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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 152-The Ending of The Regulators

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Let's review the conclusion of The Regulators. Hey, I'll find any excuse to talk about this book. No one else does! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0

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

0:06.3

Once, I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel, it all goes round again, and here I am.

0:14.3

Once again, on a new phase of the journey to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King,

0:20.3

specifically to determine whether

0:22.0

or not King deserves his reputation for having an inability to successfully land his endings.

0:30.2

The focus of the podcast will be to examine the climax, falling action, and resolution of the

0:35.7

endings to each of his novels, and not as short

0:38.2

stories just as novels, and break it down by character themes, conflict, and plot to determine whether

0:42.6

or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively good ending. It will also weigh in on whether

0:48.2

or not I happen to personally like the ending. And today, I am here to discuss the ending of the regulators.

0:55.6

So before I get into the Wikipedia summary, I just wanted to wish everyone a happy

1:02.4

fourth.

1:03.0

Well, everyone that celebrates the 4th of July, you know, for anyone overseas, you can ignore

1:10.3

this.

1:11.5

As I record this, this is July 3rd, 2021.

1:16.6

And it is a rainy 4th of July season, unfortunately.

1:22.1

I hope that the weather starts to clear up so everyone can really engage in in summer and summer activities.

1:28.3

But yeah, I just wanted to say happy, happy fourth, everyone.

1:33.3

I think that's very fitting that I am talking about the regulators, as the regulators actually is a really perfect summer read.

1:43.3

As I stated in my review of Regulators the book this is a novel that I

1:49.3

believe gets overshadowed by desperation for a couple reasons one I believe that the

1:57.7

regulators is just a weirder novel than desperation, and it is written under

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