Stephen King's "Morality" -- What Would You Do?

[@MrMannyfresh78]

This channel is quickly becoming a favorite of mine 😊

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Wow, thanks!

[@sharrondean753]

Listening to these short stories has really made me want to re-read them again. Time to dust off the book shelves I think.

[@TheUndeadOfNight]

Brilliant 😄The ending totally caught me off guard , just like the kid I didn't see it coming .

[@brushdogart]

Hmm, 2 hundred-thousand dollars means 1 for me and 1 for the kid right? He didn't say it had to be non-consensual. Of course I'd want my money in advance. A slimy little pervert like this is likely to try to weasel out of paying me after getting his giggles watching a kid get hit by someone else. Never trust people who aren't willing to commit their own sins.

[@d3nza482]

The kid gets 100$ in cash to shut up and tell nothing to his parents. Also, $40k invested in a blue chip investment fund, which he can access on his 18th birthday.

[@brushdogart]

@@d3nza482 Good point. Shouldn't trust parents who would let their kid be hit either. Set up with a lawyer to deliver a letter to the kid on their 18th birthday about the whole thing. I like it.

[@olgaanderson138]

Not Freud, but Levi Strauss or Yung. And anyone wants to call PR? Prof did it again, scaring the daylights out of us, and goodness so much talent 😊 I love you, Stephen King's reading club, the brave and the intrepid ❤ We read, we get scared, we respond by being good. Keep on reading, my heart is with you all!

[@offdutyenglishmajor9924]

Okay, the choices at the end were hilarious. Thank you for that.

[@unodos149]

Easy lol - "do I get to pick the little prick myself?"

[@adjuafrican2664]

Excellent! My imaginary voice when reading this story wasn't even close to this narrator's, lol. It's just perfect. Thank you 🙂. Hope there's a part 2

[@uasparts]

Couldn’t believe what the action required was, and it seriously had me laughing to near tears when I heard the old man say in a dead serious tone “Punch them in the face..” 😂😂😂

[@-Reagan]

So you ran right here to put it in comments without any warning and spoil it for the rest of us... it’s not like we even had to open the comments. When there aren’t many comments the most recent show first. Right below the video.

[@peka__]

​@@-Reagan Are you serious...? You read through the comments while listening and then complain about spoilers...? You should rethink your life

[@kel8923]

​@@-Reaganyou were the victim of another sin and got uasparts paid a healthy amount.

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

I never heard about this story. Gonna find it now.

[@susanbutler2542]

Thank you for the great raid. Love the storytelling very good narrator. Keep up the great job.❤

[@offdutyenglishmajor9924]

I love your narration.

[@Kite562reviews]

Man this was a blast! The old man's voice sounds a lot like Jim Cummings. Although I haven't read the bizarre of bad dreams I'm definitly going to now after hearing this story. 🤣❤📚

[@FigliadiSephiroth]

I just found this channel and love what you do! I don't know if you accept requests, but I hope you will consider covering The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. It's one of my favorite and so few people seem to know it even exists!

[@jaz58107]

Thinking this over.... maybe Halloween night would work, dress up all in black, run like hell screaming "there's tricks but no treat tonight kid"😂 I'd need it all in writing first ofc

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

LOL

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Dress as a clown!

[@jaz58107]

@@thing_under_the_stairs lol that's perfect 😂🤡

[@desi1790]

Why did I bust out laughing at”Punch the child in the face “ 😂

[@agentofentertainment1361]

Listening to your videos has made me really want to read Kings books(in fact I own a 3 in 1 Bachman book “The long walk,roadwork,and The running man”)I never realized how intriguing his stories could be. On a side note:if I could suggest a video idea,a news interview type video with the main character of Misery.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

That's a fun idea about Misery! :)

[@clydenolet736]

There is a bully out there who has had this comming for a long time 🎉😂

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

LOL! Right?!

[@Dumpsterfiregrace]

I'm a mom and I'd be lying if I said I never thought about squaring up with them at times 🤣

[@teebee9232]

I couldn't do it. I'm too afraid of karma..

[@maikeweige1548]

the old man needs this to get pleasure and wants it on video tape as proof. If i can set it up like a movie scene he will get his pleasure (worth it to him). I pay the kids family 1,000 for an acting job. and I get the money and no one really gets hurt. I'm morally in the wrong but only for cheating an old demented man. Also i'm probably protecting a kid because if I don't do this he will find someone who will help him.

[@snowysnowyriver]

Not for a million!

[@samkangal8428]

And if you could save another kids life with that money ?

[@snowysnowyriver]

@@samkangal8428 So you advocate doing an act of cruelty to an innocent child as a means to an end? Weird moral compass you have there!

[@samkangal8428]

@@snowysnowyriver you would slap a kid if yours had cancer and you need the money.

[@veedejames721]

That pastor has a twisted 🧠. Why would he want to see a child punched in the face.😮 That's cruel. On a play ground 🤨 then she must record it so it can be watched over and over if one wishes😮. Isn't what he's asking her to do considered a sin. Apparently he's been thinking about it a long time, probably why he had a stroke 😂. Will she get the money first or afterwards. What if she agree, do this cruel deed and he don't give her the money. He could say I would never ask anyone to do such a thing. She's crazy. Somehow I don't trust this Pastor.who knows what evil thoughts been brewing in his head. Bring in a wheelchair Don't mean he couldn't bump into the child knock him or her down and say oh I'm sorry my chair got away from me, it was a accident. I'm a Pastor I would never. If she said ok you old goat I'll do it. Say some children was playing on the playground one had a potty mouth, she could bop him on the mouth.better yet, know a kid that talked foul made a deal with him. I've heard kids use language that would make a sailor blush. Not one of mines. I'd spank their bottom. One thing we have never did use foul language in front of our children, drink,smoke or argue. I'd never slap, or punch a child. He said at least she five .oh that pastor been thinking about that a long time probably while playing with his Twinkie.😂 Vee

[@EDDIELANE]

HAAA. i snorted with laugh. But no, I wouldn;t do it for only a quarter of a mil.

[@chiefchimp2789]

I see parents doing this shit all the time to their kids in public. They're doing it for free.

[@samkangal8428]

Interesting . What would it be like to slap one kid , and to save another with that money , one that would die otherwise ? Moral is a difficult thing to.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Hmmm... God point!

[@MrUndersolo]

Slightly higher than my usual rate, so...

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

LOL!

[@myragroenewegen5426]

Yay ridiculous morality puzzles. h Nora, how lucky you could be. Here's what you do. First, make sure, to the best of your ability that the money actually exists and that this man HAS to keep his promise. Next make friends with some actors, movie set designers, and a medical artist and find a relevant lawyer. Third, stage this like a horror movie scene with advise from all involved to the best of your ability. Explain the situation to the actor's family and agree to notify them when the old man has died, agreeing with all involved to do your best to see that said video is never publicly released and that ownership reverts to you after the old man's death. Lie to a dying pastor with coaching from the actors. Take the money and run. The cost will lower your earning slightly, particularly if you think it necessary that your co-conspirators know the monetary stakes involved, but you aren't the only one in the world who deserves this bastard's money and you'll be pretexted from legal ramifications, while hopefully stopping this asshole from hiring someone else. You could possibly even work it so your dying friend is arrested for conspiracy to abuse a child, depending upon how upright you'd like to be here. Guess he'll have to be satisfied with the lesser sin of conspiracy to cause child abuse and you'll make a little less. Still a bit morally problematic, though, if you take most of the money from all your various consultants and helpers here. Maybe you'll have to split the money. It won't fix all your problems, but making friends and recognition for protecting kids may eventually give back to you enough that your life isn't quite so desperately precarious. People who are given unprecedented ability to avoid harm and turn bad money into good at considerable cost to themselves, often receive unexpected extra bursts or kindness from everyone who understands their predicament, even from others who ,like themselves, have limited resources. This movie-making solution actually feels lot like the writer in "Misery", who has to create terrible art to save a life (his own). My greatest anxiety here would be that part of the deal is that our awful friend puts our child-abuse video on the internet, where the damage could be severe, even if the video is simply well-staged. This again, requires you to trust that this guy is playing no tricks on you and can guarantee he won't post it that way. If he will, we're back where we started--we may have to get some smart computer minds messing with his technology and fooling him to think he's posted the video, when he hasn't. You know how this REALLY becomes a horror story? If you do this and the guy suddenly recovers. Now he has his whole life to potentially figure out that he's been duped and take revenge on you and everybody else involved. Sadly, if it looks like this might happen, you might end up with a strong incentive to kill him, since you can't really get him jailed for as little as he got away with. Does the money only come to you when he dies, in which case you now have giant unforeseen debts from this deal? AAHHH!

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

I loved reading your though process on this so much! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@messinalyle4030]

Okay, but I definitely wouldn't have called the novel about the character Misery that Paul was writing for Annie "terrible art" based on the excerpts we were presented with. It was certainly nowhere even close to a video showing an adult punching a child in the face. The genre of romance was simply not to Paul's liking.

[@BennyLlama39]

Option 1: accept the offer Option 2: decline the offer Option 3: clock the preacher until he hands over the cash anyway, then go on with your life. Now which one do you think I'm going with? 😈

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

I wish I could go back and animate Option 3, LOL

[@littlestcorginuff8029]

I guess I’m punching a kid 😂

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

LOL!

[@andydavies5879]

Ahh decisions decisions…

[@pamelahicks517]

I reject the offer

[@ColletteGurthet]

There seems to be with the pastor in this story, who doesn't know the cost of living. Two Hundred Thousand, dollars to cover bills and start a new life. And with what is left over do what? Go to the zoo for fun after paying off bills and her husband's dreams? Gee how hard it is to type while laughing! This pastor also has a second problem with this story he also doesn't know the cost of dying. Seem that is harder for people to understand the cost of dying over the cost of living... Hebrews 9:27 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Or then the price. I believe this Pastor has a HUGE EGO. One of the sins that keep you out of the Kingdom of Heaven is lying. Oh, yes, even to yourself. The worst lie of them all. Does this Pastor dye poor? This is written by someone who knows about the Bible but not the author of it. That is Mr. King. Call on Satan and this Pastor THEN will know how deep sin can be in such a short time. And it won't cost him a dime. Just his soul.

[@encarnaruizgarcia3798]

Abrenuntio diabolo et operibus eius 👐(yikes🥶).

[@SamIAm2000]

Oh my god 😂 Absolutely not! Not for any money.

[@samkangal8428]

And if you could save another kids life with that money? Moral is tricky .

[@biggiejeffrey]

Not even for a billion. I WAS that child. 😢 I'm living with crippling anxiety and depression because of all SORTS of physical, emotional & sexual abuse that I suffered from those choices. There is no worse sin than moralizing.

[@KeeperOfSecrets-42069]

Lmao that kid is getting punched for 240k

[@ozzmary420]

​@@KeeperOfSecrets-42069damn right he is! 😭🤛

[@ozzmary420]

I say BULLSHIT you wouldn't punch a kid for a fucking billion damn dollars. You be punching babies, old grandmas , kittens, sick kids ....... Shit!

[@mztweety1374]

That woman ended up being pretty awful. Should have gotten some therapy

[@kissthesky40]

tds destroyed King. He forgot the face of his father.