The Tommyknockers

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

Comedy, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 206 minutes

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Summary

We talk about King’s 1987 novel The Tommyknockers.

Content warnings for this episode include: alcoholism, addiction and substance abuse; domestic abuse and manipulation; head trauma; suicide; animal cruelty and death; terminal illness; child endangerment and death; body horror, especially blood and tooth-related horror; dismemberment; mind control; misogyny, brief descriptions of sex and sex acts; homophobia and transphobia; racism; broken bones and joints.
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Transcript

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0:00.8	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, and welcome back to Just King Things, the show
0:43.4	reread and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:47.3	I'm Michael, and with me as usual is Cameron.
0:51.7	Hey, can you hold this real quick?
0:54.0	Sure thing.
0:54.8	What is it?
0:56.4	Well, what's it look like?
0:58.7	Well, it appears to be a desk lamp that has been attached to a linel train set that has been attached to an iPhone charging station that has been attached to nine desal batteries.
1:17.6	Right.
1:17.9	You know how hard it is to get a big battery these days?
1:20.9	I don't know.
1:22.3	Pretty hard, I guess.
1:23.7	Pretty hard.
1:24.6	So let me turn it on.
1:26.4	Okay.
1:27.3	And shine it in your face.
1:30.0	Oh, no.
1:34.0	Clear eyes.
1:37.5	And scene.
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