Anthony Scaramucci
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And then we'll get into the book, The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel.
Well, I mean, the reason I'm bringing him up is I had no idea who he was.
And I have to confess to you, I guess I'm a little ignorant because I didn't realize that Diesel was actually named after somebody, you know, like someday I hope we have a Brunt engine or a Scaramucci engine.
I mean, think about the impact that this guy had on our lives, but, uh,
For many people, though, when they hear the word Nobel, they think of Alfred Nobel and they think of the Nobel Prize.
But Emmanuel Nobel was bigger and he had larger scope as a human being.
So tell us who he was.
But also, why did history, I feel like history has erased him.
You've brought him back to life, but he should be a way bigger, in my opinion, after reading your book, he should be a way bigger industrialist and a way bigger part of the Industrial Revolution story.
And so he did that to... Stalin invented the Snapchat filter, Doug.
I mean, he was the first guy to invent it.
But, you know, I mean...
I mean, I was dying to ask you this question, and so I'm going to ask it to you.
I feel like the Russian story went off on a negative timeline because the culture there is amazing.
They had a capitalist footprint going into the 20th century and had the czar.
And again, this is perhaps apropos to our time, because when poor people get upset,
And richer people are taking too much of the economic rent for themselves.
You get people upset and they come at you with torches and pitchforks and things end brutally.
I was just wondering if it would have been a different timeline if people like him
had taken, I guess, a different approach to the economic situation.