 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Thursday Theorist Review. Today we are talking about Stephen King's newest Billy Summers. If you don't know what the Thursday Theorist series is, it's where I connect all of Stephen King's books ever since Carrie, all the way up to the most latest, to the Dark Tower series by way of theories or by way of actual factual content from the book that references specifically the Dark Tower or the Stephen King universe as a whole. But let's get right into the video. First up, we have Billy referencing himself as the outsider. I know this is a very small, I mean I'm reaching here, but I did want to mention this because Billy says it at least three times within I think three or four paragraphs toward the beginning of the book and I think that's important. There is another section where Stephen King talks about you never know what's coming around the corner, around the bend. That seems to reference, that section specifically, seems to reference his van accident. Again, I could be reaching, I like to throw the reaching parts up front and then get to the stuff that I have, that I feel are valid claims. If you've been watching the Thursday Thiers video, there's over 60 of them at this point. I'm sure you know, but for those of you new before I go any farther, this video is going to be loaded with spoilers for this book and his entire catalog. So if you have not read all of his books and you're worried about spoilers, I suggest you click away. Next up is something that I found for whatever reason this name not spoke to me, but this name, you know, caught my interest, piqued my interest, whatever you want to say. So I went and looked up, my friend Patrick Costin has a database of all of King's books. I'm not going to share it because technically it's piracy if we share it, but I was able to do a search through, I own all of his books anyways in multiple different formats. So I don't consider it piracy me looking at it, but I'm not going to share it with you is what I'm getting at. And Patrick, I don't think Patrick's sharing it with anybody either. But there was a character, let's see here, let me check my notes. There was a character, Mr. Stepanik and Dalton Smith. The reason why this, well, I don't know why it piqued my interest. I don't even know why I remember it. But there is a character named Stephanie Stepanik, nay Dalton. In fact, I may have got that backward. One might be in one in the midst and one might be in Billy Summers. But I thought it was, I don't know, sometimes King just reuses names like like Traylani in I think it was the outsider and there was a Traylani in the Mercedes trilogy. But again, this stuff up front is reaching. I just want to throw these thoughts out that I had while I was reading the book. Next up, we have Midwood, which is a location in Billy Summers. It's where he spends the majority of his time. And yes, I'm going to mention it because it does sound a lot like Midworld. I'm not going to. That's not my connection to the Dark Tower series. I just wanted to make note of it. Now on to actual references in the book to other Stephen King works. The very first one that I'm going to talk about is the mention of, I believe it was Billy's mother working the Mangle or the Mangler, the laundry press folding machine. Stephen King wrote about very early on in his career. I'm not sure if it was Skeleton Crew or Night Shift. I forgot to check before I shot the video. But it's a short story called the Mangler that was made into an adaptation with Robert England, I believe, and some other folks. It's a pretty decent adaptation. It was a lot of fun. I felt, but it is a cheesy low budget horror movie. Next up, and this is my hard tie into the Dark Tower series because numerous, numerous times is Inside View mentioned in the Dark Tower series. And it is mentioned here. I always forget the guy's name from Night Flyer, but he worked for for Inside View. And I've I've tied all that stuff. I mean, it's literally mentioned in the Dark Tower books. Inside View is mentioned many times. So there's your hard connect. But I have another one that I enjoy a bit more, but we'll get to that in a second. Next up, we have another connection to the Dark Tower by way of Stephen King himself referencing himself or putting himself in books as a character. Of course, he is a character in Song of Susanna. I can't remember if he's in Wolves of the Kala or the last book, The Dark Tower. But he references himself. He does not he he does not mention that this this quote is from Stephen King. But if you listen to the audiobook, Stephen King actually quotes himself. They bring him in as a narrator for one line. And that line is I always keep two things in mind, myself and the stranger. So that that's a Stephen King quote. It was interesting that they would bring him in just for that little small section. I thought it was a really cool Easter egg to to add to the audiobook. And what I want to know is did any of you catch that in the text? Because I didn't catch it in the text. I caught it in the audiobook and last but certainly not least, the most important piece of the puzzle in this one is Sidewinder, Colorado. And the Overlook Hotel are referenced numerous times. In fact, Billy actually visits Sidewinder. On top of that, there is a painting, a picture in his. I believe it's the apartment he's hiding in. It has to be because it's after the assassination attempt. And the hedge animals in the picture move. I've already connected the shining to the Stephen King universe. I believe that the shining was a thinny and the creature or the shapes and everything that you see at the end of the book. I believe those are creatures from the prim or something like a like not really a penny wise, but more of an ethereal type of creature. I know I know I didn't like this book and I appreciate and respect you guys who came forward and said that you did like the book. Those of you who are respectful, those of you who weren't, I did remove you from the channel. You want your comments won't show up anymore. It'll look like they're there, but they won't show up anymore. All I ask is that you be respectful when we talk about these things. Don't insult me and I won't insult you. But did you find anything that I missed here? I don't think I left anything out this time. I always tell you guys when I leave things out for you to find. I did not do that this time, but I might next time. I don't know, but I'll tell you any time that I do. Did you find anything? 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