James Patterson
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661 appearances
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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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What had been was going to be, and it's just, okay, and that's the solution or the best that I can come up with.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll clean them up before I put it in, but yeah.
Yeah. Oh, kids, kids, kids, please. Your kid comes home. How was school? What are you going to do this year? I don't know. And in school, man, well, what could you do? You could write, you could read, you could play soccer, you could rob a liquor store. So many possibilities. But just getting him in that habit of, you know, getting past that first thought and or the blank screen.
If they did that in school, every single class or at least one class a day, just getting them used to going to the next step. This whole thing of first impression, first impression is frequently wrong and screwed up, messed up. How many people have you met in your first impression? You really, you got it all wrong. They were okay. They were shy.
Well, if you know it then, but then at least you can come back and go, I'm going to give you another chance.
And then you go, oh, no, I was right the first time.
Well, we just have one, Jack. We tried to do that. The thing with Jack, a piece of it was trying to get him comfortable and understand what the core of himself is. Okay, I understand the acne problem and the hair, all that stuff, but that stuff doesn't matter. And we have sympathy for it, but just reminding him of who you are and getting comfortable with that. I wanted to play in the NBA.
Well, that's not happening. I know one woman, and she went to a CC college to golf rather than an Ivy League college. And you go, seriously, lady, you're not going on the tour. But kids will do that, and they'll go to a not terribly good college. They could have gone to a lot better one because they all love the sport.
And if you got a chance to go to the NFL, I guess, but otherwise, I don't know about that. And I had a little of that myself in terms of, I want to go play ball. And really? Yeah.
I'm on a computer right here in front of me, but there is a computer and I will use it for some research and stuff like that, but not to write. Gotcha. Yeah, it's pencil and pad. Yeah, there's pads all over this office. And around the office, there are all these ledges and whatever. And there are, I don't know how many, I'm going to say 30 live projects right now, 29, 30, something like that.
As I said, usually I will get it the next time. And if I don't, the next time and the time after that, I will just figure out a way to eliminate.
The thing with one of the books I have coming out next year, we're all aware of this now. A lot of males in the country are really in a lot of trouble. They feel displaced and lost and irritated and angry, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And this is a book that will help them become better dads. Oh. I'm not going to go into it too much. Maybe we can talk about it some other time.
This is going to be around Father's Day. I read everything I could find on it and then talked to hundreds of dads about tricks of the trade. Just to give you one little example. It wasn't little in my life. The only time I remember getting a hug from my father was on his deathbed. One page in the thing, and it's a short book, is just hugs and the importance of hugs.
Every day that Jack, when he was a kid, and when he comes home now, he gets a hug every day. That's the deal. One of my friends, his kids played football in high school, and we were over at their house for dinner one night. My friend's a teacher, high school teacher. And after dinner, the boys were heading out the front door, and he goes, where do you guys think you're going?
Because we're going out, man. He said, come here. He pulled him over and he made him give him a hug before they went out. And I said, I always remember. I said, I'm going to do that, man. I'm going to do it. That's a great thing.
Yeah, that's one of the big things. Absolutely. Oh, but those two paragraphs, they really don't, they shouldn't be there. Or that chap, oh my God, no. Like the Hummingbird book that he talked about. Yeah, you get the sunk cost fallacy. And writers are like that. Oh, that sentence, it's so beautiful. Yeah, but it really doesn't fit, man. And there's a lot of stuff like that.
I don't think people would like me as an editor because I'd be cutting a lot of stuff out.
Well, even, you know, with CEOs and stuff, when my editor became the head of Little Brown and I said to my editor, I said, Michael, one of the things you want to consider doing, you sit down and the night before you've done your to-do list, the 20 things you got to do, when you go in the next morning, the first thing you do is cross off 10 of the things.
In like 30 seconds, you've cut your workload in half because you're prioritizing and cutting out stuff that really didn't need to get done, that you nervously or foolishly put down there.
Yeah. And I'm sure Warren's a very nice guy. And yeah, it was weird, though. I can't remember whether it was his agent. I think it was his agent. He said, Warren would really like to meet with you. I said, oh, that'd be great. I'd love to meet with Warren Beatty. Terrific. Bonnie and Clyde, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he walked over like about 10 minutes later. I'm like, okay. It's so weird.
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