The Tesla Files: Lost Inventions, Vanishing Notebooks, and the Genius Nobody Could Monetize - Deceptive Reality Podcast S4E8

The Tesla Files: Lost Inventions, Vanishing Notebooks, and the Genius Nobody Could Monetize - Deceptive Reality Podcast S4E8

February 20, 2026 · 1h 18m · Season 4 · Episode 112

About this episode

This episode explores Nikola Tesla's legacy, his inventions, and the implications of modern creativity in the context of technology and profit.

Nikola Tesla was years ahead of everyone, and it might have cost him everything. In this episode, Bert and Nick trace Teslas rise, his strangest ideas, the inventions people still argue about, and the mystery of what happened after his death, including the rapid scramble around his personal papers and notebooks. They also detour into modern creativity and the AI content wave, why fake real videos frustrate creators, and what it means when the internet starts rewarding shortcuts over craft. Somewhere between Teslas story and todays tech culture, the same theme keeps showing up: if nobody can profit from it, genius can get buried fast.

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