Megyn Kelly is Joined By Doug Brunt To Talk About His New Book, and the Importance of Laughter in Marriage
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
I'm joined now by a very special guest, a New York Times bestselling author, host of the excellent podcast Dedicated with Doug Brunt, and the author of the upcoming book, The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel, Romanoff's Revolutionaries and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World. Doug happens to be my husband as well, so that worked out well. Hi, honey.
Hi, it's great to be here.
Congrats. So here is the galley copy of the new book, which is just so cool looking. It's beautiful. The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel. And it looks kind of similar, similar style to your last big New York Times bestseller, The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel. Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel will not be available until May, but they can pre-order it today. Have it in time for Father's Day.
What is the main topic of Doug Brunt's new book?
Yeah. And tell us what The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel is about.
What is by getting the galleys is such a nice moment. We opened the box, you know, as a family around the dining room table and you pull them out and you see it and you hold it in your hands after years of working on it. It is a companion book to the diesel book. Emmanuel Nobel has an appearance in the Rudolph diesel story.
But you don't have to have read diesel in order to read this book.
It can be out of sequence. And in fact, I haven't said this really. The only people who know this next piece are you and my editor and a few people in archives around the world, but I'm working on a third, which will be, will complete a trilogy of, of these three turn-of-the-century characters, Emmanuel Nobel essentially established the Russian oil industry along the Caspian Sea in southern Russia. So by 1900, he and his family had built an oil business larger than Standard Oil. And in World War I, he controlled more oil than anyone else on the planet. So it was this huge prize sitting in southern Russia that Germany, the Brits, the Bolsheviks, the communists, Japan, everybody wanted to get to the Nobel oil because they had essentially developed a whole oil infrastructure that was superior to anything else in the world.
Superior to Rockefeller, that's crazy.
Even to Rockefeller. And yet, for reasons explained in the book, Nobel has been obliterated from history. Totally. So this brings him back to life and tells the story.
The only Nobel anybody knows is Alfred Nobel, who started the Nobel Prizes. This is Emmanuel Nobel, his nephew, built a totally different, bigger fortune that has been totally forgotten, wiped out. His name is not really known at all in connection with the awards. That's all the Uncle Alfred who did dynamite. That was his business. And it's it's do you reveal why?
But I mean, like a little I mean, it has, of course, the when the communists took over Stalin and Lenin, they nationalized all these businesses. But everyone, even in that time, even when the Bolsheviks had taken over, everyone thought the communists are going to last about three days. And so there's an interesting negotiation between Standard Oil and Rockefeller and Nobel about all these Russian assets of petroleum, what to do with them, because nobody believes Lenin's going to last. And with regard to the prize, though, it's. So Alfred Nobel and the prizes, he was he was an investor in the oil business of his brothers and nephew. But the prize wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Emanuel either. And there are two funny stories about that.
When Emanuel's father, Ludwig, dies, Alfred and Ludwig are huge celebrities around the world. And the newspapers in France where Alfred lives, mistakes happen. who's died. They thought Alfred died. So they print this obituary for Alfred Nobel, calling him, you know, as the inventor of dynamite, this merchant of death and caused more, you know, killing than anyone in history. And so he reads his own obituary and thinks, holy crap, you know, I need to, this can't be how I'm remembered. And so he changes his will to establish the prize and gives, you know, tons of his money away.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:02
2
What is the main topic of Doug Brunt's new book?
1:02–4:06
3
How does Doug Brunt's book connect to the history of the Nobel family?
4:06–7:50
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What role does laughter play in a healthy marriage?
7:50–10:32
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How do Doug and Megyn incorporate humor into their family life?
10:32–12:36
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What are the challenges of modern parenting discussed in the episode?
12:36–15:07
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How does the conversation shift to the topic of education and accommodations?
15:07–17:26
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What insights does Doug provide about the importance of font in communication?
17:26–54:15
Speakers
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