Desperation

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

Comedy, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the 1996 doorstop Desperation.

Content warnings for this episode include animal cruelty and death, child death, body horror, mind control, racism, alcoholism, misogyny, domestic violence, mass murder.
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0:00.0	Just King Things is a podcast where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:05.7	As these are largely horror novels, they often deal with complicated and disturbing topics.
0:09.8	A list of content warnings is available in the episode description. Howdy, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to Just King Things.
0:42.7	The show reread and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:47.3	I'm Michael, and with me, as always, is Cameron.
0:51.5	Don't mind me.
0:53.1	Just urinating.
1:01.0	Just a good old protagonist in a Stephen King book, circa 1996. Urinating.
1:02.0	Uh-huh.
1:03.0	Nothing bad gonna happen to me, the guy who urinates.
1:07.0	Yep, yep.
1:08.0	And meanwhile, I also have to urinate, so I'm going to, like, leave the scene for a little bit.
1:14.3	Hopefully nothing bad happens to me or to everyone else that I've left behind while I've gone off to urinate.
1:19.9	Nothing bad ever happens to anyone urinating.
1:25.2	That's the white.
1:26.6	Yeah.
1:28.1	The yellow. Yeah. The yellow.
1:32.9	Yeah, it feels like, you know, I flagged the P thing.
1:37.1	What, was it just an episode ago?
1:38.8	Was it two episodes?
1:39.8	It was like a couple episodes back, I think.
1:41.6	Did it start in Rose Manor?
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