taking like glass like beakers or glass cylinders and they're lighting like 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. Yeah, what is that experiment we all did in grade school where you take the potato, you put toothpicks in it, and then you, like... I don't know about that, but you can do it to, like, if you took, like, Gatorade and, like, an orange, and you plugged a phone charger into the orange. The, like, the, um... Electrolytes and the acidic of the orange have a reaction that causes some form of power. Yeah, you can do the same thing with a potato, too. Maybe potatoes and vodka? I think it's the starch that carries the current, and then... Tesla dropped a potato in his vodka. Yeah, and then he was like, fuck, I figured out free power. Hell yeah. Dude, Tesla... He's like, have I buried potatoes here? Now, if you think... Okay, so... There's got to be a fun contemporary question in here. Because we're going to do these random deep dives. Do you think the death ray is a legit thing? There's conspiracy theories that they've seen it been used. No, the military has one now. And I don't know that it's electronically fed. I know it shoots down missiles. I don't know if it has enough power to kill a human being. But it's like a big satellite dish. You can Google it. Military, wireless... electronic ray gun, something like that. I think it's like a ray gun. But essentially, there's no projectile. What it is is energy, and it's an energy weapon, and it will shoot down missiles. It will blow up buildings. Yeah, a directed energy weapon. Yeah, a direct energy weapon, a DW, often dubbed Death Rays. um is it is ongoing but i've seen it on there's tons of youtube videos you can look them up they'll like shoot down like a like a propeller drone you see china's new drone things uh the one dropping mosquitoes no not dropping the mosquitoes but the ones that hover in the sky and then they drop their missiles oh fuck yeah i've seen a swarm or something i've seen the mother drone that drops like hundreds of little drones yeah that's fucking terrifying wow Jesus Christ. Imagine if Tesla was around now. That's what I was going to say. Like, what would be a fun thought to have about Tesla alive today? Could you imagine, like, them building, like, a Tesla bot? Like, loaded, like, Trump's grandpa. Like, Barron Trump finds these files, uploads it to, like, AI, and just starts pumping out new inventions, right? Yeah. Based on these old schematics and all of Tesla's, like, teachings and, like, all the information on them. Yeah. Dude. Could you imagine, like... tesla's around and like somebody invents the cell phone and tesla's like could have been done this way yeah i could have embedded that in your forearm right like i like they're like oh look we got the iron dome and it's this one thing that reads the rocket coming in that relays a message to another one that shoots a rocket that then tracks the missile and tesla's like could have just been an energy wave like you know it Could have just been a force field. Yeah, you could have just thrown a billion frequencies. Dude, if Tesla was alive, we would have those suits from Dune. Where, like, stuff... Like, if I shot a bullet at you, it would, like, stop the bullet. And you could, like, grab it and move it. But, like, if I were to stab you with a knife, the knife would go through because it moves slow enough. What the fuck? But it would be, like, a force field of, like... That's fucking terrifying. But yeah, I think that's a fun thought experiment. What would Tesla think immediately if he was alive today and he saw ChatGPT? I think he would just come immediately. Think about what he could create with ChatGPT. Or microphones. I just think about energy wasted. How much less energy would be wasted with... Like in this energy crisis era. I think he would have figured out the solar panels by now. He would have made them go from like, 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 solar panels? I think it's like 23% now. Yeah, it's 15% to 22%. Which is still crazy low. For commercially available panels. But that's not recreational. Recreational panels are much lower than that. Right, but they got prototypes up to 45%, but still. Dude, if he was in that game, 100% in a week. He would have it in a week, and then he would have a pigeon. like fucking deliver it to your house yeah and it would be they would be pigeons yeah exactly Tesla invented pigeons dude low-key pigeons are Tesla inventions have you seen that where pigeons are fake yeah they recharge on the power lines I believe it I believe it Tesla inventions maybe Tesla created the pigeon yep jury's out I think so. Jury's out, dude. Tune in next week for, no, I'm joking. Yeah, that's why I think we ended there. 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 dive on, we probably could have done better. We'll have it. We'll have it. We'll get this little format down. Cause we want to do, we do want to get back to these, right? Yeah. 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 he created pigeons. Um, can't prove it, but also cannot disprove it. Um, Final wrap-up thoughts on Nikola or Nikolai Tesla. 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 batteries place I drive by on the way home, and they got, like, Tesla painted on the side. Like, batteries plus or something. Hell, yeah, dude. They're on Morgan. Fire. They got, like, the dope outside structure. 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 about these. And if you got anything or anybody we should look into for one of these. Oh, and if you have some obscure Tesla facts or knowledge, drop it in the comments. Short of that, thank you guys for tuning in. Thrilling episode of Days Grimm. I'm Brian Day. I'm Thomas Grimm. Peace out, homes. Hope you learned

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