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September 30, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mitch album. How are you, buddy, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
How are you doing new releases? Your new really? I
mean their events? Man, this is Twice the new book.
This might be the most eventye in years because how
quickly could you possibly get snapped up? Snapped right up
to be turned into a movie? That did happen on
the last few right, Mitch?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Uh not before the book came out?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now, yeah, I mean this is something. The bidding war
was crazy, I heard.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah. I don't know. I guess because it's a love
story and maybe there's a good role for a young
handsome character and a young beautiful character. I don't know why,
but yeah, there was a bidding war on it and
Netflix one and they have a really good director and
writer who's working on it already.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah. Yeah, and Netflix which just had adolescents.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't know, if you watch it such a powerful yeah, yeah,
just really powerful.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
You don't necessarily mine that kind of territory, but there's
always optimism, there's always emotion, and I have to tell you,
as far as Twice is concerned, I would have loved
to have had this. I consider it, I consider it
a superpower. I would love to have discovered it eight
years old that I didn't like the way that went.

(01:27):
I'm gonna do it a second time. I get twice,
I can do everything twice. I haven't read the book yet,
just got it a couple of days ago. Do you
get into how is this like an you know, the
X Men, like just born with disability? Or yeah, you
get into it.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, it's a little less marvel comicy than that. But
the lead character, his name is Alfie, does find out
when he's eight years old that he has the ability
to do everything in his life second time if he
wants to, the problem is that he has to live
with the consequences of the second try right, So no

(02:08):
matter what happens the second time, that's it. He doesn't
get a third time or a fourth time. He can't
go back to the first time, and he has to
sort of live from that moment forward again. So if
he goes back two weeks to fix something, he has
to live the next two weeks the same way that
he did. So it's not quite you know, Superman in
a cape, but he does get to fix a lot

(02:28):
of his adolescent mistakes. And you know, if there's a
basketball game that he misses the last second shot. He
goes back and now he knows what the play is
gonna be, and then he changes it and he does better.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
And yeah, if he has.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
An embarrassing moment with a teenage girl, you know, he
gets to try to go back and fix it. But
as always with my books, there's a lesson to all
of this, and it's not quite as simple and as
magical as it seems.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, and I would imagine in some instances that second time,
Oh I did get it right, You're going to give
us others where that second time he's like, damn, I
like to you know, it went better the first time,
but I can't go back to it right.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
You probably equalize.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
There are he makes some mistakes and can undo him.
But the story takes its biggest turn when he finds
out when he becomes a man that the power has
one caveat. It doesn't work with love, and in fact,
it kind of almost works the other way around. So
if somebody loves you truly and you decide, well, yeah,

(03:33):
they're great, but I want to go try somebody else,
go back and see what it would be like with
someone else. That first person can never love you again
the same way. They can be in the world. You
can know them, but they will never feel the same
way about your true love is only one time. And
of course he meets, you know, the perfect girl, so
he thinks, and they get married and everything's going along,

(03:57):
and then something happens and he gets tempted and there's
a fight, and he makes a very faithful decision, and
that book really takes off from there.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
But I want to make sure I got this right
because and again wrong with Mitch album. We're talking about
the latest book and a long line of them, a
long line of best sellers. It's twice, is the title.
It drops October seventh. Because you read the title, you know,
you flip the book over. You know what, if you
had the ability to do you got to do everything

(04:29):
in your life twice. The first thing I think most
people do is they think about the things where.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
They would right.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
First thing that comes to mind is and one of
the first things I thought of, and I'm not trying
to be as smart ass here at all, Mitch, but
the first thing I thought of is, oh, I I
would not have married my ex wife if I had
that ability, I would undo that and a shot. So
what are you saying here, I can't do that. That's
one area where he can't do that.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh no, you could do it, but see could never
love you again, and you could do it. You could,
you could, you could undo it and say, you know, okay,
I don't want to be married to that person. It
was terrible. And if it really was terrible, great you
got out of it and you get to stride a
different relationship book, But it's not now. I don't know.
Your relationship with your first wife doesn't sound like.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
But you know, there's sometimes there are sometimes where you
don't realize how good a relationship you have and you
just sort of say, well, the grass is greener on
the other side. There's nothing like a new car smell,
you know, and we're always tempted by what we don't have.
But the kind of the point of the book, outside
of hopefully being an entertaining read, is that you know,

(05:40):
we are a byproduct of all the decisions that we
make and all the mistakes that we make. And if
you keep getting second chances to fix your mistakes, you
may not learn anything. So all those mistakes that you say, man,
I go go back and do this, And of course
I said that too, I'd fix this, I fix that.
But then I think about it and I say, well,

(06:00):
but yeah, if everything went right for me, because I
just anything I didn't like I just fixed, I'm not
sure that I'd be the same person. Because you know,
if you don't suffer some pain, you don't suffer some loss,
You don't you don't get embarrassed, you don't make a mistake,
you're not necessarily a smart down the line for the

(06:21):
next thing that happens. Just keep making the same mistake
over and over and then say, oh, I'll just fix
it later. So and particularly when it comes to love,
I think, as you say, you know, it's something that
people think about a lot, like, well, am I really
with the right person? There was that girl in high
school that you know, I always thought, you know, we
went out once and she moved away. But you know,

(06:43):
and sometimes we paint these fantasies in our head about
how our life could have been so much better. The
truth is it might not be. You know, that person
could bring a whole different host of problems. And that's
what Alfie kind of finds out in the book Well and.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Ed Vinnie has found since getting divorced, I've found out that, yes,
the one who got away, oh that got away for
a reason, because I was able to revisit some of
those Let me ask you, Mitch, would you are you?
Would you say this is a departure for you in

(07:19):
a way. I mean a lot of your books there's
been religious undertones, you know, not beating over the head.
But The Stranger in the Lifeboat just a beautiful book,
remains one of my favorites of yours. The five people
you meet in heaven, you know, And this doesn't necessarily
strikes me. I don't want to say this is supernatural
or anything, and I've got to wade into it. But

(07:41):
it feels like a departure for you. Even the way
you're promoting it feels like a departure.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh right, Mitch album.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I mean, I think the people who have read it
have said, it's it's one of my books, you know,
it's just like one of my books. Okay, I think
it's my twelfth one. I think after if you're writing
your twelfth one, you're probably not going to write something
that's you know, totally flipped. But it is a subject
that I it's a topic that I haven't covered before,

(08:10):
and that's good, you know. And I don't need to
write about Heaven and every book, but it is, you know,
there is a lesson to it, there is an inspiration
to it. Well, I can tell you is read it
and then you'll see what I mean. But it tackles,
you know, this Stranger in the Lifeboat was a book
about belief and help and you know, accepting kind of

(08:32):
divine help when we don't even realize.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
That we have it.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
And The Little Liar, my most recent book, was a
book about the truth and how important it is. You know,
what happens to a society when the truth breaks down?
Five people you mean? In Heaven was a book about
what people think when they don't matter. And there's no
such thing as somebody who doesn't matter. Everybody touches everybody.
And Twice is a book about about the grass always

(08:57):
being greener in us thinking that, you know, life would
be better we just got to do this, or that.
I just tell it in kind of a more of
a Hollywood fashion, I guess, yeah, with a love story.
But in the end, there's still a lesson to be learned,
and I think it'll people recognize it as one of
my books.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
I can't wait, And I've never gotten to ask you
this question before, and I'm sure you're getting hit with
it everywhere you go. But Tuesdays with Maury obviously dreamcasting
not only the legendary Jack Lemon as Maury, but I
was a fan of Hank. I'm such a fan of
Hanks Area. I enjoyed him. Yeah, in Herman's head. I
don't even know if you would remember, like the first Yeah,

(09:36):
that was the first sittown he was ever in. It
followed Married with Children on Fox when Fox like kind
of just started out. But Hank is Area obviously has
proven to the world just how talented he is. What
is your dreamcast here? You know? Now you Netflix snapped
this up? Do you do you or do you even
care about stuff like that? Like are you thinking?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, sure, but you know you can cast it in
your head? And then they say, oh, I can't do
it because I got three movies for the next three
years and that's.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
The end of that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
But uh, the the role of Alfie, he has to
be somebody who's kind of likable but also roguish and
a little you know, mistake prone. Uh, And so I
don't know, Uh, you know, hmm, maybe that guy who's

(10:29):
in Chad Powers Now, he's.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
A good actress, Glen Powell.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, Glen Powell could be really good.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
And uh, for Gianna, the woman of his dreams, there's
an actress Haley stan Stanfield Steinfeld.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
She looks She looks exactly like I imagined it. And
then there's a grizzled detective who sort of arrests Alfie
at the at the beginning of the book when he's older,
and that's actually how the book begins. Alfred gets arrested
in a casino for allegedly cheating on Roulette because he

(11:07):
wins three straight times in a row on a single number,
which is just unheard of, and nobody's going to do
that unless you cheat. Of of course, the detective doesn't
know that he has the ability to go back and
do things twice, like find out what the number is
going to be. And the detective, who's kind of world
weary and whatever, is sort of the one that pulls
his story out of him. And that guy the director

(11:30):
and I discussed our dream would be John c Riley,
who I think can play anything. He's a great action Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
A lot of people forget, you know, because he had
so much success in these huge comedies that he started.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean, he was in Gangs of New York.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh, you know, the serious act came out the scene.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
As a very dramatic actor. So I was what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
I didn't see that one coming. And it sounds to
me like you haven't been getting hammered with that question
all day because it took you a little bit to
come up with your cast.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
So I feel better about asking that brand new.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
You'll probably get it a lot more.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
But yeah, and I can't wait to read it. It's
Mitch album. I hope the radio gig continues to be
a gratifying experience. I'm sure it is for your listeners.
Give my man, Mike Wheeler my best. He was one
of the best pds I ever had. And yeah, he's yeah,
he was just played a key role in my life.

(12:28):
And so do oh absolutely please do. He knows and
Mitch albums books do too, and the latest one is twice.
I can't wait to read it. And continued success. Man,
keep doing what you do.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Thank you so much. Good talking to you again.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Take care well,
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