What We Built... And What We Buried: Episode Five - The World Without Wires

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.3 • 176 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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🎧 The Devil Within What We Built… And What We Buried Episode 5: The World Without Wires What if electricity didn’t need wires at all? Not improved. Not optimized. Eliminated. ⚡ The Idea At the turn of the 20th century, the world was building a system: • Power plants • Transmission lines • Meters • Control Electricity had become something that could be measured… delivered… and billed. And then came Nikola Tesla… With a different vision. 🌍 The Disruption Tesla wasn’t trying to improve the grid. He was trying to replace it. A world where: • Energy moves through the air • The Earth itself acts as a conductor • Power is accessed—not delivered No wires. No infrastructure. No clear point of control. 🏗️ Wardenclyffe On Long Island, Tesla began building it: Wardenclyffe Tower A massive structure designed to: • Transmit energy wirelessly • Use the Earth as part of the circuit • Prove that electricity could exist everywhere… simultaneously This wasn’t theory. It was being built. 💰 The Collision Backed by J. P. Morgan, the project had momentum. Until the scope became clear. Because wireless communication was one thing. Wireless power was another. ❓ The Question As the vision expanded, one problem emerged: Where do you put the meter? Not a technical issue. A structural one. Because if energy can’t be measured… It can’t be monetized. 🛑 The Shift Funding slowed. Support faded. Construction stalled. The tower wasn’t destroyed. It just… stopped. 😈 The Devil Within This isn’t about suppression. It’s about something more uncomfortable: 👉 Ideas don’t survive because they’re possible 👉 They survive because they fit the system And this one didn’t. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts 📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel 📱 @thedevilwithinpod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Because sometimes… The most dangerous idea isn’t the one that fails. It’s the one that doesn’t belong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EEO
0:02.0	New York City in the 1980s was a war zone.
0:13.0	I know because I was there.
0:15.0	The murder rate was the highest in the country and the war on drugs was raging throughout the five boroughs.
0:20.0	The culture was being infiltrated with New Wave Rock, Basquiat, Warhol, soap operas, crooked
0:26.5	cops, and crack cocaine. Enter young Adam Diaz. Fresh off the beaches of the Dominican Republic,
0:33.1	he saw the cool in all the crime. And with a little help from his family, Adam became the boss of the
0:38.5	Diaz organization, paying off dirty cops, protecting his turf, and moving three to 400 kilos a week
0:44.9	for the Medellin cartel, all before his 20th birthday. Join me as I go mono-a-mano with Diaz,
0:52.2	and you'll see for yourself how this kid from the DR became the king of Brooklyn.
0:57.8	I'm Ash Adams, and this is the culture of criminal cool.
1:08.4	Hey, I'm Bruce.
1:09.9	And I'm Jeff.
1:10.7	We're here to tell you a little about our new podcast called Taboo Treasures.
1:14.6	We explore the human obsession with objects of extreme rarity and infinite.
1:19.6	Here's a little snippet of our episode called Heavenly Sneakers.
1:23.6	San Diego Sheriff's deputies stumble into a house of death filled with dozens of bodies the sight of a grim mass suicide.
1:30.3	But what really stood out to me was seeing the sneakers underneath the sheets that had the white Nike swish on them.
1:36.3	The leader was a guy named Marshall Applewhite.
1:39.3	I'm from kingdom level above human.
1:41.3	It's not exactly every day you plan the simultaneous suicide of 39 people.
1:45.9	So in the weeks leading up to it, he knew he'd have to come up a little checklist.
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