Hi everybody this is Gatside for the Sad Truth. Today I have a rarity on the show

a novelist and a non-fiction author Douglas Brunt. How are you doing sir?

Great to be with you, G God. Thanks for having me.

Oh, I'm so delighted to have you with me.

Let me just read a very, very quick bio of you

and you could add anything that you think I might have missed.

You're a New York time best-selling author and host of the dedicated

with Doug Brunt podcast, which I am honored to be appearing on in about a month or two, I know two

months I think in early December, you have three previous novels,

Ghosts of Manhattan in 2012, The Means in 2014, Trophy Son in 2017,

and your current book which came out in September the mysterious case of

Rudolph Diesel it's really a historical book so it's not a it's not a fiction book

maybe we'll start with this one and then we'll talk about book so it's not a it's not a fiction book.

Maybe we'll start with this one and then we'll talk about your how you actually

create all these characters in your novels.

Tell us about Diesel I must, just like your wife, people who don't know, it's Megan Kelly,

I listen to your chat, all I knew about diesel is that that's the thing that I shouldn't put in my car and it ended there so please teach us.

That's right so eight years ago I was the same as as you and most of your listeners probably

misspelling diesel with a lower case

D thinking it was maybe a fuel that we're supposed to avoid for our cars and but you

see it every day it's on it's at the fueling the fueling station, it's on a truck, on a train. I bought a boat and I was, it was an older boat and slightly

larger and the guy at the boat yard was saying, well the first thing you should do to fix this boat up is get rid of these gasoline

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