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