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Oct 28, 2026
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Yet, paradoxically, during his peak years in New York, he was a darling of high society.
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Tall, strikingly handsome in a severe, ascetic way, and impeccably dressed, Tesla was a regular at Delmonico's and the Waldorf Astoria.
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He maintained close, intellectually vigorous friendships with luminaries of the era, most notably the author Mark Twain, who spent hours in Tesla's laboratory, marveling at the glowing vacuum tubes and gleefully participating in tests of Tesla's mechanical oscillators.
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Despite his magnetic charm and the persistent attentions of numerous wealthy, educated women, Tesla chose a life of absolute, unbroken celibacy.
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The final chapters of Nikola Tesla's life were cloaked in a poignant, melancholic destitution, a tragic coda for the man who had quite literally invented the 20th century.
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Stripped of his laboratories and devoid of corporate backing, his financial decline was absolute.
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He became a spectral figure, a ghost haunting the corridors of various midtown New York hotels, moving from the Waldorf Astoria to the St. Regis, and finally to the Hotel New Yorker, inevitably leaving a trail of unpaid bills and frustrated managers in his wake.
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Yet his mind, though weathered and increasingly drawn to the esoteric, never ceased its relentless churning.
NickHOST
Now put those archival descriptions next to something the psychiatrist Abram Hoffer wrote in 1980.
NickHOST
In an editorial titled Mega-Amino Acid Therapy, he recalled that he and Humphrey Osmond first presented their adrenochrome hypothesis to the Scottish Rights Dementia Precox Committee at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1952.
NickHOST
Hoffer also associated the committee's founding with psychiatrist Nolan D.C. Lewis.
NickHOST
That is not an anonymous internet allegation.
Rob O'NeillHOST
But that's when we started dedicating everything.
Rob O'NeillHOST
And that's around the time too, where they bullshitted about the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and they were destroyed because of whatever, like 36 years old.
Rob O'NeillHOST
And if you look those up and see the architecture inside, and then they tore them down to build the Empire State Building in a year.
Rob O'NeillHOST
And if you haven't been to New York and seen the, I'm not buying that.
Meg RithmireGUEST
But then there's a scale of it that is totally different.
Meg RithmireGUEST
So if you go back to that period and you think about some of the most prominent Chinese companies that were investing in the United States at that time, right? We have Anbang Insurance, you know, Hainan Airlines, right? We have Wangda, these huge companies, right, that were buying up the Waldorf Astoria.
Meg RithmireGUEST
They were purchasing insurance companies in Europe and the United States.
Meg RithmireGUEST
They bought Club Med in Europe, right? And once you look into the corporate governance structures of these companies, which, you know, I'm not the first to do, David Barboza at the New York Times, you know, looked into all of these corporate records as well.
Meg RithmireGUEST
But then there's a scale of it that is totally different.
Meg RithmireGUEST
So if you go back to that period and you think about some of the most prominent Chinese companies that were investing in the United States at that time, right? We have Anbang Insurance, you know, Hainan Airlines, right? We have Wangda, these huge companies, right, that were buying up the Waldorf Astoria.
Meg RithmireGUEST
They were purchasing insurance companies in Europe and the United States.
Meg RithmireGUEST
They bought Club Med in Europe, right? And once you look into the corporate governance structures of these companies, which, you know, I'm not the first to do, David Barboza at the New York Times, you know, looked into all of these corporate records as well.
Ted SmithHOST
And then my personal favorite, the tampon and a steak.
Ted SmithHOST
This was at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
Ted SmithHOST
Now, on the other hand, just because something gross is on or in your food, it doesn't mean that it's not supposed to be there.
Ted SmithHOST
There's a restaurant owner in South Korea almost went to prison for serving customers sorbet with dried ants on top.
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Miles MontgomeryHOST
Whoa.
Miles MontgomeryHOST
tampon in a steak.
Miles MontgomeryHOST
How? In the $40 filet mignon at the Bull and Bear restaurant in New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Miles MontgomeryHOST
Yeah.
Bill WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And at the end of three and a half, the Brewers two, Yankees one.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, the first annual Thurman Munson Scholarship Award will be presented to Emmanuel Santiago of Morris High School in the Bronx at the 16th Annual All-American Collegiate Golf Foundation Dinner on August 12th at the Waldorf Astoria.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The award is to be presented each year to a high school senior in the New York metropolitan area who combines the highest levels of academic achievement with sports ability and high standards of character.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Emmanuel plans to attend Fordham University in the fall as a pre-med major.
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Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So McClure leaves after pitching two and two-thirds innings in relief.
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
allowing three hits, walking three, striking out nobody, charged with three runs, and responsible for the two men on base.
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, while we wait for John Flynn to come on from the bullpen, we'd like to remind you that our good buddy William Fugazi, General Chairman, has announced that the 16th Annual All-American Collegiate Golf Foundation Dinner will be held on Tuesday evening, August 12th, at the Waldorf Astoria.
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Heading the list of eight collegiate golfers who will be honored that evening are two-time Player of the Year Bob Clampett from Brigham Young University... and Gary Hallberg of Wake Forest, the low amateur in this year's U.S. Open.
Ray MundoHOST
Yeah, so I look it up, and it was $200 a night, and it looks like it's straight from New York City.
Ray MundoHOST
It looks like the Waldorf Astoria.
Ray MundoHOST
Yeah, we don't need that.
Ray MundoHOST
So I tell everybody, hey, we're going to Amway.
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Tampon in a steak.
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How? In the $40 filet mignon at the Bull and Bear restaurant in New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
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Yeah.
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He took a bite of his meat and wound up with a bloody one in his mouth.
John CatsimatidisHOST
What's going on?
David PatersonGUEST
Well, first, John, I want to give you the pulse of what went on last Wednesday night when the Blue Square Alliance – this is the alliance to fight anti-Semitism and hate all over the world – had an event at the Waldorf Astoria and raised $32,180,000.
David PatersonGUEST
And you were there, I was there, and I just think it was a tremendous event.
David PatersonGUEST
And the speakers were so passionate, not about just anti-Semitism, but just how people treat other people.
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