Mr. Mercedes

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

Comedy, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.9 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 146 minutes

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We talk about the 2014 novel Mr. Mercedes. Content warnings for: Domestic violence, substance abuse and addiction, child abuse including sexual abuse and death, incest, racism Support this show on Patreon! Follow Ranged Touch on Bluesky Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Come hang out in our Discord channel.… Continue reading

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0:00.0	Just King Things is a podcast where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:04.7	As these are largely horror novels, they often deal with complicated and disturbing topics.
0:08.8	A list of content warnings is available in the episode description.
0:45.9	A list of content warnings is available in the episode description. Howdy, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to Just King Things, the show we read and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:50.0	I'm Michael, and with me, as always, is Cameron.
0:55.2	I love learning about how he makes the pizza in this book.
0:56.3	Uh-huh.
0:58.0	You know?
0:59.6	I just, I'm no bit.
1:00.8	Just, we're skipping right in Jay.
1:03.3	He starts, he talks about, ooh, he loves to make the pizza.
1:06.6	He puts the different cheeses on it.
1:10.7	I love reading everything about how he presents it.
1:15.2	I love that he talked about that section later, I guess, in the back third,
1:21.3	where he was talking about how he started to make buffalo wings in addition to the pizza.
1:22.1	Right.
1:23.3	Yeah.
1:24.2	It's great.
1:26.6	I don't know why you chose this book for this month, but it's awesome.
1:27.3	Yeah, yeah. We're talking about 2014's Mr. Mercedes, which is about the time that Stephen King worked. He worked at a wing station.
1:34.9	We're doing what? Mr. what? Mr. Mercedes.
1:40.0	Oh, my God. Michael.
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