Hello, I never used a phone booth, when I never seen the toes,

When I'm going to the movies, I take up seven rows because I'm fat, fat, I'm fat,

come on, really bad, you know, I'm fat, fat, I'm bad.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Stephen King's Mewings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological

order of publication, except this week I've been focusing not on Stephen King, but on his

hard-boiled alter ego, the dastardly Richard Bachman, who authored Thinner.

Today, I'll examine 1996's Tom Holland adaptation starring John Robert Burke and Joe Montania.

Before I get any further, I just wanted to take the opportunity to share a listener email, this one from Ashley.

And as you know from previous episodes, I just, I really look forward to getting listener email.

I've been tweeting to a lot of you out there.

Um, Instagram has always been a great source of, uh, interaction.

But I just, you know, call me a sucker for old-fashioned emails.

I just, I think that you're able to, you know, get so much out of that,

that back and forth. And as always, everyone, please feel free to write in at

Stephen Kingcast at yahoo.com and just share about your Stephen King experiences, because a lot of

you have been writing that you don't have an outlet for Stephen King, that maybe either you're not

friends with people that read Stephen King,

or there aren't any places for you to go to to really get into the Stephen King world.

So if this is a resource for you guys, I want to be able to make it as applicable to you as possible.

So share your stories so I can share them with others.

So this is from Ashley. I was so happy when I saw your

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