How Stephen King’s “The Long Walk” Reflects Our Society
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
5.0 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I'm Karen Hunter, and today we're going to talk about walking. |
| 0:17.2 | Surprise. Yeah, I know. That's kind of a theme. And today I'm literally talking about |
| 0:22.9 | the Long Walk, which came out back in September of 2025. I actually bought tickets to see it in the |
| 0:29.0 | theater, but decided because we were already living in some sort of dystopian, apocalyptic, |
| 0:34.4 | depression, totalitarian regime that I didn't necessarily want to sit two hours in a |
| 0:39.9 | movie theater in something that already felt like we were in. |
| 0:44.4 | And we still are in it. |
| 0:46.0 | But the big screen makes it so much more palpable. |
| 0:49.6 | So I bought tickets, didn't end up going to see it. |
| 0:52.7 | I read somewhere that in Los Angeles for the opening |
| 0:55.6 | week, they had some movie theaters where people literally were able to walk on a treadmill |
| 1:01.3 | three miles an hour for the entire movie. And I thought if that were in my area, I definitely would |
| 1:07.4 | have done that because that sounded like it was amazing. And if you did that, please let me know. |
| 1:12.4 | Hit me up at Karen Hunter's Show.com. |
| 1:14.6 | Hit the contact page. |
| 1:15.6 | Let me know how that experience was. |
| 1:17.2 | But I was intrigued because I love Stephen King. |
| 1:20.3 | I love his attention to humanity in detail in a way. |
| 1:24.7 | Like that man's mind is beautiful, is disturbing. |
| 1:27.1 | It's crazy. it's a lot of |
| 1:28.8 | things. But I think Stephen King is always grappling with our humanity and how we arrive |
| 1:35.2 | at being like full human beings. And there's this desire I see in his writing. And the more |
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