This Man Turned Plastic Into Fuel… And It Could Save the World‼️ | Julian Brown
Earn Your Leisure
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Earn Your Leisure, we sit down with Julian Brown to discuss how one documentary sparked his journey into becoming a scientist with over 7 million followers. After learning that less than 1% of plastic is actually recycled, he made it his mission to solve the global plastic waste crisis.
We break down pyrolysis—the process of turning plastic into crude oil—and how Julian built a microwave system in his backyard. He shares the challenges, from machine failures to going viral, and how he used content to fund and scale his innovation.
Julian also opens up about his long-term vision to eliminate plastic waste, turning down major deals, and what it will take to bring his technology to the world. This is a powerful conversation on innovation, resilience, and changing the future.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | Guaranteed Human. Plastic has more energy in it than the fuel that we have in this world. If we can turn this into a valuable item that we know it's so valuable because we go to war and kill each other over with. Now, you're thinking like, let me change the world. Nobody had made a solar microwave pyrolysis reactor. Anywhere, I built this. I know it works, but why is this not adopted in the world and then my phone is completely hacked |
| 0:25.1 | and they had complete access to my phone trying to figure out like is this a |
| 0:28.5 | physical threat is my life of risk and my family's life at risk and then I I felt |
| 0:31.9 | these really deep vibrations to my whole body was a helicopter flying over |
| 0:35.6 | and the spotlight was really shining directly into the windshield of my name |
| 0:38.7 | I was getting ready to just drive off that night because I'm like what is going on? This was a funded organization funded by some nation's governments to do this. That was a team and that was an expensive attack. They did look like a kidnapping situation. I'll keep it real. The plastic issue here is pandemic. So we thank you. That's why I said. We got to make sure you say that all times. My diesel makes more power than diesel from the punk, makes less smoke, it burns cleaner. Coca-Cola did not patent the Coca-Cola formula. Why? Because if they patented in the formula, everybody would know it. The key is being first to market. You writing a book telling people how to do what you did? Yeah. going to put everything in it you everything in it. You got the trade secrets. When I read that book, I want to tell people how to build |
| 1:13.7 | a machine and that means everything. All right, guys, welcome back, EYL. This is the futuristic version. |
| 1:21.0 | For sure. We're in 2030. Very fitting. For sure. So we got a very, very, very, very special guest. The good brother Julian, Alexander Brown, we actually met at Investfest last year. It was a surprise. I didn't know he's going to be there. We were signing books in the v in the marketplace and turned around. That's one of the beauty of the invest fest. You never know it was going to be there. Turned around. And he was, and we just chopped it up. And then I believe he came to the VIP night after that. It was |
| 1:47.1 | around for the weekend. So if you're not familiar with Julianne, he's the gentleman. He's been |
| 1:54.0 | going viral on social media for turning plastic to pretty much gasoline that can be used for cars to for cars to run on which you know we |
| 2:04.0 | talk about especially now it's timely with everything that's been going on in the middle east |
| 2:08.1 | iran the price of oil the price of gas and it's been it's always been an issue but it's it's becoming |
| 2:15.3 | even more of an issue people are not not being able to, you know, |
| 2:20.4 | travel because the price of gas is so high and so much discomfort that comes from that and from an |
| 2:26.1 | environmental standpoint as well, environmental impact that so many gas emissions have on |
| 2:32.9 | the environment. Obviously, that's been talked about for a long period of time. |
| 2:36.0 | So we talk about STEM a lot in our community, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, |
| 2:42.0 | and this really encompasses all of that. |
| 2:45.0 | So, you know, talking to an entrepreneur, but an inventor, somebody that's a pioneer in the space, somebody that's a scientific genius. |
| 2:54.8 | So we got a lot to talk about. So first and foremost, thank you for joining us, brother. Appreciate it. |
| 2:58.3 | Absolutely. Thank you guys for having me. |
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