He was a con-artist.
I've checked the video and from what I could see, the "lead wire" was in fact a gold one coated with something that he took out (small lead colored ball) of the small crucible before grabbing the gold wire (that remained intact, since lead has a much lower melting point than gold.
It takes much more energy to create gold outta lead, but not worth it.
Immortal con artist...
Somewhere in the video I think he claims (according to the generated subtitles) to speak more than a dozen languages and dialects.
Can you confirm? I'm curious. If you could even find videos of him speaking other languages, that'd be great.
After a couple of researches, I've found that there's a possible connection... With ancient aliens https://youtu.be/x4B4_5ujnhA?t=172
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