Episode Details

A father and son's experiments involving a hot dog and a 12,000-kilowatt AM radio tower in St. Charles have captivated the internet. Radio engineer Joe Geerling and his son, Jeff Geerling, who has more than a million followers on his tech-focused YouTube channel, discuss their fascination with AM radio towers and the arcs of plasma produced by objects that get too close to RF energy. They also talk about the moment that made this experiment go viral: When an audio signal could be heard playing out the hot dog's burning flesh as it touched the AM radio tower.