Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King,

and I am here today to just check in. So, first of all, I apologize, guys, it's been over a month

since I've released an episode. And for those of you tuning in for the first time, welcome to the

Stephen King cast.

This is a very long-running Stephen King podcast. The initial goal of this podcast was to read each of Stephen King's works in the chronological order of publication and give a deep analysis of each.

I did that. And since then, what my focus has

been is to examine the endings of the works of Stephen King in order to determine whether

or not Stephen King should hold the reputation that he does for not being able to end his books.

And it's been a fun exercise because 14 books in so far, I believe is where we left off.

And so far, the endings, using the criteria that I have established, meets the threshold for a pretty solid conclusion. So so far,

he does not deserve your reputation that he has across the board. So that's what I've been doing

lately. And over the last month, I have really put a pin in it. I haven't really put anything

out. You know, I've tweeted and done pin in it. I haven't really put anything out.

You know, I've tweeted and done some Facebook stuff.

But in terms of the actual podcast, I've been kind of silent and I don't really have a good

explanation why.

I'm healthy.

Everything is fine.

Knock on wood, my family and I are very, very fortunate that we have been able to ride the

corona wave with very little turbulence. So we've been fortunate. We're a happy little family.

You know, we're taking things seriously. I happen to live in a state where the numbers have gotten

pretty low. It's a science-based state where our governor really is looking at the data, so

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