Weather Weapons & Worse | Tesla's Stolen Tech and the New Arms Race

In the Alaskan wilderness stands an array of 180 antennas pointing skyward. The military calls it research, but declassified patents tell a different story. What began as Nikola Tesla's dream of free energy for humanity may have become the world's most powerful weapon. When Tesla died in 1943, the government seized his research. Decades later, an expensive, top-secret facility appeared in Alaska with technology suspiciously similar to Tesla's designs. From weather modification to earthquake triggers and even mind control, Tesla's technology has sparked a new arms race in the sky above us. What makes this facility concerning isn't what we know—it's what remains classified. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:31AJ Gentile?

  A blinding flash lit the Siberian sky. The explosion was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.

• 0:41AJ Gentile?

  It flattened 80 million trees across 830 square miles. No crater appeared, no meteor fragments were found. Scientists struggled for decades to explain what happened at Tunguska.

• 0:56AJ Gentile?

  Thousands of miles away, Nikola Tesla smiled in his Wardencliff Tower lab. His Tesla Ray had worked perfectly.

• 1:05AJ Gentile?

  When Tesla died in 1943, government agents seized his research.

• 1:11AJ Gentile?

  Decades later, HARP appeared in Alaska. 180 antennas beaming energy into the ionosphere. The military calls it research, but declassified documents tell a different story. What would have been Tesla's greatest gift to the world became the world's most powerful weapon.

• 1:41AJ Gentile?

  In 1901, Nikola Tesla built Wardencliff.

• 1:45AJ Gentile?

  The 190-foot tower on Long Island wasn't for radio signals. It was for wireless energy transmission across the planet. And this wasn't theoretical. Tesla demonstrated wireless power at the 1893 World's Fair. He lit phosphorescent tubes without wires. The crowd was amazed. Tesla believed Earth could conduct electricity like a circuit. The secret was the ionosphere, an electrically charged atmospheric layer starting 50 miles up.

• 2:15AJ Gentile?

  By pumping electromagnetic energy into this layer, he could create a planet-wide resonance system.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, a planet-wide resonance system? Aye, aye. Uh, hello, tech support? Uh, yeah, my human is speaking nerd again. I need a translation.

• 2:31AJ Gentile?

  Well, think of it like pushing a child on a swing.

• 2:33Speaker 02

  Guppy.

• 2:34AJ Gentile?

  Think of it like pushing a guppy on a swing. Small pushes timed right create large sustained motion. Tesla wanted to push the ionosphere at a frequency matching the Earth's resonance. This would create stable waves circling the planet. Earth resonates at 7.83 Hz, and this was proven in 1954. Tesla suspected this, but wasn't certain. He needed financing to continue. J.P. Morgan initially funded the project, but withdrew when he realized Tesla wanted to provide free electricity worldwide. Morgan asked, "If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?" Without Morgan's support, Tesla was ruined. In the 1930s, Tesla announced Teleforce.

• 3:18AJ Gentile?

  The press called it a death ray.

• 3:22AJ Gentile?

  Tesla said it can generate an invisible wall of energy capable of destroying aircraft and armies from hundreds of miles away. We have a whole episode on Tesla's death ray and Wardencliff Tower if you want to learn more.

• 3:34Speaker 02

  This ray linked down to your love luggage.

• 3:39AJ Gentile?

  When Tesla died in 1943, the U.S. government responded fast. His body was still warm as his entire legacy was packed into government crates. Tesla's dream died with him, but his research lived on in the hands of men who saw not free energy, but unlimited power.

• 4:09AJ Gentile?

  Tesla's technical documents were sent to an MIT professor for review. That professor was Dr. John Trump, the future president's uncle.

• 4:19AJ Gentile?

  Dr. Trump, also a National Defense Research Committee member, said Tesla's research contained nothing valuable. That wasn't true.

• 4:27Speaker 02

  Oh, look, make America lie again.

• 4:32AJ Gentile?

  The military quietly continued Tesla's work.

• 4:40AJ Gentile?

  Some research went to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under Project NIC.

• 4:46AJ Gentile?

  This was a top-secret operation launched in 1945 to study Tesla's particle beam weapon. Project NIC's details remain classified. The project was officially abandoned, but particle beam research continued.

• 5:02AJ Gentile?

  DARPA launched Project Seesaw in 1958. Like Project NIC, Seesaw was heavily funded for years, and like Project NIC, Seesaw was quietly shut down.

• 5:14AJ Gentile?

  During this time, Tesla's particle beam technology disappeared. Nobody knows what happened to it. Then, years later, DARPA and the US Air Force built an expensive, secret facility in Alaska.

• 5:28AJ Gentile?

  The technology there would look familiar to Tesla historians. The military claims the facility is only for research, but that's not what the patents say.

• 5:45AJ Gentile?

  In 1987, physicist Bernard Eastland filed a patent titled "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere." The patent described a facility that could heat specific ionosphere portions using radio waves. Eastland wasn't working alone. Arco Technologies funded his research. Arco owned vast natural gas reserves in Alaska's North Slope, but had no buyers. They saw Eastland's invention as a way to convert their gas into something valuable: power. And Eastland's technology needed lots of power.

• 6:22Speaker 03

  Arco originally approached me in 1984 to find a use for the natural gas on the North Slope of Alaska, which they could not sell. To give you a feel for how much gas they asked me to find an application for, it was enough gas to produce all the electricity in the United States for a full year.

• 6:39AJ Gentile?

  The technology is straightforward. A powerful radio signal is transmitted into the atmosphere targeting a specific region. This energy excites charged particles, heating them and altering their properties. The heated region acts like an optical lens. But instead of bending light, it bends and redirects radio waves. This includes radar signals and natural currents in Earth's upper atmosphere. This is like inserting a resistor into a global electrical circuit. The lens could create effects thousands of miles away from the transmission site.

• 7:16AJ Gentile?

  Within a year of Eastland's patent filing, ARCA was awarded a contract to build a similar facility in Alaska. When locals read about it in the March 1988 Omni magazine, they grew concerned. The military insisted they were building a research facility, nothing more.

• 7:33AJ Gentile?

  They didn't. They looked up Eastland's patent and the language was crystal clear.

• 7:39Speaker 03

  Applications discussed in the patents included destroying missiles. Communications, control, and disruption were included. There were some other ideas, both to possibly modify weather. And finally, to lift a portion of the upper atmosphere further out into space, where hopefully it would be able to deflect missile trajectories.

• 8:04AJ Gentile?

  Those are Eastland's own words. This wasn't an invention for ionospheric research. As harp rose in the Alaskan wilderness, the military's intentions were obvious. They weren't just studying the sky, they were weaponizing it.

• 8:23Speaker 04

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• 9:05Speaker 04

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• 9:12Speaker 05

  There are several high-powered radio antennas around the world, but in relation to HARP, they're like a child's cap gun compared to a 50-millimeter cannon.

• 9:26AJ Gentile?

  When locals discovered what DARPA and the Air Force were building in Alaska, they demanded answers. The military admitted to building antennas that could affect the atmosphere, but insisted they use technology different than Eastland's patents.

• 9:38Speaker 02

  Hang on, hang on, let me see if I follow.

• 9:39AJ Gentile?

  Go ahead.

• 9:40Speaker 02

  Tesla dies, the government steals its plans for a debt-free machine, they lose the plans. Then by some miracle, they find a guy who patents a bunch of stuff based on Tesla's debt-free machine, so they give him money to build his HARP thing, but they're not using his stuff, they're using some other stuff, and it's all fine. Nothing to see here, does that about sum it up? Booze.

• 10:05AJ Gentile?

  Eastland later confirmed the military's interest in his work. Before his death in 2007, he said, "HARP is the perfect first step toward a plan like mine. There are powerful people involved, the military never sleeps."

• 10:20Speaker 05

  When you look at the other patents built upon the work of Eastland, it becomes clear how the military intends to use a HARP transmitter. It could give them a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of some atmospheric thermonuclear devices still considered an option by some planners. It can replace the huge, extremely low-frequency submarine communication system. It could replace the over-the-horizon radar system once planned for the current location of HARP with a much more accurate system.

• 10:50AJ Gentile?

  The technical similarities between HARP and Eastland's patents are obvious to engineers. By 1993, DARPA and the Air Force had built a machine that could turn weather into a weapon, and they were excited to show off their new toy.

• 11:09Speaker 06

  The statement that there is no association between the ionosphere and surface weather is an outright lie. We can artificially influence the Earth's aurora with a relatively small amount of energy, and we know that outbursts of the northern lights do change weather patterns. There is indeed mounting evidence that upper atmospheric events affect lower atmospheric weather and vice versa.

• 11:41AJ Gentile?

  In 1996, the US Air Force published "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather" in 2025. This wasn't science fiction, it was a military assessment of weather modification as a combat tool.

• 12:03AJ Gentile?

  The paper stated, "Weather modification will become part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally. It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes." Weather warfare isn't new. During Vietnam, the US conducted Operation Popeye. Cloud seeding to extend monsoon season over enemy supply routes. They called it "making mud, not war."

• 12:32Speaker 02

  Ah, the military in acute operation names. It's like miniagilities, Mr. Snippy.

• 12:43AJ Gentile?

  For years, the idea of creating rain with electricity was a conspiracy theory.

• 12:48Speaker 02

  But then...

• 12:49AJ Gentile?

  But then...

• 12:50Speaker 07

  Dubai, Dubai, is making it rain in a sweltering desert by zapping clouds with electricity using drones. Fascinating, isn't it?

• 13:01AJ Gentile?

  Critics argue HARP's power is too low to affect global weather. A lightning bolt contains 1 billion watts. A hurricane releases energy equal to thousands of nuclear bombs. How could HARP compete? Well, the answer is chaos theory. Weather is a chaotic system, and chaotic systems, small changes trigger larger events. The classic example is the butterfly effect.

• 13:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's didn't cut ya.

• 13:26AJ Gentile?

  We're not playing pub trivia.

• 13:28Speaker 02

  Ah, sorry, sorry, go ahead.

• 13:32AJ Gentile?

  Harp's designers understood chaos theory. They didn't need to match nature's power. They just needed to know where to apply the pressure.

• 13:41AJ Gentile?

  A butterfly's wings can start a tornado. And Harp was the most powerful butterfly ever created.

• 13:52Speaker 08

  What they're not paying any attention to is what's happening to the ionosphere. If they pick the right frequency to push that plume out into space, that energy may discharge back out of the ionosphere, back down the radio beam, and strike the Earth. And it would be about 100 times the energy released out of a thunderbolt.

• 14:27Speaker 08

  Picking up now.

• 14:46Speaker 08

  And it would be about 100 times the energy released out of a thunderbolt.

• 14:56Speaker 00

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• 15:33AJ Gentile?

  Meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz presented this concept in 1972. And his point was something as small as a butterfly could set off a series of events that eventually lead to a tornado.

• 15:46AJ Gentile?

  History is full of butterfly effects. Hitler wanted to be an artist, but he was rejected by the art school in Vienna. He chose a different path. On August 9, 1945, the city of Kakhora was supposed to be hit with an atomic bomb, but it was too cloudy to find the target, so Nagasaki was chosen instead.

• 16:07AJ Gentile?

  HARP doesn't need to match nature's power. It needs a tiny, precise nudge at the right place and time to trigger catastrophe. By 1977, weather manipulation was such a concern that the UN banned it through the Environmental Modification Convention.

• 16:21Speaker 02

  Did the United States military listen to the UN?

• 16:24AJ Gentile?

  No. The UN specifically addressed HARP in 1999, again calling for a ban on technologies that can alter the environment for military purposes.

• 16:34Speaker 02

  Did the United States military listen to the UN this time?

• 16:37AJ Gentile?

  No. The UN issued multiple resolutions calling for transparency, oversight, and international monitoring of facilities like HARP.

• 16:46Speaker 02

  Did the United States military, uh, oh, never mind.

• 16:50AJ Gentile?

  In 2002, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern about geophysical weapons that could alter the weather. He was talking about HARP.

• 17:00AJ Gentile?

  Then Russia and China built their own ionospheric heaters. They saw the military value. An arms race nobody talks about is happening above our heads right now.

• 17:12AJ Gentile?

  But HARP had another ability more powerful than changing weather. By pulsing radio waves at specific frequencies, HARP created low-frequency waves that penetrate deep into the earth and oceans.

• 17:26Speaker 06

  What's most scary and exciting about HARP is the potential of its application. For example, ELF waves generated by the array could be used for a variety of military applications, including finding underground bases, tunnels, even caves. The government is interested in HARP technology because it's a new frontier, a new way to solve an old problem.

• 17:43AJ Gentile?

  These waves oscillate between 1 and 100 hertz, precisely within natural atmospheric resonance. Then scientists wondered, what would happen if those energy waves were directed not at the atmosphere, but at fault lines deep within the Earth? When scientists examine earthquakes, they focus on two factors: tectonic stress and resonant frequency. Every object vibrates at a natural frequency: metal, rock, your body. Exposing an object to its natural frequency amplifies vibrations. And sometimes vibrations grow so strong, they damage the object, like sound shattering

• 18:25AJ Gentile?

  a glass. This is called resonant frequency-induced material failure. It works on large objects, too. A famous example is the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. Wind hitting the bridge at its resonant frequency created vibrations that tore it apart. The Earth's tectonic plates also have a resonant frequency. Fault lines are cracks in the Earth's crust that build up enormous tension as they move against each other.

• 19:02AJ Gentile?

  The right trigger can release this tension.

• 19:12Speaker 08

  In 1983, I did radiotomography with 30 watts, looking for oil in the ground. I found 26 oil wells over a nine-state area, and 100% of the time was accurate, with just 30 watts of power beaming straight into solid rock. HARP, or the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project, uses 2 billion watts.

• 19:38Speaker 08

  Beam straight into the ionosphere for experiments. Now, that's profoundly dangerous.

• 19:44AJ Gentile?

  On January 2nd, 2020, a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing over 200,000 people. What made this earthquake suspicious was its location. It occurred along a fault system that behaved differently than geologists had predicted. And several monitoring stations recorded unusual heating patterns and electromagnetic anomalies in the ionosphere over Haiti. HARP was active during this period. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States of "causing the earthquake using tectonic weapons."

• 20:17Speaker 09

  Spanish newspaper ABC quotes Chavez as saying that "the US Navy launched a weapon capable of inducing a powerful earthquake off the shore of Haiti."

• 20:27AJ Gentile?

  And this theory was dismissed until researchers examined the technical possibility. Similar patterns appeared with other seismic events. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed nearly 90,000 people. Some researchers saw correlations between this disaster and HARP operations.

• 20:46AJ Gentile?

  The 2011 earthquake that triggered the Fukushima disaster also coincided with ionospheric anomalies detected by multiple stations. These correlations concerned China enough that in 2018, they launched the China Seismoelectromagnetic Satellite, designed to study connections between the ionospheric disturbances and earthquakes. Chinese researchers published papers examining correlations between ionospheric heating and seismic activity. As evidence mounted, a pattern emerged. Major earthquakes were occurring where HARP's energy had been detected hours earlier. But the most disturbing application of this technology had nothing to do with the sky above us or the ground beneath our feet. HARP's technology could penetrate the ultimate boundary: the human mind.

• 21:40AJ Gentile?

  The human brain operates within specific frequency ranges, from about 1 Hz to 40 Hz, depending on how alert you are. These are ELF sounds.

• 21:49Speaker 02

  Huh, sounds like an elf. Uh, we talking Legolas or what, a set of slaves?

• 21:54AJ Gentile?

  Not elf, ELF.

• 21:55Speaker 02

  Oh, my second wife generated ELF sounds. Extremely loud and furious.

• 22:02AJ Gentile?

  That's not what ELF stands for.

• 22:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, tell that to a lawyer. After 15 minutes of heard ELF, I signed over the keys to my 84 Camaro.

• 22:12Speaker 02

  Oh, I love that car.

• 22:18AJ Gentile?

  ELF means extremely low frequency.

• 22:24AJ Gentile?

  HARP can generate waves in exactly the same range as human brainwaves. When you ask HARP officials about this, they point out their antenna array doesn't generate ELF waves directly. But when you ask the government questions, you have to be specific. HARP can't generate ELF waves, that's true. But it can heat the ionosphere in a way that creates ELF waves as a byproduct. Documents show that HARP generated ELF waves for years. This is concerning because electromagnetic fields can influence brain function. The phenomenon is called frequency following response, or FFR. Dr. Nick Begich, author of "Angels Don't Play This HARP," explains.

• 23:05Speaker 10

  It has the ability of affecting the frequency following response, which is where the brain locks on to an external signal, begins to mirror it, and brain chemistry changes.

• 23:13Speaker 11

  So even simpler than that is HARP can control minds?

• 23:18Speaker 10

  Absolutely can control, in the sense of changing mental function.

• 23:23AJ Gentile?

  Begich is called a conspiracy theorist, but FFR is proven science. And you know who proved it? The US military. In the 1980s, Dr. Michael Persinger conducted research partly funded by the US Navy. He showed that weak electromagnetic fields applied to the temporal lobe could induce altered states, including religious experiences and hallucinations. When exposed to an external frequency, the brain tends to synchronize with it. This is why bright flashing lights can trigger seizures in some people.

• 23:53Speaker 02

  Oh, is this why every time I'm in the dentist's office, I suddenly know all the lyrics to "It's Raining Men"?

• 23:58AJ Gentile?

  Uh, I don't think so.

• 24:00Speaker 02

  Oh, good. Hallelujah. Amen.

• 24:04AJ Gentile?

  The European Parliament takes this technology seriously. Resolution A40051999 specifically mentioned HARP, while expressing concern about "manipulative capabilities affecting human health and psychology." The resolution called for transparency regarding HARP's ethical implications.

• 24:24Speaker 02

  Does the United States military listen to the EU?

• 24:27AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 24:27Speaker 02

  Uh-huh.

• 24:28AJ Gentile?

  Because HARP uses the ionosphere, it could influence mental states of people over large areas. It could cause hallucinations, alter emotions, induce seizures, all without their knowledge. HARP officials deny mind control allegations, but the CIA denied researching mind control too.

• 24:48AJ Gentile?

  Then MKUltra was exposed, and showed the CIA was exploring the exact same technology.

• 24:58AJ Gentile?

  Other countries were paying attention. In 1998, a Russian military journal published "The Mind Has No Firewall." It was later republished by the US Army War College. The article warned the human mind is vulnerable to electromagnetic intrusion.

• 25:17AJ Gentile?

  Mind control technology is not science fiction, it's science fact. And as the United States continues to refine its capabilities, other world powers are racing to catch up.

• 25:38AJ Gentile?

  The HARP conspiracy theories go back to the 1980s. The story's been covered so much that I was surprised at how many people asked me to do this one. But in researching HARP, I was surprised at how scientifically possible all the theories are. I was also surprised that so much of the science is based on Tesla's work. But how much of this is true?

• 26:00AJ Gentile?

  Well, first, HARP is definitely a high-power radio transmitter designed to heat the ionosphere for research. The facility is real. It operates. It conducts legitimate scientific experiments. These are facts. Second, defense agencies funded and operated HARP for most of its history. The Air Force, Navy, and DARPA don't typically invest hundreds of millions of dollars in purely scientific projects without military applications. Now, this doesn't prove it's a weapon, but it suggests HARP has capabilities beyond what's publicly acknowledged.

• 26:34AJ Gentile?

  Third, the patents that formed HARP's foundation specifically describe weather modification and earth-penetrating applications. Bernard Eastland, who developed these patents, confirmed their potential military uses before he died in 2007. The more extreme claims about HARP causing specific hurricanes or triggering earthquakes lack definitive proof. Correlations exist between HARP operations and certain disasters, but correlation isn't causation. Earthquakes and severe weather existed long before HARP.

• 27:08AJ Gentile?

  The facility's 3.6 million watts seems too low to directly cause major weather events or earthquakes, but scientists confirm weather systems are chaotic enough that small targeted inputs could have major effects.

• 27:23AJ Gentile?

  Claims about mind control also can't be proven, but the science of electromagnetic influence on brain function is real and well-documented. HARP generates frequencies that overlap with human brainwaves. But the signal reaching populated areas would probably be too weak to have any noticeable effects. Maybe. Probably. In 2015, HARP ownership transferred from the military to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

• 27:48Speaker 12

  The University of Alaska Fairbanks is preparing to take control of the high-frequency active auroral program, more commonly known as HARP, next month.

• 27:56AJ Gentile?

  Officials called this a move toward transparency. Critics saw it as rebranding a military weapon as an academic resource. The university now allows public tours and independent researchers. But former DARPA employees have said the most sensitive equipment was removed before the handover. What remains is only a fraction of HARP's capabilities. So is HARP an innocent research project? Or a doomsday device? Well, the truth is probably somewhere in between. Like many advanced technologies, it exists where scientific research overlaps with potential military use. What makes HARP concerning isn't what we know, but what remains classified.

• 28:34Speaker 02

  I like certain pharmaceutical trial documents that they want sealed for 75 years.

• 28:47AJ Gentile?

  Despite many Freedom of Information requests, significant portions of HARP's operational history and technical capabilities remain redacted or withheld. This continued secrecy, decades after HARP was built, will continue to fuel speculation. In many ways, HARP represents our species' growing capacity to affect natural systems on a planetary scale. Whether through climate change, geoengineering, or manipulating the atmosphere, humanity can alter Earth's basic systems, often without fully understanding the consequences.

• 29:21Speaker 02

  How dare you! Ow, you didn't see that coming?

• 29:28AJ Gentile?

  HARP also says something about power. The power structure that most affects our lives remains hidden. We're told not to worry. We're told the military is looking out for us. But history teaches a different lesson. From Project MKUltra to Operation Northwoods, secrecy rarely serves the public good. The technology Tesla dreamed would liberate humanity now sits behind barbed-wire fences, operated by organizations with classified budgets and limited oversight.

• 30:00AJ Gentile?

  Tesla's dream wasn't just about free energy, it was about free knowledge. The military took both. So, what can we do? Question everything? Research these facilities? Support independent monitoring? Demand transparency? Because as the skies above us become weaponized, we can't remain silent. To those in power, our silence is interpreted as only one thing: consent.

• 30:34AJ Gentile?

  Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. You know how to fish.

• 30:38Speaker 02

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• 30:39AJ Gentile?

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• 31:23AJ Gentile?

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• 33:12AJ Gentile?

  Those are the plugs, and there was plenty of them. And that's gonna do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.

• 33:37Speaker 13

  I played Philippius in Area 51. A secret code inside the Bible said I was. I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as well as music, songs singing like I should. But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth with my friends, and it never ends. No, it never ends.

• 34:15Speaker 13

  I fear the crack addict and got stuck inside Mel's home with them chaotic drugs. I'm being only too aware. Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone on a film set? Were the shadows people there? The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man, I'm told, and his name was Cold. And I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Happy fish on Thursday nights with AJ. And the webbed zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to get to the truth

• 34:59Speaker 13

  of the webbed zombie beat all through the night.

• 35:21Speaker 14

  The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come To have got the secret city underground. Mysterious number stations, planets circle to Project Stargate And what the dark watchers found. In a simulation, don't you worry though. The black nights had a lot of tone to me, so I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2 And one more time, baby, all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth

• 36:05Speaker 14

  So one more time, baby, all through the night. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2 And one more time, baby, all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth So one more time, baby, all through the night.

• 36:40Speaker 14

  Girlie loves to dance. Girlie loves to dance on the dance floor Because she is a camel And camels love to dance When the feeling is right on waste in time. Girlie loves to dance.

• 37:16Speaker 15

  The Greatest is the first authorized script series about the life of Muhammad Ali, offering unprecedented access and going beyond the amazing victories and moments that made Ali a legend, both in and out of the ring. From Ben Watkins, the creator of Cross, and executive producer Michael B. Jordan, discover the man who became the legend in a story never told before, starring Jalen Best as D. Muhammad Ali. New series, November 4th, only on Prime Video.

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