{"podcast":{"title":"Badlands Media","slug":"badlands-media-5934327","podcast_index_feed_id":5934327,"rss_url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15577742/1_2tf2af.jpg","author":"Badlands Media","episode_count":100,"summary":"Badlands Media features the work of a dedicated group of Patriot citizen journalists who are changing the media landscape in America. Badlands Media shows are originally broadcast LIVE on Rumble.com/BadlandsMedia.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T06:18:32.299904+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327"},"episode":{"title":"Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 11: The Dark Truth of Nikola Tesla - Part 1","slug":"breaking-free-of-psyops-ep-11-the-dark-truth-of-nikola-tesla-part-1","published_at":"2026-06-23T00:59:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327/breaking-free-of-psyops-ep-11-the-dark-truth-of-nikola-tesla-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327","url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/breaking-free-of-psyops-ep-11-the-dark-truth-of-nikola-tesla-part-1/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/37sixmvyvb4rydeu/Breaking_Free_of_Psyops_ep_11_1_7weqp.mp3","summary":"Think Tesla was a persecuted genius who just wanted to give the world free energy? Matt Ehret would like a word. In Part 1 of this deep dive, he traces Tesla's closest friendship to George Sylvester Virek, Hitler's official Washington spokesman, Aleister Crowley disciple, and organizer of the 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi rally. Along the way Ehret documents Tesla's enthusiastic support for mandatory eugenics, his belief that humans are soulless automatons with no free will, his claim to have received radio signals from Martians, and his tele-automaton demos that turned out to be a guy behind a curtain with a remote control. The Wardenclyffe Tower? Blown up by US Naval Intelligence for transmitting secrets to Germany. The beloved persecuted visionary story starts looking considerably less heroic from here.","meta_description":"Think Tesla was a persecuted genius who just wanted to give the world free energy? Matt Ehret would like a word. In Part 1 of this deep dive, he traces Te…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5381,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/badlands-media-5934327/episodes/breaking-free-of-psyops-ep-11-the-dark-truth-of-nikola-tesla-part-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327/breaking-free-of-psyops-ep-11-the-dark-truth-of-nikola-tesla-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}