Make Magic with Brad Meltzer

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Want to know the secret to getting more out of life? Sharon McMahon chats with #1 NYT best-selling author Brad Meltzer about his latest book, “Make Magic,” based on his viral commencement speech from last year. Brad shares the four things you can do to lead a more kind, empathetic life full of wonder. And because Brad doesn’t have enough to do, he has written another new political thriller, “The JFK Conspiracy.” During their discussion, he tells Sharon about a lesser-known plot to assassinate JFK and how his marriage to Jackie Kennedy saved the president’s life. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome. Delighted to have you with me today. My guest is my good friend,
0:09.4	Brad Meltzer, who just keeps on writing books. Every time I talk to him, I'm like, are you just
0:14.8	sitting at your house writing books all day? Apparently the answer is yes. He has a couple of new projects out, one called the JFK
0:22.7	conspiracy, which is not about Lee Harvey-Hauswald. This is about another plot to assassinate JFK,
0:28.1	but also a book that I really think you're going to love so much called Make Magic. So let's
0:36.7	dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon. And here's where it gets interesting.
0:42.9	Brad, there are not very many people that I invite back to this show over and over again. So you
0:48.1	are in like a special club now, the specialist club. Do we get like jackets like Saturday
0:53.0	a lot? Yeah. Pins. Pins. Pins. The five pins. Thanks for coming back. So good to be back, Sharon. You just keep writing books and you just keep doing things that I want to talk to you about. What are you just sitting around your house writing books all day? You know, the funniest part is this year, as you know, we are doing three books in three
1:12.3	months, which in 27 years I've never done anything as crazy.
1:15.4	That's crazy.
1:16.4	Which is crazy.
1:17.4	But, you know, one's a kid's book.
1:19.5	One is an adult nonfiction book, which takes, you know, two years to do.
1:22.0	The kid's book takes less.
1:23.1	And then, you know, this inspiration book obviously wants to be time for graduation season.
1:27.9	So they're like, we're sorry.
1:28.9	We're going to do all three at once.
1:29.8	And I was like, I need a nap.
1:31.5	Everyone wants a piece of you, Brad.
1:33.1	You just have too many good ideas.
1:34.4	I don't know.
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