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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the mysterious universe, season 29, episode 24, coming up on the show Paul |
0:23.6 | Shatskins joins us to discuss Philo T. Farnsworth, the boy who invented television and we're going to |
0:30.1 | discuss the mystery of Thomas Townsend Brown. I'm Benjamin Grungey, joining me is Aaron Wright. |
0:36.4 | What a fantastic chat we have with Paul, a really switched on guy, you know, knows exactly what he's |
0:41.3 | talking about, lots of connections and really revealing this hidden history. There's not well known |
0:47.9 | on so glad we got to talk to him because back on this season, episode number 12, it was Doc Brown |
0:54.4 | and the Ghost Moose. That's right. Where we covered this incredible story that Paul Shatskins |
0:58.4 | had been researching for decades about Thomas Townsend Brown. He is very exotic, scientific research |
1:07.1 | that eventually made its way into the Navy, then potentially into other groups. There were these |
1:13.1 | suggestions of artificial gravity, of secret societies, of espionage. It was such a fantastic story |
1:20.9 | winded up covering it over two parts. What we perhaps didn't know at the time is that Paul wrote |
1:27.7 | an earlier book about a similar individual, a similar genius from history who was little known |
1:34.9 | and that's Philo T. Farnsworth. It was funny like that episode was called The Ghost Moose. I actually |
1:41.5 | saw that Paul heard our first episode and he wrote an article on his website about the Ghost Moose. |
1:48.0 | Well, it's in CorrigibleArts.com and one of the things he wrote was that he got bumped by the Ghost Moose |
1:53.4 | story because I think you went first on that episode and it was the bloody Ghost Moose story. Hey, |
2:01.7 | Paul's fantastic, but nothing beats the Ghost Moose, all right? It pretty much sums off our show, |
2:07.6 | but we had to have him on to talk about our Philo T. Farnsworth because Farnsworth, many of you may |
2:14.2 | not know the name, but he is the inventor of television. He's an astonishing historical figure. |
2:20.0 | There's this incredible story behind it and it's a very nerdy show. It's quite a long interview. |
2:26.4 | Lots of detail in there, some technical information as well. But I want you to listen through to |
2:32.0 | the whole thing because we get about 40, 45 minutes in when the whole thing opens up because |
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