Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Hello, I'm Earthhear McDonald. I'm an astrophysicist by profession and also the 2015 Nobel Laureate for physics.

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: I'm a banker. James Lemon is my name. Currently, I am the Chairman and CEO of the largest bank in the US - JP Morgan Chase.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: Hi friends, I'm Melon Tusk, and I'm excited to be back for another discussion. I'm the CEO of Tesla Motors and also co-own SpaceX, SolarCity.
It is my vision to help people through technology. Not just the human race, but the entire planet.

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: Melon, a lot of people compare you to Steve Jobs. You both tend to cause havoc in your respective industries through positive disruption of technology. But I feel that you are more like Nikola Tesla himself.

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: Bonn, please don't compare him to Tesla. Tesla was dirt poor and a total failure. Melon, on the other hand, is a successful businessman.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: James, not all of us measure success in monetary terms. Secondly, I'm no businessman, I'm just a student of science. And most importantly, NEVER EVER shall you speak ill about Sir Nikola Tesla. At least not in my presence.

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Yes Bonn, Tesla has done more for the world of physics than we have all done combined. The modern world doesn't know what Tesla was since not much is being spoken or written about him.

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: That’s true, we've all been ignoring his contributions. He was the inventor of the radio, while the world believes it to be Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi based his works on Tesla's research.

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Well, Tesla was always ahead of his time. He had developed a small toy boat controlled by radio waves. This was in 1898 - the crowd that witnessed the demonstration was so shocked that they literally claimed Tesla was using magic, telepathy or had a trained monkey hidden inside controlling the boat.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: And when Marconi became world famous for sending the first trans-Atlantic message, Tesla said the following: "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents."

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: If Marconi was using 17 of his patents, how many did he have at all?

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Over his lifetime Tesla had obtained more than 300 patents and more than 700+ inventions to his name. Most of them had no environmental impact. Sadly, many of them have been lost today. So, we are in fact, reinventing much of the technology he had already created.

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: Absolutely. The X-rays were discovered by him. He had warned of their harmful effects which Edison did not heed and after testing, one of his employee's arm had to be amputated and he eventually died from cancer.

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Energy was another area. He had already envisioned how a generator could harness energy from moving water when he was still a child. Later, developed the world's first hydroelectric power station at Niagara Falls, which could power an entire city.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: He chose Niagra Falls! It is truly said: genius always comes with drama. But the creative genius and drama behind the earthquake machine is my most favourite invention by Tesla.

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: It is called a seismograph, Musk. That's the device you use to measure an intensity of earthquakes. And it was Tesla's contemporary John Milne who invented it. I accept that Tesla was an inventor, but he did not create everything under the sky. Stop hailing him for every little thing.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: Hold your horses, James. You seem to have got the wrong end of the rope, just like the time you didn't know to disclose conflicts of interest. Coming back to the earthquake machine, I'm referring to a pocket device that CAUSED an earthquake, not measured it.

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: Great! So now we have the scientist creating disasters by himself through technology!

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: One: he was a futurist, not just a scientist. Two: It was no disaster. He went to the top of a New York building, set the machine to the natural frequency of the structure, and they both started vibrating. The building was immediately evacuated and when the police arrived, he simply put the machine in his pocket and walked away quietly.

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: I've seen a documentary mention this. Another 10 minutes, and he would have put the building to the ground. Similarly, he claimed that he just needed 1 hour to drop the Brooklyn Bridge.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: Ha! I guess he would have even escaped that. His potential was beyond measure. Tesla also figured out the resonant frequency of the earth 50 years before the technology allowed scientists to catch up with his discovery.

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: Bonn, you have written a book about him. Why don't you speak of his failures? What about the Tesla tower?

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: Tesla Tower was an ambitious project. It was designed to deliver free energy to the world by using the Earth's ionosphere as part of the transmission device. It would have been like WiFi, but instead of internet, you would have receive electricity. Unfortunately, the project was shut down because the financial backer stopped it.

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: And James, you very well know who that financial backer was, don't you? Your founder JP Morgan!

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: Another blot on the bank's name, but this time from the past. Shame on you! Tesla was a hardcore humanist. He wanted free electricity for all. But just because there was no revenue, your founder shut the project.
Marconi sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic, making Morgan change his mind. Only want to back the winning horse, huh?

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: Tesla was mentally unstable. He used 18 napkins to clean his table before eating dinner. He didn't like round objects, jewelry and even shaking hands!

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: Yes, it is true. He was also afraid of pearls, fat women and earrings. His immense mental prowess caused him to hallucinate. But he was a good man.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: You called me a businessman earlier. Tesla was no businessman either. Westinghouse Electric was in trouble once. They were almost bankrupt and about to go under so Westinghouse pleaded with Tesla to temporarily cut back his royalties. And you can never imagine what he did next: Tesla ripped up the contract right there and then on the spot, letting go hundreds of thousands of dollars in accrued royalties.

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Aah, the Westinghouse device. He created alternating current devices which Westinghouse used to push out Edison's direct current apparatus from the market. That was quite a blow to Edison's reputation. In fact, the contemporary media titled this the 'War of Currents.'

James Lemon (CEO, JP Morgan) :
Analyst: And how did that work for him? All this just caused him loneliness and depression. In his last days, he only had money to survive on a diet of milk and crackers.

Earthhear McDonald (Nobel Prize, Physics) :
Academician: Tesla's ideas help America grow into an industrial nation and a powerhouse of the 20th century. Yet his marginalization was prevalent then and continues today (as we evidently see in your behaviour).

Bonn O'Neil (Journalist) :
Journalist: True. He is almost non-existent if you look through many of today's textbooks. This is mainly because Tesla did not care about profit, fame or fortune; he only wanted to make the world a better place.

Melon Tusk (CEO, Tesla) :
Melon: I think this should be a lesson to us all: 'have the purest intentions but stand up for yourself and know your worth'. Let's leave it at that.