The Running Man

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

Comedy, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

We talk about Richard Bachman's 1982 novel The Running Man. It is nothing like the film, but it does feature a high-stakes game of death spanning America.

Content warnings for this episode include: chronic and terminal illness; child death; maiming and mutilation of eyes; racism and racial slurs, misogyny, ableism, police violence, suicide, and generalized cruelty

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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.
0:17.0	Music Howdy, friends and neighbors.
0:41.1	Welcome back to Just King Things, the show where we read and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:46.7	I'm Michael, and with me as usual is Cameron.
0:52.1	Michael.
0:53.2	Hmm?
0:54.6	I'm breathing toxic air.
0:57.3	Dang.
0:59.1	I see all these people running around.
1:01.4	Not breathing toxic air, and I just, I'm breathing it.
1:05.3	Mm-hmm.
1:06.0	Because they've got some sort of rebreathing apparatus, or you're just in some sort of toxic air chamber.
1:13.5	I just love it.
1:14.5	Oh, oh, I see.
1:15.6	Well, it's invigorating to me.
1:17.0	Let people enjoy things.
1:18.1	That's my motto.
1:19.7	Yeah, and including the toxic air because this episode we're talking about the running man.
1:25.8	Yeah.
1:26.2	A Stephen King, well, a Richard Bachman book, and you'll inform us about this in mere moments,
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