1
00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I really want to get that bass

2
00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,360
Speaker 1: going in your voice. Give me some of that some bass. Yeah,

3
00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,879
Speaker 1: give me the good stuff you want, like a deep voice.

4
00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:11,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I want you to switch like you want

5
00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,240
Speaker 1: me to like talk like Oh my god, that's beautiful.

6
00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:15,960
Speaker 1: So can you do the whole podcast like this? And

7
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,280
Speaker 1: I'll just do it like this? Oh okay, yeah sure,

8
00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,320
Speaker 1: HELLI everybody, how are you doing today? Hey everyone, I'm

9
00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,680
Speaker 1: so glad you joined us for Ridiculous Romance. That's my

10
00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,240
Speaker 1: Randy Savage snap into a slim germ my choice, a

11
00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,200
Speaker 1: ridiculous robots. Oh my god, when did Randy Savage get here?

12
00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean when did Randy Savage get here?

13
00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,600
Speaker 1: Thank you? No, don't go away. We're not going to

14
00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,800
Speaker 1: do the whole episode like that. Yeah no, I can't

15
00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,920
Speaker 1: even if I want to do. Hey everyone, I'm Diana

16
00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,479
Speaker 1: and I'm Eli. Welcome back to the show. Yeah, another

17
00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,920
Speaker 1: exciting episode today. We're here today to talk about Nicola

18
00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,960
Speaker 1: Tesla and his brief romance with a pigeon. Tesla is

19
00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,520
Speaker 1: a very complicated guy. He's got a huge story. He

20
00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,240
Speaker 1: invented a billion things. He is brilliant and mysterious and

21
00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,440
Speaker 1: weird and you could probably do episodes on him for

22
00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,600
Speaker 1: another hundred years if you wanted to, but obviously we

23
00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,080
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. That is not what this

24
00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,360
Speaker 1: podcast is about. Instead, we're just going to talk about

25
00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,600
Speaker 1: the man in his love life or lack thereof more accurately.

26
00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,080
Speaker 1: That's true, and there's certainly a lot to say, So

27
00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,479
Speaker 1: let's zap do it. Hey there, French, come listen. Well,

28
00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,319
Speaker 1: Elia and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking,

29
00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,920
Speaker 1: a romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationship. I love

30
00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,240
Speaker 1: there might be any type of person at all and

31
00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,959
Speaker 1: abstract consent our concrete wall. But if there's a story,

32
00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,840
Speaker 1: were the second glance ridiculous role that a production of

33
00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:53,120
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. So Nicola Tesla is everyone's favorite Serbian

34
00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,600
Speaker 1: American inventor. He's an electrical engineer and a middle part enthusiast.

35
00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,920
Speaker 1: If you've seen this trend, his whole life just split

36
00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,640
Speaker 1: right down the middle straight line. So take that, Millennials,

37
00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,880
Speaker 1: even my hair. He was ahead of his time, and

38
00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,120
Speaker 1: he also changed the way that we think about electricity,

39
00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,920
Speaker 1: or thought about it at the time and probably still

40
00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,880
Speaker 1: think about it today. And then he cloned Hugh Jackman

41
00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,640
Speaker 1: for the purposes of the greatest magic trick of all time.

42
00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,440
Speaker 1: Eli loves the prestige. Who doesn't love the prestige? Honestly,

43
00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,799
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, I'll say it. It might

44
00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,640
Speaker 1: be Nolan's best movie. I know, I'm brave enough to

45
00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,400
Speaker 1: say it might be. Tesla said that he wanted to

46
00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,919
Speaker 1: illuminate the whole earth. He said, there's enough electricity to

47
00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,120
Speaker 1: become a second son. Light would appear around the equator

48
00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,800
Speaker 1: as a ring around Saturn. He really was dedicated to

49
00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,400
Speaker 1: bringing light and electricity and power to the whole world

50
00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,280
Speaker 1: and improving everyone's life with it. But love eluded Tesla

51
00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,760
Speaker 1: throughout his whole life. Basically, he never really settled down

52
00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,200
Speaker 1: with a partner. Um. He was tall and handsome, and

53
00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,520
Speaker 1: he was very smart, obviously brilliant mind. Um. He was

54
00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,280
Speaker 1: also spiritual. He was shy, well educated guy. He was

55
00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,280
Speaker 1: well dressed, even though his clothes were cheap. Style more

56
00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,320
Speaker 1: important than fashion to be. I don't know, you look

57
00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,040
Speaker 1: at the pictures back then, and inexpensive clothing just looked

58
00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,800
Speaker 1: pretty damn nice. I know, right. I think people just

59
00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,000
Speaker 1: knew fabrics better than we do now. You know what,

60
00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean, because they'd be like um linen, like a

61
00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,200
Speaker 1: rich man wears wool or whatever whatever. But look, everything

62
00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,560
Speaker 1: about Tesla is shrouded in mystery, even to this day.

63
00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,600
Speaker 1: Once he said he was constantly spending time with women

64
00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,360
Speaker 1: and he had to stop seeing them at all because

65
00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,480
Speaker 1: he couldn't concentrate. It was keeping him from his work.

66
00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,920
Speaker 1: But then in another interview he said he never touched

67
00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,680
Speaker 1: a woman. Some people say his voice was high pitched

68
00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,760
Speaker 1: and shrill, but other people specifically describe it as being

69
00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,360
Speaker 1: very low and soft and intimidating. Some people said he

70
00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,440
Speaker 1: had a heavy accent, other people said he didn't have

71
00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,200
Speaker 1: an accent at all. There aren't any known recordings of

72
00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,680
Speaker 1: his voice, although they are believed to exist, So if

73
00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,960
Speaker 1: anybody ever finds one, let us know. If you're sitting

74
00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,720
Speaker 1: on a recording of Tesla's voice out there, Email Romance

75
00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:12,320
Speaker 1: and iHeart media dot com first one reason, like a

76
00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,640
Speaker 1: museum or something, I want it first. Even his eyes,

77
00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,400
Speaker 1: people said they were gray or black, and sometimes they

78
00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,440
Speaker 1: said they were blue or green. Everything about this guy

79
00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,039
Speaker 1: is just an enigma ramped in an enigma. So let's

80
00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,200
Speaker 1: talk about the man himself. Let's just before we get

81
00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,279
Speaker 1: into his romance or whatever you want to call his

82
00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,280
Speaker 1: love life. Let's just learn a little bit about him

83
00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,560
Speaker 1: so we can have some context about where he came

84
00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,400
Speaker 1: from and what he was all about. Right. He was

85
00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,560
Speaker 1: born in eighteen fifty six on July tenth, allegedly at

86
00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,599
Speaker 1: the stroke of midnight, just as a lightning bolt struck

87
00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:50,359
Speaker 1: during a summer storm. Yeah, that's quite a coincidence. Hey,

88
00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,240
Speaker 1: you know, prove me wrong, is what I would say

89
00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,200
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna start telling people. I was born under

90
00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,080
Speaker 1: a triple rainbow. Lightning was shooting out of the ground,

91
00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,640
Speaker 1: and then like a two headed horse watch uh huh,

92
00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:08,880
Speaker 1: and said, baby, I've never seen such a good baby.

93
00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,760
Speaker 1: But Tesla was born, at least as far as we know,

94
00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,280
Speaker 1: under the stroke of a lightning bolt. And the midwife

95
00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,000
Speaker 1: said he'll be a child of the storm, and his

96
00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,320
Speaker 1: mother said, no, of light. They were both right in

97
00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,320
Speaker 1: a way. He was the fourth of five children. He

98
00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,440
Speaker 1: had three sisters, but his older brother died in a

99
00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,800
Speaker 1: horse riding accident when Nicola was only five, so it's

100
00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,480
Speaker 1: mostly just him and his sisters. His father's a priest

101
00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,640
Speaker 1: um and his mother was especially gifted at making homecraft

102
00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,400
Speaker 1: tools and mechanical appliances. She could also memorize epic poems

103
00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,480
Speaker 1: and Serbian so Tesla credited her with his idetic memory,

104
00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,120
Speaker 1: which is kind of like a photographic memory. This guy

105
00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,560
Speaker 1: was a genius a mathematician. I mean he could do

106
00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,720
Speaker 1: integral calculus in his head. I can't even add two

107
00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,520
Speaker 1: numbers in my head. That just like, wow, we've all

108
00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,080
Speaker 1: got different talents. I'm gifted in other ways. He had

109
00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,279
Speaker 1: this physics professor who demonstrated electricity in class, and Tesla's

110
00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,279
Speaker 1: you know, a little brain just lit up. Big brain,

111
00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,080
Speaker 1: I guess little brain. The teeny little brain got all

112
00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,600
Speaker 1: a flutter brain, I guess. Now he was obsessed with

113
00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,599
Speaker 1: electricity all of a sudden. He was like, that's the

114
00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,320
Speaker 1: ship for me. I'm into it. And he really wanted

115
00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,839
Speaker 1: to go and be, you know, an electrical engineer, but

116
00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,120
Speaker 1: his father wanted him to enter the priesthood like him.

117
00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,360
Speaker 1: So at some point Tesla got really sick with cholera

118
00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,280
Speaker 1: when he was seventeen. He was really sick for like

119
00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,039
Speaker 1: nine months. He was in bed and there was a

120
00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,599
Speaker 1: few times where they thought he was going to die.

121
00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:47,200
Speaker 1: And his father said, look, he said, look, Nikola, if

122
00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,880
Speaker 1: you just pulled through this and come out alive. For

123
00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,800
Speaker 1: me on the other side, I send you the best

124
00:06:52,920 --> 00:07:01,320
Speaker 1: engineering school that is he goes. He promised, yes, I

125
00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:07,360
Speaker 1: think so, I feel great. Now let's do it. Got

126
00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:14,320
Speaker 1: me again? Color, So he goes to the best engineering school. Um,

127
00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:19,520
Speaker 1: he got a military scholarship to Austrian Polytech and the

128
00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,400
Speaker 1: first year he never missed a lecture. He passed nine exams,

129
00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,440
Speaker 1: which was double the necessary amount. So he's a real overachiever.

130
00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,960
Speaker 1: He's ruining the curve for everybody else. Yeah, there's other

131
00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,880
Speaker 1: kids in class like barely passing, Like fucking Tesla. Tesla.

132
00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,280
Speaker 1: Fucking Tesla is a refrain that probably throughout the next

133
00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,680
Speaker 1: sixty years or so. A lot of people said that.

134
00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,440
Speaker 1: But he was kind of a workaholic. He worked way

135
00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,640
Speaker 1: too hard. He would get up at three am and

136
00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,400
Speaker 1: work until eleven pm. So his professors wrote letters to

137
00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,880
Speaker 1: his father being like, listen, if this kid isn't pulled

138
00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,280
Speaker 1: out of school, he is going to kill himself from working.

139
00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,040
Speaker 1: Like he's just to die from overworking. It turns out

140
00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,680
Speaker 1: they were right, because he worked so hard that he

141
00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,400
Speaker 1: actually started slipping. His grade started slipping, he started missing exams.

142
00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,120
Speaker 1: I was kind of like, you know what, this is

143
00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,320
Speaker 1: a Hermione Granger with the time Turner situation where she

144
00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,440
Speaker 1: was like, I can take three extra classes. No you can't, Hermione,

145
00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,520
Speaker 1: there are only twenty four hours in a day. So

146
00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,080
Speaker 1: he ended up losing his scholarship. Um, he had to

147
00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,160
Speaker 1: turn to gambling to pay for school. But weirdly, gambling

148
00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,040
Speaker 1: not super solid way of making money. I guess it's

149
00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,560
Speaker 1: not very predictable, not reliable. He ended up losing a

150
00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,360
Speaker 1: lot of money and he had to drop out of school.

151
00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,600
Speaker 1: Unless I will say this about gambling, and we've talked

152
00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,440
Speaker 1: about this before. If you've got let's say we have

153
00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,840
Speaker 1: let's say somebody just gives us, right, all we have

154
00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,480
Speaker 1: to do is go in and put that full fifty

155
00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:51,280
Speaker 1: thousand on red, and then we double our earnings. This

156
00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,520
Speaker 1: is why I don't people don't seem to understand about gambling. Um,

157
00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,440
Speaker 1: what if it lands on black? No, no no, no, you

158
00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,959
Speaker 1: don't do that. You put it on red, but then

159
00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,240
Speaker 1: it lands on black. No no, no, you're with that attitude,

160
00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,679
Speaker 1: We're never gonna win. Y'all are basically on a trip

161
00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,880
Speaker 1: with us to Vegas right now. Because this is the

162
00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,760
Speaker 1: entire conversation if we ever go to Vegas with him

163
00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,840
Speaker 1: being like, we'll pay for the whole trip with one

164
00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,959
Speaker 1: one lucky roll, and I'm like, it's not I'd rather

165
00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,360
Speaker 1: bird in hand from a pigeon in hand is worth

166
00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,920
Speaker 1: two in bush to me. Look, it's not about getting lucky,

167
00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,600
Speaker 1: it's about putting it on the right color. Oh my god,

168
00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,600
Speaker 1: but this I can't. I can't with you. We're just

169
00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,839
Speaker 1: not going to gamble, Okay, moving on. You can have

170
00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,640
Speaker 1: ten of our fifty dollars to gamble with and no more.

171
00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,240
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. That's you should not give me that

172
00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:47,760
Speaker 1: much money to gamble with. I said ten dollars. Oh no, no,

173
00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,040
Speaker 1: no dollars. Well that's not nearly enough. I'm going to

174
00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:53,680
Speaker 1: come back with twenty and be like, what do I

175
00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,440
Speaker 1: do now? Whatever you want? Enjoy? All right? So? Yeah,

176
00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,440
Speaker 1: so you lost all of his money in gambling. Yeah,

177
00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,360
Speaker 1: he didn't put it on red. I guess he put

178
00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:02,959
Speaker 1: it on black and he lost it all he did.

179
00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,120
Speaker 1: I will say that he made it back. He did

180
00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,960
Speaker 1: gamble it back his losses and returned that money to

181
00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,319
Speaker 1: his family, so at least he broke even. But it

182
00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:11,959
Speaker 1: did not pay out for school. The way he thought

183
00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,520
Speaker 1: he was. He did say he conquered his gambling addiction

184
00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,360
Speaker 1: by going back and winning what he lost and stopping.

185
00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,520
Speaker 1: So you know, well, good for him. Stopping is the

186
00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,040
Speaker 1: hard part. Yeah. So he hid from his family out

187
00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,200
Speaker 1: of shame from dropping out of school and probably didn't

188
00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:27,920
Speaker 1: want to hear his dad being like, well, don't worry,

189
00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,440
Speaker 1: you can still be a priest, right. Um. They actually

190
00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,959
Speaker 1: thought he drowned, but he was actually working as a

191
00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,960
Speaker 1: draftsman in another town, and he was eventually forced back

192
00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,600
Speaker 1: home for not having a residency permit, so he wasn't

193
00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,760
Speaker 1: able to stay there. He audited classes in Prague and

194
00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,760
Speaker 1: eventually went to work for Tivodar. Puskas, who's the guy

195
00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:52,200
Speaker 1: who invented the telephone exchange. So, yes, Labretta, I'd like

196
00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,959
Speaker 1: to reach Mond please one moment like connected to Klondike.

197
00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:07,400
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh uh, give me the too fish. Yeah,

198
00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:14,920
Speaker 1: you don't want to call him accidentally operator address when

199
00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,240
Speaker 1: the Jets just called me for an address? Does it

200
00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,840
Speaker 1: work like that? So anyway, he's working for Tivodar and

201
00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,040
Speaker 1: he quickly becomes their chief electrician. In two Puskas got

202
00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,559
Speaker 1: him a job with the Continental Edison company in Paris,

203
00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,680
Speaker 1: and he was a star employee there. He's making everybody

204
00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,800
Speaker 1: who all his brilliant mind and all his you know,

205
00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,640
Speaker 1: creative ideas to fix all these problems. He's just he's

206
00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,280
Speaker 1: just fixing problems left right. Oh, our generator is doing

207
00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,400
Speaker 1: such and such. Oh, well, that's because it's sucked up.

208
00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,599
Speaker 1: It's not right. I'm smarter than you think, and you

209
00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:48,480
Speaker 1: go fix it. They're all amazed by it. And then

210
00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,920
Speaker 1: when his manager moved to New York City to work

211
00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,920
Speaker 1: at the Edison branch there, he wrote back and said, hey, uh,

212
00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 1: send me Tesla. I want that guy with me here

213
00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,880
Speaker 1: in New York. So Tesla grabs his bags, hops on

214
00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,360
Speaker 1: a boat, and sails to the U s of A.

215
00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,000
Speaker 1: But in the process, his ticket, his money, and a

216
00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,800
Speaker 1: lot of his luggage were all fucking stolen, and he

217
00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,760
Speaker 1: managed to work it out and got on board. But

218
00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,839
Speaker 1: then halfway through the trip a mutiny broke out on

219
00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,560
Speaker 1: the ship and he was almost thrown overboard because he

220
00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,040
Speaker 1: helped the captains to do the mutiny. And so it

221
00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,280
Speaker 1: was a bunch of chaos, I mean, kind of a

222
00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,000
Speaker 1: rough start, maybe a bad omen for how things are

223
00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,320
Speaker 1: gonna go. Do you think he was like, I don't

224
00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,560
Speaker 1: really care about the politics of this mutiny. I'm just

225
00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,960
Speaker 1: trying to get to New York. I got a job waiting.

226
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,600
Speaker 1: He was taking me to New Yorkviously, y'all want y'all

227
00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,160
Speaker 1: want to read by candle light for the rest of

228
00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,920
Speaker 1: your lives, because that's gonna happen if I don't get there.

229
00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,840
Speaker 1: So he gets to Manhattan and all he's got on

230
00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,160
Speaker 1: him is four cents in his pocket. He's got a

231
00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,480
Speaker 1: book of his own poems, and he's got a letter

232
00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,679
Speaker 1: of commendation to Thomas Edison from his manager saying hire

233
00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,800
Speaker 1: this guy. And of course Tessl's like Tom Edison, boy,

234
00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:07,559
Speaker 1: I sure can't wait to meet Thomas Edison. Probably a

235
00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,400
Speaker 1: great guy in all respects. I foresee nothing but the

236
00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,720
Speaker 1: best relationship with me and Thomas Edison. Narrator it was not.

237
00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,920
Speaker 1: He works now at Edison's Machine Works in Manhattan, and

238
00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,520
Speaker 1: same deal. He's just fixing problems left and right. It's

239
00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,000
Speaker 1: likely that he only met Edison a few times himself,

240
00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,320
Speaker 1: but there was one time that he stayed up all

241
00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,240
Speaker 1: night repairing damaged generators, and in the morning he like

242
00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,720
Speaker 1: bumps into his manager and Thomas Edison and Edison made

243
00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,520
Speaker 1: some joke about this Parisian they brought in spending all

244
00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,959
Speaker 1: night like partying, because I guess he looked kind of

245
00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,440
Speaker 1: rumpled from working all night. Classic Edison. You know, he's like, oh,

246
00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,600
Speaker 1: this this guy you brought up? What is Thomas Edison

247
00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:56,480
Speaker 1: sound like he's he's probably got a real chetty voice, right, Yeah,

248
00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,880
Speaker 1: definitely this guy and bron are from from Paris. Boy

249
00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,560
Speaker 1: is just out all night partying, isn't he? But Tesla

250
00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:06,800
Speaker 1: was like, no, man, I actually stayed up super late

251
00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,720
Speaker 1: to fix all your ship. Medisine says, well, in that case,

252
00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,240
Speaker 1: you're damn good man, damn good man, glad to have

253
00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,600
Speaker 1: your board. What were you doing last night? Edison? Probably

254
00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:20,960
Speaker 1: drinking and drinking and sleeping like a true CEO Edison.

255
00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,800
Speaker 1: By the way, Thomas Edison this week's villain of the week.

256
00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:30,280
Speaker 1: Edison soaked. So Tesla recommends to Edison that he should

257
00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,440
Speaker 1: have a total redesign of his Dynamos, which are DC generators. Yeah,

258
00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,960
Speaker 1: I remember that Edison is all about DC direct current

259
00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,440
Speaker 1: and Tesla's whole thing is a C alternating current. But

260
00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,440
Speaker 1: Tesla has this way to redesign these DC generators and

261
00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,360
Speaker 1: Edison says, that's that's that's pretty interesting. All Tesla there,

262
00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:49,800
Speaker 1: why don't you show me what you got and if

263
00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:55,640
Speaker 1: you can do it, I'll give you fifty thousand dollars, which, uh,

264
00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,520
Speaker 1: let me just check real quick here, So fifty thousand

265
00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:05,440
Speaker 1: dollars in before is one point four million dollars. Well

266
00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,800
Speaker 1: what with that incentive? Tesla totally figured it out and

267
00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,840
Speaker 1: came up with a better design and presents it to Edison,

268
00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:18,600
Speaker 1: and Edison says, oh, oh, Tesla, hey, you know what,

269
00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,240
Speaker 1: you just don't understand our American sense of humor was

270
00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,720
Speaker 1: a total joke. Like you didn't take that seriously, did you?

271
00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,400
Speaker 1: Oh that's cute. No, I'm not giving you fifty dollars

272
00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,120
Speaker 1: for this. He's like, don't I pay you a salary already?

273
00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,200
Speaker 1: Like you did that on company time, So no, I'm

274
00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,240
Speaker 1: not giving you any money. What a bitch. So Tesla

275
00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,400
Speaker 1: is like, well, I mean, you know again, he's fixing everything.

276
00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,680
Speaker 1: He's probably a star employee. So he's like, well, okay,

277
00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,600
Speaker 1: how about just a raise, a normal raise from like

278
00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,920
Speaker 1: a ship wage to a good wage in Edison, of course, hell, no,

279
00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,280
Speaker 1: you get what you get. You should be happy you

280
00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,280
Speaker 1: have a job like some of that ship. So Tesla

281
00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,560
Speaker 1: turned on his heel and walked the suck out and

282
00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,160
Speaker 1: quit that job, which you should do too if you're

283
00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:08,280
Speaker 1: negative raise now. Inventricity dot Com does say that this

284
00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,040
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest mistakes of Edison's life, and

285
00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,880
Speaker 1: the same was almost true of Tesla. Might have done

286
00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,360
Speaker 1: different things had he stayed there. He certainly would have

287
00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,560
Speaker 1: had the financial backing could do whatever you wanted, which

288
00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,960
Speaker 1: was gonna be his main trouble throughout his life was

289
00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,480
Speaker 1: going to be the money that he needed to do

290
00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,080
Speaker 1: ship with. But money was coming in. Some fancy investors

291
00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,320
Speaker 1: showed up. They said, hey, we'd love to pay for

292
00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,920
Speaker 1: you to develop an improved ARC lighting system. Arc lighting

293
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,240
Speaker 1: was what they were using to run street lamps at

294
00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,160
Speaker 1: the time, so they said, hey, Tesla, will give you

295
00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,560
Speaker 1: the cash to start the Tesla Electric Light Company and

296
00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,760
Speaker 1: then you can invent whatever we need to change the

297
00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,520
Speaker 1: country and it's gonna be great. And he was like, sure, definitely,

298
00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,880
Speaker 1: this is everything I needed. So he did, and he

299
00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,680
Speaker 1: starts cranking out the patents and put together an improved

300
00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,960
Speaker 1: DC generator and he built and installed this whole lighting

301
00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,400
Speaker 1: system in Rahway New Jersey, and Tesla's like, hell, yeah,

302
00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. This is the ship. He assigned all

303
00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,560
Speaker 1: the patents into the name of the company in exchange

304
00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,640
Speaker 1: for stock, and so once it got up and running,

305
00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:14,399
Speaker 1: the investors were like, well, uh yeah, we're going to

306
00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,320
Speaker 1: take all this work you did and we're going to

307
00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,440
Speaker 1: start up a new utility company. We're going to ditch

308
00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,280
Speaker 1: the manufacturing side of things. We're going to force you

309
00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:26,560
Speaker 1: out by and all Testa is left with is nothing

310
00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,480
Speaker 1: except a bunch of stock in a company that has

311
00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,240
Speaker 1: now been rendered worthless. He said of the time, my

312
00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,240
Speaker 1: high education in various branches of science, mechanics, and literature

313
00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,119
Speaker 1: seemed to me like a mockery, which it would to

314
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,000
Speaker 1: me too. I'd be like, what the funk am I

315
00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,520
Speaker 1: doing all this ship for? People? Just keep stepping all

316
00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,960
Speaker 1: over me, right right. For the next year, he was

317
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,800
Speaker 1: taking odd job repairs, and he was digging ditches for

318
00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:59,160
Speaker 1: two dollars a day, which is, look, I can consult

319
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,520
Speaker 1: dollars and twenty eight cents. So on an eight hour day,

320
00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,080
Speaker 1: fifty six bucks is about seven dollars an hour, which

321
00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:13,040
Speaker 1: is you look at the federal minimum wage, it's pretty

322
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,879
Speaker 1: goddamn close to that. Yeah, great, how things have changed.

323
00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,199
Speaker 1: So if you're working a minimum wage job, just know

324
00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,040
Speaker 1: that Nikola Tesla made the same amount of money digging

325
00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:28,320
Speaker 1: ditches in the eighteen eighties as you're making now. And

326
00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,280
Speaker 1: I don't know right a letter to your senator. Fortunately,

327
00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,919
Speaker 1: in seven he met a guy at Western Union and

328
00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,800
Speaker 1: a New York attorney and they were setting up companies.

329
00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,120
Speaker 1: They're promoting inventions and patents for kind of a reasonable cut.

330
00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,240
Speaker 1: They're like, you get half week at half and they

331
00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,960
Speaker 1: helped him set up a laboratory. He starts patenting his

332
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,119
Speaker 1: inventions again, and alternating currents were the talk of the

333
00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,320
Speaker 1: town for the next few years and even started the

334
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,760
Speaker 1: War of Currents propaganda campaign between the three big power companies,

335
00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,520
Speaker 1: which were Edison, Westinghouse, and Thomas Houston. The Chicago World's Fair,

336
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,800
Speaker 1: which took place in had a bidding war over how

337
00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,040
Speaker 1: the fair would be powered, and General Electric bid to

338
00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,040
Speaker 1: electrify the fair for five and fifty four thousand dollars,

339
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,240
Speaker 1: but Westinghouse one because he said he could power the

340
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,119
Speaker 1: fair for only three hundred nine thousand dollars. So you

341
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,160
Speaker 1: could say that in the A. C. D C. War.

342
00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,560
Speaker 1: It was about who could take this dirty deed and

343
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,840
Speaker 1: do it dirt cheap. I suppose that you could say

344
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:37,080
Speaker 1: that Edison probably said you shook me all night long,

345
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 1: just to just to finish up, to wrap up the

346
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,600
Speaker 1: context on who the ship that Tesla went through coming

347
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 1: into America, and all you know, all a rich, broke

348
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 1: successful not I got a job. I don't have a job. Eventually,

349
00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 1: Tesla got a lump some payment of two hundred and

350
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand dollars for his patents from Westinghouse, which is

351
00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 1: a total today of six point nine million dollars. Wait.

352
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 1: So Tesla is a baller, and he's living at the

353
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 1: Astor House in New York City, which was this super

354
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 1: schmancy five story residential building, and he's got famous friends

355
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,399
Speaker 1: and a big, fancy laboratory and everybody loves Nicola Tesla is.

356
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,119
Speaker 1: One of his best friends is Mark Twain. Another is

357
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,719
Speaker 1: this guy Robert Underwood Johnson, who was a writer and

358
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,040
Speaker 1: the editor of the Century magazine. Okay, so now that

359
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,880
Speaker 1: he's comfy and wealthy and getting recognized for his work,

360
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:33,960
Speaker 1: we've got some context. We know who he is and

361
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 1: how he ticks and what he's doing. One might assume

362
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 1: that it's time for Tesla to settle down into some romance,

363
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:47,560
Speaker 1: right No. Now In reporter asked him if he ever married,

364
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 1: and he said I did not. There are two views,

365
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 1: a lot of affection or not at all. The center

366
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 1: serves to rejuvenate human race women for certain people nurtures

367
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 1: and strengthens it's by atality and spirit. Being single does

368
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 1: the same to other people. I chose that second path.

369
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. You know some people that have

370
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 1: said pretty much that they're like, look, some people are

371
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 1: happy in relationships. Some people that's not for them. I

372
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,680
Speaker 1: think women were pretty bummed out by this, though, because

373
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 1: he was super popular with them, because he was super handsome,

374
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 1: and he's fascinating, and he's smart, and he's got money,

375
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: which is always helpful, and he's sort of mysterious and

376
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: kind of weird, and they were like, oh, what if

377
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 1: I were the one to break through? I bet there

378
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 1: was a lot of that. He thought that marriage was great, honestly,

379
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: it just wasn't for him. He said, artists, musicians, and

380
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 1: writers should all get married because they would gain inspiration

381
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: that leads to finer achievement. But inventors had to have

382
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 1: this really intense, dedicated relationship to their work, so they

383
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,880
Speaker 1: didn't have time for a marriage. They would they would

384
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 1: kind of have to give up all of their inventions

385
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 1: if they got married, and he said, it is a

386
00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: pity too. Sometimes we feel so lonely, but said, I

387
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: don't think you can name many great inventions that have

388
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: been made by married men. Oh you know what that

389
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: sound is. It's time for everyone's favorite game show. Was

390
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: this inventor married or was he not married? H Diana,

391
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 1: we're working on it. It's a working title of this

392
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 1: new game show. Diana. You're going to play today, and

393
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: I have six inventors here for you, and I'm going

394
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 1: to ask you whether you think whether you think that

395
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,400
Speaker 1: they were married or not married. Can I just say

396
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: hi to everyone at home? No, we don't have time

397
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: for that, okay. Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the Guttenberg

398
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,919
Speaker 1: printing press, I think he was married. Guttenberg was never married,

399
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: never married. How else could he have possibly done the

400
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,959
Speaker 1: printing press, even though the printing press had already been

401
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: invented by the Chinese, like a lung time before that.

402
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: All right? How about Benjamin Franklin, the man who invented

403
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,959
Speaker 1: the lightning rod and bifocals and all that bullshit. Okay, well,

404
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: I know he did get married. I don't know if

405
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 1: he was married when he invented all that stuff, though

406
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: he was married to Deborah Read, although I will say

407
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: this was a common law marriage because her previous husband

408
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: had runaway to escape creditors to the West Indies and

409
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 1: they never divorced, so they had to do a common

410
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,959
Speaker 1: law arrangement for his for her marriage to Benjamin Franklin

411
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't get prosecuted for bigamy if that

412
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: guy ever showed up again. Yeah, we need to do

413
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 1: an episode on Benjamin Franklin again. Right, all right, Patricia Bath. Now,

414
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: this woman was the first black woman to receive a

415
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: patent for a medical purpose, and she invented laser cataract surgery.

416
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: What do you think laser cataract surgery? Oh, I'm gonna

417
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 1: say she was married, Actually him saying she was married.

418
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: That everyone was married. She was married. She managed to

419
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: do that with no problem. She was married and had children,

420
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: and had children, and she still thought about a laser

421
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: cataract Take that, Tesla, all right. George Washington Carver, who

422
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: created many products from peanuts and sweet potatoes, but not

423
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: peanut butter. That is a common misconception. Oh really yeah,

424
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 1: really revolutionized, especially agricultural farming for poor farmers. Peanut butter,

425
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: not him. Wow, I'm going to say that he was

426
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: not married. He never married. That is true. That is true. Now,

427
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: John Harvey Kellogg, the motherfucker from Kellogg's who invented corn

428
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: flakes to stop people from masturbaiting, and who actually invented

429
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: our current version of peanut butter. Oh really, although peanut

430
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: butter had been invented by the Aztecs like thousand years

431
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: plus earlier, so um, that's really where it came from. Yeah,

432
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: but what do you think Kellogg? Okay, well, who's obsessed

433
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 1: with stopping people from masturbaiting? Seventh Day Adventist? Seventh Day

434
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he was married. He was married, but

435
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: they slept in separate bedrooms and never had biological children

436
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: of their own. They adopted interesting last one, hetty Lamar.

437
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: She she invented an improved traffic stoplight, and she invented

438
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: a frequency hopping spread spectrum that would serve as the

439
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: foundation for bluetooth and WiFi. She was also a famous

440
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: actress and film producer. Do you think she had time

441
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 1: to get married and all that. It's hard because you know,

442
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: women in certain periods of time is pretty hard to

443
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 1: not get married. Right, I'm going to say she wasn't married,

444
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: though she actually was married six times. Maybe she didn't

445
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: have time for she was like, oh, and forget you,

446
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: this isn't I got inventions to worry about. Did I win? Yes,

447
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: you won? You got some right, congratulations, you win our

448
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: grand prize. Uh, you get to invent something while you're married.

449
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: So take that, Tesla, because there were actually many inventors

450
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: and inventions that came out by married men and women

451
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 1: throughout time. He's also really limited in what he's considering, like,

452
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: you know, inventions, inventors and stuff. He probably wasn't thinking

453
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: at all about. China has been inventing ship for thousands

454
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: of years before the West was ever even around, so

455
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure they were getting married at the same time. Well,

456
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: and the lady who invented the dishwasher invented it because

457
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: she was married, fucking tired to do andistions. You know.

458
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: At the same time, he's probably also just fucking sick

459
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: of people asking why aren't you married? Why aren't you married?

460
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: Why aren't you married? And he's just gotta be like, look,

461
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: I work a lot, and I don't feel like it.

462
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: Um it does courtship probably it was the part that

463
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 1: was most time consuming that he was like, even if

464
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: marriage is very comfortable and I don't have to like

465
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: pay attention to her after we're hitched, I don't have

466
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: time to get to the marriage part where you take

467
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: them out and ship, I don't have time. Because he

468
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: had had friends, he had women that he would hang

469
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: out with, and then he would hang out with, but

470
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: he just talked about work the whole time. Um it was,

471
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much the only thing he knew about,

472
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: and it was the only thing he really felt comfortable

473
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: talking about, and he never stopped talking about it. Like

474
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: he said that everybody leaves humanity something behind, and for

475
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people that was kids, and he said

476
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: that was great. A legacy through your children is certainly

477
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: something a lot of people aspired to, and that's important too.

478
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: But my children are my inventions, he said, My only

479
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: wishes to convey a message through them for future centuries.

480
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: And actually he had a lot of respect for women

481
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: to you want to say he was not not married

482
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: because he just didn't like women or something, or thought

483
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: they were you know, waste of time. He actually said

484
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: he thought the suffragette movement would lead to a new

485
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: sex order with a femaleist superior and he thought women

486
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: had not only an intellectual equality to men, but that

487
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: you know, in the future, like further generations would expand

488
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: their mental capacity, and predicted that women would be better

489
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: educated than men one day and that they've only been

490
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: held back from their true potential over the years. He said, quote,

491
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress,

492
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: which turns out to be true. I think at least

493
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: in this country women hold more college degrees than men

494
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: and overall average statistically speaking or whatever, um. And definitely

495
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: true that they were held back from their true potential

496
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: in the past. So not not bad, not a bad

497
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: prediction from la. He also had this idea that women

498
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: were more rational than men, which I mean, I idea nothing.

499
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: He just knew women were more rational than then. He

500
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: asked this famous pianist one day in one of his

501
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: like fancy circles that he would hang out out with.

502
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: He said, why don't you wear diamonds and jewelry. Yeah,

503
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: and she's like, first of all, I played piano, Okay,

504
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: I didn't get a seven million dollar patent on something.

505
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: All right, I don't have a bunch of money to

506
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: be spending on no furs and stuff. But even if

507
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 1: I did, I could think of better ways of spending it.

508
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 1: That blew his mind. Why would I blow money on diamonds.

509
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: If I had money, I'm gonna buy a piece of property. Yeah,

510
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: she wanted to live downtown because she hated the commute

511
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: from the suburbs. And he's like, that's that's so much

512
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: smarter than these idiot men who were just like blowing

513
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: their money on vanity and like jewelry for their wives

514
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: and all this and um for himself. He said, a

515
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: woman is a magnificent being of which I am not worthy.

516
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: But there were some other things going on with this

517
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: mindset that we're a little bit more like what he

518
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: was still a man in the eighteen nineties. No excuse, no,

519
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: but he made this is weird to me, but he

520
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: made a lot of comparisons between humans and bees, and

521
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: he kind of was like, if women take over society,

522
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: they would see men as only useful for reproduction, otherwise

523
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: they'd be totally disposable. And he was like, if they

524
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: keep taking men's jobs, eventually they're going to learn that

525
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: the male in human society is useless, and it would

526
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: bring about the cruelest period of the world's history. Yeah,

527
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: Like he literally thought that women would just start slaughtering men.

528
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: I guess they had babies from them or yeah, like

529
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: your job is done here like drone bees. Yeah, just

530
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: like praying mantiss I guess I don't know. Yeah, I

531
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: don't get it. Personally, I don't see that happening, although

532
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: I guess a lot of women these days are finding

533
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: men to be fairly useless. Maybe he was right about

534
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: it entirely wrong. It's just that I don't know why

535
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: his conclusion was and therefore it'll just be homicide. Right. Well,

536
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: this is where I think you get a little bit limited,

537
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: because you're thinking about how men in history have treated

538
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: women in history. So you're like, if the positions were reversed,

539
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: they would certainly do the same to us that we

540
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: did to them, which is not necessarily true. I don't know.

541
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: I just don't see that being an absolute truth. Yeah,

542
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 1: And in this book, Tesla, the Master of Lightning, The

543
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: author Margaret Cheney says, with an attitude like this, it's

544
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: no surprise that Tesla never married. I mean probably women

545
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: were like, uh he starts talking like that and they're like, okay, um,

546
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go to the bathroom and then climb

547
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: out the window. Okay. He had this Um, he had

548
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: the secretary, he had he had all young, conventionally attractive

549
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: female secretaries. Yeah, but he like also fired a girl

550
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: for being overweight, and he wasn't really happy if they

551
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: didn't dress properly. He was kind of strict about appearance.

552
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: He also thought that there was this ideal form of

553
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: women that is going around at the time. That was

554
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: when Gibson Girl was really big. I think was the

555
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: country when it was like this is how women are

556
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: supposed to wear their hair, what kind of clothes, how

557
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: they should act like. There was like this ideal there's

558
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: also the Gibson Man. So it wasn't just for women.

559
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: There was this idealized version of what you're supposed to

560
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: be based on your gender or whatever. So and sort

561
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: of in the later in the twenties, he had this

562
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: instance where this secretary came in and she had a

563
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: new low waist dress. Right. It was kind of flapper style,

564
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: like she had sown it herself. She was really talented

565
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: seamstress and it was like this real cylindrical long top

566
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: and a and a low waist and a short skirt

567
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: at the bottom. And she walks into work ready to go.

568
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: She was good at her job, and he freezes and

569
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: he's like, whoa, what are you wearing? Uh? He wants

570
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: her to go see a banker that day, and he says, quote,

571
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: how can you be a slave to fashion? Whatever the

572
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: fashion designers say is the style you buy and you wear.

573
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: You're a smart girl, you have good taste. Why did

574
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: you let the sales lady forced a dress like this

575
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: on you? If you were skilled, like my sister who

576
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: sews her own clothing, you wouldn't be wearing that sack.

577
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: Take a car so not many people will see you.

578
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 1: Go to your home and get dressed sensibly and return

579
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: as soon as possible, so you can take this letter

580
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: to the bank. And she must in her head just

581
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: be like I did so this fucking dress, asshole. Okay,

582
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: boomer totally. She's like, also, your middle part is so

583
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: in right now. I mean, you know, he had all

584
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: these young women on his staff, and if they talked

585
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: about getting married, he would tell them like, don't get

586
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: married young, because if you get married young, all men

587
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: are marrying you for is your beauty. Mm, which is

588
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: a little rude too. It's not the worst advice, but

589
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: it's a little yeah. Yeah, So we're gonna take a break.

590
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: We're going to get back into the women who did

591
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: kind of get into Testless Heart right after this. Welcome

592
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: back to the show. And I hope that whatever the

593
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: fashion designers told you should buy and where let's see.

594
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: So where are we? Oh yeah, he's talking ship to

595
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: his secretary about her dress that she made. So anyway,

596
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: Tesla's views on women a bit complicated. But like we said,

597
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: the ladies lined up for this guy. He's again just

598
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: very hot, breaking hearts breaking. It wasn't that he was like,

599
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: you know, a movie star attractive. It was just like

600
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: very unique looking. He was very tall, slender, real accentuated features.

601
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just an intense guy in all respects.

602
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: His intense looking. He was intense when he talked everything

603
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: about it was just like whoa, I'm so the focus

604
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: was just on him. He could not kind of a

605
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: magnetic person, maybe more than super hot. You could say

606
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: he was like an electric person. There was a woman

607
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: named Katherine Johnson, who, by some accounts, was the only

608
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: woman that Tesla ever loved. She was the wife of

609
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: his good friend Robert Underwood Johnson. They exchanged some flirtatious letters.

610
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: I guess that's kind of the only proof that they

611
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: were into each other. Yeah, they had a lot. There's

612
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: a lot of correspondence between the two of them. They

613
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: were very close, and she spoke very favorably of him,

614
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: and was in his hardest times. There was always a

615
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: letter from her to him. She wrote to him from Italy.

616
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: I wish I could have news of you, my ever

617
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: dear and ever silent friend, be it good or bad.

618
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: But if you will not send me a line, then

619
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: send me a thought. It will be received by a

620
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: finely tuned instrument. I don't know why I'm so sad.

621
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: I feel as if everything in life had slipped from me.

622
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: Perhaps I'm too much alone and only need companionship. I

623
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: think I would be happier if I knew something about you,

624
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: You who are unconscious of everything but your work, and

625
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: who have no human needs. This is not what I

626
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: want to say. So I am faithfully yours kJ p S.

627
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: Do you remember the gold dollar that passed between you

628
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: and Robert. I am wearing it this summer as a

629
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: talisman for all of us. She later wrote, I stayed

630
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: at home last Saturday and Sunday waiting for you to come.

631
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: I am tired of waiting for your reply. How strange

632
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: it is that we cannot do without you. So yeah,

633
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: it just sounds like, you know, he didn't write back

634
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: to her a lot. He didn't give her anything. She

635
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: was given him a bunch and not getting much back. Yeah.

636
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: In fact, um, some of these letters were never opened.

637
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: This was very recently, I mean within the last few

638
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 1: years that they went into the Tesla estate and found

639
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: a lot of letters, many of them still sealed. There

640
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: are some that are still sealed right now because no

641
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: one they don't have a dedicated team working on this

642
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: from last I read, So there are just dozens of

643
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: letters that he just was working too hard. He just

644
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: didn't have the time to read them or respond, so

645
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: he just kind of left him. It's like he said,

646
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: courtship too much work. Yeah, yeah, I mean this guy

647
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: worked from from nothing. He just constantly worked I mean

648
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 1: all hours of the day. He saw at one point

649
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: said he would get two hours of sleep at night,

650
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: and he would take little naps during the day, sometimes

651
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: to recharge his battery, but mostly this guy didn't. He

652
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: was the guy was work all day, and I mean

653
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: all day, twenty plus hours. Another woman who tried, I guess,

654
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: tried her best to get with Tesla. One day, He's

655
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: sitting in this Paris cafe and the famous actress Sarah

656
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: Bernhardt walked by and she dropped her handkerchief pretty sly.

657
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: That was the move, right, and that was the move. Yeah,

658
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: through your handkerchief, and he knew it. He stood up,

659
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: he took off his hat, he bent down to pick

660
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: up the handkerchief, and he hands it back to He says, mademoiselle,

661
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: your handkerchief. Oh, thank you so much. I supposed that.

662
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: So anyway, as I was saying about wireless power transmission,

663
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: he totally just sits back down, like the conversation never,

664
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: like it never happened out. Yeah, that's it. Blow to

665
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: the ego for poor Sarah. I mean, he's like, yeah,

666
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: I'll be polite, I'll handed of course, but he knew

667
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: what she was doing and was like, I don't got

668
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: time for that part. But years later he did say,

669
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: I destroyed my sexuality at thirty three because a certain

670
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: French actress kept coming to me, making it impossible for

671
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: me to concentrate. So I guess she kept coming back

672
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: for more. Yeah, and she throw her handkerchief and him

673
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: like every day. Well maybe because a poet friend of

674
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: his in the nineteen twenties later on reminisced about Tesla,

675
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: and he did say that Sarah Bernhardt had given him

676
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: a handkerchief and it was so important to him that

677
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: he never washed it and he just kept it with

678
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: him at all times. He should wash that well. But

679
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: but I think at the point being that there was

680
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: something there, you know, they had some sort of connection.

681
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: She got to him in some way, and she and

682
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: Katherine Johnson, in addition to this other woman named Flora

683
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: Dodge who was the heiress of the Dodge fortune, they

684
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: say that those are the three women who really were

685
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: closest to him. I couldn't find any information about Floria

686
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: Dodge other than that statement, but it seemed like those

687
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: were the three who were really pushing for him early.

688
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, I just imagine these passionate schemes,

689
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: trying to get him to look up from his journal

690
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: attention to them, Like I could dance naked in a

691
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: scarf from the table in front of you and you

692
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: would never notice. I am Sarah burn hot. But in

693
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 1: eight at two thirty in the morning on March thirteenth,

694
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: a fire broke out of his laboratory. Everything was destroyed.

695
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: I mean, the entire first half of his life's work.

696
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: Nothing was insured. All this expensive equipment melted, these floors collapsed,

697
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: and everything just fell in. Just everything ruined and lost.

698
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: That's such a bummer. Speculation station kind of wonder if

699
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: his dad, the priest, was ever like, maybe God wants

700
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 1: you to get married because all your work keeps getting

701
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: totally fucked up by should have been a priest. You

702
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: should have been a priest. You know, my monastery never

703
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: burnt down, No one ever tried to mutiny my ship.

704
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: Yeah right, well possibly, but yeah, he just kind of

705
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: disappeared for a few days. He was very emotional, uh,

706
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: throughout his life. I mean he responded pretty intensely to

707
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: situations too, of course, and this was Yeah, if half

708
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: of my life's work was gone and one fell swoop,

709
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: I think I would probably have to go somewhere for

710
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: a minute to His friends were all desperate to find him.

711
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: Katherine Johnson wrote that he should please come stay with

712
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: them so they could comfort him. You know, he was

713
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: always welcome there. But the New York Sun wrote, quote,

714
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: it is a misfortune to the whole world. The men

715
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: living in this time who are more important to the

716
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: human race than this young gentleman can be counted on

717
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: the fingers of one hand, perhaps on the thumb of

718
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: one hand. Wow. Well, but Tesla, as we've noted, he

719
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: was no stranger too being kicked while he's down. Yeah,

720
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: so he rebuilt. So yeah, he was like Dr Dre

721
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: was up late in the lab with a pen and

722
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: a pad. It was buzzing and zapped with X rays

723
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: and all kinds of complicated turn of the century science

724
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: going on that kept him from spending any time with

725
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: the ladies. Yeah he really. I mean, just again, I'm

726
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: skipping through decades of actual scientific progress here. But if

727
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: just go read even the Wikipedia pagent tests like, you'll

728
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: get confused. I sure dead in learning about you know,

729
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: what he was doing during these times, A lot of

730
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: circuits and lightning. It just were some really cool stuff.

731
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: But we're going to kind of skim through it right now.

732
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 1: But speaking of not spending time with the ladies, it's

733
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: also suggested that it's not really just his work, probably

734
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: a combination of that and the fact that he was

735
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: also a huge germophobe. And this is something that got

736
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: worse and worse throughout his life. He had a really

737
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: difficult time being physically close to people, and like physical

738
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: contact was a big no no. He turns down doctor's

739
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: appointments regularly because he didn't want people touching him. He

740
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: had he later in life. He's he got to a

741
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: point he was having all of his food boiled tasty

742
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: to kill any bacteria that was on it. Yeah, he

743
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: also had a lot of behavior linked to obsessive compulsive disorder.

744
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: He was obsessed with the number three, and it's something

745
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: that we will see come up again. He would shake

746
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: hands with people and then wash his hands immediately in

747
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: sets of three. He had to have eighteen napkins on

748
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: his dinner table divisible by three, and before he would

749
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: enter a building, he had to walk around the building

750
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: three times, which in New York City is like block

751
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: My goodness, I mean, I guess back then it wasn't

752
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: quite so crowded, but still I got to show up

753
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: for every appointment twenty minutes earlier. At least those are

754
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: big buildings. He was also terrified of the site of pearls,

755
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,720
Speaker 1: and he couldn't be near women who were wearing pearls,

756
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: which would have definitely limited his selection of ladies. His

757
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: pearls were incredibly popular, and mostly debs wore pearls. I

758
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, it probably did make it real hard

759
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: to meet a woman if he is like, I can't

760
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: deal with your jewelry. I wonder if that's um tripophobia.

761
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: People are afraid of holes and circular patterns, UM. I

762
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: wonder if it was some version of that. Um. It

763
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: was also I read one place that he was also

764
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: afraid of billiard balls, but he also played a lot

765
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: of billiards, so I don't know if that lines up

766
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: just right. So with all of this, of course, his

767
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: sexuality was questioned even at the time they were There

768
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: was some light questions. There were a few quiet rumors

769
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 1: at the time that he was maybe homosexual, but nothing

770
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: really seemed to take root. Um Today, it's generally agreed

771
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: upon that he was a sexual and a romantic, right,

772
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: which is only I think my limited and understanding has

773
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: only recently really been discussed in in earnest I think

774
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: back then it wasn't really you. Of course, you get married,

775
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: that's what you do, and not everyone does. But that

776
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 1: just means they never found the right girl or something,

777
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: you know, like, whereas now I feel like we're more

778
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: comfortable saying no, you don't. Some people don't do well

779
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: with a partner, some people don't want that. Yeah, I

780
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: think that's the A and l G B t Q

781
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: I A. I think the A is a sexual incident,

782
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: and you can be a romantic a sexual, which is

783
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: a person who is totally fine with signs of affection

784
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: like kissing, hugging, and cuddling, but like sex is just

785
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: not not really a thing, right. But men did find

786
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: his appearance striking, though again it must be said that

787
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: at the time, male platonic relationships were more affectionate than

788
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: we think of them today. They were a little more

789
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: comfortable complimenting each other or things like that, having a

790
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: real bromance. Yeah, come on, guys, get it together, tell

791
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: each other you're handsome. I just don't have any handsome friends.

792
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. All my friends are beautiful. You have

793
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: a lot of handsome friends. This journalist wrote about him

794
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: being tall, with straight, intensely black hair, and his eyes

795
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: were blue and deeply set, like burning balls of fire.

796
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: He said, those weird flashes of light he makes with

797
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: his instruments seemed to almost shoot from his eyes when

798
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 1: he talks. You listen, you do not know what he's saying,

799
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: but he enthralls you. And that is definitely a person

800
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: who would be attractive to a lot of people. Yeah, definitely,

801
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, I'm attracted to you and I

802
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: never know what you're talking about. But not because it's

803
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: super smart. No, it's just rambling usually because it's a

804
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: Brooklyn ute. It's because you're not part of the conversation

805
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: going on in my head. Okay, at well, no one

806
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: was part of the conversation going on in Tesla's head either.

807
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: It's very true, me and Tesla birds of a feather.

808
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: So science advanced after the turn of the century, going

809
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: into the nine hundreds, and Tesla very strongly resisted it.

810
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: Um this this young punk Albert Einstein was coming up

811
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: and talking all about this theory of relativity, and Tesla said,

812
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: bullshit that flies in the face of Newtonian physics, which

813
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: is my jam. He was very opposed to new science.

814
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: He thought particle physics was garbage and people were looking

815
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: at the wrong things. He says, when you get down

816
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: into working with particles, you basically like totally ignoring all

817
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: the ship that Newton came up with and that we're

818
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: using in physics. And this is classic tunnel vision, you know,

819
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: as somebody who really cannot let go of what they're into. Yeah,

820
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: he had such a hard time ever finishing what he

821
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: was working on that he saw the world around him

822
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: changing and making his ship obsolete that he never really

823
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: got to complete. I mean this happened a lot, even

824
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: in smaller instances his ARC light system. One of the

825
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 1: reasons it never took off was because two possibilities. One

826
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: is that they just developed the DC generators to a

827
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: point where they didn't need to change it anymore. Or

828
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: possibly Thomas Edison put a stop to it and like

829
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: just bought all the contracts up so that they couldn't

830
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: use the A C system. Speaking of Edison, Yeah, in

831
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: Tesla refused to share the Nobel Prize in Physics with

832
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: with Thomas Edison, even though it would have gotten him

833
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars, which he kind of needed pretty badly. Um,

834
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: but he was just like, funk that guy. I'm not

835
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: accepting a prize with him. We are not equals in

836
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: this field or in anything else, right, I mean. Tesla

837
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: was mad at the Nobel Committee first of all for

838
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: treating him and Edison as equals, which Tesla thought Edison's

839
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 1: crap was crap. He thought it was no good. He

840
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: bought this archaic and dumb and we should be converting

841
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: to a c and all these things. But also he

842
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: was piste off because the Nobel Committee gave a prize

843
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: to Marconi for inventing the radio and doing air quotes.

844
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: But Tesla said, Marconi used seventeen of my patents to

845
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: develop his radio, and I should be getting credit for

846
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: helping with the invention of the radio. But the courts

847
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: ruled in Marconi's favor at the time. It was later overturned,

848
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,240
Speaker 1: but not until after Tesla's death. Damn. Yeah, so really

849
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: this podcast would not be without Tesla. Yeah, quite couldn't

850
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: make a radio. I heart radio. Without Tesla, we wouldn't

851
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: have anything. Radio wouldn't have be ninety eight point five

852
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: him or whatever or whatever your local soft jams, Yes,

853
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: that's a station. But in nineteen seventeen, he did begrudgingly

854
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: accept the solid gold Edison medal from the American Institute

855
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: of Electrical Engineers. It was like, fine, I'll take your

856
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: solid gold medal, and then he turned around him pond

857
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: it to buy bird See what a fitting end. Imagine

858
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: the pawn shop he walks in. Uh, good day, sir,

859
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: I need I need some bird seed. You got a net? No, sir,

860
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: this is a pawn shop. I just need It's like

861
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: a bird seed. So, uh, I guess I can give

862
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: you something for cash, right, that's the whole idea. Okay, Well,

863
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: what are he give me for this solid gold Edison medal? Ah? Well,

864
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: it is solid gold, so it's probably worth a lot.

865
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's a metal that you one

866
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: and no one else won. So I guess, uh, how

867
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 1: about dollars that'll buy me plenty of bird seed. I'll

868
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: take it. I know, I have no idea, totally made

869
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: that up. Don't know how much money he got for that.

870
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: Why did he buy bird seed? He loved birds. He

871
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: loved birds. He would walk to the park every day

872
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: to feed the pigeons. His favorite spot especially was in

873
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: Bryant Park, which is that if you've ever been as

874
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: this beautiful park right behind the public library on Fifth Avenue,

875
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: you know the Ghostbusters library, the one where they busted

876
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: the ghost that library. It's so when we went to

877
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: New York last and we had to work while we

878
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: were there, because that's how we traveled. We traveled with

879
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: our laptops and we work. Diana had a lot of

880
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: work to do, and she and I and I dumped

881
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: her off at the library and said, have fun. I'm

882
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna go be a tourist. I did have fun. It's

883
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: such a pretty library. It really is such a lovely

884
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: place to sit and work. Yeah, we're going to take

885
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back after this.

886
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: Welcome back test. The loved birds. That's the point. He

887
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: would even nurse injured pigeons back to health. He would

888
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: bring some of them back to his hotel where he stayed. Also,

889
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: he lived in hotels. This was we were talking about.

890
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: This is kind of classic of the time bachelor's especially

891
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: if you had money, you just stayed in a nice

892
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: hotel in New York. Yeah, they shined your shoes, they

893
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: washed your clothes, they brought you breakfast. I mean, it

894
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,720
Speaker 1: was pretty much the best case scenario for a bachelor

895
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: pad I think. Yeah, I mean, I wish I could

896
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: live full time in a luxury New York City hotel.

897
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: I know, right, that sounds pretty sweet. So what's weird

898
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: is that this paradoxically coincided his love of pigeons with

899
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: his rise of germophobia. And his friends were kind of

900
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: concerned about this. They were like, he's super afraid of germs,

901
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: but I'm more afraid of germs he is. The more

902
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: he's falling for these pigeons like his new best friends.

903
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: And he spent a lot of time feeding pigeons. It

904
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: was said you could go down into a New York

905
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: City park and you would see Nicola Tesla dressed very nicely,

906
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: usually with another important figure of the time, because if

907
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: you wanted to hang out with Tesla, you had to

908
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: go feed pigeons with him. I was going to say,

909
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 1: you can kind of see why. Maybe he liked birds

910
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: a lot because they were very simple to understand and

911
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: they didn't really demand much from him, unlike people. Yeah,

912
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: but anyway, so yeah, he started to even feed the

913
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: pigeons from his hotel window. Pretty messy. Definitely were shopping everywhere.

914
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: There were complaints from the from other hotel guests. I

915
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: mean everyone was like, there's bird shit everywhere. Yeah, not

916
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: the architectural feature they were looking for sure. He actually

917
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: asked the hotel chef to prepare a special blend of

918
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,919
Speaker 1: seed for these pigeons to feed these pigeons on nothing

919
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: but the best for my pigeon friends. And there was

920
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: one pigeon in particular who was always able to find

921
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,720
Speaker 1: him no matter where he was. This pigeon was pure

922
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: white with just some light gray on the tips of

923
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: her wings. There were a few that really caught his

924
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: attention because he would come to know them individually. I mean,

925
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: he said that he fed thousands of pigeons over the years,

926
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: but there were a few that really stood out to

927
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: him that where he really connected to he would recognize

928
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: day after day. But yeah, this one, this one white

929
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: pigeon mattered a lot. He spent over two thousand dollars

930
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: to care for her. At one point, she broke her

931
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 1: wing and leg, and he built a device to support

932
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: her while she healed. So he was a real friend

933
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: of the birds, and he said, I had only to

934
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: wish and call her and she would come flying to me.

935
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:31,720
Speaker 1: So in nineteen twenty two, one night, as he was working,

936
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,240
Speaker 1: this beautiful white pigeon flew into his room and landed

937
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: on his desk. He was telling this story later to

938
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: a friend of his. He said, I knew that she

939
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: wanted me. I knew that she wanted to tell me

940
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: something important, And as I looked at her, I knew

941
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 1: what she wanted to say to me. She was dying,

942
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: and as I got her message, there came a light

943
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 1: from her eyes. Powerful beams of light. He said, Yes,

944
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 1: real light, powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense

945
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps

946
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: in my laboratory. And when she died, something went out

947
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: in my life. Up to that time, I knew with

948
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: a certainty that I would complete my work, no matter

949
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,720
Speaker 1: how ambitious. But when that something went out of my life,

950
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: I knew my life's work was finished. Wow. Yeah, it

951
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: was this, you know, pretty intense. Omen Tesla had said

952
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: for the longest time that he was going to live

953
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 1: to be a hundred and he was going to complete

954
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: his life's work, which we can gather was pretty much

955
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: like powering the world providing electricity. He saw this future

956
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: with the small power plants that could run entire countries,

957
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: built underwater. He had flying machines he designed. He had

958
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: this really bright idea for this really um utopic future.

959
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: Do you think electricity should be free? He thought electricity

960
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: should be free to everyone and that and that there

961
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: should be no problem providing it for free. And he

962
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: said he would live to a hundred and he would

963
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: have no problem achieving that. As his life went on,

964
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: of course, we've seen him struggle and struggle and struggle

965
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: and struggle. Uh, you know, that wasn't something that he

966
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 1: was ever able to achieve. And at this point he's

967
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: really starting to see that idea slip away. That's sad.

968
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: And this pigeon was just this omen for him. One

969
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: of his friends called it a beautiful and pathetic display

970
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: of love. You know, they were like, wow, he's he

971
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: really loves this pigeon, but I wish I want more

972
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: for him. But it also was what he wanted. It

973
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: was more than he ever seemed to get from a

974
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: human companion. In that respect, It's like all the handkerchiefs

975
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: from all the French actresses in the world can't compare.

976
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: I read this analysis that, Um, they were like, what

977
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: is love if not you know, a very passionate, intense

978
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: focused feeling in one direction. But he was like, but

979
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: you know, can we can we say that wasn't love,

980
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: because that's what it was to him. Well, after the

981
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: death of his of pigeont, his pigeon, Pigeon loves, pigeon Love,

982
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: he was evicted from the hotel, partly for debts and

983
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: partly because of the mess that the pigeons had left

984
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: that he was constantly feeding. But he moved to the

985
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: luxurious hotel Marguerie and started running up a tab there. Yeah,

986
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: he was in and out of hotels because a lot

987
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: of them said no, you can't open the windows and

988
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: feed the pigeons, and he would move to another one.

989
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: So he went through several hotels in this period, just

990
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: leaving a mess of pigeon ship behind him everywhere he went.

991
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: He also in lawsuits for years, so fly in and

992
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: out of courts as well. He's trying to gain credit

993
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: and money for some of his inventions, like the radio

994
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: stuff and so on. He's fighting with Edison still too.

995
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: I mean, we're skimming past that but there's a bunch

996
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: of Edison ship going on here. Yeah, but still a

997
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: very well respected scientist and thinker and inventor. He was

998
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: given honorary doctorates from multiple universities, so people are still like,

999
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: this guy is smart. We we like him, you know.

1000
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: And then a nineteen already four he claims to have

1001
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: developed a teleforce weapon, which the press referred to as

1002
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: a He said it could shoot down aircraft from two

1003
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: and fifty miles away, but he never really provided a

1004
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: lot of proof to that, to that claim. He kind

1005
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: of thought it would be like such a powerful weapon

1006
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: that it would keep nations from more from now on,

1007
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: like he you know, kind of like what we thought

1008
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: the atomic bomb would do. I guess, and they and

1009
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 1: Nobell said that when he invented dynamite too, Yeah, said

1010
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 1: this is so powerful. Just there won't be any war

1011
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: anymore because nobody will want to risk fighting anyone else. Yeah.

1012
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: So if anyone has any bright ideas about weapons out

1013
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: there that's going to end all war, just stop. It

1014
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: doesn't work, don't do it. Remember the Butter Battle book? Yeah, right,

1015
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: the Butter Battle exactly what he was talking about. So

1016
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to fund it. So it wasn't like he

1017
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,399
Speaker 1: wasn't getting a government contract for it or anything like that.

1018
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: But in seven he claimed that he had built a

1019
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: working prototype and that he would unveil it in just

1020
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: a few months any day now. And so one day,

1021
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: while he was feeding his beloved pigeons, these two men

1022
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: in suits approached him. They said, hey, you Nicola Tesla,

1023
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: who's asking? Hey? We want to see this death ray?

1024
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: You got a you got like a black box in

1025
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: your hotel room, like a safe up there some papers

1026
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: in it. We want to see him. You want to

1027
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 1: see my papers. I want to see your papers. Show

1028
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: me some papers to say you work for the government. Uh,

1029
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: you can't get the funk out. So he didn't show them,

1030
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,439
Speaker 1: and uh and these creepy suits guys walked away. But

1031
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,959
Speaker 1: he had become very frail, and in that same year,

1032
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,399
Speaker 1: as he said, you know, I'm gonna show I'm gonna

1033
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: show the world my prototype for the for the death ray. Um,

1034
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: he was walking through New York between his locations where

1035
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 1: he would just feed his pigeons, and he was struck

1036
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,919
Speaker 1: by a taxi cab and it banged him up pretty good.

1037
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,959
Speaker 1: He broke three abs. We don't really know the extent

1038
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: of his injuries, because, as we said, he refused doctor's appointments.

1039
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: He didn't want anyone close to him or touching him

1040
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,399
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So he kind of just had

1041
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: the heel on his own. And he's like an old

1042
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 1: man and he's not healing very well. And uh, he

1043
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 1: never really got back to his former self after that,

1044
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: and no one ever saw thee he's feeding pigeons with

1045
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: his friend Robert Johnson. He's super frail, barely recognizable, real thin,

1046
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, battered up from his car accident and everything.

1047
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: And he told Robert that he was kind of staying

1048
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: in bed for days at a time, so he said,

1049
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: will you please take care of my pigeons if anything

1050
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: happens to me these pigeons. Yeah, he's like really thinking

1051
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: about their future. Yeah, and even in a few in

1052
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: coming years. He would even pay a Western Union messenger

1053
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: to go scatter seeds for the birds, and he would

1054
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: call the company over and over again being like, did

1055
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: you do it? Did you do it? Proved to me

1056
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: you did it, Nicolas La Hay, did you feed my pigeon? Push? Yes, yes,

1057
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: Mr Tesla. We're gonna send someone out right away. To

1058
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: feed your pigeons. Okay, well when are you going to

1059
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: do that? All? You right back? We just got a

1060
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: few packages to deliver because we're a very busy courier

1061
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: service with a lot of clients who need important human

1062
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: objects deliver it between them. Well, I'm an important human

1063
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you to carrier some dance feeds my pigeons.

1064
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: Oh sir, we will be sure to feed your birds

1065
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: out in the public spaces. Prove it to me. How

1066
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: are you going to prove throw it him. We'll draw,

1067
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: We'll draw a very nice picture of what's happening. We'll

1068
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: bring it back and show them that sounds. He really

1069
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: wishes he could have gotten a little picture from Amazon

1070
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: of his rackage on the doorstep. Your pigeons have been fed,

1071
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: Oh thank god. In three on January six, he called

1072
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: for a messenger to come to his room and deliver

1073
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: an envelope with a one dollar bill in it to

1074
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: his friend Mark Twain. But the weird thing about this

1075
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: request is that Mark Twain had died in nineteen, three

1076
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: decades before. So the guy's like, well, hey, you know,

1077
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: Mark Twain's dead, right, Like, I don't know what to

1078
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: take this envelope with all this money in it, and

1079
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: Tesla argued with him, and he insisted that Twain had

1080
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: visited him in his room the night before, and then

1081
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: that same night at the stroke of midnight January seven,

1082
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: It's a cold January New York City night. There's a

1083
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: light snow falling, there's street lamps glowing in the dark,

1084
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: and three pigeons flew away from his bedroom, right off

1085
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: the third floor. The light in his room flickered and

1086
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: then went out. The next morning, his body was discovered

1087
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: by the maid. She screamed and ran out of the room,

1088
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: and within fifteen minutes the FBI was in there. They

1089
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: had taped off the whole room, They had removed his

1090
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: body and all of his work. They even brought a

1091
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: locksmith in to open the safe and get all of

1092
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: his papers out of it. The only reason we even

1093
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: know that is because his nephew showed up and was

1094
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: looking around and saw these, you know, all these Feds there,

1095
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: and he sees the locksmith walking away and they're like,

1096
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: you know, He's like, what are you guys doing. You

1097
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: can't just take his body, And they're like, you know, uh,

1098
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: federal government. Cereal, no questions you know, man, they were

1099
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: clearly watching him that whole time, from from four to

1100
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: ninety three. They must have been keeping on him the

1101
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: moment he said death ray they probably never stopped watching.

1102
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: He was on the no fly list, right, And yeah,

1103
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: they went and snatched up all his ship, you know,

1104
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: never to be seen again. They did give his body

1105
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: back and there was a funeral on January twelve. More

1106
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: than two thousand people poured into the cathedral of St. John.

1107
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: The Divine Mayor LaGuardia is there. Franklin, Delano Roosevelt and

1108
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: Eleanor Roosevelt sends a message with their condolences. Pretty sweet.

1109
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: Heads of state from Yugoslavia, Croatia, Russia and France are

1110
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 1: all in attendance. A you'll, united nations of mourners. Everybody

1111
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: came together. Yeah. King Peter the Second of Yugoslavia sent

1112
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: a huge floral arrangement in fact, and the Yugoslavian government

1113
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: made his funeral a state function. But his casket was

1114
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: draped with an American flag. So I think that kind

1115
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: of shows you, like what an international guy talking about.

1116
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: And as his eulogy concluded, three pigeants flew in circled

1117
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: the casket never landed and flew back off into the sky.

1118
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: So three pigeons fly away from his hotel window at

1119
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: the moment of his death. Then three pigeons are there

1120
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: during his three his favorite number, his favorite number, which

1121
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: is so crazy. I mean that's crazy, like that feels

1122
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: like some weird glitch in the matrix type ship. That

1123
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: is cool too, that he was born in a lightning

1124
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: storm and then when he died the light went out.

1125
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: That's so crazy, Like just these weird little things about

1126
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 1: it that it kind of make you be like, maybe

1127
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: he was on a different plane than everybody else. There's

1128
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: a lot of some of the research out there definitely

1129
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: says like you can't talk about Tesla without incorporating some

1130
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: form of mysticism into it. Um because I definitely played

1131
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: he he was the bridge of science and and the mystical,

1132
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 1: I think to some degree. I mean he was talking

1133
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:23,919
Speaker 1: about wireless power before anyone was. You know that there's

1134
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: just this untapped energy that we can all you know,

1135
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: tap into. Maybe that's part of it too. So if

1136
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: you had a vision of the world at a young age,

1137
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: kind of utopia style, like you were saying, and you

1138
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: were just trying to figure out how to get to

1139
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: that vision. Maybe you would work over time because you'd

1140
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know if this is it, but

1141
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: I need to know if it is it or if

1142
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: it's not this, I got to try something else. Because

1143
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: there's that vision I'm working toward, I just don't have

1144
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: to get to it. It's like an OZ kind of thing. Yeah,

1145
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: it's so tough with our you know, being aware of

1146
01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: our our own mortality. If we have a action like that,

1147
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: it can feel very overwhelming to say, I've only got

1148
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: a limited amount of time to complete this and it's

1149
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: a lot of work, you know, And that's when you

1150
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: have to get into well, maybe you have to think

1151
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: beyond your life and think about what you're setting up

1152
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: for somebody else to carry on for you. And I

1153
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: think that's true of Tesla. I mean, we're we're living

1154
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: in a world today that was greatly affected by what

1155
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: he did. So, UM, don't tell him that because he

1156
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: might be like, oh, ship I did this. Oh no,

1157
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: it's not so good, um, but hopefully it's getting better.

1158
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: You definitely have something to say with the blackouts in

1159
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: California and Texas and stuff, and be like, you know,

1160
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: you could you could do better than this, right, you know,

1161
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 1: all this energy could be free, right, No, then we

1162
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't make any money, say in our luxury hotels. So so,

1163
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: Nicola Tesla probably did love a pigeon. Probably did not

1164
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: have sex with a pigeon. Oh no, I didn't think

1165
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 1: that was ever in question. Well, I think some people

1166
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: would question. I'm glad we can. I think when we

1167
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: put up Nicola Tesla and a pigeon, I think some

1168
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: people are gonna go, what do you how do you

1169
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: have sex now about a pecker? Oh? Sorry, that wasn't

1170
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: a very good joke. What do you think you are?

1171
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 1: The pigeon? The bird is the word I love this

1172
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: bird voice makes. When we're walking on New York City,

1173
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: I'm always talking to the pigeons. Who do you think

1174
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: you're looking at? All? Right? Well, you cool cats can

1175
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,919
Speaker 1: email us. Yeah, use use Nicola's inventions and email us

1176
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 1: and tell us what you think about this episode. Yeah,

1177
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: it's romance at iHeart Media dot com. Of course, you

1178
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,959
Speaker 1: can always find us on those socials. I am at

1179
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: Oh great, it's Eli on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at

1180
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: Diana Mite Boom on Twitter and Instagram. We're both at

1181
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: ridick romance on those platforms as well. Yeah please yeah, contact,

1182
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: But we love hearing from you. It's so fun. We

1183
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: sure do, And I hope you all liked this episode

1184
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: about Nicola Tesla and his girlfriend, the pigeon, the light

1185
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: of his life. We'll see you next time right here

1186
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: on Ridiculous Robins. So long, friends, it is time to go.

1187
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to our show. Tell your friend's Name's uncle,

1188
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 1: s indance to listen to a show ridiculous, Well Nance