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210: You Ain`t No Nice Guy

 

00:00:00   the incomparable number 210 September [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/0">TS</a>]

00:00:11   welcome back everybody being comfortable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/11">TS</a>]

00:00:14   i am your host Jason L and I'm convening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/14">TS</a>]

00:00:16   it's not like the retro book club here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/16">TS</a>]

00:00:19   we are going to be talking about Stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/19">TS</a>]

00:00:22   King's novel The Stand we have talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/22">TS</a>]

00:00:24   about Stephen King before we did an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/24">TS</a>]

00:00:25   episode about his book about the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/25">TS</a>]

00:00:28   traveler goes back to stop the Kennedy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/28">TS</a>]

00:00:30   assassination just what is it called 11 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/30">TS</a>]

00:00:33   2011 22 6363 I can never remember when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/33">TS</a>]

00:00:37   doctor who premiered and when Kennedy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/37">TS</a>]

00:00:39   got assassinated because they're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/39">TS</a>]

00:00:40   two days apartment i'm a very bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/40">TS</a>]

00:00:42   student of history and a very good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/42">TS</a>]

00:00:45   student doctor who anyway but we're back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/45">TS</a>]

00:00:48   to talk about the stand one play it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/48">TS</a>]

00:00:50   my favorite Stephen King novel it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/50">TS</a>]

00:00:52   also i think my introduction Stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/52">TS</a>]

00:00:54   King I've got a great panel with me to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/54">TS</a>]

00:00:57   talk about this book which was first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/57">TS</a>]

00:00:59   published in like 79 and then republish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/59">TS</a>]

00:01:02   tin in vegas 78 and republished in 1990 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/62">TS</a>]

00:01:06   joining me to talk about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/66">TS</a>]

00:01:09   are these schmeiser hello I'm happy to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/69">TS</a>]

00:01:13   be here when I think about talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/73">TS</a>]

00:01:14   Stephen King novels I think of two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/74">TS</a>]

00:01:16   people one of whom is laser miser so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/76">TS</a>]

00:01:18   it's good to have you here thank you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/78">TS</a>]

00:01:19   I also don't think about Monty Ashley [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/79">TS</a>]

00:01:22   but he's here and i'm happy to hear you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/82">TS</a>]

00:01:25   had another way there didn't I my money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/85">TS</a>]

00:01:28   hi it's good to have you is it because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/88">TS</a>]

00:01:31   you're delightful surprise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/91">TS</a>]

00:01:33   okay haha i will accept that is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/93">TS</a>]

00:01:36   quite an insult okay good that's what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/96">TS</a>]

00:01:38   was sorta not quite going for I I the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/98">TS</a>]

00:01:41   print the other person i like to think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/101">TS</a>]

00:01:43   of when I think of Stephen King novels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/103">TS</a>]

00:01:44   is of course John siracusa who is here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/104">TS</a>]

00:01:47   hello you know after hearing you say to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/107">TS</a>]

00:01:49   all of us that we don't have to talk too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/109">TS</a>]

00:01:51   long about the stand that one thing to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/111">TS</a>]

00:01:53   say to you Jason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/113">TS</a>]

00:01:54   you ain't no nice guy oh my god i love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/114">TS</a>]

00:01:58   it the first reference we're saving it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/118">TS</a>]

00:02:00   for the complete and uncut episode yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/120">TS</a>]

00:02:03   you have to wait like 15 years between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/123">TS</a>]

00:02:05   the spot for you guys and just talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/125">TS</a>]

00:02:07   for five hours tonight and all our first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/127">TS</a>]

00:02:10   release a one-hour long version and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/130">TS</a>]

00:02:12   like for it to about my time also here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/132">TS</a>]

00:02:15   to talk about the stand is Erica and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/135">TS</a>]

00:02:17   sign hello hello [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/137">TS</a>]

00:02:19   I have actually had stand by our am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/139">TS</a>]

00:02:21   stuck in my head all day because that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/141">TS</a>]

00:02:23   nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/143">TS</a>]

00:02:24   which is why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/144">TS</a>]

00:02:24   hopefully not a great choice since it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/144">TS</a>]

00:02:26   not at all related but very most boring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/146">TS</a>]

00:02:29   isn't it Erica isn't it the trip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/149">TS</a>]

00:02:32   what should be don't fear the reaper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/152">TS</a>]

00:02:34   hell off the world its butt and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/154">TS</a>]

00:02:37   everybody else out there who hasn't read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/157">TS</a>]

00:02:39   the stand you shouldn't listen to this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/159">TS</a>]

00:02:40   podcast m 00 and spells spoilers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/160">TS</a>]

00:02:43   all right all my god you know just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/163">TS</a>]

00:02:47   feud [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/167">TS</a>]

00:02:48   I think mid last week somebody tweeted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/168">TS</a>]

00:02:51   at Stephen saying MO and spells [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/171">TS</a>]

00:02:53   something or other and I was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/173">TS</a>]

00:02:54   shaking my head because in the middle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/174">TS</a>]

00:02:56   reading the book and I guess the key is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/176">TS</a>]

00:02:58   not gonna get this but I get that tweet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/178">TS</a>]

00:03:00   I thought we would start by talking a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/180">TS</a>]

00:03:01   little bit about our personal history [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/181">TS</a>]

00:03:03   with this book since it's been around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/183">TS</a>]

00:03:05   for awhile I i'll start by saying that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/185">TS</a>]

00:03:08   heard that this was a great book but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/188">TS</a>]

00:03:10   didn't read the original I didn't I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/190">TS</a>]

00:03:12   knew was out there and I had friends who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/192">TS</a>]

00:03:14   are big fans of stephen king and end of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/194">TS</a>]

00:03:15   this book in particular and then there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/195">TS</a>]

00:03:17   was that big publicity campaign in 1990 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/197">TS</a>]

00:03:20   when the complete an uncut addition that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/200">TS</a>]

00:03:22   that is over like a thousand pages i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/202">TS</a>]

00:03:26   trying to see 1153 is what my copy says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/206">TS</a>]

00:03:28   came out and I i said ok that's the one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/208">TS</a>]

00:03:31   I'll buy and read and indeed i have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/211">TS</a>]

00:03:34   first edition and in and inside I have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/214">TS</a>]

00:03:37   bookmark of the first complete and cut [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/217">TS</a>]

00:03:39   addition that actually explains what it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/219">TS</a>]

00:03:41   is from the publisher which is hilarious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/221">TS</a>]

00:03:44   it has a bulleted list of why it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/224">TS</a>]

00:03:45   bigger from Doubleday that I still uses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/225">TS</a>]

00:03:48   the morning very very helpful anyway III [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/228">TS</a>]

00:03:50   in the summer of nineteen ninety i was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/230">TS</a>]

00:03:53   working a summer job between years of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/233">TS</a>]

00:03:56   college at this as a temp at this like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/236">TS</a>]

00:03:59   power plant out in the middle of nowhere [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/239">TS</a>]

00:04:01   with like a hundred and five degrees and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/241">TS</a>]

00:04:03   I remember the lunch hour [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/243">TS</a>]

00:04:04   I would sit outside in the shade eating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/244">TS</a>]

00:04:06   my little meager sandwich and drinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/246">TS</a>]

00:04:08   my little can of soda and reading the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/248">TS</a>]

00:04:11   stand for an hour before going back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/251">TS</a>]

00:04:12   the mind-numbing work of really honestly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/252">TS</a>]

00:04:16   the super flu could have come at that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/256">TS</a>]

00:04:17   moment and I wouldn't have even noticed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/257">TS</a>]

00:04:19   because i was out in the middle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/259">TS</a>]

00:04:21   nowhere and if you leave behind payday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/261">TS</a>]

00:04:23   candy bar wrappers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/263">TS</a>]

00:04:24   that's good idea what Harold do so John [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/264">TS</a>]

00:04:28   what's your with your history with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/268">TS</a>]

00:04:30   stand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/270">TS</a>]

00:04:30   well I guess before the internet the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/270">TS</a>]

00:04:33   only way we had to get things was like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/273">TS</a>]

00:04:35   the store or me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/275">TS</a>]

00:04:37   Lauder and remember the Columbia House [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/277">TS</a>]

00:04:39   like mail-order things for four cds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/279">TS</a>]

00:04:42   that's kind of how i got into music was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/282">TS</a>]

00:04:43   like that that record thing and there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/283">TS</a>]

00:04:45   was also one for books was it also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/285">TS</a>]

00:04:47   Columbia's I don't even remember anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/287">TS</a>]

00:04:48   but was one of those things where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/288">TS</a>]

00:04:49   pay a dollar and get five free books or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/289">TS</a>]

00:04:51   something like that the quality [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/291">TS</a>]

00:04:52   paperback club right yeah i did the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/292">TS</a>]

00:04:54   science-fiction book club [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/294">TS</a>]

00:04:56   yep me too i don't i don't remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/296">TS</a>]

00:04:57   which it was but whatever it was I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/297">TS</a>]

00:04:59   doing at the same time that I was doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/299">TS</a>]

00:05:00   is getting the free CDs and and for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/300">TS</a>]

00:05:03   whatever reason I I don't like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/303">TS</a>]

00:05:05   fantasy novel paperback before that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/305">TS</a>]

00:05:07   I got a hardcover the same one you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/307">TS</a>]

00:05:08   probably have Jason the big first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/308">TS</a>]

00:05:10   edition Doubleday hardcover uncut stand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/310">TS</a>]

00:05:13   i don't know how i picked it I probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/313">TS</a>]

00:05:14   picked it because it was like the big [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/314">TS</a>]

00:05:16   thing on the cover of the little sheet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/316">TS</a>]

00:05:18   that you fill out with a little pin and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/318">TS</a>]

00:05:19   the check boxes which free pick your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/319">TS</a>]

00:05:21   five free books and so I don't remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/321">TS</a>]

00:05:23   what that the books were that I got free [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/323">TS</a>]

00:05:25   and i don't remember how I escaped that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/325">TS</a>]

00:05:27   plan probably because i was just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/327">TS</a>]

00:05:28   teenager and should have been signing up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/328">TS</a>]

00:05:29   for it anyway but anyway I got work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/329">TS</a>]

00:05:32   longer a lot of us and I think it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/332">TS</a>]

00:05:34   also i wasn't released in the summer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/334">TS</a>]

00:05:35   time I seem to recall reading in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/335">TS</a>]

00:05:37   summertime as well and so I read through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/337">TS</a>]

00:05:39   that book and when i finished the book i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/339">TS</a>]

00:05:43   put it down and just went back to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/343">TS</a>]

00:05:45   first page to start over again and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/345">TS</a>]

00:05:47   that's the first look I know I had ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/347">TS</a>]

00:05:48   done that with and the stand like it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/348">TS</a>]

00:05:51   was my top favorite book for the longest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/351">TS</a>]

00:05:54   time certainly during all of my teen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/354">TS</a>]

00:05:56   years in young adulthood so I i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/356">TS</a>]

00:05:58   read the stand more times than I read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/358">TS</a>]

00:06:00   any books except for probably lord of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/360">TS</a>]

00:06:01   the rings Wow all right Erica what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/361">TS</a>]

00:06:05   your story with the stand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/365">TS</a>]

00:06:06   well we were we were library family we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/366">TS</a>]

00:06:09   went to the library of a couple of weeks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/369">TS</a>]

00:06:11   and my mom would get like 30 books and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/371">TS</a>]

00:06:12   you know I aspired to get that many but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/372">TS</a>]

00:06:14   it wasn't that many and I want to say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/374">TS</a>]

00:06:17   was probably within a year or two of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/377">TS</a>]

00:06:19   rerelease she I think she my mom had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/379">TS</a>]

00:06:22   originally read the early version and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/382">TS</a>]

00:06:24   then decided she wanted to read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/384">TS</a>]

00:06:25   expanded version so i didn't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/385">TS</a>]

00:06:27   anything about the earlier version i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/387">TS</a>]

00:06:29   just saw that she had this book that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/389">TS</a>]

00:06:31   huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/391">TS</a>]

00:06:32   I was like yeah I was like okay I need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/392">TS</a>]

00:06:34   to read that book it was just sort of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/394">TS</a>]

00:06:35   challenge to myself it's that long that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/395">TS</a>]

00:06:38   is something that I i need to to read II [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/398">TS</a>]

00:06:40   don't even care what it's about and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/400">TS</a>]

00:06:42   was probably like a freshman in high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/402">TS</a>]

00:06:43   school at the time so I picked it up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/403">TS</a>]

00:06:45   I zipped through it probably way faster [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/405">TS</a>]

00:06:48   than I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/408">TS</a>]

00:06:48   then I should have because it meant i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/408">TS</a>]

00:06:50   skipping a lot of homework and I just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/410">TS</a>]

00:06:53   loved it so I i haven't read it as many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/413">TS</a>]

00:06:55   times as John has but i have read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/415">TS</a>]

00:06:57   three or this was probably my fourth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/417">TS</a>]

00:07:00   time through but I've never read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/420">TS</a>]

00:07:01   original version just the like the huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/421">TS</a>]

00:07:03   one every time we leavin uncut so i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/423">TS</a>]

00:07:06   read The Lord of the Rings more times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/426">TS</a>]

00:07:07   than this because i used to do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/427">TS</a>]

00:07:08   annually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/428">TS</a>]

00:07:09   I've read them the same amount which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/429">TS</a>]

00:07:11   to each so just twice each Monty what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/431">TS</a>]

00:07:15   your story withstand mom's read it last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/435">TS</a>]

00:07:17   week for the first time never heard of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/437">TS</a>]

00:07:19   it i think i had read the cut version [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/439">TS</a>]

00:07:23   once when the uncut version came out I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/443">TS</a>]

00:07:26   got the paperback so I'm a little behind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/446">TS</a>]

00:07:28   you guys looking inside this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/448">TS</a>]

00:07:31   first paperback printing from a 1991 how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/451">TS</a>]

00:07:34   much was the paperback [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/454">TS</a>]

00:07:36   oh i think i did actually read the paper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/456">TS</a>]

00:07:39   back so would have been about 90 91 when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/459">TS</a>]

00:07:41   the library 690 now she's it's 2495 for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/461">TS</a>]

00:07:44   the hardcover I got I got screwed good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/464">TS</a>]

00:07:46   job way to be a good shopper Monty it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/466">TS</a>]

00:07:48   was free from the library you guys yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/468">TS</a>]

00:07:50   the other one of the shiny red ya [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/470">TS</a>]

00:07:53   tomorrow colored yeah and as a bonus the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/473">TS</a>]

00:07:56   back announces that the first two dark [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/476">TS</a>]

00:07:59   tower books are out but I read this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/479">TS</a>]

00:08:04   i think four or five times in total but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/484">TS</a>]

00:08:07   whenever i have anything stronger than a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/487">TS</a>]

00:08:09   strong cold i tend to read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/489">TS</a>]

00:08:11   free-throw I'm miserable and I want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/491">TS</a>]

00:08:16   imagine that everybody else was soon and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/496">TS</a>]

00:08:18   also be miserable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/498">TS</a>]

00:08:19   this cold is going to kill us all which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/499">TS</a>]

00:08:22   my girlfriend has reminded me that means [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/502">TS</a>]

00:08:24   this book that I'm holding is probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/504">TS</a>]

00:08:26   riddled with disease because I'm always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/506">TS</a>]

00:08:29   reading it when I have the flu [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/509">TS</a>]

00:08:31   it is Project Blue maybe it's keeping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/511">TS</a>]

00:08:34   you alive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/514">TS</a>]

00:08:35   whoo yeah I'm just it that's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/515">TS</a>]

00:08:38   unscientific area a little bit made you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/518">TS</a>]

00:08:40   feel better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/520">TS</a>]

00:08:41   Lisa what's what is your stance story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/521">TS</a>]

00:08:44   summer of nineteen eighty-four i was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/524">TS</a>]

00:08:48   able to start babysitting and that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/528">TS</a>]

00:08:52   also some my mom graciously agreed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/532">TS</a>]

00:08:53   drive me to the nearest used bookstore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/533">TS</a>]

00:08:55   and every week i would take the five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/535">TS</a>]

00:08:58   dollars i had earned and I would go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/538">TS</a>]

00:08:59   browse the shelves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/539">TS</a>]

00:09:01   and i bought the stand 11 week with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/541">TS</a>]

00:09:04   along with like four or five other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/544">TS</a>]

00:09:06   stephen king books for my five dollars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/546">TS</a>]

00:09:08   some and I read my way through all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/548">TS</a>]

00:09:13   short story collections first so i read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/553">TS</a>]

00:09:15   the short story that loosely Precision's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/555">TS</a>]

00:09:17   this book and then i read the stand and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/557">TS</a>]

00:09:21   when you're in seventh grade there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/561">TS</a>]

00:09:23   always that when I survived the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/563">TS</a>]

00:09:25   apocalypse i'm going to go live in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/565">TS</a>]

00:09:26   museum fantasy r or whatever but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/566">TS</a>]

00:09:28   delivered [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/568">TS</a>]

00:09:30   oh my god i had a plan how it's going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/570">TS</a>]

00:09:33   DC and live in the Smithsonian that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/573">TS</a>]

00:09:34   everything you and John should compare [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/574">TS</a>]

00:09:37   notes John also has something about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/577">TS</a>]

00:09:39   surviving the apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/579">TS</a>]

00:09:40   yeah but I read the stand and it hit my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/580">TS</a>]

00:09:43   after the apocalypse buttons and then I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/583">TS</a>]

00:09:45   just got sucked in and kept going kept [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/585">TS</a>]

00:09:46   going on so it actually turned into kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/586">TS</a>]

00:09:50   of a comfort read through middle school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/590">TS</a>]

00:09:52   and high school and then the year I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/592">TS</a>]

00:09:54   graduated college in 1994 my first post [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/594">TS</a>]

00:09:58   graduate splurge was a paperback of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/598">TS</a>]

00:10:01   you know completely uncut version and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/601">TS</a>]

00:10:04   read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/604">TS</a>]

00:10:05   concurrent with the airing of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/605">TS</a>]

00:10:07   miniseries and I was on a beach break [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/607">TS</a>]

00:10:09   with a friend of mine and this poor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/609">TS</a>]

00:10:10   woman had to listen to me rant and rave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/610">TS</a>]

00:10:12   every night about how bad the gas haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/612">TS</a>]

00:10:14   its and that's not in the block and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/614">TS</a>]

00:10:17   well i'm not sure like to do that but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/617">TS</a>]

00:10:19   think i really like the way that miguel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/619">TS</a>]

00:10:21   ferrer slate that's that's okay so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/621">TS</a>]

00:10:24   you're blown up by a bomb anyway yeah so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/624">TS</a>]

00:10:26   I've had I I've probably read the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/626">TS</a>]

00:10:28   and I still read the stand once every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/628">TS</a>]

00:10:31   few years when I want an engrossing read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/631">TS</a>]

00:10:34   that I know will reliably entertain me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/634">TS</a>]

00:10:37   and I find something new every time and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/637">TS</a>]

00:10:39   I think it's in reading it in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/639">TS</a>]

00:10:40   thirties and forties has been a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/640">TS</a>]

00:10:41   different than reading it as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/641">TS</a>]

00:10:42   thirteen-year-old so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/642">TS</a>]

00:10:44   oh yeah I've probably read it about ten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/644">TS</a>]

00:10:46   eleven times maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/646">TS</a>]

00:10:48   oh wow so no you know it's again i've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/648">TS</a>]

00:10:50   been reading the same i've been reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/650">TS</a>]

00:10:52   for 30 years so you know where people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/652">TS</a>]

00:10:55   fair enough yeah wow so I guess the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/655">TS</a>]

00:10:58   logical next thing to ask would be what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/658">TS</a>]

00:11:01   is it about the stand that makes it so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/661">TS</a>]

00:11:03   notable in stephen king's work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/663">TS</a>]

00:11:06   what is it about the stand that has all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/666">TS</a>]

00:11:09   of us have admitted to being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/669">TS</a>]

00:11:10   multiple-time readers of this book and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/670">TS</a>]

00:11:13   you know I I don't do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/673">TS</a>]

00:11:15   not a lot of books that i read there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/675">TS</a>]

00:11:16   some my wife has a strict no reread [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/676">TS</a>]

00:11:18   policy which I don't understand but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/678">TS</a>]

00:11:20   that's our policy admired this i do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/680">TS</a>]

00:11:23   there looked in the world there's always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/683">TS</a>]

00:11:24   other books to read but i don't i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/684">TS</a>]

00:11:26   read read a lot but I've reread this and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/686">TS</a>]

00:11:29   will read it again and treasure my copy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/689">TS</a>]

00:11:31   so i think i want to start there which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/691">TS</a>]

00:11:33   is what is it about this book what is it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/693">TS</a>]

00:11:35   that makes it something that stays with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/695">TS</a>]

00:11:37   you and that you want to revisit whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/697">TS</a>]

00:11:40   you're just feeling sick but it's been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/700">TS</a>]

00:11:43   you or or was thinking about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/703">TS</a>]

00:11:46   apocalypse that is to come or what I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/706">TS</a>]

00:11:48   gonna do is what you guys think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/708">TS</a>]

00:11:50   well I am a reader to start with I have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/710">TS</a>]

00:11:52   a terrible memory so i can't remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/712">TS</a>]

00:11:54   books or movies until i have read or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/714">TS</a>]

00:11:56   seen them several times and I really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/716">TS</a>]

00:11:58   like this book the first time through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/718">TS</a>]

00:12:00   and afterwards i remembered that i liked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/720">TS</a>]

00:12:02   it i like maybe I remember that feeling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/722">TS</a>]

00:12:04   of a great enjoyment as I went through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/724">TS</a>]

00:12:05   it but I couldn't remember exactly what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/725">TS</a>]

00:12:07   happened [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/727">TS</a>]

00:12:08   therefore I decided to read it again and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/728">TS</a>]

00:12:10   again and here we go again so I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/730">TS</a>]

00:12:13   for me i'm a sucker for apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/733">TS</a>]

00:12:15   stories and I think I like stories about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/735">TS</a>]

00:12:18   the apocalypse and stories about way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/738">TS</a>]

00:12:21   after the apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/741">TS</a>]

00:12:22   so the first half of this book is right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/742">TS</a>]

00:12:24   up my alley I do like the second half [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/744">TS</a>]

00:12:27   but it definitely tapers off as far as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/747">TS</a>]

00:12:29   enjoyment goes so i think quite often [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/749">TS</a>]

00:12:31   when i start reading it I'm rereading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/751">TS</a>]

00:12:33   just to see the apocalypse happen again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/753">TS</a>]

00:12:35   and then because I've already gotten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/755">TS</a>]

00:12:37   that far i might as well stick around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/757">TS</a>]

00:12:38   for the next six hundred pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/758">TS</a>]

00:12:40   yeah yeah I feel the same way actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/760">TS</a>]

00:12:42   that that I I I definitely maybe we can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/762">TS</a>]

00:12:45   talk about this later I definitely enjoy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/765">TS</a>]

00:12:46   the first part more than the the rest of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/766">TS</a>]

00:12:49   it and maybe that is because i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/769">TS</a>]

00:12:50   enjoying the the the layout of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/770">TS</a>]

00:12:54   actual apocalypse as it as it spreads & [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/774">TS</a>]

00:12:57   M in the immediate aftermath as opposed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/777">TS</a>]

00:12:59   to sort of then the battle between good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/779">TS</a>]

00:13:02   and evil that comes afternoon what what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/782">TS</a>]

00:13:04   else one of my favorite parts of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/784">TS</a>]

00:13:06   apocalypse scenario you guys are talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/786">TS</a>]

00:13:08   about is one that I didn't get to read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/788">TS</a>]

00:13:09   until the complete version came out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/789">TS</a>]

00:13:11   it's chapter 38 way to describe all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/791">TS</a>]

00:13:13   ways that people died that are super flu [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/793">TS</a>]

00:13:16   yeah that's a great one yeah like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/796">TS</a>]

00:13:18   poor kids who died from neglect or the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/798">TS</a>]

00:13:20   girl who gets locked in the freezer with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/800">TS</a>]

00:13:22   her husband and her son or the woman who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/802">TS</a>]

00:13:25   blow yourself up with a gun the hair [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/805">TS</a>]

00:13:26   an addict i love that chapter um I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/806">TS</a>]

00:13:29   know why I just drink it but but i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/809">TS</a>]

00:13:33   i think because it points out that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/813">TS</a>]

00:13:34   can have this you know again romantic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/814">TS</a>]

00:13:36   adolescent fantasy about Oh surely once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/816">TS</a>]

00:13:38   i survived its it's all you know she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/818">TS</a>]

00:13:40   cakes and victory and putting myself to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/820">TS</a>]

00:13:42   sleep by the Hope Diamond every night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/822">TS</a>]

00:13:44   and then someone points out that now as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/824">TS</a>]

00:13:47   a matter of fact the world becomes a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/827">TS</a>]

00:13:48   more dangerous and you are a lot more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/828">TS</a>]

00:13:50   loan it but I think why I keep rereading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/830">TS</a>]

00:13:53   is I always find someone new to latch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/833">TS</a>]

00:13:56   onto if that makes sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/836">TS</a>]

00:13:58   um like the first reread I did where I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/838">TS</a>]

00:14:01   realized that when Stephen King was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/841">TS</a>]

00:14:02   writing Harold water he was essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/842">TS</a>]

00:14:04   putting a Navitar for a youthful write [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/844">TS</a>]

00:14:07   his own youthful regularly ego in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/847">TS</a>]

00:14:09   book was was kind of an eye-opener [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/849">TS</a>]

00:14:11   without holy crap this is a guy who's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/851">TS</a>]

00:14:13   just look back on his working this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/853">TS</a>]

00:14:15   the guy who's supplementing his own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/855">TS</a>]

00:14:17   self-loathing and his fears about his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/857">TS</a>]

00:14:20   writing in in to harold and it gave me a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/860">TS</a>]

00:14:24   lot more sympathy for that character for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/864">TS</a>]

00:14:25   example and again as i find as i get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/865">TS</a>]

00:14:28   older of different characters do or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/868">TS</a>]

00:14:30   don't resonate with me the way they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/870">TS</a>]

00:14:31   would have when i was a teenager [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/871">TS</a>]

00:14:33   um that said Mike Russian jelyn my crush [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/873">TS</a>]

00:14:35   on blood Bateman however has been going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/875">TS</a>]

00:14:37   strong for about 30 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/877">TS</a>]

00:14:38   oh my god I can't explain it but there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/878">TS</a>]

00:14:40   it is oh I like that it's essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/880">TS</a>]

00:14:44   three or four different novels in a Rome [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/884">TS</a>]

00:14:47   that you get people worrying about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/887">TS</a>]

00:14:51   spread of the disease and then the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/891">TS</a>]

00:14:53   disease itself and I to love chapter 38 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/893">TS</a>]

00:14:56   because it shows that the author has put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/896">TS</a>]

00:14:58   actually putting thought into what are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/898">TS</a>]

00:15:01   the effects of all these things that I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/901">TS</a>]

00:15:04   doing to earth or at least America I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/904">TS</a>]

00:15:06   guess we don't really know what happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/906">TS</a>]

00:15:07   to the rest of the planet probably not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/907">TS</a>]

00:15:10   great but there aren't that many books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/910">TS</a>]

00:15:12   that take huge tonal shifts where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/912">TS</a>]

00:15:16   start off with an entire world and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/916">TS</a>]

00:15:19   500 pages later you're reading notes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/919">TS</a>]

00:15:22   from us of a note from a subcommittee on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/922">TS</a>]

00:15:25   whether or not to take a census exactly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/925">TS</a>]

00:15:28   why this could this could have been you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/928">TS</a>]

00:15:31   know two books or three books I suppose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/931">TS</a>]

00:15:33   that would have been another way to tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/933">TS</a>]

00:15:35   it in a different point in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/935">TS</a>]

00:15:36   publishing industry and in Stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/936">TS</a>]

00:15:37   King's career trajectory maybe it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/937">TS</a>]

00:15:39   would've been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/939">TS</a>]

00:15:40   and I don't know he he could have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/940">TS</a>]

00:15:41   started it 500 pages in and just said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/941">TS</a>]

00:15:43   there was an apocalypse and everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/943">TS</a>]

00:15:46   but the people i want to talk about died [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/946">TS</a>]

00:15:48   but he really takes his time making that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/948">TS</a>]

00:15:50   happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/950">TS</a>]

00:15:51   I find it fascinating that friend is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/951">TS</a>]

00:15:53   such a naturally gifted writer and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/953">TS</a>]

00:15:55   just you know it's not he's got some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/955">TS</a>]

00:15:58   weird veins of subtlety through the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/958">TS</a>]

00:16:00   but I i have found it interesting that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/960">TS</a>]

00:16:02   the fran passages he points out what a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/962">TS</a>]

00:16:04   natural voice she has a natural impulse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/964">TS</a>]

00:16:06   compared to harold who desperately wants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/966">TS</a>]

00:16:08   to be a writer and lets his own stupid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/968">TS</a>]

00:16:10   nature getting away so i think it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/970">TS</a>]

00:16:12   actually working out some some some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/972">TS</a>]

00:16:14   artistic crisis issues along the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/974">TS</a>]

00:16:16   with his book to just talk about some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/976">TS</a>]

00:16:18   past podcast I like Apocalypse stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/978">TS</a>]

00:16:20   as well and this and we also talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/980">TS</a>]

00:16:22   about in the past there's lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/982">TS</a>]

00:16:23   different kinds of apocalypse and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/983">TS</a>]

00:16:24   most appealing kind to me and one I had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/984">TS</a>]

00:16:26   never read up until this point was i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/986">TS</a>]

00:16:28   guess i think you had called the clean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/988">TS</a>]

00:16:30   apocalypse where things aren't destroyed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/990">TS</a>]

00:16:32   or blown up a radioactive this dead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/992">TS</a>]

00:16:34   bodies everywhere but they eventually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/994">TS</a>]

00:16:35   you know liquefied and dry up the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/995">TS</a>]

00:16:37   animals either you know like take care [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/997">TS</a>]

00:16:39   of itself eventually but everything else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/999">TS</a>]

00:16:41   is still there and so it fulfill its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1001">TS</a>]

00:16:44   like it's you know living substance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1004">TS</a>]

00:16:45   missoni wherever you want to live the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1005">TS</a>]

00:16:47   thing that you want to do and all those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1007">TS</a>]

00:16:48   people you know this is booked for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1008">TS</a>]

00:16:50   introverts people get rid of all of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1010">TS</a>]

00:16:51   people believe all their stomach that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1011">TS</a>]

00:16:53   stuff is pretty cool and so that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1013">TS</a>]

00:16:55   exciting and they left their stuff and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1015">TS</a>]

00:16:57   and there weren't enough of them left to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1017">TS</a>]

00:16:59   eat all the candy food or anything so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1019">TS</a>]

00:17:01   things yeah pretty good shape given that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1021">TS</a>]

00:17:03   almost everybody is dead right and if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1023">TS</a>]

00:17:05   you read this book read the book as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1025">TS</a>]

00:17:07   teenager he sounds like a lot of us did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1027">TS</a>]

00:17:09   there are many many characters for you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1029">TS</a>]

00:17:11   to identify with as an introverted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1031">TS</a>]

00:17:13   teenager in in this story and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1033">TS</a>]

00:17:15   definitely changes of course as you age [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1035">TS</a>]

00:17:17   and read the book and start relating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1037">TS</a>]

00:17:18   more for the adults in the story and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1038">TS</a>]

00:17:19   everything like that but so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1039">TS</a>]

00:17:21   characters that you know I don't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1041">TS</a>]

00:17:23   necessarily Harold is is stephen king or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1043">TS</a>]

00:17:25   some part of himself in there but like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1045">TS</a>]

00:17:27   it's interesting takes on these type of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1047">TS</a>]

00:17:30   things and we'll talk about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1050">TS</a>]

00:17:31   characters later but like it's not you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1051">TS</a>]

00:17:33   think you know where everything is going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1053">TS</a>]

00:17:34   to go especially if you read a stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1054">TS</a>]

00:17:35   king book before because usually sinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1055">TS</a>]

00:17:37   wants to have like one or two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1057">TS</a>]

00:17:38   Stephen King ish protagonists and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1058">TS</a>]

00:17:41   kind of know that underneath it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1061">TS</a>]

00:17:43   they're really good people and they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1063">TS</a>]

00:17:44   going to face challenges in the floor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1064">TS</a>]

00:17:45   over this so many people in this book he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1065">TS</a>]

00:17:47   can do like the joss whedon thing like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1067">TS</a>]

00:17:49   actually that guy you like is gonna die [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1069">TS</a>]

00:17:51   how do you like that one hour [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1071">TS</a>]

00:17:52   or this is good this is not going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1072">TS</a>]

00:17:54   turn out well you know I mean if Harold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1074">TS</a>]

00:17:57   was the only character and like if there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1077">TS</a>]

00:17:59   was a protagonist and Harold and like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1079">TS</a>]

00:18:00   big baddie bad guy in a regular stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1080">TS</a>]

00:18:02   king book how would not have ended up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1082">TS</a>]

00:18:04   the way you did but there are so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1084">TS</a>]

00:18:05   freakin characters in this book that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1085">TS</a>]

00:18:07   can he can do everything he can surprise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1087">TS</a>]

00:18:09   you and I was riveted through the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1089">TS</a>]

00:18:10   story like it just affected me i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1090">TS</a>]

00:18:12   think i've ever read a book with that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1092">TS</a>]

00:18:13   many characters again except maybe lord [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1093">TS</a>]

00:18:15   of the rings but Lord of the Rings does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1095">TS</a>]

00:18:17   not spend a lot of time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1097">TS</a>]

00:18:19   flushing out like you're like a mirror [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1099">TS</a>]

00:18:20   or something you know it's not did not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1100">TS</a>]

00:18:22   lot of times whereas stephen king is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1102">TS</a>]

00:18:23   like I know how to do characters I he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1103">TS</a>]

00:18:26   had clearly has an affection for all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1106">TS</a>]

00:18:28   these characters good and bad it's gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1108">TS</a>]

00:18:30   give each 150 pages in the end up in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1110">TS</a>]

00:18:32   same page book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1112">TS</a>]

00:18:33   well he's got a tremendously generous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1113">TS</a>]

00:18:34   heart in the book too because I I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1114">TS</a>]

00:18:38   so bad for reward every time I read this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1118">TS</a>]

00:18:40   book I feel bad for Lloyd airport on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1120">TS</a>]

00:18:43   Lloyd well I feel for like the word that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1123">TS</a>]

00:18:45   one of I've never stop feeling sorry for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1125">TS</a>]

00:18:46   those Naomi because she just had no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1126">TS</a>]

00:18:48   chance at all you know i mean there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1128">TS</a>]

00:18:50   that one moment on a hillside where she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1130">TS</a>]

00:18:52   could have chose differently and I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1132">TS</a>]

00:18:55   I've often thought about how monstrously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1135">TS</a>]

00:18:58   unfair the the god of this book is with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1138">TS</a>]

00:19:01   the way you know he he lays punishments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1141">TS</a>]

00:19:03   on people for free choice for life and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1143">TS</a>]

00:19:05   naomi is just as horrible horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1145">TS</a>]

00:19:07   warning that that but yeah easy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1147">TS</a>]

00:19:10   I John you're right there's a hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1150">TS</a>]

00:19:12   fifty pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1152">TS</a>]

00:19:14   although money wasn't you when you and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1154">TS</a>]

00:19:15   were talking on twitter and you said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1155">TS</a>]

00:19:16   that you really could have done without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1156">TS</a>]

00:19:17   the part about the kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1157">TS</a>]

00:19:18   um yeah I've got some problems with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1158">TS</a>]

00:19:22   kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1162">TS</a>]

00:19:22   yeah and I can also do without the kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1162">TS</a>]

00:19:25   once that once we start talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1165">TS</a>]

00:19:26   the time that this book is set i will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1166">TS</a>]

00:19:30   have much more to say about what i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1170">TS</a>]

00:19:32   is going on with the kid I realized that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1172">TS</a>]

00:19:34   we have had several episodes of the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1174">TS</a>]

00:19:37   involving books about the apocalypse and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1177">TS</a>]

00:19:40   that is I think doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1180">TS</a>]

00:19:42   yeah to a lot of influence of of John [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1182">TS</a>]

00:19:45   and Lisa it was suggesting and and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1185">TS</a>]

00:19:49   know a bottle of the apocalypse and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1189">TS</a>]

00:19:50   bringing means only gonna make it worth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1190">TS</a>]

00:19:53   it i turned on its nice it turns out I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1193">TS</a>]

00:19:54   like him too but but it is fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1194">TS</a>]

00:19:58   about i always ask what what draws us to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1198">TS</a>]

00:20:00   it and and there's this idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1200">TS</a>]

00:20:03   first off there there's just this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1203">TS</a>]

00:20:04   feeling about the fragility of society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1204">TS</a>]

00:20:05   and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1205">TS</a>]

00:20:05   how does the world and here it is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1205">TS</a>]

00:20:07   fairly we watch it play out but really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1207">TS</a>]

00:20:12   it's it's a premise in action which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1212">TS</a>]

00:20:14   what if almost everybody died and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1214">TS</a>]

00:20:16   he's got a reason why everybody dies and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1216">TS</a>]

00:20:18   it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1218">TS</a>]

00:20:19   yeah and it's it's basically accidental [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1219">TS</a>]

00:20:21   release of a biological warfare agent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1221">TS</a>]

00:20:23   that that kills everybody and and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1223">TS</a>]

00:20:26   then they're swept aside and then what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1226">TS</a>]

00:20:27   fascinating to me is that then it's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1227">TS</a>]

00:20:29   about the what happens when you find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1229">TS</a>]

00:20:31   yourself alone and society has vanished [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1231">TS</a>]

00:20:33   and what do you do and what how do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1233">TS</a>]

00:20:36   survive and and that leads into that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1236">TS</a>]

00:20:38   second phase of the book which is kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1238">TS</a>]

00:20:40   of fascinating which is this weird like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1240">TS</a>]

00:20:43   you know we hear that there's some lady [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1243">TS</a>]

00:20:46   out out west that we're gonna go find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1246">TS</a>]

00:20:49   and it's strange [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1249">TS</a>]

00:20:50   and-and-and has almost like a mythical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1250">TS</a>]

00:20:53   quality to it but it's also you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1253">TS</a>]

00:20:55   it's also it says something to me about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1255">TS</a>]

00:20:57   like people are trying to find somewhere [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1257">TS</a>]

00:20:59   to go and something do because they it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1259">TS</a>]

00:21:01   you know it's over the the story that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1261">TS</a>]

00:21:03   they thought they were living in is over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1263">TS</a>]

00:21:05   and it turns out there in a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1265">TS</a>]

00:21:06   different kind of story and that that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1266">TS</a>]

00:21:08   fascinating to i think yeah I think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1268">TS</a>]

00:21:11   that those are the most interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1271">TS</a>]

00:21:12   parts of the book to me and RR when the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1272">TS</a>]

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00:27:58   the stories about you know Randall Flagg [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1678">TS</a>]

00:28:00   become real stories and like you can you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1680">TS</a>]

00:28:02   can look at this anymore talk about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1682">TS</a>]

00:28:03   with toro we can connect this totals [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1683">TS</a>]

00:28:05   about you can look at this and say this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1685">TS</a>]

00:28:08   this is an entirely you know this is how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1688">TS</a>]

00:28:10   the this story is viewed but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1690">TS</a>]

00:28:12   realistically what really happens like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1692">TS</a>]

00:28:14   crash came and just rolled up with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1694">TS</a>]

00:28:15   together probably everybody out and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1695">TS</a>]

00:28:17   wasn't hand of God said offers crazy guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1697">TS</a>]

00:28:19   who thought he was going to be you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1699">TS</a>]

00:28:20   like if they're all plausible logical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1700">TS</a>]

00:28:22   explanation for something that could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1702">TS</a>]

00:28:24   they could play out like this and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1704">TS</a>]

00:28:25   can just become embellished in in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1705">TS</a>]

00:28:27   retelling three or four times that's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1707">TS</a>]

00:28:29   it takes right and why would that happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1709">TS</a>]

00:28:31   why would this otherwise rational people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1711">TS</a>]

00:28:33   start believing in this magical story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1713">TS</a>]

00:28:35   two or three generations because that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1715">TS</a>]

00:28:36   exactly how it happens all the time and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1716">TS</a>]

00:28:38   so not that I'm saying that's my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1718">TS</a>]

00:28:39   favorite interpretation of the book but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1719">TS</a>]

00:28:40   the more I read the more I say the more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:42   i like looking at it as like everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1722">TS</a>]

00:28:44   has an actual real explanation and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1724">TS</a>]

00:28:46   good versus evil thing is it's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1726">TS</a>]

00:28:47   like red conned into it like oh of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1727">TS</a>]

00:28:50   course there was a super evil guy we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1730">TS</a>]

00:28:51   were the super good people and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1731">TS</a>]

00:28:53   I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1733">TS</a>]

00:28:53   I think you have to dismiss arrange that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1733">TS</a>]

00:28:55   he said he explained that the last two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1735">TS</a>]

00:28:57   pages of the book which is that Randall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1737">TS</a>]

00:28:59   flagons have revived on the shore of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1739">TS</a>]

00:29:01   some African nation right well that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1741">TS</a>]

00:29:03   the story of like what you can never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1743">TS</a>]

00:29:04   actually kill evil kids because you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1744">TS</a>]

00:29:05   it always comes back right and I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1745">TS</a>]

00:29:07   I'm not saying like I i say that's what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1747">TS</a>]

00:29:09   obviously it's not the intent of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1749">TS</a>]

00:29:10   author that's not the primary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1750">TS</a>]

00:29:12   interpretation of the book but sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1752">TS</a>]

00:29:14   when I squint that especially the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1754">TS</a>]

00:29:16   with the bomb going off because that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1756">TS</a>]

00:29:17   like the most overt I hey guys there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1757">TS</a>]

00:29:19   magic and oh here's the hand of god and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1759">TS</a>]

00:29:21   it's like yeah maybe or maybe the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1761">TS</a>]

00:29:23   just went off accidentally because no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1763">TS</a>]

00:29:25   one is going to be alive to tell the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1765">TS</a>]

00:29:26   tale so who's you know to me and let me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1766">TS</a>]

00:29:28   get the you know the omniscient narrator [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1768">TS</a>]

00:29:29   tells that this is what happened but if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1769">TS</a>]

00:29:32   you just see a big mushroom cloud in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1772">TS</a>]

00:29:33   distance and you know Stu end up going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1773">TS</a>]

00:29:35   home and retails but you like the it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1775">TS</a>]

00:29:37   explains how legends come to be in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1777">TS</a>]

00:29:39   almost everything had to happen this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1779">TS</a>]

00:29:40   book is real certainly the apocalypse is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:42   because science-based or whatever and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1782">TS</a>]

00:29:44   then all the dreams they have a sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1784">TS</a>]

00:29:45   old testament god that's one of my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1785">TS</a>]

00:29:47   favorite things about this book like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1787">TS</a>]

00:29:48   mother Abigail's God is the Old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1788">TS</a>]

00:29:50   Testament God not that not the new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1790">TS</a>]

00:29:51   Desmond and so don't give me that old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1791">TS</a>]

00:29:54   time religion so this is a lot of that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1794">TS</a>]

00:29:56   sort of baked into the book like it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1796">TS</a>]

00:29:57   not be kinder gentler got it anymore you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1797">TS</a>]

00:29:59   know it's the strange arbitrary weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1799">TS</a>]

00:30:01   one and you can you can record it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1801">TS</a>]

00:30:03   and they explained it away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1803">TS</a>]

00:30:05   well I mean talk to rephrase what you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1805">TS</a>]

00:30:07   saying I think what you're saying is you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1807">TS</a>]

00:30:08   know that that's why this book has this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1808">TS</a>]

00:30:10   mythical kind of feel to it whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1810">TS</a>]

00:30:12   whether even when it's not intended [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1812">TS</a>]

00:30:13   that's how it that's how it feels that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1813">TS</a>]

00:30:15   yeah I guess that's literally what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1815">TS</a>]

00:30:17   happened this literally is like one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1817">TS</a>]

00:30:18   those stories and if it wasn't what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1818">TS</a>]

00:30:20   happened this is how those you know this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1820">TS</a>]

00:30:21   is a struggle between good and evil as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1821">TS</a>]

00:30:24   relatively skeptical person i would say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1824">TS</a>]

00:30:25   I one of the things that I like about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1825">TS</a>]

00:30:26   this book is the fact that it is not I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1826">TS</a>]

00:30:30   like that it's telling this this you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1830">TS</a>]

00:30:32   know almost mythological story about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1832">TS</a>]

00:30:33   good and evil and the forces lining up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1833">TS</a>]

00:30:36   against each other because quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1836">TS</a>]

00:30:38   honestly one of the things that exhaust [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1838">TS</a>]

00:30:39   me about so many apocalypse stories is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1839">TS</a>]

00:30:41   that it's just well what happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1841">TS</a>]

00:30:44   afterward everybody kills each other and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1844">TS</a>]

00:30:45   each other until there's nobody left and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1845">TS</a>]

00:30:47   then we're all dead and that's the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1847">TS</a>]

00:30:49   and here it's like no no there's another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1849">TS</a>]

00:30:51   story that happens which is this you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1851">TS</a>]

00:30:53   know ultimate battle between the forces [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1853">TS</a>]

00:30:55   of good and evil and all the IT people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1855">TS</a>]

00:30:58   are going to go to Las Vegas where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1858">TS</a>]

00:30:59   they're going to get electricity running [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1859">TS</a>]

00:31:01   and that's evil [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1861">TS</a>]

00:31:02   I think what was what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1862">TS</a>]

00:31:04   that woman's got the speech where he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1864">TS</a>]

00:31:06   says because he lays it out nice as well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1866">TS</a>]

00:31:08   is going to get scientists engineers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1868">TS</a>]

00:31:10   military types of law enforcement [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1870">TS</a>]

00:31:11   because they like structure there like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1871">TS</a>]

00:31:13   order and they're going to jump at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1873">TS</a>]

00:31:14   opportunity to to follow somebody who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1874">TS</a>]

00:31:16   offers from a promise of that and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1876">TS</a>]

00:31:18   remember reading that again as a kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1878">TS</a>]

00:31:20   going to that's harsh and a hard drive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1880">TS</a>]

00:31:22   for Tristan like yeah I can see that in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1882">TS</a>]

00:31:28   general like Stephen King for most of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1888">TS</a>]

00:31:30   his stories doesn't do the Marvel movie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1890">TS</a>]

00:31:34   thing where the world always has to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1894">TS</a>]

00:31:35   in peril a lot of the stories especially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1895">TS</a>]

00:31:37   his early ones were small something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1897">TS</a>]

00:31:39   happening in a small town there's one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1899">TS</a>]

00:31:40   vampire in a small town there's a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1900">TS</a>]

00:31:43   telekinetic and it's like the world's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1903">TS</a>]

00:31:44   always the same small town [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1904">TS</a>]

00:31:46   well you know that they think they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1906">TS</a>]

00:31:48   all very castle rock sometimes its dairy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1908">TS</a>]

00:31:50   but like it doesn't have the disease [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1910">TS</a>]

00:31:52   where world you know fantasy novels have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1912">TS</a>]

00:31:54   this the worst the world is always in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1914">TS</a>]

00:31:55   peril bites the resurgence of some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1915">TS</a>]

00:31:57   ancient evil looks like it's always the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1917">TS</a>]

00:31:58   world it's never like just within some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1918">TS</a>]

00:32:00   villages one where often we do a whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1920">TS</a>]

00:32:02   story about that and like who cares you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1922">TS</a>]

00:32:03   can wipe out the whole village no one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1923">TS</a>]

00:32:05   notices little town in Maine but I he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1925">TS</a>]

00:32:07   has to you know to sort of great works [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1927">TS</a>]

00:32:10   of intertwined that our world in peril [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1930">TS</a>]

00:32:12   things were you know that the dark tower [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1932">TS</a>]

00:32:14   and the stand and those were his like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1934">TS</a>]

00:32:17   you can argue which one is like it you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1937">TS</a>]

00:32:19   know obviously the dark tower sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1939">TS</a>]

00:32:20   the cornerstone of his entire work and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1940">TS</a>]

00:32:22   wraps everything up but the stand is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1942">TS</a>]

00:32:24   one big sort of pillar in you know i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1944">TS</a>]

00:32:27   going to i'm gonna kill everybody in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1947">TS</a>]

00:32:29   world this is this is a world in peril [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1949">TS</a>]

00:32:31   fight for the soul of humanity good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1951">TS</a>]

00:32:32   versus evil which he didn't indulge in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1952">TS</a>]

00:32:35   in his career up to that point i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1955">TS</a>]

00:32:37   trying to think of what did he did he go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1957">TS</a>]

00:32:39   back to that I think this is more or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1959">TS</a>]

00:32:41   less the only sort of realistic world in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1961">TS</a>]

00:32:44   peril thing and then there's the dark [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1964">TS</a>]

00:32:46   tower which is world's plural in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1966">TS</a>]

00:32:47   parallel reality but it's either gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1967">TS</a>]

00:32:49   get expansion this idea right i mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:51   that the dark dad was kind of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1971">TS</a>]

00:32:54   standard large and away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1974">TS</a>]

00:32:55   well but it's all it's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1975">TS</a>]

00:32:56   interconnected I mean you've got like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1976">TS</a>]

00:32:58   one of my favorite things is like it if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1978">TS</a>]

00:33:00   you just if I was you recommend someone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1980">TS</a>]

00:33:01   read three things by Stephen King would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1981">TS</a>]

00:33:03   be like the entire dark salary series to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1983">TS</a>]

00:33:05   stand in the eyes of the dragon just to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1985">TS</a>]

00:33:06   see how you can take how you can take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1986">TS</a>]

00:33:09   three entirely different genres and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1989">TS</a>]

00:33:12   styles of books and audiences and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1992">TS</a>]

00:33:14   connect them all into one big thing and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1994">TS</a>]

00:33:16   it's just it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1996">TS</a>]

00:33:17   fascinating fascinating trainwreck are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1997">TS</a>]

00:33:19   fascinating beautiful tapestry depending [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/1999">TS</a>]

00:33:21   on how you look at it actually the very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2001">TS</a>]

00:33:23   first time that i reread the stand was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2003">TS</a>]

00:33:26   after I'd started reading the dark tower [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2006">TS</a>]

00:33:27   books and I was like oh yeah like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2007">TS</a>]

00:33:29   meet somebody told me that he weaves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2009">TS</a>]

00:33:30   them in a little bit so it's like okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2010">TS</a>]

00:33:32   I'm going to read all of his other stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2012">TS</a>]

00:33:33   that has little connections to shower [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2013">TS</a>]

00:33:36   which all just about everything I said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2016">TS</a>]

00:33:38   so and so I did and and then actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2018">TS</a>]

00:33:42   just before i read the stand this time i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2022">TS</a>]

00:33:44   had just finished reading wizard and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2024">TS</a>]

00:33:45   glass again which has the scene where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2025">TS</a>]

00:33:47   those characters are walking through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2027">TS</a>]

00:33:49   what seems to be Kansas during the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2029">TS</a>]

00:33:52   of the post-apocalypse because you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2032">TS</a>]

00:33:55   they see a newspaper that says captain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2035">TS</a>]

00:33:57   trips on it just like oh I just get that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2037">TS</a>]

00:33:59   little shiver every time I see that hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2039">TS</a>]

00:34:01   again because of its it's that book but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2041">TS</a>]

00:34:03   then they also point out that the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2043">TS</a>]

00:34:05   baseball team is what is it the Kansas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2045">TS</a>]

00:34:07   City Monarchs instead of the Kansas City [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2047">TS</a>]

00:34:08   Royals so it's not actually our world we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2048">TS</a>]

00:34:10   could still be in for this always want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2050">TS</a>]

00:34:13   to be monarch swears that negro league [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2053">TS</a>]

00:34:15   team [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2055">TS</a>]

00:34:15   mhm true but in this in this in wizard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2055">TS</a>]

00:34:18   glasses the MLB major league baseball [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2058">TS</a>]

00:34:21   and Lisa was mentioning Glenn Bateman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2061">TS</a>]

00:34:23   speeches before and I remember my first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2063">TS</a>]

00:34:25   couple of read-throughs of the books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2065">TS</a>]

00:34:26   that was my favorite part because it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2066">TS</a>]

00:34:28   like a character in the blade like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2068">TS</a>]

00:34:30   always wanted characters characters in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2070">TS</a>]

00:34:31   the book to discuss like the discuss [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2071">TS</a>]

00:34:34   what's happening in the book this is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2074">TS</a>]

00:34:35   sit down and talk about it a few times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2075">TS</a>]

00:34:37   they did that it's like yes glad it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2077">TS</a>]

00:34:39   finally saying all the things that I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2079">TS</a>]

00:34:40   thinking what are the people going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2080">TS</a>]

00:34:41   let's discuss it like instead of just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2081">TS</a>]

00:34:43   the characters being in dread and always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2083">TS</a>]

00:34:45   running from chases or whatever he would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2085">TS</a>]

00:34:46   sit down every once in a while inside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2086">TS</a>]

00:34:48   will help [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2088">TS</a>]

00:34:48   let's think this is gonna turn out like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2088">TS</a>]

00:34:50   see that's exactly the only conversation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2090">TS</a>]

00:34:52   I would ever be having with people would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2092">TS</a>]

00:34:53   be like constant rehashing of Glenn's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2093">TS</a>]

00:34:55   conversations there there are some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2095">TS</a>]

00:34:59   characters i have more of a problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2099">TS</a>]

00:35:01   as i get older just because I think oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2101">TS</a>]

00:35:02   you know you tried buddy but you didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2102">TS</a>]

00:35:04   quite nail it and I have rarely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2104">TS</a>]

00:35:07   connected to the women in this book the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2107">TS</a>]

00:35:09   same way i've connected to the male [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2109">TS</a>]

00:35:11   characters and I have spent a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2111">TS</a>]

00:35:13   useless time thinking about whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2113">TS</a>]

00:35:15   that's because King bro this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2115">TS</a>]

00:35:17   comparatively young man and was still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2117">TS</a>]

00:35:19   developing the kind of imagination [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2119">TS</a>]

00:35:21   empathy needed for whether it's because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2121">TS</a>]

00:35:23   the book was written during the nineteen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2123">TS</a>]

00:35:25   seventies and perhaps gender attitudes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2125">TS</a>]

00:35:28   for that dramatically different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2128">TS</a>]

00:35:29   or what the story is but there's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2129">TS</a>]

00:35:32   awful lot of slapping of women's faces [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2132">TS</a>]

00:35:34   that takes place in like the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2134">TS</a>]

00:35:35   quarter of the book and I've always been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2135">TS</a>]

00:35:38   vaguely bought I've always been kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:39   bothered by by two things by Miss [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2139">TS</a>]

00:35:41   Abigail's you know elderlies mystical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2141">TS</a>]

00:35:44   black woman check because it feel it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2144">TS</a>]

00:35:46   does feel kind of sticky you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2146">TS</a>]

00:35:48   it's the kind of thing that young white [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2148">TS</a>]

00:35:49   men right when they're oh she's machine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2149">TS</a>]

00:35:51   applies she's with you she's so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2151">TS</a>]

00:35:53   profoundly other like oh she's a woman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2153">TS</a>]

00:35:55   and she's black and she's old she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2155">TS</a>]

00:35:58   basically you know and she's a bad West [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2158">TS</a>]

00:36:00   she's actually no yeah no she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2160">TS</a>]

00:36:02   absolutely like she's every possible of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2162">TS</a>]

00:36:04   you can take off on the box and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2164">TS</a>]

00:36:06   that's always bugged me that the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2166">TS</a>]

00:36:08   that he's written her especially that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2168">TS</a>]

00:36:11   passage about how much you enjoy sex and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2171">TS</a>]

00:36:13   then I've always had a difficult time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2173">TS</a>]

00:36:15   connecting to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2175">TS</a>]

00:36:16   but like the the part of the book that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2176">TS</a>]

00:36:18   feel the best toward friend is always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2178">TS</a>]

00:36:20   the part where she's burning her dad and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2180">TS</a>]

00:36:22   then after my life I've always kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2182">TS</a>]

00:36:25   had our friend with the hell are you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2185">TS</a>]

00:36:26   thinking is is going through my mind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2186">TS</a>]

00:36:27   through most of the rest of the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2187">TS</a>]

00:36:29   most of the time and again I tried to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2189">TS</a>]

00:36:31   figure out if this is a cat's the result [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2191">TS</a>]

00:36:33   of King writing this when he was very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2193">TS</a>]

00:36:34   young because he's got a roster of great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2194">TS</a>]

00:36:37   female characters for a lot of the rest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2197">TS</a>]

00:36:39   of his books or if this is an unwitting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2199">TS</a>]

00:36:41   reflection of the time period in which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2201">TS</a>]

00:36:43   King was writing this book or what but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2203">TS</a>]

00:36:44   there's there's something about you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2204">TS</a>]

00:36:46   Lucy and Nadine and and and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2206">TS</a>]

00:36:50   yeah but the data Jergens the data [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2210">TS</a>]

00:36:51   Jergens lesbian turn on and off thing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2211">TS</a>]

00:36:53   a little problematic and and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2213">TS</a>]

00:36:55   this if you're writing this book now eat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2215">TS</a>]

00:36:59   I think he'd get dinged for it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2219">TS</a>]

00:37:00   yeah I I never actually noticed that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2220">TS</a>]

00:37:02   sort of stuff when I was younger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2222">TS</a>]

00:37:03   yeah I I kind of the first few times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2223">TS</a>]

00:37:05   throughout think I related to friend and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2225">TS</a>]

00:37:07   then now reading it I really don't in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2227">TS</a>]

00:37:10   part because I'm older than she is and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2230">TS</a>]

00:37:12   she acts a lot younger than she is i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2232">TS</a>]

00:37:14   think in many cases but I think also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2234">TS</a>]

00:37:16   just the fact that there aren't a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2236">TS</a>]

00:37:18   women when when you are compared with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2238">TS</a>]

00:37:20   the number of well-developed male [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2240">TS</a>]

00:37:21   characters and then the choices that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2241">TS</a>]

00:37:23   they're all kind of archetypal and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2243">TS</a>]

00:37:26   do get a lot of that on male side but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2246">TS</a>]

00:37:27   think there are enough guys that they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2247">TS</a>]

00:37:29   not all that way so you've got mother [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2249">TS</a>]

00:37:31   Abigail as the you know archetypal other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2251">TS</a>]

00:37:33   yo woman basically and then you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2253">TS</a>]

00:37:36   you've got you've got Nadine sort of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2256">TS</a>]

00:37:38   femme fatale and religion sacrifice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2258">TS</a>]

00:37:42   yeah that too and then you get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2262">TS</a>]

00:37:44   girlfriend and the mother figure you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2264">TS</a>]

00:37:47   know friend turns into the mother figure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2267">TS</a>]

00:37:48   after being just like the wayward [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2268">TS</a>]

00:37:50   wayward daughter figure and none of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2270">TS</a>]

00:37:53   seem quite as real to me as any of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2273">TS</a>]

00:37:56   the male characters throughout but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2276">TS</a>]

00:37:58   thought that perhaps one of the reasons [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2278">TS</a>]

00:38:00   for this is the archetypal thing this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2280">TS</a>]

00:38:02   a story of good vs evil the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2282">TS</a>]

00:38:04   all sort of do have a little bit of that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2284">TS</a>]

00:38:07   in their DNA [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2287">TS</a>]

00:38:08   I think that it fits so I I don't get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2288">TS</a>]

00:38:11   too worked up about it but I do tilt my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2291">TS</a>]

00:38:13   head a little bit i feel that kings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2293">TS</a>]

00:38:16   point of view can be shown by right at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2296">TS</a>]

00:38:18   the end of the book when even though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2298">TS</a>]

00:38:20   he's giving us dozens and dozens of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2300">TS</a>]

00:38:22   characters pretty much the four living [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2302">TS</a>]

00:38:25   white middle-aged dudes go off to solve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2305">TS</a>]

00:38:27   the problem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2307">TS</a>]

00:38:28   yeah let's be fair most of them died [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2308">TS</a>]

00:38:31   yeah 3 out of the 4 end up dead and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2311">TS</a>]

00:38:34   photos I've seen by a mentally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2314">TS</a>]

00:38:35   challenged man they get to go be Christ [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2315">TS</a>]

00:38:37   figures but there it's basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2317">TS</a>]

00:38:40   everybody else stay at home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2320">TS</a>]

00:38:42   yeah i think it's clear that King [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2322">TS</a>]

00:38:45   understands the male characters in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2325">TS</a>]

00:38:48   book more than he understands the female [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2328">TS</a>]

00:38:50   ones and it's easier this point his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2330">TS</a>]

00:38:51   writing career where that makes a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2331">TS</a>]

00:38:54   difference in his characterization will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2334">TS</a>]

00:38:55   give more time to the male characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2335">TS</a>]

00:38:57   and their their internal monologues and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2337">TS</a>]

00:38:59   motivations and actions make more sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2339">TS</a>]

00:39:02   from the various perspectives obviously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2342">TS</a>]

00:39:03   he clearly understands Herald and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2343">TS</a>]

00:39:05   older man who sort of like what he wants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2345">TS</a>]

00:39:07   to be but the women they do fall into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2347">TS</a>]

00:39:09   all these roles and it got the roles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2349">TS</a>]

00:39:11   they fall into the role so I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2351">TS</a>]

00:39:13   the rules of the Stephen King sees for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2353">TS</a>]

00:39:14   women or the women had the seventies but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2354">TS</a>]

00:39:16   so many of the women's opinions not just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2356">TS</a>]

00:39:18   in this book with a lot of his books had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2358">TS</a>]

00:39:20   to do with how they relate to the men in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2360">TS</a>]

00:39:22   the books which man are they going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2362">TS</a>]

00:39:24   choose as their man which man will be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2364">TS</a>]

00:39:26   their protector which man fulfills that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2366">TS</a>]

00:39:28   like they're the women are looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2368">TS</a>]

00:39:30   towards the men and the men are looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2370">TS</a>]

00:39:32   towards the horizon and so they end up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2372">TS</a>]

00:39:35   either at the end up either thinly drawn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2375">TS</a>]

00:39:37   or just not given as much time to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2377">TS</a>]

00:39:41   develop you made like the the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2381">TS</a>]

00:39:42   stereotypes that you know that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2382">TS</a>]

00:39:44   toughbook lesbian one like he tries to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2384">TS</a>]

00:39:46   show them as at being complex and making [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2386">TS</a>]

00:39:49   decisions that affect the rest of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2389">TS</a>]

00:39:50   story and so on and so forth but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2390">TS</a>]

00:39:51   all kind of writ small like there's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2391">TS</a>]

00:39:54   a lot of the women worrying about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2394">TS</a>]

00:39:56   how they're going to fix the problem of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2396">TS</a>]

00:39:57   the world like and the men you know some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2397">TS</a>]

00:40:00   of the major thing about some of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2400">TS</a>]

00:40:01   are so that is just a weakness and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2401">TS</a>]

00:40:03   think a young author and to be fair when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2403">TS</a>]

00:40:06   you have a book with this many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2406">TS</a>]

00:40:07   characters and it's hard to make all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2407">TS</a>]

00:40:09   great and he just eventually you just at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2409">TS</a>]

00:40:12   it you know you just end up leaning on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2412">TS</a>]

00:40:13   the ones you can do better so he just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2413">TS</a>]

00:40:14   does the male characters better uh huh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2414">TS</a>]

00:40:16   you know he does as an author I think he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2416">TS</a>]

00:40:19   gets better with the women i think if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2419">TS</a>]

00:40:20   you reduce the character count he can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2420">TS</a>]

00:40:22   imbue the women with more interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2422">TS</a>]

00:40:24   things like always and like a book like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2424">TS</a>]

00:40:25   Gerald's game was like look I'm really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2425">TS</a>]

00:40:27   got to get this right it's just going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2427">TS</a>]

00:40:28   be a woman she's going to be my thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2428">TS</a>]

00:40:30   under the whole book my respected and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2430">TS</a>]

00:40:32   she becomes an entire person um he's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2432">TS</a>]

00:40:35   older guy he does have his weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2435">TS</a>]

00:40:36   prejudices but yeah that's in repeated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2436">TS</a>]

00:40:39   readings of this and i said this used to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2439">TS</a>]

00:40:41   be my favorite book i think lord of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2441">TS</a>]

00:40:43   rings has passed it simply because now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2443">TS</a>]

00:40:44   as i read it and i get older i see sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2444">TS</a>]

00:40:47   of all the things that you didn't see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2447">TS</a>]

00:40:48   when you're younger than the writing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2448">TS</a>]

00:40:50   not as strong as kings later work in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2450">TS</a>]

00:40:51   characterizations are not as Richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2451">TS</a>]

00:40:53   sophisticated as they could be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2453">TS</a>]

00:40:54   I still love the story i I'm willing to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2454">TS</a>]

00:40:56   forgive a lot because of the puffiness [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2456">TS</a>]

00:40:57   like it's kind of you know trashy pulpy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2457">TS</a>]

00:41:00   soap opera ish sci-fi apocalypse like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2460">TS</a>]

00:41:04   I'm willing to forgive a lot for that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2464">TS</a>]

00:41:06   fun but it you know it is it has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2466">TS</a>]

00:41:08   decreased in esteem and and in my mind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2468">TS</a>]

00:41:10   over the years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2470">TS</a>]

00:41:11   well the two the two people who kill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:13   themselves over the course of the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2473">TS</a>]

00:41:15   because they can't handle living without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2475">TS</a>]

00:41:17   a man or having a man take care of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2477">TS</a>]

00:41:19   both are both women because you've got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2479">TS</a>]

00:41:20   Rita the socialite that killed herself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2480">TS</a>]

00:41:23   around Larry never wouldn't love to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2483">TS</a>]

00:41:26   Larry honorary but you've also but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2486">TS</a>]

00:41:30   you've also got Perry who briefly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2490">TS</a>]

00:41:33   mentioned a few chapters who kills [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2493">TS</a>]

00:41:36   herself after poor stew watches marks a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2496">TS</a>]

00:41:38   pen that you know appendectomy and by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2498">TS</a>]

00:41:41   the way that appendectomy seeing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2501">TS</a>]

00:41:42   actually one of my favorites that got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2502">TS</a>]

00:41:43   added back into the expanded book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2503">TS</a>]

00:41:45   because it really points out how quickly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2505">TS</a>]

00:41:47   you can be laid low on eternal enemy the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2507">TS</a>]

00:41:49   podcast david brin actually has a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2509">TS</a>]

00:41:51   that's understood official then yes sir [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2511">TS</a>]

00:41:55   have a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2515">TS</a>]

00:41:57   he has a base throwaway line actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2517">TS</a>]

00:41:58   the postman of all things where a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2518">TS</a>]

00:42:00   character kind of loses his head when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2520">TS</a>]

00:42:02   somebody steals his tooth powder and his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2522">TS</a>]

00:42:04   loss because one of the things that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2524">TS</a>]

00:42:06   been killing people and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2526">TS</a>]

00:42:07   post-apocalyptic landscape is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2527">TS</a>]

00:42:09   that was a parent parent pairing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2529">TS</a>]

00:42:13   peritonitis yeah yeah and that's been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2533">TS</a>]

00:42:16   killing people and so this guy's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2536">TS</a>]

00:42:17   fanatical about his teeth regimen and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2537">TS</a>]

00:42:20   had never really stopped to consider [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2540">TS</a>]

00:42:21   that yeah you know if the bacteria get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2541">TS</a>]

00:42:23   into ulcerated gums it's done with and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2543">TS</a>]

00:42:26   so I love when stuff like okay once upon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2546">TS</a>]

00:42:28   a time I had this melody I could go into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2548">TS</a>]

00:42:30   the ER got it taken care of overnight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2550">TS</a>]

00:42:32   turns into oak rap i'm going to die in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2552">TS</a>]

00:42:34   lot of abdomen abdominal pain to be fair [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2554">TS</a>]

00:42:38   to Stephen King actually the his first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2558">TS</a>]

00:42:40   published novel was Carrie yeah but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2560">TS</a>]

00:42:44   don't make it sound like he never wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2564">TS</a>]

00:42:46   about with dentist so I'm just like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2566">TS</a>]

00:42:48   has it he has a deeper intuitive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2568">TS</a>]

00:42:50   understanding of men [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2570">TS</a>]

00:42:51   that's one of the books that passes the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2571">TS</a>]

00:42:52   Bechdel test and that it's not all women [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2572">TS</a>]

00:42:54   talking to each other about about guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2574">TS</a>]

00:42:56   because I yeah just pop up a lot sloped [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2576">TS</a>]

00:43:00   we're talking to get to each other about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2580">TS</a>]

00:43:01   God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2581">TS</a>]

00:43:02   yeah so we're on were on characters now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2582">TS</a>]

00:43:04   I think this is this is our opportunity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2584">TS</a>]

00:43:05   before we get to that important talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2585">TS</a>]

00:43:07   about the timeframe in the expanded [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2587">TS</a>]

00:43:08   edition and all that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2588">TS</a>]

00:43:10   let's talk about the characters because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2590">TS</a>]

00:43:10   i think one of the things that we didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2590">TS</a>]

00:43:12   mention really except in passing when we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2592">TS</a>]

00:43:14   talk about the appeal of this book I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2594">TS</a>]

00:43:15   think it's got to be the characters this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2595">TS</a>]

00:43:17   is a huge cast and that there are some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2597">TS</a>]

00:43:20   really memorable people in this cast of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2600">TS</a>]

00:43:23   characters this is of this is a you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2603">TS</a>]

00:43:25   that there isn't just about three or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2605">TS</a>]

00:43:28   four people who walk off to Las Vegas to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2608">TS</a>]

00:43:30   get killed it's it's this huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2610">TS</a>]

00:43:33   widescreen set of characters so if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2613">TS</a>]

00:43:35   guys have more characters you want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2615">TS</a>]

00:43:37   talk about now is your chance we haven't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2617">TS</a>]

00:43:40   mentioned Nick's a mechanical great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2620">TS</a>]

00:43:44   yes I love him yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2624">TS</a>]

00:43:47   ap I think he's that it's hard not to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2627">TS</a>]

00:43:49   Harold is kind of like the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2629">TS</a>]

00:43:53   novelization version of the character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2633">TS</a>]

00:43:55   from one of my favorite jonathan coulton [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2635">TS</a>]

00:43:57   songs the future soon where it's he's he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2637">TS</a>]

00:44:00   kinda more or less gets his wish and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2640">TS</a>]

00:44:03   that he survived the apocalypse everyone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2643">TS</a>]

00:44:04   else has gone all his tormenters he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2644">TS</a>]

00:44:07   finally has time to write you know in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2647">TS</a>]

00:44:09   his underpants whatever he's doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2649">TS</a>]

00:44:10   swimming away their that the one girl he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2650">TS</a>]

00:44:11   liked in town is the is this left I he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2651">TS</a>]

00:44:14   is he may literally be the last man on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2654">TS</a>]

00:44:16   earth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2656">TS</a>]

00:44:17   and he has the chance to remake himself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2657">TS</a>]

00:44:19   and it doesn't start off well for him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2659">TS</a>]

00:44:24   but like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2664">TS</a>]

00:44:25   he almost gets it's like okay well I can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2665">TS</a>]

00:44:27   be a new person the society i can be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2667">TS</a>]

00:44:28   different than I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2668">TS</a>]

00:44:30   I'm useful i'm smart people look up to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2670">TS</a>]

00:44:32   me like the great you know turn turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2672">TS</a>]

00:44:34   where Larry says that house becomes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2674">TS</a>]

00:44:36   legend larry's mind because they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2676">TS</a>]

00:44:37   following all his signs and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2677">TS</a>]

00:44:39   disconnect between like this kid that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2679">TS</a>]

00:44:41   meets you so insecure and obnoxious and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2681">TS</a>]

00:44:43   everything and the guy who had the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2683">TS</a>]

00:44:44   smarts write those signs but he doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2684">TS</a>]

00:44:46   turn it around in the end in the end he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2686">TS</a>]

00:44:48   is his own worst enemy in the end you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2688">TS</a>]

00:44:50   know the the Robot Wars cause his love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2690">TS</a>]

00:44:53   to you know have a bionic eyes and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2693">TS</a>]

00:44:55   realize that he is the person who caused [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2695">TS</a>]

00:44:57   all this and it's it's kind of a tragedy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2697">TS</a>]

00:45:00   out but like I said it in a book with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2700">TS</a>]

00:45:03   fewer number of characters or in a more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2703">TS</a>]

00:45:05   conventional Stephen King novel he would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2705">TS</a>]

00:45:06   have turned it around but he doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2706">TS</a>]

00:45:08   have to turn around this book he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2708">TS</a>]

00:45:09   allowed to follow a course that seems [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2709">TS</a>]

00:45:11   very realistic and likely in that he if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2711">TS</a>]

00:45:15   he ends up he ends up being his own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2715">TS</a>]

00:45:17   worse enemy and can't pull out of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2717">TS</a>]

00:45:19   know I mean he makes it more than makes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2719">TS</a>]

00:45:20   a conscious choice we can't let go of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2720">TS</a>]

00:45:21   his hate and I like the type of story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2721">TS</a>]

00:45:24   because it's not the easy one where when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2724">TS</a>]

00:45:26   everybody's gone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2726">TS</a>]

00:45:28   you know you will be able to sleep in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2728">TS</a>]

00:45:30   the Smithsonian and you'll be great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2730">TS</a>]

00:45:32   person and you'll get the girl and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2732">TS</a>]

00:45:33   everything will be great it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2733">TS</a>]

00:45:34   wherever you go there you are you're not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2734">TS</a>]

00:45:36   going to be able to escape yourself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2736">TS</a>]

00:45:38   ah and despite your efforts to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2738">TS</a>]

00:45:40   contrary and I that's why I really liked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2740">TS</a>]

00:45:42   his story lines its I mean it strikes me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2742">TS</a>]

00:45:45   is not being clichéd and I I feel for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2745">TS</a>]

00:45:48   him every time through like you hate him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2748">TS</a>]

00:45:50   and you want him to be punished so badly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2750">TS</a>]

00:45:52   but so many times like oh hell you were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2752">TS</a>]

00:45:54   so close you are so close [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2754">TS</a>]

00:45:55   oh hi always feel so sorry for him I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2755">TS</a>]

00:45:57   think that's why he's one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2757">TS</a>]

00:45:59   characters that I definitely had to grow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2759">TS</a>]

00:46:00   into when i read it as a youngster I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2760">TS</a>]

00:46:02   really sort of just seeing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2762">TS</a>]

00:46:03   black-and-white two-dimensional part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2763">TS</a>]

00:46:05   it and I was just angry at him all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2765">TS</a>]

00:46:07   time and didn't care and now that i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2767">TS</a>]

00:46:10   had grown up and actually had some life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2770">TS</a>]

00:46:12   experiences and and battled a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2772">TS</a>]

00:46:14   with the good versus evil in myself I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2774">TS</a>]

00:46:16   can feel a lot more for his character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2776">TS</a>]

00:46:18   and I would like to think that I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2778">TS</a>]

00:46:20   turned it around and done things okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2780">TS</a>]

00:46:21   but i can understand his sort of inner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2781">TS</a>]

00:46:25   turmoil turn it to fight back and forth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2785">TS</a>]

00:46:27   so it's a much much deeper more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2787">TS</a>]

00:46:29   meaningful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2789">TS</a>]

00:46:30   character transformation linear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2790">TS</a>]

00:46:32   transformation for me now than it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2792">TS</a>]

00:46:33   when i first read the book the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2793">TS</a>]

00:46:35   couple times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2795">TS</a>]

00:46:36   well as a teenager was next to Harold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2796">TS</a>]

00:46:38   water in school and and so that was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2798">TS</a>]

00:46:41   reason I didn't like it was because I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2801">TS</a>]

00:46:42   was already dealing with people like him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2802">TS</a>]

00:46:44   every day then but you know once you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2804">TS</a>]

00:46:47   older and like Erica says you've had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2807">TS</a>]

00:46:49   have a reckoning with the limits of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2809">TS</a>]

00:46:50   own strengths and weaknesses and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2810">TS</a>]

00:46:54   have to start and you start living with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2814">TS</a>]

00:46:56   the consequences of decisions you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2816">TS</a>]

00:46:58   made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2818">TS</a>]

00:46:58   it's easier to go back and look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2818">TS</a>]

00:47:00   harold and see the times when the deck [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2820">TS</a>]

00:47:03   has been stacked against him and how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2823">TS</a>]

00:47:05   easy it was and for him to make some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2825">TS</a>]

00:47:08   decisions and how hard it was for him to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2828">TS</a>]

00:47:10   sit to stand by and not make others [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2830">TS</a>]

00:47:12   there's that there's a the conversation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2832">TS</a>]

00:47:15   thats too has with the herald where they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2835">TS</a>]

00:47:18   did they try to settle things that were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2838">TS</a>]

00:47:19   friends for over Franny and instead of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2839">TS</a>]

00:47:21   course lies like a rug about his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2841">TS</a>]

00:47:22   interesting fran but there's that moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2842">TS</a>]

00:47:24   where we're and King writes beautifully [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2844">TS</a>]

00:47:27   words it's pretty obvious that Harold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2847">TS</a>]

00:47:29   just lets go of his his petulance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2849">TS</a>]

00:47:31   towards the old old world and recognizes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2851">TS</a>]

00:47:34   that he can be somebody you like and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2854">TS</a>]

00:47:35   stupid really you know carry each other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2855">TS</a>]

00:47:38   through this and and be good people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2858">TS</a>]

00:47:39   together and he doesn't do it and I read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2859">TS</a>]

00:47:41   that now i'm like 'oh Harold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2861">TS</a>]

00:47:43   Oh buddy the tragedy it really is and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2863">TS</a>]

00:47:47   and you think about the dumb things you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2867">TS</a>]

00:47:48   did as a teenager you're like oh I had I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2868">TS</a>]

00:47:50   i could have been I this person was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2870">TS</a>]

00:47:53   reaching out i was just too dominant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2873">TS</a>]

00:47:54   angry and youngest yet so and then two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2874">TS</a>]

00:47:57   kings credit he does not really well and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2877">TS</a>]

00:48:00   he's unsparing and that's actually the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2880">TS</a>]

00:48:01   reasons i think it is Harold its kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2881">TS</a>]

00:48:04   him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2884">TS</a>]

00:48:05   grappling with his own demons own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2885">TS</a>]

00:48:06   writerly alter ego [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2886">TS</a>]

00:48:08   I think there's a lot of King and Harold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2888">TS</a>]

00:48:10   everybody i like i like that Harold is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2890">TS</a>]

00:48:12   is weak not really evil he's weak and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2892">TS</a>]

00:48:16   his weakness is exploited he fails to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2896">TS</a>]

00:48:19   make good decisions because he's weak [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2899">TS</a>]

00:48:21   and and for reasons right but and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2901">TS</a>]

00:48:25   he is exploited by flag essentially his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2905">TS</a>]

00:48:28   weakness and he he you know he doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2908">TS</a>]

00:48:29   get a reward he ends up dead because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2909">TS</a>]

00:48:33   flag doesn't really trust him either [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2913">TS</a>]

00:48:35   right and and uh huh ok his because he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2915">TS</a>]

00:48:38   too smart too much yeah he thinks too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2918">TS</a>]

00:48:40   much and he and and he's gonna be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2920">TS</a>]

00:48:41   trouble you've already good omens right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2921">TS</a>]

00:48:43   or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2923">TS</a>]

00:48:44   talking about how Crowley didn't really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2924">TS</a>]

00:48:45   fall from heaven so much as you just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2925">TS</a>]

00:48:46   kind of software down slowly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2926">TS</a>]

00:48:49   you know where it's not that were wasn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2929">TS</a>]

00:48:52   a whole lot of intentionality was just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2932">TS</a>]

00:48:53   series of small decisions that added up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2933">TS</a>]

00:48:55   and that's sort of like Jason weaknesses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2935">TS</a>]

00:48:57   Harold's Harold's condition as a result [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2937">TS</a>]

00:48:59   of all these things cascading and i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2939">TS</a>]

00:49:02   that his weaknesses sort of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2942">TS</a>]

00:49:03   revolving around his ego he sees himself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2943">TS</a>]

00:49:05   is so much better than everybody around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2945">TS</a>]

00:49:07   him and that is something that I be as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2947">TS</a>]

00:49:10   teenager now looking back I realize I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2950">TS</a>]

00:49:12   can relate to that I didn't recognize it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2952">TS</a>]

00:49:14   at the time but although it's such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2954">TS</a>]

00:49:16   defense mechanism because his dad picked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2956">TS</a>]

00:49:18   on him and he felt awkward and out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2958">TS</a>]

00:49:20   so we you know you see how because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2960">TS</a>]

00:49:23   there's that lovely chapter where he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2963">TS</a>]

00:49:24   kills himself and well that's a turn of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2964">TS</a>]

00:49:27   phrase [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2967">TS</a>]

00:49:27   uh-huh there's that chapter 18 kills [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2967">TS</a>]

00:49:29   himself and you basically get taken for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2969">TS</a>]

00:49:31   the autobiography of hair autobiography [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2971">TS</a>]

00:49:33   of of the formation of harold and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2973">TS</a>]

00:49:36   know from when he was a small boy who's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2976">TS</a>]

00:49:37   his dad is saying all these terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2977">TS</a>]

00:49:39   things about him and he's better-looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2979">TS</a>]

00:49:41   in this pretty little sister shadow and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2981">TS</a>]

00:49:43   you can see where all of the hertz keep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2983">TS</a>]

00:49:44   piling on and he kind of has to create [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2984">TS</a>]

00:49:46   these defenses to push people away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2986">TS</a>]

00:49:48   before they could hurt him again and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2988">TS</a>]

00:49:50   that's where he gets the superiority [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2990">TS</a>]

00:49:51   complexes because it's safer and easier [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2991">TS</a>]

00:49:53   to go on the offensive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2993">TS</a>]

00:49:55   that is why i love both his written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2995">TS</a>]

00:49:57   final declaration where he signs his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2997">TS</a>]

00:49:58   name hawk and the fact that it gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/2998">TS</a>]

00:50:01   dismissed later by RR for traveling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3001">TS</a>]

00:50:03   quite saviors who are like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3003">TS</a>]

00:50:05   beautiful dying declaration and I just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3005">TS</a>]

00:50:06   completely like whatever Harold this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3006">TS</a>]

00:50:08   ben and they keep ya like he doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3008">TS</a>]

00:50:10   even have any written mine was like oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3010">TS</a>]

00:50:12   he's conscripted the truth to print it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3012">TS</a>]

00:50:15   all whatever is a little it's a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3015">TS</a>]

00:50:17   bit late by that point just a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3017">TS</a>]

00:50:19   if you want everybody up and fled town [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3019">TS</a>]

00:50:21   and yeah that Lloyd has a similar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3021">TS</a>]

00:50:24   situation where he is a person Vic not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3024">TS</a>]

00:50:27   victim of circumstance but like it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3027">TS</a>]

00:50:29   weak and his weaknesses exploited like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3029">TS</a>]

00:50:32   because again there are things he's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3032">TS</a>]

00:50:33   a good person right but yeah there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3033">TS</a>]

00:50:36   things in him that are redeemable but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3036">TS</a>]

00:50:38   the flag basically waits for him to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3038">TS</a>]

00:50:40   near death and like you know II and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3040">TS</a>]

00:50:42   ready to eat his cellmate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3042">TS</a>]

00:50:44   yeah he would have gone to Vegas anyway [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3044">TS</a>]

00:50:45   but if you wait until he's almost dead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3045">TS</a>]

00:50:47   you can get him as a lot you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3047">TS</a>]

00:50:49   completely loyal for life like that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3049">TS</a>]

00:50:51   type of a mean witch Lloyd even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3051">TS</a>]

00:50:53   recognizes in the end I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3053">TS</a>]

00:50:54   actually recognizes he waited until I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3054">TS</a>]

00:50:56   was at my weakest and extracted undying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3056">TS</a>]

00:50:58   loyalty from me and I'm going to give [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3058">TS</a>]

00:50:59   him that because I'm just you know like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3059">TS</a>]

00:51:01   miss it it's it's another sad situation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3061">TS</a>]

00:51:04   of a you know a similar person who was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3064">TS</a>]

00:51:08   and i'm using flags like well if there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3068">TS</a>]

00:51:11   no Randall Flagg around you don't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3071">TS</a>]

00:51:12   to worry because weak people won't be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3072">TS</a>]

00:51:13   exploited in this way I mean grandma [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3073">TS</a>]

00:51:15   flags a stand-in for all the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3075">TS</a>]

00:51:16   things that are going to exploit a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3076">TS</a>]

00:51:19   weakness or insecurity or internal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3079">TS</a>]

00:51:21   conflict in the world is just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3081">TS</a>]

00:51:23   convenient narrative shorthand I'd like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3083">TS</a>]

00:51:26   to briefly mention one of my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3086">TS</a>]

00:51:28   really short-lived characters which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3088">TS</a>]

00:51:31   Starkey the general who kind of goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3091">TS</a>]

00:51:34   crazy watching the videos everybody dead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3094">TS</a>]

00:51:37   he's really bucking space ooh that's so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3097">TS</a>]

00:51:41   much of what happens to the country is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3101">TS</a>]

00:51:43   his fault he's the one that says kill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3103">TS</a>]

00:51:46   anyone who says there's a super flu put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3106">TS</a>]

00:51:48   every city on lockdown but yeah I have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3108">TS</a>]

00:51:52   that poor journalist in west virginia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3112">TS</a>]

00:51:53   his last act is to try to put out a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3113">TS</a>]

00:51:55   broadsheet before he dies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3115">TS</a>]

00:51:56   yeah but I think Starkey is an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3116">TS</a>]

00:51:58   interesting Lee tragic character because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3118">TS</a>]

00:52:00   he's clearly gone crazy and in a book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3120">TS</a>]

00:52:03   the size King can take his time showing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3123">TS</a>]

00:52:05   him going crazy and then going down and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3125">TS</a>]

00:52:08   killing himself but fixing the face in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3128">TS</a>]

00:52:10   the soup first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3130">TS</a>]

00:52:11   yeah and then the next guy sits in his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3131">TS</a>]

00:52:13   chair why can't he have cleaned off the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3133">TS</a>]

00:52:15   face at least why don't know what he'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3135">TS</a>]

00:52:17   be busy but it doesn't it sits down and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3137">TS</a>]

00:52:20   takes over right there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3140">TS</a>]

00:52:21   noted that i got dark humor of the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3141">TS</a>]

00:52:24   is like you can you can't tell what it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3144">TS</a>]

00:52:26   just always gonna be said that guy's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3146">TS</a>]

00:52:27   going to slowly go mad while watching [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3147">TS</a>]

00:52:29   the same thing but it there's there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3149">TS</a>]

00:52:31   humor and a lot of this the absurdity of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3151">TS</a>]

00:52:33   the apocalypse is I mean even chapter 38 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3153">TS</a>]

00:52:35   you can even think about some of those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3155">TS</a>]

00:52:36   passages are just like slapstick death [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3156">TS</a>]

00:52:39   comedy of like what could possibly go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3159">TS</a>]

00:52:41   wrong with these people but you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3161">TS</a>]

00:52:44   thats that's throughout the entire book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3164">TS</a>]

00:52:46   like that he's not not afraid to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3166">TS</a>]

00:52:48   characters aren't afraid and King isn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3168">TS</a>]

00:52:50   afraid to dare you to laugh it the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3170">TS</a>]

00:52:52   terrible things that are happening but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3172">TS</a>]

00:52:54   I'm gonna mention the trashcan man i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3174">TS</a>]

00:52:57   love the fresh cat man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3177">TS</a>]

00:52:59   he is a pure character he knows what he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3179">TS</a>]

00:53:02   was happy because it doesn't to fire and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3182">TS</a>]

00:53:04   flat flag totally distracted him from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3184">TS</a>]

00:53:06   his mission such a poor baby he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3186">TS</a>]

00:53:08   basically be this i mean no way to know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3188">TS</a>]

00:53:12   what love is somebody that I was a bully [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3192">TS</a>]

00:53:14   the trashcan there and he's also flags [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3194">TS</a>]

00:53:18   big weaknesses that he finds trashcan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3198">TS</a>]

00:53:20   man as endearing as I do but even even a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3200">TS</a>]

00:53:23   better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3203">TS</a>]

00:53:24   it's literally a bad idea to have this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3204">TS</a>]

00:53:26   guy running around inside your group he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3206">TS</a>]

00:53:29   doesn't seem to care that much about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3209">TS</a>]

00:53:31   shutting him down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3211">TS</a>]

00:53:32   well he is useful he does have skills [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3212">TS</a>]

00:53:35   like he's the only flexpay problems he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3215">TS</a>]

00:53:37   mistakes crazy for stupid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3217">TS</a>]

00:53:39   well I mean like he wants to see what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3219">TS</a>]

00:53:40   the trashcan man's abilities trashcan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3220">TS</a>]

00:53:42   and supernatural ability to understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3222">TS</a>]

00:53:43   machinery he needs that he needs them to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3223">TS</a>]

00:53:45   get like the fighter planes back up with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3225">TS</a>]

00:53:46   that base or whatever and he will enter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3226">TS</a>]

00:53:49   cells up the first tank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3229">TS</a>]

00:53:50   yeah i mean like what really like a site [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3230">TS</a>]

00:53:54   he interrupted the trash can Trash man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3234">TS</a>]

00:53:56   could have finally had a comfortable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3236">TS</a>]

00:53:57   always going to do is going to burn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3237">TS</a>]

00:53:59   every city in the United States and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3239">TS</a>]

00:54:00   would have done that for the rest of his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3240">TS</a>]

00:54:01   life like now I actually have to come to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3241">TS</a>]

00:54:03   Vegas and go to work and be like all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3243">TS</a>]

00:54:04   seriously do you realize how much stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3244">TS</a>]

00:54:05   I can burn in this country it's just you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3245">TS</a>]

00:54:08   know I got West is pretty dance I could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3248">TS</a>]

00:54:10   I could spend years here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3250">TS</a>]

00:54:12   yeah I mean eventually would blow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3252">TS</a>]

00:54:13   himself up that's the way he wanted to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3253">TS</a>]

00:54:15   cover like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3255">TS</a>]

00:54:16   King even think as such it King even has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3256">TS</a>]

00:54:19   sympathy for like the craziest of his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3259">TS</a>]

00:54:22   character is so easy to make a crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3262">TS</a>]

00:54:23   pyromaniac but no he's got to give trash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3263">TS</a>]

00:54:25   game and a backstory why is he crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3265">TS</a>]

00:54:27   what happened to him and obviously as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3267">TS</a>]

00:54:29   mental illness but also people were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3269">TS</a>]

00:54:30   terrible to him too like everyone's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3270">TS</a>]

00:54:32   everyone's got their reasons everyone's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3272">TS</a>]

00:54:34   got their story even the people who are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3274">TS</a>]

00:54:35   just you know already and I even flag [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3275">TS</a>]

00:54:38   has kind of you know that they tried not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3278">TS</a>]

00:54:40   to make him sympathetic but to explain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3280">TS</a>]

00:54:42   that he has feelings too he's not just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3282">TS</a>]

00:54:45   pure evil who knows exactly what he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3285">TS</a>]

00:54:46   doing he has doubts he's not sure what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3286">TS</a>]

00:54:48   going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3288">TS</a>]

00:54:49   yes he is he's period knows what he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3289">TS</a>]

00:54:51   doing and has doubts though I mean you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3291">TS</a>]

00:54:53   talk about his big memories and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3293">TS</a>]

00:54:55   and how he incites the worst in what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3295">TS</a>]

00:54:58   do like is housekeeping things like well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3298">TS</a>]

00:54:59   clearly from flag is responsible for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3299">TS</a>]

00:55:01   fact the sixties turned into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3301">TS</a>]

00:55:03   complete cluster flock of seventies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3303">TS</a>]

00:55:05   because it has to be even more human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3305">TS</a>]

00:55:07   nature but you know flight that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3307">TS</a>]

00:55:09   point is flagged out there supposed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3309">TS</a>]

00:55:11   be well he's wavering because the forces [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3311">TS</a>]

00:55:12   of good and finally getting their act [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3312">TS</a>]

00:55:13   together and hitting the road that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3313">TS</a>]

00:55:15   that's always been my take on it is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3315">TS</a>]

00:55:17   that the ideas that evil strengthens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3317">TS</a>]

00:55:20   when nobody works in opposition but once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3320">TS</a>]

00:55:22   opposition is organized and starts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3322">TS</a>]

00:55:23   working then the nature of evil is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3323">TS</a>]

00:55:25   inherently challenged and that's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3325">TS</a>]

00:55:26   a theme through a lot of Kings workwear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3326">TS</a>]

00:55:28   like once you get the band together and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3328">TS</a>]

00:55:29   everyone has sex before vanquishing a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3329">TS</a>]

00:55:31   clown or whatever whatever they have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3331">TS</a>]

00:55:34   do in specific book like Amanda's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3334">TS</a>]

00:55:36   together at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3336">TS</a>]

00:55:37   it all works going to read that but also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3337">TS</a>]

00:55:40   evil works even works through people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3340">TS</a>]

00:55:43   like it needs a vessel and so the vessel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3343">TS</a>]

00:55:45   the vessel of evil and lots of Stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3345">TS</a>]

00:55:47   King stories like you get the impression [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3347">TS</a>]

00:55:49   that the force working through them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3349">TS</a>]

00:55:51   starts to lose faith in their vessel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3351">TS</a>]

00:55:52   like all this vessel sucks and then it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3352">TS</a>]

00:55:54   nice to all fall apart when it's like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3354">TS</a>]

00:55:56   thought you were a good vessel for my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3356">TS</a>]

00:55:58   evil intentions but now things are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3358">TS</a>]

00:55:59   falling apart and so that the evil [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3359">TS</a>]

00:56:01   person will get abandoned by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3361">TS</a>]

00:56:02   supernatural power or the powers we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3362">TS</a>]

00:56:04   started to waver and it's like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3364">TS</a>]

00:56:05   always feel like it's the it's the black [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3365">TS</a>]

00:56:07   cloud going alright well this isn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3367">TS</a>]

00:56:09   working i'm out of here like he's going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3369">TS</a>]

00:56:10   to start over again on that island like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3370">TS</a>]

00:56:12   let's try this again but you know flag [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3372">TS</a>]

00:56:15   is more than just a vessel that he's you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3375">TS</a>]

00:56:16   know sort of weave throughout the entire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3376">TS</a>]

00:56:18   thing is something more significant than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3378">TS</a>]

00:56:19   that and as opposed to just some random [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3379">TS</a>]

00:56:20   guy who gets possessed by some evil [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3380">TS</a>]

00:56:23   spirit or aliens or whatever but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3383">TS</a>]

00:56:25   the same type of thing where it nobody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3385">TS</a>]

00:56:28   gets to be beyond the their humanity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3388">TS</a>]

00:56:31   beyond like that that the things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3391">TS</a>]

00:56:33   bother humans anger jealousy like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3393">TS</a>]

00:56:35   like the Old Testament God who you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3395">TS</a>]

00:56:37   it shows all the same attributes of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3397">TS</a>]

00:56:39   humans you know that what why would he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3399">TS</a>]

00:56:41   be jealous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3401">TS</a>]

00:56:41   why would be wrathful why wouldn't you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3401">TS</a>]

00:56:43   know it demand all these things wide why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3403">TS</a>]

00:56:45   does flag ever have doubts why does he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3405">TS</a>]

00:56:47   get frustrated wide why those things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3407">TS</a>]

00:56:49   happen well because he's also a person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3409">TS</a>]

00:56:51   kinda one of the things I like about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3411">TS</a>]

00:56:52   flag it's it's fun to have this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3412">TS</a>]

00:56:55   character who is just you know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3415">TS</a>]

00:56:56   Walking duties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3416">TS</a>]

00:56:57   he's bad guy he's supernaturally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3417">TS</a>]

00:57:00   something rather and he and bad things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3420">TS</a>]

00:57:03   are gonna happen and and you get that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3423">TS</a>]

00:57:05   feeling of that epic quest kind of thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3425">TS</a>]

00:57:07   is playing out a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3427">TS</a>]

00:57:08   for the Rings like it away right this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3428">TS</a>]

00:57:10   oh you know what's like going to do but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3430">TS</a>]

00:57:12   the thing i like is flag doesn't cause [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3432">TS</a>]

00:57:14   the apocalypse right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3434">TS</a>]

00:57:16   really I want me how to dougie does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3436">TS</a>]

00:57:19   that's a whole shoddy workmanship on one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3439">TS</a>]

00:57:21   door [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3441">TS</a>]

00:57:22   yeah that'sthat's it's really our fault [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3442">TS</a>]

00:57:24   its humanities failing that causes its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3444">TS</a>]

00:57:26   own end flag is just there to take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3446">TS</a>]

00:57:28   advantage of what happens next right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3448">TS</a>]

00:57:30   which I'll i really like that that it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3450">TS</a>]

00:57:32   like now is my now it's my it's my cue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3452">TS</a>]

00:57:35   right now it now i can get to work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3455">TS</a>]

00:57:38   he's just wandering around aimlessly on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3458">TS</a>]

00:57:39   the road they suddenly goes oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3459">TS</a>]

00:57:40   something's going on now yeah he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3460">TS</a>]

00:57:43   opportunistic as a virus that's a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3463">TS</a>]

00:57:44   metaphor yeah haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3464">TS</a>]

00:57:46   one thing i like about the way flag is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3466">TS</a>]

00:57:48   introduced is i have read none of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3468">TS</a>]

00:57:50   dark tower books at all but just the few [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3470">TS</a>]

00:57:53   sentences are saying some people call [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3473">TS</a>]

00:57:55   them the walking dude or all hard case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3475">TS</a>]

00:57:58   like yeah immediately feels like this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3478">TS</a>]

00:58:00   a legendary character you should have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3480">TS</a>]

00:58:02   heard of already yeah oh yeah we talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3482">TS</a>]

00:58:05   about the timeframe a little bit i've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3485">TS</a>]

00:58:06   got a in my little book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3486">TS</a>]

00:58:07   bookmark that i got from Doubleday when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3487">TS</a>]

00:58:09   i bought the book it says the setting of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3489">TS</a>]

00:58:11   the book has been changed from 1982 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3491">TS</a>]

00:58:14   1990s it's stephen king is the same age [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3494">TS</a>]

00:58:17   40 Madonna line there with Lloyd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3497">TS</a>]

00:58:19   strangling somebody and that's how they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3499">TS</a>]

00:58:21   update it and they also and they also on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3501">TS</a>]

00:58:23   head off the AIDS comparison because if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3503">TS</a>]

00:58:25   you remember the whole point 22 well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3505">TS</a>]

00:58:27   it's the super footwear shot that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3507">TS</a>]

00:58:28   shifting antigen your body just can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3508">TS</a>]

00:58:30   keep up and then what do you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3510">TS</a>]

00:58:33   grid turns into HIV which basically does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3513">TS</a>]

00:58:35   the same thing to your immune system and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3515">TS</a>]

00:58:37   so they had to find a way to explain why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3517">TS</a>]

00:58:38   this wasn't aids and those and those are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3518">TS</a>]

00:58:41   the two big changes they've made out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3521">TS</a>]

00:58:43   that they put another couple pulp [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3523">TS</a>]

00:58:45   another couple pop culture references [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3525">TS</a>]

00:58:47   and I know there's 12 teenage mutant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3527">TS</a>]

00:58:49   ninja turtles enjoy kids haha like an ID [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3529">TS</a>]

00:58:53   y SE I had no idea i had no idea that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3533">TS</a>]

00:58:56   the original was set in a different time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3536">TS</a>]

00:58:58   because i didn't get a fancy book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3538">TS</a>]

00:58:59   markets joining our differences so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3539">TS</a>]

00:59:02   didn't know that until you guys were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3542">TS</a>]

00:59:03   mentioning it in like the emails for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:05   prep for this podcast i was it kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3545">TS</a>]

00:59:07   blew my mind a little bit so this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3547">TS</a>]

00:59:08   fascinating i'm not sure quite why I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3548">TS</a>]

00:59:11   mean I guess their marketing it and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3551">TS</a>]

00:59:13   said well how much updated so it's more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3553">TS</a>]

00:59:16   of current with today is that that's my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3556">TS</a>]

00:59:18   publishing industry executive voice by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3558">TS</a>]

00:59:20   the way or justify so what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3560">TS</a>]

00:59:22   by pointing out but but it has problems [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3562">TS</a>]

00:59:24   because they're there are some having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3564">TS</a>]

00:59:26   not read the original I can't really do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3566">TS</a>]

00:59:28   a direct comparison but it feels to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3568">TS</a>]

00:59:30   like there are lots of places where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3570">TS</a>]

00:59:33   know we've taken things that are tropes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3573">TS</a>]

00:59:35   of characters from the seventies and now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3575">TS</a>]

00:59:38   we just say it's the nineties or 90 and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3578">TS</a>]

00:59:41   it doesn't actually track with how how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3581">TS</a>]

00:59:44   the I I you know net now looking back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3584">TS</a>]

00:59:46   from all this time later i feei feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3586">TS</a>]

00:59:48   like it would feel better if it was set [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3588">TS</a>]

00:59:49   in 1980 because it would just be further [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3589">TS</a>]

00:59:51   back in that era [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3591">TS</a>]

00:59:52   yeah specifically Larry Underwood [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3592">TS</a>]

00:59:55   backstory yes Larry under what is your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3595">TS</a>]

00:59:57   full of people saying save the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3597">TS</a>]

00:59:57   full of people saying save the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3597">TS</a>]

01:00:00   n-word bebop for the cleaning crew and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:03   railway what he's talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3603">TS</a>]

01:00:06   we don't like that rock and roll music [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3606">TS</a>]

01:00:08   it was a very old record I yeah really i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3608">TS</a>]

01:00:14   think the problem is for me the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3614">TS</a>]

01:00:16   characters don't talk like they're in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3616">TS</a>]

01:00:18   1990 they talk like they're Stephen King [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3618">TS</a>]

01:00:20   a lot of the time sure that happens a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3620">TS</a>]

01:00:22   lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3622">TS</a>]

01:00:23   one specific example i wrote down for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3623">TS</a>]

01:00:26   early in France description of herself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3626">TS</a>]

01:00:28   good figure long legs that got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3628">TS</a>]

01:00:31   appreciative glasses prime stuff was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3631">TS</a>]

01:00:34   correct frat house term looking looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3634">TS</a>]

01:00:36   here comes knocking yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3636">TS</a>]

01:00:38   looking looking looking here comes miss [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3638">TS</a>]

01:00:40   college girl 1990s you ready yeah I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3640">TS</a>]

01:00:43   empowered and Maxine I do i do college [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3643">TS</a>]

01:00:46   dunno y apartment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3646">TS</a>]

01:00:48   no no no so that's a problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3648">TS</a>]

01:00:51   stephen king's writing is that Steve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3651">TS</a>]

01:00:53   stephen king came of age in the sixties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3653">TS</a>]

01:00:55   and seventies and so eternally like as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3655">TS</a>]

01:00:58   we were all eternally in whatever age we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3658">TS</a>]

01:01:00   were adolescence he cannot get out of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3660">TS</a>]

01:01:02   that and when he tries to move forward [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3662">TS</a>]

01:01:04   like like when he like you know it in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3664">TS</a>]

01:01:07   hit he's got the kid on the skateboard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3667">TS</a>]

01:01:09   and everything it's clear that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3669">TS</a>]

01:01:11   doesn't understand what skateboards are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3671">TS</a>]

01:01:12   like it's a party of the big notion of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3672">TS</a>]

01:01:14   it someone told him about skateboarding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3674">TS</a>]

01:01:16   once it's like those qualities to write [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3676">TS</a>]

01:01:18   in the fifties you can't be safe on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3678">TS</a>]

01:01:20   skateboard mr. another in standing on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3680">TS</a>]

01:01:22   little wooden planks fixed wheels and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3682">TS</a>]

01:01:25   it's endearing because he writes you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3685">TS</a>]

01:01:27   know like it and I don't want him to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3687">TS</a>]

01:01:29   like all I need to immerse myself in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3689">TS</a>]

01:01:31   modern culture and so maybe it's better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3691">TS</a>]

01:01:32   that he sets his book in places we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3692">TS</a>]

01:01:34   either place where it doesn't matter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3694">TS</a>]

01:01:35   like the dark tower where you make up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3695">TS</a>]

01:01:36   everything and everything's a mishmash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3696">TS</a>]

01:01:37   of everything anyway or do it in an area [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3697">TS</a>]

01:01:40   that you're familiar with or with people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3700">TS</a>]

01:01:41   are that are the age you're familiar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3701">TS</a>]

01:01:43   with so like he probably should not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3703">TS</a>]

01:01:45   write young adults at this point in his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3705">TS</a>]

01:01:46   career but he could write a 50-year old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3706">TS</a>]

01:01:47   man pretty darn well I imagine why it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3707">TS</a>]

01:01:50   like you get back two characters i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3710">TS</a>]

01:01:52   the idea of Larry Underwood a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3712">TS</a>]

01:01:54   because i like it because the notion of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3714">TS</a>]

01:01:56   some be /c lister surviving the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3716">TS</a>]

01:01:59   apocalypse and having to to deal with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3719">TS</a>]

01:02:06   with their brought fall from grace like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3726">TS</a>]

01:02:07   that's a really interesting story i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3727">TS</a>]

01:02:09   would read an update we're like one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3729">TS</a>]

01:02:11   the minor Kardashians was left over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3731">TS</a>]

01:02:13   and-and-and trying to make their way out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3733">TS</a>]

01:02:15   of Los Angeles or whatever and imagine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3735">TS</a>]

01:02:18   the postman it does not to mention tom [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3738">TS</a>]

01:02:20   petty as the mayor of the village with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3740">TS</a>]

01:02:22   work castle don't know you from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3742">TS</a>]

01:02:23   somewhere and topped it off that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3743">TS</a>]

01:02:25   another life in the sink goes from there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3745">TS</a>]

01:02:28   was hilarious i have to see if we can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3748">TS</a>]

01:02:31   find anything but lay right at Larry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3751">TS</a>]

01:02:32   underwear i mean i do the end this ghost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3752">TS</a>]

01:02:34   of this goes to the time this goes to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3754">TS</a>]

01:02:36   the timeframe to his I picture him as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3756">TS</a>]

01:02:37   being one of those kind of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3757">TS</a>]

01:02:39   Harry curly haired singer songwriter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3759">TS</a>]

01:02:43   guys from the lates late seventies and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3763">TS</a>]

01:02:45   usually york city of the seventies like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3765">TS</a>]

01:02:47   when he is when he's in his like that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3767">TS</a>]

01:02:49   picture in my head I didn't realize this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3769">TS</a>]

01:02:51   until we started talking about the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3771">TS</a>]

01:02:52   period i also didn't know the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3772">TS</a>]

01:02:54   period had been recycled i guess in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3774">TS</a>]

01:02:55   way that bookmark but like at Larry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3775">TS</a>]

01:02:57   scenes i read them as if he's using a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3777">TS</a>]

01:02:59   movie in the seventies in New York like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3779">TS</a>]

01:03:01   this graffiti everywhere in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3781">TS</a>]

01:03:02   everything to this tall redhead cliché [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3782">TS</a>]

01:03:05   who make some eggs he's picking up women [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3785">TS</a>]

01:03:07   who think he's you ain't no nice guy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3787">TS</a>]

01:03:09   and like you just now he's got here he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3789">TS</a>]

01:03:11   spends a lot of time on this is not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3791">TS</a>]

01:03:13   guy who was on the just shirt is open [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3793">TS</a>]

01:03:15   pretty darn low or and he was with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3795">TS</a>]

01:03:17   eagles in California no question like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3797">TS</a>]

01:03:19   that love the idea that you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3799">TS</a>]

01:03:21   somebody who was like yeah i was on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3801">TS</a>]

01:03:23   trajectory to become you know the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3803">TS</a>]

01:03:26   featured performer on American Bandstand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3806">TS</a>]

01:03:28   before Dick Clark and the rest of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3808">TS</a>]

01:03:30   planet died from you know cannot do dick [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3810">TS</a>]

01:03:33   clark's out there somewhere i'm telling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3813">TS</a>]

01:03:34   you i late huh yeah maybe he has dark [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3814">TS</a>]

01:03:37   colors maybe yes the dark man I'm by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3817">TS</a>]

01:03:40   talking dude if that time everyone do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3820">TS</a>]

01:03:45   everything you want what do you want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3825">TS</a>]

01:03:47   bet the tell ryan seacrest gets all his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3827">TS</a>]

01:03:48   jobs that my grandma flag will dick [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3828">TS</a>]

01:03:51   clark passed on the secret crazy to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3831">TS</a>]

01:03:53   happen but like Larry is it as a dude in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3833">TS</a>]

01:03:56   practice i just i have a hard time with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3836">TS</a>]

01:03:59   him because I'm I'm like oh my god Larry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3839">TS</a>]

01:04:01   just yeah yeah he's a character that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3841">TS</a>]

01:04:03   also i also kind of grew into a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3843">TS</a>]

01:04:06   bit i really really just got bored with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3846">TS</a>]

01:04:08   historian with skim all of his parts now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3848">TS</a>]

01:04:11   IM to the point where i can i can kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3851">TS</a>]

01:04:13   of understand the the the growth that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3853">TS</a>]

01:04:16   he's going through and what he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3856">TS</a>]

01:04:17   struggling with but it's still just he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3857">TS</a>]

01:04:20   still just seems internally whiny to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3860">TS</a>]

01:04:22   yeah he's like an Apatow bein man baby i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3862">TS</a>]

01:04:24   could have had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3864">TS</a>]

01:04:25   I was just like a virgin oh yeah he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3865">TS</a>]

01:04:28   externally wanted to but I don't you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3868">TS</a>]

01:04:30   feel for him like when he takes on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3870">TS</a>]

01:04:32   sort of the broken woman reading which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3872">TS</a>]

01:04:33   is a cliche or whatever like that he he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3873">TS</a>]

01:04:35   does feels like so before i was going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3875">TS</a>]

01:04:38   be singer but now i'm responsible for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3878">TS</a>]

01:04:39   this crazy persons life and I'm gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3879">TS</a>]

01:04:41   feel bad when she dies like it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3881">TS</a>]

01:04:43   failure of myself and like that's why he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3883">TS</a>]

01:04:45   keeps replaying that the girl telling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3885">TS</a>]

01:04:46   him he's not a nice guy it's like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3886">TS</a>]

01:04:48   don't have fame [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3888">TS</a>]

01:04:49   I don't my town is meaningless not i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3889">TS</a>]

01:04:52   have to be like a person and I'm not and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3892">TS</a>]

01:04:55   he's internally whiny and is externally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3895">TS</a>]

01:04:57   one-e-and like they try to turn him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3897">TS</a>]

01:04:59   around but they never let him get he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3899">TS</a>]

01:05:01   never become stupid read me over like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3901">TS</a>]

01:05:02   well let's hear Larry to face it like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3902">TS</a>]

01:05:05   he's like oh come on like the socks in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3905">TS</a>]

01:05:08   that don't understand i'm doing people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3908">TS</a>]

01:05:10   don't like me and I don't know how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3910">TS</a>]

01:05:11   deal with myself and my mom is dead even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3911">TS</a>]

01:05:14   though she complained a lot like he's he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3914">TS</a>]

01:05:16   is sympathetic from a certain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3916">TS</a>]

01:05:17   perspective but i like the fact that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3917">TS</a>]

01:05:18   they never bring him all the way around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3918">TS</a>]

01:05:20   like Larry always kind of stays Larry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3920">TS</a>]

01:05:22   and he's maybe the most realistic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3922">TS</a>]

01:05:25   yeah i just want to take Lucy out for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3925">TS</a>]

01:05:27   coffee on Lucy girl you could do better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3927">TS</a>]

01:05:29   come on I realized that most the planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3929">TS</a>]

01:05:31   has died but there are still dateable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3931">TS</a>]

01:05:32   dudes were not named Larry and he's hung [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3932">TS</a>]

01:05:35   up on his ex-girlfriend and she's hung [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3935">TS</a>]

01:05:36   up on a Ouija board and you are well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3936">TS</a>]

01:05:38   away from that mess now don't want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3938">TS</a>]

01:05:40   knock you up because being a single [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3940">TS</a>]

01:05:41   mother in the after in the after scape [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3941">TS</a>]

01:05:43   is no fun all the users guide like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3943">TS</a>]

01:05:46   just need to have that talk with Lucy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3946">TS</a>]

01:05:47   and and poor woman you know that poor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3947">TS</a>]

01:05:50   woman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3950">TS</a>]

01:05:51   we haven't talked about Tom Cullen yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3951">TS</a>]

01:05:53   and i can't get the most interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3953">TS</a>]

01:05:55   thing about Tom Cohen that I like about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3955">TS</a>]

01:05:56   this is that they sent him to be a spy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3956">TS</a>]

01:05:58   because that is exactly the kind of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3958">TS</a>]

01:06:01   yeah we're the good guys but I like it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3961">TS</a>]

01:06:05   a terrible thing to do in the end like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3965">TS</a>]

01:06:06   by the time they do it in the book you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3966">TS</a>]

01:06:08   can either be like I'm in the mindset of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3968">TS</a>]

01:06:10   I guess we have to do this because Randy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3970">TS</a>]

01:06:11   flags really bag and listen like wait a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3971">TS</a>]

01:06:13   second what do you what do you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3973">TS</a>]

01:06:14   you're gonna do now you could this poor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3974">TS</a>]

01:06:16   guys like well we like when everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3976">TS</a>]

01:06:18   but he's really just upon our chess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3978">TS</a>]

01:06:19   board and we here at the Town Council [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3979">TS</a>]

01:06:20   meeting or whatever it is will have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3980">TS</a>]

01:06:22   forget and I mean judge going it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3982">TS</a>]

01:06:26   well he wants to sacrifice himself or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3986">TS</a>]

01:06:27   whatever but sending Tom colleges solo's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3987">TS</a>]

01:06:29   life so like it's so have like yeah it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3989">TS</a>]

01:06:33   so like it he's much older than we think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3993">TS</a>]

01:06:35   is you know thanks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3995">TS</a>]

01:06:36   it's so brutal and terrible and like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3996">TS</a>]

01:06:39   fact that all these good people kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/3999">TS</a>]

01:06:40   agreed to it and and do it like it shows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4000">TS</a>]

01:06:43   you that like the rules have to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4003">TS</a>]

01:06:45   different shows you the power of cults [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4005">TS</a>]

01:06:47   actually because it's the Colton mother [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4007">TS</a>]

01:06:49   Abigail like old people had desperately [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4009">TS</a>]

01:06:51   coalesced around her and she had been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4011">TS</a>]

01:06:53   the friendly figured that save them for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4013">TS</a>]

01:06:54   the dreams of of Randall Flagg and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4014">TS</a>]

01:06:57   think I do think he stops a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4017">TS</a>]

01:07:00   Stephen King stops a little bit short of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4020">TS</a>]

01:07:02   a really poking that home because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4022">TS</a>]

01:07:04   softens it a little bit with the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4024">TS</a>]

01:07:06   that tom sort of when he's under [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4026">TS</a>]

01:07:08   hypnosis has this sort of extra sensory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4028">TS</a>]

01:07:11   power and is able to see things for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4031">TS</a>]

01:07:13   channel smarter there yeah exactly so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4033">TS</a>]

01:07:16   it's not quite it's not quite sending a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4036">TS</a>]

01:07:19   mentally challenged man into the fray [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4039">TS</a>]

01:07:21   it's a mentally challenged man with some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4041">TS</a>]

01:07:24   extra stuff going on so maybe with a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4044">TS</a>]

01:07:26   view it like as a strategic advantage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4046">TS</a>]

01:07:28   it's like a hobby remember just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4048">TS</a>]

01:07:30   since there's a sleeper agent right here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4050">TS</a>]

01:07:32   they don't know that it carries moms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4052">TS</a>]

01:07:34   like oh no will no more respect they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4054">TS</a>]

01:07:36   sent the no one will ever suspect this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4056">TS</a>]

01:07:37   old man judge Farris goes that doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4057">TS</a>]

01:07:38   work out well for him but like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4058">TS</a>]

01:07:40   like that they're playing with other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4060">TS</a>]

01:07:42   people's lives like it all it takes is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4062">TS</a>]

01:07:44   group of like you've got this how many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4064">TS</a>]

01:07:45   people are in boulder like not a couple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4065">TS</a>]

01:07:47   hundred thousand or whatever and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4067">TS</a>]

01:07:49   like this tiny little council is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4069">TS</a>]

01:07:50   deciding the lives of these people like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4070">TS</a>]

01:07:52   all right you and your alignment and if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4072">TS</a>]

01:07:54   they're willing to do it then I guess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4074">TS</a>]

01:07:55   but like Tom Cullen is not and that's in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4075">TS</a>]

01:07:58   the sort of magical retelling if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4078">TS</a>]

01:08:00   think what was it really like they just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4080">TS</a>]

01:08:01   basically made this guy go and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4081">TS</a>]

01:08:03   convince themselves that they hypnotized [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4083">TS</a>]

01:08:04   him to the point where he can't be able [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4084">TS</a>]

01:08:05   to pull them right well that's pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4085">TS</a>]

01:08:07   sure he could talk normally when we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4087">TS</a>]

01:08:09   hypnotize him right he was smarter than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4089">TS</a>]

01:08:10   you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4090">TS</a>]

01:08:11   yeah yeah yeah that happens he may be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4091">TS</a>]

01:08:14   talked about the phases of the Moon and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4094">TS</a>]

01:08:15   how beautiful they were it was beautiful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4095">TS</a>]

01:08:17   it was like poetry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4097">TS</a>]

01:08:18   yeah but like you know anything that's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4098">TS</a>]

01:08:20   trip to like he did Stephen King loves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4100">TS</a>]

01:08:23   the the mentally deficient media [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4103">TS</a>]

01:08:26   management cool the magical kind of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4106">TS</a>]

01:08:28   they're always you know normally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4108">TS</a>]

01:08:31   beautiful but but most of the time he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4111">TS</a>]

01:08:33   like I think he respects Tom Collins a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4113">TS</a>]

01:08:36   character but i think when they send him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4116">TS</a>]

01:08:38   it shows that the the values that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4118">TS</a>]

01:08:40   all held there have to be adjusted if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4120">TS</a>]

01:08:42   they're going to survive in this pocket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4122">TS</a>]

01:08:44   post-apocalyptic world and by that point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4124">TS</a>]

01:08:45   there already [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4125">TS</a>]

01:08:46   well it's a totally Old Testament move [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4126">TS</a>]

01:08:48   you know I mean this is the same old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4128">TS</a>]

01:08:49   testament where God ask people to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4129">TS</a>]

01:08:51   sacrifice their children and so how is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4131">TS</a>]

01:08:53   sacrificing an adult without a whole lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4133">TS</a>]

01:08:54   of free will or agency that much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4134">TS</a>]

01:08:55   different you know I mean that's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4135">TS</a>]

01:08:57   the message of this whole book is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4137">TS</a>]

01:08:58   stuff is just gotten all Old Testament [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4138">TS</a>]

01:09:00   on us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4140">TS</a>]

01:09:01   yeah yeah yeah although King doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4141">TS</a>]

01:09:03   have the heart to kill him in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4143">TS</a>]

01:09:04   and I'll having him come back and be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4144">TS</a>]

01:09:06   that the savior for everything I mean it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4146">TS</a>]

01:09:08   is heartwarming made like he spends the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4148">TS</a>]

01:09:09   whole book with the mo own thing in MO [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4149">TS</a>]

01:09:11   and you get the big payoff at the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4151">TS</a>]

01:09:13   yeah I don't have any leaves and I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4153">TS</a>]

01:09:16   it works everything I said this is kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4156">TS</a>]

01:09:17   of like puppy and trashy but it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4157">TS</a>]

01:09:20   the Nick Andres becomes his Ghost spirit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4160">TS</a>]

01:09:21   guide I I think that's gonna sweet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4161">TS</a>]

01:09:23   that's a testament to the power [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4163">TS</a>]

01:09:24   friendship and all that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4164">TS</a>]

01:09:25   yeah and you could talk and when in his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4165">TS</a>]

01:09:27   visions that like it's what you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4167">TS</a>]

01:09:29   I guess it's necessary but I think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4169">TS</a>]

01:09:31   kind of BS because one of because Nick's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4171">TS</a>]

01:09:33   deafness was was absolutely integral 22 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4173">TS</a>]

01:09:36   who he was as a person to you know he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4176">TS</a>]

01:09:38   had that profound sense of isolation and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4178">TS</a>]

01:09:41   that profound observer effect now that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4181">TS</a>]

01:09:43   what made him so compelling is this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4183">TS</a>]

01:09:45   the guy who very consciously chose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4185">TS</a>]

01:09:46   almost everything that he was or who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4186">TS</a>]

01:09:48   chose to be and he's one of the most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4188">TS</a>]

01:09:50   deliberate deliberate and self-made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4190">TS</a>]

01:09:52   people in the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4192">TS</a>]

01:09:53   yeah but Tom wishes he could speak and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4193">TS</a>]

01:09:55   think the vision is sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4195">TS</a>]

01:09:57   perspective on how you know like it its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4197">TS</a>]

01:09:59   it's nice like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4199">TS</a>]

01:10:01   stephen king is good at rewarding you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4201">TS</a>]

01:10:03   like that's why he's a million selling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4203">TS</a>]

01:10:05   author he's going to give people what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4205">TS</a>]

01:10:06   they wanted he can do you can do the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4206">TS</a>]

01:10:07   highs and the lows and happy and sad and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4207">TS</a>]

01:10:10   like a lot of it in this book is not so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4210">TS</a>]

01:10:12   much fan services like ah right you do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4212">TS</a>]

01:10:14   that thing so well we'll take it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4214">TS</a>]

01:10:16   it's it it's nice it's a lot like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4216">TS</a>]

01:10:18   it's a reason he's compared to Dickon so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4218">TS</a>]

01:10:20   much right because he is very you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4220">TS</a>]

01:10:22   Dickens is directed by the word to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4222">TS</a>]

01:10:27   pretty Dickens had that had some of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4227">TS</a>]

01:10:29   best names in the business you know I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4229">TS</a>]

01:10:31   mean he was just a very apt neighbor and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4231">TS</a>]

01:10:33   i think that's that Stephen King does a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4233">TS</a>]

01:10:35   good job of the names too but that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4235">TS</a>]

01:10:38   neither here nor there and share my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4238">TS</a>]

01:10:40   theory on the kid at this point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4240">TS</a>]

01:10:41   yeah we i'm at the point where I'm off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4241">TS</a>]

01:10:43   I'm off the grid and and I'm i'm asking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4243">TS</a>]

01:10:47   for anything you guys want to talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4247">TS</a>]

01:10:48   that that we haven't talked about before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4248">TS</a>]

01:10:50   we go so go for it Monty alright [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4250">TS</a>]

01:10:52   the kid is what Stephen King thinks is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4252">TS</a>]

01:10:55   cool he drives a car from 1932 has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4255">TS</a>]

01:10:58   leather jacket and then pointed shoes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4258">TS</a>]

01:11:01   pointy toed shoes he's got the swept [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4261">TS</a>]

01:11:04   hair and he actually refers to him at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4264">TS</a>]

01:11:07   one point as a miniature street punk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4267">TS</a>]

01:11:09   from Hell which is not the best phrase [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4269">TS</a>]

01:11:12   Stephen King ever wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4272">TS</a>]

01:11:13   yeah and my argument is that the kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4273">TS</a>]

01:11:15   would work if this was set during [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4275">TS</a>]

01:11:18   stephen king's childhood but you don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4278">TS</a>]

01:11:22   want your business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4282">TS</a>]

01:11:23   yes but in 1990 it's just weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4283">TS</a>]

01:11:28   he is played to be ridiculous though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4288">TS</a>]

01:11:29   like he he's mocked by C hit this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4289">TS</a>]

01:11:32   character is marked by the author in his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4292">TS</a>]

01:11:34   characterization so what he does I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4294">TS</a>]

01:11:36   think I mean pretty cool death because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4296">TS</a>]

01:11:38   they find him with his hands around the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4298">TS</a>]

01:11:40   neck of a wolf [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4300">TS</a>]

01:11:41   yeah he's marked by the author but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4301">TS</a>]

01:11:42   author clearly thinks he's the coolest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4302">TS</a>]

01:11:45   this guy in the club was saying but he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4305">TS</a>]

01:11:47   can't stand up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4307">TS</a>]

01:11:48   I think he's a caricature of the people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4308">TS</a>]

01:11:50   Stephen King Saul and his youth who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4310">TS</a>]

01:11:51   thought they were cool and Stephen King [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4311">TS</a>]

01:11:53   thought they were not as cool as they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4313">TS</a>]

01:11:54   actually thought they were and actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4314">TS</a>]

01:11:56   might get eaten by wolves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4316">TS</a>]

01:11:57   I think the holiday with the gun kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4317">TS</a>]

01:11:59   tilted towards John's direction i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4319">TS</a>]

01:12:01   it I think it still would have worked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4321">TS</a>]

01:12:03   had been a little bit earlier because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4323">TS</a>]

01:12:06   in the nineties that kind of character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4326">TS</a>]

01:12:07   is so far removed that it's not even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4327">TS</a>]

01:12:10   like this was recently cool it's like oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4330">TS</a>]

01:12:12   is this a thing you know it's just so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4332">TS</a>]

01:12:15   finally left though he could just be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4335">TS</a>]

01:12:17   crazy because like when we see him look [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4337">TS</a>]

01:12:18   like he's into ease into whatever brand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4338">TS</a>]

01:12:20   of beer he's into and he's just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4340">TS</a>]

01:12:21   dressed up like a crazy person it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4341">TS</a>]

01:12:23   you don't know it isn't it almost people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4343">TS</a>]

01:12:25   are dead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4345">TS</a>]

01:12:26   he might have you might have gone crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4346">TS</a>]

01:12:28   are you guys familiar with the key and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4348">TS</a>]

01:12:29   Peele sketch that takes place after the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4349">TS</a>]

01:12:31   apocalypse where you've got one guy in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4351">TS</a>]

01:12:33   total survival mode and then he runs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4353">TS</a>]

01:12:36   into another guy who is basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4356">TS</a>]

01:12:38   dressed for like Pride Day and is yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4358">TS</a>]

01:12:40   trippin his balls off the ATM and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4360">TS</a>]

01:12:43   survive it and that basically makes me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4363">TS</a>]

01:12:46   think of the discussion we're having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4366">TS</a>]

01:12:47   that where I think the kid was like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4367">TS</a>]

01:12:48   know what there's no one around and I am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4368">TS</a>]

01:12:50   free to let my tiny little freak flag [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4370">TS</a>]

01:12:52   fly and unfortunately trashcan man ran [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4372">TS</a>]

01:12:57   into him and i think i'm supposed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4377">TS</a>]

01:12:58   illustrate is that this guy is just he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4378">TS</a>]

01:13:02   gets victimized by everybody was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4382">TS</a>]

01:13:03   literally nobody who's ever kind to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4383">TS</a>]

01:13:05   trashcan man because that's what because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4385">TS</a>]

01:13:06   that's except for Randall Flagg my life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4386">TS</a>]

01:13:09   for you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4389">TS</a>]

01:13:09   yeah you know and and but but there's no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4389">TS</a>]

01:13:12   human being that that ever offers this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4392">TS</a>]

01:13:14   guy any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4394">TS</a>]

01:13:14   fellowship or anything other than B then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4394">TS</a>]

01:13:16   fear and contempt and scorn and she and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4396">TS</a>]

01:13:20   that that is to me what makes the trash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4400">TS</a>]

01:13:21   came in just such an ultimately pitiable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4401">TS</a>]

01:13:23   tragic figure like he just it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4403">TS</a>]

01:13:26   it's just in just after justice heaped [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4406">TS</a>]

01:13:30   on this dude and I feel terrible for my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4410">TS</a>]

01:13:33   always never before never read the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4413">TS</a>]

01:13:35   you know it's it's it just sucks to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4415">TS</a>]

01:13:37   him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4417">TS</a>]

01:13:37   I don't like the kid but I love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4417">TS</a>]

01:13:39   everything about the trashcan man with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4419">TS</a>]

01:13:41   which is what gets me through those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4421">TS</a>]

01:13:42   seams [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4422">TS</a>]

01:13:43   oh my god especially pleased with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4423">TS</a>]

01:13:45   wolves and he's putting the walls as it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4425">TS</a>]

01:13:46   goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4426">TS</a>]

01:13:46   oh yeah tell me where he's like just had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4426">TS</a>]

01:13:48   some what their dogs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4428">TS</a>]

01:13:50   speaking of which should we should we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4430">TS</a>]

01:13:52   mentioned the dog dimension Kojak [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4432">TS</a>]

01:13:54   oh right because little doggie dreams [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4434">TS</a>]

01:13:57   and exposure can and then he shows up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4437">TS</a>]

01:13:59   again later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4439">TS</a>]

01:14:00   yes because he's been following all this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4440">TS</a>]

01:14:03   time since he's a dog [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4443">TS</a>]

01:14:04   these dogs just like the incredible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4444">TS</a>]

01:14:06   journey only the adult version i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4446">TS</a>]

01:14:08   it's interesting how there's the animal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4448">TS</a>]

01:14:09   breakdown like the wolves and the crows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4449">TS</a>]

01:14:11   will always be Randall flags and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4451">TS</a>]

01:14:12   cats are just creepy and and the horses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4452">TS</a>]

01:14:14   are all dead and I I'll of humanity's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4454">TS</a>]

01:14:18   best friends or day after I i love how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4458">TS</a>]

01:14:20   to spell that doesn't like what about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4460">TS</a>]

01:14:21   pigs are pics morally neutral doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4461">TS</a>]

01:14:23   besides you know I i love that because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4463">TS</a>]

01:14:26   it doesn't he doesn't explain it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4466">TS</a>]

01:14:28   medically at all but in such a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4468">TS</a>]

01:14:30   touch to say when this flu also kills [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4470">TS</a>]

01:14:32   horses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4472">TS</a>]

01:14:32   yeah okay dead yeah what else what else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4472">TS</a>]

01:14:36   anything I'm baby can you dig your man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4476">TS</a>]

01:14:39   sounds like a terrible song it does but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4479">TS</a>]

01:14:41   i'm not i had to feel like maybe that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4481">TS</a>]

01:14:44   why me terrible songs are popular I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4484">TS</a>]

01:14:46   think it's kind of something supposed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4486">TS</a>]

01:14:48   be like he's not it would never have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4488">TS</a>]

01:14:49   been hit in nineteen he's not Bob Dylan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4489">TS</a>]

01:14:51   right 19 in nineteen eighties like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4491">TS</a>]

01:14:54   marshall crenshaw kind of guy are not as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4494">TS</a>]

01:14:56   good and he's got up to just happen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4496">TS</a>]

01:14:58   have a hit song but it does it's not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4498">TS</a>]

01:15:00   very good song now looking at my notes I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4500">TS</a>]

01:15:03   want to share probably my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4503">TS</a>]

01:15:05   sentence in the book which is by Dawn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4505">TS</a>]

01:15:08   they were running east across Nevada and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4508">TS</a>]

01:15:10   Charlie was coughing steadily oh yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4510">TS</a>]

01:15:13   that whole first chapter i really like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4513">TS</a>]

01:15:15   it i like that seeing kind of like he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4515">TS</a>]

01:15:17   not a big character he dies pretty darn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4517">TS</a>]

01:15:19   quickly right but he's just at his desk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4519">TS</a>]

01:15:21   the alarm goes off and the door just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4521">TS</a>]

01:15:22   happen to not close why the door [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4522">TS</a>]

01:15:24   close i don't know sometimes the doors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4524">TS</a>]

01:15:25   and close maybe close the millisecond [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4525">TS</a>]

01:15:27   after you got through I don't know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4527">TS</a>]

01:15:28   he's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4528">TS</a>]

01:15:29   alarm door didn't close and he makes a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4529">TS</a>]

01:15:31   split-second decision which is to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4531">TS</a>]

01:15:32   out of there anyway cuz family and like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4532">TS</a>]

01:15:33   that when you repeatedly read it you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4533">TS</a>]

01:15:35   know what is happening during those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4535">TS</a>]

01:15:36   sequences you're like don't go back home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4536">TS</a>]

01:15:38   you just killed your entire you know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4538">TS</a>]

01:15:40   it kills everybody where we go daddy I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4540">TS</a>]

01:15:43   was a sleepin how I wrote that now too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4543">TS</a>]

01:15:46   I wasn't to sleep in a second [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4546">TS</a>]

01:15:52   no no one that's and that's the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4552">TS</a>]

01:15:54   that gets you into this but what a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4554">TS</a>]

01:15:56   way to get into this book is with this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4556">TS</a>]

01:15:57   you know increasing you know what this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4557">TS</a>]

01:16:00   book is about you know it's going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4560">TS</a>]

01:16:01   disastrous but to watch it happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4561">TS</a>]

01:16:03   step-by-step is fascinating and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4563">TS</a>]

01:16:05   what gets you in and then you're done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4565">TS</a>]

01:16:08   you're trapped in the vortex and you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4568">TS</a>]

01:16:10   2,000 pages later you've read the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4570">TS</a>]

01:16:12   again so uh we're about done anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4572">TS</a>]

01:16:15   that we have not talked about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4575">TS</a>]

01:16:17   somebody wants to throw out before I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4577">TS</a>]

01:16:19   wrap it up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4579">TS</a>]

01:16:20   how about this sentence the world he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4580">TS</a>]

01:16:22   thought not according to GARP but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4582">TS</a>]

01:16:24   according to the super flu [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4584">TS</a>]

01:16:26   yeah oh that was really wow this here's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4586">TS</a>]

01:16:31   a nightmare for wild about 1,200 pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4591">TS</a>]

01:16:34   you're gonna get a few clunkers wow wow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4594">TS</a>]

01:16:38   well you know Larry Underwood is not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4598">TS</a>]

01:16:39   singer in a world where AHA has hit the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4599">TS</a>]

01:16:42   charts with take on me that's all I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4602">TS</a>]

01:16:43   self it's just not possible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4603">TS</a>]

01:16:45   the world changed after that day I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4605">TS</a>]

01:16:48   know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4608">TS</a>]

01:16:48   alright we have come to the end the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4608">TS</a>]

01:16:52   battle between good and evil has been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4612">TS</a>]

01:16:54   flawed and John has been defeated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4614">TS</a>]

01:16:56   wait a second I wasn't involved that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4616">TS</a>]

01:17:00   off someplace else I didn't go to either [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4620">TS</a>]

01:17:01   city or in a pleasant caves yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4621">TS</a>]

01:17:03   boulder looks awful go to San Diego yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4623">TS</a>]

01:17:05   that's that's why it gets colder in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4625">TS</a>]

01:17:07   winter don't go there on that no we are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4627">TS</a>]

01:17:10   really gonna break break away and plan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4630">TS</a>]

01:17:12   our post-apocalypse plants again until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4632">TS</a>]

01:17:15   then i would like to thank my guests for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4635">TS</a>]

01:17:17   surviving past the super flu and joining [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4637">TS</a>]

01:17:19   me to talk about this really fun classic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4639">TS</a>]

01:17:22   book that we've all read multiple times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4642">TS</a>]

01:17:24   Lisa Schmeisser thank you pleasure as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4644">TS</a>]

01:17:26   always thank you but Monty actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4646">TS</a>]

01:17:29   thanks for being here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4649">TS</a>]

01:17:30   I'm a righteous man wonder when you say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4650">TS</a>]

01:17:35   Erica and sign thank you for being here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4655">TS</a>]

01:17:39   thank you and thank you for inspiring me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4659">TS</a>]

01:17:41   to read this yet again it was it was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4661">TS</a>]

01:17:43   great trip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4663">TS</a>]

01:17:44   all right get it great great trips to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4664">TS</a>]

01:17:47   the Capitol thinking on some great trips [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4667">TS</a>]

01:17:49   John Syracuse to thank you so much for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4669">TS</a>]

01:17:51   being here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4671">TS</a>]

01:17:52   life was such a wheel that no podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4672">TS</a>]

01:17:53   could stand upon it for long Jason deep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4673">TS</a>]

01:17:56   em oon that spells goodnight everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4676">TS</a>]

01:18:21   what do you guys want to live in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4701">TS</a>]

01:18:25   post captain tripps world or widget or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4705">TS</a>]

01:18:27   are you to point your life and you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4707">TS</a>]

01:18:28   like oh dude I hope I go first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4708">TS</a>]

01:18:30   I hope I like one of the first ones out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4710">TS</a>]

01:18:31   the door because my answer has changed a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4711">TS</a>]

01:18:34   different place in my life you know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4714">TS</a>]

01:18:36   i find it interesting to to to walk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4716">TS</a>]

01:18:40   myself through a different apocalyptic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4720">TS</a>]

01:18:42   scenarios and be like is this one I'd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4722">TS</a>]

01:18:44   want to be alive in her or no I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4724">TS</a>]

01:18:47   like I've spent enough of my life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4727">TS</a>]

01:18:48   picturing what i would do in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4728">TS</a>]

01:18:50   post-apocalyptic scenario that it would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4730">TS</a>]

01:18:52   be a shame not to give it a try haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4732">TS</a>]

01:18:54   what would you do what would you do here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4734">TS</a>]

01:18:57   well if it's a case like this where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4737">TS</a>]

01:18:59   everybody's dead but there's no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4739">TS</a>]

01:19:02   immediate threat like zombies or aliens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4742">TS</a>]

01:19:05   or something then I think I would just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4745">TS</a>]

01:19:08   try to set up a the life of a hermit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4748">TS</a>]

01:19:10   like find a place that has food enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4750">TS</a>]

01:19:14   until i'm going to die naturally and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4754">TS</a>]

01:19:16   then collect all the books i can and go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4756">TS</a>]

01:19:18   time enough at last I'm going to laugh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4758">TS</a>]

01:19:20   this is a bad strategy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4760">TS</a>]

01:19:23   well what would you need you need to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4763">TS</a>]

01:19:25   have it that's fine except you need to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4765">TS</a>]

01:19:27   bring enough technology and non hermit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4767">TS</a>]

01:19:29   type stuff so you can offer yourself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4769">TS</a>]

01:19:30   when it turns out you have some terminal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4770">TS</a>]

01:19:32   disease is going to make you die in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4772">TS</a>]

01:19:33   agony and is what I think about in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4773">TS</a>]

01:19:34   post apocalypse is like alright so first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4774">TS</a>]

01:19:36   I have my full family has to be dead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4776">TS</a>]

01:19:38   because i don't want them to be in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4778">TS</a>]

01:19:39   pot clips and that's just bad and trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4779">TS</a>]

01:19:40   to defend them from the other people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4780">TS</a>]

01:19:42   with guns and everything so assume [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4782">TS</a>]

01:19:43   everyone's that except for me my family [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4783">TS</a>]

01:19:44   happened to die i don't want that to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4784">TS</a>]

01:19:46   happen but if it did you see in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4786">TS</a>]

01:19:48   world you cannot wait is that what lexus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4788">TS</a>]

01:19:50   kids probably right exactly you know but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4790">TS</a>]

01:19:53   what I think about mostly is like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4793">TS</a>]

01:19:55   comfort that we're all used to like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4795">TS</a>]

01:19:56   being the right temperature not getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4796">TS</a>]

01:19:58   rain on you or whatever and it's not too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4798">TS</a>]

01:20:00   hard to get that comfort for yourself if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4800">TS</a>]

01:20:02   nothing is destroyed and there's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4802">TS</a>]

01:20:04   marauding thread or anything because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4804">TS</a>]

01:20:06   can pick kind of the nicest place you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4806">TS</a>]

01:20:08   have whatever you have to sort of have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4808">TS</a>]

01:20:09   all these contingency plans for like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4809">TS</a>]

01:20:13   need one of each of one of these things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4813">TS</a>]

01:20:15   i need all these things lined up i need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4815">TS</a>]

01:20:16   i need to have the ability to kill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4816">TS</a>]

01:20:18   myself if when i get older injured sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4818">TS</a>]

01:20:21   of on me at all times because the worst [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4821">TS</a>]

01:20:22   thing you want to happen is for you to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4822">TS</a>]

01:20:23   fall and break your leg and not be able [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4823">TS</a>]

01:20:26   to walk home and getting too cold and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4826">TS</a>]

01:20:28   your you get you know back in Arabic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4828">TS</a>]

01:20:30   impossible when there's nobody around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4830">TS</a>]

01:20:32   you have to be prepared for those kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4832">TS</a>]

01:20:34   of the astronauts with a little like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4834">TS</a>]

01:20:35   they're prepared it you know well it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4835">TS</a>]

01:20:36   looks like you're gonna die a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4836">TS</a>]

01:20:38   cyanide pills whatever they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4838">TS</a>]

01:20:39   do you have a source of everything that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4839">TS</a>]

01:20:41   I don't know what they tell you in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4841">TS</a>]

01:20:44   story say that anyway I in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4844">TS</a>]

01:20:46   post-apocalyptic world you would have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4846">TS</a>]

01:20:48   account for all those things so so so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4848">TS</a>]

01:20:51   Monty the key is in your cave where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4851">TS</a>]

01:20:54   live as a hermit you're with all your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4854">TS</a>]

01:20:55   books your library cave having I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4855">TS</a>]

01:20:58   castle have yes i have a space heater [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4858">TS</a>]

01:21:00   yeah and and some means of offing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4860">TS</a>]

01:21:02   yourself like I'm going to eat that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4862">TS</a>]

01:21:05   just like in your kitchen because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4865">TS</a>]

01:21:06   have to deal with like fresh water and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4866">TS</a>]

01:21:07   food like you'd have to develop a system [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4867">TS</a>]

01:21:09   where you can live in some reasonable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4869">TS</a>]

01:21:10   amount of comfort otherwise you spend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4870">TS</a>]

01:21:11   all your time like looking for food and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4871">TS</a>]

01:21:13   making sure you survive the winter and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4873">TS</a>]

01:21:14   that's not really fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4874">TS</a>]

01:21:16   oh yeah I don't want a post-apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4876">TS</a>]

01:21:18   where I have to go camping all the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4878">TS</a>]

01:21:20   that's awful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4880">TS</a>]

01:21:20   no that's yeah yeah i just recently [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4880">TS</a>]

01:21:23   moved to a new city so all of my old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4883">TS</a>]

01:21:26   apocalypse plans are completely out the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4886">TS</a>]

01:21:27   window and I'm really have a rebuild [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4887">TS</a>]

01:21:29   so I had had actually gotten to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4889">TS</a>]

01:21:31   point where i have figured out what i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4891">TS</a>]

01:21:33   would do you know well post-apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4893">TS</a>]

01:21:35   however i have sort of thought of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4895">TS</a>]

01:21:37   the short-term things and like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4897">TS</a>]

01:21:38   how I could use Lego to build some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4898">TS</a>]

01:21:40   contractions to collect rainwater off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4900">TS</a>]

01:21:42   the belt that sort of thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4902">TS</a>]

01:21:45   I'm just think that you should broaden [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4905">TS</a>]

01:21:46   your horizons because the world is your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4906">TS</a>]

01:21:48   oyster like I you should go to a place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4908">TS</a>]

01:21:50   where you could never afford to live a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4910">TS</a>]

01:21:51   beautiful place with natural beauty and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4911">TS</a>]

01:21:53   natural resources where someone has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4913">TS</a>]

01:21:55   already built a multimillion-dollar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4915">TS</a>]

01:21:55   complex with lovely views like that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4915">TS</a>]

01:21:58   your opportunity now the whole world is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4918">TS</a>]

01:22:00   yours i guess i was thinking of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4920">TS</a>]

01:22:02   having to hide in the apartment because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4922">TS</a>]

01:22:04   there's always put a damper on they put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4924">TS</a>]

01:22:07   a damper on things and then not more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4927">TS</a>]

01:22:09   than be told some B's some B's never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4929">TS</a>]

01:22:10   factored into it i don't like zombies it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4930">TS</a>]

01:22:12   suitors and rapists with a school bus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4932">TS</a>]

01:22:14   yeah dude let's be the left-field the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4934">TS</a>]

01:22:16   post-apocalyptic scenario for a woman is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4936">TS</a>]

01:22:18   a whole lot different than one for a guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4938">TS</a>]

01:22:19   I feel what I'm thinking like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4939">TS</a>]

01:22:22   enough people would be dead that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4942">TS</a>]

01:22:23   could realistically not expect to see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4943">TS</a>]

01:22:25   another person like this understand they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4945">TS</a>]

01:22:27   don't see a lot of other people i know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4947">TS</a>]

01:22:28   you said Jason just did the math and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4948">TS</a>]

01:22:31   seems like they should be way more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4951">TS</a>]

01:22:31   people but i'm thinking of a stand like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4951">TS</a>]

01:22:33   Apocalypse where it's like two is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4953">TS</a>]

01:22:35   threes bump into each other and arrive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4955">TS</a>]

01:22:37   and in boulder [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4957">TS</a>]

01:22:38   like a group of 20 and that's a big deal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4958">TS</a>]

01:22:40   yeah you could you could you know you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4960">TS</a>]

01:22:41   could realistically just the place for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4961">TS</a>]

01:22:43   you want to let your children 19 other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4963">TS</a>]

01:22:45   people just sounds like a nightmare [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4965">TS</a>]

01:22:46   yeah that's what I don't go to boulder [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4966">TS</a>]

01:22:48   like yeah they in the Hamptons it'll be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4968">TS</a>]

01:22:50   nice to have probably i would probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4970">TS</a>]

01:22:53   try to move south you know it's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4973">TS</a>]

01:22:55   cold up here from you after the year i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4975">TS</a>]

01:22:57   recommend that nobody's gonna be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4977">TS</a>]

01:22:58   watching the border [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4978">TS</a>]

01:22:59   yeah i would recommend i would recommend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4979">TS</a>]

01:23:02   against having a summer home in a winter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4982">TS</a>]

01:23:04   home even though it seems like it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4984">TS</a>]

01:23:05   thing you want to do because traveling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4985">TS</a>]

01:23:07   like they might run into someone else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4987">TS</a>]

01:23:09   and if you do run into someone else it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4989">TS</a>]

01:23:10   probably not going to be good also until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4990">TS</a>]

01:23:13   you learn to read the weather you may [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4993">TS</a>]

01:23:15   get caught out in early winter or yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4995">TS</a>]

01:23:17   have adequate food stores especially if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/4997">TS</a>]

01:23:20   you have to do an agriculture I was kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5000">TS</a>]

01:23:22   of permanently psychologically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5002">TS</a>]

01:23:23   traumatized by the road and so and so at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5003">TS</a>]

01:23:27   this point I'm not sure I'd want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5007">TS</a>]

01:23:29   survive any apocalypse just because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5009">TS</a>]

01:23:31   seems like it would be so FA miserable I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5011">TS</a>]

01:23:34   mean you have no note no indoor plumbing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5014">TS</a>]

01:23:36   which is kind of a deal killer for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5016">TS</a>]

01:23:38   and if I had no god forbid I have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5018">TS</a>]

01:23:41   take care of somebody else and but on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5021">TS</a>]

01:23:43   the other hand is the crippling grief [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5023">TS</a>]

01:23:45   from losing everyone I love and I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5025">TS</a>]

01:23:47   the stands though the stand this is this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5027">TS</a>]

01:23:49   clean apocalypse where it's not quite so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5029">TS</a>]

01:23:51   bad because uh you know the babies the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5031">TS</a>]

01:23:54   babies live apparently right and we just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5034">TS</a>]

01:23:57   gone down to a very small population but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5037">TS</a>]

01:23:59   a small populations much more tenable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5039">TS</a>]

01:24:02   manageable than the one you two million [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5042">TS</a>]

01:24:05   people in the US you can you can do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5045">TS</a>]

01:24:07   something with that so I feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5047">TS</a>]

01:24:08   society will rebuild and that and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5048">TS</a>]

01:24:11   there will be structure and there is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5051">TS</a>]

01:24:13   future whereas in something like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5053">TS</a>]

01:24:14   road literally you're just waiting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5054">TS</a>]

01:24:16   around for everybody to die [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5056">TS</a>]

01:24:18   yeah like I said don't think anybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5058">TS</a>]

01:24:20   would clearly traumatized me about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5060">TS</a>]

01:24:22   which is how vulnerable you are when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5062">TS</a>]

01:24:24   have somebody else you're responsible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5064">TS</a>]

01:24:26   for and so I think if you're 13 and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5066">TS</a>]

01:24:29   survived the apocalypse then by all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5069">TS</a>]

01:24:31   means [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5071">TS</a>]

01:24:32   grab your boat sale of the Atlantic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5072">TS</a>]

01:24:34   coast dock in the Potomac River and go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5074">TS</a>]

01:24:36   live in the Smithsonian you know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5076">TS</a>]

01:24:37   plan works but I mean now again like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5077">TS</a>]

01:24:41   said either i'd be holy crap I've lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5081">TS</a>]

01:24:43   my entire family or I'd be paralyzed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5083">TS</a>]

01:24:45   with terror over trying to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5085">TS</a>]

01:24:47   responsible for you know keeping a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5087">TS</a>]

01:24:49   preschooler alive in the after escaping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5089">TS</a>]

01:24:50   and both of those process [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5090">TS</a>]

01:24:51   thanks to seem awful i also washington [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5091">TS</a>]

01:24:55   DC in August is awful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5095">TS</a>]

01:24:57   well you don't have air-conditioning I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5097">TS</a>]

01:24:58   didn't have a lot of things a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5098">TS</a>]

01:25:00   dead bodies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5100">TS</a>]

01:25:00   that's what you and you have to get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5100">TS</a>]

01:25:02   electricity back up my mom did not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5102">TS</a>]

01:25:04   believe in her condition growing up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5104">TS</a>]

01:25:05   my knees and my reasoning was that if I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5105">TS</a>]

01:25:08   went to the Smithsonian they probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5108">TS</a>]

01:25:10   had backup generators for all of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5110">TS</a>]

01:25:11   archival quality effects they had and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5111">TS</a>]

01:25:15   failing that they also had cool [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5115">TS</a>]

01:25:17   basements made of marble where you could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5117">TS</a>]

01:25:19   you could comfortably sleep and then I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5119">TS</a>]

01:25:20   could spend my days reading everything I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5120">TS</a>]

01:25:22   wanted to or dressing up in the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5122">TS</a>]

01:25:23   lady's outfits or replace the dinosaur [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5123">TS</a>]

01:25:26   bones or whatever it is I want to do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5126">TS</a>]

01:25:27   was 13 because I'm yeah well you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5127">TS</a>]

01:25:30   having DC is your own playground imagine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5130">TS</a>]

01:25:32   you could go play basketball on the top [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5132">TS</a>]

01:25:35   floor of the Supreme Court the highest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5135">TS</a>]

01:25:38   court in the land way did didn't I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5138">TS</a>]

01:25:41   didn't Randall Flagg effectively new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5141">TS</a>]

01:25:43   court torch the entire west coast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5143">TS</a>]

01:25:45   because there's like there's one in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5145">TS</a>]

01:25:46   there about what he did to San Francisco [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5146">TS</a>]

01:25:48   and Los Angeles before coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5148">TS</a>]

01:25:49   well you know it's there's probably lots [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5149">TS</a>]

01:25:52   of available which button to San [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5152">TS</a>]

01:25:54   Francisco would actually be great place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5154">TS</a>]

01:25:56   to write out the apocalypse like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5156">TS</a>]

01:25:57   weather is really good there's a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5157">TS</a>]

01:25:58   arable land people probably have victory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5158">TS</a>]

01:26:00   garden village [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5160">TS</a>]

01:26:02   yeah that's good free-range vegetarians [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5162">TS</a>]

01:26:04   to prey on when you want to resort to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5164">TS</a>]

01:26:06   cannibalism [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5166">TS</a>]

01:26:06   maybe there might be 34 needed yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5166">TS</a>]

01:26:09   maybe their diets made the weekend only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZpI944/5169">TS</a>]