On Writing
Just King Things
Ranged Touch
4.8 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Content warnings for this episode include: description of serious automobile accidents and physical injuries, surgical procedures, and ear trauma; animal death, addiction and overdose, racism.
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| 0:00.0 | Just King Things is a podcast where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order. |
| 0:05.6 | As these are largely horror novels, they often deal with complicated and disturbing topics. |
| 0:09.7 | 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. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Michael, and with me, as always, is Cameron. |
| 0:48.9 | Hey, you ever remember the 1950s? |
| 0:52.3 | Well, not personally, although I can say I've been compelled to remember the 1950s vicariously |
| 0:58.5 | multiple times. I feel like I've done a lot of remembering. Over the past couple years, I've had to do a |
| 1:03.5 | lot of remembering of the 1950s. You ever just think about how all the habits and ideas of writers |
| 1:10.5 | born? I don't know, |
| 1:12.0 | 1945 to 1970 or just the right way to do stuff? |
| 1:17.1 | Isn't it weird how just like the seeming accident of history just produced a bunch of right |
| 1:22.5 | ways to do things? |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:24.5 | I mean, the part where you just pretend television doesn't exist or whatever. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, movies didn't really happen. |
| 1:32.1 | Television doesn't exist. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm super rich, you know, just things that are true about me, you know? |
| 1:39.9 | I think that, you know, guys born, again, roughly 1945 to 1960-ish, 1967-ish, somewhere in there. |
| 1:48.4 | They just had the right of it, and, you know, it's clear sailing from here to the end of eternity, right? |
| 1:54.1 | Like, that's art. |
| 1:55.4 | That's art, baby. |
| 1:56.7 | Woo! |
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