Patrick Maguire is still a professional powerlifter, voice actor, Ghost Clash broadcaster, polyphasic sleep researcher, coach, and aspirational foot model. He has totaled 2342 raw with wraps, sporting competition bests of a 1014 squat, a 635 bench, and a 771 deadlift. His training ebook is dropping this week; he’s also writing a really epic progression fantasy that involves familiars, bone runes, fighting pits, and possibly a pro-garlic vampiric conspiracy. You can find him at Full_Primal_Power on Youtube, Instagram, and Only Fans. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 PREVIOUSLY 00:46 Patrick’s inciting incident is the same as A Series of Unfortunate Events 01:40 When the basement of Maslow’s Hierarchy collapses, you’ve got to start keeping a mattress in your car 03:30 Patrick hallucinated a cat 04:00 Institutionalized 05:15 Getting evicted mid-pandemic 06:30 Why Patrick left his government job 07:00 Making the uncomfortable decision 08:00 Patrick forced his way into professional broadcasting 08:45 The orgy at Dave and Buster’s 09:00 Moving toward what you want 10:00 Bulk Boys becomes Book Boys 10:55 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory 101 12:30 Vampires as spaceship pilots 13:20 A hard five is worth plenty 13:45 You’ve got to have stakes 15:15 Vegeta: jock mode. Goku: dork mode. 16:30 We love it when nobody’s safe 16:45 Audiobooks in the gym 18:00 Approaches to progression fantasy 20:00 Speedrunning Sonic Adventure 2 and Pokemon Yellow 20:30 Patrick is knitting a Magicarp beanie for Shane Haller 22:20 Don’t bring a party with all Eevee evolutions to a Pokémon battle with Shane Haller 23:00 Patrick’s Pokémaster hacks 24:20 There’s something defiant about facing the Elite Four with Rattata as your starter 25:00 The Shuckle challenge; life is more fun when you cheat 25:20 DAD, I CAN’T GO KAYAKING RIGHT NOW. I JUST BEAT POKÉMON SILVER. 26:30 Patrick’s 300 episodes into One Piece 27:00 Usopp is cringe 27:30 I do a pretty good job of pretending I’ve seen 300 episodes of One Piece 28:30 My problem with exposition dumps 30:00 How to escalate scale in a story 30:40 Tarantino’s villains 31:00 Patrick is writing a torture scene 33:00 Fuck The New Yorker 33:30 Patrick’s fantasy novel 37:20 Trans porn-based magic systems 38:15 “Necromancers are just healers that are a little too slow” 40:00 The vampiric garlic conspiracy 41:30 You might not cum, but you still have to pay 42:30 How to end the first installment of a trilogy 44:00 Your character always needs something to lose 44:30 I am so hard for Patrick’s book 45:20 How Brownian motion applies to good fiction 47:00 How to accommodate uncertainty as a writer 48:30 It doesn’t have to be allegorical; it can just be personal 50:00 Why and how Patrick started writing 52:00 We are addicted to progression 54:30 Patrick is getting his start as a voice actor reading cringey poetry 54:40 My haiku joke doesn’t get enough credit 55:40 You should be reading Chuck Tingle 59:00 You’ll always wonder if you don’t go all the way 59:45 The best gift you can give a child is a good bedtime story 1:01:00 WE’VE GOT TO TALK ABOUT DUNE 1:01:30 Patrick impersonates Lady Jessica 1:04:15 “REMEMBER THE TOOTH” 1:05:20 It wasn’t cliche when Shakespeare wrote it 1:06:45 From fable to complex and conflicted characters 1:08:30 We get the Latin in there Intro and outro music: Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio