Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week what I am doing, I am diving back into Stephen King's one of his earliest publications,

the 1978 short story collection,

his first collection of short stories, Night Shift.

Now, just a little bit of podcast, news information, a little bit of orientation as you make

you right through this episode.

If you listen to the last episode, you'll know that at the original time of the first release of the Night Shift review

in 2014, I only covered about half of the stories within the collection.

And then the episode that you're going to listen to now originally aired in on July 10th, 2017.

So last episode, I kind of gave you all a warning that there might be some temporal confusion if you listen to this, because you might get some anecdotes or some pop culture news that never came to be or might ground you in a particular time period.

So, for instance, if you are just going through these episodes now, chronologically,

the last episode was the night shift part one.

But within the night shift part one, which was recorded originally in 2014,

I discussed the potential casting of Matthew McConaug as Randall Flag for a stand

adaptation for the big screen by Warner Brothers that never wound up getting made.

As we all know, Matthew McConaughey wound up portraying a version of Randall Flag as

The Man in Black in the much maligned Dark Tower movie, which, it just so happens, came out

in the summer when I recorded the episode that you're about to listen to.

So there's a three-year jump from where you last left off to where you're listening to now

and what was discussed and dreamed about.

And the last episode never came to fruition or kind of like a nightmare.

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