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.

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In this episode, we walk through Chapter 4 of Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy. Our hosts look at the wiring that connected an entire empire, and Azazel's argument that killing it never required burning a single city - just severing the right handful of connections and letting the rest go dark on its own.

Azazel starts with the Star Forts — Fort Jefferson, floating alone in the Gulf of Mexico with no city anywhere near it to defend. Palmanova, a perfect nine-pointed star in northern Italy, marketed today as a charming planned town. Bourtange in the Netherlands, restored so carefully as a tourist attraction that most visitors walking its star-shaped earthworks have no idea what they're actually standing inside. The angles on these forts get explained three different, contradictory ways by official sources, and none of those explanations account for why the spacing between forts, across wildly different terrain, matches a communications relay tolerance instead of a defensive one.

Then Azazel goes underground. Sealed transit branches sitting beneath more cities than you'd expect — tunnels sized wrong for the trains that supposedly justified digging them, branch lines that go somewhere on old maps and go nowhere on new ones. A structural survey from 1930s Cincinnati, meant to certify a newly built subway line, casually references "the pre-existing bore" — dimensions nobody claims to have dug, mentioned in passing as if the surveyor assumed everyone already knew it was there.

And then the detail you can go verify yourself: old telephone exchange buildings, built disproportionately on the exact center of a town's oldest plaza — and, in at least one decommissioned exchange, a shallow stone basin sunk into the sub-basement floor. Plumbed into nothing. Wired into nothing. No drain.

Our hosts also sit with the "Ask Azazel" section, where the obvious skeptical question gets asked directly: don't cities just naturally rebuild on their own footprints? We talk through whether that answer actually holds up against the specific anomalies the chapter lays out.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why Star Fort spacing looks more like a relay network than a defensive perimeter

• A drainless stone basin sitting exactly where an old switching station's oldest equipment once stood
• The book's own answer to its most obvious critique, and whether it holds

We also get into the book's narrator, Azazel, and the people who let him into basements, fort archives, and off-the-record conversations most researchers never get access to.

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In this episode, we walk through Chapter 3 of Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy — the mechanism behind everything from last episode's tour, revealed floor by floor inside a single building, and we sit with what it means. This wasn't five separate miracles, but one machine wearing five different disguises.

The tour takes us back to the same bathhouse in Anian from Chapter 2, now under active restoration, scaffolding wrapped around it like a cast on a broken limb. We start below ground, in a crypt with a shaft sunk deep into the earth — a grounding connection to the planet's own electrical current, the same basic principle as a lightning rod on your roof, except scaled up to power an entire city. From there we climb through four feet of structurally unnecessary brick that turns out to be built for storing charge, not holding up a roof. Higher still, set into the base of a dome, a golden orb the size of a bowling ball — found, more than once, quietly drained of whatever it once held and refilled with sand by someone who didn't want the next person to ask questions.

And at the very top: a stained-glass rose window whose lead lattice isn't decoration at all. Measure it, and it resolves into the same geometric ratios you'd find in a tuning fork or a cymatics experiment — the kind where sound organizes sand into a perfect symmetrical pattern. This window tunes raw energy into a specific, usable frequency before sending it anywhere near a human body. It's the exact tone and light that mended a shattered leg in under an hour back in Chapter 2's healing hall. One building. One integrated system. Heat, light, power, communication, and medicine, all running off the same underlying machine.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why four feet of "unnecessary" brick turns out to be doing real structural and electrical work
• The golden orb that's been found drained and refilled with sand across multiple restoration sites — and what that says about who wanted it forgotten
• How a stained-glass window's geometry connects directly to the healing technology from last episode
• Why the chapter argues this wasn't five separate miracles, but one system, broken deliberately at its connecting points

We also get into the book's narrator, Azazel, and his relationship with Dinah, the restoration contractor who lets him onto active job sites off the books — and the anger he says he wants listeners to feel by the end of the chapter, not just curiosity.

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In this episode, we walk through Chapter 2 of Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy — five cities, five pieces of daily life inside a civilization built around abundance instead of scarcity, and we sit with just how strange it is that none of it should sound as unbelievable as it does.

Picture a city in the dead of a Siberian winter — the kind of cold that cracks stone and kills anyone caught outside without shelter — and picture that city warm anyway. Not warm because of roaring fires in every hearth, not warm because of furs and desperation, but warm the way a greenhouse is warm: quietly, evenly, with no visible source anyone can point to. That's Tobolsk, the first stop on the tour this episode covers, and it's only the beginning.

From there the tour keeps going. A fortress called Sarai that doesn't just stand there like stone is supposed to — it hums, low and constant, like something closer to alive than architectural, tended by a fort-keeper who talks about it the way you'd talk about a living thing he's responsible for. A capital called Cambalu, lit end to end by a single woman with her palms pressed to a cathedral altar, somehow balancing power for an entire skyline the way you'd balance a checkbook. A plaza in Quinsay where a voice spoken into a still bowl of water arrives, in real time, two thousand miles away — no wires, no towers, nothing modern communication needed to make that work.

And then the last stop: a healing hall back in Anian, where a healer mends a man's shattered leg in under an hour, using nothing but light, sound, and a frequency tuned into the walls themselves — while everyone else in the room treats it as an unremarkable Tuesday. Free. Immediate. Available to anyone who walked through the door, not just the people who could afford to wait six weeks and pay a specialist.

In this episode, we dig into:

• How an entire city could stay warm through a brutal winter with no fire and no visible heat source
• What it means for a fortress to function less like a building and more like a living instrument
• A form of instant, continent-spanning communication that makes a modern phone call look primitive by comparison
• A version of medicine that healed instead of managing illness, for free, as a matter of course

We also get into the book's narrator, Azazel, and the strange discomfort he admits to feeling standing in one of these buildings decades after it went quiet — the detail he says unsettled him more than anything else in the chapter.

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Tartaria - Every atlas made before 1800 shows it. Every atlas made after doesn't. An empire the size of a continent — gone, with no war, no treaty, no single event historians can point to and call an ending. Just silence, where a name used to be.

They called it Tartaria.

This is the trailer for our podcast: a chapter-by-chapter companion discussion to the book Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy . In the podcasts our two hosts dig into the evidence, one chapter at a time. Maps that shouldn't have gone blank. The Mud Flood cataclysm. The connection between Tesla and Tartaria. And the Usurpers - the New World Order elites who got very rich in the wreckage of whatever actually happened.

The hosts also discuss how this book is narrated by a mysterious storyteller named Azazel, who lays out the whole case from an old attic full of maps, files, and a strange wall of red string.

We're not asking you to believe any of it yet. We're asking you to listen to the first episode and decide for yourself.

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Imagine unrolling a 16th-century map — the work of Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish cartographer whose projection is still the basis for most of the maps hanging in classrooms today — and tracing your finger across the top of Asia. You'd expect blank space there, or maybe a sea monster curling around the edge of the known world, the way old maps handle the places nobody's actually been. That's not what you find.

What you find is a name TARTARIA, stretched wide and confident across a landmass larger than most of the continents around it, lettered in exactly the same style, exactly the same weight, exactly the same matter-of-fact hand Mercator used for France, for China, for every other nation he was certain existed.

Abraham Ortelius, his contemporary and the man often credited with publishing the first modern atlas, drew it the same way. So did nearly every other serious European cartographer working before 1800.

These weren't obscure figures scribbling guesses in the margins — they were the most trusted mapmakers of their era, the ones kings and merchants and explorers actually relied on to know what was real. And every one of them treated Tartaria the same way they treated any other nation they were certain existed.

Then open an encyclopedia from 1771 — a real one, sitting in real archives right now — and there it is again. A full entry. Matter-of-fact. Describing a functioning nation called Tartary, its people, its territory, its place in the world, with the same dry confidence you'd expect for an entry on Prussia or Persia. No hedging, no "believed to have existed." Just a country, like any other, that somehow stopped being one.

Somewhere between that encyclopedia and the one on your shelf today, an empire the size of a continent quietly stopped being something you'd look up and became something almost nobody's ever heard of. No war. No treaty. No single event historians point to and say "that's when it ended." Just a slow fade from the record, one edition at a time, until the silence itself started to look less like forgetting and more like a decision.

In this episode, our two hosts break down Chapter 1 of Tartaria: The Secret History of the Mud Flood, Tesla, and Free Energy — the maps, the "Glitch in the Matrix" encyclopedia entry that shouldn't exist if the official story is true, and the argument at the heart of the chapter: that this wasn't ordinary historical forgetting. It was surgery.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why the most trusted cartographers and encyclopedists of their era treated Tartaria as settled geographic fact, not myth or rumor
• The 1771 encyclopedia entry that quietly contradicts everything you were taught about how world history actually unfolded
• Why a hundred years of shared Neoclassical architecture, showing up in a dozen "unrelated" cities across two continents, might actually be one empire's fingerprint rather than a coincidence of taste

We also get into the book's narrator, Azazel, and the moment that started this whole obsession for him — a single circled word in an old encyclopedia, and a question that took him years to answer.

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