Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing EP 457 - A Show That Makes You Smile with The Patrick Scott Patterson Project
Mark interviews Scott from The Patrick Scott Patterson Project Podcast.
Prior to the interview, Mark shares a personal update, comments from recent episodes, and a word about this episode's sponsor.
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In the interview Mark and Scott talk about:
- How Scott got into the current numerous roles that he is participating in today, including podcasting
- Being inspired by the dreams that his parents had but which they pushed off to the side
- The pro wrestling experience that he did for 10 years
- The importance of deciding to try
- Scott's reasoning behind the Patrick Scott Patterson Project
- How at the end of the day we're all human beings - some folks have just reached for their dreams
- Interviewing notable celebrities on Scott's podcast
- Doing the interviews well in advance and having a good 10 episodes in the can already
- The two year plan that Scott has created for the podcast
- The positivity in Scott's podcast and what he is doing
- All the stressful things Scott was going through around the time of the pandemic
- How Drew Barrymore's new talk show was exactly what Sco
- needed to get through those hard days
- The way that Drew Barrymore makes Scott smile - period!
- How something Barrymore said in one of those episodes really struck with Scott
- The incredible power of doing/saying even the smallest nice thing such as "have a nice day" which can make a huge difference in someone else's life
- How Scott feels better himself when he's being kind to someone
- Meeting Drew Barrymore on her 50th Birthday episode taping after more than 42 years of first seeing her with his mom when he was 7 and they went to see E.T.
- Some of the favorite moments on Scott's podcast
- Advice Scott would offer to writers who haven't yet put their work out into the world
- How Scott first got on Collector's Call because of a fluffy news story from 5 years earlier
- Gary K Wolf's story about how many times his book "Who Wacked Roger Rabbit" was repeatedly rejected over the years. He never gave up, and it's, incidentally his most well-known book. The movie adaptation would never have happened
After the interview Mark reflects on a few things that Scott said about positivity, creating "comfort food" moments, and the importance of having things out there and how it can lead to opportunities.
Links of Interest:
- Patrick Scott Patterson's Website
- CBC - Cost of Living - How Scholastic Book Fairs Became Tight With Canadian Schools
- Mini Trailer for LOVER'S MOON (Romantic Comedy)
- Full Audio of LOVER'S MOON Read by the Authors (YouTube)
- Patreon Post (Free for anyone to read): I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again!
- Substack article: Eight Years, 452 Episodes, And One Important Lesson
- Manuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%)
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- Mark's YouTube channel
- ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link)
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Patrick Scott Patterson is a Texas-based pop culture personality, video game historian, and podcaster. Over the decades, he's moved from professional wrestling rings to television cameras, working with G4tv to produce the first-ever live arcade world record broadcast. He has appeared in documentaries like Nintendo Quest and on MeTV's Collector's Call. He's spoken at San Diego Comic-Con and SXSW, and runs Hyperspace Arcade Repair out of Denton, Texas, where he keeps vintage arcade machines alive for collectors.
In 2025, Scott launched The Patrick Scott Patterson Project, a podcast about chasing goals and following unexpected paths—inspired by finally meeting his lifelong celebrity crush, Drew Barrymore, which taught him that the dreams we pursue have a way of opening doors we never anticipated.
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0