James Patterson
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661 appearances
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4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
James Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He literally will draw out the scenes. Wow. Okay. Well, and the great thing about that is even if he wants to change it, he goes in and he knows what he wants to shoot and why he wants to shoot it. With, I think, the best directors, they don't just do crazy angles because they can. They do it because it's part of the story.
It makes sense with the story as opposed to just going to be, oh, well, I'll shoot this on overhead or I'll shoot this from the, you know, why? Because that's the voice. And the voice is just a bunch of special effects and stuff. And it works for a lot of people, but I'm not a big fan of that.
Yeah, there's a big stack with the clever title ideas on it. And there are literally hundreds and hundreds of ideas that I have for books. When I'm going to do a new story, sometimes I'll just go through that and see if there's anything that kind of turns me on. I don't know that I'll pull this off, but I probably won't so I can mention it.
I'm thinking of this story now where this detective's wife gets murdered and he thinks she's come back as a hummingbird. And I don't know. I'll see whether I can pull that sucker off.
Yeah, and she's going to help him somehow solve her murder as a hummingbird.
I wouldn't do it unless I thought they could pull it off. Of course, yeah. And I don't know that I can. I'm betting against myself here since I'm laying that one out there.
All of the above. Really? Anything that's sort of odd and you go like, this didn't do it, but I happen to live most of the year in Florida. And I'm literally one mile north of Mar-a-Lago. So on election day, my wife filmed the whole thing. 32 SUVs come by and he's going to vote. He being President Trump. The ambulance or the medical supply thing and 30 motorcycles.
And there's a motorcycle blocking our driveway with a cop. And we went out and talked to him, shoot the shit a little bit with the cop. He's up there from Miami. And you're going, oh, my God. And I guess most of it had to do with the fact that night they were going to have a big shindig out in West Palm where he was going to whatever. Announced that he won. I mean, in theory, there's a story.
We had the assassination attempt. But I played that golf course, Trump's golf course. I just don't get the Secret Service. I do not understand why in Pennsylvania there'd be one rooftop and they wouldn't have somebody watching that rooftop at all times. It's 150 yards from where he was speaking. That's like insanity to me.
On the golf course, when you read about the guy who came by, and it's been like that all the way when he was president, etc., there's a fence. And there's a sidewalk where people just walk by. There's a bus stop there. You can just sit there. That fence is 30 feet from the T on the sixth hole. I'm sorry, Secret Service, you could just pull out a gun at any time.
And they didn't even put a tarp up, so at least you couldn't see in there. I don't get that. That's astonishing to me. You write books and snipers and what they're capable of doing. I don't think it'd be that hard to take a shot at somebody. So you think about stuff like that. Not that I want to kill any presidents.
Oh, it wasn't an impersonator. There's another guy down here in this town who, his name is James Patterson. I know him a little bit. And I've seen him every once in a restaurant or a bar or something. And he told me that he'll go places and people will go, are you the James Patterson? He said, yes, absolutely. I am the James Patterson. Why not? He might as well say that.
In his world, he is the James Patterson. At any rate, so I had to go out with Clinton. We were getting pitched for people that want to produce the movie of The President is Missing. So we were staying at a smaller part of one of the hotels out there, and the Secret Service liked it because it was smaller and they could control it a little better.
So I arrived and tried to check in, and they go, oh, Mr. Patterson, would you just take a seat here? We'll be right with you. And about five minutes later, the Secret Service comes down, and they go, oh, no, no, that's James Patterson, the author. And the reason that they were suspicious of me is that the other James Patterson stays there like once a month or something.
And they thought he was the author. Right. So I come and I'm going like, no, I'm the author. And they're like, uh-huh. I don't think so, pal, because we know the author because he comes here every month. It wasn't an imposter. He was playing himself.
This is true. Right, yeah, right, right.
Well, they did. They gave me extra fruit and stuff. That was kind of nice, you know, because I was inconvenienced downstairs, you know.
Oh, 100%. Listen, in the book, and there are a couple of those kinds of stories. I don't think this one is in the book. You know, it's interesting what price fame or whatever the hell it is. There's a little Italian restaurant. I'm actually going there tonight with my agent, but I used to go there with my wife. And so we got there one night, and there was about a couple-minute wait for us.
And then the waiter, it's a very small place, he took us down the aisle. We're winding down this little aisle, and this lady pops up. She goes, I know you. I go, oh, hi. And she goes, you sold us our life insurance. I'm like, oh, man. And she would not let go of it. She insisted. I know it's you.
And I said, you know, lady, with all due respect, it isn't me, but I would never sell life insurance in southern Florida or beach insurance. I'm not selling your house on the ocean unless I have life insurance. Seems like not a good idea. Weird thing is a little later that same night, we sit down and they serve the appetizers and somebody behind me goes, you're from Boston, right?
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