Thinner

Just King Things

Ranged Touch

Comedy, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the 1984 Richard Bachman book, Thinner.

Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of racism and racial slurs; descriptions of sexual acts, animal cruelty and murder; ableism, fatphobia, substance abuse, body horror focusing on AIDS panic, open wounds, skin diseases, and acne.
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Transcript

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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, and welcome back to Just King Things.
0:42.7	The show we read and talk about the books of Stephen King in publication order.
0:46.7	I'm Michael, and with me as always is Cameron.
0:49.7	Hey, Michael.
0:51.0	Hi, Cameron.
0:54.6	Let's start the episode.
0:56.5	There we go.
1:00.2	No fun bits with this one.
1:02.3	Well, I'm driving down the road in my ancient hatchback car with Delaware plates.
1:09.4	Oh, well, that's interesting because I'm just stepping out into the street here from between two
1:14.2	cars and...
1:15.1	Oh, no.
1:16.2	You don't want to do that.
1:17.8	Why not?
1:19.3	I'm doing it right now.
1:20.5	You should probably really give me a good reason to not do it.
1:23.6	I'm parking this one right now and I'm going to go get a Chevy Nova.
1:26.7	Oh, okay.
1:27.0	I got to get in that car.
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