1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Welcome everybody to my home. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,000 It's Wednesday night. 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,000 It's book club. 4 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,600 It's Wednesday night book club. 5 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,800 I'm your host Andy Rice. 6 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:11,240 Part of fried rice podcast. 7 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,840 Let's get fried with me as always is no one today. 8 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:15,840 It's just me. 9 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:16,840 Just me today. 10 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,320 I'm reviewing the newest Stephen King book. 11 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,960 You like it darker stories. 12 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,680 May 2024. 13 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,760 This thing just came out a few weeks ago. 14 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,280 It's a short story collection with a secret sequel. 15 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:41,600 Super excited to read it because Stephen King of course is my favorite author, which is 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,040 something I always struggled with saying, you know, and I always thought that there 17 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:53,760 was some, I don't know, some sort of stigma, I guess you could say against Stephen King 18 00:00:53,760 --> 00:01:00,640 where it's just kind of popcorn novels, you know, just like your standard run of the mill 19 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:01,640 kind of stuff. 20 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,160 And I think the only reason people think that is because there's so many popular movies 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,840 based on his works. 22 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:16,000 So yeah, if you judge it off the movies, then yeah, there's some popcorn, you know, just 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,080 like whatever mindless horror movies. 24 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:28,240 But when you take a step in to the novels and all the multiverse that he's created in 25 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,280 his own world, it's all connected. 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:33,920 I mean, not all of it, maybe all of it. 27 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:34,920 I don't know. 28 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,440 Most of it, some of it, a lot of it. 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:39,440 It's connected. 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:47,000 The Dark Tower series, which took him 40, 45 years to write. 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,320 Ended up being, you know, like crossing all of his multiverse. 32 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,880 And you see that, you know, it's all connected in some weird ways. 33 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:00,640 But this is a short story collection. 34 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,320 It has 12 stories. 35 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:10,640 It was, let's see, it's not his, it's, he comes out with, he comes out with books like 36 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:12,800 a lot. 37 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,040 He's not slowing down anytime soon. 38 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:23,200 He came out with If It Bleeds, another short story collection on April 2020. 39 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:31,800 And after that, I know he's come out with Fairy Tale, which was amazing. 40 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,560 And that's one of his more recent novels. 41 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:40,720 And If It Bleeds also has a continuation of the Holly Gibney Chronicles, which started 42 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:47,280 off all the way back in Mr. Mercedes, which if you have not read Mr. Mercedes, please 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,800 go read Mr. Mercedes. 44 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:56,220 It is a phenomenal trilogy that Stephen King wrote that introduces Holly Gibney in a way 45 00:02:56,220 --> 00:03:03,620 that makes her now this amazing standalone character with her own, her own books. 46 00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:05,960 You might be familiar with The Outsider. 47 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,720 That was a show that came out. 48 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,160 That's her sort of solo, her first solo book. 49 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:16,320 Well, she was sort of a side character in that, like she shared the spotlight. 50 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:23,440 I would say Holly, which is her short story in, I mean, I think actually that's a whole 51 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,320 book, but that's a, that's a great, that's a great one too. 52 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:27,720 Anyway, getting back to the book. 53 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:28,720 So sorry, rambling. 54 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,080 No one's here to stop me from going on these tangents, but I'll try to keep this short. 55 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:38,120 I'm just going to give you guys a brief sort of impression, maybe, maybe a breakdown of 56 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,840 each of the, each of the stories. 57 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,320 There's a few that I liked quite a bit. 58 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,720 There's some that I absolutely loved, but then there's also, which is surprising when 59 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,160 it comes to Stephen King, there's a couple I didn't care for. 60 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,360 And I'll tell you why. 61 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:58,080 One of them, it's not necessarily it's a bad story, but I just feel like it's been done 62 00:03:58,080 --> 00:03:59,080 before. 63 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,680 It's a little controversial in my opinion, but we'll get there and we'll see what happens. 64 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:11,000 These have been published before, some of them, and I will let you know which ones have. 65 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:23,280 So opens with two talented bastards and that's sort of just a, it's like a cool talking about 66 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:30,680 these two, these two old guys and, hold on one sec. 67 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,200 Something's happening with my computer. 68 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,280 One sec, put in some pause. 69 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,280 I'll be right back. 70 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:39,760 Okay, I'm back. 71 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 Sorry about that. 72 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,560 So where was I? 73 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,040 Oh yeah, right at the start. 74 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:49,600 Two talented bastards, guys talking about his dad and his uncle who both became extremely 75 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:59,960 successful pretty much overnight and his dad, I think his dad tells him that they went to 76 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:03,120 this cabin when they were younger. 77 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,920 Him is the dad and the uncle and they came across an alien. 78 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,200 They saved her life. 79 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:15,580 Try to at least with, you know, just by doing CPR or whatever and she died. 80 00:05:15,580 --> 00:05:20,160 But then another alien shows up and he's like, hey, you guys did what we, you know, we didn't 81 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,400 expect humans to do. 82 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,480 So they give them this device. 83 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,840 The two of them, I think they blow on it because air was the gift that they gave the aliens. 84 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:37,240 So the alien kind of gives them a gift that gives them air and they both get their dreams. 85 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:38,240 Their dreams come true. 86 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,160 One was already an artist, one was already like a struggling writer and then they become 87 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,680 extremely successful overnight. 88 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:48,880 And after telling the son this, the son, they tell him like, hey, we left it there in the 89 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:49,880 cabin. 90 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:50,880 No one's really been out there. 91 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,320 So the son goes out there and it's got this really kind of sad ending where he picks it 92 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,320 up and he blows on it and it kind of moves, but then doesn't open because he's either 93 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,280 not worthy of it or it just doesn't pass down between generations or whatever. 94 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:04,120 But he doesn't get his powers. 95 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,600 It's pretty sad. 96 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:07,600 Pretty good. 97 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,080 Pretty good novella. 98 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,080 I like it. 99 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,240 It's one of the longer ones and it's very interesting. 100 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,920 You know, the second one is called the fifth step. 101 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,040 And this is actually one of the ones I had an issue with. 102 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,160 So the fifth step is about an old man who's sitting on a bench. 103 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,120 He has a, you know, he's just minding his own business, doing his thing. 104 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,720 He's kind of, it's not really like a friendly old man. 105 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,160 He's just kind of not grumpy. 106 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,400 I don't know, but he just keeps himself whatever. 107 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,680 A younger guy comes up, sits down next to him, says, you know, hey, can I sit here? 108 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:45,240 And there's, you know, all these other benches open, so he automatically isn't into it. 109 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:50,480 But then the guy goes, please, there's something I need to, can I please, you know, talk to 110 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:51,480 you for a minute? 111 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:52,600 And he, you know, pulls out some money. 112 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,880 He's like, I just need to get some things off my chest or whatever. 113 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,480 And the old man hesitantly agrees. 114 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,440 And this guy proceeds to tell him that he's an alcoholic. 115 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,240 You know, it's led to violent issues in the past. 116 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:11,440 You know, like he used to beat people up when he was younger and he turned to alcohol and 117 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,840 he's now in the 12 step program. 118 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:20,880 And the fifth step is to confess to a complete stranger, all the bad shit that you've done. 119 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,040 And he, so he's confessing all this. 120 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:31,240 And at some point he starts thinking, well, the, you know, it's like, so then I started 121 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,400 thinking, what can I do? 122 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,240 You know, either instead of drinking or just, he started thinking about when he was, when 123 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,720 he was younger, the feeling he got from beating people up. 124 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,720 And so he ends up killing somebody. 125 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,040 And so he tells the guy, the guy's like, what, what the fuck? 126 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:48,400 Like, why are you telling me this? 127 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,480 And the guy's like, because I just can't stop myself. 128 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,680 And he pulls like a knife out and he's like, the problem is I always get to this part and 129 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,040 here, you know, I ended up doing this and he ends up stabbing the old man to death in 130 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:09,520 the, at the bench and then leaving, which is a great idea for a story that they did 131 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:17,000 in the TV show, Psych about, I don't know, 10 years ago, eight years ago, however long, 132 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,680 you know, season five or six of Psych came out. 133 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:27,640 So yeah, there's a musical episode of Psych. 134 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,600 We just did a musical episode of the podcast. 135 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:35,360 That's why it's fresh in my mind, but it definitely opens with an old man sitting on a bench, 136 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,720 feeding some, some pigeons. 137 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,280 A young man comes up to him, confesses a murder. 138 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,000 And when the guy goes, why are you telling me this? 139 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,360 You don't even know me. 140 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,480 The difference in this is he goes, well, I do know you. 141 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,040 I've been watching you from my window at the asylum across the street this whole time. 142 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,320 You just come here, you're alone. 143 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:59,320 And I also am telling you this so that you'll understand what I have to do next. 144 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:10,600 And then it cuts to the lead detectives, Sean and Gus, along with Lassiter and Juliet, and 145 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,480 they go to investigate the disappearance of the man. 146 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:24,240 He ends up not being murdered, spoilers, but still basically Stephen King took, I mean, 147 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:31,000 now I'm not going to presume Stephen King's a fan of the TV show Psych. 148 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Maybe he's never seen it. 149 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,720 It's likely he's never seen it. 150 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,680 This is a cool idea for a story. 151 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:40,120 It's possible that two people had the same idea at the same time. 152 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:45,880 In fact, Stephen King's own book Under the Dome came out the same year as the Simpsons 153 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:53,440 movie and they're both, they both have the same plot, just giant dome over a city. 154 00:09:53,440 --> 00:10:01,520 Just being what causes the dome and how the civilians inside react. 155 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,360 But yeah, so, and that, but those came out in the same year. 156 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,920 So I mean, like there's no, obviously no, he couldn't have copied that. 157 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,400 You know, they were like within months of each other and he was already writing, it's 158 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:13,400 a long book. 159 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,680 There's no way he just cranked that out after watching the Simpsons and thought, Hey, that's 160 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:17,680 good. 161 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:18,680 I could probably make that a notebook. 162 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:21,920 No, but this one, I don't know. 163 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,720 He saw and he's like, maybe I could do that. 164 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,240 I could do that and I can make it darker and actually kill the dude. 165 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:36,280 So anyway, that's a, the fifth step lower on my, on my list because as I was, as I was 166 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:41,320 reading it, I thought that that was going to be the ending just because that was in 167 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:42,880 my mind from the musical thing. 168 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,180 And when it ended up happening, I wasn't surprised. 169 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:49,280 So the next one we have Willie the weirdo. 170 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:50,460 It's another short story. 171 00:10:50,460 --> 00:10:58,800 This is about a kid who is a, he's just this weird little weird kid who has a weird grandfather 172 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,760 and his grandfather lies about being in like the civil war, world war two. 173 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,280 Like he just, he's just a liar, but the kid loves him and loves listening to all of his 174 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:08,280 stories. 175 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,000 And one day the grandfather dies and this kid's like weird, like he has no reaction 176 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,400 to death or whatever. 177 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,320 So when the grandpa dies, he's in there. 178 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:21,560 He like wants to watch his grandfather die and the grandfather at the very end, and he's 179 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:28,280 got this thing where he rubs his finger across his nose, like underneath his nose or whatever, 180 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:29,280 like right above his lip. 181 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,000 But he doesn't like all the time. 182 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:39,240 And the kid, he leans in close and the grandfather takes him and blows this like death breath 183 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:47,160 into Willie and Willie ends up when he walks into the next room, you see him rubbing the 184 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,920 top of his, the top of his lip underneath his nose, just like his grandfather did. 185 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:56,640 So I'm pretty sure he got possessed by his grandfather, which very cool. 186 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:57,640 I like that one. 187 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:58,640 It's short. 188 00:11:58,640 --> 00:11:59,640 It's fun. 189 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:05,280 It was, oh yeah, by the way, fifth step was March, 2020 in Harper's magazine and Willie 190 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:11,520 the weirdo was in McSweeney's 66, spring 22, 2022. 191 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:12,520 All right. 192 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,380 Next up is Danny Coughlin's bad dream. 193 00:12:16,380 --> 00:12:17,960 This one's fucking awesome. 194 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:28,680 It's a guy who has a dream about a body behind some like kind of vacant little property and 195 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,760 he can't get out of his head. 196 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,200 He sees it so clearly that like the next day, it's not just some dream that goes away. 197 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,520 And so he does some Googling. 198 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:38,520 He does some research. 199 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,920 He ends up finding this place on Google, like images or whatever. 200 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:49,080 And so he goes to the place because he can't get this out of his head and he finds the 201 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,080 body. 202 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:55,840 And so what he does is he goes and buys a burner phone from like a local little store, 203 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:04,760 whatever calls the body in and then goes, uh, and then like goes about his day, I guess 204 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:12,920 immediately the cops find out like who he is and they are on him hard throughout this 205 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:13,920 movie. 206 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:19,840 So this movie is like about, uh, sorry, uh, there's this book novella in this novella. 207 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,520 He's getting super harassed by the police. 208 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:29,200 Now the problem is, is that on one hand, like, like it makes sense. 209 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,000 Like that the police would like, yeah, if you call in the position of a bot, like the 210 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:39,640 location of a body that you say you found in a dream, then yeah, I would hope to God 211 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,240 that police would fucking come down on you and come down on you hard. 212 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,600 I hope that they would just do everything they could to get your sadistic ass back and 213 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,360 in, you know, put you in prison. 214 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,000 The problem is this is a Stephen King book. 215 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,120 So technically, you know, being sort of some of the supernatural elements that he's capable 216 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,820 of, then you might believe that Danny Coughlin had this dream. 217 00:14:02,820 --> 00:14:05,960 And so, uh, he gets harassed, he gets harassed. 218 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,060 There's this one cop, there's like two cops that are working together. 219 00:14:09,060 --> 00:14:14,760 One of them has this, uh, mental disorder that I've never heard of. 220 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:20,580 I forgot to write down the name of it's called like number, like new, uh, it's something 221 00:14:20,580 --> 00:14:25,640 about where you have to add things together in a weird way. 222 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:33,600 So like one chair, two chairs, one and two is three chairs, uh, and then three, uh, minus 223 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:34,960 two minus one. 224 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:36,960 It's like, it's a whole, like, I don't know. 225 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:37,960 It's like a whole thing. 226 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,400 It's like a step to like make them calm down or make him more insane. 227 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,280 But anyway, he makes this dude's life a living hell. 228 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,720 It goes way too far, way too extreme. 229 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:52,480 I won't give away the ending, you know, see how it ends, but it's, it's good. 230 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,280 And if it's about police brutality. 231 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,160 Oh no, it's about police bullying. 232 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,520 The next one is about police brutality. 233 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,920 Uh, so that was Danny Kaufman's bad dream. 234 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,520 It was one of the longer ones previously unpublished just for this book. 235 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,640 Uh, all actually all the novellas are. 236 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,720 So the short stories have been published other places. 237 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:18,960 The novellas are all unique for, uh, you like it darker by the way, you like it darker is 238 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,760 a play on the, um, Oh God. 239 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,520 This is named Leonard, uh, Leonard Cohen song. 240 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:33,320 You need it darker or you want it darker or yeah, it's, that's a good song by the way. 241 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:34,320 You want it darker. 242 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,080 I'd suggest listening to that after listening to this. 243 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,760 If I can't, I'll try to put like two seconds of it at the top if you want, or if you want 244 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,600 if I want the next one is Finn. 245 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,120 Finn is a dude who has extremely bad luck his entire fucking life. 246 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:56,320 And one day that bad luck hit some hard, uh, where he bumps into a guy who's running while 247 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,680 sort of wearing the same outfit as him. 248 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,700 Cops roll around the corner, pick him up and then torture him trying to get information. 249 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:05,680 It's fucking brutal. 250 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:12,160 It's uh, definitely, it's definitely hard to read at some points. 251 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:13,160 He gets waterboarded. 252 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:18,880 Uh, he gets like a lot of the, um, that like when they play the music at him and stuff, 253 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:27,080 um, but yeah, anyway, he gets, uh, he gets free by some of the dudes that were, uh, working 254 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:28,080 for the guy. 255 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:29,080 So I guess it wasn't really the cops. 256 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,080 It might not have been the cops actually. 257 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,680 I think I was just maybe because I read it right after reading the other one. 258 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:39,920 So yeah, they, uh, he gets free, but it like, it sticks with him. 259 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:44,480 Um, and that was one of, that was a, again, it's just like a little short story. 260 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,960 It was, it was quick. 261 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,720 Uh, but it's, it's pretty funny. 262 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,200 I liked it. 263 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,360 On slide in road, which one was that one again? 264 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,200 That was, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 265 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:03,960 That was where they, this family is driving and they see up on the, uh, they're, they 266 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,720 hit up like their car falls into a ditch or whatever. 267 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,960 Cause the road is fucked up. 268 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:15,900 And so they, well, the kids, uh, while the, while the parents are trying to work out how 269 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:22,040 to work, how to move the car, do whatever, the kid, the two kids, they run up to this 270 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,160 like abandoned hotel or whatever. 271 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,680 And they meet these two young guys. 272 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:35,340 These two young guys, uh, are skeez balls and these kids, one of them sees the like 273 00:17:35,340 --> 00:17:39,880 feet of a, of a dead woman down at like the end of a pit. 274 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,000 And these two dudes know that these kids saw. 275 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:47,320 So they kind of follow them down to the, where the car is. 276 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,160 And this again, this is out of the middle fucking nowhere. 277 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:55,960 So it's these two guys, one of them pulls out a gun, tries to rob or robs them. 278 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:01,240 Now the, it's, it's the dad, it's the mom, it's the two kids and it's a grandfather. 279 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,040 Grandfather, he is a fucking bad ass. 280 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,500 He lies to them. 281 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:10,360 He tells them, uh, you know, like I've got a bunch of money in the trunk of the car. 282 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:15,720 He opens up the trunk of the car, he pulls out a baseball bat instead, fucking whoops 283 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,320 one of the dude's asses. 284 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:22,400 Uh, but the dad, when he tells the dad, he's like, all right, go get the, get the gun or, 285 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,400 you know, do whatever. 286 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:24,400 Fuck it. 287 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,000 The dad does nothing. 288 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,400 Um, he just stands there doing nothing. 289 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:29,400 He's ineffectual. 290 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:37,360 So the, instead the boy ends up helping out and they end up like disarming them. 291 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:41,280 They end up, you know, getting out of the situation. 292 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,560 But one of the best things is when he's leaving, the father just looks at his son, just fucking 293 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,480 disgusted with him, just disappointed with him. 294 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,760 Like you failure, your, like your son had to do your fucking work for you. 295 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:53,760 You disgust me. 296 00:18:53,760 --> 00:19:00,560 It's kind of hard like to, like to read that one a little bit because it's like, damn, 297 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:04,760 you know, it, it happens, right? 298 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:09,240 And you just, sometimes people freeze up. 299 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:10,240 It was sad. 300 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,120 Um, so, oh yeah. 301 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:15,960 Then there's a red screen. 302 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,360 It was a little bit, I didn't really care too much for this one. 303 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:30,320 I think it was just, uh, they, something about aliens, they get the red screen and then it's 304 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,480 like, they don't know who each other are. 305 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:41,280 Um, and then I think at the end, it kind of, uh, it shows one of the characters was, was 306 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,280 one the whole time, sort of like invasion of the body snatchers type thing. 307 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,960 It's, it didn't stick out of my head. 308 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:47,960 It's a short story. 309 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,360 I, maybe I have to reread it to kind of fall into it again. 310 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:57,080 There's another one later, Lori, which I also didn't really understand the point of, but 311 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,240 then we get to the turbulence expert and the turbulence expert is wonderful. 312 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:02,240 It's great. 313 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,240 This guy is on a plane. 314 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,600 He's super scared. 315 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,080 He turbulence hits. 316 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,240 He's freaking out like it's bad turbulence. 317 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:09,880 He feels like he's going to die. 318 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,480 The woman next to him, she's kind of freaking out too. 319 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,960 Uh, and he, you know, they kind of help each other through it or whatever. 320 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,040 And when he gets, when they land, he walks up to her. 321 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:31,800 He says, Hey, listen, I work for an organization that sends us on planes that we know are going 322 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:36,600 to experience severe turbulence while they're flying. 323 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:44,720 And my job is to go up there and be scared for my life and go through the turbulence. 324 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,920 And if I do that, it stops the plane from crashing. 325 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:54,600 It's like this, you know, like this, just a supernatural kind of a thing. 326 00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:00,280 And he, he tells her that she did great up there by being scared, but also, well, I guess 327 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,920 just by being scared and getting through it. 328 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,480 Uh, and he's like, Hey, would you do that again? 329 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:06,480 And she agrees. 330 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:11,920 And so he kind of, it's like almost like the end of, uh, uh, M I B men in black when, uh, 331 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,120 Will Smith gets that chick to sort of join him. 332 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:15,120 I wonder what happened to her. 333 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:20,520 She's not in any of the other fucking movies, but yeah, turbulence expert. 334 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:21,520 Really good. 335 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,520 Lori is the next one. 336 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,840 Not a, I mean, this one, I didn't really, it's just a guy and he gets a dog. 337 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:34,560 I think after his wife dies, sorta John wick S except he's an older man. 338 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:41,600 He walks this dog a lot up and down the street or around the Florida like keys, which I liked 339 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,920 that it was including the keys, which was, which was fun. 340 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:49,200 And I guess the, the cover of you like it darker is a reference directly to Lori. 341 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,720 It looks like, cause it's got an alligator on the, on the Florida keys. 342 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:59,760 It's like, but anyway, uh, it's just this dude and he sees this, uh, one of his Trump 343 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:08,920 supporting neighbors get eaten by a crocodile or alligator and, uh, the alligators there 344 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:14,720 and his dog and him sorta, they survived the encounter and they walk away and that's sort 345 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:15,720 of the end. 346 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,160 Like I really didn't, I didn't get it. 347 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,040 Was that just even King wanted to kill a Trump supporter or was that, or was there something 348 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:25,040 I missed? 349 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:30,000 So I might have to reread that as well, just to, because from my perspective, it's sort 350 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 of just nothing happens. 351 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,280 It's kind of a nothing story. 352 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,440 Uh, okay. 353 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:40,880 So then we get into rattlesnakes, which is the secret sequel book. 354 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,360 This is a secret sequel to Cujo. 355 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:50,720 If you remember Cujo, woman and her son are trapped in a car in the heat of summer surrounded. 356 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,720 And there's a dog with rabies. 357 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,320 He's a giant St. Bernard and he surrounds the car and they can't get out. 358 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:02,500 And the book ends with the woman beating the dog to death with a broken baseball bat that 359 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:03,800 she found outside the car. 360 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,720 Then when she goes to go grab her son, it's too late. 361 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,720 It already died of dehydration, maybe hours before, maybe just like an hour or two before. 362 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,040 It's really sad. 363 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,840 And so you're reading rattlesnakes and it's about this old man, this retired man, his 364 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,840 wife had just died. 365 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:25,360 Uh, he's going to stay at his buddy's mansion. 366 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,960 It was like letting him just stay out in the Florida. 367 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,160 I think that's in the Florida Keys too. 368 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:35,840 I think he's just out there, uh, hanging out, just kind of trying to make sense of his life 369 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,280 after his wife died. 370 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:44,000 And at one point he's talking in his mind, he's having like a little internal narration. 371 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:50,760 He goes, I don't blame, you know, my, like, I, like, I'm not, I don't blame my son for 372 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,000 dying obviously of dehydration. 373 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,320 I don't blame my wife for failing to save him. 374 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,880 I don't even blame the dog, Cujo for surrounding them. 375 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,600 And when I read that line, I lost it. 376 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,200 I had to pause the book because I was listening to it on audio, uh, read by Will Patton, by 377 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:13,640 the way, which I'll say Will Patton is a great, is a great narrator for a singular book. 378 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:19,480 When you have to listen to him be the narrator for most of the short stories, because I think 379 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:24,040 a couple of them were read by Stephen King himself, who's a great audio narrator, by 380 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,040 the way. 381 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,840 Uh, Will Patton, it just, it sounds a little too Will Pattony, you know, he's, he's got 382 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,580 this, he's got this great voice for certain books. 383 00:24:32,580 --> 00:24:37,840 I think he did Insomnia and I think Insomnia, him as the, as the guy for Insomnia is so 384 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:38,840 good. 385 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,760 He's got this like kind of older man voice that works perfectly for, especially that 386 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,400 one because that's about an old man. 387 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:51,680 But uh, yeah, so I mean, this was one of his better narrated ones was Rattlesnake, it's 388 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,200 an older guy, uh, going through some stuff. 389 00:24:54,200 --> 00:25:01,240 But so he's, uh, he's dealing, so he's, he goes to this mansion. 390 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:06,240 His neighbor, this like woman, he gets a note from his, from the guy that he's renting, 391 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,480 or not renting, but staying at the mansion from, who's not there. 392 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,560 And he tells him a note saying, hey, your neighbor, the neighbor's a little weird, just 393 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,880 don't, you know, don't worry about it. 394 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,880 She's harmless. 395 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:20,160 And he meets the neighbor and it's another old woman and she's pushing around a stroller, 396 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,040 a double stroller with no kids inside of it. 397 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,240 And it's very sad. 398 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:32,320 They definitely have been dead for a while and she puts their just shorts and shirts, 399 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,120 changing them each day on the stroller and she just pushes them around and spends time 400 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:38,120 with them. 401 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:43,800 And she's kind of like frayed and harried and you know, just like, it's, it's, she's 402 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,440 a wreck. 403 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:54,200 But the, the main guy, he, uh, he def, he, he like says hi to the kids, you know, humors 404 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,200 her. 405 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,760 He goes over, brings him some, uh, cookies or something. 406 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:05,960 And uh, he, she says to the kids like, oh, don't misbehave as she, as they're like, quote 407 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,280 unquote, running around the house. 408 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,760 And he, uh, he's like, oh, it's fine. 409 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,880 They're just kids, you know, he like humors her. 410 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:22,200 So she dies and he starts hearing the stroller being pushed around at night and he starts 411 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,920 finding the stroller in his property after she's dead. 412 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:33,320 And he starts hearing the kids and he starts, they start like fucking with them in a way. 413 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:39,480 And he ends up like those kids, ghosts, their spirits are definitely behind and they start 414 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:44,240 haunting him until eventually he has to start pushing their stroller around to take care 415 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,240 of them. 416 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,000 And it's like pretty creepy. 417 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,600 And the fact that it's a secret Cujo novel that has nothing to do with dogs or anything 418 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:52,600 to do with Cujo. 419 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,820 The fact that it's just this poor guy has to now be haunted by, especially since his 420 00:26:57,820 --> 00:27:02,680 own child was lost at a young age and her children were lost at a young age. 421 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,840 There's a lot of parallels there. 422 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,640 It makes them think about it. 423 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,240 It's pretty sad. 424 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,360 Uh, yeah, that one was excellent. 425 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,600 That's as good as a novella gets, you know, uh, the next one was the dreamers. 426 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:21,400 The dreamers is a guy who can, uh, transcribe words at like 180 words a minute or whatever. 427 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,400 It's ridiculous. 428 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:33,120 He gets hired by this, uh, doctor or whatever to help them write down notes of these experiments 429 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:42,600 that he's doing where he's having people trying to using, I guess, hypnosis and, uh, I think 430 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,600 a drug. 431 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,000 He tries to get these people to explore this house that's on this picture. 432 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,520 Like he, I think he shows them a picture and he goes, I want you to think about this house 433 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,760 and I want you to in your mind, go into that house if you can. 434 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,720 And he gets a few people, they like maybe, you know, in their minds, they can, they, 435 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,880 none of them can get inside the house or if they can, they can't describe it. 436 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:05,480 But then one guy, ex military comes in and the other, the main character is ex military. 437 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:11,640 The one dude comes in and he can get into the house and while he's in there, like he, 438 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,020 that opens up a door to another dimension and like this black shit starts coming out 439 00:28:15,020 --> 00:28:16,020 of his eyes and stuff. 440 00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:18,000 And it's like really horrific. 441 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,720 And it's, it's cool. 442 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,440 And then it, you know, the guy kind of covers it up. 443 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,280 The main character guy who's the transcriber, he covers it all up and then kind of moves 444 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,280 on with his life. 445 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,520 And then he's at work at a new place, the place he worked at prior. 446 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,760 And he's talking to some chick who went up for the same job as he did. 447 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,240 And he goes, oh, looks like my ex boss is dead. 448 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,600 You know, because he reading it in the newspaper that because I think the, the, the thing got 449 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,200 his boss too. 450 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,200 But that was fun. 451 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,040 I always liked some good inter interdimensional multiversal stuff. 452 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,040 I like that one. 453 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:59,160 And then the last one was the answer man and the answer man, according to something that 454 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:05,720 I read online took Stephen King, like 45 years to write in the sense that he started it 40 455 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,200 years ago and then he just was able to finish it for this. 456 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,400 And I could kind of see that it's pretty, I mean, it's, it's amazing. 457 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,960 It's a really good novella. 458 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,760 And I, I love the idea of it and I wish that I could meet the answer man, but it's, it's 459 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,600 this guy who's trying to decide whether or not he wants to be a lawyer in the city or 460 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:33,360 stay in the, or like stay in the small town. 461 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,760 And this is in the late, late thirties, I think this is prior to world war II. 462 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:43,600 And he's, and he's asked, and so he's just, he's debating, like, should I stay in town, 463 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,040 start a practice here and wait for the city to grow? 464 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,440 Should I go to the big city, work for my father and my father-in-law's firm? 465 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,920 Ah, it's a lot to think about. 466 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:58,040 And so as he's driving, he sees two miles till the answer man, like a sign, he goes, 467 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,040 that's weird. 468 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,120 One mile to the answer man, half a mile to the answer man. 469 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,560 And then eventually he sees a guy just kicking it in this little booth that he set up on 470 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,960 the side of the, or just, he's like in a lawn chair or whatever. 471 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,680 He's just there with an umbrella and just says answer man. 472 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:17,920 And he pulls over and he, you know, like on just on, just on a whim or whatever. 473 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:25,120 And he talks to him and the, and there's a sign that says $5 for five minutes and then 474 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:33,600 additional or first three questions free and then $5 for five minutes after that. 475 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,680 And so he, or, or $25, I think it was $5. 476 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:43,400 So he asks the guy, you know, like, what is this? 477 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,200 And the guy answers him and he goes, I'll give you that first one for free because I'll 478 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,960 give you an additional free question because that one was stupid. 479 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,960 And then he asks him another couple of stupid questions. 480 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,960 This guy's like, okay, I mean, here's your answers. 481 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,920 Those are the free ones. 482 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:03,440 But then, but then when he tries to ask him like a question to prove if he knows what 483 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,920 he's doing, the answer, like he doesn't come up with a good one. 484 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,840 So then he pays the guy, he's about to leave. 485 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:08,840 Then he thinks about it. 486 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,840 He goes, all right, fuck it. 487 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,600 I'll, I'll prove this guy's a shyster and I'll, you know, whatever. 488 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,160 So he gives him the five bucks and he's like, well, how would I prove, how can I get you 489 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,160 to prove whatever? 490 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,820 And the guy says to him, well, you should have asked me something like what's my mother's 491 00:31:25,820 --> 00:31:28,500 maiden name or where did my father grow up? 492 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:31,160 Something that I couldn't possibly know unless I knew. 493 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,600 And so he does. 494 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,600 And when he figures out this answer man is like legit, he starts asking him, okay, shit, 495 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,520 my dad thinks that there's a war coming in a couple of years. 496 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:41,680 We're referencing World War II. 497 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,680 The guy's like, yes, it is. 498 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,640 The guy's like, oh shit, am I going to serve? 499 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:45,640 Yeah, you are. 500 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:46,640 Am I going to get hurt? 501 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:47,640 No, you won't. 502 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:48,640 Am I going to die? 503 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,640 No, you won't. 504 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:50,640 Oh, awesome. 505 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:51,640 Okay. 506 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,240 And then he's, should I stay here in town? 507 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,240 Yes, you should. 508 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,240 Okay. 509 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,240 Well, I'd be prosperous. 510 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,240 It's going to be fine. 511 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,240 Cool. 512 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:04,760 So after the five minutes is up, the answer man raises the price to whatever, to just 513 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,200 enough money that this guy doesn't have in his pockets. 514 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,440 And it's something like, you know, he sort of just blacks out. 515 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,400 And when he wakes up or when he comes to the answer man's god. 516 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,160 And so he goes to World War II. 517 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:27,240 And there's a moment where he's surrounded by Japanese fighters and like they're all 518 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,680 about to fucking die. 519 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,400 And so he thinks about what the answer man told him. 520 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:37,800 And he ends up standing up like crazy person and just starts lighting them all up and all 521 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,000 of their bullets missing. 522 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,880 He feels it tearing through his clothes, whatever, none of them hit him. 523 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:43,880 He ends up surviving. 524 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,240 So he knows for sure that the answer man was legit. 525 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,280 Opens his business in town, whatever. 526 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,280 It's prosperous. 527 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,800 And then later on in life, he sees signs one day while he's driving for the answer man 528 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:55,800 at two miles. 529 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:56,800 He goes, oh shit. 530 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:57,800 Oh, great. 531 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:02,560 And he's got money on him this time because he's a little bit more prepared or not prepared, 532 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,600 but he's like more affluent. 533 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:05,600 So he has money now. 534 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:14,200 And so he pulls over to the answer man and he he has a kid now, I think because he's 535 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,000 now you know, it's been maybe 10 years or whatever and 15 years where he's got a young 536 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000 kid, young boy. 537 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,240 And he starts asking like, oh, and the boy's showing aptitude for baseball. 538 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:30,280 And so he uses a lot of his questions to be like, you know, like, hey, is my so is my 539 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,080 son going to play professional baseball? 540 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,080 No, he's not. 541 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,080 Is he going to play? 542 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,400 OK, college ball? 543 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,400 No. 544 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,400 High school? 545 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:39,400 No. 546 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,400 OK, interesting. 547 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:41,760 He'll probably end up doing something else with his life. 548 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,240 So then he starts asking other questions. 549 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,720 Turns out the reason the kid's not going to play high school baseball is because he dies 550 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,080 like shortly after, like as a young as a young boy. 551 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,480 And then I think he runs into the answer man like one more time. 552 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:02,280 They sort of have this like last sort of confrontation and sort of wraps things up, which I'm not 553 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,880 I don't remember entirely what the questions he asked were on that final part. 554 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,040 It's like I said, it's been a week since I've read this. 555 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,920 I've read a couple of other books since and sort of pushes things on my head. 556 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,080 I should have done this week ago, but I had the. 557 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:22,760 We had that the stranger one, Albert Camus, his name is anyway. 558 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,720 But yeah, so. 559 00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:30,200 If we're going to rank this on Stephen King, let's see, what's he OK? 560 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,840 Well, it's a Stephen King book. 561 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,840 So I guess the universal way that you. 562 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:41,360 Rate a Stephen King book is by how many childhood bullies there are. 563 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:48,320 So out of five, so out of five, the real villain, it was the childhood bully all along. 564 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,040 I'm going to give you like it darker. 565 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:57,480 And I am judging this based off of more of his collection of short stories than I am 566 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,280 off of his overall work, and I am just kind of rating it against his own work and not 567 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,280 just against the overall mainstream of what's available. 568 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,360 I'm going to give this a. 569 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:16,080 Oh, man, honestly, a three, a three out of three point five out of five. 570 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,680 The real bully was the or the real villain was the bully all along. 571 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:27,280 But it's mainly because like if it bleeds was was I think. 572 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,440 I think that was like almost a five. 573 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,280 That was like a four point five out of five. 574 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,640 There's some things in you like it darker. 575 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:39,080 Some of the stories like that I just absolutely loved. 576 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:44,360 But then there's a few to me that didn't stand out. 577 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:51,640 So Lori Redscreen, even Willie the weirdo. 578 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,400 Wasn't wasn't anything crazy. 579 00:35:54,400 --> 00:36:00,240 I liked two talented bastards, but even that, I mean, I liked that one. 580 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:01,240 Fifth step. 581 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:06,200 Not a fan, you know, because of the but that's just maybe a personal thing. 582 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,920 Willie Weirdo was like, OK, you know, but the bad dream one was great. 583 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,280 Finn was great on slide. 584 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:18,000 Road was great, Redscreen Turbulence was wonder was excellent. 585 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,120 Lori Rattlesnakes, Dreamers and Answer Man all. 586 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,120 Were phenomenal. 587 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,400 Actually, I would say Rattlesnakes and the Answer Man were phenomenal. 588 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,520 I'd say Dreamers was good. 589 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,400 So because of that, it's three point five. 590 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,760 I'm sorry if Stephen King ever listens to this, he won't. 591 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,840 But if he ever does, I love you. 592 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,040 Don't be mad at me. 593 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaking of which, next week, the books I said books that I will be reviewing that we'll 594 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,080 all be reviewing together in this or we'll be discussing, I guess it's not really review, 595 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,680 even though I do review it at the end, is going to be a two fold. 596 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:57,680 It's a double. 597 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:04,200 It's two books because they are related to each other, not in the sense that it's a sequel 598 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:09,920 or prequel to each other, but they are parallel universe versions of one another. 599 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:17,320 And they are both by well, Stephen King's The Regulators and Richard Bachman's. 600 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,960 No, I'm so sorry. 601 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:27,840 Richard Bachman, The Regulators and then Desperation by Stephen King are the two books. 602 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,360 And we will get into why they are related to each other. 603 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,960 Who's Richard Bachman and why is he writing a Stephen King book if you don't already know? 604 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,680 And we'll go from there. 605 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,200 This has been Wednesday Night Book Club. 606 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,200 This has been fun. 607 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,840 I appreciate you guys for joining me on this. 608 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,680 If you have any suggestions, go to the website, friedricepodcast.com. 609 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,120 You can fill out one of the things on the bottom. 610 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,520 You can call our number that we have there, leave a voicemail. 611 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:59,080 Give me an idea for what book you want me to cover or review. 612 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,080 I'm open to anything. 613 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,560 And I think if I don't get any suggestions, I'm just going to keep doing Stephen King 614 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:11,800 or horror books because honestly, horror is the only genre. 615 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:17,440 I think horror when it comes to books is the horror that I love. 616 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:26,360 Movies, the moment you see the main monster, the moment the gimmick is given away, you 617 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,920 see the alien, you see the Pennywise monster, whatever. 618 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:38,600 The fear dissipates instantly and you just know now what this special effect or practical 619 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,880 effect is going to look like for the rest of the movie. 620 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,360 It's kind of like whatever. 621 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,000 And so they don't excite me. 622 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:51,280 For a good horror movie to excite me, it has to have some sort of hook, some sort of psychological 623 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,440 thing to it or even just a fun hook. 624 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,880 Maybe Happy Death Day is a horror movie if you want to consider or maybe a thriller or 625 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,960 whatever, but I like that because of the Groundhog's Day effect of repeating the same day. 626 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:04,960 That made it a fun watch. 627 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:12,160 But when it comes to books, you can get absolutely terrifying with the right book. 628 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:18,200 And I feel like Stephen King has set up so many moments in his novels in the past that 629 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,200 have been terrifying. 630 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,120 And there's a few in this one that stand out. 631 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:29,120 But I do think the regulators and desperation are pretty good. 632 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,280 So Buck Love, try to read them if you can by next week. 633 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,280 I don't know. 634 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:34,280 Fuck it. 635 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,280 Who cares? 636 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,280 Have a great night and thanks for joining me. 637 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,280 It's been Wednesday Night Book Club. 638 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,280 I'm Andy Rice, your host. 639 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:56,880 Have a wonderful night.