Jim Comey
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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No, it's about choosing the right life partner. My spouse keeps all that online. We start by the two of us talking about what might be a cool story. And then we agree that this is what the story will be. And I go off and write a detailed summary of it. So like a five, 10 page capturing how it's going to go. And then we figure out, so which parts of that should I show to the reader and when?
Then I go off to write, and she follows it on a Google Doc. And the reason it's so important is she's smarter than I, but she's also read much more fiction than I. And so she says, I'm every reader. And she'll say, ah, no, no, no, you're drifting, or your characters are starting to sound like each other, or this is repetitive.
I get that loving feedback in little bubbles on a Google Doc, and that keeps me online. Then I go out to the five kids with the story. My protagonist is inspired by my oldest daughter, who is the lead prosecutor in the P. Diddy case today. And so I get a lot of feedback about the story and about the particulars because I want to keep it current. And they helped me a lot with that.
No, what helps me is I've based the key characters on real people, right? The investigator in the case, Benny Dugan, he was in all the books, is closely based on one of my friends who died in 2006 from melanoma and was the best investigator I ever knew. He was an enormous 6'5", 250, deep Brooklyn-accented, brush-cut hair guy, and I can hear him
You know, he used to call me Mr. Smooth, but he would say, Mr. Smooth. And so I can hear his voice. And what I do is I spend a lot of time closing my eyes and trying to hear it And then I type on my laptop. I sit there with it open and my fingers in the keyboard and just say, okay, Kenny, what is he saying now? And that makes it easier for me than a made-up character.
It keeps it online much more easily. And because my protagonist is inspired by my oldest daughter and really a combination of all five kids, that I can close my eyes and picture it. And that keeps it online. But other smaller characters... will drift. And that's where I need Patrice's help to say, no, no, no, this, this guy is sounding like this woman. You can't have that happen.
And that's obviously my household is dominated by intelligent, strong, tall women. And so they, that helps me. I can close my eyes and picture those voices well. And then, Again, they'll give me that feedback if I miss it. What is the hardest part for you of the process? Like what's most challenging? Seeing it clearly after I've read it multiple times. You just can't. Yeah.
It's like trying to proofread your own work. You miss typos. But trying to ask myself if I got it right, you get to a place where you can't tell and that's where you need help. And I have a circle of, I mentioned my family, I have a circle of friends who read all of my stuff and they're much less loving. So they're looking for things to find that are wrong.
I need that because I can't see it after a while.
Yeah, I follow it through the New York Times does regular updates. They have people in the courtroom who send out little updates. So that's my way for following it. She won't talk to me about the case and won't let me go. She will let my wife go and watch. But if I go, quote, it'll be a thing, dad, and so I don't get to go.
But I follow it online because you can't, it's federal courts, there's no cameras, you're not getting real-time transcripts. So I follow it from the little snippets sent out by reporters. And how's she doing? She's doing great. She's really good and better than I. And her passion has been sex crimes, sex trafficking, working with victims. She has a gift.
And I worry about it because that kind of stuff can really chew you up, but she has a gift. And so I think she's doing very well. The trial in particular, I can't tell. From the outside, you can never know unless you're in the courtroom.
No, women. He's accused, as I understand it, of sex trafficking women to coerce them into having sex with male prostitutes so he could watch. And then he's accused separately of the crime of supporting, commissioning interstate prostitution. So it's not children. It's grown women who are alleged to have been dominated and coerced by him in the worst possible ways.
Yeah, I am. I worried when she said she wanted to do it and... That she would go where I worked as a federal prosecutor, as a line prosecutor, where I was the U.S. attorney. And here's the true thing. I worried she would be known as my daughter. Honestly, I am known as her father. I love that.
I'm worried about an economic catastrophe. You have experts who can talk to you about this, but I worry very much about what might happen if the creditworthiness of the United States, which affects the bond markets and people's willingness to buy our debt, collapses. We have not seen that in... Well, we haven't seen it.
And so what we would do then while led by an incompetent in the middle of a crisis like that, I can't even imagine. And so I'm very worried about that. Closer to my career, I worry very much about are we keeping our eye on the ball of the terrorism threat and the counterintelligence threat, which again, we're at the top of the FBI stack for a reason. And
There's a real danger that we'll become distracted and lose our focus with catastrophic results.
Enjoy your day.
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