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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The story feels like a modern echo of Preston Tucker.
Is yeah, that nineteen forty eight Tucker sedan and he
was crushed by industry giants. People may be familiar with
the movie Tucker starring Jeff Bridges. I mean, do you
see parallels in your fight with you and Preston Tucker.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, I certainly can see those things.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
However, it is a new age. It is a new
time now, especially with the nature of social media. So
I think what's fascinating about that is that the public
can see this happening like right now and directly. For instance,
when I did the Malvern down test and zero sixty,
that's a lot of video.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You can see it.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
And while there's a like a microscopic fraction of one
percent of people that just want to be trolls or
be like I'm skeptical, you're not real, right, I'm like really,
because I just did it in front of everybody's face
and called it eleven years ago, and everybody who's an
engineer worth half their SalCo went just looked at it
and went, oh wow, he actually did that. So regarding
(01:08):
Preston Tucker. You know, I think and I'm not as
familiar with that story to be as frank as some others.
You see how the powers that be don't want it
to be even with John Delorian. And you know, John
Delaurian's car was not trying to be wildly feel ficient
or something, but it was very different. And then were
powers that be that related from the British government to
(01:31):
literally the FBI just wanted a high profile target to
set up, and with John Delaurian, they literally changed the
laws on entrapment for what the FBI can or cannot do,
even though like that stops some of our most evil
alphabet agencies from.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Doing whatever they want, but they changed the laws after that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So yeah, I'm barking up trees that have been barked up,
only I'm probably doing it louder.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So that's fun, you know, But.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I don't know if you take a step back and
look at that, and you look at the different people
that have tried to do things like this, and.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, it doesn't even have to be the automotive world.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I remember one person like in the at least the
thought of it in a parallel to Nikolai Tesla, and
I'm not by any me.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He's trying to compare myself to him. He was brilliant.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
But I guess it all comes down to human nature
and the psychology of the masses, the psychology of the individual,
and the psychology of entities. With power, people always want
more power, and money is just a power. Control is
a power, A narrative is a power. The media is
(02:49):
a power. Why do we go about our daily lives
thinking that all of these things are.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Genuinely true or in everyone's best entry. They're not. I
don't know if they ever have been. And I don't
like that. You know, I'm an individual.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I think of communities, I think of nations, I think
of the world. I like the environment, even though somehow
we've made that be a politicized type thing outside the
scope of reason. So why can't we just do things
that are in everybody's best interest rather than just a
few and then lie about it in a big way?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Does your engine burn cleaner? Does it burn cooler? Your engine?
Does it last longer?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I would say it lasts longer by virtue of being diesel.
It's good in that regard. And since the car itself
is highly efficient. That means there's a lot less physical
effort the engine has to be put through to do
what it is, and you're burning a lots less fuel,
so there's a lot less effort there too, So it's.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Going to last a long time. Actually, kind of glad
you said that.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I didn't even think to say that, But yeah, it'll
last a lot longer than the normal ice engines do.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And diesels go forever anyway, this one will go forever
in a day. How about that? And what comes out
the tailpipe? Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You know, less noxious fumes?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It's still an ice engine, however, because by virtue of
burning the unit that we typically think of as a gallon,
you know, or a leader, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You pick your you know, your unit.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you're burning a lot less for distance you're going, well,
people only need to go to the distance they need
to go.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So guess what, it has less emissions.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And that's such a fascinating point that powers that be
in the narrative want everybody to forget about. Because let's say,
hypothetically you have a situation where let's imagine an engine,
maybe it gets ten percent higher missions per a test
they do. But what happens if the mileage, you know,
(05:05):
is one hundred percent better or one hundred and fifty
or two hundred percent better. Okay, well, then it's a
net decrease in emissions. Ah, but there's ways for things
to argue about that in a test than to say
to the world the mass populace said, oh, it's good permissions.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm like, what.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's like barely over and the thing's getting hundreds of
times or hundreds of percent more miles to gowns.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So it's a net decrease. So I wanted to bring
that up.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Naturally, with diesel being energy dense and such, there is
the possibility for some higher emissions, but there's ways to
mitigate that, there's ways to do better. So I frankly think,
based upon basic observation, that the consideration of emissions maybe
(05:59):
originally had good intention for sake of the environment such,
but it's been mutated for power and control to keep
things to be a certain way because don't question this.
So and I think that's also the nature the time
we live in now, and I see that globally politically,
that everything that the politicians in power be that's like,
(06:20):
we're doing this for your best interest, whether it's environmentally
or socially or economically. Oh no, it's not. It is
literally all about power and control. So if people are
coming about things and saying they're going to do something,
it's like, what's your solution. Oh, you want more power
and you want to tax everybody more. Yeah, that's not
a solusion.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
One hundred miles per gallon?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Is that the upper limit or is the sky the limit?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Not at all? No, not at all. That's that's the beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
People just like the hundred batllle of gallon mark because
it's three digits. The first time out, I got one
hundred and four point seventy two miles of gallon is
driving it normally with stop signs and stuff. That was
without all the aerodynamic fairings on. That was without any
other tuning. That's without any optimization. Keep in mind, I'm
one guy that you know built cars and finished racing
cars and stuff like that, and I'm pretty good at
building stuff and turning a wrench, But I don't have
(07:06):
billions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Worth of development.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I have a feeling the next time out, when I
just do a few things to the car, I should
be getting the one hundred and twenty eight miles to
the gallon, which is kind of fun because that ends
up being one ounce per mile. Yeah, it'll be a
lot more so. And the other thing is it shouldn't
be that hard to shave some tens of year to
sixty off that thing. Like I said, the tires world,
there's no traffic control. I Franklin didn't want to break
(07:30):
it because it's the only one I have. It took
a long time to build. But again, think of that, everybody.
I'm one guy, okay, uh, and I designed this in
my head.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
There's no billions and millions of dollars worth of development.
This is just thinking. This is just good basic design
and engineering, do you know?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Or let's all think for a second what I could
do if I actually had the power of the auto
actual automotive industry or big design and engineering firm.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I could promise issue, it'll be even better than that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
How long did it take you to build a one
prototype and how much did it cost you?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I built that sucker back in now two thy twelve,
twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know, it was about like six to.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Eight months, had a little help here and there, just
doing some manual labory type stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And then when I finished it, I didn't finish wiring
it just because I mean, the whole car was done
in the concept drive trains and everything's you know, build
and constructed and set up the way it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And what's funny. People may be thinking, well, why did
you build it back then? Why are we now just
talking about it. Well, everybody's got to make a living, so.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, you got to keep going. You can't just
keep banging a particular drug.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But the biggest thing was I showed it at one fancy,
sort of affluent party in a jet hangar of people
with the exotic cars and talk to about it, and
I think I might have bored them a little bit,
but because I probably, I think.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I talked too long and everybody went back to having
a good time at a good party. It was great fun.
But after that, it's sort of like sort of dawn
on me.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I was like, I kind of went into reclusion with
the car after that and didn't finish.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The wiring and didn't test it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
The biggest reason I have is I knew I didn't
have a voice back then, and no matter what I did,
no matter how great it was, if you don't have
a voice and the world doesn't know it existed, it
doesn't exist, right.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I just covered it in.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
My garage literally for basically a decade, and I would
always see it, and I always knew what it was
and what it was capable of.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And I think back in maybe twenty seventeen, repainted it
kind of made it even prettier the way you see
it is today, and did a little bit more, but
I just didn't do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And a few years ago, with my Genius Garage program,
that's a five one C three educational program, I mentor
high end college students and engineering with building professional level
racing cars and building airplanes and automotive design, helping them
get awesome jobs, amazing jobs. Actually, I just helped one
young man. It was a really great potential next week.
(10:20):
I hope he gets the job. It's it's a little
bit of a tough time out there. There's a lot
of hiring freezes and stuff in engineering. But anyway, I
wanted to help one young man with getting hired a
startup and he was really interested in efficiency, and we
take it around with it together. Outside of just doing
the race cars and such, and that was a few
years ago. We got it running, but I didn't test it.
(10:42):
I didn't finish it again. I just hit the car
again for a few years. But last year, which was
twenty twenty four, was an election year in the United States,
and just simply observing all of the different political narratives
that existed the world over and what's going on and
(11:02):
the strife there and what effectively looked to me like
a fifth generation informational World War of propaganda on planet Earth.
I was like, I have to finish this, get the numbers,
and I need to make a statement now. There's too
much going on in the world not to do what
I feel is good because it's actual reality.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So I did. I tested it last year, and that
was the reason being.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I was motivated because the absurdity of the world at
large politically.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Listen to more at Coast to Coast AM every weeknight
at one am Eastern and go to Coast to coastam
dot com for more
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The story feels like a modern echo of Preston Tucker.
Is yeah, that nineteen forty eight Tucker sedan and he
was crushed by industry giants. People may be familiar with
the movie Tucker starring Jeff Bridges. I mean, do you
see parallels in your fight with you and Preston Tucker.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, I certainly can see those things.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
However, it is a new age. It is a new
time now, especially with the nature of social media. So
I think what's fascinating about that is that the public
can see this happening like right now and directly. For instance,
when I did the Malvern down test and zero sixty,
that's a lot of video.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You can see it.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
And while there's a like a microscopic fraction of one
percent of people that just want to be trolls or
be like I'm skeptical, you're not real, right, I'm like really,
because I just did it in front of everybody's face
and called it eleven years ago, and everybody who's an
engineer worth half their SalCo went just looked at it
and went, oh wow, he actually did that. So regarding
(01:08):
Preston Tucker. You know, I think and I'm not as
familiar with that story to be as frank as some others.
You see how the powers that be don't want it
to be even with John Delorian. And you know, John
Delaurian's car was not trying to be wildly feel ficient
or something, but it was very different. And then were
powers that be that related from the British government to
(01:31):
literally the FBI just wanted a high profile target to
set up, and with John Delaurian, they literally changed the
laws on entrapment for what the FBI can or cannot do,
even though like that stops some of our most evil
alphabet agencies from.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Doing whatever they want, but they changed the laws after that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So yeah, I'm barking up trees that have been barked up,
only I'm probably doing it louder.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So that's fun, you know, But.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I don't know if you take a step back and
look at that, and you look at the different people
that have tried to do things like this, and.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, it doesn't even have to be the automotive world.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I remember one person like in the at least the
thought of it in a parallel to Nikolai Tesla, and
I'm not by any me.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He's trying to compare myself to him. He was brilliant.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
But I guess it all comes down to human nature
and the psychology of the masses, the psychology of the individual,
and the psychology of entities. With power, people always want
more power, and money is just a power. Control is
a power, A narrative is a power. The media is
(02:49):
a power. Why do we go about our daily lives
thinking that all of these things are.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Genuinely true or in everyone's best entry. They're not. I
don't know if they ever have been. And I don't
like that. You know, I'm an individual.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I think of communities, I think of nations, I think
of the world. I like the environment, even though somehow
we've made that be a politicized type thing outside the
scope of reason. So why can't we just do things
that are in everybody's best interest rather than just a
few and then lie about it in a big way?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Does your engine burn cleaner? Does it burn cooler? Your engine?
Does it last longer?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I would say it lasts longer by virtue of being diesel.
It's good in that regard. And since the car itself
is highly efficient. That means there's a lot less physical
effort the engine has to be put through to do
what it is, and you're burning a lots less fuel,
so there's a lot less effort there too, So it's.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Going to last a long time. Actually, kind of glad
you said that.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I didn't even think to say that, But yeah, it'll
last a lot longer than the normal ice engines do.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And diesels go forever anyway, this one will go forever
in a day. How about that? And what comes out
the tailpipe? Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You know, less noxious fumes?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It's still an ice engine, however, because by virtue of
burning the unit that we typically think of as a gallon,
you know, or a leader, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You pick your you know, your unit.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you're burning a lot less for distance you're going, well,
people only need to go to the distance they need
to go.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So guess what, it has less emissions.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And that's such a fascinating point that powers that be
in the narrative want everybody to forget about. Because let's say,
hypothetically you have a situation where let's imagine an engine,
maybe it gets ten percent higher missions per a test
they do. But what happens if the mileage, you know,
(05:05):
is one hundred percent better or one hundred and fifty
or two hundred percent better. Okay, well, then it's a
net decrease in emissions. Ah, but there's ways for things
to argue about that in a test than to say
to the world the mass populace said, oh, it's good permissions.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm like, what.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's like barely over and the thing's getting hundreds of
times or hundreds of percent more miles to gowns.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So it's a net decrease. So I wanted to bring
that up.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Naturally, with diesel being energy dense and such, there is
the possibility for some higher emissions, but there's ways to
mitigate that, there's ways to do better. So I frankly think,
based upon basic observation, that the consideration of emissions maybe
(05:59):
originally had good intention for sake of the environment such,
but it's been mutated for power and control to keep
things to be a certain way because don't question this.
So and I think that's also the nature the time
we live in now, and I see that globally politically,
that everything that the politicians in power be that's like,
(06:20):
we're doing this for your best interest, whether it's environmentally
or socially or economically. Oh no, it's not. It is
literally all about power and control. So if people are
coming about things and saying they're going to do something,
it's like, what's your solution. Oh, you want more power
and you want to tax everybody more. Yeah, that's not
a solusion.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
One hundred miles per gallon?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Is that the upper limit or is the sky the limit?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Not at all? No, not at all. That's that's the beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
People just like the hundred batllle of gallon mark because
it's three digits. The first time out, I got one
hundred and four point seventy two miles of gallon is
driving it normally with stop signs and stuff. That was
without all the aerodynamic fairings on. That was without any
other tuning. That's without any optimization. Keep in mind, I'm
one guy that you know built cars and finished racing
cars and stuff like that, and I'm pretty good at
building stuff and turning a wrench, But I don't have
(07:06):
billions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Worth of development.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I have a feeling the next time out, when I
just do a few things to the car, I should
be getting the one hundred and twenty eight miles to
the gallon, which is kind of fun because that ends
up being one ounce per mile. Yeah, it'll be a
lot more so. And the other thing is it shouldn't
be that hard to shave some tens of year to
sixty off that thing. Like I said, the tires world,
there's no traffic control. I Franklin didn't want to break
(07:30):
it because it's the only one I have. It took
a long time to build. But again, think of that, everybody.
I'm one guy, okay, uh, and I designed this in
my head.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
There's no billions and millions of dollars worth of development.
This is just thinking. This is just good basic design
and engineering, do you know?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Or let's all think for a second what I could
do if I actually had the power of the auto
actual automotive industry or big design and engineering firm.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I could promise issue, it'll be even better than that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
How long did it take you to build a one
prototype and how much did it cost you?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I built that sucker back in now two thy twelve,
twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know, it was about like six to.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Eight months, had a little help here and there, just
doing some manual labory type stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And then when I finished it, I didn't finish wiring
it just because I mean, the whole car was done
in the concept drive trains and everything's you know, build
and constructed and set up the way it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And what's funny. People may be thinking, well, why did
you build it back then? Why are we now just
talking about it. Well, everybody's got to make a living, so.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, you got to keep going. You can't just
keep banging a particular drug.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But the biggest thing was I showed it at one fancy,
sort of affluent party in a jet hangar of people
with the exotic cars and talk to about it, and
I think I might have bored them a little bit,
but because I probably, I think.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I talked too long and everybody went back to having
a good time at a good party. It was great fun.
But after that, it's sort of like sort of dawn
on me.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I was like, I kind of went into reclusion with
the car after that and didn't finish.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The wiring and didn't test it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
The biggest reason I have is I knew I didn't
have a voice back then, and no matter what I did,
no matter how great it was, if you don't have
a voice and the world doesn't know it existed, it
doesn't exist, right.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I just covered it in.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
My garage literally for basically a decade, and I would
always see it, and I always knew what it was
and what it was capable of.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And I think back in maybe twenty seventeen, repainted it
kind of made it even prettier the way you see
it is today, and did a little bit more, but
I just didn't do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And a few years ago, with my Genius Garage program,
that's a five one C three educational program, I mentor
high end college students and engineering with building professional level
racing cars and building airplanes and automotive design, helping them
get awesome jobs, amazing jobs. Actually, I just helped one
young man. It was a really great potential next week.
(10:20):
I hope he gets the job. It's it's a little
bit of a tough time out there. There's a lot
of hiring freezes and stuff in engineering. But anyway, I
wanted to help one young man with getting hired a
startup and he was really interested in efficiency, and we
take it around with it together. Outside of just doing
the race cars and such, and that was a few
years ago. We got it running, but I didn't test it.
(10:42):
I didn't finish it again. I just hit the car
again for a few years. But last year, which was
twenty twenty four, was an election year in the United States,
and just simply observing all of the different political narratives
that existed the world over and what's going on and
(11:02):
the strife there and what effectively looked to me like
a fifth generation informational World War of propaganda on planet Earth.
I was like, I have to finish this, get the numbers,
and I need to make a statement now. There's too
much going on in the world not to do what
I feel is good because it's actual reality.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So I did. I tested it last year, and that
was the reason being.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I was motivated because the absurdity of the world at
large politically.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Listen to more at Coast to Coast AM every weeknight
at one am Eastern and go to Coast to coastam
dot com for more
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