In this episode, we walk through Chapter 7 of Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy — the moment the most powerful financier in America realized exactly what he'd paid Tesla for, and then made sure the world never got to use it.

J.P. Morgan bankrolled Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower believing he was funding a competitor to the transatlantic telegraph cable — a private wire, a profitable one. Then Marconi did the cheap version first, transmitting across the Atlantic in December 1901 with nothing but a kite and a coil, and Morgan started asking harder questions about what Tesla was actually building on that Long Island lot. The real blueprint for Wardenclyffe, once you look at it, doesn't match anything else in the electrical engineering of its era — a copper dome, iron roots driven straight into bedrock, Tesla's own description of making the Earth itself "quiver." It matches something this podcast has already stood inside.

We sit with the "Ask Azazel" section and its answer to the obvious rebuttal — that Morgan was just a shrewd investor cutting a bad bet — landing on Morgan's own reported line, dry and damning: "If anyone can draw the power, where do we put the meter?"

And then the part that doesn't read like an investor walking away from a failed project: the federal government spent months in 1917 on a sustained demolition effort — dynamite, a full crew — to bring the tower down, selling the scrap for a mere $1,750. That's not how you dispose of a failure. That's how you make sure something never gets rebuilt.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why Wardenclyffe's design matches nothing else built in this era — except the buildings we've already toured
• Morgan's own reported line about "where do we put the meter"
• The gap between a decade of neglect and a sudden, expensive, coordinated demolition
• Why this chapter reframes Wardenclyffe as a success that had to be destroyed, not a failure that quietly died

We also get into Azazel himself — the tin of photographs he opened last episode, finally paying off, and the line he leaves us on heading into the true close of Part I.

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In this episode, our hosts Daria and Leo walk through Chapter 6 of the book Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy. We examine the book writer Azazel's argument that Nikola Tesla wasn't inventing anything at all, instead Tesla was "remembering" Tartaria!

We start with Azazel's claim that should stop you cold, because it's not folklore — it's in Tesla's own writing and backed by colleagues who worked beside him for decades: Tesla himself said could design an entire complex machine in his head, run it mentally for weeks, let it wear the way a real machine wears with use, and only then commit it to paper, fully finished, without a single revision. Engineers don't work that way. The whole reason blueprints get revised and prototypes get rebuilt is that no one's mind is supposed to simulate machinery with that kind of fidelity. Tesla's breakthrough understanding of the rotating magnetic field — the concept underlying the alternating current running through your walls right now — arrived the same way, in a single afternoon in a Budapest park, reciting Goethe's Faust to a friend, whole and complete, like a curtain pulled back rather than a wall built brick by brick.

We sit with the book's own answer to its most obvious pushback in the "Ask Azazel" section: isn't this just the standard "War of Currents" story with Tartaria mixed in? Tesla the genius, Edison the ruthless businessman who out-marketed him? Fair question — and Edison's smear campaign against AC power is real, documented, not in dispute. What the standard story doesn't explain is WHY the content of Tesla's later ideas, delivered wirelessly and free to everyone, matches a specific style of tower, dome, and grounding you've already stood inside three chapters ago - from Tartaria Tech!

Then Azazel takes us to Colorado Springs: Tesla, alone in a mountain shed with equipment he built by hand, picks up something through the air he can't explain — and his first instinct isn't a wiring fault. It's that a signal traveled a long way, through a medium everyone else considered empty.

And then the detail that isn't fringe sourcing at all, sitting openly in FBI records: Azazel reminds us that, within hours of Tesla's death in 1943, federal agents seized his papers, his notebooks, decades of research. A significant portion was never fully accounted for. We close on what he was actually trying to build before any of that happened — a free, planetary power system he gave away rather than monetized, and what that choice may have cost him.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why Tesla himself described his ideas as remembered, not invented
• His own reframe of the War of Currents — and the one detail Edison's marketing campaign doesn't explain
• The Colorado Springs signal, and what Tesla's own instinct about it reveals
• The federal seizure of his papers within hours of his death, and how much was never returned
• Why he walked away from fortunes rather than patent the thing that could have made him the richest man alive

We also spend time with Azazel himself this episode — the tin of old photographs he pulls down and sets on the table without opening, the fire he lets burn low on purpose, and the deliberate cliffhanger he leaves us on heading into next chapter.

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In this episode, we walk through Chapter 5 of Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy. Our hosts are amazed when the book's narrator Azazel takes his readers to real world locations that you could book a flight to today and and stand where Azazel himself does in this chapter.

We'll start in Palmanova, a small town in northern Italy shaped like a perfect nine-pointed star. A local guide will tell you it's classic trace italienne — cannon-era defensive engineering, nothing more, but when Azazel asks one simple question about why the symmetry is so precise it borders on ornamental, and the explanation starts to wobble. We then stack that against Bourtange, Fort Jefferson, and the Peter and Paul Fortress — different countries, different centuries, the same unreasonably expensive geometric precision — and the "coincidence" about all these Star Forts gets harder to say with a straight face.

Then comes the chapter's best reveal: Marcus, a longtime electrical engineer friend of Azazel's, looks at a set of Star Fort photographs and says something no historian ever has — that the moat isn't a defensive barrier at all. It's a grounding conductor. Our hosts remind us that this is the exact same function as the crypt shaft from Chapter 3, just built into the landscape instead of a basement.

From there the evidence keeps piling up: Azazel shows his readers unusual metal signatures in old civic statues, positioned in patterns that don't look accidental. Then Azazel reveals a name, finally, for the golden liquid found drained from Chapter 3's dome — Red Mercury — along with a passing, deliberate mention of something called "Agartha" that Azazel promises is a clue to a much bigger mystery than Tartaria alone. Then Azazel takes us to a Midwest courthouse basement with an oversized water pipe and a doorframe built low and heavy enough to stop you in your tracks. The popular "Ask Azazel" scene follows, where the book's narrator takes on the most obvious rebuttal to his whole argument head-on: don't cities just naturally rebuild in the same spot? Our hosts talk through whether Azazel's answer actually holds.

The chapter closes in Seattle, walking the real underground street level buried beneath the modern city - another place you can visit today.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why a perfectly symmetrical star-shaped town's official defensive explanation doesn't survive questioning
• Marcus's moat-as-conductor reveal, and how it connects directly back to Chapter 3's crypt
• Azazel naming Red Mercury for the first time — and the one thread he's deliberately not pulling yet
• Azazel's answer to the book's toughest built-in critique, and whether we buy it
• Seattle's real buried street level, and why ending on something fully verifiable matters

We also get into Azazel himself — his friendship with Marcus, the local guides who almost, but don't quite, have the answers, and the threads he tells listeners outright he's saving for later.

Read Azazel's Blog:https://apocryphaofazazel.com/tartaria-book-the-secret-history-of-the-mud-flood-tesla-and-free-energy/

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