On this episode of Nutes World, on February 20th, my grandson Robert and I were in Los Angeles,

and we had the pleasure of visiting the Divergent Technologies factory in Torrance, California.

I was so impressed by the manufacturing innovation we saw in that tour.

I wanted to share the story of Divergent with you.

So I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Kevin Zinger,

founder and executive chairman of Divergent Technologies and Zinger vehicles,

the original equipment manufacturer of the world's fastest street legal hypercar, the 21C.

Kevin, welcome and thank you for joining me on Newtsworld.

Well, it's my honor to be on your podcast, Mr. Speaker, and we as a team really enjoyed hosting you and Robert.

So thank you for the opportunity.

And I should say for the full exposure to our audience, that upon leaving you, we promptly went to In-N-Out Burger and my

grandson was able to have animal fries. So I felt that the entire trip was both culturally and

intellectually, very exciting. The only thing better would have been going to the drive-in part

of In-N-Out Burger with 21C. That's true. I don't think I'm quite ready yet, although it's an

amazing car, which we'll get to. But I want to start out with you because, you know, what you've

achieved is amazing, but frankly, you're kind of really remarkable. I mean, you grew up in

working class Ohio. You've built hot rides along with your brothers. You got a football scholarship to Yale,

ended up being an All-American, and then you chose to join the United States Marine Corps Reservesmen.

You've really had a remarkable life before you got into manufacturing. What motivated you through

all that experience? I think that each of these things had its own unique motivation,

but in general, I was the youngest of five in a working class family and the first to go to college. And I

ended up, because Ohio is a football crazy place and the Catholic schools are really the football powerhouses in

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