 Hello everybody he here welcome back to Thursday theorist. I actually made it I didn't think I was gonna be able to make it, but I actually made it if I'm honest That's because I listened to the last half of the running man on audiobook at like three times speed Which which could have also you you guys if you guys haven't seen my review of this book then go ahead I'll link to it down in there and then do we do but uh It I needed to get it over with man It's such a bleak experience and I'm in a really good mood right now So I didn't want to weigh myself down with with a heavy subject matter So I've read the book twice before so I figured I could just speed through you know the ending of the book Which is actually my favorite part There's gonna be spoilers for this book if you don't know how I do on Thursday theorists I talk about all of Stephen King's work in Almost every single episode so there could be spoilers for it there could be spoilers for the wastelands There could be spoilers for all of his stuff Um, so if you don't want spoilers, I suggest clicking the way now Now, uh, I already did the review and I went into what I didn't like in the review But I want to add a little review here just like I do in every other Thursday theorist Um, I don't care too much for this story. I never have I love the last part of the book when he's on the plane that entire section is terrific It twist after twist and it's just so much fun when every time that uh Was it killian tells him his wife is dead and his wife and child are dead I'm like well damn and I still to this day think that killian might have been lying to him But even if he wasn't Even if he wasn't, um, it's it's still such a such a great Such a great scene that it like it even gives me goosebumps now talking about it Now The the ending of course is is terrific. I love the I love the crashing into an airplane Clashing and crashing the airplane into the games building. I heard someone said I can't remember if you're watching this And you're the one who said this someone said that they didn't like it because of the 9 11 connotations This book was written ages ago Probably 20 years before 9 11 happened. Um, but of course, I mean that's a it's a tragedy people are gonna You know relate this to that. Um, of course it has nothing to do with terrorism. It is a revenge plot um But the main things that I enjoyed about this time There's something that I caught this time that I got that got me thinking That I did not catch the first time around and that's the name of the city That this story begins in and that is co-op city Having just or actually I'm I'm in the middle of it right now, which is perfect. I'm also reading it I'm always reading it. Um, probably about, you know, anywhere from five to ten pages a day Sometimes as little as two to four pages of the day Um, but I'm reading it the wastelands and I read this one all at the same time and all these books were roughly I think they were roughly written about the same time too. I'll go into more detail that and in later videos about Richard Bachman but Of course, there's the mention. I mean he goes to dairy You you you can that ties in because of insomnia and it and all that and of course it ties in the dark tower So does insomnia. You have your hard connect there That's your hard connect to the dark tower, but there's another thing I want to talk about and that's co-op city Which is what eddy where eddy dean tells jake to go in like the dream sequence He tells him to go to the river in co-op city Or something like that. I'm paraphrasing of course, but Which got me thinking That's where the house is in the wastelands and That's a thinny so co-op city Is a thinny now think think about this what if Pennywise came through the co-op city thinny and just ended up on a trajectory and landed in main Landed landed in dairy. I think that would be that that I think that's a cool theory Let's see what you guys think down there in the comments below But the big thing is to to connect so so hard with the dairy stuff It's cool to find another connection that is that Is a hard connect like I said co-op city is mentioned in the dark tower novels. The thinny idea is my own idea, but To think that he did a hard connect for the dark tower In a Bachman book It's no wonder that he was outed I remember watching an interview from Stephen King where he he kind of chuckles and laughs about how people were complaining that Bachman was stealing Stephen King's style And it's funny to watch him tell it because he you can see the glee in his eyes That you know, he's tricking people, but he wasn't really tricking people. He was having so much fun with it um And the the last thing I will say about this book is There there's some stuff that I I've read in reviews about the use of the n-word in this book There's the hard r use of the of the word In the What is it? I think it's the interview process that ben richards is going through and If any of those people go and come and watch this thursday theorist to try and find out You know secrets or you know how things tie together or whatever Let me tell you the reason why ben richards says that word during the interview is he's trying to make himself the best Contestant possible so that they'll pick him. He's supposed to be capable of fighting back He's supposed to be a hard-nosed so be that kind of thing And that's why he drops the word in relation to the word doctor, which is completely off the wall Just makes him sound like a like a nutcase like a like a you know, just a weirdo racist But it did you find anything else other than and i'm not hiding anything from you this time I think I found everything there's the dairy connection and there's a co-op city connection Which oddly enough the dairy connection is not talked about a whole lot within the state of in king fandom Which is odd But did you find anything else that i missed if you did? You know more than me leave your comments down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time I have been e you've been you this has been another episode of thursday theorist I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye