S2, E94 - Solving the Mysterious Death of Rudolf Diesel
The Truck Show Podcast
Truck Famous, LLC.
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
New York Times best selling author Douglas Brunt discusses his new non-fiction novel about the mystery surrounding the life and suspicious death of internal combustion icon Rudolf Diesel, in his new book The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel. Hear how re-powering a boat set Brunt on the path that lead him to discover the true details surrounding Diesel's controversial death. The Truck Show Podcast is proudly presented by Nissan in association with Banks Power and AMSOIL.
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| 0:00.0 | I know it's weird Holman, it's super weird, but I am reading a book and I'm almost done with it. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm 17 chapters into the mysterious case of Rudolph Diesel and I can't tell you the last time I read a book cover to cover. |
| 0:15.6 | I shouldn't be proud of that statement. So what are you saying? We're starting the Truck Show Podcast Book Club? Maybe we should. |
| 0:20.3 | I listen. I've been... |
| 0:21.3 | This would be the second author we've had on I no we've had more than that have we yes |
| 0:25.1 | Absolutely and I want to get uh Brent underwood from Sarah Gordo wrote ghost town living which I've been |
| 0:31.1 | I'm almost done I have like four chapters left |
| 0:33.6 | without getting on a plane tomorrow and bringing that book with me. |
| 0:35.8 | I don't know what's wrong with me. |
| 0:36.9 | I've almost purchased that book three times. |
| 0:38.9 | I've never hit the ad to cart button for some reason. |
| 0:41.9 | I feel like... It's amazing. It's a fast read and it's |
| 0:45.0 | phenomenal. I'll tell you why because I keep thinking that you and I are going to go up |
| 0:49.0 | there and interview him and I'll grab a book up there because I know he stocks them on site and they get them to sign it and I'll just do it all at once. |
| 0:55.5 | Buy it at Amazon, you read it so you have context for when you're up there and then have them sign it while you're there. |
| 1:00.0 | I like that. That's a good angle. I don't know why you wouldn't do that anyway I don't know this book is special |
| 1:05.2 | because this is completely different we have a New York Times best-selling author who's a novelist |
| 1:10.0 | which is not what you would normally associate with the truck show podcast, although this is one of those books that you |
| 1:16.6 | It'll catch your eye and the more you look into you go oh I I care about that. |
| 1:23.1 | I do care about this, and I didn't know how much I cared about it until I got into it. |
| 1:27.5 | Lightning doesn't even know how to read, and he learned how to read just for this interview. He found this book and it was amazing. He picked up reading real |
| 1:36.2 | fast. Well first I got up my subscription hooked on phonics and then I bought the mysterious case of Rudolph Diesel by Douglas Brun. So Rudolph Diesel, the father of Diesel. Well, the interesting thing about him is he had this entire cottage industry of the diesel engine |
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