Like Stephen King was like killing himself. But his later work is just not comparable.

Well, Stephen King used to get obliterated so that he could get to that spot. Like there's books. What do you mean, obliterated? Like cocaine, alcohol, like his best work. Like he wrote Cujo. He didn't even remember it. He didn't remember any of it. He was obliterated. He would just drink like cases of beer and do lines of Coke and write this fucking insane fiction. And he didn't know where it was coming from. But I mean, he showed up every day and sat down with the computer. And then it all came out.

So before we get to what I was talking about and how this takes a turn towards the incredibly dangerous, Alex has to tease that he is about to slander Steve King, which he never ends up doing.

And they're all slaves to the devil.

And Stephen King stole all that hat material and all of that shit.