Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest. His name is David Tuck. His last name is spelled T-U-C-H, but it's pronounced Tuck.

And if you're watching this on YouTube, Rockfin, Rumble, X, Twitter.

You'll see the title and cover of his new book.

The full title is The Wireless Operator, the Untold Story of the British Sailor,

who invented the modern drug trade.

And I was reading through the book and has some interesting names in it.

He also has an interesting blur from a guest who I've had on as Tim Tate, who I've had on recently to catch a spy. And just the blurb that

Tim Tate wrote is David Tuck brings it the remarkable story of Harold Durber, refugee gunrunner,

Ethical People Smuggler, and Revolutionary Drug Traffker Out of the Shadows, and gunrunner, ethical people smuggler, and revolutionary drug trafficker out of the shadows,

and what a tale it is, an extraordinary life of adventure and misadventure, and a rollicking good read.

So that's a great piece of information from Tim Tate, who's a very accomplished author.

But David Tuck, this is his first book. He's a cousin of the kind of

protagonist in this book. You see his face here. He was born with a different name. But David Tuck is a

technology entrepreneur. He's born in New York and received his doctorate from MIT in Harvard Medical

School. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, Chus sits with his wife and four children. This is his first book. So David, Tucker, welcome to the show. Thanks, Bill. It's great to be a big fan of the show. Thanks for having me. Great, great. So for people who haven't heard your name, this is your first book. Maybe you can talk about your background. You have a great academic career. Kind of background, your research, and what led you on to the story about the wireless operator.

With pleasure. Let me begin by mentioning never in a thousand lifetimes that I think I'll be writing about true spies and gun running and drug trafficking. I'm a science and technology entrepreneur by background.

I sold my company in 2023,

and I was thinking about what's next in life,

and I was doing some family genealogy research just out of curiosity,

and I was exchanging notes with a distant cousin.

And towards the end of the conversation, he said almost kind of off the cuff,

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