Stephen King's THE STAND: Horror History of the Super-Flu
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2023
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Welcome back, Constant Reader... Tonight we'll be listening to a lecture delivered to a classroom of college students in an alternate universe... It's 2023... but in this 2023 there aren't nearly as many people... Because in Stephen King's universe, a little virus known as Captain Trips caused some BIG problems!
This creative summary of THE STAND focuses on a time-line of the events involving the Super-Flu... From June 13th, 1990 to July 1st... Things fall apart VERY fast.
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Note: Many of the images in today's videos were from Midjourney A.I. as well as images from the 1994 original mini-series (plus a few repurposed images from the news!) Don't worry: All the spooky plague stuff is make-believe - Розваги
The Stand complete and uncut edition may be a behemoth of a book but it is a very masterful and immersive story if I say so myself. 🙂❤📚
I concur 200000%
That's the one I have
@@wtfsamusidk7574 good to hear :)
@@wtfsamusidk7574 it’s a good one to have for sure.
Nope
Peter Goldsmith - I see what you did there; the 30+ year old son of Francis Goldsmith and her pre-pandemic “emo” boyfriend. He would have been raised by Stuart Redman and his mother Francis “Franny” Goldsmith. He grew up on Mother Abigail’s old home place and moved to Colorado to teach.
Well played, sir; WELL PLAYED!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks so much -- That's exactly what I hoped Constant Readers like you would notice!
Peter would be 32 IRL since we're going off the 1990-91 version. We're the same age.
@@benjamintriplett3 RESPECT!!!!!! Thank you for that. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This is absolutely excellent. Very well done
A very creative way of approaching this material
I think the mini series missed how it spread where as the book says the police officer stopped 50 people and 1 was a salesman visiting 4 cities, that one bit explains why they lost control before they even started
This is one of my favorite King novels. I read the original, and later read the extended version which was over 1000 pages. It was so completely immersive that if it had been 10,000 pages, I would have happily read every one.
This was the first King novel I ever read - the year it came out. I was 10 years old and, despite being precocious, I didn't understand many thing. Like, for example: what is a condom?
This is a very clever way to drop all that juicy lore.
Well done. Subbed.
Thank you, Walking Dude, sir!
The Stand is not only my favorite King novel, but my favorite novel of all time, and I’ve read it many times. At times I’ve read it continuously as in read it all the way through, finished it and went right back to page 1 and kept going. Cannot get “sick” of this novel 😂 read on fellow Constant Readers!
I'd also like to suggest Professor Goldsmith cover the time period immediately following the end of this lecture, the "culling of the survivors" so to speak. Truly this is fantastic stuff you've put out thus far! Very well done!
My favorite King novel of all time. Great job
Me too. Hands down.
yes and the full version of it, not the cut one, read both and there is no reason you shouldn't read the full version.
Fantastic! The dread was palpable. The government response was predictable and frightening.
This story was so well done. If we all were wiped out and someone found this film a thousand years from now. They would think this was a true event that wiped us all out.
I loved this. Would be fascinating to see how they apply the events involving Randall Flagg and Mother Abagail to the syllabus. I would imagine that there would be a less secular society in the immediate wake of those events.
Terrifying . The quality and depth of immersion of this video is why people think you are Stephen King . You add an extra touch of realism to his novels and build tension so well . Every video is a slice of the King-dom , can't wait for the next one .
Absolutely brilliant work! I sincerely hope you will continue covering "The Stand", in particular your take on the character "The Trashcan Man". He's undoubtedly a pivotal character in the story. Keep up the good work sir!
Yes -- I'm cooking up some ideas for the ol' Trashcan Man!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 wonderful! Thanks for all your hard work!
Ah good old Trashy!
I've loved The Stand since I was 13 years old, read both versions dozens of times, and I never get sick of entering this universe.
Approaching it from this angle is inspired. Love all the little extras that only constant readers will get.
I'm subscribed and looking forward to the next entry.
Outstanding! I'm currently on yet another re-read of this, my favorite of King's books, and just WOW! This was so well done!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
King's best work. Prophetic actually, and the book is way better. Secondly, the first film is better than the last one. In my opinion. Great video 👍
I agree that Stephen King must be psychic. In the Stand, the Devil's name is Randall Flagg. An alternative symbol which is synonymous with the swastika is a circle with a central dot. It represents the swastika spinning on its "axis" like a pinwheel. Randall is the masculine name which sounds the most like 'rondelle', a circular pierced bead.
Plus Adolf Hitler is one head of the Biblical beast from the sea. As such he's still alive. He was previously known as Otto von Bismarck and Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa, the image of the beast. He's also professional singer/songwriter these days. But he's so much MORE than that. He's a mythical siren whose irresistible songs lure helpless people to their deaths, exactly as described in Revelations. Some of his artistic works refer to his immortality and vampirism. Et cetera. I don't want to divulge too much identifying information because I absolutely love him. He's my great-great-great grandpa from one of his alter egos. I just want to jump into his lap like a kitty cat and cuddle ALL up to him.
There's one passage from the Stand which describes the slow, agonizing death of a child whose whole family died as "no great loss". This seems rather callous until you consider that Stephen King's father suddenly abandoned his family, leaving his mother to fend for her children. They could've ended up homeless. His dad didn't care. And he just had to accept it. Just because other people in Hollywood eat babies doesn't mean HE does. It was really unfair to paint them all with the same paintbrush.
No matter if you're a good person or an evil one, there's somebody in the world who is YOUR little kitty cat, and nobody else's. Bismarck/Hitler's redeeming quality is that he would never buy, sell, or trade HIS little kitty cats. AND he thinks it's okay to punish that degree of depravity and associated practices with genocide.
Speaking of the preceding comment, Bismarck/Hitler directed my attention towards a dubious clause in the Civil Rights Movement, which was overshadowed by the media spotlight on its crusade for "freedom and equality". In one of his speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr decreed that blacks' love for our oppressors should be primarily impersonal and "spiritual" in nature, as opposed to emotional or erotic. This stipulation is particularly troublesome for unassimilable biracial people, such as those America typically enslaved prior to the Civil War.
I see. So these rednecks obscured their moral shortcomings by assigning Dr. King to pass them off as ours. By the same token they revived the antebellum practice of deciding who their "slaves" should mate with, this time more emphatically geared towards torture. Moreover I have a B.A. in Economics. I have thoroughly evaluated the financial impact of civil rights policies, including those not explicitly detailed in the policies themselves. Long story short, the wealth disparity between the races hasn't narrowed since 1964. It has instead widened exponentially.
Maybe Bismarck/Hitler is a spiritual double agent: part-demon and part-demigod. Or maybe he's a good parent/grandparent who is otherwise a very bad man. In any event he's far more important and complex than the cartoon villain version of him I was taught about in grade school.
King's description of Randall Flagg's "impossibly handsome face" is also accurate of Hitler/Bismarck. He's a master of disguise, which comes in handy because every last one of his identities is a public figure. But in his natural state he does indeed outshine most male celebrity heartthrobs.
Still my favorite novel of all time. Think you have time to do the entire book this way?🙂
ha
Just stunning. Please make more.
This was the coolest thing I’ve ever watched! Amazing!!! My favorite Stephen King novel!
Ridiculously dark satire. Great lecture format.
Where is my book of W.B.Yeats?
Wait, did I just sneezed?😂
I love the fact that you're trying to do something different with your content. I'm all in. This is a good take that could go in so many interesting directions. Seriously, you could drag this out into a 10 part series, this is one of Kings most beloved books. Great start. Keep up the good work. 👍
Thanks, I appreciate that! King's work (especially The Stand) is so richly detailed, it's fun to look at it from different perspectives (and throw in a bit of my own fan-fiction with the summary).
I just bought the new Barnes and Noble Limited Edition version
love this. being with fellow fans
The part of the Stand that has always stuck with me is the image of thousands of city people scrambling to leave New Yor city, while tens of thousands of country/town folk were fleeing the country side trying to get into New York city. Dying by the thousands in their vehicles. The tunnels were pitch black and took hours to walk thru. And took days to leave the city, cause of miles and miles of traffic jams.
Or the part where there were survivors of the plaque but they died of horrendous accidents. No one coming to save them.
Even Trashcan Man being left to starve in a jail cell...was the cruelest.
You mean Lloyd Henreid being stuck in the jail cell. Trashcan Man was free to blow up the Cheery Oil tanks!
Nah the lone surviving 5 year who falls down an old well behind his house while scavenging berries is the worst by far.
@@dionlarman7489 ....omg, yes.
@@dionlarman7489His last thought was of ice cream.
Thank you. Your videos are hilarious and amazing. My mom introduced me to Stephen King and i think about her with every horror movie I watch. I saw the popes exorcist and cried! Mourning is weird😂
This years marathon is dedicated to her. I miss her.
What a cool mom! ❤
Mourning is weird... and different for everyone... But I'm so glad you have these ways of remembering your mom! :)
Mourning and grief are indeed weird.
I can't watch House of the Dragon because my mum and I used to watch everything George R.R. Martin related together. (She tried Stephen King, but that's where our tastes diverged.) It might sound strange, but I cry when I see people riding dragons now.
I was just talking to a coworker about this video. It is very well done, so much so that it triggered my PTSD from working in a nursing home at the height of Covid. We were talking about the comparison between The Stand and Covid early on, especially watching the news footage of bodies being stacked up like cordwood and thinking “OMG this is it. This is Captain Tripps. Are we living in the stand?” And the fear when it spread to our state, and then into our very facility. We watched so many people die. So many. We lost 55 of our 150 patients. More than a full third. Going to work every day wondering if today is the day I take this home to my small child. Sorry to be a bummer here, I think this is some weird form of self therapy. It’s terrifying to think that any day we could find ourselves living out a Stephen King novel. Much love and keep up the good work.
I was actually in chat at the premiere of this but had to dip out about halfway through because of feelings.
The panic was real for sure. The rest .. well it depends on where you lived. In Alaska I saw Dr. Robert Malaone speak during that time and took my kids sledding with the neighbors. When I visited Massachusetts to see family there were arrows in the grocery store 😂
Thank you so much for sharing this... And you are not a bummer at all... Stephen King books bring out all sorts of emotions :)
I didn't have it as bad as working in a nursing home but at the time I was working in retail in a new big shop that opened and had just had two twins born in 2020 so every day was a worry about if I was gonna catch it didn't help that a woman spat in my supervisors face once
my stepdad’s lungs began to fill with fluid and he was able to purchase ivermectin from india and take it. the doctors tried to put him on a ventilator but if the lungs were filling with fluid, he wouldve choked to death, the mortality rate was craaazy. 24 hours, his lungs cleared up.
I read this so many moons ago, it stuck with me forever, during the pandemic I was honestly thinking about this novel. The way science and religion got bled into one the way the government handled or mishandled the slow spread and response to the fall of mankind and acceptance of the fall the recovery and new normal.
Between Dead Zone and The Stand, Stephen King was rather prescient about the 2020s. These things always come in threes, so what's next? Personally, I'm hoping for Tommyknockers.
LOL!
What a great channel I stumbled onto. I love The Stand and have read it so many times. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but this part of the story is my favorite... The spread, the chaos, the collapse. I love the way you frame your videos, it's so much more interesting than just seeing someone talk into a camera about it.
I even like the generated images and audio. Usually AI art squicks me out but here the slightly recognizable and creepy faces enhance the content rather than distract from it.
I'd love to hear something about the people who survived the disease but died in the aftermath (the jogging guy, the heroin addict, the lady whose gun blew up, etc). I'm looking forward to more of your ideas!
Thanks so much! It just so happens I've been tinkering with that exact part of The Stand -- the "second epidemic" as King calls it. I have another Stand video that's from the point of view of an elementary school teacher in Las Vegas, working for a certain Walkin' Dude... and the upcoming video will be in the same vein.... Glad you found our Book Club!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I strongly agree with @ds5436. A video on the "second epidemic" is mandatory!
My absolute favorite Stephen King novel
These are so clever how you come up with different context to tell the stories. I love your content
Thanks! I have a lot of fun making these videos!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 really amazing work, Stu Redman is the reason why this book has been one of my favourites for so many years -a stand up guy out of a long list of stand up leading men as King likes to write them.
thank you so much from all us honourary Derryers.
Do you think Night Surf could be considered an episode happening within The Stand?
It took place in same universe also the dark tower wizard and glass took small detour to this universe
Loved night surf by the way
I had to pause when I got 15:09. This is awesome. I'm binging on your channel right now. Thanks!
Absolutely loved it! Definitely the perfect format for this story. Would love if you made this an in-depth series! 😊
Great video. Each time I get the flu, like right now, I remember "The Stand"...
You did a KILLER job on this, Hoss! I'm sure that a LOT of CRs greatly appreciate all your hard work on this! Well done...
A very fresh way to talk about The Stand, very well done. Have the uncut version of the novel via Audible.
True story - I finished reading The Stand a couple of days before the Covid pandemic hit the news 😱. It wasn’t my first read through - Third, I believe - but it really hit me hard this time, as you can imagine.
Let's rock!
Thank you for doing this
This is such a fascinating and unique way of looking at the stand! Great work!
Thanks so much! Hopefully there will be more "lectures" soon!
I can't tell you how many panic attacks I had rereading this novel, during an ongoing pandemic. Very well done video.
Not as deadly (thankfully) but eerily familiar.... it almost killed me btw
@@Donathon-qx8kq I have Long Covid, so same!
@@Thaelyn1312 sucks, doesn't it
@@Donathon-qx8kqThe. Worst 🙃 🌸
I re-read it at the start of the pandemic also. It was surreal, to be sure. I’m so glad ours didn’t end up like Captain Tripps. Both my son and I are sick with it right now, thankfully very mild symptoms. I was still pretty terrified when that test came up positive. I’d been very careful, being a cancer survivor just diagnosed with a second one. Hopefully it will stay mild. 🙏🏻
Omg Frannie's Son!
Yes! I'm so glad you noticed! :)
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 will we get a peak at Frannie and Stu next?
Trashcan Man was my favorite character. He gets bored burning down cities and torching oil refineries and eventually gets his very own nuclear weapon and brings it right to Randall Flagg's doorstep.
"The biiiiig fire!"
The hidden anti hero of the stand
My life for you!
This was really interesting. I read The Stand at least three times, and it's been a while since the last time. Thirty years after the flu, society has rebuilt. Wonder what daily life is like?
THANKEE - SAI
My favorite so far!!
Oh man can't wait!
I just LOVE your format!!!
Thanks so much!
Nice to see this before teaching tomorrow. Very well done.
Excuse me. I think I have a cold...
Be right back.
;)
ACHOO!
The scene from Broadcast News when he is sweating profusely...fantastic! Excellent video! 👏👏👏
LOL, I'm glad you noticed... When I was re-reading The Stand to prep for this video, King mentioned the nervous/sickly broadcasters, and I couldn't help but think of Albert Brooks from Broadcast news!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 It's one of my all time favorites!!
It criminal how many subs this channel has! Let’s get those numbers up! Great channel!
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time on UA-cam. You’ve brought the brilliance and genius of King into this video and this shows why the Stand really is one of the greatest works of fiction of the twentieth century, up there with Steinbeck and Hemingway.
Thank you so much. I had a lot of fun working on this one... The Stand is one of my favorite epics!
Whenever I need something to weigh something down I use my Author Edited version of the Stand. It's about 14 pounds and is the size of a toddler.
LOL :)
So well done! Thank you so much for these "extras" pertaining to Steven King's films/stories. Love your hard work and great imagination!
Wow, thank you!
You are very welcome, you deserve it!~!!!@@stephenkingbookclub1054
Amazing work , keep up the great , inspiring, wonderful work
and Happy Thanksgiving ( Canada 🇨🇦 style )
In this movie the government lies almost as much as it does in real life. Goes for media as well
Think that’s the exact point SK was trying to convey.
9:56 The fear in her voice showed that the government isn't playing games anymore
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And the idiots who would deny it and then get their own grandparents killed bc they think it's a fricking hoax.
Dude the work you put in on these....thank you. I love how you manage to expand on the universe without it being like fan fiction. Its genius
Thanks! Technically I guess it is fan-fiction... But what I'm really trying to do is process the events / themes in a creative way.
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 that's what I mean. You managed to expand the universe without cheapening it which is a very very fine line to walk and I commend you
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 it's funny I've had a pretty tough life in a lot of ways did about 15 years in prison. My wife died a few years ago at 42. But love of reading got me through a lot of things being able to just put myself in another place has helped me a lot in life through a lot of tough times and I owe that primarily to Stephen King he was the hook that got me really into a love of reading it was either Salem's lot of Pet sematary I can't remember what the first one that I read was I borrowed my mother's copy of both books and those set me on the path, so I feel like I owe Stephen King a debt. Plus I love Maine.
@@stephenkingbookclub1054it’s fanfiction but it’s QUALITY fanfiction. Not written in a notebook by a thirteen year old girl lol.
I love your channel, instead of just talking about the books you make it your own and refreshing.
Please do a cartographical study of the Territories from the Talisman..or, alternatively a welcome video for the Sunlight Home and/or a puff peice about its founder Sunlight Gardner...
I love all of these :)
I wouldn’t put it past the psychopaths who run human societies to behave this way
The screen adaptions have been such a let down. The 90s miniseries was ok for the time, but the CBS production from a few years ago was a total abomination.
I remember when lock-down happened, so many people woukd comment, " Its just like "The Stand"!"
I live in Reno so it was super-creepy when all the casinos shut down, nobody on the street....scary.
I suggest the Nebraska crew vs the Vegas team from the stand.
This is an excellently done video, definitely feels like a real college lecture. I love the fact that the lecturer is Peter Goldsmith.
One thing that jumped out at me was the name of Campion's wife. It's listed as "Sally" in the book and while it's true that Sally is a nickname for Sarah, it doesn't have to be. I'll have to go back and re-listen again. Not a big thing, just jumped out at me (being a Sarah and all that).
Very informative lesson Professor. Look forward to hearing more
Coming soon to a Constant Reader Classroom near you!
This would be a very interesting series! The verisimilitude of this format really sells it.
This is simply genius,really deserves more views!
Thank you so much... Hopefully it will go viral... ;)
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 And I also really hope there’s more parts to this!
This was excellent. I really felt like I was listening to a real history lecture. The little details you included, along with the footage from the 1994 mini-series gave it that extra dose of realism. I don’t think it’ll be long before this channel blows up, in a good way, lol. Bravo. 🖤
I always assumed that everyone in the facility died so quick because maybe a nerve agent got deployed as part of the facilities lockdown systems, not the virus itself
That's an excellent point... and makes more sense than my previous theory. I'll have to go back and read this section of the novel...
This is brilliant.
i listen to true grover gardener narrated audiobook at least once a year. it’s a world i find weirdly comforting.
*the grover gardener
I should give that a listen... I've read this book a few times now, but I have yet to try the audio version :)
I love your different take on these stories. Very well done; I was enthralled.
Thank you very much!
This was epic! A great video that leaves us wanting more! Thank you for the post!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely masterful. Really, really flows like a genuine in-universe history lecture and not a try-hard fan fic that just regurgitates snippets of the book, like how most other content creators probably would've done. Peter Goldsmith was a great touch btw Cheers
The Stand actually came from a true incident that occurred in Utah in the mid 70s: so that means it either happened at the Tooele army depot or the Dugway proving grounds. it was an incident that obviously made national news, as Stephen King heard of it, and came out to Utah to speak to some of the scientists about it. Apparently, they were very keen on talking to him, and next thing we know about Six or seven later out comes the Stand. And interesting side note most of the 1994 television miniseries was shot in Salt Lake or around Salt Lake. Apparently Utahns make really good dead people.
The first part of Stephen King's THE STAND: Horror History of the Super-Flu the brutality of Captain Trips and what took place when the virus got out and reeked havoc. The part with the radio host getting shot stuck with me trying to just talk to those who were sick with Captain Trips.
Great work on a paranoid favourite of mine! I assume Len Creighton's "account" is just a reference to the classified documents survivors ended up finding but I always liked the act that his fate was a bit of a mystery in the book - he might have died of the superflu, he might have followed General Starkey's example and taken his own life, he might have died in a mutiny... or just conceivably he might have survived.
This is one of my top ten. The Stand.
Really good!
Thanks!
This is really good. I love the touch of not coming out and saying who Peter Goldsmith is/was. But of course everyone who has read the book knows exactly who he is. 😉
I thought that was a great detail most readers would miss.
great video! Nice work. My favorite Stephen King book.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have uncut version where people can see it it in my front room---I couldn't put it down--grabbed copy as soon as it came out
What an amazing piece this is. Love it.
Many thanks!
The movie The Stand was pretty damn good just as much as the book
During the Cuban Missile Crisis my father was US Air Force Air Police and attached to the Defense Atomic Support Agency and was with the top military command and he knew how close we were to complete nuclear war and obviously he and others wanted to tell their wives and families but they didn't and my father said no one even thought about telling people. They knew it would cause panic. My father never even said how close we were to war until a few years ago. The public was never really informed and even now the public doesn't know everything.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. I watched my father & mother giving themselves a farewell toast. I said to my dad (a World War II vet) "Dad the Russians in Moscow don't want to punch the button. " He sad to me "The guys in Moscow are not the ones holding the trigger. All it take is one mistake & it's all over.." AS it turns out, we were closer than Kennedy even knew. The rocket commander in Cuba had full control over missiles that were already primed for launch & the Russians had short range missiles that would have taken out the invasion force before it could land on the beach.
This is an awesome video
This was interesting. Thank you!
Great class! Thank you!
Thank you for attending!
My favorite novel ever !!
If it wasn't a true history, it could definitely be an idea for a Stephen King book!
Just found your channel and subscribed, good sir. King has always been my favorite author, Jack London of White Fang and The Call of the Wild novels being a close second.
King knows how to get in your head, make you feel like you're right there in every moment. Remember reading Cujo for the first time? *shivers* Oohoohoo I do, it's something that stays with me in the form of a strong fear of rabies! 😂
incredible the effort and imagination. Love it 🖤
Thank you so much!!
I always thought that King was a dull mainstream author, just like Rowling, Heitz or Meyer.
But after Ive read NightShift, then Skeleton Crew, and The Stand, I stand corrected. I learned to love Kings style, it feels dark, wooden, like an old tome of from a forbidden library, dusty, like a patrol in the Nevada post-ww3 desert in the 80s. Probably not making sense here, but eh. King will always be a figure of grand influence in the media and writing world.
I love how you make these videos!
Thanks! I love making them. :)
Hands down my favorite King novel I must have read it twenty times, however the dark tower is a very close second, I have read that at least ten times…
Awesome video!
Great job. I enjoyed the "history lesson" from Professor Goldsmith, and I hope we'll get a lecture series! I'm also reminded of the last chapter of The Handmaid's Tale, not sure if you've read that book. The last chapter/epilogue is set up with a similar premise, a lecture on the events of the book as a time in the past. 😊
My favorite Stephen King story
Great concept and well done. But, the students will have only second hand information of Hollywood Blvd or Central Park.... it's not in their reality.