The Gunslinger

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

Comedy, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

We talk about 1982's The Gunslinger, the first entry in The Dark Tower series.

Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of terminal illness, car accidents and death, fatphobia, sexual assault and insertion of foreign objects into genitals, forced abortion, violence against animals and animal death, sexual abuse of a child, child death and suicide.

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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.
0:09.8	A list of content warnings is available in the episode description. Howdy, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to Just King Things, the show where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order and talk about them.
0:46.7	I'm Michael, and with me, as usual, is Cameron.
0:52.0	Michael.
0:53.5	Mm-hmm.
0:58.0	Look upon what is in my hand It is
1:00.3	The Hagen Man's card
1:03.4	Not the Hagen Man's card
1:06.4	The Hagen Man
1:07.4	Let me get Foley, hold on
1:09.4	Ha-ha, ha me, let me, let me get Foley, hold on.
1:17.1	Ha ha, let me tell you about the plot of mini books to come.
1:18.8	Okay, I'm listening.
1:23.3	That's it.
1:27.6	Welcome to the gunslinger.
1:37.2	That is, that's my interpretation of all of the magic in the Dark Tower.
1:42.7	It's pretty accurate.
1:47.5	Today we are talking about 1982's The Gunslinger.
1:53.2	The, the, the first installment in King's, uh, what we called in an earlier episode on the stand, King's kind of second claimant to, to Magnum Opus, the Dark Tower series.
2:00.9	What?
2:01.6	I guess that's true.
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