 Hello everybody here welcome back to Thursday there's today. We are talking about the second Bachman book The long walk and no I did not already do this one cowboy I did a spoiler-free review for this one In fact if you guys want to go over there and check it out There is a dude down in the comments who has some Some awesome Research down there He proved me wrong on several accounts as far as who died if more than one person died if one person died twice The dude is awesome Go check out the comments on my spoiler-free long walk video The dude done his research and I have a hell of a lot of respect for him for going as deep as he did into that So in fact, I'll leave a link down there in the dooby-doo so you guys can you know easily go on Let's finish this video first. Um the long walk not one of my favorite Stephen King books It's kind of meh on my end, and I know a lot of people disagree with that. I'm cool with that I'm fine with you guys loving it I'm fine with the people who who hate it who don't see any point in it whatsoever me I'm just kind of on the fence, you know like 2.5 stars is what I'm feeling both times I've read it. It just kind of it doesn't do anything for me and I find myself Disliking it so much that I I look for problems with it, and I usually don't do that with the Stephen King book I just kind of let it be what it is. I will say this is one of the harder Stephen King slash Richard Bachman books to Connect to the dark tower, but I have several threads several cords I want to pluck and see if they resonate with you So the first one is there's a mention of a Mrs. Petrie in here And of course, there's a character and his family and Mark Petrie in Salem's lot Now, yes, this book does occur in the future, but how far in the future? I believe Salem's lot came out in 75 this book came out in 79 If I'm wrong leave your comments down there in the doobly-doo, but King wrote this book Before he wrote Salem's lot. He wrote this. He started writing it in 66 67 Who knows if Mrs. Petrie was in there at that point in time? I don't know for I certainly don't know What I am wondering is maybe if it's not too far in the future maybe that Mrs. Petrie is the same Mrs. Petrie or a relative of the Petrie in Salem's lot maybe Mark's daughter or Farther along maybe that's why the world is the way it is because of the vampire apocalypse You know that kind of thing who knows but there's a Petrie in there now as far as a hard connect Of course, there's no hard connect to a to a Bachman book But the main character's name Raymond Davis garrity does have 19 letters in it. There is another way I can possibly kind of Connect it for getting both. Well, let's keep the number 19 there. That's that's a really good connect But let's go even farther. Let's get into whacked out territory. How about the long walk is kind of the proto Running man the prototype for the running man and this is this happens Let's say yeah, it doesn't matter. Let's say it happens in the 90s or whenever it occurs I don't believe to the dude that watched the other one and left all the comments down there I think your name's Josh Justin something. I don't know. I can't remember. I apologize But let me know if you know the exact time frame that the long walk happens. Let me know down there in the comments, but Let's say that the running man is the evolution of the long walk and so televised murder televised live The competitions where death is a real possibility Let's say that has evolved over the years from the long walk into shows like the running man Now if that's the case, I can tie the running man into the dark tower There is a hard connect to that one But we'll get to that when we actually read the running man If you guys know I want to see your comments down there in the doobly-doo Please tell people it's spoilers if you want to But there is a definite hard connect to the Stephen King universe in the running man Roadwork is going to be a lot of fun, but that won't be until farther along in the series right toward the end right before we jump into the um The talisman the dark the black house and the overall dark tower series itself So have you read the long walk? What did you think did I miss anything? You might have caught that's a big one. I enjoyed doing this Did I leave something out for you guys to mention? Who knows? Let me know down there in the comments below if you found anything that ties it to either the Stephen King universe or the dark tower Universe, but until next time I have been a you have been you this been another Thursday theorist review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye