Podcast: ‘The Bachman Books’ — We All Float Down Here

We are back with the 13th episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . Our last of 2025 (on YouTube) and first of 2026 (here on other podcast services and Substack) is our second “Richard Bachman” episode. King famously wrote a bunch of books as Richard Bachman, later publishing them under his own name as “The Bachman Books”. This set of four novels includes the now banned and out of print “Rage”, as well as ‘The Long Walk”, “Roadworks”, and “The Running Man”. There was a lot to discuss, including the controversy around Rage — and a brand new adaptation of The Running Man (the second film to be made from this novel), as well as the recent film version of The Long Walk . The podcast goes out on YouTube first and foremost — so we’d love you to like and

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Podcast: ‘The Bachman Books’ — We All Float Down Here is an episode from Sweetman Podcast by Simon Sweetman.

This episode is 56:33 long.

This episode was published on Feb 15, 2026.

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