Hello and welcome to the church of the chair where we celebrate all the things we do all seated today We're hanging out in chat. I am your host II and Looking forward to talking to y'all We'll let people come in. I'm adjust lighting and whatnot. I see you're two people. Hello Whoever's here. I haven't done one of these in quite some time So I'm looking forward to just hanging out with you guys No topics for discussion. I do have some things in case chat goes slow That we can bring up. One of them is I've been reading through Harlan Ellison's bug. I Don't want to say what we're past 30 seconds, but this is it bug that word basically why I'm not saying it is because like the first 30 seconds to You know omit if if you cuss they demonetize you all that good stuff Anyways, this is the useless wit and wisdom of Harlan Ellison edited by Arnie Fenmer I'll be with you after my school running. Okay. All right, Haley. No problem. Hello, TNC. How you doing?  It's already cool out here. Hang on I need to go get my good mic. You're right back. Let's see here. Let me get this Connected Hopefully doesn't cause any issues See, I don't know if this is gonna work or not. It won't let me edit Which mic I'm using and Hey book dragon Hi Hi Ed from the UK in my doggy daycare. You're saying your name's Ed See here. I got to take my walk. I'll be back after though If you're still streaming I'll be here for a while because I have a doctor's appointment today And I'm trying to keep my mind off of it. Um, I Got some news. I don't want to worry anybody but uh, yeah, I'm having a Test done after my lab work came back a little Abnormal so we're gonna find out today and to keep myself from being too anxious. I am here streaming So I see here There's got to be a way. Hey, yo, what's up young tane? How you doing? How you doing? Thanks, Ty.  Thank you, Brian. Appreciate it Customization redirect trailer. Nope. Oh, well if the sound is bad, I'm sorry.  I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight Here's here's another one and this one is very topical Everyone has opinions. I have them. You have them and We are told from the moment we open our eyes that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion Well, that's horse pucky, of course We are not entitled to our in opinion opinions. We are entitled to our informed opinions Without research without background without understanding. It's nothing. Ooh, this one's good The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer Hey Jayrod, how you doing? Yeah, I'm doing I'm doing well. I was telling everybody uh before you got here I'm trying to keep my mind off of a doctor's appointment today Because and I'll update everybody once I get some concrete answers I went to the doctor Two weeks ago and my lab results came back abnormal elevated blood count without Um, I don't I don't want to scare any of you guys, but I'll just go ahead and relay to you the information that I have right now um Elevated red and white blood cell count with no signs of infection um Usually typically That can mean cancer. Um, it can also mean rheumatoid arthritis And if you know anything about me, you know, my back's messed up Um, and I have arthritis up and down my spine from multiple back surgeries. So we're hoping that's what it is Uh, but also my blood is too thick. Um, probably all that gravy anyways, but um, my blood's too thick So i'm going in today, uh to find out what my lab results are at the cancer center And also to have my blood drained Like i'm Keith Richards or something They are literally going to thin my blood by draining it out of me Yeah, that's it's gonna be fun Uh Hey zoe, how you doing? I haven't heard of that before neither had I until I talked to my oldest sister And she said that her husband has been having his blood drained four times a year for the past decade. Um, but yeah so basically medieval Medieval stuff basically going in for leech treatment.  Yeah Uh, just here staying up late. Where are you zoe? If you don't mind me asking Where are you in the world that you're uh, that it's late over there? You just studied a bit of college exams. Cool Here's another one Philippines. Cool I'm not a philosopher or a deep thinker I just have a good eye And watch what goes on around me I try to turn the mirror of reality slightly to look at things from a little otter viewpoint. I like that Okay, uh, I am in this again. This is uh, harlan ellison's Bug fuck it's a book of quotes from him a buddy of mine sent it to me And i've been reading through it and noting the stuff that really speaks to me So and i'm reading a couple of those while, you know, people come in and start chatting and whatnot Feel free to talk ask questions anything like that not not poems They're just quotes from either his interviews or his books I am an adversary To my fans.  So do I to mean my readers. I'm their adversary I'm not there to make them feel good.  I have no I don't know what they're gonna do with it. Um But uh, yeah, I doubt they're gonna give it away. I think they're just gonna dispose of it Gamer boy drawn blood Yeah, um, here's another one on this on the same note as the last one I pay little attention to the audience The worst thing a writer can do is give the audience what they want The more you give them what they want or what they tell you they want The less you are true to your muse Uh, yeah, I don't care for h.p. Lovecraft at all zoe That's that's good t and c but I I gotta delete your comment. We we can't talk about those things Uh Let's see here. Yeah, I I appreciate it. I do. I just can't I can't have references to the old name on the channel. I'm sorry You're you're fine. You didn't know it's it's perfectly all right perfectly all right It's it's a contractual thing Um, so yeah, I can't have any references to the old name I can't have any references to the old books any of that especially not the second one you noted That's the whole reason why I can't um, they don't the my The the people I'm working with now do not want any association with That book in particular and because the internet is what it is and these things do not go away I must at least try to put distance between myself and those things Yeah, e just call me e that's all you got to call me. That's uh, that's what I go by in real life My wife calls me e or it's usually dad Well, because we call each other mom and dad around the kids, of course.  I thought you were face-palming your saluting It's all good all good I'm feeling this one this morning You know, you're getting old when a rising from deep in an armchair You make the primordial guttural sounds unspoken since the ice age only by your grandmother Uh I see you I can't wait for the reveal the new name Uh It probably won't be happening because I can't distance myself enough from it. So Uh, we'll see but uh, if anyone figures it out I'll I'll tell them they're correct. I've already told the two people two people so far have found out prior pin names of mine And I told them yes, that is correct now Well, before I said you can be sign this dna and nba not dna the the dyslexia is dyslexying this morning Anyways If you hear my tummy, I'm sorry. I just ate digestive noises for the wind. Hey, what's up beard? How you doing? Why don't you ever answer your text messages?  Here's here's my text. Here's my number And I text the beard and the beard don't text back Well, what is it what I do to you what I do do I smell bad? Can you smell me through the phone all the way out there and what Kentucky? I'm a supreme failure. No, you're not but yeah, why don't why don't you why don't you respond to your boy? Oh, this one's good. This one's real good, uh, if if you're religious Plug your ears for a second When belief in a god dies the god dies I like that Yeah, I'll do here's another one on the same topic I'll defend to the death your right to have religion But I'll defend to your death my right to have none So good. So good Hey, always landing dude. I watch your videos. Uh, when I was just getting into horror books. That's awesome That's awesome. I'm I always love it. Love it when uh, people say they've been watching landed. Uh, yes Here's another one. I uh, I identify with I talk about the things people have always talked about in stories pain hate truth courage destiny friendship Responsibility growing old growing up falling in love all of these things What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul the mortal dreads I try to go into the those places in me that contain the cauldrons I want to dig up the fire. I want to put it on paper The closer I get to the burning core of my being The things which are most painful to me the better is my work So good Who's that author? This is uh, harlan ellison Sadly, he is no longer with us but uh, he he was known in the writing community as a asshole as a jerk But to me um, and many other people he was just very honest And we're gonna get to some other quotes from him that I that I really enjoy that really speak to what kind of person he was Hey zeely, how you doing? I propagate honesty mostly in criticism Writers take tours in other people's lives. Hell yeah This is from hang on here. I thought this quote. Okay I thought this quote was from donna tart Someone shared this on twitter and said she's the one who said it And she might have said it in an interview. She gives she rarely gives interviews. She's reclusive like thomas pension But uh, this one I thought yeah Uh, I thought it was from donna tart and she might have been quoting him or she might have just had the same idea It happens all the time A writer may have a message an emotion a philosophy to impart in his fiction And these are the most marvelous kinds of serendipity But his first job is to entertain To inform comes second to entertain comes first and I believe the quote from donna tart is an author's First job is to entertain Oh donna tart's amazing Please read uh either goldfinch or the secret history I say the secret history. I haven't been able to finish it. Um, but Other people say it's her best novel. I think it's the goldfinch Um, I have it right here goldfinch and here's the little friend and a secret history is above it Because I was trying to uh, I was trying to read it and I decided I was going to move on to something else because I wasn't feeling it um, yeah, the goldfinch is Immaculate the movie is absolutely terrible But anyways, if you haven't read donna tart go try her out I highly suggest staying away from the little friend, which is her second novel There's some plot inconsistencies and some issues that I am surprised or in there. Um, because the goldfinch was so good Um Who wants to talk about steven king not not right now because that that rabbit hole goes deep. Maybe we'll talk about him later Okay, here we go Here's my favorite part. Um, okay This is a section of the book called on hecklers. So he used to do a lot of public speaking I used to do a lot of public speaking um And this one is is hilarious to me on verbal abuse sued once for verbal abuse When the judge in small claims court demanded that harlon repeat what he said on a public street to the plaintiff Ellison Ellison responded Are you sure you want me to say it openly in court upon remonstration that he must repeat it?  The case was dismissed one gavel bang later Oh so good Sorry, sorry, so we'll get we'll get there if you want to it's usually I've been I've spent the past five years talking non-stop about him. So the the The conversation is is has gotten old for me right now So if we can talk about something else for a while, I'd appreciate it This is funny in a in a book of quotes But I love the audacity of the uh of the editor of this the one who put it all together for for keeping it, um Quotes like quips are fart facile fakery Feckless fraudulent smiley, but stinking Oh, yeah, I've read quite a bit of greg aisles, but I stopped reading him, um for personal reasons. Uh, I was I don't know about 200 300 pages into mississippi blood. I think it's called. I don't know. I have all of his books packaged away. Um I loved the the what was the pen cage the that series I loved it up until the last book There's a line in the book. It is not conversational. It is not it is not a It's not dialogue. Um, it is in the narrative And the the line says uh It's a black person Holding the main character from behind And the main character thinks I think I I knew it was a black person because of the smell Not it wasn't that it was bad just different I stopped reading him after that Why did I change my channel name? I have you can scroll all the way back to the beginning of the video if you if you want But there's other videos up. I've talked about it many times. I changed the name because I can't use the old name anymore I've been on hiatus from the horror books. I want to get back into them and remember seeing your clown in a cornfield review Did you ever get around to the second one? Was it any good? It was terrible Um, the first one was okay. It was three stars The the second one was just a rehash of screen that might as well have been screen six or screen seven or whatever number they're on So, yeah, I stopped reading it I was trying to read it for my 31 days of halloween and Yeah, I was like, I don't want to put any negativity Out there during, you know, this fun time of the month or this this fun month And yeah, so that's really all I have to say about that. I got two-thirds of the way through um, and it was just Read repeated content after repeated content Yeah screen two. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Um It's and some screen three is like he matched together screen two and screen three so This this is a funny bit of wordplay. I'm not that gracious and if I'd ever wanted to be brief I'd either become a poet I'd have either become a poet or taken up selling fruit of the loom underwear Chaos is when a man walks ahead, but his soul lags behind Anyways, Gregor, uh, if you want to Watch the old videos, you can join the discord copy the links and then leave the discord if you want The link is down there in the description So, yeah It's up to you what you want to do, but the old videos are out there. They're just not on the channel You can go binge them to your heart's content So what's everybody reading? Anything good Anything at all currently reading just for yeah Yeah, I saw that one on discard. I think you're still enjoying it. I've been reading slow these days. Yeah, me too Um, I've only been reading big books and it's been taking me about a month to get through a book Uh, right now I'm working on Uh, let's see here. Uh, the tale of genji which is 1200 pages long and also working on the deluge by steven markley Just about to start the band book shop of maggi. Hey Did you get it because Because I mentioned it if you did that's awesome, but uh, I just got it. It's one of the books me and shill are gonna be reading Uh, just checked out the audiobook, uh for the spite house I have not heard of that one. Um, octavia butler's uh xeno genesis trilogy. My wife is reading Uh, wow I completely blanked Um, it's octavia butler. Can't remember the book Uh, can't remember the name of the book kindred. Is that correct? It might be kindred Um, I might just give uh, nosferatu a reread and go for it. It's uh, probably my it's not probably it is my favorite book from from joe Oh Yeah kindred. Thanks beard. Uh, I've been putting it off as my glasses Is a degrade to my current eyesight I'll just wait to get in a new prescribed one to read it all the way through. Um, just Have you thought about audiobooks? Um, and do you read on kindle because kindle you can Well any reader really you can uh change the the size of the font I don't know if you enjoy reading like that, but it's just something to think I mean to something to consider if you haven't already which you might have Um, yes, you did cool. Um, I'm reading finders keepers want to read all three hodge's books before holly comes out Uh, jimmy make sure you read, uh, if it bleeds also the the novella in the titular collection Yeah kindred. Hey, hey, by the way, hello business. How you doing? Um kindred is your most famous Yeah I've read something by her and I can't remember what the name of it is It might be the first in the xeno genesis series And I think I didn't continue on with it because I wasn't in the mood for a series at the time Uh, don't forget and and the outsider. Sorry and the outsider definitely the outsider because The outsider ties in to it. Well if it bleeds ties into the outsider Where as you can probably read those it's almost like he's working on a new trilogy Or he's doing a new trilogy of holly books Because you had the hodge's trilogy where she pretty much, you know supporting character She's my favorite steven king character ever, but uh anyways after that There was like a whole new thing that ties into it and dreamcatcher and tommy knockers and all that stuff um You do you want to read end of watch soon or not? The first is the best I would agree with that. Um I think the entire trilogy as a whole is worth of five stars just the whole story arc but uh The first book I gave five stars and the next two book I gave four stars and while you might be thinking Why don't you just give the whole thing four stars is because I love the experience of the entire thing put when put together It's like the dark tower the dark tower series has two of my least favorite steven king books of all time in it um, but I still give the entire series five stars Yeah, I got tricked into talking about steven king. It happens, but there was there was no other conversation So it's fine. Let's see here So he's expanding. Oh hang on. Um, I haven't read much of king but read the outsider So he's expanding this Well the I think he I'm pretty sure he just fell in love with the character of holly Um, and while she's a supporting character in the outsider once again a supporting character She becomes the main character of if it bleeds and then of course we're getting holly Which is going to be a full novel just from holly I meant dawn from xenogenesis But I like your review. Ah, okay Hello, haley. Welcome back. Welcome in I am I'm a bit confused about the whole holly book and My thoughts I'm super excited for it favorite character getting her own novel 460 some odd pages absolutely fantastic But steven king tweeted something and then later on he deleted the tweet and the tweet was My next book and this was before fairy tale Okay, my next book Will be about uh, covet and It's a very long book not those words exactly but but that's what he tweeted out And then I was hoping we were going to get a thousand page book I don't know if he got pushed back or he got worried or the publisher got worried that it was about covet Um, I have no idea but a big book suddenly turned into 464 pages and for with steven king is saying he wrote a big book It's probably over 800 pages um So, yeah, I'm a I'm a bit worried Because that book went away for a year and then fairy tale came out Because he said he wanted to even says in the afterward. He wanted to give people something happy, you know something Wholesome kind of deal. Um, and so that's what he did. He did fairy tale. Uh, that definitely has a happy ending Um, and then all of a sudden we hear about holly and the holly is less than 500 pages. It's his shortest novel in probably a decade Yeah, ever since let's see here revival revivals 400 pages and it was published in 2014 so yeah, it's been a decade since we got a 400 page steven king book because the outsider the institute Billy summers fairy tale they're all over 500 pages See, this is zoe. This is one of the reasons why if you're curious This is one of the reasons why I didn't want to talk about king Because someone inevitably always brings up his politics whether they agree with him or disagree with him And all I will say about that is art is political the period And steven king has always done this Ever since carry he has written You know the time Exactly he's always been political to be fair, but nowadays people I mean a shit look at the dead zone It is all about politics that entire book is about politics so Why is a pandemic boom It I don't I don't know I do not want to talk about this like I don't want that That's one of the reasons why I'm glad that the steven king content is gone because everyone no one cared about the How good the book was all they cared about And this the the vocal majority Where people complaining about his twitter stuff his politics and whatever I could give a shit less Whether I agree with him or don't agree with him. I could care less. I enjoy the books um because people were very vocal uh business uh people were very vocal in that thread Saying that they weren't going to read it. Um, don't start shoving this down our throat. Um And people don't like history I guess I mean it's Imagine writing a novel You know set during the Spanish flu or set during any health crisis And not mentioning that health crisis. Um, it seems I don't know Yeah, I just want to read the books don't want to incline And relate to it to the actual stuff That's fine.  Um, and that's That's what happens constantly Uh, everything Like I posted my review of billy summers and like I would say at least a third of the comments Were talking about I can't stand his politics. So I don't read him anymore Yet you came and watched the review for the book I don't understand Is like people are so focused these days on what they don't like instead of what they do like And that is a horrible way to live That's how I feel about it I mean if you're if you're only focused on the hate train if you're only focused on the negative What makes you happy?  I know it didn't with me I used to post rage reviews all the time. They didn't make me happy They made me sit back and look at what I was doing and look at the people I was surrounding myself with And I I didn't like it at all um And I there's very few people I still talk to from back in those days And the vast majority of them turn turned on me first and it just It became A very toxic situation all around and I'm just glad it's over Damn straight. I'm here for the story. Exactly. So, um, I'm back Sort of in a minute. I'll finish my exercises, but I'll have my headphones on so I'll stay here. Cool Uh I read the stand during the pandemic the spreading part was extremely. Yeah, yeah, exactly Um, and that it's just another thing, you know, when he when he does something he he usually he tends to get it right Um, and he tends to handle it with care Uh, but anyways, but yeah, um, it but like I said it's It's a it's an inevitability when I bring up Stephen King nowadays that someone brings up the politics And I just I don't want to talk about it. I I don't Oh, I got a funny story about the stand. So my mom bought and read the stand the Day it came out. Um, didn't read the whole thing, but the day it came out Uh, and she was she was a nurse for 40 years before she finally retired and then she started teaching um But she was reading the stand right when there was a massive flu outbreak in our city um, so she uh No, don't know the the cut one because you know the the uncut one didn't come out until the 90s So we're talking, you know, the original one These one right here Well, that's too early. What do you mean too early? Most people I don't know if this is what you're saying or not but most people Most people prefer the original version of the stand to the uncut version. I don't All except for well, okay. I I do prefer it But I would rather read The uncut version because of the kid and trash came in Um, that scene is one of the most horrific things Stephen King has ever written. Um, and I I really really enjoyed, uh That that section I don't know if enjoy is the right word, but it made me it it caused a severe emotional response in me I only read the uncut one a bit of a slog but was so good. Yeah, the middle section where the rebuilding is probably I hate to say this. This is one of my least favorite things. I've ever read from Stephen King I'd give the rebuilding in bolder probably a one star review. It is so boring. I don't care about the meetings I don't care about the selectmen. I don't care about any of that stuff Um, I still have to read the stand, but I do have the uncut version. Yeah, I mean that's that's his preferred version that's the one he wants everybody to read which is why the The edited version is now but I do find it funny that the only reason they made him cut the book Was because printing presses at that time could not print like that Unless it was a medical text or whatever and then they would have had to charge hundreds of dollars for it To be able to print something over that size And they didn't another interesting fact is the So this is I know what y'all are gonna say. It's a book club edition, but it's not so the original first editions of his books that all the way up into Night shift or the dead zone something like that Were were book club edition size they were they were smaller And the reason why is because they didn't believe in him Um, they they thought he was just a horror author They didn't want to pump a whole lot of money into horror. So double day was like, let's just make one edition And then stamp book club on on some of them and then, you know, release the other ones So the his original four books Were all book club edition size And my my first edition of kerry isn't here. It's in a lock box. Um If you if I don't know if you guys are aware, but I lost my mother's entire steven king collection and then The collection I rebuilt I've lost my steven king collection twice and they were both complete at the time And the reason for it is hurricanes literally. Um, there was opal in 95 We had just got through moving from california to halabama And all of our stuff was on my brother-in-law's flatbed trailer. He was a trucker Um, when we got there we got there the day the exact day like two hours from, you know, landfall and Uh, all of our stuff we had to leave all of our stuff on the back of this This thing and there was nothing but a tarp over it. Um, now it was completely tarped water couldn't get in But when we came back Everything was gone. Um, we literally no exaggeration. We found our sofa our couch Three blocks away in the middle of the street. Hey cj. How you doing? Plus one for the boulder rebuilding Um, I've just been reading up on some non-fiction books lately. That's cool. I like reading I probably read one or two non-fiction books a year Unless I'm researching a project. I know nothing about. Um, like I did last year And I probably read six or seven I couldn't get through the stand. I wanted to I love the first half and I lost my yeah That usually happens But anyways, um, and then I always get these two confused, but I think it was around 2099 2000 like that something like that. Ivan or Igor Came straight up the butt crack of alabama and I was living in montgomery and while the hurricane didn't do much damage here It did cause some flooding And all of my books I was in between places staying with my sister And all of my books were boxed up in a storage unit the storage unit flooded um, and The the only survivors from that is my original I don't know where they are, but um my original Green mile novellas. That's the only thing that survived from that time Hang on. Here we go. Here we go So these These are the exact ones that my mother bought And the only reason these Only reason these didn't get destroyed in opal is because they were literally in the car because my mom was rereading them so But we she would go down to luckies in a She would go down to luckies in What was it? Uh, samurai, you know, I think it was but she bought these on wire racks. So Man these bring back so many memories going to go into the store and Uh getting these It's amazing As even if you open up the back, there's even some I don't know if you guys can see this probably not But it's cut off on the side here. There's even printing errors in it That's so cool You know what? Hang on Hang on a second I might be having a mandela effect because now I'm remembering her reading insomnia While we were driving out Yeah, first printing. This is a first printing march 1996 So they didn't survive. They didn't survive opal because they weren't out but They definitely survived because they were up on top in the box that was stacked on top of another box unfortunately Underneath them were dean coons books So I mean had I put the steven keen stuff up higher I was probably worried about it falling over or whatever had I put the stuff up higher Had it been fine But no this the dean coons books made it. I have all my original dean coons books Do you write full time or do you have a job as well?  I know that's not what you meant, but that's why I was laughing to clarify Yes, I write full time, but writing is not the only thing that I do I do graphic design. No, okay. Let me also say this if everything else went away and it was just the writing Yes, I could support my family just off the writing Um, but it is just an I make just enough money to do that. So all the other stuff is fun money YouTube revenue super chats um, let's see here the patreon goes to uh, producing the books Um, by the way, don't the patreon is dying. I'm just waiting for everyone to cancel their pledges But uh, let's see here my graphic design work Uh, but yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anything else Um, yeah, that's how I mean I supplement I guess so that we can do things and have fun With the youtube money with my graphic design work all that stuff. Oh, it's uh, it's gauge and church It's my favorite one. I have hang up. You guys want to see my steven king funko pops You don't want to see that I can show them to you But I stopped buying funko pops probably about I don't know five years ago one more quick question. I find myself uh Using open ai to not necessarily copy but throw some ideas at it Um and use it as a springboard. Um, have you thought about doing this? I I I'm gonna answer honestly dead planet if you don't know me. I am brutally honest I never have any problem with ideas. Um, now anybody who uses it for that More power to them. I don't have any issue with it Um, if you were to just let ai write your whole book, I would have an issue with that Because what's the fun in that? Um, if you're just using it to goof off and test things Perfectly fine. Uh, just don't make your covers your book covers with them Uh, because the gray the the area there is is very gray legally. Um But um, I don't have issues with like story prompts or ideas or any of that stuff. In fact, excuse me In fact, I end up getting in trouble because I have too many ideas at one time Um, I am 42 years old. I've written over a hundred novels. Um, I have Written not published but written over a hundred novels. Um, I have Over a thousand short stories now and probably anywhere from 30 to 60 novels and novel novellas and novelists Oh, you're fine with the questions. That's what I'm here to do is, you know chat with you guys The only thing I don't really want to talk about is the old name because I don't want it to I don't want it to spur Me and ending up screwing up and saying something like I did another stream Luckily no one it. Yeah, I'm very prolific. I'm very prolific. Uh Okay, good. I don't have to break out there. I was gonna do it if you guys wanted it, but Yeah, I'm definitely prolific but prolific does not mean good. Um, we need to get that out of the way right away Uh, because I have far more in cyber prison or cyber trunk uh We wanted who who what am I missing? I see I don't see anyone saying yes Do I have it on live? Yeah, I have it on live chat I see yes, it is Hailey and me wanted to see the Oh, I'm I'm sorry business. I don't know what happened, but I do not see you Say anything Not recently Me three. Okay. All right, so I will go dig them out. Give me one second I wouldn't mind seeing some you can show us. Okay. All right. Give me a second Actually, I don't have to dig them out at all. They're right over here. I got some in a bag Because I I put them all away Okay, but I was I was collecting them for a long time until I realized that I was just wasting money um, okay This is an fye exclusive It's Stephen King with Molly aka the thing of evil and yes, that's literally what he calls her so it's Stephen King with his corgi I like this one I like them all to be honest, but yeah, and then we have uh the it uh edition of the shopkeeper So it's him with his coffee and uh his uh his little book over here Yeah, I keep these in the boxes because these are the limited edition ones I bought some it ones and I've got a chucky cool. Very cool. So we got that Next up and this one is insanely cool. This is a Barnes and Noble exclusive It's Stephen King. He's got a book, but he's also covered in blood like Carrie Very cool. I like this one very very much. Um, and I actually Uh, I give credit to Michael Patrick Hicks. He's an author. You guys haven't read him. He's really good um good friend of mine, um He he like rage tweeted at Funko pop and he's like got this bandwagon going Uh just begging them for Stephen King Funko pops and literally the next year they finally came out with it Um now was he the only one asking for them? No, but he got From what I could see he got the most likes and retweets and everything. So I I credit him for doing this That was the books That was not my booty crack Okay And then we have just the regular old Stephen King He's got a book of course Yeah So and now we get into some controversial ones The gunslinger move. Well the the dark tower movie. Yes, there's he's not in here. He's in here, but I got Idris gunslinger Yeah I got the you got the ones one with the guns and then we got another one This one with his gun down here The movie's bad. Don't get me wrong. The movie's absolutely terrible, but but It is a great popcorn movie And then we have Matthew McConaughey. Hey, hey. All right. All right. All right Matthew McConaughey. Hey, hey, hey, hey with with this is The grapefruit whatever they got the orb Merlin's grapefruit. Is that what they called it? Idris Elba's Rolling the gunslinger ain't bad. No, I thought I thought he did a serviceable job. It was just a bad movie and McConaughey Did a pretty bad job as Randall flag if I'm honest. We got Carrie with the blood These are all the ones I opened because there's absolutely no point in Hey, you got a little panda. It's a little panda with the with the flower This was a gift from my oldest so I keep I keep everything my kids give me All right, we got Danny Torrance with the lipstick And a knif to stab you with We have jack With the little blood and him little axi-hoo Axi-doo. It's my magic bag Then we have Wendy with a knif also to stab you with There's gonna be someone out there going Does he not know how to pronounce knife? Awkward And then we got a Hannibal Lecter which has nothing to do with uh Stephen King And of course we got my boy Sam because y'all know me. I love anything Halloween And then there's a Jason in here. Just a random Jason Used to collect these two. I have more I have a whole shelf of Stephen and not Stephen King, but uh Pennywise stuff I'm not sure where they are. I can go check If I can find them if y'all want me to Any whoops should have a Funko Pop figure if there is one. I'm pretty sure there is Oh, yeah, there is. Yeah, there's already Yes, please. All right. Give me a second. Let me go try and find them. We found them We found them yay for uh Yay for bags of goodies Okay, this is just a whole bag of Pennywise stuff Just to be clear This was made by my friend Jason All made by hand. It is a book accurate representation of Pennywise Okay, oh Georgie. I gotta tear the bag open. This one is probably my favorite It's the diorama of Georgie Pennywise and of course there's SS Georgie. I'm running out of space Hey, good morning Chad. How you doing brother? Okay, I'm gonna save certain ones because they are Limited Oh my goodness. I have I just realized how much I actually have how many Pennywise things I actually have Okay, so we have it won't it won't stay up. That's what he said there's a I think this is a necko figure. It's a hush tummy Digestive noises for the wind. Am I right? See here anyways Him balloon is lamp. Oh and also this came with detachable heads so you can change the heads on them All right, and then we have Won't float Good one All right, we have this one comes with a little stand Trying to get the light on it. These figures are so dark Anyways, we got that one Okay, and now for the rest of the funko pops We have the 90s version the tim curry og Pennywise Oh, you can also see I have a demogorgon and 11 up here Then we have the non variant The one that s no, no, no. Yeah, this is this is this is the non variant He's got s s george in his hand next up my probably my favorite scene in the What it 2017 or is it anyways, whichever the whenever the first one came out Pennywise with the hair blowing Mr. Potato Head Pennywise 17. Yeah, I thought so So the hair blowing. All right, and then we have gory mouth Pennywise Man, I spent so this is over a hundred dollars in funko pops already because Actually, this one right here the diorama was sent to me by a friend And then we have cockroach legs Pennywise or alien legs, whatever you want to call them Clown potato. Whoo What's the equivalent scene of that projector room in the book? I forgot um, the page is flipping in the book, um because uh bill is flipping through pages um, and It starts flipping by itself and then it starts uh bleeding. I believe it's also in the uh 90s movie Yeah, the photo album. Yeah Exactly Hmm, let's get you right there You mentioned having a ton of ideas for different books at once Do you ever try to throw some of those into the book you're already working on to try and scratch it? Oh, yeah, definitely I do that quite often If I can make it fit I will try and make it fit if something's happening But it usually happens naturally Uh, I don't force it. I don't be like, oh, well, this would be a this this idea for this other book would go great in this book Usually what happens is it's already on my mind. So while I'm writing it just ends up In there Oh my god, chat. I want a mr. Potato clown demon.  I know you ate Digest your food in silence Uh, I am an I am an aspiring writer for now. I just have to outline for the book I'm planning mostly inspired by the stand, uh, but few characters. Oh good luck with it Did you see screen six my locals? No, we don't go to movies anymore. Um, I live in rural Alabama. Um, and Let's just say no and and almost nobody has any, uh, concept of personal space And with uh, my kids are very susceptible to Diseases, um, so we don't go to the movie theaters around here. Um, that's just Our own thing. So I haven't been in the movie since batman came out. Uh, the uh, what is it the one with, uh, The the batman, uh, the one with our our bats Uh, we went that we went to that that's the last movie we saw in the movie theaters I think I got censored. Why did you get censored chad? What happened? Tell me you like growly. Oh, I'm planning to get back into writing. I miss it. Yeah Uh, how is the resume before play through going? It's going well. Uh, I think I'm about halfway through it. I don't know. Um, but yeah, we're, uh We're I'm I'm enjoying it But my review is going to be pretty critical Because there are whole sections that either they removed or they changed that I do not like and do not care for I said mr.  Uh, we call those things in the roofs tick ticks. Um, it's our own fork lore folklore monsters in our I've seen I've seen a considerable amount of Filipino horror horror So I I knew about that also. I just love cryptids and creatures and things like that. So, um, I was aware, but that's that's very cool Uh, let's see here Understandable I only go to cinema if there's uh something I'm uh really dead set on Uh, I haven't seen it. Well, of course, I haven't seen the new John Wick because it's not in we haven't gone to the theater but uh nice Um, but I've seen the first three and I love them Interested to hear that I'm close to going to the castle. Um, if you played the original and all I will say is the part with the two garadors the blind wolverine motherfuckers Be ready To rage. Um, also chapter 14 or 15 Uh, the one with the helicopter Made me rage quit at one point in time. I went I went back to it, but Anyway, I'm also playing another I'm playing another playthrough that I have already finished Um, and people probably caught that by now because I knew where I was going in the last stream I've already finished the game But I'm still doing a first playthrough on stream because I started it on stream. Um But I'm doing that for my review to capture footage for that. So Cool that you knew those I try I try to learn as much as I can about other cultures and other places outside of the u.s Because I find this place so god-awful boring.  Um, I've lived here all my life Um, I've only been out of the country twice. Um for very very short periods of time and yeah, I like I like other cultures and and communities and stuff like that.  I love cryptids cryptids as well, man. I've been collecting a lot of uh, lauren colman's Lauren colman. He's written a lot of good cryptic books. Have you read hunter shea? If you like horror and cryptids hunter shea is your is the person you need to be reading Please tell me you have because if not yeah I only go to the movies every december. That's when we have most film festivals for our local movies. That's cool That's cool. I would love to go to one of those absolute absolutely because korean horror japanese horror swedish horror And filipino horror and let's see here probably also, uh, spanish horror. That's my top five horror period Yeah, I love cryptids myth mythical creatures me too I've read they rise by hunter shea and loved it. I've been wanting to read more by him. Oh, he's fantastic He is just so much fun it's When if you want something that you know just Is just all about fun Uh monster features hunter. I don't think you can get any better than hunter shea and maybe paul e kooley uh paul e kooley did the black series, um And several other ones There's uh the derelict saga all different kinds of stuff, but paul e kooley is is amazing too Yeah, it seems funny when I say it that way, but it deals with psychological trauma of facebook mods have to oh Oh, that's interesting I love psychological trauma stories like real life or fake or whatever. That's yeah, I've read hunter shea Yeah, I like devolution by max. I got that one sitting right over here Um, and I can't wait to see the movie they make of it I'm sure it'll be good. Um Uh world war z was a good book. I have not read devolution yet, but like I said, I got it sitting over here on my shelf I definitely want to read it at some point It's my space is starting to feel lived in again. This is amazing I really really love my new setup guys also speaking of a new setup I got to get out of this chair for like 10 15 minutes. So if you all want to hang out That's fine. If not, you can go whatever I find the world war z uh more better The movie better than the book. I I see where you're coming from. I don't agree with you, but I see where you're coming from Um hunter is great creature as far Um is far more than just yes, exactly.  What hard cover Are you kidding me? Hang on y'all I can't find it Anyways, I have assigned uh It's the only one I've done this for um hunters. I have a I have a signed hard cover That uh hunter was nice enough to sell to me. So um, it's the only one Uh, I think it's the only uh small press Uh hard cover I own I think Didn't like world z because there was no zombie gore. Yeah fair enough You oh ty you need to read creep you especially need to read creature first. It's sasquatch related second Is a lot of invisible pain and stuff like that in in that but you you do you need to read it The book doesn't have enough gore. I I got you. All right. I'm gonna I need to go take a break Of course chat gets busy right when I need to take a break, but I need to take a break Y'all be nice to each other uh Duly noted. Yeah, you must read it. I promise you ty. I promise you you're gonna love it. I'll be back All right, we back. Can y'all hear me? Making sure I'm not muted Sorry, I was looking at something So I have this Darth Vader thing and there's a hole in it So I've seen enough horror movies and read enough horror novels that uh, I'm not gonna put my finger in here But I'm wondering What's the hole for what is the hole for? There's a hinge Back here I'm wondering His head comes off it screws off I have never actually Played with this thing and he makes noises Oh, I guess it's a candy dispenser Lord helmet Nice reference Nice reference If you don't get that reference, we probably can't be friends Just kidding.  I ain't gonna put anything in there, but it also has like this little mechanism right here And I'm wondering what the mechanism does It doesn't push down, but it does Push backward to open up a hole So if I put I don't know what he does Hello again, zoe No, it's not a pencil holder It's what I think what it is is it's a candy dispenser. I think you put No, it's not a sharpener. Um, I think you put the uh, because there's no way to empty it out But I think you put the candy up here And then it releases somehow Centabyte summoner. Yeah, I just I just there's gonna be chains any second now brand Psh psh psh Anyways, I am bothered That I can't find my copy of creature. I am very very bothered that I can't find it beyond upset And that's going to bother me until I find it There it is Yep, if it was a snake, it would have bit me right on my testicles And it says e keep kicking ass and taking names hunter shea If you end up reading this tie especially if you end up reading this make sure you read the afterward Make sure you read it make sure you read it Let me put on my reading glasses here. You always read them. Anyway, it's cool. All right Even even the dedication gets me choked up Kate Woodson was dying and her executioner was her own body So good So so good so good I like I like wearing these especially with my ring light because it looks like an eyeball A one-eyed alien. I see you we could get real dark in here. Yeah, the pew beard does not look good with this thing on Yeah, those glasses. I got those glasses in uh In roswell, new mexico for obvious reasons. I mean sometimes I skin the afterward depends. Yeah I got you. This is definitely one that you want to uh That you want to read There's a very heartfelt and I listen to the audiobook and I don't believe the afterward is in the audiobook and everybody's like Did you read the afterward? I was like, no, so I approached hunter. I was like, do you have a sign copy sitting around? He's like, yeah, I got a fresh stock in so Um bought it off him. Yeah I have it in paperback Oh, the I hope I'm sure it's I'm sure it's going to be in the the paperback There's a something else and I was gonna look at horror 100 best books so we got, uh Clive Barker on the Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe John Blackburn on the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare Uh Diane Wynne Jones on the White Devil excuse me by John Webster Scott Bradford on Caleb Williams by William Goldwyn Les Danielle's on The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. I have the Monk up here Uh Frankenstein. Let's see here Yeah, uh, Jane Yolen. It's a page 35 Jane Yolen on Frankenstein by Mary Wollstone Wollstonecraft Shelley It's uh, it's only two pages. You want me to read it Zoe? Maybe pass. That's fine. That's fine I just figured I would in case you're interested You could read Charlie the choo-choo. Hey Brad. How you doing? I've done that before I need to clip it and uh post it to the channel But I'm also afraid that it'll get uh Taking down for a copyright strike and I don't need that kind of drama in my life During the live stream was fine because it was uh buried in at the tail end of it Oh, I still got two hours before I can leave for my appointment The absolute dread in my heart right now And I will come back and I will let you guys know everything that's said Um once I talk to my family and whatever I'll let you know when I read the wastelands It made me want to read that book um Which one T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and that's just a poem. Are you talking about uh Uh, Stephen King's The Wastelands. I wish y'all a lot. Thank you. Yeah, the dark tower book right now It is right now Right Is a funny is a funny story for you. Um, so you know in my uh king my old king videos You know, I always have the king books behind me. Um There was a book that was constantly roaming the shelves In every single video it would be in a different place and it was the only book out of order Other than the dark tower series because I have them all up on my shelf over here as you can see Um, but there was one book constantly roaming the shelves and only two people In the entire five years. I did that series only two people caught what book it was Does anybody here Know what book it was? crickets I don't know that's a thing in your background. Yeah, it's from the old videos, zoe The videos that are no longer listed. Nope. What in the Bachman books? I had all the Bachman books Separated because I can I consider that a different author. I know it's not but I consider it like a different It's not Stephen King In that sense kind of deal. So it looks odd to go Stephen King Stephen King Stephen King Richard Bachman Stephen King Stephen King Stephen King Missed the question. Okay. Um, so back in the days when I did the Stephen King theorist and the book reviews There was one book That constantly changed places every single episode. It was in a different place I was asking if anyone knows which book it was I don't have any prizes for you, but uh, yeah I just wanted to know No, it wasn't Wendy. I imagine it might be it. No, no It's it's not a book people would notice that one. It is definitely a book that Nobody would would pay much attention to which is funny because the the spine is quite bright So nope not on reigning. But yeah, it was uh, it was funny because only The the two comments I got was one person asking me why it was always out of order It was never in the place it should be Um, and then the other the other one was it drives me absolutely insane That you always have this book In the wrong place and I thought that was hilarious The dead zone now dead zone was always where it's supposed to be. So and the dead zone is dark It's it's got a black spine with gold lettering. But anyways Um, I was just wondering if anybody knew like if they knew I mean you guys can guess and guess and guess You'll eventually get it right but I was wondering if anybody actually knew which book it was And hello sig meyer Sigma Is that a dark souls reference? Maybe maybe not. I don't know I really need to read this this is a book I bought ages ago Um, I mostly read goosebumps these days. Hey, that's nothing wrong with that The clocks in this house all tell different times by zhan brooks It's a wild sounding book Summer 1923 the modern world orphan lucy marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of london A land haunted by the past where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees In a sunlight clearing she meets the funny men a quartet of disfigured ex soldiers named after dorthy's Companions in the wonderful wizard of oz Here are the loved and the damaged dark forests and darker histories and the ever-present risk of discovery and violent retribution zhan brooks stunning debut is heartbreaking disturbing and redemptive Sounds good Don't it? I mean just the uh, just just the title is amazing In fact, I have an entire shelf of books that I think have amazing uh titles literally all of them the town that forgot how to breathe A whole hangover here A whole shelf of books with unique titles This one is America and the cult of the cactus boots a diagnostic Today we're getting the proof copy of a children's book. I wrote and illustrated with uh, the wife called where is my cat tonight The first of many it's all I've been doing lately. That's awesome. Sounds great Yes, uh, sigmire. It's it's just after sunset, but you know, like I said, you guys would eventually guess You guys would guess eventually, but yeah, it was just after sunset It was never in the right place. You go back and watch the videos. It's always in a different place Reminds me the house with the clock in its walls Okay, chad Thank you, but I can't have any references to that. So I gotta I gotta take it out I hope you enjoy it. I remember your comment on Sadie's review. It's like sounds like an instant uh, extreme horror Extreme horror classic or something like that but uh Did the book move on its own which one Did it Did it What book moved on its own? Thanks, chad. Do we have movement in the crib? Every now and again and this has happened on stream Every now and again, this will just start playing randomly It's happened on stream tie I think it happened either, uh Game night or something like that. I hate those sounds at night Did it get louder when I set it down farther away from Yeah, uh Jayrod heard it. Yeah That room looks cozy as it is. Yeah, and it's not it's not the whole room. It's just the Set, I guess it would would be but yeah, I feel so at home here. I wanted to build something that Made me feel cozy and comfortable and you know and when I read I'm literally read I literally sit in this chair And I sit here and read surrounded by my favorite books All the books you see are either by my favorite authors or they are my favorite, uh They're my favorite, uh Hang on not a bug in my head Anyways, they're either my favorite authors or my favorite books. So Mission accomplished I'm fine with those sounds at daytime. I understand I understand that It does look cozy. It yeah, definitely 100 very cozy I want to sleep in that type of setup. It'd be nice, but I wouldn't fit Because it's only I couldn't even lay out between here But also the wall is right behind the computer So it's a very very cramped space And also just because the magic of television, um, there's walking space right here That I can go in and out of this area, uh, but it doesn't look like it It feels like I'm encapsulated, um, especially when I'm streaming Do I yes, I do actually Jimmy, um, I was reading what was the mist I was rereading the mist and I came out here and I turned on the smoke machine And I watched it. We've also come out here and watched, uh, the fog Um and the mist we've watched both of them with the fog machine on Uh, did you watch that Wednesday show? No, I have no interest in it whatsoever I used to be a huge Tim Burton nerd, but I don't like him anymore Yeah, I'm I'm gonna play eventually I'm gonna have, uh, fairy lights and strong lights all over this. I also have the I also have the the the fog machine over here. You can see the red You probably see it better if I turn off the lights, but The fog and the mist with fogs, uh on sounds great. Yeah The mist series I didn't get past the first episode. So not not from me But if anybody else uh business want to know wants to know if you guys like the mist series I'm asleep the gremlin might lurk at me At midnight if I don't some if I don't sometime soon. Uh, thanks for some chit chats e and the chat Yeah, you're welcome zoe. Have a good night. I hope you get some rest without any tic tics Let's let's see. I haven't I haven't tested this on stream. Let's see how it looks on stream Now that I have it It's okay. I also need a new battery for my remote Because it's just not working anymore But Probably turn this up Yeah, I can't change the color like I used to until I get a new battery And it takes one of those clock batteries And it's hard to get open It takes one of those batteries Now the cute clown in the background looks like he'll attack Oh, yeah, definitely. Definitely. Oh, the music box looks sinister as hell All right, let's get the lights back on Anyways, I wanted to test that We'll uh We'll have it on for game night. Um So Right now I have my doctor's appointment today Uh, my oldest has a friend that they only know from the internet Coming to meet them Tomorrow and then thursday my niece might be here if my niece does not come over on thursday Then we will definitely do a game night On thursday.  Um And I let one rip and it was very loud like a like a damn lawnmower starting up, you know pull cord kind of deal And as soon as it ended I heard oh my god And i'm talking like Maybe 700 feet away like it traveled that far And either that or it was the best coincidence ever Ever in my life Yeah, I don't I don't like I said I don't know I don't know if If it was in reaction to what happened, but it yeah, it it was loud and proud Uh, which classic horror novels hold up today? What do you call a classic? Hey uncanny valley I'm doing i'm doing great. I think everyone else is doing too. It was loud and sounded angry. It did all that. Yes How how far back are we talking? pre 1950s Probably frankenstein and that's a good one. Yeah, I think I think frankenstein dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde I enjoyed my reading of dracula for the for the most part um Trying to think of some ones that maybe aren't the woman in white by wilkie collins scrap that about 70s Uh, probably the exorcist Um, when was the exorcist written? Oh 1971 never mind. Um, man, that's a good one. That is that is really really a good one Um, I haven't read a whole lot from that time frame Yeah, I don't care for lovecraft, but robert robert herbert. I'm not sure i'm Familiar with robert herbert. Yeah, I thought the exorcist came out before that too The yellow wallpaper. I agree with that one. I have not read the um the king in yellow What would you suggest by robert herbert that type in author because there's a bunch of military stuff coming up bob herbert That's not him either robert l herbert Oh james herbert. Okay. Jay. It's james herbert. Um, I read once by him and absolutely hated it So I didn't go back for more, but everybody tells me I need to read Uh, the rats and suppleture or something like that. There's a couple of ones that people tell me all the time Let's see here. I'm not familiar with clark ashton either. Let me Ashton smith. Is that it? Oh horror babble did read one of his stories They also read one of mine. That's cool Six degrees of separation today The star treaded and other poems odes and sonnets ebony and crystal poem Hang on. Is this the right person? It's gotta be because st. Josie. Josie, whatever Rats is really good Uh frontenkenstein is a great read. I hope I enjoyed jecklyn hide, but it felt a bit dry. It definitely did Yeah, the invisible man was extremely dry. Yeah, I've never been able to finish Finish the invisible man Uh, because it just it bores me to tears So I don't You might like smith. He's dark. I'll I'll check him out. I put him on my list Also, we're going to be doing a series at some point in time of the history of horror So where we're starting is Anne Radcliffe's the mystery of udolfo You can do that one I'm going to talk about one of my favorite old horror novels, which is a chunker Wilkie Collins the woman in white We're going to do Matthew Lewis's the monk And Horace Walpole's the castle of atranto So all the early early early early horror books We're probably going to do that for uh 31 days of halloween this year, but there won't be 31 days It'll probably just be a couple videos Because last year's went horribly Horribly I maybe got a hundred views on each video It was just absolute. It was just a complete waste of time Robert E. Howard. Okay. Yeah, that makes more sense now. Yeah, uh, isn't that conan's author? I love conan Uh willows by elgin on blackwood is an old timer and I'm stingy with my ratings cool I've read some blackwood like short stories and whatnot, but I've never read any of the novels Yes books are on my tbr What those books? I remember an 80s movie called lady in white loved it as a kid Jimmy loved that movie. What jimmy say? Oh, yeah Okay, cool cool j-rock um I'm looking forward to it. It's uh, it's gonna be fun for sure Well, I I appreciate that brad, but I made Now mind you it was an entire month worth of content And while your guys' appreciation means the world to me It took up so much time that I actually lost money doing that Oh, no, you're absolutely right. Vincent.  Um, it's really really good Uh But sometimes it gets too much Um, it's it's too much like that style of writing and I kind of lose interest but the terror Uh drood And a summer of night all three of those is my my favorites from him The abominable is An abomination I that that's one of the worst books. I've ever read in my life if I were to update my top five, uh Worst books of all time that would be on there Love love love blackwood. That's cool Yeah, I read uh, I've read several I there's several short stories, um from blackwood because that I think uh One of the most reprinted authors of all time. Like if you get if you find a, uh, Horror anthology like pre 1980s, there's going to be some allergen on blackwood. There's going to be robert e howard There's going to be robert block. There's going to be, you know, all those authors are going to be in there It's kind of like the staple. There's going to be h.p. Lovecraft some edgar ellen poe that kind of thing As if there were no good female authors back then Um, I've only read the willows by blackwood. I enjoyed it though Yeah, willows is the best of blackwood. Nothing comes close. All right I'll take your word for it Go see what kind of Oh, you can get it as a free e-book because it's uh in a the public domain It's a novella 499 for a paperback. Well, yeah, it's only 56 pages. So I will add it to my cart a la carte Hello, what's going on e but I agree if anyone deserved the term wordy it'd be that guy. Yeah, he's he's wordy to the point of Like numbing your brain Uh, unlike steven king who you know keeps it I find Uh, you know keeps it light and loose and whatnot, but dan simmonds man when he tries to mimic someone else's, uh Writing style he nails it, but that's not always a good thing I read summer of night last september fun as hell.  Yeah, definitely still a dean coons fan. No, not at all No village and short stories are your jam. Yeah, I like I like them that nice quick read I don't read many of them nowadays because I have so many long books. I want to get through And time keeps on ticking ticking ticking Into the future Yeah, dean coons lost to me at ashley bell when ashley bell came out. I was like there's just His writing isn't getting any better. Um, he's far more boring than he used to be Um, it's just like he's going through the motions. He just keeps writing the same books over and over again There's only like 10 dean coons books and all the rest of them are rehashed ideas Um, now the same could be said for steven king, but steven king I still find enjoyable, you know, he's always writing about kids He always someone always has psych powers, you know, the same thing can be said for dean coons He always writes about dogs. There's always aliens or government conspiracy or whatever and while I understand that's coons's niche I don't like it. Um, whereas with king he does just enough stuff different to keep me interested For a while, there are people were putting summer of night up there with boys life, um for coming of age fiction But I don't hear it mentioned much in the past six or seven years. Yeah I would agree with that chad. Um, and it's a shame because it's It's right up there with it and boys life and all those definitely Gotta ask you what you think of rath james white. Um, I'm not into First off, great dude. I have nothing against him whatsoever. I want to get that out there right up front. Great, dude But I've never been a fan of that kind of storytelling Twilight eyes intensity and dragon tears. I'll agree with you intensity is good, but I also I I'm kind of biased when I talk about intensity because That is the last really good dean coons book and it seems like he's been trying to rewrite that book ever since Um, he's like like trying to recapture the math the the magic like, you know, there was velocity You know, there was velocity. There's breathless relentless all that stuff and none of them are as good as intensity But uh, twilight eyes is my favorite dean coons book of all time period hands down slim mckinsey great character The the goblins all that stuff is amazing and it's got my favorite trope of all time a carnival setting Thank you for turning me on to dan Simmons. By the way, the terror is now one of my favorite horror books. Hell, yeah Yeah king plays or takes risk with his writing, but he's fresh That's that's what I that that's perfectly said x and and I would add to that that that's exactly why dean coons Isn't because he doesn't take risks anymore. He just he follows the same formula He breaks rules, especially in his series that you know, okay Perfect example spoilers for the odd thomas series if you don't want to hear it Mute your audio now spoilers for the odd thomas series by dean coons in three two one He says throughout the entire series for six books that the dead don't talk The dead cannot talk they cannot interact with the real world in any way shape or form And then in book seven odd has been writing the entire series from the grave How are you going to do that? It's ridiculous.  Anyways, spoilers are done spoilers are done. You can come back now You can come back The bad place is also great. Yes and cold fire. Um, let's see here bad place cold fire hideaway is fantastic. I love that one um Watchers Servants of twilight. I mean I could go on for ages about good dean coons books But unfortunately at this point in time there's far more bad dean coons books than there ever was good dean coons books The voice of the night. Yes. The voice of the night is another one. That's uh in my top five John c. McGinley was great in tv movie intensity one of my fave. Oh I remember that. I think I liked it. All right Intensity was the last coons book I read to about 25 years ago and my favorite though I've only read three coons books dug them all again 25 years ago midnight. I like midnight. All right. That's the one about the uh, The computer program, right? Night chills is okay. I like night chills. They're just it's very very rapey I read dragon tears bad place as well like them both. Yeah But yeah, I like midnight. Um, but that's one of those books once again. He's been rewriting for ages I haven't read any coons. Um, if you ever read any dean coons books read twilight eyes What's the coons book with this but that's the taking and I like that book It's one of the only modern dean coons books that I actually like The taking with the with the seminal reign. I thought that was great. It was just a rehash of uh, the mist But I give dean coons credit because steven king has stolen so much from dean coons It's not even funny and for him to finally come out and just write his version of the mist was was amazing I thought it was hilarious Yeah, try twilight eyes, but don't read the second part just read up to the point At the end once they leave the carnival In fact, he didn't add that section until years and years later The book ends at the carnival section Telling you that now intensity and twilight eyes are the best place to start with coons for anyone That's true, but the thing is they're they're two completely different books um, and that's kind of like where steven king, you know Comes into play because steven king does can happen scenarios and he does supernatural scenarios Dean coons does that too Intensity is straight up can happen fiction. It's a thriller.  Well these creatures can make themselves look human kind of like what is it? They live or whatever So it's two completely different sides of the fence if you like thrillers Intensity is the way to go if you like supernatural stuff with monsters twilight eyes the way is the way to go twilight eyes is about slim mckinsey who joins the carnival um and He can see these creatures in their creature form when everyone else can only see them as human beings Oh, yeah, second half of twilight eyes is terrible. There's there was no need for it whatsoever It was over. We didn't have to find out that there was this whole cult of Of creatures and all that we didn't need to need that information. They didn't slim mckinsey was not Sam fisher from splinter cell.  I think it's a good book despite that fact. In fact, that book is what made me love carnival books It's the first one I had ever read So you think it's great. He went yeah, he went back and added shit He said he meant to the entire time But he he published it and it was a very short novel And he was like, let me go add some more to this to kind of flesh out the creatures and i'm like, no, I don't care But there is there are versions of twilight eyes that end after the carnival section And then he tacked that on years later in a reprint To twilight eyes is my favorite dean coon's book period. It is my number one. It will always be my number one Right after that is the voice of the night Um after that would be probably the bad place then cold fire then hideaway would probably be my top five right now as i'm thinking about it And I was a huge odd thomas fan. I loved book one Disliked book two thought three was good four. I thought was amazing Uh five was okay six was going downhill and then seven was absolutely terrible Uh what books you love the first half, but then hated the direction it took for me false memory by dean coon's um I would say probably tommy knocker's dream catcher uh Billy summers There's just so many that I could think of where the second half of the book is terrible How would you rank twilight eyes with some of your other favorite horror? It's on it's in my top five as far as strictly horror is concerned It's in my top five I would say twilight i'm not in no order uh the girl next door by uh Ketchum mire whatever mayor whatever you want to call uh Let's see here.  Uh the terror by dancer Yeah, the terror. I think i'm gonna go with the terror Summer of night and druid were amazing, but i'm gonna go with the terror um Let's see here. There's so many good ones i'm going through here uh Man i'm trying to stay away from steven king um Monstrosity by edward lee Uh that would like I said we're talking strictly horror here not literary horror, but strictly horror um And Hang on. Let me look at my shelf. Let me look at my shelf. Ah, yes. I almost forgot The worm by steven laws Can you type these out real quick? Uh on discord? Uh I mean I can I see why not Where do you want me to type it tim? Which uh one? Here, let me just type it here Homstrosity that's not correct. It's supposed to be monstrosity. I already forgot what the other one was Yeah, the the just the ruins period is an amazing book. I already forgot the fifth one I'm so bad at this The terror. Yeah, which draw books are really good Ghost story Ghost story shadowlands floating dragon Those are my favorites from him I've read ghost story by strawb and loved it. Yeah monstrosity is the Yeah, I did the Nick cutter I I have I have a problem with nick cutter. Um or craig davidson or Patrick whatever his name is whatever name he uses um All of his stuff feels like Either tributes odes or complete and utter ripoffs of better stories Um, but that's just my opinion Yeah, it's it's it's he definitely does rehashes Yeah, but twilight eyes. Okay. Well twilight eyes. I don't think is pure horror. There's a that's more And yes, I know it's dean coons and yes, I know he's genre, but I would still call that more of a literary horror Um, I would also put james herbert in that in that and so I guess so would I for for dan simmonds So maybe I'm being a hypocrite. Yeah, I'm probably being a hypocrite But uh, but yeah, um twilight eyes is definitely up there with my favorite books of all time But I don't like it for the horror and I think what I was getting at So maybe I'm not a hypocrite what I was getting at are books that are strictly about the horror And I think the terror fits into that. I really do. I think it's all about the horror In that and yes, the language is pretty and all that but I really feel that that's Just like summer of night. It is about the horror Yeah, I read the girl next door. Um is brutal definitely brutal. Um, it's very upsetting Uh, yeah, so go and do it prepared Yeah, phantoms is definitely pure horror and that's another book that steven king kind of borrowed from uh, that coons wrote Because his his even king even blurbed it. So he read it before he even came out And then less than a year later. It's a lot of the stuff that's in phantoms ended up in it Yeah, the girl next door will mess you up just you have to be in the proper headspace for it All right, we're two hours in I got to take a break Um, so it y'all hang out If you want to but I'm gonna be streaming all the way up for like another hour and 20 minutes all the way up Until my doctor's appointment because I don't want to be sitting around thinking about my doctor's appointment Uh, not exactly literature, but I was gifted a coffee table book about flanagan's midnight Oh, that sounds cool for my birthday and that's one of Um One of my most favorite books I've read in a long time. That's cool.  So I ain't buying it. Yeah, I understand I have I have copies of it, but I've only read it. I think twice I know you're talking about vampire show a lot. I really want to read it the protagonists or kids. Yes. Yeah, just think the think The debut novel from the old name. I can't say it. Um That kind of thing. It's the same exact style if you read that one The one that starts with be not starts with be but be um Yeah, anyways, I gotta go guys. I'll be back in about 10 minutes. All right Oh, and if you have mod privileges and anybody mentions the The other books or the other name, please remove the comment for me. Please please please Okay, I'm back So Let's talk about what books we're excited for coming out most anticipated books section I know I'm back from break. Yes So I am excited Not yet shipped Just click on those orders All right, those we thought you knew by david joy S a cosby's all the sinners bleed. I am really looking forward to that one Um holly, of course that dropped september 5th. Let me go back and uh Those we thought we knew by david joy releases august 1st 2023 He always releases releases his books in august, which is my birthday month. So That's cool. Uh, all the sinners bleed comes out june 6th Uh, holly comes out september 5th Um And for you and only you a joe goldberg novel by caroline keppness is coming out april 25th Not much longer. We got a month left And then chain gang all-stars a novel by ajebrenia Nana nano koame ajebrenia Um comes out may 2nd 2023 Uh, if you don't know ajebrenia Wrote one of my favorite Collections ever and that's friday black If you have not read this you need to Um the lock heavens lake by steve alton cool cool Um, he's the one who wrote meg, right? Are we allowed to talk about books written under the old name? Nope. You can't say the names of the books at all you could probably do like Like what is it acronym for him like just the letters of the book? I'll be able to figure that out But other than that. No, we're not a taboo What's taboo? Oh, yes taboo. Yes. It is. Yes. Yeah, it is taboo. Yes Sorry I'm sorry Uh, I'm not in the know of any new releases other than my own, but I am a david joy fan and king. Of course I Give me a second. I'll be right back. I'll be right back Chad wick. I are a man of my words Y'all go buy chad's new book Three mile three smile mile Keep going to say three mile smile That's my bad.  Got you read it Do it Dude, thank you man. I really hope you enjoy it. I thank you. I'm sure I will I'm sure I will It is a cat and mouse crime thriller. Let's read the back cover copy. Shall we Oh, I got Bella station coming uh an arc coming from clash books Salt grows heavy. Oh, yeah kassandra caw. Hmm So good Bella station is going to be amazing. Um, I'd love any anything colesnick writes I have not watched knock at the cabin and I have no uh, no intentions to anyways, let's Read about this amazing book here Glover texas has three restaurants Two gas stations and it's very it's very own underground crime syndicate Other than that the town's about as lively as roadkill That's been cake donelson's cake c a k e got a character named cake. You know i'm there for it That's been cake donelson's experience anyway Cake flips burgers at the local diner on route 66 for the same For the same mouths day in day out Life is simple too simple So when an attractive older woman shows up with a spontaneous proposition A sex-filled road trip full of adventure. He bites the hook road trips This is checking all the boxes Unfortunately for him She leaves out some details like what's in the trunk of her car And just how bad her husband wants it. Oh goose bumps Goose bumps.  I am all over it once I get done with one of these chonkers I'm reading and there'll be a review up on the channel. Yeah I don't know how closely it followed the book because I gave up on uh trembles a long time ago, but um Yeah, I just Okay Hey jake, how you doing man? Oh, there's a version of the willows with the windigo I might get that one instead. It's only uh two dollars more Nice, uh, which books you love to reread uh it by steven king. I read it like 18 times I think I stopped at 18 The goldfinch um steven king's on writing um Dean coons the voice of the night the traveling vampire show by richard layman. Um, there's a lot of books that I love to reread The batman to my joker. What's up, jake? I'm watching cabin today for the final guys podcast tonight. I haven't read the book I'm doing pretty good trying to write new stuff celebrating my mom's birthday yesterday and saw knock at the cabin and really enjoyed it That's cool. It's worth a watch in my honest opinion, but once is enough Once is enough gorgeous. Once is enough Hmm favorite ever villains edgar vest from intensity and politician in dead zone clown from it um I don't know that I have favorite villains I'm trying to think Like of course, I like pennywise. I like any wilks all that stuff that stuff goes without saying Trying to think of someone that I truly truly loath Nothing's coming to mind.  I loathe. Yeah, it's a good villain Needful things. Uh, Leland gaunt. Yeah Give me my bias for revival, but charlie Jacobs is a pretty great antagonist. Yeah, I'd agree with that um I just can't think of like when I What I remember most about books like I'm sitting here remembering things. I remember the The good characters or the kind of shades of gray characters Um, more than I remember them villains because I'm more character oriented. Um And I can't think off the top of my head like one good Other than steven king villains one good villain and I'm going through all these books and I'm like I love it when the villain is ambiguous, you know, there's like we you don't really have a certainty that this person is evil um I think those are the best villains.  I guess when I think of villains. I think of people In causing intentional harm And it's like I don't I don't know it's like It's it's it's difficult. It is difficult The judge the judge from blood meridian now that you mentioned it I think the judge is a truly horrifying villain. Um, also the uh, the the strangers the the traveling nomads the Of uh, what is it outer dark? Anton chigur. It's another good one Dollar hide from red dragon is a fantastic villain. That's a good one. That's a good one.  What's her name? Anyways, the the poor woman that he ends up falling in love with What happens between them is better is a better love story than like any romance I've ever read But francis dollar hide man, whoo that was a wow Ain't even Hannibal to some extent is relatable. It's I mean he I don't know. I guess I guess I'm just a fan of villains and I don't consider them villains That's a terrible thing to say, isn't it? But it's true. Which characters broke your heart with their actions Like why'd you delete it?  That's that's what I love to read. Um, but I think the the best one is from Oh, man Man, that's a good one. There's been so many characters who broke my heart Yeah, great great characters are always the most interesting Which characters broke your heart with their actions tragedy? Um man, uh, so so much murakami in there, uh, lewis creed, of course I'm trying to think of people other than steven king. Um Invisible monsters, uh, that one was very heartbreaking at the end Uh I love stories about people that you think are good who have very dark past I love villains. I can understand some of where they are coming from exactly. Yeah. Um Probably I think the most upsetting one I can think of is unfortunately steven king Um And I say unfortunately steven king because I don't want to harp on steven king But the father jesse burling game's father in, uh, Gerald's game I think she trusted her father so much and Her father was so torn up over the horrible thing that he did to her And I find that dynamic very interesting how someone can do something so atrocious and feel so terrible about it completely ruin someone's life Um to the point where I wrote a short story um called untitled, uh at one point in time and it was from a rapist point of view Understanding what he did to his victim Um, and I I did I called it untitled and then underneath it I said this is a work of fiction because I think I did so well people might confuse it with a confession and I didn't want that so anyways, but I love I love characters who do horrible things and feel horrible about it Um instead of like gleefully dance around going I'm doing horrible things because I love doing horrible things The only character I've ever written like that and I can talk about this one because it's under a different name That's in the book still out there In maiden that I wrote with tc parker the character of nash Probably the most vile character and comedically evil and I'm not talking he's funny But he's like over the top evil And we did it for there was a purpose behind it But too many not too many but a lot of people mentioned that That he was too evil like they couldn't connect with him and I didn't want anybody to connect with him because he was so fucking evil but Like that movie the woodsman. I don't know that one um Patrick Bateman is another amazing villain That's just awful um I really liked american psycho The the movie the book I couldn't really get through I've listened to it on audiobook but I I had to force myself because of all the all the product drops, you know like the gucci and the uh louis baton and The the fancy restaurants and all that stuff Good picky that was so exactly that was but what what drew me to that scene Was his reaction to what he did And especially in I believe it was in the movie. I remember specifically like him crying or you know feeling so terrible afterwards And it just anyways Oh, I've heard about this. I have not seen it chad, but I do want to watch it There's also one with jackie earl hayley. I think that's his name Where he plays a pedophile that's trying not to do those horrible things so he cuts his own johnson off And I'm like That's that was just amazing. Um if we're talking about movies if you I can't remember the name of the movie But that scene has stuck with me Yeah, don't it. Yeah, definitely. Um jigsaw's motivate. Did you hear there's a new uh jigsaw movie coming? Well, there's a new saw movie coming. It's going to be 2.5. So it'll happen between part two and part three Blaze by steven king also has a character that fits the steam. Yes, definitely Little children Yes, I'm pretty sure this is it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I'm watching the trailer real quick to make sure Uh, oh just watching the trailer saw x it'd be Yet it's part 10, isn't it because eight was jigsaw spiral was nine Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Um, I did hear about it. Thank you for you're welcome I literally just saw the uh um Uh something online about it today. I think it was a tiktok ad Not ad, but it was someone talking about it on tiktok. Let's see here Are the purge movies done? Does anybody know? I mean the forever purge came out and there was a uh Saucy hey lee. How you doing? You only seen the first I really liked that series like I thought it got better and better But uh, most people disagree with me I think the franchise may have ended with a tv show that may or may not have been very good I don't care about the tv show, but I know what you're talking about I'm just wondering if the forever purge is the last one or not because Um, I'm uh, I'm a huge fan of franchises like when when I get them I'll like watch them at the theater or rent them But I always wait until the very last one comes out. I screwed up with saw Um, I thought the seventh one was done ended up having to get the blu-ray of jigsaw and the blu-ray of uh Of spiral And now there's another one coming. I'm just like Please just be done so I can collect you. I love getting the box. I mean too. Yeah Uh, which lesser known movies you love howard the duck Period over and done with anyone who knows me knows my favorite movie of all time is howard the duck And so few people have seen it, especially the new generation. Um, and most people don't like it everybody in here Other than chad and he's perfectly fine being wrong. That's all right But howard the duck is my favorite movie of all time period over and done with also love lisa Um, I absolutely adore that movie one of my favorite movies of all time It's with philis seamore hopman and two kids that absolutely act their ass off It's about a dude who huffs gas after his wife passes away As a coping mechanism and he bumps into these two kids who also huff gas And the very last scene of the movie is philis seamore hopman running down the road the middle of the road in his tidy whiteies You know, what what more could you ask for what more could you ask for and it's love lisa liza I I thought spiral was a good saw movie. It wasn't a good movie, but it was a good saw movie Howard the duck Ain't no way to conceal it Shining arrow straight through my heart They call him howard, but uh, we gotta watch that for sunday cinema or something like that Uh howard the duck rules exactly you are my people road to prohibit road to perdition the tom hanks movie Is a great lesser known movie Good to hear love lisa get some love a favor of mine. You'd probably like florida project Uh, one of my all-time favorites ought to the list florida project Is it the florida project with willem defoe? Okay, cool. All right. I'll add it to my list Done and dusted. Thank you very much Now I got the song stuck in my head a simple plan Yeah, a simple plan. Yeah, good movie Good book too Whatever happened to scott smith Inquiring minds want to know It's an a-24 coming of age film Why do I not know about this? What like those like I am not scott smith Scott smith imdb page has something Cool very cool This still live. Yeah, john it is Um, I just watched a simple plan Last week. It's very fargo-esque. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah Yep, anything about like something being stolen and people going after the uh The people Anything like or murders or whatever. I love that kind of thing. Love it Oh, you're fine ty Don't have to apologize for being away from the keyboard.  Um, I wasn't a huge fan of the second game And I haven't watched a show yet, but I love the first last of us Mystic river as well. I love it.  I don't like the way he writes I got nothing against the man. I just never been able to get into his books Now the movie on the other hand Fantastic, uh, one of tim robbins best performances when a shan pens best performances that entire cast was amazing Oh, yeah, the movie movies amazing is hey ishmael. How you doing? I ain't seen you in a while I want to say that I was disappointed with matrix resurrection. Me too hated it I was also disappointed with the last latest installment of hellboy. Me too. We agree on both That climax is haunting. Yeah, I love stories like that, which I wish I could I've tried reading the book like a dozen times I always get into and I'm like, I don't like the way this guy writes Again, nothing. I'm sure he's a great dude. I just don't like the way he writes Have I seen castlevania? I haven't um, that's uh We we want to watch it didn't make it canceled I think that's why we didn't watch it because it got cancelled and they didn't finish the storyline I could be wrong though Honestly recommend. Okay. I'll probably check it out. But if it got cancelled I got burned No, the series is finished rock on. Okay. I'll tell show in fact. I'll text you right now, but um, I got burned one time with a series is one of the first ones that The first series that I remember getting canceled after the first season And the first season was amazing Immaculate writing great characters great acting absolutely fantastic. And that's terriers Oh Castlevania watch castlevania with shell Watch castlevania with shell because the series is finished Without giving away joe is one of the best protagonists and the big decision he makes in the end is on a Literary level. I yeah, I aspire to pull something off like that in my writing one day. Well, good luck, man Um, I'd agree with you. It's uh, it's very it's very literary That's story that storyline for the first one even the second one goes into some very deep literature literary stuff um But I didn't like much of the gameplay and much of the sections in last of us too Paris Texas is one of my favorite movies. I don't know how little known it is But it's one of harry dean stanton's only starring roles and he's great I saw that I don't know how long ago But I remember enjoying it You do brian. That's fine. Yeah From what I the I've stayed away from the series for two reasons first off I like to wait until the end of something. I don't know if it's a limited series or not But I like to wait till the end of something to watch it Um, also the the second thing I also don't watch anything during hype so That goes into part the the reason number one the second reason is I've seen some side-by-side comparisons that are one to one with the game If I'm going to watch a movie. I want a different story entirely from the video game I don't want the especially a cinematic masterpiece like the last of us That is a movie into itself. There's no reason to have that live action That's how I feel you can feel differently There's going to be a season two of the show. I I'm sure yeah, I was sure it would Never played last of us, but I did start playing fallout four a few weeks ago and I can't get away from it Oh, that's that game is so fun But he got trashed when it first came out because they leaned so hard into the combat The the first person shooter aspects Hmm I hated ellie's section. I absolutely hated ellie's section every time I played as ellie I was like I want to play as literally anyone else right now The raw physicality of joel, you know too much high brow pretension in my opinion fair Games are great at being games and movies are great at being movies exactly and hello spice. How are you doing? Uh, I love the game. I think the show is really well done. It's not a direct adaptation the entire time It does depart from the game at times But I thought it did so pretty well. Yeah, but I I saw a side-by-side comparison with uh, the ending In him carrying ellie and I was just like I don't if it's the same story with the same ending. What is the point? What is the point? Uh, do you recommend squeezing writing in Work schedule? Um, what do you mean like like on your lunch breaks?  Yeah, I do Whenever you have time whenever you have time Be writing Always be writing Even if you're just thinking about it I'm looking for a book similar to silent hill any suggestions I know I've read something like this. I'm gonna have to think about that lee Oh, I haven't read. I I didn't even finish. Uh Uh song of ice and fire I'm not a Yeah, clive barker for silent hill that would work. I would think that's pretty close especially something like the damnation game or uh cabal or Maybe the great and secret show Yeah, it is an adaptation. So one could what's the point about any adaptation? I say that. Yeah Now I I understand what you're getting at but it's different from a If you are adapting physical not physical visual media And it is the what is that what is I don't know what bugs I have in here, but they're annoying me anyways If you are adapting visual media for me, it has to be vastly different Like the characters can't even be the same. I'm one of the people who absolutely love that resident evil series on on netflix Me and shell and my oldest love that resident the one with lance reddick may he rest um, but No one else liked it because it was so different. Um, where I I loved it Um, but if it's a book, yeah Stick close to the book because I want to see someone else's interpretation Of what's on the page? I I want to see it that way. But two visual medias Two they might be different forms of media But the last of us is a good movie as a game Like if you took out all the fighting sequences and everything maybe a little bit maybe a little bit Um, you know a little bit of the fighting sections here and there it is still An amazing movie. It just happens to be a cgi animated movie I don't understand why you would want to do that Because the first game is perfection I don't know. That's just how I feel about it Yeah, lance reddick was one of my favorite one of my favorite actors Everything he did whether it be games movies anything Uh, there's a quote from him and I don't even know what it's from but he said if one of you break these rules I will personally come to your house and shit in places that will leave you forever confused It's so good his delivery is amazing Thoughts on joe hill. I got all his books.  Thanks john Woo, thank you. John. Please help. I have a book. I have mold over drafted for years Have a hard time finishing because of mental block burnout. How can I conquer this? Um, so you've already started it drafted for years um Start over Try and keep your momentum going the second time. I don't care how much you've written Start it over. It'll feel like a whole new experience Maybe cannibalize some of the stuff that you wrote before but you need to find a new flow One of the things that stops people from moving forward with their writing when they take an extended break Is they lose the momentum and they lose the flow Um, you see this all the time, especially in indie fiction where half of a book feels a certain way And the other half feels completely different. Um, you see it sometimes in uh longer traditionally published books also You want to capture the magic and keep the magic going. Um, that way It all feels cohesive if you have been struggling on it for years You need to either let it go Or restart it or start something else entirely Get that out of your mind Get the the good ones if you love it let it go The good ones are going to hang around the good ideas are going to stay with you And there's a right time and place for everything So give yourself a break try something new or restart it from From the first work. That's my advice anyways. I'm not sure if it'll work for you But thank you for the five dollars. I appreciate you. Um, but that's really All I can all I can say because that's what I would do In my opinion, I think it all worked pretty well in the show. I'm sure it did. Yeah, it looks great The show had a hard time out the front because it was either gonna be criticized for being too similar or too different I yeah, you can't there's no way you can please everybody, especially not when the game is perfection I think it's stuck Struck a good balance, but I understand what you mean All right, we I gotta go in like 30 minutes In fact, I probably need to leave at 1245 so I can get ready to go Um, but just giving you guys a heads up. We got about 15 minutes.  I'm just gonna go off and do comic books now.  Why aren't you doing your own thing the fireman the fireman was literally a steven king easter egg hunt And while there's something to something to be said for wanting to carry on that legacy He was great beforehand horns heart shaped box nos feratu All that stuff was amazing What the fuck happened as soon as he started doing his riding his dad's coattails Everything went to shit Uh Rain and strange weather would that was that that felt like a parody to me like even at some point in time I think in the afterward he says He he wrote it as a parody of himself or something like that I have drafted so much of the book and world built it would be impossible to try and extract Life lesson don't have so much prep documents and dive more into the pros. Yeah Yes, you have to keep yourself interested. You have to entertain yourself before you entertain anyone else period I love heart shaped box. Um, I gave it four star four stars. Um, it's not amazing. It has some issues, but horns Perfection nos feratu perfection loved all that Yes, I actually agree with you nowadays spice. I wouldn't have said this back when nos feratu came out But uh, I think you should stick to comics because Yeah Yeah, joe hill forgot why he that's nailed it jake. He forgot why he went by joe hill to begin with All right, I'll look that up john. Thank you. I've only ever read his comics locking keys enjoyable. I have the uh Well, I don't want to take it down, but I have the collection up here. I've shown it off on the channel before but He needs to stop reading his father's work.  I enjoyed like the first four and then it kind of went off the rails for me That's why kings books are meandering in the middle. I don't I don't know I mean getting into the getting into king criticisms I mean, I don't I don't feel they meander. Um, I feel they all come full circle and everything in there is important Is it boring sometimes? Yeah, but I've never read a steven king book and thought This information is unneeded not ever and am I saying that because I'm a fan? Probably but I just like the way he tells stories And sometimes that has nothing to do with the story itself It's just how he wrote it.  Um I I have read thousand page books that have no plot whatsoever It's just a bunch of slice of life stuff from characters like, uh, one q84 by haruki minakami No plot whatsoever. There is no plot to speak of in that book killing commendator Or commentantory, whatever you want to call it Uh is another one most of haruki minakamis have books have no plot and if they do they are very small editions I'm speaking in general not telling the master what to do Hey, how's it going?  I don't know if you want me to call you by your name or not I haven't read hill since horns. I found it. Okay, but I realized I was reading him for who he was And not what he was writing and I haven't missed Not reading him since hey, that's fine In the same way. I don't need a plot. Yeah, I'm in the same way. I don't need a plot I love characters and everything else especially characters Uh with what king I have read. I love that about his stories. Yeah, definitely Tony's cool. Okay.  I don't think Do you have one work you consider to be your magnum opus? Yeah, but No one will know it It seems uh in writing it's kind of good to turn a fair amount of stuff because one of the Darts may actually stick. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, that's why I write as much as as much as I can As much as I do you saturate the market and you hope one of them sticks I've been lucky a couple times I think of I have no mouth, but I'm yeah, that's funny. That's funny. You bring that up because I was just talking about ellison earlier Uh his the it's not his book.  I love the that's the characters in that one Yeah I mean one of chad's books did that to me and I still remember the twist, but I remember the characters more That happens all the time lee. I'm not gonna read it. But yeah, that happens all the time It's like whenever I say something people don't agree with the very first thing they do is talk about my weight I find that absolutely hilarious because you're literally conceding the battle Right up front It's like the only thing that you can think of to say after I've owned you verbally Is oh, yeah, well, you're fat. It's like, yeah, I am. Are you going to reply to what I said to you?  Oh, yeah revival. Yeah revival had a great ending, but I mean it was Oh, yeah, that uh that ending still bothers me to this day But I I remember, you know, jamey. I remember charlie. I remember all that stuff I remember the the carnival. I remember all that stuff but I don't The rest of the plot other than like the the mother and not the mother but the wife and uh child dying I don't remember much of the plot, but I remember those characters vividly Tips on balancing reading versus writing certain times a day you try to do either so hard for me to do both in one day Significantly, then don't do it significantly. Um, write 300 words. Read 10 pages. What's wrong with that? Revival is my favorite post accident novel of king. Um, the tone he manages to maintain to the last page is brilliant. Yes And you know what I like the most about revival is that it is so short Because he's trying to to describe the fleeting nature of life how quickly life goes by And how it is reduced to those to those defining moments in our lives And some people say it feels rushed some people say I wish you went into more detail But that's not the point of that story The point of that story is how short we are here and how we should embrace life Instead of chasing basically chasing rainbows You have more energy than marathon runners at I got I got I got to delete your comment can't use that name. Sorry Uh, I love revival, but I can't remember the ending off the top of my head now But the characters and just the feel of the book has stuck with me Yeah, fair extension is a really cool story. I really really like that story Um, what is his name lived or something livid? I can't I can't remember But I remember that story being very special And I know I don't want to give the I don't want to give spoilers But I really like how he did that that faustian approach. I loved it Elvin, that's it. Thank you. I don't know why I said lived elvin Is the audiobook in it? Yeah, li it's amazing You're fine, john You're fine. Not everybody's gonna know I understand people are gonna say it And I just have to remove it. I can't have any ties to that to that name up on the channel 1922 bored you. I thought that was I thought it was a fantastic story But I mean to each their own for real I love the comparison between pet cemetery and revival Where the first one king tells you something dead is better But in the second he makes death truly something to be afraid of amazing Yes Sometimes that's why it's sometimes dead is better Sometimes Yeah, the the one with thomas jane If landon's still here, he's about to fanboy all over the place He loves thomas jane. I don't blame them thomas jane is great, but thomas jane has done a lot As far as the steven king universe the mist 1922 Is there another one he did? Oh dream catcher.  Because he was in dream catcher in Shawshank Who's done the most steven king? Do you think? Oh, I love money playing. Yeah, I love money playing just because it yeah, but we won't get into that, but yeah Yeah, before I wait, yeah, he's really great in it. Yeah Scariest book you ever read Um, I found the short story incident at owl creek bridge to be very creepy I I'm gonna I'm gonna say this The scariest thing I've ever read that disturbed me greatly down into my core is not a horror novel Um, there's two of them actually the first one is night film by marisha pestle There's a scene with something on a bridge And j rod I'm gonna get that book out probably next week when I ship out some of my patreon stuff Um, if you're still here anyways Um, there's a scene in there where the main character sees something on a bridge And to this day That scene sticks with me what they see on the bridge is absolutely horrified me The second one is in the me in in the miso soup by rio rio mirakami Not heruki mirakami, but rio mirakami the one who wrote audition that was made into the movie Um in the miso soup has one scene where they are in a restaurant And it's the ear scene ear ear scene That disturbed me Because it's written in such plain language. It's like steinbeck wrote the most horrendous thing And it was just very plain is like this is what happened Didn't say whether it was good or bad or otherwise or horrific or silly or funny or any of that stuff Didn't doesn't give anything But that one that scene and it may not do the same thing for you, but I found it just utterly utterly disgusting and Life altering to the point where now when I look at people's ears.  Is it snapshot? It's strange weather, right Yeah snapshot I That was just the sun dog all over again Like I said, afternoast rotu.  I think you did. Yeah Yeah night film by marisha pestle. Yeah Oh ty I'm warning you now. Have you ever seen the movie collateral with uh With tom cruise and jamie fox. It's very much like that. Oh, yeah Auditions based on a novel by ryu matakami So now I'll read it wondering about the ear scene until it's it's toward the end.  You're absolutely right john Scariest movie I ever saw the brave little toaster that one is terrifying and so is up that like the scariest scene I've ever seen in any movie Well, there's two of them. Um, and they're kind of tied at top and that's from chitty-chitty bang bang the candy man utterly horrifying and uh I'm just let me let me say this up front. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in any gods whatsoever if you do that's fine But my favorite horror movie of all time is the passion of the christ. It's better than saw. It's better than hostile it is Absolutely disturbing with amazing performances and I find it to be a really good horror movie very effective Um, I don't care about the religious aspects. It's fiction. Just like you know the bible anyways, but it It it scares me like there's certain scenes in there that shake me to my core Yeah night films Fantastic if you like like shady cinema Um noir type feel feel night films where it's at Yeah grandma by steven king is creepy. Yeah, the movie audition was amazing That really got to me sounds like I should try the yo definitely try ryu mirakami. He's fantastic. I own all of his stuff Watching evil dead the remake it was dark one in the morning and I was sleeping in my aunt's house In a room that was kind of haunted. That's awesome. We watched passion of the christ in my freshman year Dude, there were toddlers There were toddlers and little kids below five At the showing of the passion of the christ that we went to Absolutely horrific to bring to take a child to something like that, but what can you say christianity? Uh watch the dark baby scenes. Yes, john exactly. Yes I took a date to passion of the christ. Not a great choice.  Why would you take her to go see a movie about someone who's well hung?   That's what I like to say What brought you to the conclusion, uh, there is no higher power I Not trying to convert but that is very interesting. I think there is something divine there there There is no logical proof of any higher power whatsoever. Um, there is no proof of intelligent design Um, none of the books and I've read all of them. Um before we get started there, uh, you asked I'm telling Um, I've read them all I've read the quran. Um, I've read the bible I've read the book of the dead. I've read them all And every single one of them either steals From other religions or beliefs. They either steal stuff that came before it that can be proven came before it or It is so batshit insane that it's just not possible. Um, there has been more disproof Of any of those books than there will ever be proof. Um, also, there's this idea that being religious makes you moral and religion morality precedes religion Like we didn't start becoming moral because of religion But anyways is no matter how far you go back Every single religion from the dawn of time anything written down Has taken from other cultures has taken from other beliefs To build off of that and that's what good fiction does It builds it's a cultural thing. Um, and like I just read in this earlier, um, when When a religion dies, so does the god We have so many dead religions nowadays And with christianity, especially they murdered their way to the top Literally killed their way to the top. You have the inquisition. You have the templars. You we could just go on down the list And that's the only reason why it's like the number one Religion in the world because they made it that way through fear and murder and torture and all that other stuff To a point where if you believe anything other than what and it's still to this day I mean this country is run by religious nuts That making us Abide by their rules and their laws From a book of fiction That blows my mind. But yeah, there you go. There's my diatribe not saying anything else on it. We're just going I just find it weird that churches literally have statues of a bloody man across Oh, but i'm not allowed to watch horror movies because they're demonic. Yeah You don't even believe in the flying spaghetti monster. No I mean, he's cool Yeah, I'd love to be postifarian, but I can't bring myself to worship anything Except from my wife and my kids Uh, exactly spice. Yeah, um, it's simple. You say there is You say there is and I don't believe you one of the best actually I have one more thing to say Ricky Gervais said it said it best everyone Everyone has a god they don't believe in I and you know Like christians don't believe in raw. They don't believe in cyrus. They don't believe in Whatever it might be. They don't believe in Thor Zeus. Whatever I just Don't believe in one more god than you do. So what's the difference between me and you? There isn't one or the chair all hell. But the chair isn't the chair isn't a religion It's a state of being Um, and I've thought about this quite a bit when I decided to change the channel to church of the chair Where we celebrate all the things we do while seated I read sitting down. I play games sitting down. I watch movies sitting down.  No kool-aid. No jim jones. No waco. None of that stuff But if I'm gonna worship anything i'm gonna worship something that has an actual effect on Period and my chair does sometimes I have good chair days. Sometimes I have bad chair days You know that kind of thing um Now one religion I can kind of get behind is like pagan or indigenous culture Because they worship the world that we're on The sun moon stars all that stuff the moon the sun all that has an actual effect on us So I get that do I worship those things? No, I don't but anyways Worship cows. Yes chairs exist. That's another thing. This chair is real right here. It's real Jesus comes back to earth and walks into a church and sees a crucifix and has a panic attack and passes out I've never understood that one. In fact, that's I kind of understand where jahovah's witnesses come from when they say That the having a cross in your house or angels or whatever is sacrilegious because why would you want to constantly Why would he want you constantly reminded of being tortured? But I mean it doesn't matter because he ain't real Jesus might have been real in fact. I'm pretty sure he was But he wasn't the son of god. I mean, there's even a quote in the bible where he goes Why have you forsaken me like it even at that point? And if christ is God in man's body a god in a man's body if he's a son, why would he ask himself why he's forsaken him? What I'm unconvinced of the existence of a god, but I'm pretty damn sure Yahweh is totally fake. He's a conglomerate of so many other gods Yeah, exactly. You got uh, who is it? Was it Horus? They took all the stuff from christ from Horus from egyptian culture Chairs exist I am pagan. Well, there you go. See Yeah, uh strange hot. Yeah, um and steven kings to stand is kind of ruined for me because of that No matter how on You know on brand it is I thought you said a state of being I Why not? All right, let's move on. I only have no I have no time left. I got to go I got to get ready um to go to my doctor's appointment I will update you guys later Pocalypto is a great adrenaline rush of a movie. I love that movie I do even though I hate Mel Gibson now and I'm not going to explain it We know I'm not going to get into that but yeah, I will update you guys later Um, I almost I got sidetracked. I'm about to miss my appointment Anyways, love y'all. I will talk to you later I will update you all after the appointment and let you guys know it might not be today But it but I will come on the stream and it'll be called health update So if you see that make sure you tune in. Love your faces. Bye