105 - Nikola Tesla: A Strange and Beautiful Mind

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Nikola Tesla. The prototypical "mad scientist". He slept only a few hours a night and devoted his life to science like none-other. A rags-to-riches-to-rags visionary who was a giant in the field of scientific invention, he created the first alternating current (AC) motor and was a pioneer in the field of wireless information transmission. He helped build the world’s first large-scale hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls. He even pushed scientific rival Thomas Edison into electrocuting pets to prove that his direct current technology was better and safer than Tesla’s alternating current. It was a AC versus DC, War of Currents nerd fight that lasted over a decade. He was also a strange man who fell in love with a pigeon and once claimed to have created a "death ray". And he gets sucked today, on Timesuck! Timesuck is brought to you today by Hims! Go to forhims.com/dansc and save $20 off your first month's anti-aging kit! Timesuck is also brought to you by Leesa! Go to leesa.com/timesuck and get $160 off a Leesa mattress or $235 off of a Sapira mattress and FREE shipping by entering TIMESUCK at checkout! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Nikola Tesla, a giant in the field of scientific invention.
0:03.6	He created the first alternating current AC motor and was a pioneer in the field of wireless
0:08.8	information transmission. He helped build the world's first large-scale hydroelectric power plant
0:14.0	on Niagara Falls. He pushed scientific rival Thomas Edison into electrocuting pets to prove that
0:19.9	his direct current technology was better and safer than Tesla's alternating current AC versus DC.
0:27.7	Tesla rose from rags to riches and then fell back to rags during his strange,
0:32.1	turbulent life. He's the prototype for a modern mad scientist stereotype. A man obsessed with
0:37.6	invention who only slept a few hours a night and devoted himself entirely to his work.
0:42.8	He was both a genius who we have to thank for much of our modern technology and also a man who
0:48.2	never had a single romantic relationship in his long life but did fall in love with the pigeon.
0:54.4	For real. He was a rising scientific star who went from being broke in Europe to becoming a
0:59.5	successful scientist in America to digging ditches to becoming a highly successful man again to
1:05.4	getting kicked out of one New York hotel after another for not paying his bills to making a series
1:11.4	of strange claims in his last years about stuff like having built a powerful death ray.
1:17.1	Nikola Tesla was a brilliant weirdo and I like weirdos. So let's get weird.
1:22.7	Let's get real weird and dig into the strange genius of Tesla today on TimeSuck.
1:38.5	Happy Monday Time Suckers. Hey, you Nimrod. Praiseable jangles to be gone,
1:43.6	Lucifina. I'll trust you today. I'm Dan Cummins, aka the master sucker and you are listening
1:49.2	to TimeSuck. You're inside the cult of the curious and I hope it feels also right. You beautiful,
1:54.6	wonderful meat sack. Has anyone told you that you're perty today? Well, you are. You're super duper
2:00.9	perty. Recording in a Renaissance in an Austrian California today. Actually a Renaissance. That'd
2:07.2	be more exciting. Residence in. Not as exciting. Not ideal but I have you know a full confidence in
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