Just King Things is a podcast where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order.

As these are largely horror novels, they often deal with complicated and disturbing topics.

A list of content warnings is available in the episode description.

A list of content warnings is available in the episode description. Howdy, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to Just King Things, the show we read and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.

I'm Michael, and with me, as always, is Cameron.

I'm eating a hot dog.

I don't, I'm sorry, I don't know what just happened.

Whatever bit you just did made the recording so angry that it cut out half your audio.

I'm in a hot dog in 1958.

Oh. I'm eating a hot dog.

Okay.

This, this is, this is a really bad, this is a really bad beginning bit. Hold on. I'll just hop in this closet that I have here to the side of my office and we can. No, my bit. We can travel back to the beginning of the pot. Howdy, friends and neighbors. And welcome back to Just King Things, the show we read and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.

I'm Michael and with me as always is Cameron.

I'm eating a hot dog in 1958.

And it just tastes better, doesn't it?

It tastes better. Things were better then.

I'm a boomer and things were better in 1958.

I hope those race riots don't happen.

Hot dogs tasted better and they only cost a penny, probably.

No one has ever spent more time like working through how much things cost and the change, the exact change one would receive if given a dollar than Stephen King.

This book has, because it's so long, right, it's like, what, 800 and something paid, 900

payments? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm? Because of that length, I don't know, 10 pages are taken up with

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