Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klaven. Welcome to this week's interview with Douglas Bruntees,

a historian and a novelist, because written this book, usually these interviews we talk

about issues that you've heard of. This is an issue you've never heard of and until I

started reading this book, which I just finished yesterday, I had never heard of. It's one of the

loopiest stories I've ever heard. It's an amazing true story. The fact that I've never heard of it

or heard of the person involved just really got me as I started reading it. Every few pages I was

going, you got to be kidding me. So I'm just going to bring Douglas on to tell you about it. The

name of the book is the mysterious case of Rudolph Diesel. It is already a New York Times

bestseller and I can understand why it's incredibly gripping. And like I said, one of the craziest

stories you'll ever hear, Doug, thanks so much for coming on. It's a real pleasure, Andrew. Thanks

for having me on. And I have to say, it's funny that you were reading it just yesterday because

if I'm at all leery-eyed today, it's because last night I started this, your latest Cameron

Winter and couldn't put it down. So I got very little sleep last night. And so darn you Andrew Klaven,

you're writing. You're keeping me up all night. You know, having a guest on plug my book is

actually terrific. I appreciate it. I thank you very much. Sorry to turn the tables on you.

No, you're a little bit diesel. Diesel, yeah, I like you. You know, it's a word we know. We all

know the name Diesel, but it's always misspelled with the lowercase D. I'm like forward. You know,

we never see it forward with that lowercase F. So we all know it, but there's a whole story

behind it. Almost no one knows there's a man Rudolph Diesel who invented this engine.

Because, and it's really for reasons explained in the book that his history has been paved over

these last hundred years, but he disappeared mysteriously on the eve of World War I in 1913.

This is the thing. Like, I looked at it. I thought I didn't know there was a guy named Rudolph

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