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King: Mr Beast the guy who makes those deadly youtube prank challenges?
Barker: how do you know about mr beast steve
King: oh i think joe mentioned him
King: you know how kids are
King: they love their deadly youtube prank challenges

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Patterson: yeah i met with mr beast and i thought wow this kid really has some incredible ideas for a book, i think we should collaborate
Patterson: i think a collaboration would be a mutually rewarding and artistically invigorating experience
Patterson: he also gave me this big bag of money

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King: are you sure it's safe to go to the mr beast compound?
King: they say that writers go in, but they don't come out
Patterson: not to worry
Patterson: the authorities are under orders to come looking for me if i go 20 minutes without releasing a new book

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[at the Beast compound]
Patterson: mr beast? sir? it's me
Patterson: james patterson
Patterson: you might remember me from such books as 'Escape of the Giant Scientist' and 'Operation: Negative!'
Patterson: remember we were going to collaborate on a book about people forced to endure a gauntlet of deadly challenges?

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Mr. Beast: [speaking through jigsaw puppet on a tricycle] so mr patterson
Patterson: what's going on?
Mr Beast: to escape my dungeon keep, you must solve my riddles three
Mr Beast: before the timer reaches zero
Mr Beast: and the room fills with poison gas
Patterson:

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Patterson: let me out! help! help!
Mr Beast: there is no escape, Mr Patterson
Mr Beast: they say you write really fast, mr patterson
Mr Beast: but how fast can you really write?
Mr Beast: before you, you will find all the materials you need to write a complete-
Patterson: done
Mr Beast:

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Mr Beast: what
Patterson: i'm done
Patterson: i just wrote 'Jack Fell Down and Broke His Crown,' 'Operation: Edelweiss' and 'They Saved the President's Brain.'
Mr Beast: you wrote THREE books???
Patterson: actually, i wrote a fourth in the time it took you to react
Patterson: i call it 'Hello Operator? get me... ADVENTURE!'

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Mr Beast: you wrote 4 books?!?!
Patterson: actually now i've written 8
Mr Beast: my god
Mr Beast: he's like some unholy union of mercedes lackey and william f johnstone