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, however, I turned my attention to the movies

and a little precursor.

This original episode came out in December, right before 2015, actually, December 28th, 2014.

It was recorded in the fall of 2014.

Last week, or the last episode, depending on when you're listening to this, last episode,

I recorded a new introduction to apt pupil, the novella itself, to contextualize the events

of apt pupil within a 2026 lens with in-cell culture and the corruption of young men due to internet culture.

But what I've been doing with each of the podcast episodes, I have been re-recording portions

to clean up the audio and also I'm trying to get the podcast on more platforms.

So on the original releases, I wasn't, I didn't have ads running. I wasn't

making any money off of it. Not that you could really call what I'm doing now making any money on it.

But all of the music that was included was purely for fun. And I'm really surprised I wasn't flagged before.

But anyway, I'm trying to get it in more places.

So I'm removing the music.

But in doing that, you know, I'm going back and I'm listening to the podcast episodes themselves.

And in some of the cleanup, it's interesting.

This is, I will hear noises in the background of a life that I no longer live, of a person that is a decade plus younger than me.

So the passage of time is very pronounced in these episodes. So as once once this

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