 Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we all have a twinner out there somewhere. I'm your host, E, and today... Regulators, mount up. If you're new around here, I need to give you a warning. In this series, I will be spoiling all of Stephen King's work, so if you haven't read all of his stuff, I suggest you click away now. You've been warned. Today, we're talking about The Regulators, the lost Richard Bachman book. Also by Stephen King. So how does The Regulators tie into the Dark Tower universe and the Stephen King universe in general? Let's get into that. My original theorist video for The Regulators holds pride of place in my entire catalog. It is my favorite theorist episode. Yes, even more so than Kit, more so than the Tommy knockers, more so than Dreamcatcher. I articulated everything I wanted to get across in that video, so I'm going to let my own twinner speak for himself. As far as The Regulators and Desperation are concerned, they are considered twinners in the Stephen King universe. And a twinner is the same person, just different maybe life, maybe character development, that kind of deal. They are the same person. They are somewhat connected, but only by their appearance, maybe their blood type, that kind of thing. But usually their characters are completely different other than maybe their strongest character trait. Like maybe if they're an artist or an author. Let's stop talking about the Dark Tower connections and the universe connections. Okay, so TAC and Pennywise have got to be, if not the same species, they have to be on the same level of the Tower kind of deal, right? Because TAC is a wison. I don't know that we've ever found out what Pennywise is, but I'm almost fighting for the idea that these creatures are nothing more than their lights. You have the wison, which is TAC. TAC is a wison, that's his species. You have TAC as red lights, and then you have Pennywise, and spoiler for it, Pennywise as white lights or dead lights. He is the bright white lights, and then you have the wison has the red lights. And there are connecting tissues for all of these creatures. You have TAC, who is oddly enough referred to as TAC the outsider in a Stephen King desk calendar at one point in time, which is kind of spoilers for the outsider too. But you have Pennywise who shapeshifts and feeds off fear, almost said get into people's minds, not really. I mean, he kind of goes into Henry Bowers a little bit, but it's more of a persuasion. So maybe Pennywise isn't as strong as his home dude TAC, who knows. And then you have TAC himself who can go into people and who can lock them away in their own minds. Mr. Gray? Anybody? Is there a, you know, anybody? Come on. I mean, these connections are pretty obvious at this point. I had someone try to tell me that there was no way that the grays were connected to Pennywise or anything else. They were just aliens. No. I mean, they do the same things. So, and whether or not they're coming from outer space or they're coming through a thinny or they're coming through doors, they're damn selves, who knows. But that's my connection to the universe is there, and it connects most of my stuff. Some subtle references to the Dark Tower. There is a mention of someone going off the beam, which is in Misery and several other books. I think it's in Dolores Claiborne. I know it's in the Gerald's Game movie, which is cool. And I think it's in Gerald's Game. Also, I'd have to go back and check. But the mention of off the beam pops up every now and again when someone is crazy, they're off the beam in the Stephen King universe. I thought that little aspect was cool. Also, this story happens, I think it's on Poplar Street, but it's right next to Bear Street. Let me look this up before someone down in the comments goes, hey, no, it happens on Hoodie Wetzel Street. Yeah, it's Bear Street crosses and so is Hyacinth. Am I saying that right? Hyacinth? I don't know. But it all happens on Poplar Street. But there is a Bear Street and there's a Bear Street Woods and you have the beam of the bear. You also have the connection, which is kind of loose. Don't at me. Kind of loose because you have Shardik at the beginning of the Wastelands and he's a bear with a, what's he got on his hand? And what's these vans got in it? A satellite dish, right? Or communication disc, whatever you want to call it. I know it seems to be far-fetched, but think about it this way. Think of the ending of Wolves of the Cola. Think of the wolves. Think about the mishmash of Dr. Doom, Harry Potter, all that stuff that is mashed together that's just a jumble of all these stories told over time. What if Shardik, what if that's connected to the vans and to Bear Street? What if that is an illusion to all of that? I think that would be rad as hell. Another thing that I want to bring up that I didn't catch myself, that I'm still not entirely, entirely convinced of, and I got my notes over here, but the regulators or Kan Toy who serve the Crimson, regulators are Kan Toy who serve the Crimson King and the big coffin hunters from Wizarding Glass were sometimes called regulators. Now this is on theStevenKing.com. This isn't fan connections. This is actually on the Dark Tower Connections onStevenKing.com that mentions that the regulators are Kan Toy and the big coffin hunters were regulators. Given how the regulators ends, do you think there's any chance that maybe the ghosts of the big coffin hunters are what are powering or maybe the extended mind of TAC? I don't know, man. There's so many possibilities and I would love to hear from you guys about that down there in the doobly-doo. Let's have a conversation about that one especially, the big coffin hunters being the regulators. Now as far as the entity of TAC in desperation and in the regulators, first off, TAC is a wholly underrated villain. He's one of the best monsters in all of Stephen King's lore. At least I feel this way and several people have brought it up on my regulator's review that TAC is a good one. At least two people, I know. So maybe I'm inflating that by saying several people but I apologize. Anyways, but you have this entity TAC who in desperation he would completely erase the person that he took over. He takes over the Carver mother. What's her name? Mary? Because in this one she's Ellen. I can't remember if it's the same or not. I think the mother and daughter actually switch names and places so the daughter becomes the mother because the mother's name is Pi in this one. Whereas Pi, the sister dies at the beginning of desperation. You have and then Kali and Trajan, there's nothing left of Kali in there and I was thinking about why. Now Seth Garen, the little boy who Seth is inside of in the regulators, is autistic. He's what is called Hollywood autistic because he's a genius and he saves the day with his genius. So it's when writers or well just writers because writers work on movies too. Writers take an autistic person make them. What was it? What did he used to be called? An idiot? Savant? And this is pretty much what's happening here. They're contained in that brain space. So I'm wondering if it's because Seth Garen was so powerful himself as an autistic telepath or however it's explained and I'm wondering if Seth had some of these powers like maybe he would maybe he has a touch of the shine and that's why Tac was able to reach out to him so far as he was traveling through. Maybe that's also why he was able to piggyback on him instead of just explode his damn head like everybody else because you have the homeless guy with the shopping cart that's stuck to the cactus which is an amazing scene, an amazing visual in this book. You have that and the eyes pop out of the head whereas in desperation just the body starts failing. Just minute things that normally wouldn't harm a human being when Tac takes over the body just completely destroys and decimates the human body but in this one it causes a pressure that pops the eyes out of their heads which is a great great visual because you have Peter Jackson it happens to, you have the homeless guy with the shopping cart and then you have Cammie Reed at the end with her head exploding which is an amazing amazing visual also. Another thing that backs up my thought that there's a shine to uh there's a shine or a telepathic power to Seth without Tac is Tac isn't inside Seth anymore when Seth tell forces Cammie to shoot him. Once again here at the end in the later videos I got fewer and fewer theories from my viewership from you guys out there. I received no comments about your own theories I didn't get any corrections for this one not really anything other than talking about whether you liked, disliked or felt meh about the book so please this time around if you have any further theories to add on to what I said in the original video I would absolutely love to hear from you down there in the comments also make sure to mention if I missed anything if you have any corrections of anything I said in this video or again if you have any theories yourself on how the regulators ties into the dark tower and the Stephen King universe in general leave all that down there in the comments but until next time I'll hail the chair