Paul's prod chaptering testing

Paul Michael McCarthy

2 months ago

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00:00I know you've probably talked a lot about the car and all the projects and Koenigsegg but today

00:07we kind of really want to focus a bit more about you about let's say the challenges you went

00:12through building Koenigsegg sure and maybe like also the challenges which were before Koenigsegg

00:21was a thing you know because many people always see these let's say finished products they see a

00:27car down there they don't know exactly what's been going on to get to that level and that's for us

00:32the interesting part we've called this podcast the lobster fight and so many people we spoke with

00:40with already here like what why is it called the lobster fight yeah interesting name it's different

00:47it's different but it really means these challenges that we go through in life or difficulties how we

00:55handle them defines if we come out of them as a stronger lobster right or a weaker one right

01:01and that's why we want to go today with this with this episode of the of the of the lobster fight

01:07so the thing I know about lobsters in that regard I think is whatever Jordan B. Peterson was talking

01:13about is that from him or that is that is cool you know it's not many people you can put in front of a

01:18microphone they'll get that reference straight away so compliment to you for that that means that

01:24you you you probably understand them not the methodology but the metaphor behind it a bit yes

01:30I heard him speak about it so yeah and it's interesting especially the emotional aspect of

01:36lobsters exactly and how old they are and kind of makes you maybe not want to eat them when you think

01:40right you're right you're right you're right but this this was what what let's say inspired us to

01:46have a common name for the for the podcast to set the framework where we want to take the chat right

01:51and let yeah let's get into it and and see where where today brings us sure sure uh I will I will

01:58then start by asking you the defining moment in your life that put you on the course of where you are

02:06today if you can think of it uh yeah I mean uh I get the question a lot I guess why do you build

02:13cars and the first years of doing Koenigsegg I kind of answered yeah you know I was always

02:19interested in cars as a kid and something really loved and then usually the comeback was yeah but

02:25there are a lot of people who are car interested that are not doing what you're doing I said yeah I

02:29guess so why and then I started thinking more deeper about it when was my first memory of wanting

02:36to build cars and it comes back to and it's also my father's kind of he helped me to remember this

02:44because he remembered it very vividly and it's also my first memory maybe because he reminded me I don't

02:50know but anyway when I was about six years old um I my father took me to the the movies and we saw a

02:58Norwegian sort of stop-motion puppet movie this was like in 1977 or 1976 this was way before computer

03:06animations existed really and and there was this kind of intricately made puppet movie about a bicycle

03:15repairman who was like an inventor and he lived on top of a mountain top similar to this we have in front

03:22of us here Lake Como and he had this bicycle repair shop up there with his two helpers and they started

03:29building this crazy wild race car uh that he wanted to compete with and then he took it to kind of a

03:36Le Mans style race and beat the Porsche the Ferraris and it was so well made it was like even I showed my

03:43kids a couple of years back I thought it's going to be horrible this movie I haven't seen it for many

03:47years but it was still as amazing so well made and uh well so he raised all these famous brands with

03:55this kind of home-cooked thing and it had a lot of inventions at a rocket engine and a 12 liter engine

04:03and some strange it was a lot of strange inventions and he won the race of course after some struggles

04:08and I apparently told my father that uh when I grew up I want to be that bicycle repairman and build a car

04:16like that so I started drawing cars uh I started buying car magazines for all my pocket money um and uh

04:24yeah and just had this vision of I'm going to build a car when I have a chance so um when I was 19 years

04:31old I I kind of felt a bit fed up with school and I'd felt like that for a while and wanted to get out there

04:38and do stuff um and especially of course having this dream of a car but I understood I need I need some kind of

04:45platform to to create a car I I don't have the resources so I um I started the company I had some

04:54ideas for inventions and things generally speaking which I thought maybe I can make a patent maybe I

04:58can make a little bit of money

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