Hello? Hello, Sydney.

What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of the Hello

Sydney podcast, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror,

and it's me, your girl,dney happy wednesday happy second to last

episode of stephen king month i have nothing new to say from last episode because i am filming this

directly after i film my pet cemetery episode this is actually my third episode that i have filmed

today because i filmed pet cemetery this, this, and then I filmed

Friday's episode, Thinner, because by the time you guys are hearing this, I will be in Texas

at Fantastic Fest, but I had to make sure I followed through with the rest of Stephen King

month for you guys. So yeah, I've done a lot of talking today, but it's okay. It's worth it because

you guys are going to listen, and that's all that matters. So yeah, for that reason, I don done a lot of talking today, but it's okay. It's worth it because you guys are going to listen,

and that's all that matters. So yeah, for that reason, I don't have any updates or like anything new for you guys. I'm sure I'm going to have plenty to tell you when I come back for Fantastic Fest. So we will get back into it there. But for today, we are going to be talking about a movie that is one of my favorite mind fuck movies ever.

I loved this movie the first time I saw it. And I actually for a long time didn't even know

that it was based on a Stephen King adaptation. But it is. And the story that it is based on by

Stephen King, which is called 1408 as well, it actually almost didn't even exist. So he had written it just or at least

like written the first few pages of it kind of just as like an excerpt for his book on writing,

which is a nonfiction book about like kind of giving people advice on how to write. And he was going

to use that as an example of how to revise a first draft. But he was actually so intrigued by the story that he was like, wait, I want to see how this ends. So he finished it and thus was born 1408, which I know I've been praising how his mind works every episode, because I just really can't get over it. But I think that's so cool to write a story. And then to be so intrigued with your own writing, you're wondering how it ends because you still haven't gotten to that point yet.

Like I just think... it. But I think that's so cool to write a story and then to be so intrigued with your own writing,

you're wondering how it ends because you still haven't gotten to that point yet.

Like I just think that's such a cool thing that me is like not really a creative person in that way, can't imagine. So I just think that's so cool that people could do that. But he ended up turning it

into a short story that first released as an audio book in 1999 and then it released

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