THE LONG WALK: Stephen King's Dystopian Story as a Sports Broadcast

[@wade]

42 minutes of The Long Walk? 🎉 Let’s start the New Year with a bang! 🥳

[@JazzyB11235]

Ive been wondering when this would happen, ive been looking forward to this, and it did not disappoint! Very creative interpretation. You bring the dystopia home.

[@SSJ3Mewtwo]

"Have you turned into a grotesque interdimensional portal?" "Have you started to grow eyes all over your body?" Oh man you're hitting every one of my fetishes. Keep going.

[@ackamack101]

I Am the Doorway … 🚀🛸👁️👁️👁️👋😫

[@richterkennedy2101]

Been waiting for this. Great story from a different perspective. Keep this channel going for as long as possible.

[@lkpdx]

Stephen King in the style of Nightvale is absolutely entertaining and perfectly executed. Well done!

[@RougeRey]

Yes! Exactly what I was thinking

[@Leslie12.66]

Looking forward to the next episode! Now to rewatch.

[@janehollander3843]

This series is incredibly well done! What a gift! My favorite book of all time. Thank you for creating these. 💚💫

[@richterkennedy2101]

Brilliant as always. I laughed out loud quite a few times. Love the content on this channel. Mr. King himself would be proud.

[@alicenolfi2095]

I’ll be fast asleep when this airs, but here’s one of my favorite quotes from the book: “There's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters.” Edit: Woke up early, and what a great way to start the day! 🌟🌟🌟you rock, SKBC!! 🎉

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

That's a great quote!

[@alicenolfi2095]

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I know right?! While I love Stephen King when he's funny (I recently read 'Mr. Mercedes' for the first time, and the description 'her frown transformed her face into a walnut shell with eyes' had me cackling), I think his somber quotes have a true poetry to them :)

[@adjuafrican2664]

Why though? Sounds pretty dark

[@alicenolfi2095]

@@adjuafrican2664 I find it poetic

[@adjuafrican2664]

@alicenolfi2095 it is poetic...just, you know...

[@Naedlus]

Sorta makes you rethink those Mr Beast "Last person who..." challenges as him cribbing on the easy stuff before the apocalypse happens.

[@johnmiller1667]

You'd think for someone ruling over the US, he'd have chosen a higher rank than Major.

[@Awelbeckk]

The premiere will be at 3:30 am for me. I will be be sleeping, but I know what I will listen Monday. :)

[@lucretiamaggio6154]

Welcome home, Cotter! Ha, nice touch!

[@italia_Irish_Applachia]

YES!!! 🙌 I am so excited that this just dropped!! Long anticipated!! ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you !! 😊😊😊

[@melissacross5525]

This is the best thing to happen to me today. THANK YOU!

[@momsberettas9576]

What a devious premise for a story your presentation is wonderful, your voice is well lent to a radio host.

[@onesunnyday5699]

I missed the premiere last night & did want to fall asleep during or be too tired to give this the attention it deserves. So, here it is with my morning coffee 😊.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Enjoy!

[@JayBigDadyCy]

This is one of the most underrated channels on all of YT. The creativity in recreating these stories is genius level.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Thanks -- I really appreciate that :) Stay tuned -- there's more creative mayhem to come in 2025!

[@Gogo-q3i8k]

I've been waiting for this. Hurray!!

[@Veiled_Lepidoptera]

"You better keep watching, America!" Bro, I'm trying. I need more of this so bad! Great way to start off the New Year! Looking forward to the next installment!

[@vonniedemers5683]

I really love the hard work you put into these... Can't wait til the next.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Appreciate that! Stay tuned!

[@KyleWessels-c8z]

Sweet! Man, have I been looking forward to this. Gimme gimme gimme!

[@lynseygabriel167]

This is my favorite KZbin series by far ❤

[@seanduncan3958]

Well done and an entertaining take!

[@ackamack101]

Nice to see the Major on the thumbnail! Most excellent! 😌🔥💪🏻

[@ClumsyDrow]

This is personally about my favorite Stephen King novel

[@alison4dice]

Outstanding as always!

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

My kids are in the car with me. I said let's listen to Stephen King Book Club and bang, premiere! 🎉🎉🎉

[@WooferMcWooferson]

I'm sorry that I missed this. I really love these. Thank you for the work you put into them. 🌹🗝️🚪

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

You're very welcome!

[@kevy1967]

Incredible, what more can be said?

[@tracycraft2971]

Oh wow! Happy 2025 everyone! So excited to finally see this!❤

[@snazzybean]

Hoping I don't get distracted by family and can join this live! 🙏🤞

[@devonniewalker2675]

Happy New Year

[@PrimeRooster]

Can I get an application for the Long Walk. I'm not a kid, but I can walk...

[@davidhutchinson88]

That Jake Chambers essay brought back so much

[@CampiJR1]

Just finished reading The Long Walk yesterday and stumbled on to your Stephen King Book Club. Kudo's to this Sorts Broadcast loved it and instantly subscribed. Reading Roadwork next.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Nice! Sounds like you're on a Bachman Book kick! Happy reading!

[@CampiJR1]

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 Yea took me three months to get it from the library. Everyone wants it for the Rage story I'm guessing.

[@patrickspalding8045]

Just started the story so I’m gonna finish that and I’ll be back to finish this.

[@skipg5183]

Fantastic concept

[@bradyblackburn7877]

I wheezed with laughter at Welcome Home, Cotter 😂

[@SaraAllred-nd7ye]

I'm so excited!

[@KnotyerbizKut]

Yes please!

[@braedenbaker2880]

Can't wait for the movie, directed by Francis Lawrence. They say they're going to release it in 2025

[@MrUndersolo]

Wow, they must have been walking since December! 😮

[@thefisherking78]

Wow that had some really good dark comedy

[@sarahmcdonald9624]

Ok but the Jake Chambers essay that was definitely from The Drawing of the Three. Good one.

[@SentimentVeryForReal]

Yooo I found your comment jibba!

[@ericstevens8744]

I don’t want to be a ticket 😢

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

All you have to do is just keep on walking!

[@ministerdeniseearley6067]

Awesome

[@BennyLlama39]

🤔 Is it my imagination, or is that Christopher Plummer at 24:53? 😀

[@greg.soular]

Ok… so I just finished The Long Walk, not long after my second trip down the path of the beam concluded a couple months ago, and I’m currently re-reading Cujo… what wizard’s glass do you have and why are you tracking my King reading habits??

[@michaelsmyth3935]

On a side note. Go walk at 4mph for a while and figure it out. Main issue, apparently we have evolved into superbeings. Imagine what a gutless Coward the major is. To be proud to serve, to punch tickets.

[@mac888spectral7]

Funny, I'm between vehicles right now and was having similar thoughts yesterday as my nearing 50 year old legs carried me to Walmart. Four mph? Oh hell no.

[@joemckraken7960]

jake chambers in the long walk? i dont remember that at all. the poem also sounded oddly specific about a book i dont think was written yet. . artistic license from you perhaps?

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

You're right -- Jake isn't mentioned in the Long Walk. But in some of our episodes, during the night hours when nothing specific is mentioned in the book, the host passes the time reading something else from the King universe. The first night it was the poem "The Dark Man" -- and this night it was Jake Chambers' essay written in "The Waste Lands." (That's a long way of saying, yes: artistic license, lol)

[@joemckraken7960]

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 no harm, no foul. . good video.

[@ackamack101]

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 Jake Chambers and the Sharp Cereal Professor??! That was magnificent!, sir. 😌👍🏻

[@TrentRushton]

Way to reference The Dark Tower

[@anthonystrocks247]

HECK YEAH!!!

[@jamesrodgers5422]

The only nit pick i have with the long walk is that four miles per hour is actually a pretty quick pace. I tried it out on a treadmill, it was nearly a jog for me.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Right?! $ miles an hour seems way too fast... especially considering the boys in the book have the energy to talk and argue with each other. I can't help but think King did a miscalculation -- and really wanted a pace around 4 kilometers an hour...

[@jamesrodgers5422]

​@@stephenkingbookclub1054 My guess is that he planned out the story then had to reverse engineer the pace. Tho I'll give young Mr King the benefit of the doubt since this was his first book.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

@@jamesrodgers5422 Yes, he was very young (albeit very talented) when he wrote this... and I'm pretty sure part of him wanted the walkers to be able to cross the state lines... so the pace needed to be rather brisk to get that done!

[@jamesrodgers5422]

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I will violently agree with you. The character work in this story is some of the strongest I've ever seen. There is essentially no plot to this story, but the characters keep it going for the whole thing.

[@kyleethekelt]

Oh, I did not lose the reference to the Road Virus, nor to The Dark Tower. delicious. Unfortunately the audio in your commercial clipped rather markedly (too close-miced, I think), it didn't sound like compression), but a huge amount of work obviously goes into your scripts. Very entertaining, very detailed, very well done.

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

Thanks so much... and you're right about the audio from that commercial spoof... That was actually one of my early videos from before I bought an actual mic, lol

[@outcast935]

The audiobook of The Long Walk from audible is horrible! Don’t waste your money.

[@AndDiracisHisProphet]

I don't know if King gave everyone of the 100 walkers a name, or did ou add any on your own?

[@stephenkingbookclub1054]

King mentioned about 30 walkers by name. So there's a lot of fan-fiction from me in these episodes -- to flesh out the other competitors and offer details as to the exact fate of each walker. However, I do my best to pay close attention to the events in the book as well...

[@devonniewalker2675]

[@davidglasspool4921]

Ake?

[@jesusromanpadro3853]

(111)111(eye,eye,eye,eye) 😅

[@SentimentVeryForReal]

W

[@mac888spectral7]

My feeeeeeeeeeee

[@caffeineandsleepingpills]

I hope I don't get squaded for throwing eggs at the soldiers when they punch my favorite walker's ticket 🥚🪖