Just King Things

Just King Things episodes:

• 04.08.2024

  On Writing

  We talk about the 2000 memoir / writing guide On Writing. Content warnings for this episode include: description of serious automobile accidents and physical injuries, surgical procedures, and ear trauma; animal death, addiction and overdose, racism. Follow Ranged Touch on...

  
• 03.11.2024

  Hearts in Atlantis

  We talk about the 1999 novellaish novel Hearts in Atlantis. Content warnings for this episode include: automobile accidents, bullying, child abuse, ableism, racism, misogyny, rape and assault, graphic descriptions of serious injuries to the limbs and head, war crimes, child...

  
• 02.12.2024

  The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

  We talk about the 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Content warnings for this episode include: child endangerment and injury, animal death, alcoholism, addiction. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King...

  
• 01.08.2024

  Storm of the Century

  We talk about the televisual novel Storm of the Century. Content warnings for this episode include: homophobia and discussion of a hate crime, murder. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise!...

  
• 12.11.2023

  Bag of Bones

  We talk about Bag of Bones. Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny, racism, rape and sexual assault, child death, suicide, description of sex acts. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things...

  
• 11.13.2023

  Wizard and Glass

  We talk about the fourth Dark Tower novel, 1997’s Wizard and Glass. Content warnings for this episode include: sexual assault, racism, ableism, immolation, torture, child death, animal violence, addiction, terminal illness. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on...

  
• 10.09.2023

  The Regulators

  We talk about the 1996 disaster The Regulators. Content warnings for this episode include ableism, rape, extreme violence including injuries to eyes, face, and head; child death, racism, fatphobia, mind control, suicide. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show...

  
• 09.11.2023

  Desperation

  We talk about the 1996 doorstop Desperation. Content warnings for this episode include animal cruelty and death, child death, body horror, mind control, racism, alcoholism, misogyny, domestic violence, mass murder. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon!...

  
• 08.14.2023

  The Green Mile

  We talk about the 1996 serial novel The Green Mile. Content warnings for this episode include racism, ableism, torture and electrocution, rape and murder, animal cruelty and death. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some...

  
• 07.10.2023

  Rose Madder

  We talk about the 1995 novel Rose Madder. Content warnings for this episode include misogyny, racism, homophobia, antisemitism, domestic violence and sexual assault, miscarriage, childhood sexual abuse, urination, cannibalism, mutilation, and severe jaw-related injuries. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support...

  
• 06.12.2023

  Insomnia

  We talk about the 1994 novel Insomnia. Content warnings for this episode include misogyny, domestic violence, terrorism, fatphobia,homophobia, ableism, ageism, dismemberment, medical horror, torture and flaying. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King...

  
• 05.08.2023

  Nightmares & Dreamscapes

  We talk about 1993’s short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Content warnings for this episode include alcoholism and substance abuse, child death, childhood sexual abuse, abduction and sex trafficking, mutilation and wounding, racism, mind control, ingestion of sexual fluids, sexual...

  
• 04.10.2023

  Dolores Claiborne

  We talk about 1992’s Dolores Claiborne. Content warnings for this episode include childhood sexual abuse, incest, misogyny, domestic violence, alcoholism, broken bones and bludgeoning. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise!...

  
• 03.13.2023

  Gerald’s Game

  We talk about 1992’s Gerald’s Game. Content warnings for this episode include discussion of sex acts and sexual fetishism, childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape, grooming and molestation, gaslighting, misogyny, necrophilia, cannibalism, discussions of blood, gore, and de-gloving (skin...

  
• 02.13.2023

  Needful Things

  We talk about 1991’s Needful Things, the last Castle Rock novel (for now). Content warnings for this episode include suicide, child and animal death, addiction and substance abuse, ableism, fatphobia, misogyny, bestiality, pedophilia, homophobia. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support...

  
• 01.09.2023

  The Waste Lands

  We talk about 1991’s The Waste Lands, the third book in the Dark Tower series. Content warnings for this episode include descriptions of sex acts and sexual assault, racism, physical abuse of a child, animal abuse, body horror, ableism, suicide. Follow...

  
• 12.12.2022

  Four Past Midnight

  We talk about 1990’s Four Past Midnight. Content warnings for this episode include child abuse, child sexual assault, alcoholism, addiction and substance abuse, vomit. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise!...

  
• 11.14.2022

  The Stand Complete and Uncut

  We talk about 1990’s The Stand Complete & Uncut. Content warnings for this episode include pandemics, illness, racism, ableism child death, rape and sexual assault. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise!...

  
• 10.10.2022

  The Dark Half

  We talk about 1989’s The Dark Half. Content warnings for this episode include alcoholism and addiction, medical horror, body horror, tumors, miscarriages, descriptions of violent murder. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things...

  
• 09.12.2022

  The Tommyknockers

  We talk about King’s 1987 novel The Tommyknockers. Content warnings for this episode include: alcoholism, addiction and substance abuse; domestic abuse and manipulation; head trauma; suicide; animal cruelty and death; terminal illness; child endangerment and death; body horror, especially blood and...

  
• 08.22.2022

  Sewer Special no. 2

  This is a special anniversary Q&A episode where we answer all of your most burning questions from the second year of Just King Things. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter!   [https://twitter.com/rangedtouch] Support this show on Patreon! [https://www.patreon.com/rangedtouch] Buy some Just King...

  
• 08.08.2022

  Misery

  We talk about King’s 1987 novel Misery. Content warnings for this episode include: addiction, alcoholism, imprisonment, torture, mutilation, ableism, fatphobia, auto accidents and leg injury, misogyny, animal death, racism, head trauma. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon!...

  
• 07.11.2022

  The Drawing of the Three

  We talk about King’s 1987 Dark Tower novel The Drawing of the Three. Content warnings for this episode include: biting, finger trauma, wounds and infection, racism, misogyny, ableism, automobile accidents, head trauma, child pornography, drug addiction and overdose, decapitation, dismemberment, fatphobia,...

  
• 06.13.2022

  IT

  We talk about King’s 1986 doorstop novel IT. Content warnings for this episode include: murder and death of children, dismemberment and decapitation, bullying, fatphobia, racism, mob violence, antisemitism, suicide, childhood sexual abuse, grooming, incest, domestic abuse, alcoholism and substance abuse, homophobia...

  
• 05.09.2022

  Skeleton Crew

  We talk about the 1985 short story collection, Skeleton Crew. Content warnings for this episode include: school shootings, wounds and bleeding, gore, eye injury, racism, misogyny, fatphobia, amputation, cannibalism, drug use, pornography, ableism, suicide. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this...

  
• 04.11.2022

  Thinner

  We talk about the 1984 Richard Bachman book, Thinner. Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of racism and racial slurs; descriptions of sexual acts, animal cruelty and murder; ableism, fatphobia, substance abuse, body horror focusing on AIDS panic, open wounds,...

  
• 03.14.2022

  The Talisman

  We talk about the 1984 novel, co-written with Peter Straub, The Talisman. Content warnings for this episode include: CW: racism, colonialism, terminal illness, homophobia, pedophilia and childhood sexual assault, physical assault, torture, ableism, crushing and dismemberment, animal death, drug abuse, insect...

  
• 02.14.2022

  The Eyes of the Dragon

  We talk about the 1984 novel The Eyes of the Dragon. Content warnings for this episode include: rape, death in childbirth, drug and alcohol addiction. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things...

  
• 01.10.2022

  Pet Sematary

  We talk about the 1983 novel Pet Sematary. Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny; animal and child death; automotive accidents; explicit description of sexual acts; explicit descriptions of physical trauma and mutilation, including head and brain injury; chronic illness;...

  
• 12.13.2021

  Cycle of the Werewolf

  We talk about the 1983 calendar-then-novelish object Cycle of the Werewolf. Content warnings for this episode include: ableism, facial mutilation and eye damage, mentions of alcoholism and suicide. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just...

  
• 11.24.2021

  BONUS: The Running Man (1987)

  Out from behind the Patreon wall as a special bonus, we talk about The Running Man, a film about a violent game show from 1987. We are joined in this episode by Simone de Rochefort! CW: Brief discussion of scenes...

  
• 11.08.2021

  Christine

  We talk about the 1983 novel Christine. Content warnings for this episode include: choking and child death, fatphobia, suicide, vehicular assault and homicide, misogyny, stalking and domestic violence, ableism. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some...

  
• 10.11.2021

  Different Seasons

  We talk about the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons. Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of racism and racial slurs, suicide, graphic descriptions of rape, sexism and misogyny, homophobia, ableism, fatphobia, anti-Semitism, Nazism, genocide and concentration camps, torture, mass...

  
• 09.13.2021

  Creepshow

  We talk about the 1982 comic book Creepshow, written by Stephen King and adapted by Bernie and Michele Wrightson. Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny, brief mentions of sexual assault, eroticized violence, dismemberment, suicide, death by insects. Follow Ranged Touch...

  
• 08.23.2021

  Sewer Special Q&A no. 1

  This is a special anniversary Q&A episode where we answer all of your most burning questions from the first year of Just King Things. Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of representation of racism and exploitation; discussions of real...

  
• 08.09.2021

  The Gunslinger

  We talk about 1982’s The Gunslinger, the first entry in The Dark Tower series. Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of terminal illness, car accidents and death, fatphobia, sexual assault and insertion of foreign objects into genitals, forced abortion,...

  
• 07.12.2021

  The Running Man

  We talk about Richard Bachman’s 1982 novel The Running Man. It is nothing like the film, but it does feature a high-stakes game of death spanning America. Content warnings for this episode include: chronic and terminal illness; child death; maiming...

  
• 06.14.2021

  Cujo

  We talk about Stephen King’s 1981 dog-based horror thriller Cujo. Content warnings for this episode include: child death, alcoholism and drug abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, bleeding, biting, and mutilation, suicidal ideation, ableism, classism, animal violence and death Follow Ranged...

  
• 05.10.2021

  Danse Macabre

  We talk about Stephen King’s nonfiction book on the horror genre from 1981, Danse Macabre. Content warnings for this episode: Drug addiction and substance abuse, racism, misogyny, homophobia, fatphobia, trauma, child endangerment and death Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come...

  
• 04.12.2021

  Roadwork

  We talk about Stephen King’s second novel writing as Richard Bachman: 1981’s Roadwork. Content warnings for this episode: cancer and terminal illness, depression and mental illness, self-harm, suicide, misogyny, racism, domestic/emotional abuse, extremely awkward graphic descriptions of sex Follow Ranged...

  
• 03.15.2021

  BONUS: The Stand miniseries (1994)

  This is a very special Just King Things bonusode out from behind the paywall to convince you to maybe check these bonusodes out over at the Ranged Touch Patreon. We had noted The Stand fan Kirk Hamilton onto the show...

  
• 03.08.2021

  Firestarter

  We talk about King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, which is a wild ride. Content warnings for this episode: medical experimentation, drug abuse and addiction, misogyny, rape, necrophilia, transphobia, sexual coercion, suicide, racism, ableism, pedophilia, grooming, murder, animal death Follow Ranged Touch...

  
• 02.08.2021

  The Dead Zone

  We talk about Steve’s 1979 science fiction (!!!) novel The Dead Zone. Content warnings for this episode: Alcohol and drug abuse, domestic abuse, head trauma and brain injuries, surgical procedures, car accidents, misogyny, racism, homophobia, child endangerment, rape and murder,...

  
• 01.11.2021

  The Long Walk

  We talk about The Long Walk, Stephen King’s second Bachman Book. Content warnings for this episode: Executions and gun violence, vehicular violence, misogyny, racism, rape, mutilation and scarring, homophobia, bodily waste functions Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come hang out...

  
• 12.14.2020

  The Stand

  We talk about The Stand, Stephen King’s doorstopper novel about a plague, good, and evil. Content warnings for this episode: Pandemics, illness, disease, death, kidnapping, emotional and physical abuse, fatphobia, bullying, sexism, misogyny, rape, substance abuse and drug addiction, torture...

  
• 11.09.2020

  Night Shift

  We talk about Stephen King’s first short story collection Night Shift. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show on Patreon! Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the theme for this show. Emily Hammersley-Ambroise did...

  
• 10.12.2020

  Rage

  We talk about Steve’s controversial 1977 book Rage, originally published under the name of King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show on Patreon! Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the...

  
• 09.14.2020

  The Shining

  We talk about 1977’s The Shining in this episode. It’s spooky! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show on Patreon! Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the theme for this show. Emily Hammersley-Ambroise did...

  
• 08.31.2020

  ‘Salem’s Lot

  We talk about the vampires of ‘Salem’s Lot in this one. Steve published this one in 1975. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show on Patreon! Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the theme...

  
• 07.29.2020

  Carrie

  We discuss Stephen King’s 1974 novel Carrie at length. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show on Patreon! Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the theme for this show. Emily Hammersley-Ambroise did the art...