The Electric Jesus

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I’ve become an avid listener of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. Great guests continue to join the lineup, but I still find the episodes with comedian Duncan Trussell to be the best, bar none.

Some time ago Duncan was discussing Nikola Tesla on the show and mentioned an episode of Drunk History that featured him summarizing Tesla’s life while pissed drunk, so I searched it out. (John C. Reilly plays Tesla and Crispin Glover plays Thomas Edison.) As hilarious as the clip is (featured below) it also introduced me to Tesla’s achievements and sent me down the rabbit hole to learn more about the guy. What a fucking phenom!

Duncan’s slurred words at the end of the clip sum up Nikola Tesla in a way that first made me laugh and then inspired me to draw the image at right. Click to enlarge.

(And here’s the aforementioned episode of Drunk History…)

5 Responses to “The Electric Jesus”

  1. Gman | October 19, 2011 at 1:30 am #

    This is fucking amazing!!shit!

  2. Michiel | October 19, 2011 at 3:48 am #

    I really like the drawing. You have skills, I’ll give you that!

    And the video from Drunk History is just hillarious. Time to look up more of this.

  3. PriedThirdEye | October 24, 2011 at 11:37 am #

    I agree…duncan is the best guest by far. I’ve gone back and listened to nearly all of joe rogan’s podcasts. So great.

    Great work here. Thanks.

  4. Darcy J. Watt | October 26, 2011 at 1:49 pm #

    Thank you all for the kind words!

  5. Jakub | October 31, 2011 at 8:26 am #

    Wow, that is awesome!

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