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 and the chronological order of publication.

So in this episode, I'll be reviewing Stephen King's latest publication, the final piece of the Mr. Mercedes trilogy, end of watch.

And before I begin, there's just some things that I kind of want to get out of the way.

The first of which, I just want to say thank you.

Guys, just thank you.

Thank you.

That's thanks.

After my last episode entitled announcement, and in that episode, I discussed, you know, kind of taking a hiatus and cutting back on the

podcast a little bit. Just the, just the response that I got from everyone through, through email

and iTunes reviews and Facebook messages. It was just, there was a lot of kind words,

kind words about the podcast, but the ones

that matter the most to me were just the kind words from person to person in just in regards to

the well wishes regarding my newfound fatherhood. So just guys, everyone that just wished me well on this journey, thank you.

It just really meant a lot.

And it just kind of reinforced why I do the Stephen King cast and why were Stephen King fans.

I mean, this is this is it, right?

I mean, Stephen King writes about characters and humanity.

And in this moment, you know, I made an announcement.

I said, guys, I'm a father now.

And everyone just said, congratulations.

And I feel like a lot of you meant it.

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